Six Random Things

Sue J has tagged me. I'm supposed to write six random things about myself. These are the official rules:

Link to the person who tagged you.
Post the rules on your blog (this is what you are now reading).
Write 6 random things about yourself (see below).
Tag 6 people at the end of your post and link to them.
Let the tagger know when your entry is up.

I'm not going to actually tag six people, but if you would like to do this on your blog and link back to me as the tagger that's fine. I enjoy learning new things about people that I didn't know before.

My randomness:
1. I have very sensitive feet. I rarely go barefoot. In fact, it's only been in recent months that I could tolerate this at all. When I was very young and used to play outside I couldn't stand the feel of dirt, grass, or mud under my feet. Couple that with the fact that my cousins tended to hide me in briar patches during hide and seek and I stepped on the bottom of a soda bottle once and had to get a foot full of stitches and you see why I might have issues. I don't even like to go barefoot in the house because I can't stand to feel the slightest bump or dust under my feet (sounds like the princess and the pea doesn't it?). Even in the ocean I wear water shoes! And I love, love, love for my husband to give me foot rubs because it soothes my soul to the very core!

2. I drink about 48 ounces of water first thing every morning. Granted, I can't always do it on mornings when I'll be in the car a lot or when I won't be able to run to the bathroom every few minutes, but I do it most days when I'm home. I feel better all around when I start off with a whopping dose of cleansing water. Also, I tend to get dehydrated very easily so this gets me started on the right note first thing in the mornning.

3. When I was a little girl I used to sit for hours on end looking at catalogs from Sears and JCPenneys, or whatever store's catalog was available. My mother thought I'd grow up to be a fashion designer. What she didn't know is that I wasn't designing clothes in my head. The people in those catalogs were the characters in the stories I was making up in my imagination.

4. I cannot stand to talk about gross things at meals. For example, I don't want to talk about where meat comes from or what the cat brought to the door or anything like that. It literally makes me gag. Once during a fundraising dinner at my former church some folks wouldn't stop talking about nasty things like that even though I asked them not to do so. Finally, I got so sick feeling that I got up, dumped my entire plate of spaghetti in the trash and walked out. That was definitely a memorable church moment! And we won't even discuss what happened on lobster night in New England when my brother-in-laws were doing unspeakable things with lobsters. Eeeewwwww!

5. I'm not the least bit afraid of bees, wasps, or things with stingers. When I was a little girl I caught bees and yellow jackets in my hands so I could watch their behavior. Needless to say, I've been stung more than the average Joe, but I'm still not afraid of those little bougars. While everybody else scatters I stand swatting.

6. I love to play board games. I suppose this stems from my childhood days as an only child when I had no one to play board games with me. I especially like games that involve words, numbers not as much. My favorite game is/was Life because it's about people. I think I drive my kids nuts wanting to play games.

That's my randomness in all its glory. Of course once I hit "post" I'll think of a thousand other things I should have said, but these were truly the random thoughts that entered my head at this particular moment.