Meme Time

Ten things I've done that you probably haven't:

1) I went to the Soviet Union.  Visited Moscow, stayed in a hotel on Red Square, and spent a couple of days in what was then Leningrad.  Also went to Tallinn, Estonia, which was part of the USSR.  I went to a family's home for an evening.  They served a cake which probably cost two days' wages, and kept the stereo loud, in case their house was bugged.  I was 16.

2) I met Walter Matthau and Harry Morgan one day when I was an extra on the set of a TV movie.  I was too shy to take their picture.  I also met Ariana Richards, who moved on to screaming fame in Jurassic Park.

3) I've taken extreme pleasure in running over tent caterpillars with my bike tires.   Vertically, for maximum squish effect and popping noise.

4) I've been on an archaeological dig. 

5) I've put a kitten's head in my mouth.

6) I spent 19 hours on a train with a Yugoslavian man.  When we arrived in Paris, he asked for my address in the U.S.  I gave him a fake one.

7) I paid less than $15.00 for my prom dress. My date was a blind date, set up by my older brother.  But my dress was cool, and had a neckline like the dress that Molly Ringwald's character made in "Pretty in Pink." 

8) I've lent lingerie to men. 

9) I've been in a drain hole during a thunderstorm.  The water rushed around me and my brothers.  It was scary and exciting, and I was all of 10 years old.

10)  I put one of my rings outside overnight during a full moon, because a clairvoyant woman I met told me it would purge the ring of negative energy.  I met her in a bar, and she guessed a lot of things about me, and I believed her about the ring.  I still believe her.

And I swiped this from Celia Blue of sweetlyPAZZO.

Comments

[newwavegurly]

Uh oh... I may have to snag this idea for my blog later...

[Geoffrey]

Yes, that would clean your ring up quite a lot.
If your crystals start getting cloudy with absorbed crap, bury them outside at full moon and retrieve them at the next full moon - crystal clear usually!!
This handy household cleaning tip brought to you by the makers of new improved La Lunar Household and General Metaphysical Cleansing Systems.

[Amber]

That kitten head thing... EW!

[celia blue]

. . . and about this movie: did you play the part of Woman, Second Woman, Third Woman or
Asylum woman (uncredited)?

You know I'm hoping that it was Asylum woman-- that would be cool. But any part would be awesome, come to think of it!

[Alison]

LOL. I was Walking Through The Train Station Woman.

[Thomas]

1) The Soviet Union? When I was 16, the Nuns had me whipped into a frenzy that the godless communists would declare war at a whim. Sting's theory be damned!

2) I was never in a MOVIE... That sounds cool.

3) Caterpillars are evil. You are my hero.

4) I dig archaeology.

5) Sometimes, the kitten just wants to look. Doesn't it make you feel like a twisted reverese of a lion tamer?

6) I spent 19 hours playing Ultima V in one sitting. I was a teenager in the summer with no job. I'm not too proud of it.

7) I asked 18 girls to the prom and got 20 rejections. 2 were preemptive. That was before I learned about barbers, gyms, contact lenses and public speaking classes.

8) I've worn lingerie. Sex was involved.

9) I woke up during a tornado, then went back to sleep. It wasn't particularly near my house, but you'd think the air raid sirens would have stirred me from the 2nd floor bedroom I was in.

10) I tried to have my palm read and the woman doing it started to, she hyperventilated while having this look on her face like a deer in headlights. She went on to say that my fortune was, "not for me to read" and gave me my money back. Good or bad, I still don't know. Another "palmist" said I was a "new, unique" soul.

[maria]

funny thing, i just accidentally (while searching info about a franz ferdinand concert in my town) came across your blog. the funny thing being the fact that i am from estonia. tallinn. kind of cruel of you to mock the living conditions we had here at that time but i'll leave it at that. bye