Six Things You Never Wanted to Know.

So Sara at Shower of Roses tagged anyone who wants to play along and since I haven’t been tagged for quite a while I thought why not? Why not expose six clackity messy skeletons hidden in my little closet of secret horrors.

1. I Like Dirt! I’m surrounded by it. My kids track it in the house all the time and I like it so much I just leave it there on the floor. Well I don’t like it that much – but I do like working in the yard and garden. Weeding is a stress release for me. My only problem is I really have a hard time finding time to go play (I mean work in the dirt). On the other side of the equation is the fact that I do not like Mud! Go Figure. So my chances of actually getting out to work in dirt are significantly limited because of our constant wet weather. Hence my weedy yard.

2. Someday I want to be a contestant on ‘Wipe-Out’ or ‘The Amazing Race’. Believe it or not those are my favorite TV shows. I want to be the first ever female winner of Wipe-out and look like a total buffoon doing it. The Amazing Race I’d love to do with my world travel experienced husband and with our new strangely fit bodies I think we could handle the physical challenges. Might be a mess on the mental ones, but it would still be fun.

3. The only drawback to the Amazing Race is my Third Secret Fact – I Really don’t like to fly. I won’t fly on the same airplane with my husband because I’m afraid we are going to crash and die and our herd will be left orphans. Turbulence scares the be-geebers out of me and I white knuckle the whole flight. I really don’t like to fly.

4. I’m certified ‘Advanced’ Scuba Diver. It was fun in the fact that I could realize partially a dream of what it must be like to be a mermaid – only with a bulky tank on your back and a horrific looking suit that would scare the most fearsome sea predators within 100 miles away. See back then I was a rather large mermaid. I learned how to Scuba Dive nine years ago. Loved it. But as soon as I was certified and done with classes, I think I only dove once. Someday I’d like to re-certify and actually go to somewhere other than the Puget Sound on a dive – Maybe Cozumel, Mexico.

5. When in High School I was the first official mascot our school had. Official in the fact that I tried out for the position. I’ve been told by two reliable sources (Mom and Dad (Thanks)), that I was the best mascot the school had. After I graduated the Mascot basically trained with the cheer squad and learned cheer routines instead of interacting with the crowd. Let me tell you I could play a mean air-guitar, shoot underhanded baskets, and polish to a shine bald-headed referee’s, pick a fight with the opposing teams mascot all before half-time (and live to tell).

6. Most embarrassing moment was in the mascot costume. You know those dreams that you have where you’re at school in your underwear. Well I’ve never had that dream – I’ve done one better I’ve lived it. So that certain school day I wore a dress and forgot to bring other clothes so I stripped down to my unmentionables undies and donned the costume for the game. Well one particularly annoying little kid decided to take a ride on my tail and I couldn’t shake the little sucker. Unfortunately that was the night that my costume had had enough and decided to seam ripe open the whole backside. So with my backside totally exposed to the entire school student body and parents I made my most speedy exit to the locker rooms.

O.K. I’ve done it. I’ve unleashed my skeletons. What are six randomly weird facts about you that most people don’t know? What’s in your closet? Who else wants to play along?

Playing Tag with Memory Loss

Ever have one of those days. This has been mine today.

Maybe it's because I've been without internet for three days.

Maybe it's because when I went to jog at the track this morning the gates were locked and my jogging key didn't work.

Maybe it's because I had to cancel my visit with my Young and Gorgeous Counselor and going to my exercise body sculpt class because I was home with two sick kids.

And then again, maybe it's because it was raining.

So to top it all off someone wanted to play with my mind today. I’m not laughing. But only because I’m thinking I’m a prime candidate for early onset dementia or Alzheimer’s.

So Mrs. Empress of the Home tagged me – which normally I love because I never get tagged and it means someone actually view’s my little spot of blogging ground. Don't get me wrong I love Mrs. Empress of the Home, I grovel at her all knowing feet she is so creatively talented. It was a fun assignment too. The Premise-

Instructions:

*Go to your Sixth Picture Folder then pick your Sixth Picture.

Could be scary right? You never know what’s lurking in your photo closet of horrors. Could it be a bad hair day, childbirth photo, or you wearing an insanely bad fashion flub? Well I lucked out and found this gem.

Trouble is – other than I know it’s a photo of Lea, I have no recollection of ever taking the darn picture, can’t begin to tell you anything about it, like location, why she’s dressed up as a bloomin’ flower or if she’s at school, church or what. They say you lose brain cells while pregnant, well maybe those six pregnancies sucked my brain dry or I wasn’t even around for this picture. My hope is that my husband attended a school event that I couldn’t go to and took the picture – otherwise I’m in serious brain trouble.

So in hopes of seeing someone else in my boat of brain-less because of big families I’ve decided to tag mom’s of huge families to see if they have any better luck with the whole memory thing. So I’m tagging…

A Shower of Roses

Who Says Eight is Enough

Are They All Yours???

My 5 Little Monkeys

O Laughlin Clan

Good Luck with the memory ladies.