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Did you HEAR?!

"Lucci is among the 13 celebrities slated to compete on the new season of the top-rated ABC dance contest, premiering Sept. 22"

I just may have to watch this season and put my vote in!

Check it out: Dancing with the Stars

tagged

so i've been tagged by my friend carole.... and have to come up with the 6 quirkiest things about myself. hmmm... let's see.

1. Ross makes me nauseous. No, not Ross from Friends fame (love him!) but as in "Ross - Dress for Less." Yes, that's right - I am a shopping snob down to the core. Stores like Ross and Marshall's make me run for the nearest restroom. Don't get me wrong - I still make the attempt to find a bargain but it usually doesnt last long. I have finally become a little better when it comes to the home sections of TJMaxx and Home Goods and the shoes too - in small doses. I can also now handle Hobby Lobby. (I LOVE that store!) But something about the racks and racks of clothes all jumbled together and the disorder makes my stomach turn.
2. I HATE being home alone at night. Trust me I'm all about alone time but something about being home alone at night freaks me out. A few years ago at our apartment, Jonathan and David came home LATE one night and I had dead-bolted the door with all the lights on. Of course, I was fast asleep and unable to know to let them in. I was feeling safe in my deep, locked up, lights on sleep. OOPS! They had to drive all the way across town to David's. But geez - I was SCARED! Then recently, Jonathan was out of town and Lisa was kind enough to let me borrow a nightlight she had brought back from Paris AND spend the night with me the second night! I even had Daisy sleep with me (she sleeps in her kennel) because I knew SHE would be protect me (all 12 pounds of her). Ha!

3. CLOUDS. i LOVE clouds! Back before digital, when I had a film camera and it would actually capture a good cloud - I would chase clouds. Seriously. I would see a cloud while driving and drive out of my way to follow it and capture the best photograph. Now you know why if I'm ever late to something - I was probably chasing a cloud. I have a bajillion photos of clouds. There is just something so captivating about clouds. Especially the ones where you can see each ray of sunshine beaming through them. I feel like you can just feel God looking down and shining over all of us.

4. As a kid - my sister and our across the alley neighbor friend Kristin and I would make up all sorts of games to keep us entertained during the summer. One was "Speed Dress-Up" - meaning we would put a pile of dress up clothes in the hallway and each be in a bedroom. When we would say "GO!" we would dash out of the bedrooms, grab as many clothes as we could and dash back into the bedrooms where we would have to fashionably put everything on. We would then come out of the room to model our creation. We also made up dance routines which we performed in Kristin's front yard - we particularly liked the song "Great Balls of Fire."

5. Speaking of dance routines... I LOVE to DANCE! I "took dance" at a dance studio from age 4-14 years and even did drill team for a year but to be honest - I don't have a rhythmic bone in my body. I can never find the beat EVER. I'm the girl during a song which requires clapping, that is a second behind everyone else - totally OFF. I still love to dance though, as ridiculous as I most probably look. I just try to stick to large crowds (where I can hide) or the privacy of our home!! At our wedding, ALL i wanted to do was DANCE! It's a good thing on the wedding video you cant actually HEAR the music that is really playing because there is no telling who's music I'm moving too! If you pay close enough attention though you can see our friends and notice that I am grooving to the beat of my own drum in my head!! Hey it was my wedding right? I can DANCE if I want to!

6. Susan Lucci. At the age of 5 years (maybe even younger), I wanted to BE Susan Lucci. My mom even has a photograph of me - dressed up in this long, yellow belted wrap/sweater of hers and her heels - announcing that I WAS Susan Lucci. What can I say?! I LOVED soaps as a kid. My mom and I would watch All My Children and General Hospital religiously. And for some reason, I was just awestruck by Erica Kane. I mean who wouldn't be? The woman was nominated EVERY YEAR STRAIGHT from 1981 to 1998. 24 nominations. (i can count, there were other years too) I would privately cheer for her every year to win that Emmy. I must admit it was bittersweet when she FINALLY won in 1999. I think that is when the obsession ceased - the rest of the world finally understood her greatness.

WAY TO GO SUSAN!!!

there it is 6 dorky, quirky things about me. now, i'm supposed to tag 6 more friends but since i'm a new blogger friends are limited so i think i may keep this to myself for now.