My number is 18....seriously Karen Goggins Miller? 1. I can touch my nose with my tongue. 2. I was hospitalized and had surgery TWICE (for 2 entirely different things) my final semester/practicum of college. The professors tried to encourage me to sit the semester out and graduate with the class behind me… but I politely refused. I went to classes and my practicum with a drain coming out of my neck that I safety-pinned to the inside of my scrub top… The dean of the program gave me special accolades during our pinning ceremony—something about me being stubborn…whatever… 3. I love all things basketball. I love going to NBA games, I love going to college games. I even kept stats for the boy’s varsity team back in high school (the team my husband played on…). Bill Walton was at a party I attended, and I stood in line not once, twice, but three times to ask him questions….and I wanted an autograph for my dad. He’d say, “you again?” I didn’t care…he’s a CELTIC! 4. The ONE thing I would change about my past is a certain night back in November of 1980, when a few boys stood in front of me, and I was supposed to pick one to “go with…” I picked a boy that was standing to the right of Jimmy….DOH! 5. I have never ever eaten macaroni and cheese, and have zero desire to ever try it. 6. When I was a kid, I received a permanent ban from my mother to ever watch the movie “Brian’s Song…” I cried so hard….I gave myself a nose bleed. 7. That ban also applies to Shirley Temple’s, “Heidi....” Same outcome… 8. And Disney’s “Pocahontas…” But I can claim hormones for that one….I was extremely pregnant for Shelby….although the boys were traumatized being forced to sit with their balling mother at the movie theater (At Disney, no less) as everyone else left… 9. Jimmy and I have been married twice…once in Vegas….and then Christmas Eve in NY. We got married at my office with our sons standing up for us. Seems there was a paperwork snafu thanks to Jimmy’s halfwit lawyer… and we just wanted to make sure there wouldn’t be any problems as someone already likes to make-up imaginary problems….we didn’t want anything tangible to be able to used…. 10. Pete Townsend from “The Who” tried to get me to give him my snow cone. I told him “NO.” I was 8 months pregnant with Jordan, it was freakin’ August and we were at Tampa Stadium… There was no way anyone was getting my snow cone….even if Jesus asked…. 11. I went to school for gifted children and they wanted to advance me 2 years in school. My mother said no because she felt the social aspects of school were equally as important. I was already a little aloof from living in the woods and not being in mainstream classes as it was. 12. My college BFF Brenda Kulesza and I were once tagged by some Rick James looking dude, his entourage and a film crew to appear in a clip where we had to pose with him and say, “Rock out the World…” We initially balked…but then they offered us an open tab (we were at Sloppy Joe’s). We gave fake names…mine was “Dallas” and I think Brenda used “Tiffany.” Best line of the night from Brenda….”Had I known I’d be appearing some shady film…I would have shaved my legs!” 13. I have had a straight-up legit crush on my husband for at least the last 15 years. NEVER EVER EVER did I think anything would ever happen between us….I didn’t even entertain the possibility. He did cross my mind frequently, but I considered it a next-to-impossible occurrence. I consider us living proof that timing IS everything! 14. I don’t have a problem with mice, snakes, bugs….but a chameleon on the wall will make me flip shit. 15. Someone tried to car-jack the kids and me Thanksgiving eve 1996. I had just come over the causeway from Palm Beach into Riviera Beach….I dragged that mutha’ right through the intersection…he eventually let go… No one f*cks with my kids EVER. 16. I have fallen out of a moving car. On Main street. In the main shopping thoroughfare. On a Saturday. I was 9 years old. Shelby met the man that pulled me out of traffic a few years ago when she was at the doctor’s office with my parents. 17. I have been drinking a cup of coffee for breakfast since I was 4 years old. My Peppere’ got me in the habit. This girl had to have a cup of joe’ before getting on the Kindergarten bus or I was going to be incorrigible … 18. I wrote a letter of protest about the metric system to President Ford when I was in elementary school. I likened the conversion to expecting us to completely revamp the English language and lamented it would never work. I received a letter back, along with a book about The White House. In the letter, President Ford stated that the United States would be fully converted to the metric system by 1980. My story made the newspapers, local TV and radio. I’d like to point out….I was right.
Posted on: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 21:19:57 +0000
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