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Thursday, June 28, 2007

On vacation for a few days...



...a much needed time out, visiting family and such.

Posting and commenting will be sporadic (if at all) -- but I look forward to wandering through your worlds once I'm back!

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In response to Clare, Keeper of the Snails, who tagged me for a "random facts" meme -- what's the HTML for a Bronx Cheer?

In any case, I'm game, and apologies to those who I've inflicted the entirely optional meme-tag upon.

Here are the rules:

1. I have to post these rules before I give you the facts.
2. Each participant posts eight random facts about themselves.
3. Tagees should write a blogpost of eight random facts about themselves.
4. At the end of the post, eight more bloggers are tagged (named and shamed). (NB: I cheated, only tagged five. Neener neener neener.)
5. Go to their blog, leave a comment telling them they're tagged (cut and run).

My random facts:

1. I saw Night of the Living Dead when I was 9 years old, and it put me off scary gory movies forever.
2. It didn't help my reaction to that movie that I grew up living next to a graveyard, near the place where The Legend of Sleepy Hollow was set.
3. My first car was a used Olds Cutlass V8, which I treated as if it were a 4-wheel drive vehicle, bouncing through desert ravines to visit friends when I lived near Phoenix.
4. When I was about 9 years old, Zita Johann was trying to make a children's TV show and one of my brothers and I were to be in it. (It never happened, and I'm glad for that.)
5. I made money selling custom-made Creepy Crawlers in elementary school until I was busted for distracting the other students.
6. Kevin MacPherson was in many of my illustration classes in college and I envied his native ability -- he always made drawing and painting look so easy.
7. I've only shot a gun -- it was a shotgun -- on one occasion. A girlfriend and I, for fun, shot up old discarded hot water heaters on her husband's family ranch.
8. I've had predictive dreams, much to my amazement and discomfort.

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Tagged, you're now it!

Granny J
Amber Lounder
James H.
Rethabile Masilo
Karen McL.

8 comments:

Willie Baronet said...

Enjoy the vacation! And I pegged you for someone who's shot a gun many times. :-)

Rethabile said...

You're on. But I have to warn you, I was tagged recently with the same meme, so most of my facts will be the same, though I'll try to dig up fresher ones...

Have a good rest.

Pedro said...

Have a good and agreable resting days.

Karen McL said...

Ah, Lori -

Okay you asked for it! (But don't say didn't warn ya! Hehehehhehe!)

I'll post it as soon as ever I am able - but I have out-of-town visitors for a few days.

:-)

Karen McL said...

Oh...and this one

8. I've had predictive dreams, much to my amazement and discomfort.

I too have prescient dreams of places and folks I've never met (til i meet them) or of places (until i get there and realize it was EXACTLY as in my dream).

Oh - them dream-faeries Love me too!

Must be they are attracted to *Creative Energy* from folks like US.

:-)

Anonymous said...

Predictive dreams? Wow, that sounds more horrifying than the rest of this list altogether.

Great list Lori - and hope you have a good holiday.

am said...

Enjoy your time out. Your tree portraits are among my favorites.

R.L. Bourges said...

8: ah-ha! you tell me one of yours, I'll tell you one of mine :-)