Random Seven Meme

The Rules:

1. Link to your tagger and post these rules on your blog. deichmans

2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird. (See below)

3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs. I just don't know 7 others who've not already been tagged, so 2 it is.

Ellen
Bo
4. Let them know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.
5. Present an image of martial discord from whatever period or situation you'd like. (see above - courage in its purest form)

7 facts - they are about as random as they come.

1. My biological children are 12 years apart which means that the year after my firstborn graduates, my second born will start kindergarten.

2. I HATE feet. To torture me, all that my husband has to do is threaten to touch me with his toes and I go berserk.

3. It took me 5 years to complete my bachelor’s degree, but I completed the last 2 years in one year’s time. All done while working full time, married to a military spouse and raising a young child with no family in the country to assist. I also managed to pay less than $4,000 out of pocket for the entire program due to scholarships, grants and testing out.

4. The dumbest thing I ever did was to turn into the oncoming traffic lane after a last minute change of mind from making a left turn at an intersection. I was about 17 years old on a major 4 lane thoroughfare in town driving a boat of a car (1980’s Mercury Cougar.) Fortunately, there were no cars coming so I quickly turned into a driveway on the left side. Unfortunately, the driveway was straddled by an 8 foot brick wall which completely obscured my ability to see, so I had to chance it and punch it into reverse to get out. Somehow, I made it out unscathed.

5. My ultimate retirement dream is to live in Scotland 6 months out of every year.

6. The strangest thing I ever saw was in downtown Barcelona. While stuck in traffic on a bus in the middle of town, my husband and I watched (for what seemed like an hour) a lady in the park messing around with an old newspaper. The culmination of her efforts was that she put it to use in a most, er um, imaginative way. The story itself cannot be fully appreciated without the entire context of the situation; but trust me, it would have won the grand prize on AFV if we’d had a video camera.

7. I used cloth diapers on both of my children. Not for terribly long, but I did more than a handful of loads of laundry in just diapers.