Tagging Me in Seven

Alright Andrea over at Good Girl Gone Red­neck has tagged me. Andrea has a great blog and she chron­i­cles her life as a trans­plant from New York City to North Car­olina, along with a great sense of humor. She also has sev­eral other blog­gers who have been tagged & are fab­u­lous. Visit her & give her lots of love. But not too much love because then you might con­sid­ered a stalker. Keep it within rea­son people.

And while I was sort of hop­ing being tagged would come with some cool spray paint logo, it didn’t. Instead it comes with me “giv­ing up” seven things about myself to you (seven things you don’t already know) & tag­ging seven oth­ers to do the same (if they are will­ing to accept this challenge).

Ok, first things first.

Me in Seven

1. I grad­u­ated from Wayne State Uni­ver­sity. I met my hus­band there & pretty much have been a part of the cam­pus for what feels like FOREVER. Although I’m pretty sure it’s not really FOREVER, I mean dinosaurs weren’t roam­ing the Earth when I started. At least I don’t think they were.

2. I have weird food habits. I don’t let my food touch on my plate, I eat Star­burst candy in color coded order, and candy or marsh­mal­lows should always be given in pairs of twos. These are non-negotiable items, ask fam­ily & close friends. They will tell you I am weird with food. I’m sure there are other odd­i­ties that I don’t even notice any­more, but oth­ers would cringe in hor­ror at because it’s SO WEIRD! But what­ever. I own it.

3. The title of my blog comes from a few dif­fer­ent things. One: I’m con­fused at what I want to do. I started this blog when I was in the final throes of a dis­ser­ta­tion, after my 4th baby was born & thought con­nect­ing to oth­ers would help me fig­ure it out (given my lat­est posts, con­fu­sion still abounds). Two: I like to talk and share things I find or do, a lot of things over­lap into home­mak­ing. I love home­made, sim­ple, and con­nect­ing to the cre­ative side of life. Three: it’s social com­men­tary on the con­cept that every woman is sup­posed to be a home­maker & worker. That these con­cur­rent roles are in con­flict lead­ing to con­fu­sion about what one’s role iden­tity is and how to nav­i­gate the end­less social expec­ta­tions as a woman. Nah, I’m just mess­ing you on that one. I didn’t think about that at all when I picked it I just liked it.

4. My breasts are real. I don’t know why that mat­ters, but I’ve never shared it. So there. Now you know.

5. I can eat an entire meat lovers medium pizza in one sit­ting if I had to. And I could do it even if I didn’t have to. It’s an ill­ness, sim­i­larly I can eat an entire fam­ily size bag of chips in one sit­ting. I’m not talk­ing an hour long sit­ting either, maybe 15 min­utes tops. This is why these things can’t come near me. If they are around I will not stop until I am unable to fit through my front door. Then I’d have to be like the guy they air­lifted out of his house. Please if you see me near a meat lovers pizza stage an intervention.

6. I have had stitches twice as a kid. Once because I cut my foot on a ham can that was in the trash it’s 1/2 moon shaped. Yes, ham in a can I’m NOT kid­ding you. The sec­ond time because I cut my knee on glass that was in the trash it’s not shaped like any­thing cool. I now keep trash at an arm’s length. Fool me once shame on you, Fool me twice shame on me. YOU WILL NOT FOOL ME AGAIN TRASH!

7. I was on the ten­nis team in high school. The first year I was ter­ri­ble. I mean down right awful. The sec­ond year I was bet­ter. But let’s just say I was not ever going to be a ten­nis pro. I never had the grunt­ing thing down right. I think if I could have got­ten that down then I would have been able to get a con­sis­tent serve down pat. Grunts=good serves. It’s a ten­nis rule, trust me. I was on the team I should know.

Now here are my Seven…who you should also check out & give love (within legal lim­its) too…

1. Mar­tina @ Johnny’s Brother
2. Fae­mom @ Fae­mom
3. Heather @ Theta Mom
4. Debbi @ Sub­urb San­ity
5. The Unknown­Mami @ Unknown Mami
6. Lynn @ Smil­ing Green Mom
7. Lisa and Laura @ Lisa & Laura Write

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