Tag, You're It! Ant it peculiar?

Thank you to the lovely Grace, who tagged me for this 8 factoid blog game. It goes like this: You get tagged and write 8 facts about yourself. Here are the rules:


1) Post rules before you give your facts. 2) List 8 random facts about yourself. 3) At the end of your post, choose (tag) 8 people and list their names, linking to them. 4) Leave a comment on their blog, letting them know they've been tagged. Then the facts:

1) Unless you read the "Who Are You?" post, you'll probably not know that when I was a child (around age 7) I ate an ant. It was very gritty. I cannot remember why I did it. I was alone and not egged on by peer pressure. Once the grittiness, hypersalivating, and nausea passed, I knew I must have another. And another. I couldn't stop. I obtained a false passport, but had no money, so I stowed away in an airliner wheel well, making my way to the Amazon Rainforest, in search of more ants. Bigger ants. Better ants. More active ants. Colorful ants. I couldn't stop. And I still can't. I ... I ... I'm so ashamed. :::::sobs:::: (just kidding.) okay. hardee-har-har.

(I really did eat an ant.) It was not tasty. I used to get regularly bitten by dastardly fire ants, living in Florida. I think it was Revenge of the Ants.

2) While not achieving the status of Herb Alpert, I was a good trumpet player and earned a first place trumpet duet award and medal, in the Chicago Schools Music Competition, at the tender age of 10. My partner was Billy Welser who was 100 times better than me. He was first chair in the band, I was second. There were only 2 of us. We played Stars and Stripes Forever
for that competition. I missed a note, but we still won - beating out 10 teams. At the age of 16, I stupidly gave it up for a more pertinent interest. Boys. I can't blow a note now. I was a choir/background singer in church, on & off, until around 1994. Now, I just do lullabies. :o)

3) I was in a real tornado. Age 11. It leveled a good portion of our hometown. The above-mentioned Billy Welser's dad died from injuries sustained in that storm.

4) My parents nicknamed me "Miss Sass."

5) My favorite place in the world is New Mexico. I would like to live there. Soon. And forever. I've lived in Illinois, Florida, Arizona, California, and Massachusetts.

6) I was a Registered Nurse for 12 years, retiring when my first son was born 2 months early and required intensive home care. I work from home now, typing my fingers to the bone, doing medical transcription for the Radiology specialties. You should hear the clicking the bones make on the keyboard. I have a tendency to overdramatize in writing. You could tell, couldn't you. Did you notice that I sometimes sneak in more factoids than required or desired? :o) (having so many "I's" and "me's" in these facts bothers me.)

7) I have been married twice. Now you know why. ha-ha.

8) I was an "extra" in the movies Backdraft and Curly Sue, scenes shot in Chicago. I use "movie." Not film. Because .. well, is a film a DVD? No. It's digital. But, it's still a moving picture story. So, dammit, it's a movie!

9) I like to bend the "rules" when possible. Not real, honest to God, serious law rules. But, rather, silly rules .... of grammar, of political correctness, making those with the problem of being Overly Serious at all times become very annoyed with me. I can be just as serious as a heart attack when necessary and appropriate. But, I just have to let loose on occasion. For instance, I like squeaky farts. Hearing them and making them.

Okay, are you now convinced that I am really and truly "weird?" :o)

Enough about me. How about YOU????

Let's see now. Who to tag that has not been tagged? Hm.

Mikey

Phil

Noces

Terry

Paul Crowder

Superamanda

Nabonidus

Janice