- I eat ketchup on my macaroni and cheese.
- Imagination is not my strong suit -- which probably explains why most horror movies don't scare me.
- I've lived in the South my entire life (except for a few years) and still don't have a Southern accent.
- I'm not looking forward to the day when the only way of getting music is by downloading, even though I use downloading services, because I love cd/album cover art.
- The only horror novel that ever scared me was Stephen King's Salem's Lot and I've read a lot of horror.
- I still avoid cracks in sidewalks because of the "step on a crack, break your mother's back" thing.
- I learned to swim when I was 4 because at 4 I was fearless -- not so true now.
- The song Edelweiss from Sound of Music always makes me cry when I watch that movie but only when they are singing it on stage.
- The French national anthem as sung in Rick's Cafe in Casablanca also makes me cry -- apparently I'm a sucker for love of one's country like that.
- I don't live anywhere near my family; I used to think I would like that -- turns out I don't.
- I love New York.
- I will travel six hours to hear someone I truly love, like Taj Mahal, in concert.
- I won't share my blog address with my family (even though I know they could find it) because I don't want my son, who is a wonderful writer, to find out what a truly bad writer I am.
- I've never been afraid of the dark -- I like the dark in fact.
- My favorite Christmas movies are various versions of A Christmas Carol; even some of the cheesy ones (except the western one with Jack Palance -- that one was really bad.)
- I was 45 before I first had a martini and that was in New Orleans -- it was fabulous.
- My husband thinks I'm an alien because I never saw any of the tv shows that are touchstones to him, like the Patty Duke Show and I Love Lucy, until I was an adult.
- If I were told I could be any age I wanted to be and stay that age, I'd pick 33.
- I hate my hair.
- On the subject of hair, I've always been a closet redhead.
Wednesday, October 19, 2005
A Dixie tag
Twenty random things about me:
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6 comments:
I've just read twenty reasons confirming why I've always thought you were a cool person.
You are so sweet! :) And you made me laugh when I was a little down -- you always do that. How do you do that?
salem's lot scared the piss out of me too - i slept with a crucifix next to my bed for months after reading it, and to this day i do not look outside my bedroom window at night without thinking of that book.
my mom used to say her forties were her best decade. i am 35 so don't yet know about that, but i would be happy being 35 forever.
i love yourlist.
Thanks bb -- forties haven't been so great for me but I loved my thirties.
With Salem's Lot, it did NOT help that I was reading it late at night and friends of mine who were working security saw my light on and tapped on my window just when I was reading the part where Danny Glick scratches on someone's window!
I was thinking today about your list and how with a few exceptions (I'm shuddering over the ketchup on the mac and cheese thing) it could have been written by me.
I love album art as well. I hated it when vinyl went by the wayside because I loved how bands would actually put some effort in making great covers.
Most people do shudder at the mac and cheese thing but I've always eaten it that way -- my daughter does too.
About album art -- my department head and I did an exhibit on jazz in the library -- we both coincidentally brought Miles Davis' Seven Steps to Heaven. I brought the cd; she brought the album. It was amazing how much better the cover of her album looked.
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