Seven Weird and Random Things

 My very first tagging experience! I was tagged by 280 Main St for this meme, and I couldn’t be more excited. Here’s what I’m supposed to do:

1. Link to my tagger
2. Post the rules
3. Share 7 facts about myself, some random, and some weird
4. Tag 7 people at the end of my post and link their names

Okay. I can do that. It’s kind of like a chain letter, without the prize. I used to send those off, totally believing that I would get whatever it was I was supposed to get, and never once got anything. I’ve also never won anything in any kind of lottery. Hey! I’m getting the hang of this! Here are some more:

1. I’ve had a self-help book reading compulsion since my teen years. I do believe I’ve read almost every book on relationships out there, and found most of them absolutely riveting. The weird bit is how I ended up divorced anyway.

2. I used to play this game with my younger brother called Put a Blindfold Over My Eyes and Lead Me To A Ledge of an Undetermined Distance From the Ground. I find that so weird, in retrospect. Why didn’t I put the blindfold on him, and make him jump? Why didn’t I worry about breaking my legs?

3. I am absolutely phobic of mice. I grew up in a jungle, am not in the slightest way scared of any other moving or crawling thing, have never had any nasty experiences with rodents, and I think of myself as a practical, no-nonsense sort of girl. Yet even the thought of a furry, twitchy, skittery thing scuttling across my kitchen floor gives me the serious heebes. It’s on my mind because I have a mouse in my kitchen. I saw it a few nights ago. And now I’m afraid to even walk around my own house once the lights are off. I set a no-kill trap out for it, but it’s too smart to go in it. I think I may have to set one of those guillotine type of traps. But who’s going to check it in the morning? I am SO grossed out just thinking about it.

4. I left highschool at age 17 to go to university, spent 3 years getting a BSc, 4 years in medical school getting an MD, and a further 2 years in a pediatrics residency, only to quit 2 years before I was fully qualified in order to stay home with the children I swore I would never have.

5. My then-husband and I drove to the southwest coast of Mexico from here in Canada one winter, taking all four children, then ages 2, 4, 6 and 9 . It took 40 hours of driving. There. Then, of course, 40 more back. No DVD player, because of course I insisted that the kids soak in the changing scenery. It was actually a really fun trip. Honestly.

6. I live in a city with 7 months of snow, and I HATE winter.

7. I attended an international boarding school in Singapore, and I don’t remember actually seeing anything in the city of Singapore. Except the shopping district. I don’t think we left the compound much.

Well, that was fun. I had a hard time stopping. I can be a bit of a blabbermouth. I’m going to pass the torch onto the other bloggers who’ve commented on my site, but like Marjorie over at 280 Main St said, don’t feel any pressure. Only do it if it doesn’t cause stress…

• Under the Sun
• Daddy Dan
• A Boy and his Woobie

Oh hell. I’ll be brave and tag some other bloggers that don’t know me from a hole in the ground. Just because I like their sites.

• My Topography
• Cheeze Whiz and Mustard