Friday Five, the Inside E!

(reads, I'm the type of girl who will burst out laughing in dead silence because of something that happened yesterday... )

Although written by a young man, this song from "Rent" became an anthem for women of a certain age ready to be taken on their own terms. Maureen and Joanne love each other, but they are *very* different.

Songbird writes, whether it's new friends or new loves or new employers, what are five things people should know about you?

Hmmm... I had to think about these for a moment, but I think if there were 5 things that people should know about me, these would be them!

5) Is a two parter... a) I have webbed toes and b) no, I can not swim any better than someone with all their toes separated.  :)  I don't really know why this is an important fact about me, but a fun one - for sure!

4) I have a funny, yet bizarre sense of humor and, truth be told, I often laugh at myself more than anyone or anything else...like the time I went to a party and thought that someone had stole my other shoe as a joke.  I went through all the shoes that were at the back door, but because I was one of the later ones to leave... I resolved that someone else had taken my shoe by mistake and left their shoe for me.  So, slipping my foot into a very similar looking shoe sitting right beside my other one, I was surprised that the shoe fit.  The next day, I called my friend asking if anyone had reported a missing shoe and told him the tale of what had happened the night before.  A few weeks had passed, and the humor of a practical joke was wearing thin - I needed my pair of black shoes!  Deciding that I had to go and buy a new pair for a big meeting I was presenting at, I figured I would donate a bunch of my 'gently worn' shoes to goodwill.  Opening my closet door, apparently for the first time in weeks, there sat an identical pair of shoes to the ones sitting out in the hall.  After all that, it turns out I had worn a mix matched pair to the party in the first place.  I laughed for DAYS about it... who would do something like that?  Ohhh!!! Pick me!!

3) I have two code words/phrases: "I have to go and check on the chickens" should read, "I need some time to think this through, I'll be back" and "absolutely" should read, "FAT CHANCE of THAT HAPPENING!!"

2) Music and physical activity (namely team sports or a run) are very important aspects of daily life for me.  They are my ways of processing the days events, highlites or pitfalls.  And, typically these are the only two things that I can engage in to relax and return to rationality.  

And...t he number one thing that people should know about me is that I am often, as busy as a bee, as intellectual as an Edison, and as sweet as a spoon of honey, but as stubborn as a donkey's..... 

Enjoy the weekend all!  See you next week :D