I don’t normally play along with crazy Internet forward games but since this one came from my wife (the Northern Cheapskate), and she knows all our account numbers while I don’t, I’ll play along with this one.
Here’s the game. I’ve been tagged to share seven random facts about myself on my blog. At the end, I’ll “tag” other people.
1) I would trade everything I know about politics and history for rhythm.
2) I used to smoke. One time, when I smoked, I bought this really tacky plastic lighter that was in the shape of a woman wearing a slinky evening gown. I used to smoke Winstons on the deck overlooking a small forest behind a radio station where I worked. One night, something in the lady lighter malfunctioned and it burst into flames in my hand, so I hurled her into the woods. If it hadn’t been raining that night it easily would have started a forest fire that probably would have destroyed a nearby car dealership.
3) I have the lower body of a 28-year-old runner and the upper body of a 48-year-old Russian playwright.
4) I got married at age 20.
5) We had three boys within a two year span.
6) My first alcoholic drink was consumed illegally in a bar at age 18 while shaking the hand of my state’s attorney general.
7) An agenda of a 1999 Clarke College faculty association meeting included an item entitled “The Aaron Brown Situation.” (I had put up a web site called the “Clarke College Communist Party” or CCCP as a protest against some tyranny of the moment; the next year I transferred to a public school).
I don’t quite understand how the tagging system works, so I’ll just ask the many anonymous readers who have visited lately to have their way with the comments section. Name seven random facts about yourself!
1) My favorite animal is the buffalo
2) I love all kinds of cheese, but especially Velveeta
3) I secretly long for computer technology to go away
4) I am the spitting image of my mother
5) My favorite car ever is the 1971 Oldsmobile Toronado
6) If I could start all over again, I’d run away from home at 15, hitch-hike to San Francisco, become a free-loving hippie, and pursue a career as an artist. I’d probably still end up living on the Range frustrated in my art.
1. I, too, have the body of a 48 year old Russian, but I actually do run marathons. There’s hope for us all.
2. Daisies are my favorite flower, but I like to grow them all.
3. I built a shed and finished our basement. I didn’t think I had it in me.
4. I believe that given the current political climate, it’s dangerous for any one party to be in control of everything.
5. I drive a mini-van, and I don’t mind it.
6. I wish my reading list were as impressive as the one published about George Bush. Really, I need to read more.
7. I actually claim Aaron Brown as a friend. He’s an acquired taste.
1. I prefer pink carnations to red roses.
2. I recently discovered potica, realizing what I have been missing out all this time.
3. My musical tastes suit someone thirty years my senior.
4. I drink too much coffee for my own good.
5. Same goes for dark beer.
6. If I had a nickle for everytime someone asked me if I was from here…I’d have a lot of nickles.
7. I will probably be one of those people that forgets to have children.
1. I have four dogs ranging in age from 2 years old and 16 years 2 months old (the others are 3 1/2 and 8)
2. I own two mini vans & have no children
3. I’m not a fan of Hillary.
4. My musical tastes are nearly the same as those of the teenagers I volunteer with
5. I drink way too much coffee & pay way too much for it when I’m out
6. I think Erwin McManus is the best author & speaker . . . ever!!
7. I play guitar & sometimes look like my Mom when she played guitar