7 More Weird Facts About Me

As though yesterday's weird facts weren't enough, I did get "officially" tagged after I wrote them. So here I go again, in the spirit of actually taking part in the meme. BusyDad tagged me for this one. Thanks BusyDad. :)I'm not sure these will be particularly insightful, or inspiring, but since I have blogger's block right now (actually I think I have too many ideas of what to blog about, so none of them will fully form) I'll just go with it.

1. I can touch the tip of my nose with my tongue. Incidentally, all my children can too, and in fact my son can place his almost on top of his nose. They like to tease me and pretend to pick their noses with it. So gross!!

2. For my height, I have tiny hands and feet. My 11 year old and 14 year old's hands are already bigger than mine. (Maybe the tiny feet are why I'm so clumsy. See this post.

3. I cannot touch, smell, or eat mushrooms without being sick. I ate your everyday lawn variety when I was 3 and had to have my stomach pumped. However, they do have their own antidote. Yep, you guessed it. They make you puke. However, I didn't allow myself to get sick, when I first felt like I needed to, so I managed to digest them much more than one would normally do. Please, please, do not EVER allow your kids to pretend that "toadstools" are cookies. They just might eat them!

4. I cannot cross my eyes. When I try, only my right eye crosses. It looks VERY funny! If I cover my right eye, I can get the left one to do it, but the effect is surely lost, if you try to cross your eyes at something and have to cover one eye. :)

5. I am allergic to all metals. I have my ears pierced three times in each ear, but cannot wear earrings, because my ears swell up and become infected. I once tried to get my belly button pierced, forgetting about the fact that I am allergic, and while it didn't get infected from germs, it did swell up and get very sore, from the metal. As soon as I remembered about this stupid allergy, I removed the piercing, and healed almost immediately. Even the rings on my fingers (my wedding ring and a Mother's ring) have caused calluses to form under them from ecsema breakouts under them. This is the only reason I can still wear them.

6. I am the only person in my family with brown eyes. Even in my original nuclear family, I was the only one with brown eyes. My 4 children all have blue eyes of varying shades, and my husband has light green eyes. My father and biological sister have blue eyes, and my mother had hazel eyes (they were not blue. Hazel eyes are actually a greenish color with copper colored flakes in them. Look up the definition of "hazel" if you don't believe me. If you have blue eyes of any shade they are NOT hazel.) Anyway, I know this is not supposed to be possible, based on how genetics are supposed to work, but I know for a fact that both my parents ARE my biological parents. I'm just a freak that way.

7. When I curl my toes, my pinky toes will not curl, unless I REALLY concentrate on them. They stay pointing straight up, and out (you know like in those pictures you see of people's pinkies when they drink tea?)

And just for the fun of it, I'll add one more.

8. Eating meat (mainly chicken or pork) makes me sick to my stomach if I eat very much of it, but since I just LOOOOVVVEEE the taste of a good Rib-Eye, I eat it anyway.

Ok, now I've shared much more about myself than you really wanted to know, and I'm done. :) It took me awhile to think of these, so I hope you enjoyed, once again, reading about my freakishness. :) I'm breaking the rules, and I'm not going to tag anyone, because almost all the bloggers I know have either already taken part in this, or they don't do memes. So anyway, blessings to you!

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