7 things most people don’t know about me

I got tagged by a deist in Texas.  So why the heck not.  7 things that even my friends might not know about me:

1.  I was in a bowling league in Middle School through early High School, and I was consistently voted secretary-treasurer of the league, the only position that actually did something.  I had to collect all of the pay envelopes and pay the house, and put the rest of the money aside for the trophies (I was supervised, of course.)  I think I was elected every season because I was willing to do the math.  My teams were never very good, although one year my team got second in the league, which shocked everyone.  There were three of us and a vacancy (which was all handicap.)  I had a huge crush, one of my early boy crushes, on one of my team mates.  The other guy I wasn’t a  huge fan of, and ran into like, 4 years later at a grocery store when he was sitting in the back of a pickup truck.  I got into bowling because I remember my dad on a bowling team, and it was one of the few things that my mom and I could do together.

2.  I used to write harry potter fan fiction when I was in college.  One of my stories got over 1000 reviews, a big benchmark in fanfic world.  I wrote it right after OoTP came out, and was the first one out there, hence the mega reviews.  I was talking with someone in NaNoWriMo chat last year, and he knew me from my fanfic story Betrayal of the Phoenix.  I was pretty shocked.  I’ve never finished any of the stories and haven’t written on them in eons.

3.  I could practically draw a map of a funeral home in Sheridan, Indiana, by memory.  I had to go there so much from when I was 9-12.  I don’t think I’ll ever forget hiding in the backroom, with the old fashioned coke bottle machine, playing cards while avoiding the wake at my dad’s funeral.

4.  My version of a great time is sitting down and playing cards with friends.  Anyone know Euchre?

5.  I had to play a year of every little league sport but the one I really wanted to – football.  I absolutely hated wrestling, which I was forced into as a third grader, and hated soccer, first grade.  I hated baseball, except the season when I was catcher.  I only liked basketball.

6.  In 8th grade I got in trouble for sexual harassment – I loathed a girl in my class, Christi (with an i.)  I muttered under my breath for her to go bite herself, an expression I learned from my sister.  She asked me to repeat it, so louder I told her to go eat herself.  I had *no clue* what that meant at the time, and didn’t know why I was in trouble.  I almost asked the vice principle what it meant, but I was too mortified for getting into trouble.  I learned like, 3 years later what the expression meant, and was, once again, mortified.

7.  My first kiss was truth or dare, kissed by a girl.  Ick.

And I am not going to tag anyone.  If you want to do it to, consider yourself tagged.