KM and Tam have tagged me.

The rules are:

• We have to post these rules before we give you the facts.
• Players start with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
• People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight things and post these rules.
• At the end of your blog post, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.
• Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.

1. I love drinking out of measuring glasses. They’re nice at wide so that I can’t spill anything when I’m pouring the drink in and I can’t really knock it over. Plus, I know exactly how much I just drank.

2. I was chosen by my kindergarten teacher to provide the first-ever show-and-tell for my class. I chose to bring in the little card from which I had learned all of the U.S. Presidents, and recite the presidents to the class. Then, I told the class which presidents had been assassinated, and I said that somebody had tried to assassinate Reagan (who was the current president). My teacher misunderstood me (thinking that I’d said he had been killed), and she told the class that I was wrong about Reagan. It’s sort of difficult, as a kindergartner, to argue such matters with your teacher, so I just let it go…

3. I never won the most popular student in my class award. Go figure.

4. My greatest fear…..babies. I’m scared to hold them. Or, more precisely, I’m scared to drop them. That would suck.

5. I’m not scared of spiders. At all. For some reason, my bedroom back home always had some sort of bug infestation that the rest of the house never had. Recently, it’s been wasps and ladybugs. They’ll be in my room, everywhere, but nowhere else. Anyway, growing up, my room was usually totally covered in spiders. They would just line the edge where the ceiling met the walls, and even when we cleaned them up (which was often), they’d come back immediately. I remember laying in bed at night, reading by my night-light with my book laying on the bed, and spiders would just be running over the pages, and I’d pretty much be oblivious to them. You get used to them after a while.

6. I think I’ve always been sort of a pacifist. Growing up, my favorite game was “Pecan Wars” (there were several kinds of pecan wars, as my sister could tell you). The pecans in my yard had been ruled by the rocks for decades (until I showed up). One day, they decided to not take it anymore, and so they revolted. The problem: rocks can destroy pecans, but pecans can’t destroy rocks. So, the pecans had to learn to capture the rocks and hold them secure. They fought a war this way that lasted about twelve years. The pecans won.

7. My current favorite tv show is The Fairly Odd Parents. It has now officially replaced Sponge-Bob.

8. I once lived for a month off of canned biscuits and cheese. This experience taught me that it’s almost impossible to make me constipated.

Let’s see. I’ll tag Kalyn, Will, Em, Em, ‘Mira, Kayla, and anyone else who happens along. Enjoy.