just copied straight from Facebook…because it’s been two months since I’ve posted anything and I feel like I’m totally wasting the hosting fees.

1. I was a vegetarian for 15 years, through two pregnancies. And then we realized we had spawned carnivores instead of herbivores.
2. I don’t watch television. I used to have a vanity plate that read BLOPYRTV. Like the line from the John Prine song. My mother calls this “biting the hand that feeds you.”
3. My 4th grade teacher said using profanity proves that you are ignorant and do not have an large vocabulary. I’ve been trying to prove her wrong ever since.
4. I can recite the entire dialogue of “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” and “Blazing Saddles.”
5. I drive a 1995 Saab convertible…with a stick. I LOVE my car. Yesterday I put the top down even though it was 55. Sometimes…you just need to have the top down.
6. I read. I read all the time. I read Booker and Pulitzer prize winners, but I read a lot of trash too.
7. I read the encyclopedia and the dictionary when I was a kid, and now I’ve substituted the internet.
8. All that time I gain by NOT watching television…I totally waste it on the internet.
9. I started smoking on a church retreat when I was 15. I quit the day I found out I was pregnant with our oldest son. I haven’t had a single one since. He will be 20 in August.
10. I still dream about cigarettes. If I knew I was going to die tomorrow…I’d have a cigarette.
11. I have lived in my dream house since I was 33. Thanks Richard!
12. I love being from the South. If I had to leave North Carolina…I would move to Tennessee or Texas.
13. Music keeps me sane. I don’t think I could live without it.
14. I once realized I couldn’t marry a man I had been with for 2 years because he didn’t care that John Lennon had been shot.
15. I can sew. Like really sew. Like drapes and clothes and elaborate Halloween costumes. I wish I had time and a better sewing machine.
16. My husband had to teach me how to change a diaper.
17. I had one of the best mothers-in-law in the world, and I still miss her.
18. I was a competitive gymnast for 6 years. A cheerleader for 1 year. A diver for 1 year. An aerobic instructor for about 3 months (when I still smoked!).
19. I was almost drowned when I was a kid by this obnoxious girl who belonged to some friends of my parents. I’m not real fond of being in water. (When I called home to tell my parents I was going to be on the diving team…my mom said “but…you can’t SWIM?”) I can actually swim - but I do tend to sink instead of float.
20. I hated my sister until I was 21. Now I would fall apart without her.
21. I can’t do math. I skipped 4th through 6th grade math…so whatever you learn then - I don’t know it. (It was learn at your own pace…so I read instead…for 3 years)
22. My greatest hope for Barack Obama is that he and his family make it safely through the next 8 years.
23. I miss Thompson (my grandmother) almost every day of my life. I try to love my kids like Thompson loved me.
24. When I was about 7, I convinced my Granddaddy Poole to let me fire his German Luger pistol (which probably hadn’t been cleaned in about 20 years) at the garage (made of concrete blocks). We took a huge chunk out of it, and it is one of my favorite childhood memories. My mother was livid. It was awesome.
25. I have a tattoo on my left ankle, and a daith piercing in my left ear.