Tag I'm It

My friend JC tagged me about a week and a half ago with a game about 8 habits or things people didn't know about me. I tried to put some thought into this, but when you have a 6 1/2 year old home all day during the summer time & she is an only child - it gets a bit hectic, so I am winging this:

1. I appreciate it when people point out a faux pas in my appearance.

I was in a hurry to my nephew's confirmation last spring & I ran into my good friend Michelle who I hadn't seen in several years. I was wearing black pants & a white knit turtleneck. The Catholic Church gets really packed for these events, and I was in a terrible hurry to get Jaidy ready & out the door in order to find parking in time.

I was sitting with Michelle my friend in the Children's room for about an hour visiting a little & watching the service which was 2 hours long. She leaned over and whispered to me that I had put my shirt on inside out. Luckily there was a bathroom in the Children's room & I changed. I truly appreciated it that she pointed it out to me. Had I gone over to my brother's house and he had seen this or one of my nephew's, I probably would have never heard the end of it.

2. Again, I appreciate good friends who point out my faux pas in my appearance.

Different story, same friend. I was out watching some friends in a band one night back in 1991. I had on a black shirt and cute coral skirt. I went to the bathroom, and when I left some catty girls were whispering about me and snickering. My friend Michelle ran right up to me and told me my skirt was tucked into my pantyhose. I was nearly in tears as I ran out of the bar. This same friend told me that she didn't think that many people saw me, and she made the girls in our party go outside and appologize to me for laughing at me. I went back into the bar, but this was probably my most embarrassing moment, because I know the keyboard player and I know he saw this. He never made fun of me. They were both good friends.

3. When I make friends, they are usually friends for life

I have friends who are acquaintances, but my closest dearest friends are ones I will always have for a lifetime. They are not fair or fowl weathered friends. I may not talk to someone in 8 years, and they will still remember who I am. A good friend will tell you the truth no matter what and still love you anyway.

4. I love Art and I am an Artist

I drew a perfect replica of a Michael Jordan picture. There was a girl at my church who was suicidal one night at a retreat about 9 years ago last spring. I actually caught her trying to O.D. on some meds in our Church, and made her go in and gag it all up. I gave the picture to my good friend Pastor David to give to her, as she was hospitalized.

I asked her a couple of months later if she still had it, because it was my best work to date. She said that her room was a mess and she lost it. I was so bummed about this, but was glad she was no longer suicidal.

5. I love Music

If I am happy and you know me really well, you will always catch me singing. If I am bummed, I don't sing at all. It's usually a good sign as to when something is wrong with me. If the radio is on and I am not singing along, then something is wrong.

6. I hate Yams, Brussel Sprouts, and Liver

My daughter will never be subjected to any of these foods ever. Whenever my Mom would feed us Liver and Onions for dinner, Tiff (my sis) would hide hers in a napkin and sneak it into the garbage later. Monte (my brother) would sneak his to the dog, and I would pile a ton & I mean a ton of ketchup onto my plate & sneak all of mine under the ketchup pile. We didn't mind going without supper that night whatsoever. Liver is just nasty in my opinion !!

7. I Love my Daughter & I love the movies !!

I try to make every day a new adventure with her. I try to come up with new and inventive ways to make things fun and interesting. If we sit down to watch a movie, I will make us root beer floats & pop a bowl of popcorn, lower the lights & make it more exciting. I am thrilled about the fact that she will watch more grown up movies, although I have to explain some of the plot for her.

When I take Jaidy to a comedy, she is the one laughing the loudest of all. It's an infectious laugh, and usually the audience starts laughing again, because she is still laughing so hard.

Once I went to see Meet Joe Black with my little sis Jaime. When Joe got hit by a car & died, I screamed out loud, and the entire audience started laughing at me. Jaime still brings this up from time to time to this day.

8. I forget what 8 was for but 9, 9, 9, 9 for the lost God, and 10, 10, 10, 10 for everything everything everything everything.

Ok I love Music, and I love The Violent Femmes & just about all alternative music from the 80's. I also love my family. I wish I could think of something funny to write about them, but at the moment I just can't. They are really funny sweet people, and I wouldn't be who I am without them. But, my biggest unknown fact is that I am very, very, very shy & extremely private.

Someone once called me Misty onstage in the middle of a song, and I have not gone back to see this band for more than 10 minutes since. It was someone I considered a friend until he did this to me. I don't know what to think about this person, but I bet he doesn't know why I stopped coming out to see his band.

My nickname when I was little was Misty until I was around 9 or 10. When I was 6, I got so afraid of this name that by the time I turned 9, I asked my family to never ever call me this again. We had actual ghosts in our house when I was 6 and I heard them say to me one day in my room: Misty, Misty, Misty. I was so afraid, I just got under my covers & to this day I hate this name.

My step-dad Bill thought we had our house built on Indian burial ground, because around the same time, he saw an Indian sitting at the end of his and my Mom's bed. I had a tank with a couple of angel fish, and one day I woke up to find my fish dead & half eaten in another tank with some fish who had ate them.

I cannot stand the name Misty, so please do not ever call me this unless you hate me. Even my little sister called me this once, and I was so peaved that she has never called me this again.

If you are as close to me as my little sister (and you probably are not), then I guess I will forgive the Misty thing, but now that you know - this is not a funny joke to me whatsoever. I will probably just stop talking to you if you call me this. I prefer no funny jokes like: Play Misty for me again or any references to this whatsoever - that means YOU JC.

I'm not mad at this person anymore for calling me Misty onstage in the middle of a song which leads me to an unknown fact about myself: I have what would be considered Perfect Pitch Hearing. I can spot any screw-up in any song at anytime and any place. If I have a song memorized, then I can tell if you are off key, if you throw in some added lines, or anything that is not the norm in that song, like if you are not in perfect timing, etc...

I have been told I have Perfect Pitch in my singing ability as well, but that I have to quit smoking, because my Asthma causes me to hit the wrong note sometimes. My inability to read even a note of music all makes this funny.

I learn songs by ear. I can look at the notes on the page, and they always look GREEK to me. I just don't want to learn the song by the notes, because if I can hear someone else sing in tune, then I can sing it perfectly. I can learn a song in just a few times of hearing someone, and when you sing off key, I will be the first one to know about it.

I was in the bathroom singing recently, and some people caught me singing out loud. They kept raving, "Who is the girl with the beautiful voice ?" I have heard this before in my life, but it was sweet to hear again. They were saying things like, "Simon would never boot this girl out or even have one bad thing to say if she was on American Idol."

To this I say: "If you catch me singing in my natural voice and I am completely unabashed, you will hear the beautiful voice." I save this voice for myself, my daughter, and my little sister. I do not like being made fun of whatsoever for my voice & neither do I want to be made the center of attention.

So to summize: Don't call me Misty, I have a beautiful voice, and if you gain my trust - you may hear it sometime. Please be a real friend and let me know if I have a personal faux pas - you will gain much respect.

My daughter is my shining light, and nothing in life is more important than her. I am a great lover of the Arts: Art, Music, Movies among most things. Lastly, and I didn't put it in my top 8, I love the Stars.

Reach for them as much as possible in life. Oh, and I am a Christian. I may not always appear to be one, but we are all sinners & I know I am forgiven. And, I am a huge U2 fan. There is sooooooo much more I could blog about, but as they said about Steven King: you have diarrhea of the mouth & I could talk forever, but I am really deep - so be it !!



I am supposed to tag other people, but since JC is the only one I know with a blog out there, I just cannot do that, so I guess the buck stops here.