SCA Life

To my extreme surprise I have been tagged for a meme by Elisa over at The Book Stacks. It’s that “Write Seven Unusual Facts About Yourself” meme. Well, since this is Sunday and I don’t normally post on Sundays, I am going to feel free (insert amusing physical gesture here) to make this non-SCA related.

Lori Scott

1) I was the first person to eat a hamburger at the McDonald’s that opened in my home town when I was four years old. There was a picture of me, freckled, tiny and very cute biting into the burger on the front page of the Tracy Press, our local paper. It was a big deal because it was the first fast food restaurant that the then little town had ever had.

2) My parents and sister are all brunettes. Whenever anyone asks my father where I got my red hair he always says, “From the milkman. He loved coming to our house.” At that point, my mother always smacks him.

3) I used to leave messages stuffed inside Pepsi bottles (back when they were still glass) on the roof of our garage. I was hoping that aliens would land and find them. I was about six. My father almost had a heart attack when he realized I’d been climbing up there.

4) I was fascinated by Egypt as a child. As a result, I buried maybe half a dozen damaged Barbie dolls in tombs I dug in the dirt of our back yard. I think some of them are still there to this day. I certainly never found them again.

5) When I was growing up, I used to think that my house was haunted by a six-year-old girl named Sarah who had been killed by indians. Imagine my dismay when I found out there were no indians in our area, or at least none of the violent kind.

6) I learned to read before kindergarten, and I’ve been writing fiction since first grade. My mother still has a typed up copy of my first story, “Robby the Robin.” Instead of overalls, my characters wore bird-er-alls. J

7) My best friend, Emily also thought that she had a ghost at her house. Her ghost was named Becky and used to come visit my ghost. We were very creative children. When Emily went to visit her grandparents in Oregon, she wrote me letters and Becky, who’d gone with her, wrote to Sarah.

Well, now that you’re done laughing your head off at what a goofy kid I was, here are the rules for the people that I’ve tagged.

The rules:
Each player starts with 7 random facts/habits about themselves. People who are tagged need to then report this on their own blog with their 7 things as well as these rules. They then need to tag 7 others and list their names on their blog. They are also asked to leave a comment for each of the tagged, letting them know they have been tagged and to read the blog.

I tag:

Gillian at Food Past
Cyndi at Bead Arts
Carrie at Wax and Bubbles
Margie at Battlestar Galactica
Marco at Hot or Not Beauty
Karen at Discussing Breast Cancer
Mark at Get Incensed

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