MeMe Award

Candice over at Bookish Penguin just gave me the MeMe Award.

What does this mean?  Well, it basically means that I am supposed to share 7 things you (readers of thirtysomethingblog.com) don't know about me yet.

I am in a sharing mood so I thought I'd oblige and try to come up with 7 things.  Here goes...

1. I was stung by a bee when I was little, like 5 years old little. On my eye. I was over at the neighbors house watching my neighbor do some clipping around the edge of her flowers. There was a bee and she started waving her clippers at it to shoo it away. I remember staring at it and then suddenly being stung on my eye. My parents were leaving to go out to dinner and I remember having ice on my eye, yelling and screaming as they drove away. I was fine, but was traumatized and to this day am highly afraid of bees.
2. My 7th grade global studies teacher called me "hightower" once when she called on me to read aloud to the rest of class. I didn't find this funny. I'm pretty sure everyone else did.
3. I was once peer-pressured into dating someone. This was also in 7th grade.
4. I never baked a single thing on my own until I was 25 years old. Sad, but true. The first thing I made was chocolate chip cookies. And they came out fantastic (if I do say so myself).
5. I have only had one job since graduating college.  And that was nine years ago.
6. I started researching my family history in earnest in my early teens. Weird hobby for a thirteen year old, huh? I had a computer program for it and would write letters to newspapers, libraries and town clerks. I still do genealogy today, but it usually goes in spurts.
7. I joined the indoor track team in high school on a whim. I had a few friends on the team and just decided one day after school that I wanted to do it too. I sucked at running but usually ran the 3000 (almost 2 miles) at the meets.

I did my best to come up with interesting tidbits, so I hope you weren't bored to death.

I am also supposed to select 7 other bloggers that I'd like to learn more about. Really, I have no idea who to tag.  I'd love to see Dawn and Kathy and Majimo do it, but have no idea if they would. So, if you are a regular reader of this blog please consider yourself selected. If you do decide to post 7 things please come back to this post and comment to let me know. I'll then go to your post and leave a comment. See how nicely I am asking? I said please, twice!