Ashley tagged me for a meme where I list six things about me that are weird. I can’t sleep so let’s see if I can come up with a few surprises.

1. Sock monkeys scare me. So do ice cream truck songs. And clowns.

2. There once was a time when I could apply the lyrics to “Moon River” to every song I heard.

3. Sometime in my early twenties I came up with what I like to call the “phlegm” theory of creativity where the urge to create something is almost like a tiny virus inside you that you have to get out before you choke on it. The results aren’t always pretty though.

4. I can move my pinkie toes independently of my other toes.

5. The first time I tried to quit smoking I ate so many wint-o-green lifesavers I developed a kind of allergy to them. Now if I try to eat one my tongue will swell up and I’ll sound funny when I try to speak.

6. I have a fear of heights but only if I can see under my feet - like on a grate. I didn not know this until I was 19 and was standing on a walkway along the inside of the bottom of the dome at St. Peter’s Cathedral. This was very inconvenient.

Yesterday I ordered eight of the eleven gifts I need to have for Xmas. Several of them have already shipped. God I love the internet.

What was that about knitting xmas gifts? I didn’t hear you. La la la I don’t hear you.