1. I have a piece of the Berlin Wall. A cousin of mine had a friend who was in Germany when the wall was torn down. She collected several pieces of the wall and gave some of them to my cousin, who passed one on to me.
2. I watched on live TV as Ken Griffey, Jr. hit his 599th home run. He has since hit three more, bringing his current total to 602. He becomes only the sixth man to hit more than 600 home runs.
3. When I was in Italy, Gerald McRaney came over to hour base and gave us a talk encouraging us to consider serving in the military. I wondered at this--preaching to the choir. He was giving out autographs, but the only thing I had that he could sign was Cody's diaper. I passed.
4. I saw Mary Lou Retton frying chicken in a mall in Memphis. A couple of years later, that entire mall was torn down. No testament to Miss Retton's cooking, I hope.
5. I have a white stripe down my belly. It's been there for as long as I can remember. It's just a lack of melanin in that particular area. It starts in the middle of my chest and ends at my navel. A friend once said that it looked like someone poked a hole in my belly button and all the color drained out.
6. I have rough spots on the tops of both of my ears. I tell people that it's where they cut the points off when I was a baby.
7. I dream in color. Always. In fact, the idea that some people seldom, if ever, dream in color came as quite a shock to me.
So there you have it. Seven things about me you probably wish you didn't know.
5 comments:
Frying chicken in a mall? What an odd thing for Mary Lou Retton to be doing.
Wow that was enlightening.
Amy, it was something like an infomercial, only live and in person. Heck, for all I know, they may have been filming it.
Ashley, thanks.
#7 reminds me about my husband, he's bilingual, but mostly lives his life in English these days (speaks to his co-workers, wife and child, watches TV, listens to the radio, etc.). He does still speak Spanish (his 1st language), but it usually is in reference to his mother, father, sometimes his brothers, etc. But it's not like he talks to them that often. Sometimes I'll catch him reading a Spanish language newspaper from his home country online, but that's not that often. So, for all intensive purposes, he's a mostly English language person these days.
However, because now and then he'll talk in his sleep, I happen to know for a fact that he dreams in Spanish! I've caught him a few times talking out loud, and he'll be talking in Spanish while he's dreaming. When I talk to him in the morning or if he wakes, he'll say, "Oh, I was talking to you or so-and-so," and they are all English speaking people in his dream! LOL
Dani, that reminds me of one of my high school teachers. Her husband used to talk in French in his sleep, only he didn't speak French! Dreams can be strange things.
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