11-30

11-30

11. My mother was in the Navy
12. The worst punishment my parents ever came up for me was to ban me from the library for a month
13. One of my favorite books of all time is Ender’s Game
14. I read Machiavelli for fun.
15. My heart stopped and my lungs collapsed when I was seven years old because of an allergic reaction
16. I love the smell of Scotch brand tape
17. I still can’t color in the lines
18. I have read the unabridged English translation of Les Miserables in its entirety.
19. I was 21 months when I finally learned to walk
20. The four of us girls shared one big room for a number of years and then it was two and two, and then Heather and I shared while the older two got their own rooms. I didn’t get my own room until I was 13 or 14.
21. I’ve been on TV twice.
22. I grew up without a TV in my house
23. I would get in trouble for sneaking into Gayle’s room at night to talk. I don’t know why I would always go to her room rather than her coming to my room.
24. My mother was a “cafeteria lady” at my elementary school.
25. I took one year of voice lessons.
26. I have the unique talent of being able to fall over or trip without any apparent cause
27. I love the feel of a freshly made bed with crisp clean sheets on it.
28. My feet are short and wide with a small arch that is too far back, making shoe shopping very hard and very expensive.
29. I have oddly shaped toes, and my second toes are both larger than my big toes.
30. The first book that ever made me cry was Mama, Let’s Dance