Friday, December 16, 2005
5 things about me
(Thanks for tagging me Day, I am in the "IN" crowd now...ha,ha,ha)
1. When I was 12 years old, there was a man at my church who wrote Christian children's music. He got a recording contract and hired me and some kids from church to sing on his album. I was paid $5 a hour (this was great...esp in 1982 dollars) to sing and hang out at a recording studio. Our album featured our picture on the back, albeit with GIGANTIC headphones on singing in the studio. It was called "All God's People Love to Sing." I can still sing all the songs.
2. Every year for the past 4 years, I have attended a debutante ball (no kidding!). Every one is in formal dress and the debs are presented in big white dresses and do a formal court bow. After the ceremony we all eat hot dogs (no kidding!) in our formal wear.
3. I have always been obessed with ice cream and sherbet. When I was 8 years old, my favorite past time was thinking about what flavor I would pick on the next trip to the ice cream store. It drove my parents nuts because it was all my sister and I would talk about. For a school contest I even wrote a logic problem involving ice cream / sherbet flavors. I won 1st prize....my parents weren't so annoyed by my dessert obsession after that.
4. I was virgin until I was 24 years old (that movie 40 year old virgin made me feel so much better). I also married the 1st guy I was with partly due to my strict upbringing of "DON'T HAVE SEX UNTIL YOU GET MARRIED" (in retrospect not a good idea at all, as that marriage didn't work out and ended unpleasantly). I am still a Christian but currently have more relaxed views about sex and marriage.
5. I think of myself actually as quite ordinary and my college roommates used to comment that I was one of the most normal people in our crowd of nerds, misfits, minorities, and oddballs usually found in institutions of higher education. It is interesting to note that my own mother often reminds me (and my sister) that we are "not like other people" because how ambitious I am about my life, and when I went to medical school, one of my classmate buddies also said the same thing. I am lucky that I love life and want to make the most of it.
1. When I was 12 years old, there was a man at my church who wrote Christian children's music. He got a recording contract and hired me and some kids from church to sing on his album. I was paid $5 a hour (this was great...esp in 1982 dollars) to sing and hang out at a recording studio. Our album featured our picture on the back, albeit with GIGANTIC headphones on singing in the studio. It was called "All God's People Love to Sing." I can still sing all the songs.
2. Every year for the past 4 years, I have attended a debutante ball (no kidding!). Every one is in formal dress and the debs are presented in big white dresses and do a formal court bow. After the ceremony we all eat hot dogs (no kidding!) in our formal wear.
3. I have always been obessed with ice cream and sherbet. When I was 8 years old, my favorite past time was thinking about what flavor I would pick on the next trip to the ice cream store. It drove my parents nuts because it was all my sister and I would talk about. For a school contest I even wrote a logic problem involving ice cream / sherbet flavors. I won 1st prize....my parents weren't so annoyed by my dessert obsession after that.
4. I was virgin until I was 24 years old (that movie 40 year old virgin made me feel so much better). I also married the 1st guy I was with partly due to my strict upbringing of "DON'T HAVE SEX UNTIL YOU GET MARRIED" (in retrospect not a good idea at all, as that marriage didn't work out and ended unpleasantly). I am still a Christian but currently have more relaxed views about sex and marriage.
5. I think of myself actually as quite ordinary and my college roommates used to comment that I was one of the most normal people in our crowd of nerds, misfits, minorities, and oddballs usually found in institutions of higher education. It is interesting to note that my own mother often reminds me (and my sister) that we are "not like other people" because how ambitious I am about my life, and when I went to medical school, one of my classmate buddies also said the same thing. I am lucky that I love life and want to make the most of it.
