Memo From Linda - It's 8 About Me

Tagged by Linda Young

Here are the rules.

1. We have to post these rules before we give you the facts.
2. Players start with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
3. People who are tagged must make a post about their eight things and post these rules.
4. At the end of your blog post, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.
5. Don't forget to leave them each a comment telling them they're tagged, and to read your blog.

1. I like little kids' cartoons, like "Dora the Explorer" or "The Backyardigans"...and I have no young children of my own (or any kids at all). I think it started in college. I had a lot of evening and night classes during my first two years, and pretty much the only things on TV in the morning and early afternoon are bad movies, talk shows, news, cartoons for toddlers, and soap operas. The cartoons were the only things I could really tolerate.

2. I come from a very clumsy family. My mother just got over a toe she broke when she kicked the side of a bed. I broke my toe in high school when I kicked the side of my sister's foot while doing a kick line to "(Theme From) New York, New York" and have twisted my ankle badly at least three times. (It was less fun in college, when I lived by myself and had to climb a steep concrete stairway on crutches.) My sister Rose broke her wrist at least three times three years in a row as a child and received countless scars and injuries playing soccer in high school. (While I, oddly enough, never got worse than a few bruises playing field hockey.) My brother has scars and bruises everywhere from football and soccer.

3. I get randomly addicted to weird things. My childhood Star Wars addiction may have been the most normal; I've been obsessed with everything from the Japanese girls' anime Sailor Moon to the American Girls' kids book series. I'll usually abandon something and come back to it, with slightly less fervor but no less interest (I've been back to Star Wars countless times, but I never quite got as into it as I did in 1988-1990), but sometimes I'll just write my addiction off as a phase and never pick it up again. Pokemon could count as one obsession I never quite regained interest in (it got too complicated after they started releasing more than 151, though I do still have all the toys I picked up in college). Figure skating, my big thing between 1993 and 1995, was another. (To this day, I have no idea where the figure skating came from. I'd never even ice skated at that point.)

(Incidentally, if my Monkee-a-thon in the last few days is any indication, I think I'm swinging back to the Monkees fandom. Time will tell.)

4. Until last year, I'd never lived more than 20 minutes from a seaside resort. I was born in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, grew up in Cape May, West Cape May, and North Cape May, NJ, went to college 20 minutes west of Atlantic City, and moved to Wildwood a month after finishing college, where I lived for four years.

5. I have this thing for Texans. My first serious crush was a boy whose Coast Guard family moved here from Texas. His name was Josh Kingston, and he had the most gorgeous accent I'd ever heard. He was one of the only boys in fourth and fifth grade I sort of semi-got-along with. Sadly, we had a nasty argument one day in fifth grade, and I never saw him again; his family moved back to Texas shortly afterwards, and he never told me.

When I finally got my first (and so far only) real boyfriend in college, I found out he was born in New Jersey, but did live for a few years in Texas. He didn't have an accent, but he was a Dallas Cowboys fan (which I, a big Philadelphia Eagles fan, used to tease him about).

Native Texan Mike Nesmith is my favorite Monkee (followed closely by childhood favorite Micky Dolenz).

On a somewhat related note...

6. I've only had one serious boyfriend in my entire life. I met him at a coffee house in college, and we kept dating even after we graduated. He broke it off about three years ago. I haven't dated since, or met any boys I've even close to liked.

7. I was a major couch potato as a child. I'd spend the whole day watching sitcom reruns, old game shows, and cartoons, much to the annoyance of my mother, who couldn't fathom watching anything that wasn't an art project for that long. Contrary to what Mom thinks, I'd generally lost interest in the boob tube by the time she had the cable turned off in 1992 (for what turned out to be almost ten years). Most of my favorite shows were off the air or in their last seasons, and their replacements weren't as interesting.

Nowadays, I share Mom's habit of reading or working or just doing SOMETHING when I watch TV. I also don't have cable; what's the point of having cable for one when you only watch three or four channels anyway, and about three-fourths of what you like is on DVD or video?

8. Despite my fondness for classic rock and show tunes, I've never been to a concert, and the closest I've gotten to seeing a professional Broadway show is attending a performance of a touring version of Miss Saigon at the Forrest Theater in Philadelphia with my French class in 1996. Both are too expensive for a struggling single writer, concerts get notoriously crazy, and I don't really have anyone to go with.

I just tag...

Lauren
Tina

TV Post

Saw this at En's LiveJournal:

- Bold all of the following TV shows which you've ever seen 3 or more episodes of in your lifetime.
- Italicize a show if you're positive you've seen every episode of it.
- If you want, add up to 3 additional shows (keep the list in alphabetical order).


