I Have Been Tagged!

Thanks Surviving for tagging me! People who get tagged must write in a blog of their own ten weird things or habits or little known facts as well as state this rule clearly. At the end you must choose six people to be tagged and list their names. No tagbacks!

1. I was once a fortune cookie for Halloween. I even took the time to fill a register tape with good fortunes and ask passer-byers to rip off a fortune.
2. On another occasion, my friend and I dressed up as boys and would knock on the neighbor’s door and then run to the back of the house so not to be seen. After the third time of knocking and running, the neighbor-boys came running after us. They tackled us thinking we were boys. We had to scream for them to stop hurting us.
3. I once went camping and brought home a cockroach in my ear! The roach was burrowed in my ear canal and wasn’t discovered until a day later-yuck!
4. I am named after my Italian-born grandmother, which happens to be a fairly common Arabic/Muslim name.
5. I have never changed a baby diaper.
6. I have volunteered to wash dishes in a rural village dinner in order to get people in town to trust me. Dish duty also required scraping scraps into the pig feed and dog feed buckets.
7. I can read lips very well. This trait is so much a part of me that I don’t even realize that I still do it until someone puts their hand over their mouth while talking and suddenly I can’t “hear” the person anymore because I can’t see their lips.
8. I have hunted with my father and gutted fish I have caught.
9. I enjoy parallel parking.
10. I have been cussed out by politicians for organizing and educating poor people on their rights to demonstrate and to access their city halls and state houses, etc. I have been personally cussed out by the CEO of a major finance company as well.

I'm a Slacker

Okay, I owe everyone a post and I am at work and swamped as usual so I shall cheat and bullet point the relevant and not-so relevant points of my life:

* I am super-busy and fluctuate between the pregnancy hormone highs and then crash. For once I’m feeling a range of highs and lows never before-experienced-fun!

* Hubby and I were treated to a super-super ultra sound at the University because of the “high-risk” with the family history of Spina Bifida. It was so, so amazing to see the little baby wiggling around inside of me. Mash’Allah, every thing looks healthy with the spinal cord, heart, blood flow, etc. All the fingers and toes appear to be there and boy am I feeling the movement these days!

* I mentioned to the technician that hubby and I had watched an ultra cool “miracle of Life” video by the Discovery Channel and about the amazing new three and four-D technology that let’s you see babies in-utero in “real time” So, walaaa, she pulls out that wand and we get to see the baby in four-D “real time” as if watching a movie. I saw the baby taking sucking it’s thumb and then taking it’s wittle arms and pushing the placenta out of it’s face. Amazing!

* So hubby says (while in the room), why are we keeping the sex of the baby a secret, again? And I’m floored! We had solidly decided against knowing. But, of course when he said that, I became curious too. Turns out that he and I and everyone else in the world, except my Mom were wrong; we’re having a boy! I was so shocked to hear that. It doesn’t make a difference, but I am so glad that now I know and can mentally prepare for a boy!

* Mom and brother are coming to town tomorrow! I’m so excited to have the both of them coming. I can’t wait for Mom to see my growing tummy and the pictures of her first-ever grandson!

* Hubby and I placed an offer on to-be-built house. It is a little out of a price range, but we were swayed by the whole “brand new” and customized to our tastes deal-io. Cross your fingers! We bid low and the agent wasn’t real happy about it, but it is a buyer’s market and all. We’ll see, that’s our final price/offer and we’re sticking to it!

* I got a great annual review and was surprised with a very nice raise, yahoo!
Finished On Beauty by Zadie Smith. I like it a lot. Too lazy to write a review at this time. Surprisingly, everyone else in book club was rather put off by the characters!

Nuff said for now!