The Great "Eight Random Things" Blog Challenge

Arrgh. I've been "tagged" by my buddy Donna MacMeans (displaying a hitherto unsuspected streak of malicious glee) in the "8 Random Things" blogging thing that's going around.

So here are the rules:

1. Each player starts by posting eight random facts/habits about herself.

2. Make sure to post the rules of the game, too.

3. At the end of the post, the player has to "tag" eight people and post their names.

4. Don't forget to send an email to your eight "taggees" and let them know they've been tagged so they can read your blog.

Now that the rules have been laid out, I suppose I'll have to come up with eight random facts. Here goes:

1. I met my future husband at a well-attended business seminar in the Marriott Marquis in Manhattan. He likes to tell people he met me in a hotel room off Times Square.

2. By the time I was 21 years old, I had learned to speak Spanish, French, German and Italian in addition to my native English. None of this impressed the U.S. State Department when I applied to them for a job.  I went to law school instead.

3. In Tae Kwon Do competitions, the Adult category covers ages 18-33. I won my last gold medal a few months before I turned 34--I didn't want to compete in the Seniors category, for competitors aged 34-45.  If I were to compete again (not likely, folks) I'd be in the Masters category. Yeah, don't ask.

4.  While on a semester abroad in high school, I visited East Berlin for an afternoon. This was before the wall came down--compared to the lively neon lights and whizzing cars of West Berlin, communist-controlled East Berlin was gray, depressing and horribly industrial. The food was terrible, too.

5. I had a ton of fun acting in high school plays and community theater productions. I still think going to the theater is more fun than going to the movies.

6. When I was a teenager, my mother made a deal with me: I could wear anything I wanted as long as I sewed it myself--bell-bottoms, miniskirts, hot pants, whatever. If I wanted her to buy me an outfit, it had to be something she approved of. I did a lot of sewing in high school.

7. I have one green eye and one blue eye. The condition is called "heterochromia iridis," which is Latin for "two different-colored eyes."

8. I was named for my paternal grandmother Sarah and my maternal grandfather Leo. There were no Sara Lee cheescakes when I was born.

Whew! that took a lot of thinking! All right, now brace yourselves for the moment of truth...the eight taggees are:

Becky Barker

Jules Bennett

Cindy Carver

Paige Cuccaro

Tabitha Gibson

Toni Leland

Beth Morrow

Kay Stockham

DeNita Tuttle

Hope to see you posting soon, guys! I know you're all good sports.