7 Facts About Me

I've been tagged by Kasey (like a million years ago...sorry it's taken me so long to respond)

Here's how it works:
The theme: 7 random facts about me
The rules: Link to your tagger and post these rules.
Share 7 facts about yourself: some random, some weird.
Tag 7 people at the end of your post and list their names (linking to them).
Let them know they’ve been tagged by leaving a comment at their blogs.


1. Let's start with a rather embarrassing random fact: I sucked my fingers until I was 13.

2. The biggest crowd I've ever sang in front of was about 10,000 people. When I was a junior in high school I sang the National Anthem at the boys state basketball finals (class B). They also broadcasted it on a Michigan sports channel, so technically it was for over 10,000 people.

3. I can talk with my mouth closed. A talent I developed in junior high (when all weird talents are developed).

4. I can also wiggle my eyeballs (jr. high...).

5. In high school I was an avid cross-stitcher. Isn't this an old person's hobby? Not even cool like knitting. I think it did the same thing that algabra did for me: a relatively easy formula to do somewhat mindlessly. I suppose crossword puzzles have replaced my "mindless" cross-stitching habit.

6. The most books I ever read in one year (for pleasure) was 20+. When we lived in Paraguay we didn't have television and we spent a lot of time on looooonng bus rides.

7. To this day my mother calls me "Boo Boo Bear", short for "Buggie Wuggie Boo Boo Bear", which is derived from "Gina Bug" (a nickname I acquired as a kid that even aunts and uncles called me). My brother-in-law, Marc has called me "Bug" ever since we met (about 13 years now) and friends throughout my school years did the same. It's endearing from Marc, but somehow from my mom I feel like an almost-thirty-year-old trying to be kept a perpetual 5 year old (and it's quite embarrassing to hear a loud "Boo Boo!" ringing out across the aisles in the supermarket when the recipient is a grown woman).

I tag: Marisa, Elizabeth, Lindsay, and EJ (hope there are no duplicates)