As I told Christopher C of Clyde, NC, when it comes to blogging memes I’m a virgin (no jokes, please). But because he "tagged" the GardenRanters in a nice way and practically begged us for a little more information
about ourselves, I promised him I’d play. And while this meme calls for 6 "random" things about the blogger, I notice that participants list 6 potentially interesting things because truly random things might be how many toothbrushes they own and similarly forgettable details, so to hell with that. Anyhoo, here goes.
1. For readers who’ve noticed me asking about every social event "Will there be dancing?" here’s the story behind that. It started, as it does for so many girls, with ballet, tap and "modern jazz" but then progressed to swing, Cajun, Zydeco, Texas two-step, contra, squares, Appalachian clogging, African, assorted ballroom, and other categories I may be forgetting, and Israeli folk dancing could be in my future for all I know. I used to write about "participatory dance" for DanceView Magazine.
2. I also used to be an adventurous world traveler but trekking in Nepal – in January no less – and then touring India ALONE cured me of that particular obsession. Now I’m a total homebody.
3. To prove the point, my only sibling has lived in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico for 7 years now and I’ve only visited once.
4. I did have ONE terrific business trip - to work at the World Court in The Hague, after which I spent a fun-filled weekend in Amsterdam on my own dime (thus staying in a $12/nite flophouse).
5. In my career as a court reporter in D.C. I’ve had lots of boring assignments and a few really juicy ones involving famous people, important events or scandal. Want some names? Okay – Monica Lewinsky, Bill Cosby, Claus von Bulow and Liv Ullman come to mind.
6. Warning to parents of preteens and teens: This story could keep you up at night. At 12 or 13 I routinely climbed out my bedroom window to joy-ride across the countryside with a bunch of neighborhood hellions, but never got caught. My dad found out about it decades later from my sister and was FURIOUS.
There, I think I’ve answered the meme without getting in trouble with anyone or telling on any of my husbands.
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Very interesting and I just realized it was 6 things and in mine I only listed 5! But back to you! You are a dancer, that is cool. Oh the things we did as kids!
Gail
See, that’s why I love these memes! You learn so much interesting stuff about the person behind the gardener!
Looking forward to our visit tomorrow!
Robin
Gardening Examiner
Well done Susan. Now if you had told us what you did during the fun filled weekend in Amsterdam would it have caused some trouble?
Claus von Bulow, do you think he did it?
Christopher, probably and definitely.
Heh. I’m glad that you got tagged with this meme– those were some great stories. I got tagged too, but I swear to god that I’m way too boring to participate. Although I’m pretty sure I did have one fun-filled weekend in Amsterdam, I don’t remember most of it, or the flight back to New York. I definitely remember the 4-day hangover.
How fun! I’ve just started with the dancing (Scottish Country) and have a great time. I’ve found that I don’t have any interest in doing the high adventure, independent travel that I did in my 20s, but love a modified independent travel style to fit my 40s life with kids.
But you never took Hippie-Chick dance? And this delves no further into the whole, “More husbads than a Gabor sister.” thing. But it was very interesting.
Good to see you over the weekend, no matter how brief it was.
Hi Susan, you have some pretty jiucy things with celebs even. I was a meme virgin too, now we are *used goods*. LOL Didn’t everyone sneak out as young teens?
Wow, every one of these tidbits is quite interesting. I really live a boring life!
Great answers! I can”t compete with that, no way.
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