I'm a winner! Thanks to the lovely ladies at Love, Life, and Infertility, PCOSChick, and Mrs. Brightside for giving me a fabulous blog award.
Now to follow the rules (sort of). Here are seven random things about me:
1. I hated it when everyone did the "25 random things about me" on FB and then wrote totally lame things like: I love my kids. My husband is nice. Wow, that's so random! I never would have guessed that your job is boring and your favorite food is pizza! So instead, I wrote things like...
2. I used to have tonsils but now I don't. I didn't have them removed either - my doctor told me that "sometimes tonsils just melt away."
3. If you play any key on the piano, I can tell you what note it is without looking. I don't exactly have "perfect pitch" because I can't do it with any other instrument, but I can probably do this with piano because...
4. I took piano lessons from age 6 to 22. I still play pretty well. You wouldn't want to buy tickets to see me or anything, but I can bust out some Chopin when the occasion calls for it (which, granted, isn't all that often).
5. I read 30 books in 2010. I usually try to read the classics (in between the "fluff") but only managed 3 last year - Uncle Tom's Cabin, Vanity Fair, and Lolita.
6. I love games and am pretty competitive. I can tone it down now - I even suggest that we don't keep score sometimes (!) But when I was a kid, I was convinced that our Monopoly computer game cheated in my sister's favor, so I made us switch names as an experiment. (I might have been a tad bossy - older sister syndrome.) She still won and refused to play it with me ever again.
7. I grew up in a house where a girl was killed a century ago. The story is that her father got mad because she was pregnant and unwed, and he pushed her down the stairs. I don't know if it's really true, but we do have in our attic a picture of the funeral that was held in our living room. My room was her room, so maybe her ghost is haunting my uterus. Hmm...
Now is the part where I award 15 other bloggers, but that seems like a lot of work and kind of boring for you readers, so I'll just share a handful of my favorite blogs (aside from the 3 named above, which I also faithfully read and enjoy!). You all can choose to be awarded if you want. But the real prize is being my favorite blogs, right?
barfing rainbows and unicorns
chances our
misfit mrs.
mission: motherhood
my lazy ovaries
see theo run
the baby race
the port of indecision
and many, many more...
Now who'd like to share a random fact with me in the comments?
