A MeMe -- Useless Factoid to the 6th Power

So, after successfully running free in this virtual game of tag that many of my friends on ActiveRain play with the MeMes and their umpteen million different versions, I ‘zigged' when I should have ‘zagged'.  So, I'm it...thanks to Matt Stigliano who blasted me with this MeMe dodge ball from behind while I wasn't looking.  (I'm fairly certain that is against the rules...)

Luckily, this isn't the dreaded BookBook or the I AM version. Thank God for that because I don't have to pretend that I actually read books and I don't have to spend 3 hours answering 427 questions that start with ‘I am' or ‘I eat' or ‘I proclaim'...Already did that one anyway.  I say...it Whomped!! (Thanks C. Tann-Starr!!  I finally got to use the word in a sentence!!)   Nope.  This one is the Six Useless Facts about me version. 

6 Useless Facts About Me

1. I don't think I am a very good writer.  I've never received any formal training on writing...nor have I ever excelled in English classes.  In fact, I avoided them like the plague.  But, the majority of people that read what I do write think that I missed my calling.  Blogging is really my attempt at proving them wrong.  :-)
   
   
2. I used to drink roughly a pot of coffee a day...Now, I don't drink coffee.  And, I don't drink pop...soda...whatever you want to call it.  I drink one 16oz bottle of orange juice every morning and then I drink water for the rest of the day.  I quit cold turkey...(Its amazing what the pain of a 7mm kidney stone will cause a person to do to help themselves so that they never ever...EVER feel that kind of pain again.)  I'm surprised I lived through that, to be honest.  :-)
   
   
3. I hate it when people put their dirty dishes IN this sink.  Nothing irritates me more than to take someone else's icky dried-food-stuck-to-them dishes out of the sink just so I can fill it up and then put them back in it.  See, I rinse my dishes and then stack them neatly to the left of the sink...Thus putting them into the perfect position to load them in the sink, rinse them in the sink to the right, and stack them in the dish drainer to the right of that.  Why the rest of the world doesn't just comply with my wishes, I don't know!
   
   
4. I freaking HATE peanut butter!!  Awful stuff!!  (My grandfather was a severe diabetic.  And he would eat peanut butter on his toast in the morning...and as a snack.)  And I know it's loaded with protein and blah blah blah.  I hate the stuff...cant stand it.  I have a hard time liking people that do like the stuff.  There are only 3 ways I can even stomach it: 1) Peanut Butter cookies; 2) Reese's peanut butter cups cause they have chocolate!; 3) My mom's Special K Treats.  (recipe coming soon).  Other than that, I would rather munch the south facing end of a north bound skunk than eat peanut butter.  GAG!
   
   
5. I have two guinea pigs.  I got them for my son a while back.  Alex is 3 and being the man of the house, he got to name them.  Mind you, both of them are females...So, he named them Spike and Mike.  Mike is black with a brown spot on her butt and very sleek hair...very shiny.  Spike looks like a calico cat that was mauled by a grizzly.  If a guinea pig can have a bad hair day, that's Spike. 
   
   
6. I HATE seeing toast crumbs in my butter tub.  Now, I'm not one of those weird people that can't have their food touch other food.  I usually mix up my veggies in my mashed potatoes like anyone else.  But, nothing irritates me more than knowing the people I share my butter tub with just stick knives in there that are covered...leaving behind those crunchy tiny bits of SOMEONE ELSES toast.  Ick!  And, what's worse, I will actually take the time to dirty another knife and scrape that stuff off...and throw it away.  Butter was not designed to be eaten with micro-croutons in it.  Blarg!  Ok, I grossed myself out again...

So, there you have it.  Six things about me you didn't care to know and wouldn't ask regardless of the amount of Jack Daniels you ingested.  Hope you enjoyed it.

Now, to the real fun of this...I get the pleasure of tagging 5 additional victims people that have to go through the same torture experience that I did...And the nominees are:

Paddy Pizappi

Brian and Rita Burke

Melody Botting

Leesa L. Finley

Todd Waller

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