tag, I'm it!

Tagged by Lelly (whose very cute blog is a must-see). Ok, six unusual things about me.

1. I'll get this one out of the way as it has been more than pertinent this week. I am NOT a good nurse…nurturing the sick is (shamefully) not something I do well. I think I shocked Jim with my callous impatience the first time he was sick in our marriage. Surprise, your wife is a beast! He, in turn, shocked me with overly abundant patience. I'm definitely the lucky one here.
2. I was once given an airplane ticket by a complete stranger who I met on the metro in D.C. I was crying, and he was beyond generous. The world is good.
3. I would love to go to school for the rest of my life. Give me homework, please.
4. I can bake platters full of yummy homemade treats, but have never managed to make an edible brownie from a box.
5. Before having my first child I only wore heels. I hiked in heels (Tyler still laughs at me for that one), camped in heels, walked through museums in heels. I was also a sucker for beautiful suits...still long for those Ann Taylor days.
6. I have a pin in my right hand ring finger. The fingertip detached when slammed in the door on Christmas Eve when I was about seven. I remember my parents covering it up so I couldn’t peek at the bloody mess. I also remember my dad carrying me in the hospital, to which I said, “My legs aren’t broken, it’s my finger.”

I tag Kelly, but I certainly won't be able to next year after all of her running skills develop!

Comments

[crystalyn]

that last one is a scary one! i worked at AT and have fabulous suits that i used to wear. i miss dressing up at times. i think i've lost all my style...what will #3 do to me? i'm scared!

[Kelly]

These tags are so fun! I have to think of 6 unusuals that I haven't already shared -- surely there's more weird to be had, right?

I somehow missed your Ann Taylor/heels phase. I was there for your fishing t-shirt phase, though! :)

We need the whole story on your generous air plane ticket stranger!

[Amy]

Kel, I seriously have no clue about the fishing t-shirt reference. Hm...perhaps that memory is repressed for a reason! As for you coming up with 6 unusuals, I'm not worried in the least...there simply aren't many people your equal in *clever*.

[Kelly]

We had a fly fishing phase where we never fly fished, but we bought and wore (often) fly fishing shirts. Very weird. I think it was a "River Runs Through It" influence or something.

[Amy]

Ah, yes. And remember the purple Suns shirts and white short twins that we only rethought when we actually got to school? That vision seriously makes me laugh. Ya, I choose to remember the Ann Taylor suit days. I definitely wouldn't choose to remember these all-day pajama fashion days. I need my kids to start school so I'll be forced to wear *real* cltohes!

[Megan]

Very interesting, I hadn't heard about the free airplane ticket before, you'll have to elaborate. And I miss your Ann Taylor suit days as well, I also miss your beautiful leather jacket. When on earth can Mandi actually wear that in Mesa???? (sorry Mandi!)

[Jordan]

I love that you hiked in heels!

[Annalisa]

I love that you "caught" Kelly. And as for all of Crystalyn's Ann Taylor's suits. They are sitting in my closet and that makes me very happy :). Although I am yet to be a heel girl, I'm working on that one. I usually dress up in flats.

[lelly]

i would be a lifetime student if i could. when i was in my mid 20s (after college and after graduate school courses) i really felt like i was treading water mentally. i asked my mother (a high school teacher) to bring me a geometry textbook so that i could figure theorums. for fun.

[Emily]

While I enjoy learning I like to do it on my own terms. I still have nightmares that it's finals week and I wake up (in my dream) and realize that I have forgotten to attend my American Heritage class for the entire semester, so I walk into the final and the professor tells me to leave and never come back and thus I cannot graduate from BYU, EVER!

[Mandi]

I haven't heard the airplane ticket story either -- I kind of missed out on a couple years of your life between my college/London/mission phase of life. Update me, please.

Megan - I'll have you know that it has been rather chilly this winter in Mesa and, yes, I have worn that beautiful leather jacket!!!!

I agree with learning - it would be fun to learn all the time. But I am finding out that it's harder than you'd think to pace yourself with Independent Study (I'd rather attend lectures, etc). I have 8 years to finish 20 BYU credits online, do you think I can do it?

[jenny]

Heels really? I always wonder how people can get around in those things. I guess I am a more practical flip flop kinda girl. I too LOVE Ann Taylor. Now that you did your 6 unusual things I am tagging you to do the happy things. Tag your it. HA!