Alright already!!!

Holy crap…you people just will not let a person go off by herself to piss and moan and drive her practical and reliable Japanese vehicle off the side of a cliff, will you? What is it with you guys?? Are you all suffering from some kind of guardian angel complex or something??

I will admit that I did not make it through the day without crying…a few times…however, all of your kind comments and emails have done a whole lot to help lift my mood. It’s really great to have friends – and I don’t mean that in a trite, cliché, phony way. It is genuinely good to have friends. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

I still don’t want to blog about my pathetic problems because…well, they’re pathetic. Not only would I bore the heck out of you but you’d lose all respect for me. Of course, I suppose that statement assumes that you have some respect for me to begin with, which may be a real LEAP on my part. I know Hermes likes my legs – that’s at least something!

I accepted this challenge from my good friend, Steve http://evrythingchanged.blogspot.com/2005/08/ten-things-about-me-you-probably-didnt.html to post this list of ten things you probably don’t know about me. I promised I’d do it as soon as my mood began to turn, so as not to subject you to a list of ten things that piss me off or ten things that make me want to drive off a cliff or ten things that depress the hell out of me or…well, you get the picture. I fear that a few rather “pissy” things may have crept onto the list. I hope you will kindly excuse them.

Here goes:

1. Like Steve, I am scared to death of the dentist. I only go when I’m in serious pain. I wonder why I even carry dental insurance. As infrequently as I go, it’s hardly worth it. I’ll probably have a full set of dentures by the time I’m 60.
2. I once posed as someone else in order to communicate electronically with a guy who had dumped me. I left anonymous comments on his blog. When he left a comment asking me to instant message, I was terrified of being discovered. Still, desperate to maintain the connection, I agreed. We emailed and instant messaged for about two weeks before the guilt got the better of me and I made a full confession.
3. I don’t like tomatoes. My mother said, when I was a baby in a high chair, I used to say “Ewww…red!” and refuse to eat any tomato-based food. I detest catsup. (Although unlike Hof’s friend, I am not “afraid” of catsup.)
4. Ignoring my distaste for tomatoes, red is my favorite color. (Yellow is a close second. Sorry Steve, but blue doesn’t even make the short list.)
5. I love mowing the lawn. It’s one of the few chores that offers instant gratification coupled with a chance to be outdoors in the sunshine.
6. I don’t fall in love often, but when I do it’s passionately and it makes me very easy to manipulate. I wasn’t kidding when I said that compliments go a long way with me, BG. The right compliment in the wrong hands can get me to do just about anything. (Like pretend to be someone else, for example?)
7. I had back surgery to remove a ruptured disk about seven years ago. The nerve damage caused by the disk left a numb place on the outside of my lower left calf. I only notice it when shaving my legs.
8. I love to go out dancing, particularly to old 70s disco music. I can’t stay in a bad mood if I’m dancing. I need to go dancing SOON!!
9. I am fiercely loyal. Once I consider someone a true friend (or more than a friend), they are stuck with me for life. I even get along well (for the most part…most of the time) with my ex.
10. When the recruiter came to pick up my son the night he left for basic training, I cried for hours. The next day, I literally looked like I’d gone several rounds in a boxing ring. My whole face was swollen. I never expected it to hit me so hard. When the recruiter tried to tell me that my son was becoming the “property of the US Government,” I nearly took his head off telling him he was only on LOAN to the US Government; he was MY kid and he better not forget that. (Grizzly Mama…don’t mess with my kids!)