Tag.....You're It!

Another meme, and the rules are as follows:

1. Link to the person that tagged you and post the rules on your blog.
2. Share 7 random and or weird things 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.

Maya's Granny tagged me for this meme; one I think I did last year on my old blog, when it was six random or weird things. Will it spread to eight things next year? LOL. Okay, here goes:

1. As a very young child, I bit my nails terribly. I am reminded of that tonight because I have two thumbnails now that look as if they've been nibbled on by beavers. After the summer's fiasco with fake nails, mine had begun to blossom again, and most of them are 1/4" long. I broke both thumbnails this week while trying to open boxes, one of them clear into the quick (as we say) and bloody. Ouch. I hate having ugly nails.

2. I don't trust people who don't like animals. If you don't like them, you had better keep it a secret from me.

3. I'm not a very patient caregiver. That has become clear after the last four months of mr. kenju's stroke and the aftermath. I admire greatly people who can give selflessly for any amount of time and do it with grace and humor. I am apparently not one of them.

4. I am neat to the point of being compulsive (but not obsessive). I can handle a bit of dust, as long as everything is in its appointed place. I rearrange things in my home frequently (not furniture, but small accessories). When I have decided where things will stay for the time being, I don't want anyone to move them. And I can tell if they have been moved!

5. A blog post I wrote in 2005 was published in a section of our local newspaper on the 30th of November. They asked for submissions for a column they call Fifth Friday; I sent in that post and while I was working at the Gov's Mansion last week, they called and told me it had been chosen. Other than a few letters to the editor, I have never had anything published before, so that was quite a pleasant surprise. Oops, that wasn't true. When I was in school, I wrote a short poem that was selected for a book of poetry written by school children all over the US. (And no, I don't remember what it was.)

6. My youngest grandchild is going to be eight this month.......and I need a new baby to hold. I wish I could say that it is a possibility in the near future, but I think I will have to be very patient to get that wish! A baby feeds my soul and gives me hope, and my soul is in great need of that at present.

7. If you have read here for even a short while, you know that I am a pack rat. Faced with the prospect of cleaning out years of accumulation (ours, my parent's and my aunt's), I grow weak in the knees. That being said, you should know that I have had somewhere around six garage sales over the last 30 years - and we still have enough stuff to fill two small houses and several booths in an antique mall. That's what I ought to do - rent a booth in an antique mall and sell all this accumulated junque. Then we could move to a smaller home without having to lay out the national debt to pay for the moving van!

If you have any inkling you'd like to do this meme, feel free to steal it. I am tagging these people, although I know during the holidays is not the easiest time to be writing memes. I won't be mad if you demur: Angie, Badaunt, Carolyn, Mahala, Naomi, Star, Badabing, Dotty Pants

Oops - that's eight people!