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December 26, 2006

Tag, Tag, Tag, Tag, Tag, Tag, Tag . . .

ME Liz Strauss wrote this at 9:19 am

Oh, I Get It , , , Now!

I was tagged at the very beginning of the five things meme. Then it happened that I got tagged again and again and again. Each time I said “thank you” for giving me an assignment I’d aleady completed. Soon I was tagged a fourth time. Then tagged a fifth, a sixth, and a seventh . . .

It took me a while to catch on to the fact that I needed to get five more things in a post. My life-long friend, Nancy, has been telling me for these many years, “Ya know, Liz, sometimes you’re so fast, and sometimes you are sooo sloooow.”

So here they are for those guys who tagged me on this second round: Carl, Thord, Thilak, Jason, PC, Mike, and Phil. Gosh, I hope I named you all.

Five Things Most Folks Don’t Know about Me

  1. I’m claustrophobic. I didn’t know that either until my son was about three. It’s the most interesting, amazing feeling to physically compell myself out of a small space at what feels like 90 mph.


  2. I didn’t like the original smiley face or the good-bye phrase “Have a nice day.” In college, I had a t-shirt with a frowny face and a patch on the back of my blue jeans that said, “Have a nice night.”


  3. I didn’t go to my prom in high school, but I turned down two nice, intelligent, good-looking guys who asked me. I was afraid we’d have nothing to talk about.


  4. My first nickname ever was “Bashful.” I got a dominant self-conscious gene. My second nickname was “Mushy.” My dad called me “Babydoll.” My mom called me “Petunia.”


  5. I was Alice in Wonderland in college. I went to get a hot ham and cheese sandwich and noticed the auditions on the way there. I probably would have kept going — I didn’t know anyone in the theater department — but the girl reading for Alice was just so . . . . someone had to do something! You know what I mean?

So there you have them — five more things about me — things I don’t think about much these days. Maybe that’s why most folks don’t know them.

–Me “Liz” Strauss

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14 Comments to “Tag, Tag, Tag, Tag, Tag, Tag, Tag . . .”

  1. December 26th, 2006 at 1:26 pm
    Kian Ann said

    Hey Liz, if you were tagged 7 times, weren’t you supposed to tell us 35 things about yourself? :mrgreen:

  2. December 26th, 2006 at 1:30 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Kian Ann,
    Um er. The answer to your question is “I don’t think so, because four childhood nicknames take up the slack.” *she said with a giant grin*

  3. December 26th, 2006 at 1:55 pm
    Michael Stelzner said

    Liz - If you are claustrophobic, how could you live inside my computer? - Mike

  4. December 26th, 2006 at 1:56 pm
    Whitney said

    I understand that need to propel yourself out of a confined space at 90 mph.

    For me, it’s crowds. I can’t get out fast enough. In my 30s, I learned from my mother that I did this as a child. She said it was almost like I had a spasm and just shot out of a crowd to the fringes where there was elbow room. She’d thought it was because I was little and surrounded by adults. The fact that I’m still doing it and often am one of the tallest people in the room made us realize it was claustrophia.

    Needless to say, I haven’t been to a concert or sporting event in years. The agita always exceeds the enjoyment.

  5. December 26th, 2006 at 1:57 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Oh, man, MIke! There’s a whole universe in here! You should see it!! It’s got stars and everything. :)

  6. December 26th, 2006 at 2:09 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Oh Whitney!
    That’s it exactly! Must go! Must be out of here. That’s why I chose the word “compel” My brain compels me to leave, even if I don’t want to embarrass the people I am with. I have no other option. Out, gone, cannot be here. . . . Compelling reason to leave. :)

  7. December 26th, 2006 at 9:22 pm
    Phil Gerbyshak said

    Petunia it is! I’ll keep that in mind next time we speak.

    Seasons greetings from Seattle.

  8. December 26th, 2006 at 9:25 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Hi Phil,
    I have a funny feeling that I’m really glad I didn’t add the others that my mom had, or the ones my brothers came up with . . . :)

    Can’t wait to see you again!

  9. December 26th, 2006 at 9:43 pm
    Thilak said

    Bashful, Mushy, Babydoll, Petunia. Wow, thats a long list of nicknames, BTW what do you friends call you thesedays ?

  10. December 26th, 2006 at 10:56 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Hi, Thilak!
    My friends call me Liz!
    My family has many, many more names for me they have developed over the years. :)

  11. December 27th, 2006 at 11:45 pm
    Drew McLellan said

    Umm Liz — you are not supposed to do a lot of talking at your senior prom.

    Drew

  12. December 28th, 2006 at 4:03 am
    ME Strauss said

    Drew,
    That just goes to show you how much I knew about life then . . . or maybe I did because I didn’t want to kiss ‘em either. :)

    Besides the shoes I had were all wrong. :P

  13. January 2nd, 2007 at 12:49 pm
    Jason Boog said

    “I was afraid we’d have nothing to talk about.”
    Who would have thought we’d ever hear this from the founder of open mic Tuesdays…

  14. January 2nd, 2007 at 12:51 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Hi Jason!
    Things are always different when you hand someone a microphone! :)

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