Sassy Black Friend

Tagged? Yikes, the pressure!

From A Yellow House in England (great blog, you should read it) tagged me. I had no idea what that meant, but now I do. So…

7 Weird/Random Facts About Me:

1. I have mixed-handedness, also known as cross-dominance. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-dominance I write with my left hand, but in almost every other task my right hand is stronger and more precise.
2. I can’t whistle. Not even a little. Dozens of people have tried to show me how, and I just can’t do it.
3. I never tasted peanut butter and jelly together until I was in college. For some reason as a child I got it in my head that I wouldn’t like it, and then used to pretend to be allergic to avoid it. I’m still not a big fan, but I have no idea why I thought it would be so bad.
4. My father’s nickname for me is “Bull.” He swears that was my first word, spoken when we were alone. According to my mother, it was dog. Both are weird, since bull is random, and we didn’t have a dog.
5. There are twins in the last four generations of my mother’s family, but none in mine. I have 4 first cousins, and only 2 of us even have siblings.
6. A friend of mine and I both lost a significant amount of hearing in our left ears from sports injuries as children. I knew her for 6 months before discovering this. I had a serious case of swimmer’s ear that went untreated, and she got hurt during a lacrosse game.
7. I don’t have a middle name. Apparently there was some quite argument between my parents about what it should be, so they decided not to give me one.

I’m going to tag some of my top Entrecard droppers, because I’d love to know a bit more about them:

1. 60 Were Enough
2. Black Woman Thinks…
3. Brady Bunch Repeat… I Don’t Think So
4. Doug’s Missoula Blog
5. Mature Not Senile
6. Raging Rev
7. Rants, Thoughts, and Other Things