{"id":719,"date":"2008-01-23T09:40:51","date_gmt":"2008-01-23T17:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aprilgem.com\/log\/?p=719"},"modified":"2008-01-23T10:50:31","modified_gmt":"2008-01-23T18:50:31","slug":"six-things-about-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aprilgem.com\/log\/?p=719","title":{"rendered":"Six Things About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know now that LynTaylor<\/a> has a blog because she tagged me<\/a>, and while I’m hard put to find six random facts about me that aren’t already on a previous list<\/a>, I’m even harder put to find six other bloggers to tag. Yet, here I go anyway:<\/p>\n

1. I often use words and phrases to which I don’t know the meaning—like “hard put” for instance. I don’t even know if I use that correctly. What the hell does it mean?<\/p>\n

2. To my utter frustration, I have never risen above the vocabulary level of 47 while giving Free Rice<\/a>, quite possibly because of the first fact above.<\/p>\n

3. Despite the first two facts above, I still kill at Scrabble. Hey, I don’t have to know the definition of the word; I just have to know the word exists and can get me a 80-point Bingo. So there!<\/p>\n

4. I have never been clinically diagnosed as having Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, but H.E. still insists that I have OCD. Only, he defines it as Occasionally Compulsive Disorder because I’m obsessive-compulsive only some<\/em> of the time.<\/p>\n

5. It took me all of yesterday and today to come up with a list of six people to tag. I kept adding to and deleting from the list because I couldn’t decide, and then I went searching for people I never tagged before, then replaced them with people I know who need a little extra traffic or a blog topic, then replaced them with people who don’t mind memes and have the time to do them, then started all over again until I had no one to tag and had to come up with six fresh names for the list. I still don’t think I’m obsessive-compulsive, but you know me; I may not know the true meaning of that.<\/p>\n

6. I finally got my six people to tag off one of my publishers’ forums. I simply asked, “Who wants to be tagged?” Then I selected the first six people to respond. They are:<\/p>\n