If you're my Facebook friend don't get too excited - I posted this same thing a couple of weeks ago in response to one of those number memes. My sister-in-law gave me the #8 & I was supposed to tell 8 things about myself that people might not know. It's hard to imagine that everyone doesn't know everything about my life because I'm such an open book, but I know it's hard to remember everything, so here's a refresher for you:
1. I used to be so needle-phobic that I once told a dentist
to give me a filling WITHOUT Novocain. I don’t know if that’s the dumbest thing
I ever did, but it’s close.
2. When I was in the 3rd grade I tried to go by my middle name, Marie, because I thought Dana was such a weird name.
3. When I was in Zambia I read just about every book by Alistair MacLean.
4. Speaking of books, I’m a huge Dick Francis fan. So sad that he & his wife are gone now…
5. One of my summer jobs while I was in college was in a laundry. (This laundry, in fact.) I had one task – to arrange clean wet sheets in a bin so that they could be fed into a huge rolling dryer. I took one end of the sheet & my partner took the other & we loosely folded them longwise into thirds. My partner had been working in the laundry for over 20 years & this is all she did every day. She always had to stand the same way, so that the motion of her arms always went the same direction. After a week of doing this a muscle in my neck started aching, & for many years after I last worked there that ache would show up when I was tired. This job was a HUGE incentive for me to finish college!
6. Ihave had the most ginormous zit in the history of ginormous zits on
my face right now then. What the heck! I’m almost 50!
7. I volunteered to lead an African (or Lambeth) Bible Study at my church during Advent. I kind of hope it turns into a regular feature – maybe not every week, but definitely during important seasons of the church year.
8. After all these years I’m still amazed at how perfectly suited Dr. M and I are together. We aren’t perfect, but our imperfections seem to work for us.
2. When I was in the 3rd grade I tried to go by my middle name, Marie, because I thought Dana was such a weird name.
3. When I was in Zambia I read just about every book by Alistair MacLean.
4. Speaking of books, I’m a huge Dick Francis fan. So sad that he & his wife are gone now…
5. One of my summer jobs while I was in college was in a laundry. (This laundry, in fact.) I had one task – to arrange clean wet sheets in a bin so that they could be fed into a huge rolling dryer. I took one end of the sheet & my partner took the other & we loosely folded them longwise into thirds. My partner had been working in the laundry for over 20 years & this is all she did every day. She always had to stand the same way, so that the motion of her arms always went the same direction. After a week of doing this a muscle in my neck started aching, & for many years after I last worked there that ache would show up when I was tired. This job was a HUGE incentive for me to finish college!
6. I
7. I volunteered to lead an African (or Lambeth) Bible Study at my church during Advent. I kind of hope it turns into a regular feature – maybe not every week, but definitely during important seasons of the church year.
8. After all these years I’m still amazed at how perfectly suited Dr. M and I are together. We aren’t perfect, but our imperfections seem to work for us.
Happy Monday!
I like your list! Laughing at the zit (although CERTAINLY NOT a funny business!) as I used to THINK we were suppose to outgrow them!!!! I still get them too! OY!
ReplyDeleteMy middle name is Marie as well and I think it is a pretty name! Dana is anything but a WEIRD name! :)
Thanks! I was always resentful that they never had a bike license plate with my name on it :)
Deletethere was always a big conspiracy theory here that Dick Francis's novels were actually written by his wife...I think Dana is a great name
ReplyDeleteI BELIEVE that conspiracy - the books that came out after her death weren't nearly as good!
Deleteread them earlier. still a good list.
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DeleteAwww... What a sweet comment to your hubby!
ReplyDeleteYeah - I like him a little bit :)
DeleteI think Dana is a great name! And what RaD said, too. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks!
DeleteI like the name "Dana." It is rare enough to be memorable. I do have another Dana as my Facebook friend (a former co-worker). So if you ever get tagged in a post that makes absolutely NO SENSE to you, you'll know why.
ReplyDeleteMy name is unusual enough that people tend to massacre it unless I spell it for them. That proved to be so much hassle that I decided that at Starbucks, my name is "Mary." Before I explained this to my husband, he looked at my cup of coffee once and thought I had gotten the wrong order.
That's so funny! I'm going to start calling you Mary too :)
DeleteBy the way - I have a comic I have to share with you. It's not spelled the same, but I thought you'd find it funny.
I love this list. When I was about 16 and had just started going out to discos and things I would say that my name was Jane because nobody in those days was ever called Rachel and I got fed up with getting funny looks and just wanted to have a simple name like everybody else. So I started to believe I really was called Jane. How mad is that. Now I love my name.
ReplyDeleteI had no idea so many people decided to rename themselves! I like Rachel a lot, actually :)
DeleteI hated Novocain like crazy. The aftereffects, especially. I tried to go without every single time. Just thinking about dentists, dental work, the sound of the drill, that smell---all of it makes me go teary. I have a terrible phobia of all things dentisty.
ReplyDeleteI always did too. I'm not sure when that changed. I still don't enjoy it - and I notice the novocain after-effects more now that I'm older - but I am more able to just let them do what they need to do. I think it's because it interferes with my eating when my teeth hurt :)
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