Thanks MJ! The rules:
Once you've been tagged, you have to write a blog of ten weird or random facts about you, your habits, or your goals. At the end, choose ten people to be tagged, listing their names and why you chose them. Don't forget to leave each a comment (such as, "You're IT!") with instructions to read your blog. You can't tag the person who tagged you, but you should let her know when you've posted to your blog so she can see your answers.
My ten weird or random facts:
1. Hayden's eye color is a genetic anomaly. Two light eyed parents have an incredibly low chance of having a brown eyed child. Mitch and I have green eyes, Hayden's are brown.
2. Sometimes I forget Hannah is dead; I'll suddenly think I should call her at Kelli's and see how she's doing.
3. I love Volvos, like in a crazy kind of way. There's a guy down the street who collects/ restores really old ones, it seems. And there are a couple of LeCars in his yard too. He's gonna be my best friend someday. I have dibs on Scotty's parent's Swede. It's hot. Once I told Christine how cool Volvos are, she had one within months! She told me how cool Oregon is, now I live here. Next to get me in a Volvo and Christine in Oregon :D
4. My phone now rings "I am exactly where I need to be, I need to be exactly where I am. I am a blessing manifest" I made it myself!
5. These games Qacei recommended are waaaay fun! We've spent lots of time tossing eggs and aiming and firing. Give yourself a break, go play!
6. Someone reminded me of the Advent Calendar this month on neopets. I finally decided to dust off my poor creatures and give 'em some lovin'. I should check out Hannah's too. On a day I wanna cry.
7. I have more than one strange perspective on the world. Today I shall highlight "Women as the Genetic Future of our Species" I dated a man briefly in my Life as a Single Woman in LA, who had huge impact on me. First, he shaped my then-future relationship with my sons by pointing out his circumcision scar and saying look what my mother did to me. Never, I vowed, would a son of mine ever say the same thing about his penis. Second, we talked into the wee dark hours about human reproduction. I had vocabulary and context for what I'd felt for so long. When my high school friends got pregnant by less-than-ideal examples of humanity, I wondered if those particular humans were actually worthy of knowing one's whole life, let alone creating more of them to have in my whole life. If they're not good enough to be around me forever, why would I let them be around kids, especially their own and mine. eeww. We talked of how males are capable of impregnating multiple females, while females are capable of carrying one seed at a time. It is the responsibility and honor of the females to select the seeds worth carrying. Choosing carefully the future of our families, our tribes, our society, our world. This is the matriarchal power our current society strives to keep us blind to. This is the matriarchal power we need to reclaim and revere. The eggs of our granddaughters are in our bodies as we carry our daughters, our whole lives we are connected as women, within each other's wombs, through our eggs. Everything we do, everywhere we go, we are together. This doesn't make us superior, it makes us sacred.
8. Watching Steve Carell on The Office is so painful it literally makes me squirm. Thank ye gods for DVR, sometimes I have to get up and walk off the heiney tingle of embarrassment I feel for Michael on that show. He's a car wreck I can't stop staring at.
It's the amazing writers!
9. I want to send Hayden to race car driving school in France someday.
10. Some days I wonder if anyone can tell I'm faking it. All of it. All of the time. Mostly.
I tag YOU!
4 comments:
I like #7 and I don't think it's strange or weird at all. ;)
For #9, there's a pretty good racing school in Portland operating at PIR, when he's old enough: http://www.prodrive.net/
Deightfully enough, even for basic driver's ed, here in the Seattle area there's a company called SWERVE run by an unschooling family (Ross, Robin, and dd Michelle).
My husband and I both have green eyes. Our mothers both have brown eyes.
We have one green-eyed child, one blue-eyed child and one brown-eyed child. How cool is that?
I miss our 1990 Volvo 240DL Wagon. I drove cross country in that car packed with all of our stuff and the two kids in the back seat. We killed it. It finally just wouldnt start anymore and we had to drive with both feet on both petals to keep it going at the end. Eventually, we will probably get a new one.
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