Explaining What I Didn't Explain Last Time

I've been informed that I need to explain a few things--namely, what's this "Tag, You're It" business? (If you don't understand this, you probably didn't understand much of my last entry. Sorry.) Well, about a week ago, a member of LDStorymakers wrote a blog entry that "tagged" several people. These people, also bloggers, then had to tell five things about themselves in their own blogs that no one knew, and then "tag" five more people to write in their blogs. And these people had to tag five more people, and so on, and so on... I don't know who started it, but things got pretty crazy among many of your favorite LDS authors for a few days there as they were all busily "tagging" each other.

I haven't gotten around to issuing any of my "tags" yet, though. But you know what? Things calm down a lot when you put an end to them...;-)

In case you want to read some of the other LDStorymaker blog entries, here are some links:

http://sixldswriters.blogspot.com/--"Six LDS Writers and a Frog"
http://www.annettelyon.blogspot.com/--Annette Lyon
http://janette-rallison.blogspot.com/--Janette Rallison
http://mywriterslair.blogspot.com/--H.B. Moore
http://a-bad-hair-life.livejournal.com/--Tamra Norton
http://www.juliewright.com/blog.html--Julie Wright

These are only a few of them; I'll try to post more later. In the meantime, enjoy!

I've been tagged!

I've been tagged! My friend and fellow LDStorymaker Annette Lyon tagged me on her blog. (See http://www.annettelyon.blogspot.com/.) This was after she got tagged by a couple of other LDStorymakers on *their* blogs, and...well, unfortunately I think we're about out of LDStorymakers with blogs, so I'm going to have to branch out a little if I'm going to tag anyone.

But first, I have to tell five things about myself that most people don't know. This could be tricky. There are things about me that even I don't know.

Here goes...

1) I don't know how to ride a bike. Not really. My parents never got me one when I was little. When I was older, they bought me a junky unappealing bike at a yard sale that I wasn't too interested in riding. Then they didn't show me how to ride it. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.

Oh, yeah, and there might be that little part in there about me being uncoordinated as all get-out. I have tried a few times through the years to learn how--I tried to teach myself when I was in grade school, but wouldn't let go of the side of the house. My little sister tried to teach me after I graduated from high school. My boyfriend tried to teach me in college. (His assessment of the situation was, "You have no sense of balance.") A few years later, after I married him anyway, I tried practicing late at night when we were living in student housing. Enough people talked to me about it later ("I saw you trying to ride a bike last night") that I didn't do it again.

A few years later, our son took me to the church parking lot and tried to give me pointers. But hey--last summer I even made it all the way down the block and around the corner. I was so proud of myself that I quit right then.

2) The last thing was so long, I think it should count for #2 also.

3) And #3.

4) I don't like tomatoes much. Actually, they're great in salsa, and really I can tolerate them just fine otherwise, but I still don't particularly appreciate them in my salads or on hamburgers.

When I was a kid I refused to eat them at all. My mom, apparently distressed about this, told me that sometimes little girls liked to eat tomatoes with sugar on them. I agreed to give it a try. So, next time we had tomatoes, Mom cut some up special just for me. As she brought them to me, she said, "I've got some tomatoes and sugar with your name on them."

Well, I looked and looked, and I did not see my name anywhere on those tomatoes. I couldn't eat them, of course, because I might eat the part with my name. Finally I gave up and asked my mom where my name was. Of course she thought this was very funny, and she explained that she just meant that the tomatoes were for me, not that my name was really on them.

After that, those stupid tomatoes just didn't taste very good anyway.

5) I still keep track of the University of Utah women's gymnastics team, even though we've moved to Wisconsin and I've completely missed attending any meets for the last two seasons. Go Utes!

Okay, now for my victims...

Well, now I'm supposed to tag five people with blogs. But most of my friends with blogs (mostly LDStorymakers) have already been tagged, darn it! I have a couple of other friends I'd like to tag, but since their blogs are geared towards close friends and family, I'll ask them before I link to their sites here for the world to see. Meanwhile, if you'd like to be tagged, hey, leave a comment and I'll add your site to my "tagged list" here! TAG! YOU'RE IT!!