this is one of thos days when i'd just as soon stick a walnut up my nose than write... but now that daddy's gone and posted something pretty dang funny, i guess i have to. write that is. because, of course, i'm never putting a walnut up my nose, and i can't believe you ever wanted me to.
for lack of anything actually interesting to report, i decided it might be fun to share a few more random tidbits about mommy. i also thought it might be fun to give this soon-to-be regular segment a catchy little name, and, clever girl that i am, i've come up with one. mommeme (mah-meem). get it? it's about mommy and, in blogspeak it'll sort of be a meme-ish bit of blahblahblah. mommeme. tell your friends. let's start a club.
okay. today's mommeme theme?
really stupid and/or random shit about mommy's youth:
1. she doesn't have wisdom teeth. they just aren't there. never were.
2. one rainy day, when she was around 10, she pogo-sticked 2,222 times before stopping. why? because she was A) bored, B) wanted to "pogo" a number she'd never forget. and she never has. (it's 2,222, for chrissake, a moron would remember that) and C) a moron.
3. she won a gold fish at a birthday party for a fellow first grader, and found out, the hard way, that you don't float gardenias in a fish bowl just because it looks "pretty".
4. when she was 15, she pierced her own ears. well, actually, her girlfriend did them for her, and put in thin pieces of thread, which mommy knew were not gonna keep the holes open, so she sat in front of a mirror and worked the needle back and forth (it took a couple of hours) until the "deed" was done. armed with her new found "skill", not to mention ice cubes, a thick needle and a potato and/or a piece of cork, mommy started piercing her friends' ears, too. also, her mother's. and her sister's (the veryveryverysmart dr. terri, who fainted, but i'm not supposed to tell that part).
5. as kids, mommy and aforementioned sister were huge fans of superman comics. and archie. they also liked richie rich, but for them superman & archie ruled the day. the girls had a large collection they kept together in a wastebasket, which their mother donated to a church bazaar. 
these comics dated back around late 50's up through the 60's. there were several dozen comics, which, along with that stupid wastebasket, all sold for...a dime. mommy can't be sure, but some of these may (or may not) have been in that bunch, as well...
6. mommy was such a little bookworm, she once read her favorite book, kabumpo in oz, 3 times in one day. she was around 8 at the time. sometimes, she'd read it to her sister... when they got older and her sis had her wisdom teeth removed (and yes, hahaha, not only did terri get her wisdom teeth, she had all 4 removed on the same day--which was also the day before thanksgiving) mommy kept her sister company by reading from lord of the rings, another all time favorite.
7. mommy learned how to water ski when she was 7 (of course, her sister was 6, and better, because her sister was always a better athlete. but that's beside the point. mommy was 7 and that's not bad.)
8. when mommy was around 5 or 6, she and her sister got life sized dolls for christmas. life sized. mommy always thought that was pretty cool.
9. mommy and her sister could have been dancers. except for the fact that they couldn't/can't dance. their aunt, a professional ballerina in her own youth, had a dance studio, and both girls took lessons and danced their little hearts out in recitals, but they weren't very good. now they both dance in their own special way in their own respective kitchens, to the music in their heads. (and that's the way they like it.)
10. mommy and her little sister have been best friends all their lives. (of course, this last one isn't at all weird, random, and/or shitty, but i put it in because i noticed most of the other things i've listed include dr. terri, not to 
mention the fact that it rounds out my little mommeme rather nicely. also, i think mommy misses her sister. i could be wrong, but i don't think so. mommy loves the fact that, whenever they're together, they revert back to lots of the silliness they've shared since they were little girls. also, mommy likes to borrow her clothes. but mostly it's the acting like little girls/being silly/close sister thing...)
"A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost." ~ Marion C. Garretty
Very clever and sweet and I learned a couple of new things about you too - who woulda thunk it? You read Kabump in Oz three times in one day??? very impressive. You were quite the accomplished little girl...but then that's no surprise because you're such an amazing woman today.
Love you
Posted by: joel | 25 April 2006 at 11:14 PM
you're too sweet... and freaking fast! i just got this post up! love you, too! xoxoxo
Posted by: neva | 25 April 2006 at 11:15 PM
I looooveeee learning new things about you Neva! Lord of the Rings are just amazing books! When the kids give me a breather I would love to read them again (because now I am reading the veryveryvery smart Dr. Terri's book and am wildly in love with it!)
I love to hear of the amazing relationship you have with your sister! How special and too bad you guys aren't geographically closer!
This is a segment I am sooo looking forward to and to learning more about the amazing woman that you are my friend!
