My thanks or maybe congratulations go to Susan Emo.   I thought I could fly under the radar forever, but someone finally caught up to me with this "meme" thing.  According to the rules, I'm supposed to tell you a few things you might not know about me.  I've always considered myself to be pretty transparent, so I had to dig deep to find things you might not know (and avoid those skeletons in my closet!).

1.      My parents wasted spent a lot of money on private school for me.  They were not sure the public schools would know what to do with a 5 year old who read encyclopedias and high school textbooks for fun.  Ironically, I am a high school dropout.  Everything I learned, I taught myself, or learned from the school of hard knocks.

2.      When I was little, we had an elephant in our front yard for several days.  Yes, a real elephant.  My father had transported a baby elephant from Portland to Spokane and the pen wasn't ready when he got there. A few years later, the Kiwanis Club was doing a fundraiser at the zoo and I spoiled it by announcing to everyone that Toro didn't like peanuts!

3.      One of my favorite hobbies is scuba diving.  I've only been diving in the tropics (Fiji & Mexico) but someday I'd like to get cold-water and dry suit certified so I can dive here in Alaska. 

4.      I'm an avid gardener and hope to get my property landscaped before I die.

5.      My pets include a dog, 2 cats and fish.  I'm setting up a new aquarium for my koi. I'm thankful my house is built slab-on-grade because it's a 300 gallon tank.

6.      When I was 19, a broker suggested I consider real estate as a career.  I didn't listen until I was past 30. If I only knew then what I knew now.

THE RULES: (as passed along to me...)

• Create a blog post with a link to the person who so happily tagged you for a MEME.  See above.  
• List all of these rules in your post. Feel free to cut and paste this.
• Share 7 things that others may not know about you. Do or have I HAD a life outside of real estate?
• Identify 7 other ActiveRain members to tag for a MEME, and provide links to their blogs in your own MEME post.
• Contact each of the tagged members and let them know that you were indeed fast enough to catch them and that you did indeed tag them...no matter how much they say you missed them!
• No schoolyard rules in this MEME, nope you gotta do it if you are tagged.  (I hear the MEME police are out in force, rounding up folks who ignore this "invitation")
• Post a link to your MEME in the comments of this post - the one in which you were publicly tagged!)
• Include your post in the MEME's Group. 

 I'm temporarilly parking this until I pick SEVEN others to victimize tag.

Here they are:

John Cooper, Integrity Real Estate Inspections because I can, I will and he will comply :)

Joddie Roberts, Spokane since I was born there - that's where the elephant was

Taunya Fagan since she's in Bozeman, the town that stole my first-born son

Shawn Davis - since us girls with guns could rule the world

Ryan Tollefson - Because he's another Alaskan and he's with Prudential

Dustin Nulf - Another Prudential affiliate who's finding his voice in blogging

and last, but not least....

Leolinda Bowers of Surprise, AZ for having an interesting name and an interesting sounding town!