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Because I have had a crappy day, and I'm waiting on my husband to go pick up our Chinese food for dinner:
Ten Things I Have Done That You Probably Haven't
1. I put my colicy baby to sleep every night by pacing the kitchen floor and singing Jimmy Buffett's "Son of a Son of a Sailor" to him.
2. I have provided infectious diseases lectures (by request!) to my four year old while driving her to preschool gymnastics.
3. When I was 13, I spent a lot of time reading books about electric shock therapy and its effects because I was writing a book about a Finnish hockey player who was kidnapped because his father had stolen some Nazi gold in WWII and hidden it in South America, and the villians put him in a Soviet mental hospital and zapped him with electricity until he lost his long term memory and had seizures. (Hey, I was 13!)
4. I once attended a party where I was told by an author (who shall remain nameless) that I wrote wonderfully for someone as young as I was, and so he was sorry I'd had such an awful life. Of course, he thought I was almost ten years younger than I really was and did not know about my children ( 2, at the time), but still...
5. I lived with my dad and grandparents for the first three years of my life because my mother died of an amniotic embollism in childbirth.
6. When I was 11, I thought I was being haunted by the Bell Witch until my family went to Florida and I told myself I was going to leave her at the hotel.
7. I was once the only passenger in an airport shuttle in Chicago with a driver who described in minute detail his encounter with a UFO back in the 60's, and then proceeded to get lost on the way to the hotel.
8. I once drove 120 mph down a country highway in a black 74 Barracuda with white racing stripes, just to see how fast I could go.
9. I set my oven on fire while trying to bake Laurie Colwin's Cranberry Cake in a leaky springform pan. (I did not do this on purpose.)
10. I answered phones in a hole in the wall Chinese restaurant for a Malaysian family and lived on free Chinese food (usually moo goo gaipan or chicken fried rice) for the better part of a year.
Hmmm. Maybe I should have made some of those up. Like, "Once drove my car around the Circus Maximus in Rome and was accosted by Italian police..."
Except, wait, I'm not really making that one up either; it just happened to someone else. ;-)
Ten Things I Have Done That You Probably Haven't
1. I put my colicy baby to sleep every night by pacing the kitchen floor and singing Jimmy Buffett's "Son of a Son of a Sailor" to him.
2. I have provided infectious diseases lectures (by request!) to my four year old while driving her to preschool gymnastics.
3. When I was 13, I spent a lot of time reading books about electric shock therapy and its effects because I was writing a book about a Finnish hockey player who was kidnapped because his father had stolen some Nazi gold in WWII and hidden it in South America, and the villians put him in a Soviet mental hospital and zapped him with electricity until he lost his long term memory and had seizures. (Hey, I was 13!)
4. I once attended a party where I was told by an author (who shall remain nameless) that I wrote wonderfully for someone as young as I was, and so he was sorry I'd had such an awful life. Of course, he thought I was almost ten years younger than I really was and did not know about my children ( 2, at the time), but still...
5. I lived with my dad and grandparents for the first three years of my life because my mother died of an amniotic embollism in childbirth.
6. When I was 11, I thought I was being haunted by the Bell Witch until my family went to Florida and I told myself I was going to leave her at the hotel.
7. I was once the only passenger in an airport shuttle in Chicago with a driver who described in minute detail his encounter with a UFO back in the 60's, and then proceeded to get lost on the way to the hotel.
8. I once drove 120 mph down a country highway in a black 74 Barracuda with white racing stripes, just to see how fast I could go.
9. I set my oven on fire while trying to bake Laurie Colwin's Cranberry Cake in a leaky springform pan. (I did not do this on purpose.)
10. I answered phones in a hole in the wall Chinese restaurant for a Malaysian family and lived on free Chinese food (usually moo goo gaipan or chicken fried rice) for the better part of a year.
Hmmm. Maybe I should have made some of those up. Like, "Once drove my car around the Circus Maximus in Rome and was accosted by Italian police..."
Except, wait, I'm not really making that one up either; it just happened to someone else. ;-)
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