Fun Fact Friday
* I failed the driving portion of the driver’s license exam the first time I took it. I ran a stop sign. In my defense, though, it was totally hidden by a willow tree and I’m pretty sure the jackass instructor took kids on that street on purpose. We moved from Ohio to Missouri right after that and I passed with 100% in St. Louis. Ironically, St. Louis has more stop signs per square mile than any other city in the U.S.
* I am currently reading four books at the same time. Well, not at the SAME TIME, but rather, concurrently. They are:
Marley & Me by John Grogan
Sleep No More by Greg Iles
Son of a Witch (sort of a sequel to Wicked) by Gregory Maguire
Real Vampires Have Curves by Gerry Bartlett
* I have very small hands and feet for someone of my build. In the winter, I actually have to wear either those cheap-ass stretchy gloves or kids’ gloves. I wear a size 6 shoe.
* My birthday cake is always German Chocolate with Coconut Pecan icing. Coincidentally, this is also Gerald’s birthday cake.
* I hate tomatoes.
* If humans had keyboards on their bodies, my caps lock would be on ALL THE TIME. I live in all caps.
* I am still shocked at the fact that I am someone’s mother. The other day, I was cutting up two cantaloupes for Gerald and Maddie (Bonus fact: I hate cantaloupe, too.) and I thought to myself, “GAH! Why am I having to do this? I don’t even like this damn fruit! Isn’t this someone else’s job? MY MOM always did it.” Then it hit me: I am the mom. Crapspackle.
* When I was a little girl, I wanted to grow up to be two things: A Solid Gold Dancer and a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader.
* My sophomore year of high school, I fell out of the car on the way into the Homecoming dance. I was with my best friend Andie, her date and my boyfriend. I fell right out of the car in front of EVERYONE. I had bruises on both shins from knees to ankles. (I landed shins first on the curb.) It is officially The Most Embarrassing Event of my teenage years.
* I once smoked a joint with the boyfriend mentioned above in a park in Cleveland. It was near dusk and we laid in the grass and looked up at the sky watching the stars come out. We were so still and quiet that a bunch of deer surrounded us in the grass. All of the sudden I started laughing and yelled, “DUDE! I CAN HEAR THEM EATING!!” I then dissolved into hysterical laughter at the sound of deer chewing. The only other time I’ve been high, I got stuck in my washing machine. Because doing laundry seemed very important to me at the time.
Filed under: friday facts, daily on May 9th, 2008
haha! crapspackle! getting stuck in a washing machine!
*ahem* sorry.
BEST fun facts EVER.
1)I have to wear kids gloves too. I will now be eyeballing all of your shoes everytime I see you since I wear a 5 1/2 (but I COULD wear a six IN A PINCH)(slash if I want your shoes bad enough)
2)I have read Sleep No More and I OWN Son of a Witch but I haven’t read it yet
3)I wanted to be a Cowboys cheerleader too!
Tessie - Those polka-dot shoes in my flickr badge are a 6 1/2 because I couldn’t find them in a 6. I’m all about going a half size bigger to get some shoes if I really like them. Never smaller, though. That’s just asking for trouble.
I have read Sleep No More. It may even be in my pile of books to include in my next review post, which I’ve been thinking will be next week. Of the Greg Isles books I’ve read so far (I really like his books), I actually think it was my least favorite. I expect his books to be “real” and the supernatural aspect of Sleep No More threw me.
I just love that you live in ALL CAPS. I GET IT.
Also - stuck in a washing machine? Way to just slip that in, there, missy.
That is also my brother’s birthday cake!
I am envious of your small feet. Mine are 9.5, sometimes 10. Sigh. When I was pregnant with the twins, I wore an ELEVEN. I think my hands must be large, too, because driving gloves (like, leather rather than knitted) never fit me.
Stuck in your washing machine? HA HA HA HA HA!
crapspackle?! HAHAHA!
There is no better word to describe the feeling that hits you when you realize that YOU have to do the crap you don’t want to do because now you’re all grown up and mom and stuff…
This is the best Fun Facts ever!
I wanted to be a Solid Gold dancer SO badly!
German chocolate cake is my very favorite of all time.
Once while high my friends and I were in a Hardees and I laughed so hard I choked on my soda and had to be given the Heimlich by another customer in the place. Which only made us laugh harder.
Shelly - I’m going to eat an extra piece of cake this year for you, since you’re my birthday twin : )
Holla from The Lou! We do love our stopsigns here.
Dancer/cheerleader? Again, we are soulmates.
The joint story kicks ass. STUCK IN THE FUCKING WASHING MACHINE? All I did was argue about who would write the check for the pizza delivery guy.
Crapspackle. AWESOME.
I am behind, but this post is VERY comment worthy. You are so funny, and I loved reading this. I had to read the story about you falling out of the car twice. The first time I was picturing you falling out of a MOVING car. Then I read again to make sure I didn’t read that. Thank goodness, because I think that would have been MUCH worse.
Oh, this is a great fff post!! The last one is still cracking my shit up.
I’m thinking the deer had a contact high…got the munchies…