| 07/09/09 11:37 PM |
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Nicole Foy
OK, OK, I give. Here is my list. Can you tell I hate doing this kind of stuff??? And Shannon, I'm trying to find some pics -- do you have a deadline of when you really need them? Is someone doing a video/slideshow, too? Because I know I do have some VHS footage of pep rallys, games, etc.
Some truly random things about me:
1. I am addicted to Blue Bell Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough ice cream and I prefer the pint to the larger container because when you scoop from the larger, it disturbs the integrity of the chunks of cookie dough. Eating right out of the pint container, you can get the chunks out unharmed.
2. I worked on Obama’s Texas campaign and got to drive Caroline Kennedy around for two days. I was taking her by the Alamo and answering her questions on its basic history when she stumped me by asking a question about why Sam Houston was known as “The Raven.” I had to “phone a friend” and called my dad – the state’s de facto Alamo historian – from my cell phone.
3. I have an obsessive/compulsive issue with condiments, especially salsa. I eat it like gazpacho – handy since I live in San Antonio. It’s one way I get my vegetables in.
4. My 9-year-old and 6-year-old attend a dual-language Spanish/English school and have not only surpassed my Spanish-speaking abilities but now like to make fun of my accent. It’s apparently a version of country/hick Spanglish.
5. I’m a writer but apparently need to brush up on my editing skills because this list is waaay too wordy.
6. In high school I could not keep my one plant alive but now in my home I am responsible for three daughters, a dog, a cat, a hamster, a leopard gecko and a butterfly chrysalis. I did not put my husband on this list because he has a zest for life and therefore mostly fends for himself.
7. Friends and loved ones refer to my first-born as Mini-Mom because she looks and acts a lot like me. Scary.
8. Everything I swore I’d never do as a parent I have, in fact, done.
9. I still have a book that I checked out of the Farmersville High School Library and never turned in. Shhhhh.
10. I do not like things with cooked fruit in them – cobblers, pies, etc. Maybe this aversion started watching Mindy eat all those Hostess baked pie thingys in school.
11. My kids went crawdad fishing in Farmersville the other day and I was thinking how life had come full-circle – it was one of my favorite things to do as a kid growing up by the train tracks (save the time I took Cne’ down there and she slashed her foot open on a piece of glass in the mud).
12. I still put my left leg up along the door and dashboard when I drive – something my parents have always sworn is going to get me killed. (No bad jokes here, please, about legs up in cars.)
13. My husband and I went to Havana, Cuba as part of our honeymoon.
14. My dad is still way more technologically hip than I am.
15. I always chew two sticks of gum, which gets expensive and I’m afraid my kids have picked up on it. I blame my mom for my habit because she always deprived me and left me wanting for more when she’d only give me half a stick.
16. I’ve always given my mom a hard time for wearing too much perfume but now when I smell Giorgio or Estee Lauder’s Private Collection, I can get a bit weepy and sentimental.
17. My dad claims he knew about all the times I snuck out in high school but I don’t think I believe him.
18. My husband has sort-of agreed that if Hal Ketchum or Vince Vaughn ever show up at our door and ask me to run away with them, I can -- at least temporarily.
19. I almost stole a Gideon’s Bible from a hotel recently in Kansas City for Hagler, but my Methodist/Presbyterian conscience got the best of me.
20. Thanks to my dad, I now know that “The Raven” was Sam Houston’s “tribe name” -- given by the Cherokee Nation when he lived with them for a time (didn’t want to leave you hanging without the answer to that one).
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