Category: Home and Family

I’m late to the Seven (or Eight) Random Things Meme party, but since I was tagged by my friend Minh, I’ll come anyway. Is all the dip gone?

1. I can tell a book by its cover. Trust me.
2. I am pretty darn near-sighted (20/800 or something scary like that). My need for bifocals as I “mature” makes for interesting times — it’s often just easier to read without my glasses.
3. I am the middle child of five, and I have the complexes to prove it.
4. One of my favorite books when I was that child was More of Milly-Molly-Mandy. And look! My Crafty Sister found a copy and gave it to me for my birthday!
5. Milly-Molly-Mandy says things like this: “Well! It’s much too beautiful a morning to stay in bed till breakfast-time. I think I’ll get up very, very quietly, so’s not to wake Farver and Muvver.” I, too, am a complete morning person. I’d much rather be awake at dawn than at midnight.
6. I’m almost always on time, or even early. I can’t help it. I get good seats at the movies, though.
7. When I Google my name, I come up with Nellie Bly. It seems we have the same name (no, not “Nellie Bly”). We’re not related, but our Scotch-Irish ancestors probably came over in the same wave in the 1700’s; her family went west from Philadelphia, and mine headed south to Virginia.
8. I don’t really like to make my bed, but I do it anyway, just like Milly-Molly-Mandy.