I got tagged!!

OK I got tagged...by Dawn...but it looks like it's a fun one or at least a nostalgic one...so I'm game. But just like Dawn I'm going to get my tagging done :-). Alright guys, you're on: Oz, Kansas Queen, Rebecca, Kayonne, Toya and Muriel and anyone else who may be interested. Now this should be interesting if they actually answer!!!

1. What did you want to be when you grew up?
Brown! I swear I told my mother that I didn't want to be black I wanted to be brown!!
I don't remember what profession I wanted to go into but I knew early on I didn't want to be a nurse because my mother was a nurse and she drilled into me to do anything but be a nurse! lol

2. How did you help out around the house?
I always told the guests to please put their glasses in the sink when they were done as that's what my mother told me to do!! I also helped hang the laundry on the clothes line in the back yard.

3. What were you most afraid of?
Getting pregnant. One day I asked my mother what that black line on her stomach was from. She said the line is always there but it gets darker when you get pregnant. All I remember was looking at it for years praying it never got darker even though I had no clue how to get pregnant!!! LOL

4. Who was your first crush?
Bobby Brown!! I can't think of a real person as Bobby Brown just sticks in my head like a saw thumb...I swore I was going to marry him. I do remember there was a middle eastern boy in my middle school that I liked a lot. I remember his name was Mustafa, but I don't remember his last name or what he looked like.

5. Which childhood story do family and friends still tease you about?
I was never allowed to drink soda growing up. One day I begged my mother for coke. She bought me a big bottle and I drank and drank, and she let me drink and drink. I should have know something as wrong then by the fact that she let me drink so much...little did I know she was teaching me a lesson. Anyway I drank so much I was sick afterwards. My mother still teases me about that when she sees me drinking soda now.

6. Which family vacation was your favorite?
My first ever trip to America. I was 9 years of age and I was going to see my grandma and all my aunts, uncles and cousins! I KNOW I didn't sleep the night before!!

7. What did you do in the summertime?
Went on vacations to different countries, had a gazillion play dates (poor mom having to get me to and from everyone’s house and we didn't have a car), and playing outside with the neighborhood kids.

8. What did your childhood bedroom look like?
White walls, a multi colored carpet and big book cases filled with books, toys and stuffed animals, I also had a very small portable tv and a small writing table. Later on my walls turned to blue wall paper with colored zig zag lines in it.

9. As a child, what was your greatest talent?
Gymnastics and arguing (or debating as my mother put it) or and I could play the piano pretty well everyone told me I had a keen ear for music. But I do remember my mom saying that if I planned on debating all my life I'd better get a job as a lawyer.

10. What was the nicest thing your parents ever did for you?
Letting me go!! I realize now that I am a mother how hard it must have been for my mom to let me leave her in England and go off to college...and end up staying in America after college. I don't know how she let me go except that she knew I needed to spread my wings. I realize now that letting your child go takes more love than keeping them.



Wow that last one was a tear jerker for me...I thought this was supposed to be fun!! HA seriously though the rest of them were fun 1-9 at least! Hope you had fun reading them.