I have been challenged

This baby lawyer, Funder, has challenged me to tell six random things about myself. That is not the tricky part. She says they have to be six things I have not already told, and she somehow doubts that I can do it. This is her blog http://fundersgoodidea.blogspot.com/

REALLY? REALLY, FUNDER? I will take that challenge sister.

Although I have to admit that I will not be able to tell anything as interesting as she did when she told that she skipped high school and went straight to college. I am impressed by that.

So my 6 things:

1. I am scared of stairs and ladders. This may be the one thing on my list that I have told before. I don't know--in almost 1250 posts, I am bound to repeat myself sometimes. I concentrate so hard in not screwing up on them that I MAKE myself screw up. I even fell down the steps of the Eiffel Tower a few years ago, pretty much into the middle of someone's proposal. Bet that does not surprise anyone, huh?

2. I currently have a dog in my house who has her ass shaved. It is not cute.

3. I am also scared of public transportation except for airplanes. Busses are the worst. Trains trip me out too. I can go on them if I have to, but I am only comfortable if I am with someone who is on them all the time. It might be from getting left on the Tube in London when I was 16, when the rest of my group got off and the doors shut on me too fast. I did not know what to do about it. I panicked.

4. I still have not wrapped all my Christmas presents and Christmas was five days ago.

5. I cannot do cross word puzzles or soduku or any smart game like that for some reason. Unless it is the crossword puzzle in People magazine, which is kind of embarrassing. I do not know why I cannot do puzzles, but I can't. Considering that I can get a word in my brain and cannot stop myself from spelling it non-stop, you would think I could put that to good use like a cross word puzzle, but I cannot. I once played a whole basketball game in 6th grade while spelling the word "synopsis" every time I dribbled.

6. I have almost a photographic memory for weird things like phone numbers, license plate numbers, prices of things like horses at an auction, conversations had in 1982 and what everyone was wearing during it, things like that. It is not a particularly useful skill as weird things get in my brain and interrupt stuff I really need...like where might be some black dress shoes to wear to court next week. I have no idea.


I am supposed to tag people to do this one, but since I am late to the game on this, I will just leave the suggestion here for people that have not yet done it and want to.


I also got another prize from my friend Camille's horse. He is a trip. He likes me (probably because he has not yet met me).


See, I cannot be all bad, if Baxter approves of me!