7 Things About Me

Marcia Ward tagged me for the "7 Things About Me" meme.

Rules of the 7 things Meme:
1) Link to the person who tagged you and post the rules on your blog.
2) Share 7 facts about yourself.
3) Tag 7 random people at the end of your post, and include links to their blogs.
4) Let each person know that they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

Okay, here go the 7 Things About Me, Like them or not:
1. Commercials can make me cry.
2. I was 30 years old before I got used to my height.
3. I'm surrounded by men. My husband and I have six sons. (No daughters.)
4. I really want a passport for my birthday. (Even though I don't have immediate plans to go anywhere, I still want one... just in case.)
5. The ickiest job I ever had was cutting hearts and livers out of turkeys.
6. I really like sparklies, I mean anything that sparkles makes me say, "ahhh!"
7. I can say the ABC's backwards.

I TAG:
We're Starting from Scratch
Wanderer in a Strange Land
VioletLady at Home
Under Construction
TigerSue's Jungle
Traci Abramson
The Bennett Family

YIKES! I've been tagged by Don "Fast Fingers" Carey!

Four jobs I've had:

1. Swimming Pool concessionaire
   
2. Cutting hearts and livers out of turkeys
   
3. Writing my boyfriend's name in the dust on top of high cupboards... (otherwise known as summer scrub crew)
   
4. Playing saxophone in a musical duo with my sister dubbed "My Sister and Me." (Then she went and had triplets, and our career went down the drain with the dirty diapers.)
   

Four places I've lived:

1. Haddon Heights, NJ
   
2. Manti, UT
   
3. The amazing Triads (student housing) in Logan, UT
4. one magical summer in Boston, MA
   

Four movies I love:

1. Sphinx
   
2. Naughty Marietta
   
3. Japanese version of "Shall We Dance?"
   
4. Spirited Away
   

Four movies I'd like to see:

1. Hawgs
2. Hairspray
   
3. Get Smart
   
4. "Gold" series (My novels made into movies!)
   

Four favorite foods:

1. Pizza
2. Popcorn (cooked on the stove top, not the microwave mumbo jumbo)
   
3. Watermelon
   
4. Pumpkin Cookies
   

Four weird things about me:

1. I imagined Elvis bouncing little pink pigs off his knees so I wouldn't cry while singing a hymn at my Dad's funeral. (Well, one of us sisters had to do something to carry the tune, and my Dad was such a tease, he still is, I'm sure, and I know he loved it!)
   
2. I like to sleep with a dog bed pillow on my stomach.
   
3. I make up my own patterns when I sew clothes for myself. (I won't tell you how many of them end up in the Thrift Store.)
   
4. I don't mind if my boys play in the mud. (I only have sons, six of them, all wonderful and all muddy!)
   

Four places I'd rather be:

1. Backyard swing
   
2. On a recumbent bike, racing around the streets
   
3. On a four wheeler, racing around the streets
   
4. Someplace tropical
   

Four people to tag:
I don't know! Who's been tagged? Who hasn't? And how do I do this, exactly? I'll just push some buttons and see how it goes.

1. Girl in a Whirl (what a cool blog name!)
   
2. Lords of the Manor (cute little people on there)
   
3. Living In Spin Cycle (I can relate... and it even has music!)
   
4. Mind Muffins (Oh, my, the picture on the site was priceless!)