Tuesday Ten

I have been sick since Saturday, so I’ve nothing new or interesting to write about.  I even googled “meme” to try to get some ideas, but that produced nada.  So here is my oh-so-clever-and-unique (NOT!) meme for today.  It’s so pathetic I’m not even going to tag anyone. 

Ten Things You Probably Don’t Know About Me (Or maybe you do, in which case, just skip it.)

1.  I love Mexican food.  But I think it was better in Houston.  San Antonio is all about “mex-mex” and I like tex-mex better.  It has to do with the grease and the sauce.  (I love the grease and the sauce.)

2.  I love NY.  It’s almost obsessive.  Really.  Don’t even get me started on the joy of riding the subway, or busting through foot traffic on a busy street, or finding a cool little cafe to have a cup of coffee.  I love it.

3.  I love Disney World.  It’s my happy place, and I mean it.  There have been several difficult times in my life that were healed by a trip to Disney World.  I’ve always hoped Hubs would get transferred to Orlando so I could work there…I want to be Mary Poppins, or dance in the parades, or sing in the Hoop De Do Revue.

4.  I was a music major at Baylor before becoming a nurse.  I was planning on being a school music teacher.  After my brother’s death and my heart diagnosis I decided the fastest way to get in control of the situation was with information, and for me that translated into nursing.  I had always been terrified of hospitals and needles, etc., so this was a dramatic change of heart.   (Get it?  Change of heart?  I kill me.)

5.  Although I’m not at all OCD at home, in the Operating Room I was extremely OCD.  I even had to turn all the medicine bottles in the same direction and place them in size order.  Very bizarre.

6.  I still don’t know what I’m going to be when I grow up.  I toy around with all kinds of masters degrees:  education, music, nursing, psychology…who knows. 

7.  When my best friend and I were little we used to play “adoption agency”.  We would set all the dolls around the room and then one of us would be the agency lady and one would be the mom (with an imaginary dad, of course.)  We’d look at all the babies and then choose one to take home.  Strange that both of us ended up being adoptive moms.  And we’ve never met anyone else that played this game. 

8.  I am absolutely addicted to the tv show Mad Men on AMC.  It’s on Sunday nights.  It’s a drama about the advertising world on Madison Avenue in the early ’60’s.  It’s a fascinating look at life in the ’60’s…the men, their wives and families, their women.  The costumes and sets are incredible, and the acting is superb.  You should watch it.

9.  Hubs and I play a game whenever we go out together.  We turn on XM to the ’80’s station.  The first person to name the group singing the song wins a point.  We keep a running tally all night.  He usually wins, but every once in a while I pull one out – usually the one-hit wonders (I get Debbie Gibson and Tiffany every time.)

10.  I can’t think of another one.  So 9 will have to suffice.

I’m off to take more drugs.  I actually think that if someone could lop my head off I’d feel significantly better.  I asked Hubs to do it last night, but he wasn’t willing. 

Achoo.