1. When my mom was pregnant with me she had appendicitis and had to go under the knife. It was a big scare because they thought the anesthesia might affect unborn me. After the surgery the Dr. said I was fine. Or was I?....
2. Since the age of two (I still have this problem) I have been a book-hauler. Meaning: I like to carry around lots of books even if I don't even open them once. Like last weekend I took 10 books on our mini-vaca much to husband's chagrin even though I opened one of them for only 10 minutes the entire weekend. In college and camp life I hiked hundreds of miles with at least 10-15 extra lbs of weight due to the books I couldn't leave behind while on backpacking trips. I have suspicions as to how I inherited this problem (ahem, Dad!), but it is definitely a weird thing about me.
3. My high school algebra teacher was convinced and tried convincing my parents that the reason I was terrible at algebra had to be because I was a prophet. I take advantage of this whenever possible.
4. It hurts, HURTS me to eat dessert without at least hot tea. Coffee of course is even better, but not an option at the moment unless I want to spend the day fearing that I will bring forth a hyperactive Thumbelina. That's not really that weird.
5. It also pains me to use ballpoint pens. I have to use pilot rollers at the very least.
6. My dreams are a lot like what I think LSD would be like. In the words of the expert: they are long, strange, trips. They have always been bizarre, but now with pregnancy they are off the hook. E.G. last night I dreamt I was teaching snowboarding (normal), but then took a ride on the ski lift with no board and hanging from my arms. But I wasn't hanging from a lift chair, it was a window frame suspended where the chair would normally be. I was holding on to the window sill. The window frame had a small roof over it and my hands were secure between the sill and the roof. Susan N. from church was running the lift and assured me that I would not fall. She was right; I landed safely but had some trouble detaching my hands from between the sill and the roof. I think they had to rewind the lift and woke up asking myself if it's possible to rewind ski lifts. I don't think it is. Normally I try to spare my blog-readers from my dream talk (poor husband has to take the brunt), but this is a weird thing. I have a special book where I've been recording my dreams of the last 10-15 years and think it would be of value to all those filmmakers who have to keep doing re-makes of 80s movies.
I shall tag all of my siblings: Boo, Kendall Bethy, and the D, and also my cousin Eric, but I don't have his blog link! Which is why he needs to comment on my blog...waiting to hear from you, cuz.
6 comments:
wow! i thought you had forgotten about me, and i never thought you would actually do this! "husband" comments on my blog now more than you do :(
When I was preggie-I'd always have wierd baby dreams: dreams of seeing baby, dreams of baby walking from the start, and sometimes dreams of people trying to take baby away and me fighting all night to save him. yes, dreams are bizzare.
I don't see my comments on your blog, Kelly.
Mrs. J
I am going to ask you to think back to your literature teaching days because as a former student, I would like your valued opinion. I was wondering what you think about the author T.H. White and his books...?
The reference to your prophetic skills makes me smile... as does the fact that your distinctive and lovely handwriting, (not with ball points) is what I have modeled mine on... the problem is, no one can read mine.
Thanks, all!
Mary, I have to confess I had never even heard of T.H. White. I used mostly Norton Anthologies and the Great Books for our curriculum at NHCA and he is not included in either. I am surprised that I didn't at least run across him when planning for 7/8 grade classes on Medieval mythology since it looks like he was very into the re-telling of those tales. Am I right?
Anyway, he seems like someone I'd like to read AND if you tell me what you're reading by him I'll check it out and get back to you!
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