Thanks to Sara for providing me with something fun to do!
Each player lists 8 facts/habits about themselves, then tags (up to) 8 more people for the meme.
1. I can’t see well in the dark, and get creeped out walking in the dark by myself. So every night, after we put JediBoy to bed, PisecoDad and I watch some dvd and then I coerce him into walking downstairs with me so I can pee before bed. Leaving the lights on downstairs is not enough, because I’d have to turn them off and be the last one downstairs in the dark.
2. When we adopt our daughter from Guatemala, we will keep her birth name as her first name. When we got our referral, PisecoDad was completely against this name - he just didn’t care for it. But as I watched the referral video over and over, I realized that I’d come to think of her by that name. So, as I sat in the van waiting for PisecoDad to get the $Really Big$ cashier’s check from the bank to send down and accept the referral, I realized that if we used a certain nickname from her name, it would remind PisecoDad of one of his favorite alternate universes. When he came out and heard my solution, he agreed immediately!(Bonus points to my friends IRL who will quickly figure that one out if they didn’t know it already - probably a race between Jody and Leigh!)
3. I don’t like to take showers, because I can’t stand the cold sensation when I open the curtain to get my towel and then stand there dripping. I take lots of showers in the summer, because that’s the only time the cold sensation feels good to me, especially in the evening before bed. The rest of the year I alternate between showers, with the furnace cranked really high for the 15 minutes I’m in there, and bubble baths. I think we need a heat lamp for the bathroom!
4. When PisecoDad proposed, he gave me the engagement ring his father had given his mother. (His father died when he was 4.) It fit without being resized, although I wear pretty small rings - size 5 1/2. We chose our wedding date (August 22) based on our own preferences and after we announced the date, his mother told us that August 22 had been their anniversary.
5. If you want more weird family coincidences, PisecoDad and I each have a Great-Aunt Amelia, our father’s mother’s sisters, who were each married to a Great-Uncle Bob. Or how about this one: our grandfathers (my paternal, his maternal) died on the same day in 1981. Oh yeah, our engagement was one long eye-goggling, jaw-dropping conversation.
6. I’m not allergic to anything (that I know of), but in the past year or two I’ve been unable to eat ice cream without getting a seriously disrupted digestive system. Sometimes, when I eat a small serving for dessert, with a big meal, I’m okay. But just going out for ice cream in the middle of the evening? Forget it. This is a major bummer, since PisecoDad would live on ice cream if given half the chance. Oddly enough, nothing else bothers me - I’m fine with milk and cheese. Just no ice cream. (Depeche Mode, anyone? and when I die, I expect to find him laughing)
7. I love to play board games (as you probably guessed from the BoardGameGeek sidebar - thanks again, Andrea!) but my favorites are anything that involve speedy reflexes. Spoons, Set, Egyptian Rat Screw? I’m all over it. Long, drawn out strategy games like chess, Risk, HeroScape? No way. I enjoy happy medium strategy games like Settlers of Catan and Puerto Rico, but I don’t think I have enough silly party games in my life. You can never have enough silly party games. (Oops. Did I say that?)
8. Obviously, I now have to tell the “you can never have enough dice” story. When PisecoDad turned 23, I was recovering from a DVT and pulmonary embolism which had basically kept me stuck on the couch for two months. I was just starting to hobble around on crutches when Jody came up to celebrate the birthday with us. Since PisecoDad had made the mistake of saying both “you can never have enough dice” and “all I want for my birthday is something little” and I had lots of time to plan and, well, you all know dice are little… Jody, Nate and I each bought him 23 dice for his birthday. And we wrapped them. Individually. Some were masterpieces - Nate did a couple of the 4-sided dice with Hershey’s Kisses wrappers and even had the little papers sticking out. Some were in really, really big boxes with a bunch of packing paper. Some were in wrapping paper tubes and toilet paper tubes. The entire evening was very, very silly. And it’s not my only silly birthday wrapping story, but I’ve hit 8 facts and so I will stop.
I’ve seen that many of you have done this meme already, so I’ll tag Leigh, Jody, Paula and Ken. Anyone else who hasn’t played yet, jump in!
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