In which I cave to the pressure

I’ve been tagged several times for this on Facebook so here it is!
Rules: Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note or blog with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged.

1. When I see people driving really expensive cars, I think they must be jerks. This makes no sense. But for some reason, if a person drives by in a shiny BMW, I think “What a jerk.”
2. I think that I would be an amazing soap opera actress and used to dream of being on Days of our Lives. I even perfected my fake tears. They’re A.MAZ.ING. Seriously.
3. Everytime I write a story, it’s set in Saskatchewan. I have no idea why I do this.
4. I write with my right hand but I do everything else like a lefty. For instance, in hockey, I shoot left. In baseball and golf, I swing left. I think I must have been left handed but was only taught to write with my right hand.
5. I have 3 novels in process right now. I don’t think any of them will ever be finished.
6. I am a bohemian hippie writer that had to work in corporate America/Canada – IN BANK MARKETING! - for nearly 10 years. And I had to wear Ann Taylor suits. Which caused my soul to shrink three sizes. The day that I throw out my last pair of dress pants will be a day for rejoicing.
7. I secretly smoked now and again up until three years ago. I smoked as a teenager and quit around the time I was 17. But every once in a while, when I was feeling pensive or misunderstood, I’d go out and buy a pack, smoke three, feel guilty and throw it away again. This was very hard to do when we were in Texas because our entire street went to our church so when I sat in my yard, smoking, I had to be very discreet.
8. I was once a “Dove Girl”. As in, I stood in the Shoppers Drug Mart with a cardboard stand that said “Ask me how you can get a complexion like mine!” I hated that job.
9. I once got paid $12/hr to apply fake tattoos to people at an Ozzfest concert. And unsurprisingly, people that are drunk and high at a rock concert all think it’s HILARIOUS to try to get a fake Pepsi tattoo on their bum. After about 10 bums, it might as well an elbow for all the shock value.
10. When I am rocking my babies in the middle of the night or holding them close, I hum and sing old choruses from church like “As the deer panteth for the water”. All of those old songs about how Jesus is our rock and our trust is only in him. Those songs are the only things that still live in my heart at two in the morning. I think that if I ever become senile, those will be the songs I remember.
11. I spent a week on the streets of Vancouver undercover as a homeless teenager to gather info for a local ministry. I was given $2 and a few admonitions before being sent out. I did okay. I do recommend that you team up quickly if you are ever homeless.
12. I read a book every two days. Even with two tinies. If I don’t read, I lose my mind.
13. I think I look younger now than I did ten years ago. I looked thirty at 23 and now that I’m nearly 30, it’s almost opposite.
14. I have discovered I’m very bad at potty training. Very. bad.
15. I took organ lessons for almost 9 years. I even competed in provincial competitions.
16. I believe in soulmates. Brian and I will go to our graves convinced that we were meant to be.
17. I think that if my life was ever made into a movie, Kate Winslet should play me. But of course, I’d like to play myself as well. I can even do a very good fake cry (see #1).
18. My hair is almost completely grey. It’s that stone shade that’s practically colourless with a lot of white hairs. So I colour it. This may be why I can get away with #14.
19. I can be a bit of a know-it-all. So I married another know-it-all. And between us, WE KNOW EVERYTHING.
20. I hate video games with a dark loathing.
21. I don’t have a cellphone and have never sent a text message in my life.
22. I stopped journaling in hard copy about two years ago. I just use my blog now.
23. I took nearly 12 years of French and used to speak it fairly well. Now I can barely read it. But my accent is FANTASTIQUE!
24. We eat organic, natural food with the majority of our meals as vegetarian. And yet I take Anne to the McDonald’s for McNuggets once a week on the sly to get out of making at least one meal a week. I knew I was busted when she told her Dad that she wanted “Chicken Nung-nuts”.
25. I gave birth to my son, standing up, in a parkade in front of an audience of strangers. A passerby (who happened to be a nurse!) helped me catch him but I really delivered him myself while Brian supported me. After he was out, I couldn’t stop laughing and Brian couldn’t stop crying.

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