Amy at AmyOoops has tagged me along with six others. I’m supposed to tell 8 random facts or habits about myself. I can’t recall what I posted the last time I was tagged…. so there might be some dupes here.
I’ve been struggling with what to put as item number 8. Last night it hit me!
- Whenever I get onto an airplane I always touch the outside of the doorway as I pass through it. Weird, I know.
- I’m left-handed…. but I’m struck by how funny it is to watch other left-handed people write. It seems perfectly natural to me, but it looks so awkward to watch others.
- I had curly hair all throughout my life until it started to turn gray, then it straightened out. As a kid I hated it. I like to say “I had curly hair when curly hair wasn’t cool”. Now my line is… “Gray hair is better than no hair.” If things regress, I might be needing a new line before long.
- First job: I was a nurse’s assistant in the O.R. at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis as a 17 year old. That was an eye-opener.
- I’ve laid Charlotte twice. Charlotte is my Harley. I laid her down once on the second day I had her. I was riding her home from Florida and somewhere in Georgia it started to rain and I pulled up under an overpass to wait out the rain and just didn’t get my feet down quick enough. She went over in slow motion. The second time was in South Dakota while making a turn to slow and sharp. Both were gentle lays with no damage done..except to my pride. She’s a great cruiser, but she’s a big girl when still.
- Favorite TV shows (current): Desperate Housewives, 24, Gray’s Anatomy, The Shield, Brother’s and Sisters, Real Time with Bill Mahr, Nip Tuck… just to name a few.
- I’m a non-smoker. I tried it when I was a teenager…to try to be “cool”. I found it rather disgusting. I just can’t see what anyone gets out of smoking. Now, drinking a nice frosty cold beer… I understand that.
I was hit in the head by a baseball last night. (That explains a lot). During batting practice before the Cardinals game at Busch Stadium, a long fly ball off the bat of a Cincinnati Reds player, bounced into the bleachers about 10 rows back and ricocheted back and hit me upside the head knocking my nachos all over the place. Fortunately I was able to save most of the grub and grab the ball. I was uninjured except for nacho cheese/meat stains on my jeans. I ended up giving the ball to a young boy sitting near me who was celebrating his birthday.
P.S. Sorry this took so long to do.
It’s called better late then never
Future line for #3: “This isn’t a bald head – it’s a solar panel for a sex machine.”
You spelled Cincinnati wrong…but that’s ok because only people born and raised in this unique city know that the two ‘n’s’ are the only side-by-side duplicated letter 🙂
You should have left it with ‘I’ve laid Charlotte twice’. Although I did Laugh at the mental pictures of a very tall man going over in the slow motion fall with such a big girl as Charlotte!! And your first job! That must have been crazy! It’s a better story than packing groceries though!
Once again I am left feeling a bit like a stalker. It’s never enough info!! We need a Jonco wiki page!
if you’re that worried about hair loss, try propecia. my dad uses it regularly, and i swear it, after his hair grew back, it’s like he’s in the 70’s again. all cool and groovy. lol!
and you love grey’s anatomy too! awesome! me too!
love your blog.
Mandy,
Thanks. Cincinnati is corrected.
Jonco
Very Cool Thanks
hair… it was important to me at one time, then I tried chemo hair removal treatment… boy did it work, only 18 days and it was gone… all of it but a few stragglers’… never thought I would ever shave my mustache off… had too, looked like rat boy… ok so I shaved it off one time in 50 years… never say never…lol now I’m bolding and think… who cares…
sorry about Charlotte… your lucky nothing happened to it… simple falls can cost hundreds… shoes or boots with non-skid souls helps… and riding when your not fatigued helps too. I rode 475 miles from the redwood forest to my house one time, and was so glad to be home, putting the bike away, thru the back yard gate, then the wide door, I finally got it into the basement, thought I put the kick stand down and BAMMM… on the side she fell… Shit Happens… Learn from it and be Safe…
New line when needed: Batter a bald head than no head!
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I can’t stand Bill Moyer. He is such an arrogant Ahole.
So is Bill Maher.