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Scraping the bottom of the barrel

I have been tagged by Kelly!  I find it hard to believe that there is something about myself that I haven’t shared yet (well there’s plenty, but I’ve swept my misspent youth under the rug and you’ll have to torture me to get it out!). So I hope you manage to stay awake through what promises to be 6 extremely arbitrary facts about myself.

Here are the rules.
(1) Link to the person that tagged you.
(2) Post the rules on your blog.
(3) Share six non-important things/habits/quirks about yourself.
(4) Tag six random people at the end of your post by linking to their blogs.
(5) Let each random person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their website.

Okay, so here goes:

1. I drank ant poison (Dieldrin) when I was about two years old. Not because of the ennui of potty training and the lack of cartoons (we only got TV in SA when I was 6), but because it was within reach in a soda bottle. I’m nothing if not opportunistic.  I had to have my stomach pumped. Wonder if the experience scarred me emotionally…

2.  I’m extremely myopic.  I started wearing glasses at age 8, only in order to see on the blackboard and tv screen.  My eyes deteriorated over the next ten years to the extent that I would have had to wear glasses permanently, but fortuntately I got contacts, which I wore and didn’t clean properly throughout my aforementioned misspent youth.  In my mid-thirties I had developed so many problems with my eyes that I had to restrict my contact lens wearing and now I wear glasses again.  When I heard the news, I got Lizana, who is very cool and has excellent taste, to go with me and choose a funky frame.  Now that I’m doing pilates and aqua aerobics, I’m back to wearing contacts for a few hours a day.  This seems to be a happy medium.  Oh, by the way, the prescription for my left eye is -4.5 and for my right eye -7.5, meaning that my right eye is just about useless. 

Look at the glasses and ignore the orange hair… I have already forgiven myself!

3.  I am a great aunt to two little girls.  My father has a daughter  from a previous marriage, who had her children when she was very young.  Her son started a family at a young age too, so that makes me a great aunt.  My great nieces will be older than my own children!

4.  I’m addicted to Sudoku.  Not the online kind, it has to involve a very sharp pencil and a soft eraser.

5.  I don’t bake.  Never have, never will.  You can keep your cookies and cakes, they don’t tempt me at all!

6.  I once got given a boat my a one-legged man.  Long story.  Met him in a bar in Plettenberg Bay, where I was living at the time.  He mentioned that he had this boat at the lagoon, but that he couldn’t handle it himself on account of his leg.  He lied.  He couldn’t handle it on account of the boat being too big and heavy for one person.  As a boat owner,  I had a willing stream of ne’er-do-well lads who went fishing with me, rowed their merry hearts out and helped me drag the boat up and down the beach.  When I left Plett, I gave it to one of them.  And got fat.

This is what my boat looked like, except that it was orange (much like my hair years later…)

There’s a class I want to check out, called Body Sculpt: A low impact, overall body conditioning class using various techniques, to tone and condition different muscle groups. The use of Thera bands, Pezzi balls, your own bodyweight(!), and specific mat exercises provides a good workout that appeals to both men and women. Because you can never be too rich or too sculpted, you know…

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