I was tagged: 8 facts about me

Thanks Madeline.~~~Each player lists 8 facts/habits about themselves. The rules of the game are posted at the beginning before those facts/habits are listed. At the end of the post, the player then tags 8 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know that they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog.~~~

I don't know 8 people who blog, and I've never followed all the rules of a chain letter-type thing in my life, but I'll do my best!

1. Madeline is the first blogging "friend" I've made in three years of blogging. Loved finding a blogger who liked scrapbooking, Barbara Kingsolver, growing vegetables, and yarn. My hobbies sound really odd, stated that way.
2. Every time I hear that someone reads this, I'm totally surprised (and delighted and honored). Mostly I do it because I like to write, and share pictures. And as far as keeping up a traditional journal, I'm awful!
3. True confession: I love the show The Girls Next Door. Okay, love is too strong of a word. I'm entertained by it. I cannot and do not believe Hef is sleeping with all three of them. I might not watch it if thought he was because I think monogamy is a pretty good practice. But, they are all so sweet, like candy. And it's genius PR.
4. I also still follow the Tom and Katie gossip and feel totally guilty for it. My mom wanted to put that in her Christmas letter a couple years ago, but I axed that embarrassing tidbit. The only Christmas letter trivia I've ever censored. But there it is, my shameful secret. If I had never started watching Dawson's Creek on DVD, this never would have happened. I did not give a rat's ass about Tom Cruise before she came along. Darn them. They are so not interesting, but I'm hooked.
5. I've also been known to watch a lot of Book TV on C-SPAN. Entire lectures and Q&A sessions. Puts Matt right to sleep.
6. I'm going backpacking in Yosemite this August with Big City Mountaineers. More on that later.
7. I mentioned this in my last post, but I have bouts of insomnia. I've always been a night owl (reading under the covers as a kid, faking sleep at light's out, up in the pottery studio at Pendle Hill until 3:00am), but when Matt's gone, it crosses over from natural night owl to insomnia. But once fall asleep, I'm out. Try waking me up. I dare you.
8. After college, but before marriage, I spent three months at a Quaker retreat center (see above). I think some people thought I was there to reconsider getting married (because why would someone who was engaged run off and go to a retreat center for three months), but that totally wasn't the case. I just wanted to leave Michigan for awhile before settling down (HA!) and try on being a Quaker. It's the religious culture that seems to fit me, but I couldn't quite make the jump away from Methodism. Some day, maybe. It's the whole no Easter celebration thing and the no singing that gets me. Sojourner Truth said she liked the Quakers, but they wouldn't let her sing, so she joined the Methodists.

So to the people I know who blog...

• Susan
• Stephanie
• my Uncle Mark
• Jessie & Mark
• Diane
• Brahm (hi Brahm - totally fun to hear from you, as we got this whole blogging idea from you way back when)

...if you feel like blogging 8 facts about yourself, you're officially tagged. If not, I won't hunt you down. Have fun!

Comments

[Madeline R]

Sara! So interesting. Thanks for doing this. I feel like I know and like you so much better as a result of your Tom and Katie confession and the really interesting information about the Quaker retreat. What a good way to go into marriage. I also get insomnia though a new mattress seems to have made it better. I guess you already know that Barbara Kingsolver wrote the Bean Trees at night when she had insomnia during her first pregnancy. I have a friend who did that too - wrote a book and got it published as a result of insomnia. I love your writing. Bring a notebook to bed?!

[Stephanie]

So fun! Don't hunt me down, though! I already have a tagged post in my blog! :) Just gotta look back... ha ha

[Mark Terry]

MMmm,
I'll try it this weekend. Already blogged to day about the so-called day in the life of a writer.

Mark (the uncle one)