Post of the Seven Veils

I have been graciously tagged by The Good, the Bad and the Ugly to list seven weird things about myself. It was over a month ago so that I doubt she even remembers tagging me. But, like an elephant, I didn't forget. Last January I was similarly tagged to come up with seven interesting things about myself and then tag seven more to do the same.

Once again, I am severely tempted to go the easier route and make up 7 untruths about myself for reasons of interest. But since I have never lied or embellished anything on this blog before, I find telling falsehoods uncomfortable. I hope you bought that.

So anyway, here they come.

My first four items of personality involve food.

1. I do not like to eat eggs. Well, most eggs. I will eat an omelet on occasion since it is mostly cheese, ham and hash browns. I can also eat scrambled eggs only if they are hot and loaded with cheese, ham and hash browns.

2. I love to eat cake. I even have a whole set of rules about eating cake. My first ever post on this blog was about cake. You can read it if you are curious about cake, but you probably are not.

3. I love school cafeteria food. I know I am in the minority, but I just love to eat there. It's probably because most school cafeteria food can be classified as either, fried or sweet. And when they serve french toast sticks, it's both. Now that Sweet Pea and Number One Son are both in school, I have many opportunities to join them for lunch when I am not working. I can also lean over to one of them and ask, "I'll trade you my stewed tomatoes for your tri-tater-tot."

4. The last food related quirk about me is that I like to mix corn with my mashed potatoes. That may sound weird to some of you, but I know there are a lot of you out there that do the same thing. Don't be embarrassed. Go ahead and give the waitress something to talk about back in the kitchen of your favorite restaurant.

5. Over half way to the end. Hang in there. One thing I definitely do not like is foot massages. My feet are too ticklish for any touching. I also don't care for back rubs or any kind of massages much. If I'm tense, I'll lay down on the couch and watch "The Office".

6. Let's get back to something I like to do. There is a sport that I enjoy to watch on television every four years. It is played during the winter Olympics, and it is called curling. For those who know what curling is, I'm sure you're eyes are rolling back into your skull from boredom just thinking about it. For some reason heavy stones sliding across the ice and knocking into each other entertains me. It's also fun to cheer on the sweepers and maybe hope that one will slip. But, sadly, they never do. In the last winter Olympics, the USA team got the bronze medal. That team was from Bemidji, MN and we visited the team captain's pizza restaurant. It was odd seeing an Olympic athlete tossing pizza dough behind the window. I so wanted to see him wearing his Olympic medal while spreading pepperoni, but it must have been at the medal polisher shop that week.

7. For those who made it this far, your reward is soon approaching.
When I was around six or seven years old, my Mom would take me to the mall to shop. I would be bored out of my mind while she looked at bolts of fabric and sewing patterns. During these times my mind would wander and I would people watch. Everyone I watched seemed more interesting than me, so I thought up something to make myself more exciting. My idea was to walk around the mall with an odd limp. In my mind, I thought everyone who saw me would wonder, "How did he get that limp?", "I wonder what happened to that kid.", "That poor kid. I should buy him some ice cream."

As I think about it now, they were probably feeling sorry for my mother for having such a nerdy kid.

Well, if you made it to the end, congratulations, you don't have to read any more. Give yourself a pat on the back.

I'm not going to tag anyone because I always end up tagging the same people over and over. If you would like to share seven of your innermost secrets, then I tag you. Just let me know when you do, so I can limp over to your blog to read them.

The Seven Layers of Me

I don't get tagged with memes very often, so I am very flattered and surprised when I do. DJkirkby has tagged me with a challenge to find seven things about myself that are either interesting, weird or true. I doubt that I can come up with anything that involves all three adjectives. I may have to invent some things. Anyway, the rules state that after I link to the person who tagged me and post my seven tales of wonder, I need to tag seven other random blogs. So if anyone is in the mood to fib seven times, let me know.

I am just kidding about the threat of untruths. I will endeavor to be as completely honest as I can and I'm sure your interest will be entirely coincidental.

Firstly, I really enjoy the television show, The Office. I know this is not uncommon, but my lovely spouse is convinced that only weirdos can understand, let alone find the humor in this show. At least this is strange to one person.

Secondly, one of the things I enjoy the most about the holidays is the food. I especially enjoy Thanksgiving and Christmas because our family, like many other families, serve turkey. Every family has dark meat lovers and white meat lovers. I love the turkey neck and giblets. Every year Lady Di tries to throw out the turkey heart, gizzard and liver. For me, if these item don't make it into the roaster, my meal is ruined. Growing up I had to fight my father for the turkey neck. Now I'm stronger and faster so it isn't much of a fight anymore.

Thirdly, my taste in music may be a little atypical for someone who is thirty-something. I believe that Frank Sinatra was and is the greatest singer of all time. I grew up in the 80's and do enjoy quite a lot of pop from that era, but it still takes a back seat to 1940's big band music. I really got excited when Brian Setzer formed an orchestra and did Dirty Boogie. Well, enough of that nerdisy.

Fourthly, I like to play finger games. This drives Lady Di up the wall. This is something I do when bored, nervous or want something to distract the kids from their dessert. I tell myself that these are finger exercises in case I need to make the #3 signal four different ways rapidly. (My favorite is a thumb and first two fingers) Or if I'm trapped at a Star Trek convention and need to do the four finger Vulcan salute and then move the inner two fingers together for an anti-salute. I'll bet some of you are trying it now? Anyway, if touching each finger to the thumb in various patterns will ever be useful, I will be ready. Oops! Better move on, Lady Di is showing me one of her finger exercises. (Just kidding)

Fifthly, I'm not sure if fifthly is a word or not. I really enjoy mowing the lawn. Some regard it as a chore. I see it as me time. I get to spend a full hour by myself and I get a workout too. Even if the kids try to interrupt me with some so called emergency, all I have to do is cup my hand to my ear, point to the mower and shrug. Sometimes, when the grass is too short to mow, I can fire up the mower in the backyard and just walk back and forth with it until the gas runs out.

Sixthly, is a hard word to say if you lisp. Sorry, no other factoid here.

Finally, since I'm pretty sure that seventhly is not a real word, I am bothered by mispronounced words. Although, I am not so bothered as to actually correct anyone. Some of my most spine shivering complaints include the words Warshington, car-a-mel (I say karmul), supposably and pellow(pillow). I apologize to all who use these pronunciations, but please know that it only bothers me on the inside.

Well, that's my best attempt to inform you all about me. If you've made it this far, you have earned a trip to seven other much more readable blogs. I'm sure these seven will not fail to interest, excite and titillate. I enjoy these and I'm sure you will too. Some are quite new to me and some are my staples.

I usually check on fellow Minnesotan, Father of Five, daily. Hopefully, he isn't working too much to give this a try.

Another busy blogger is Sci-Fi Dad. I don't know how he can post so much. I know he will have a lot of weird things to say.

A new blog I have been visiting is Alf. Amazingly, it is only a little bit about an alien puppet.

I've only recently found Neonalune and thought she would have an interesting list.

I've also recently started reading Marla. She did a similar tag a little while ago so I hope she can find seven more facts to share.

I've just found Samokdaddy and am curious about what he's up to all the way over there.

And lastly, and definitely not least, I'm am tagging Lady Di. I should know everything there is to know about her, but I'm very sure she has held at least seven things back from me these last twelve years.