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Six Unspectacular Things About Me

Memes

My bird buddy, Indigo Bunting tagged me yesterday — I’m supposed to list 6 unspectacular things about myself. It’s harder than I thought it would be (although my daughter said she could list dozens of  unspectacular things about me and then proceeded to do so. Brat.)

  1. I’ve never been tagged for a meme before. This is my first. Which is interesting since I’ve had a blog since 2001.
  2. I don’t know what a dangling participle is. I always thought they were unimportant until I saw it mentioned on a test for a teaching position in Montgomery County many years ago. I guess they are important because I didn’t get the job.
  3. I like to do dishes by hand. But I hate to dry or put them away.
  4. I’ve never mowed the lawn with a gas or electric powered mower – I used a rotary mower a few times, but gave up on that because it was too freaking hard.
  5. I’m not allergic to poison ivy — yet.
  6. My first bee sting was when I was in my early 40’s. It hurt, but I was pleased to finally have been stung by a bee.
  7. Bonus seventh item: I don’t “know” six bloggers (not tagged by IB or Mrs. Slocombe) to tag so I tagged some bloggers whose blogs I read, but they’ve never read mine.

Tagged: Tina, Matt, Glen, Laurie, James (maybe he’ll post photos of the unspectacular), and Dan.
I would have tagged my sister-in-law, Diane, but she doesn’t blog.

Meme Terms and Conditions

  1. Link to the person who tagged you.
  2. Mention the rules on your blog.
  3. List six unspectacular things about you.
  4. Tag six other bloggers by linking to them.

Bad day

Rant

I slept later than I’ve slept since I was in high school (or perhaps college) this morning, awaking at 10:20 am — fitting because I was dreaming I was in high school again.

A bunch of annoying things happened throughout the day including my breaking a handle on a pan we got for our wedding.

After buying a new pan and having a “discussion” with my husband about it I went outside to cool down (although it was 90 degrees out there). I saw an enormous bug walking up the maple tree in the back yard. On further inspection I noticed it was carrying a dead cicada and deduced it was a cicada killer wasp. I then came inside to look it up online to be sure I was right.

Cicada killer wasps don’t actually kill cicadas, according to a website I found. They sting cicadas to paralyze them, then carry them to their nest and lay their eggs in them. The cicada remains alive as food for the growing cicada killer offspring.

I decided that the cicada was having a worse day than I was.