MEME

I've been tagged by my dear friend, Cori, for a “Six Things About You” meme.  OOOOooooo six little secrets about MeMeMe.  Where to start . . .

1.  I am a scrapbook fanatic.  One entire summer I had all my supplies on the dining room table and scrapped like a mad woman all summer long.  The children were quite small, and with big blue eyes they would say, “Mama we’re hungry”, and I would look at them and say with a smile, “I’ll feed you tomorrow, okay”.  True story. 

2.  I got my first white hair in high school.  Actually I had more than a few of them.  It never bothered me because my grandmother went platinum very young, so I just figured that would be my destiny.  Wrong.  With the white came  a mutant color, not even gray . . . more the the color of a dead rodent.  After years of adding back brown, it got easier just to add in blonde, for then the white roots just blended in.  The only problem has been that after having blonde added every six weeks, I am unable to speak in complete sentences for a few days.  I say things like, “Hi.  I’m blonde and my favorite color is clear”.

3.  I work at home.  In my office.  On the computer.  For money.  No, Ces, not an escort service!  Medical transcription.  It is so much more than just knowing medical terminology and how to spell.  I keep my doctors from looking stupid.  Example – “FAMILY HISTORY:  The patient’s wife has diabetes.”  Why is this in the family history?  Do they live in Arkansas?  I have to read minds - “The patient saw a retarded cardiologist in North Dakota”.    I don’t make these things up, I just clean ‘em up!  Word in question was retired.

4.  I love power walking every morning.  At times, construction workers will honk at me.  Well, my BFF Gail says they are honking at me.  Gail said she knows this because middle-aged men approach her in parking lots quite frequently to ask about her car.  Gail drives a nice car.  And she is way cute.  But I don’t just like walking to feed my aging ego…it makes me feel powerful and in charge. 

5.  One Easter, ten years ago, I almost ripped my arm off.  I was helping at church set up for Mass outside when my feet went completely out from under me just as I was swinging open a short chain linked fence gate.  I ended up hanging from the post by my underarm.  Apparently the underarm is not built to hold one’s full body weight.  While 911 was called, my personal paramedic from church stuck her gloved hand into the large new opening in my body, applying pressure to stop the bleeding.  The fire trucks arrived and began asking over and over “what’s your name”.  “How old are you, Deborah?”  “I’m 46” I must have said at least that many times in front of the entire parish.  Apparently they do that to assess the level of consciousness.  They said they are calling an ambulance and I wailed from my position laying flat on the lawn, “I can’t afford an ambulance”.  They said, “Well, you can’t walk, can you?” I responded, “You could drag me on a blanket to my car”.  At the hospital, more questions which I had already answered were asked until The Final One that ended the conversation.  “How much do you weigh?” the admitting nurse asked.  “Tell me your weight and I’ll tell you mine” I snapped back. After 73 stitches, more than half of them internally, I was good to go.  The arm never came off again.

6.  My husband is my Knight in Shining Armor. Some girls want to marry a prince ... I needed a man with a weapon and a very fast horse. He literally swept me away from an oppressive life, opened the door and set me free...to be a dreamer, floating through life...never once has he tried to make my feet touch the ground.  I cannot begin to imagine surviving the tough times with some one else.  For thirty years, he has been there for me.  We are committed to this marriage.  And we are vampires, as evidence in our ancient wedding photo:

So there you go!  Six of my best hidden little secrets.  Now, I tag Ces, just because she is a private person and I so long to know more about her!  Anyone else who would like to play along, let me know in a comment so I can learn six new things about YouYouYou.  **kisskiss**