24
7th Heaven
8 Simple Rules
Adam-12
Aeon Flux
ALF
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Alias
All in the Family
American Idol/Pop Idol/Canadian Idol/Australian Idol/etc.
America's Got Talent
America's Next Top Model/Germany's Next Top Model
Angel
Are You Afraid of the Dark?
Arrested Development
Babylon 5
Babylon 5: Crusade
Battlestar Galactica (the old one)
Battlestar Galactica (the new one)
Baywatch
Beavis & Butthead
Bewitched
Beauty and the Beast
Beverly Hills 90210
Blackadder
Blake 7
Bonanza
Bones
Bosom Buddies
Boston Public
Boy Meets World
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Bug Juice
Caitlin's Way
Chappelle's Show
Charlie's Angels
Charmed
Cheers
CHiPs
Clarissa Explains It All
Cold Case
Columbo
Commander in Chief
Coupling
Cowboy Bebop
Crossing Jordan
CSI
CSI: Miami
CSI: NY
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Dallas
Dancing with the Stars
Danny Phantom
Dark Angel
Dark Skies
Davinci's Inquest
Dawson's Creek
Dead Like Me
Deadwood
Degrassi: The Next Generation
Designing Women
Desperate Housewives
Dharma & Greg
Different Strokes
Doctor Who (1963)
Doctor Who (2005)
Dragnet
Due South
Earth 2
Eerie, Indiana
Emergency!
Entourage
ER
Everwood
Everybody Loves Raymond
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
Facts of Life
Family Guy
Family Matters
Family Ties
Fantasy Island
Farscape
Father Ted
Fawlty Towers
Felicity
Felix the Cat
Firefly
Flash Forward
Forever Knight
Frasier
Freaks and Geeks
Friends
Full House
Futurama
Get Smart
Ghost Hunters
Gilligan's Island
Gilmore Girls
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
Green Wing
Grey's Anatomy
Growing Pains
Gummi Bears
Gunsmoke
Hannah Montana
Happy Days
Hart to Hart
He-Man
Heroes
Highlander
Hogan's Heroes
Home Improvement
Homicide: Life on the Street
House
I Dream of Jeannie
I Love Lucy
Instant Star
Inuyasha
Invader Zim
Invasion
Hell's Kitchen
JAG
Jackass
Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors
JEM
Joey
John Doe
Just Shoot Me
Keen Eddie
LA Law
Laverne and Shirley
Law & Order
Lexx: The Dark Zone
Life With Derek
Little House on the Prairie
Lizzie McGuire
Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
Lost
Lost in Space
Love, American Style
M*A*S*H
MacGyver
Malcolm in the Middle
Married... With Children
Matlock
Melrose Place
Miami Vice
Mission: Impossible
Moonlighting
Monk
Mork & Mindy
Murder, She Wrote
Murphy Brown
My Life as a Dog
My So-Called Life
My Super Sweet 16
My Three Sons
My Two Dads
NCIS
Night Court
Nip/Tuck
North Shore
Numb3rs
One Tree Hill
Oz
Perfect Strangers
Perry Mason
Phil of the Future
Pokemon
Power Rangers
Prison Break
Profiler
Project Runway
Psych
Quantum Leap
Queer As Folk (US)
Queer as Folk (UK)
Red Dwarf
ReGenesis
Remember WENN
Remington Steele
Rescue Me
Road Rules
Robotech
ROME
Roseanne
Roswell
Sabrina The Teenage Witch
Sailor Moon
Salute Your Shorts
Samurai Jack
Saved by the Bell
Scarecrow and Mrs King
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
Scrubs
Seinfeld
Sesame Street
Sex and the City
She-Ra
Silverhawks
Six Feet Under
Skins
Sliders
Slings and Arrows
Smallville
So Weird
South Park
Spaced
Spongebob Squarepants
Star Trek
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Voyager
Star Trek: Enterprise
Stargate Atlantis
Stargate SG-1
Superman
Supernatural
Surface
Survivor
Taxi
Teen Titans
That 70's Show
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Original)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003)
That's So Raven
The 4400
The Addams Family
The Andy Griffith Show
The Apprentice
The A-Team
The Avengers
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Bionic Woman
The Brady Bunch
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Cosby Show
The Daily Show
The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
The Dead Zone
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Famous Jet Jackson
The Flintstones
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
The Golden Girls
The Honeymooners
The Invisible Man
The Jeffersons
The Jetsons
The L Word
The Love Boat
The Lucille Ball Show
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Mighty Boosh
The Monkees
The Munsters
The Muppet Show
The Mythbusters
The O.C.
The Office (UK)
The Office (US)
The Pretender
The Real Ghostbusters
The Real World
The Sentinel
The Shield
The Simpsons
The Six Million Dollar Man
The Sopranos
The Suite Life of Zack and Cody
The Transformers
The Twilight Zone
The Waltons
The West Wing
The Wonder Years
The X-Men (animated)
The X-Files
Third Watch
Three's Company
Thundercats
Top Gear
Torchwood
Twin Peaks
Twitch City
Two and A Half Men
Ugly Betty
Veronica Mars
Voltron
Welcome Back, Kotter
Whose Line is it Anyway? (US)
Whose Line is it Anyway? (UK)
Will and Grace
Wings
Without a Trace
Who's The Boss
WKRP in Cincinnati
You Can't Do That On Television