6 things you don’t know about me

Reading kjames at livejournal — I’ve seen this meme several places, and like her, it got me thinking — heck, what don’t people know about me? And frankly, is any of it remotely interesting? But then I realized — WHO CARES? It’s my blog. So as I said in an earlier post, it’s all about me.

1. Tim proposed to me in Germany in front of the Koln Cathedral on Christmas Eve, 1989. He got down on one knee and asked me, to which my response was, “Of course. Now get up. You’re embarrassing me.” That’s the official engagement story, but I really knew we were going to get married when we were having dinner one night a few days before that. Our eyes met at one point and he said, “So when are we going to get the ring?” Something about his expression, something in that moment — I knew it was the real deal.
2. In high school, I went through a most embarrassing phase of loving the group Culture Club (wasn’t Boy George most recently seen picking up trash somewhere in London to fulfill a community service requirement for his most recent drug arrest?). I even went to a concert at the now defunct Ohio Center. But more incredible, more unbelievable than that — my best friend, Liz, and I were asked by the marching band director to dress up like Boy George for a halftime show and dance around to the song, Karma Chameleon. They rolled us out in a trunk and we jumped out and did it. We were so well disguised in our Boy George get-ups that no one ever knew it was us. (Let the mocking of me begin.)
3. Tim and I used lotsa fertility drugs before getting pregnant with Abby. We finally ended up using some injectible stuff — and honestly, I had been such a hormonal…um…challenge for such a long time, that I think Tim sort of enjoyed sticking me in the…um…
4. The first guy I kissed ended up (a bit later in his life — and no, I’m not talking about Tim) becoming a gay cheerleader. Not that the two go together, I realize (and I mean no offense) — but they did in his case.
5. My two favorite movies of all time are Valley Girl and When Harry Met Sally. What can I say — the ’80s were very very good to me? Also, on a fundamental level — I’m awfully shallow.
6. I have an absolute phobia of snakes and I sometimes still half (okay, three-quarters) believe that there might be a snake or two under my bed on any given night. By now Tim knows that when I hunker up next to him and whisper, “snake” he needs to give me an extra cuddle and say, “Go away, snakes.” He actually indulges me in this, and as he says, he clearly must have some power over the situation because we’ve never had a snake in our bedroom! Reasons Beth has never gone camping.

I’ll tag anyone else who wants to do this.