Inquiring Minds Want to Know....

Back when I was a freshman in high school, there was a super market tabloid called the National Inquirer. They had a commercial that ran on tv with a happy announcer guy telling people "Inquiring minds want to know!" That was followed by various women, each looking very in the now with hip "mom" style persona. They would each take turns looking into the camera while holding their National Inquirer open and a smile of intrigue on their faces and stating, "I want to know!"

Inquiring minds have now struck again but this time it is more fun.
I have been tagged by Kitem from A Garden in France. I stumbled upon Kitem's site one day last fall when I had first started taking a french class at the college. Right away her sweetness grabbed a hold of me and I have really been enjoying building a friendship with her ever since.


The Rules of the Tag Game:
1. Link to your tagger and post these rules on your blog.
2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.
3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.
4. Let them know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

These are always so hard for me. Why? Well I think because I tend to live in the "now" thought pattern and it makes me broaden my frame of mind. It is stretching but it is a good thing.

So, here are 7 things that I can think of that are me.......





1) I have immigration and naturalization papers because I was born in Tatchikawa, Japan. They are kept in a safe place with all of our other documents. My husband used this fact at a couples get together once several years ago to win a "get to know you" game. The setting of the game was for everyone to write a little known fact down about their spouse and then we had to all go around and match facts to people. No one thought to ask the fair skinned red head if she was born in Japan.

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2) God makes everyone a unique and original piece of work. Some of my unique traits are that I have needed a couple of surgeries on my eye muscles so that they would line up correctly and not wander in different directions. My last surgery was about 6 years ago and it helped immensely in getting rid of the charlie horse feeling that was happening behind my eyes. I see out of both eyes but my brain doesn't register the images as a set. Instead I only pay attention to one image and ignore the other unless I close one eye.

Even more intriguing is the fact that I essentially have 2 left lungs. It always makes the doctors look at me very strange but it is true. See, the left lung has two lobes to leave room for the heart muscle and do the extra work needed on that side while the right lung has 3 lobe chambers. My right lung only has 2 chambers and my (I think left pulmonary artery) is in the wrong spot. Neither issue bugs me today. When I was a kid doing school P.E. class, I often felt the symptom pains of asthma but I never complained because I didn't know I wasn't supposed to feel that way.

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3) When I was between the ages of 7-13 years old, my bedroom on Jefferson Street in Texas had hot pink shag carpet that was wall to wall. No we didn't make it that way. That is just how we bought the house. And yes, living that long in Texas did cause me to develop a southern accent. It only took me two weeks to lose it here in the northwest though because my cousins would burst into fits of laughter every time I entered a room and said "Hey ya'll". Of course, all I have to do is 'think' of my accent and it comes right back.

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4) I am a poor swimmer. I can float around and look casual in a pool but I don't think I could swim in anything bigger than that to save my life. There were a good handful of summers that my little brother and I took swim lessons at the base pool but I never mastered anything. More often than not when I am in the water, I practice holding my breath and swimming under water. First it helps strengthen my lungs. Second it makes me feel pretty and graceful to glide through the waters imagining myself as some sort of mermaid. Yes I am a goof ball.

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5) When I was in high school I had numerous friends that owned their own cars. Because of that fact, I never earned my drivers permit until I was in college and about to turn 18 years old. My actual license did not appear in my wallet until I was 18 years old. It took me three tries before I passed. So embarrassing. Despite that, I have had only two speeding tickets and one accident in my whole driving career. This is a picture of the first kind of car I owned. I drove it twice. Once was home from the auto repair shop so that my dad could try and fix it. The second was the big voyage after being fixed. It made it the 5 miles into town and then died for good at the bottom of the hill from home. It stayed there for months until my parents used it on a double trade in for a newer vehicle.

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6) I am scared of heights. Even the simulator rides at Disneyland make my stomach jump and my head spin. Because of this, I push myself and make myself do things that make me uncomfortable. I refuse to let it best me. Of course, as I casually look over the edge of something and feel proud of myself, my protective husband usually grabs me and exclaims with fright, "What are you doing? You know you are scared of heights!"

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7)I want to travel. Even though being a military dependant afforded me the sights of Japan, Hawaii, Texas, Spain, and 3 hours behind razor wire and gun clad soldiers in Korea...there are so many places I want to see and explore. Those place include Israel, Alaska, France, Australia, and Canada. Someday I would also love to go on a cruise.

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How long did it take me to create this post? An hour and a half. I had to think for a bit, find pictures that I wanted to use, and then of course set everything up 'just so'.

Now I would like to hear from Trek, Mima, Kelly, Quilly, Joni, John Michael, Jeff, and Gene. Yes, that is 8 different people. It is just always fun to learn more about one another.