DEAR ALIZARIN: 10 Random Things Blogging Tag Game (A Chance to Make it ALL About Me!)

Apparently, we've been 'tagged' by Miss Grooveva.

The gauntlet has been thrown and now we must face shame or meet the the challenge to list 10 random things about ourselves.

I feel that everything about me is more or less random. For instance, how did I end up in LA, alone, teaching English and yoga? That possibility never crossed my mind that Sunday when my thumbprint was taken and I was forced to think of what I wanted to be when I grow up so that my thumbprint could be transformed into a happy version of me in that profession to be framed and hung on my Christmas tree for eternity. I have two, actually, on my tree at this moment. In one, I am a cheerleader with green pom-poms. I never wanted to be a cheerleader. I imagine I shrugged my shoulders and the woman from the Sunday School sweetly said, "I know! You want to be a cheerleader! All little girls want to be cheerleaders!" Or maybe I did say cheerleader and have repressed such an embarrassing memory. The other is a disco dancer, a fate I more believable dreamt of at the age of seven. Shockingly, I am not a disco dancer. Yea, shocking.

So, as if could get any more random than that, so I will start by trying to explain:

1. In elementary school, my sister and I choreographed our own dance to Rick James' "Super Freak." Not only did my mother not object to her daughters dancing to a song about a "very freaky girl, the kind you don't take home to mother," but she sewed our sparkly purple satin and sequence costumes for the occasion.

2. I was in the 'special ed' aural skills lab group in my music theory class in college.

3. Yet, after two years, my choir still allows me to sing with the alto section. I actually manage to stay in tune most of the time, though if my fellow altos are not there, it gets ugly.

4. This week in yoga class I did my first backbend and it was rather easy.

5. One of the only times I miss having cable television is in December when I know I am missing the numerous airings of "White Christmas" and "Holiday Inn" (I am not sure which one I really miss as I always get them mixed up).

6. I actually like my Ikea furniture, partly because I really don't want to own anything I am not willing to sell cheaply in order to pick up and move if I so desire.

7. I was once a red crayon for Halloween.

8. I really do not miss working in the film/tv industry.

9. I met one of my best friends when she invited me to the women's naked party in college. (I didn't go to that one, but did go to one later in the year).

10. I walk, take the subway, and carpool and the city of LA still lets me live here.

And an extra one because I am no on a roll in contemplating my randomness: I like Christmas music (just not before Thanksgiving or after New Years).

Alizarin, now it is your turn.

And I suppose the idea is to tag someone else, so Leyla and Derzblog (time to come out of retirement!) . . . you are it.

Lychee