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Tagged – 10 Things

Posted by Michelle on Jan 3, 2009 in blogging | 1 comment

I’ve been tagged by Cousin L!

A) First list 10 honest things about yourself – and make it interesting, even if you have to dig deep!
B) Pass the award on to 7 bloggers that you feel embody the spirit of the Honest Scrap.

I love these meme-things. And talking about myself. But mostly meme-things that involve talking about myself.

#1 – I never thought I’d be a SAHM and for awhile, I never wanted to be. I thought it would be boring staying at home “just taking care of the kids” and figured I’d just end up watching a lot of TV. I recall thinking, “How hard can it be?” You may throw things at me now.

#2 – I gained a bit of notoreity during my junior and senior years as the honors student that almost never went to class. Thanks to the influence of my idiot!ex, I cut class for at least 50% of my junior and senior years. I was anorexic at the time and very sleepy due to poor nutrition so I slept during the classes I did attend. However, I did manage to turn in homework and pass tests including my end of the year AP exams. (Sadly, my truant attitude followed me to college where it really took a toll on my grades. DUH.)

#3 – Despite being a lover of stories, I have not read a lot of novels. *ducks books being thrown at me* In high school, I read a few mandatory novels but spent most of my time reading and writing essays. When given the choice between signing up for AP Literature or AP Composition, I chose AP Composition. Oftentimes, the novels that I do read are either fantasy, sci-fi or embarrassingly trashy chick lit. I’ve never gotten around to reading the classics. My sister (who, incidentally, read my copy of Wuthering Heights while in the 3rd grade for fun), thinks that this is a travesty and has taken upon herself to draft a list of books for me to catch up on.

#4 – I have an on again, off again relationship with the Roman Catholic Church. While my faith in God has never been at issue, my trust in the Church and her views is something that I’ve wrestled with and will likely continue to wrestle with for the rest of my life. The logical thing to do would be to leave the Church completely but I can no sooner leave the Church than I can stop being Filipino. Which brings me to…

#5 – I have a somewhat dodgy relationship with my culture as well. I grew up in a town that had a huge Filipino population so I never had the problem of being the only Filipino kid in class, quite the opposite actually. My problem was that I never fit in with the other Filipino kids… ever. And believe me, I tried really hard. Eventually I found my niche but still don’t feel like I quite fit in with the Fil-Am community. I don’t know if I ever will.

#6 – I never intended to get into IT. It was something I fell into after my other college plans crumbled around me due to laziness and young adult drama. Sometimes I think about what could have been but I’m happy where I ended up.

#7 – I’ve begged for my life  as idiot!ex held a knife to my throat. Why? Because I caught him cheating on me and threatened to leave. Sadly, that encounter broke my will and it took me years to leave. I’m determined to help The Little Empress grow a titanium backbone so she never has to deal with scum like her Mommy did.

#8 – I love looking at kitties and think they’re adorable but am horribly allergic. Even so, I’ve considered adopting a cat. Yes, I’m insane.

#9 – The Hubster ™ and I don’t wear our rings. Like, ever. I mean, they’re nice and all but we’re just not into jewelry. I think I’ve worn mine maybe for a week or so at a time. I rarely wore my engagement ring so this isn’t new.

#10 – I was, am and probably always will be a hopeless fangirl. I am a collector of trivia and memorabilia of various fandoms in anime/manga, comics, TV, etc. I’ve written stories starring other people’s characters. And those crazy girls that pair up their favorite characters from anime, comics, tv, movies, books, etc. in absolutely inappropriate, completely unplausible couplings (or triads or quads or… you get the picture) doing things that wold make hard core pr0n stars boggle? Yeah, I’m one of them. I have squeed over various pairings, read and made impassioned arguments for and against certain pairings (or triads or quads or…). Granted, I am not as much as a fangirl as I used to be and many of my ships have sailed into the ether that is the interwebs. But there’s no use denying that yes, I’m still a fangirl.

… and if I didn’t scare people away with that revelation, I will be truly amazed.

Now I should be tagging 7 people to do this but I’m not sure if 7 people even read this thing. Hmm. So I’ll cop out and “tag” whoever wants to do this. YOU’RE IT!