True Confessions

First, a bit of business. Kamsin tagged me ages ago (well, ok, a week ago) and I need to follow through here. So here are the specs . . .

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).
5. Go to their blog, leave a comment telling them they're tagged (cut and run).

Now, just to be fair, it is a holiday here in the states, so we here at ETS will make this a self-service tag. Play along if you're in the mood.

And so, without further delay, here are eight amazing, silly, little-known facts about Kim G.

1. My first kiss was when I was 15 years old and was with a 23 year old guy. (OK - sound horribly gross and even illegal now, but back then it was very heart pitter-patter making.) It never went any further than that but I had a huge crush on the dude. He worked at the video store across the street from the taco joint I worked in.

2. I can make an awesome burrito. My kids say every time we have burritos for dinner, "It's a good thing you worked in a taco place when you were a kid so you could learn to fold burritos." They don't teach that stuff in school, ya know. (Well, maybe they do in home economics . . .) My favorite part of working in the taco joint was eating fresh fried chips right out of the fryer when they were still hot. Yum.

3. I cry like a leaky faucet. Not so much at real life stuff any more (except when there's kids involved in tragedy) but at any movie, tv show, documentary or even commercial with a sentimental twist to it. (My daughter seems to avoided this genetic mutation, but alas, the boy seems to have inherited it. He wept during the movie "Happy Feet" when they banished the penguin. Poor kid - either the girls are gonna love him for this or he'll get the crap beaten out of him by the boys.)

4. I just finished reading a book that was the kind I'd love to write with deep, complicated characters and themes of faith and forgiveness, but it had some rather - er - graphic, steamy scenes in it that would have surely earned it a NC17 rating had it been a film. But I loved it anyway. ("The Secret Sisters" by Joni Rogers if you're interested.) I admire someone who can write a realistic sex scene. That's something I'm not sure I could ever do.

5. Things I don't think I could live without in my life: tea in the morning (English, black tea - none of the fruity, grassy, herby stuff), Clorox wipes, books and a daily dose of world news from NPR.

6. I prefer to be alone rather than go to a party most days, but I don't think anyone would call me a hermit. I do love to meet new people but I always feel like I must "work" to make the relationship move forward instead of just leaving it at the acquaintance level. The thought of that often robs the joy of the new friendship and thus, I think it's just easier to stay at home. Sick - I know.

7. I've become a bit of a magazine junkie lately. I've subscribed to four new ones, Vogue, Popular Photography,Wired and Good magazine (whose tagline is "For people who give a damn") I've picked up cards for two design magazines that I'm thinking about subscribing to. I've also picked up recent newsstand copies of Vanity Faire (the Bono issue) and Portland Monthly and checked out vegetarian cooking mags from the library. Someone stop me!

8. If I could change anything about my physical appearance, I think I'd change the color of my hair. I'd make it darker or lighter - it's kind of a nothing special brown. Maybe I'll join Laini and dye it pink! I'm pretty happy with the rest of me with the exception of the extra pounds I need to loose (but that's my fault not God's!)

OK - off to start the marathon day of cooking for tonight's block party. The boys next door (who are now in their twenties with kids of their own) are counting on my brownies for tonight. Musn't disappoint them!

Happy 4th to you all!