Posted by: Miz BoheMia | 26 April 2006 at 01:45 AM
awwe I hope Thea and Grace still like eachother when they are older!
Posted by: cj | 26 April 2006 at 12:26 PM
well that's a bunch of interesting stuff about you. i like the momma-meme kind of thing. we are gonna start some all about meme things on our blog too. but we have to get over ourselves first. it's my birthday, you know!
Posted by: schnoodlepooh | 26 April 2006 at 01:57 PM
a) wish i had a sister.
b) no wisdom teeth?? me TOO!
Posted by: joy | 26 April 2006 at 03:35 PM
well...what's a girl to write while she wipes away pity snot and touched by an angel tears from her face??? she notes that you did not share the story of the time aforementioned impatient sister pushed you down a slide whereupon a nail embedded in said slide left its bloody signature along the length of your leg (in her defense she didn't know about the nail...). i miss you and love you, too.
Posted by: maxxypawd | 26 April 2006 at 04:20 PM
You are amazing, you had me at the ear piercing thing. I laughed myself silly. When I was 18 or 19, during my bad choices phase (You remember that post right?) A guy at a party said pierce my ear. We were drunk, so I iced his ear, found a earring stud, sterilized it and then just pierced it. It was so cool, I think I pierced have the guys in the room that night. I am a freak I say!
Posted by: My Spin | 26 April 2006 at 06:21 PM
This was such fun and ever so informative.
We have a lot in common....I love the Lord of the Rings series....like MizB I think I will read it again, right after I finish rereading the Harry Potter series I am on book 5 I know, I know I will cry all over again at the end of book 6.
Actually I don't have a sister....or a brother for that matter, unless you count my step brother that I have not seen in 35 years....who is trying to get a hold of me, I hear through the grapevine....hey there may be a blog there. I did have my wisdom teeth and they were all yanked out at the same time. And I never had a life size doll....why did I think we had so much in common? We do have MizB in common, Hawaii and Mexican Food.....I feel better now :)
Posted by: Mo'a | 26 April 2006 at 08:10 PM
Awww, I totally relate to the sisters being best friends. Until I got married (two years ago Monday!) I lived either WITH my sister or less than five minutes away. Now we're an hour and a half apart and it's killing me.
No more,"want to meet me in 5 mintutes for coffee?" dates.
Sigh... I love and miss my sis.
Posted by: RisibleGirl | 26 April 2006 at 10:17 PM
Miz B: thank you! and i'm soooo happy to know you're enjoying my sister's book! and, trust me, she's even more impressive in person! and no one's happier about the fact that you and i are friends, than *me* beautiful lady! you've brought more sunshine into my life since i've known you than you'd ever imagine! : D
CJ: i hope your girls are close, too! not all sisters get to be, but i'm sure glad my sis and i have the relationship we do! don't know how i'd have survived growing up without her! : D
Schnoodlepooh: first, and foremost...HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PEG!!! (i'm sorry you have to be as old as me, now... wait! no i'm not! tee hee!)
and i'll look forward to learning more and more about you... that last meme you did was sooo fun/informative (vegetarian, right? and a runner/hiker/walker? not to mention DOG lover!! we're a lot alike, you and i!) hope you had a perfect/wonderful/fabulous birthday! ^_^
Joy: i'm sorry you don't have a sister... but, hey! maybe you and i are related (what with our lack of wisdom teeth and all! besides, i AM part english...) : D
Sisite! yeah, well, we don't need to remember *everything* about our jaded past! (notice i didn't mention that trek through the field when we were 4 & 5 and we got stuck in the mud, either...*that* was a scary "quicksand" moment, right?) i lovelovelove you, sister, and am blessed to have you in my life! : D
My Spin: you and i are scarily alike! i wound up piercing many ears at cheerleading camp! it's amazing what a little ice can do for pain, right? (it's only a bitch when the ear thaws out!) : D
Mo'a: i think we have the things that *count* in common, my friend... the rest is just... silliness (except for my sister...she's anything *but*) i would imagine your warmth and kindness and artistic gifts have helped you attract many kindred spirits... besides, in the universe, we're all related, anyway, right? right! (hawaii, mexican food, and Miz B are excellent things to have in common, by the way!) : D
Risible Girl: i totally get that! it's really hard for me, because i'm on the east coast, and she lives in california (except right now, she and her husband are in new mexico). there's nothing like a sister... seems so silly, and yet, it's true! thanks for that lovely comment! : D
Posted by: neva | 27 April 2006 at 05:09 PM