Six things you didn't know about me

[tenaya]

I was tagged by khek and because she asked nicely:


THE RULES: Once you've been tagged, you have to write a blog with 6 weird facts/things/habits about yourself, saying who tagged you. In the end you need to choose the 6 people to be tagged and list their names. No tag backs!

1) I took pilot training in the high school’s ROP program. I was very good in the simulator. Unfortunately, the ex-USAF guy who was teaching us in the airplane (a canvas covered open cockpit plane we knick-named the Yellow Peril, that had a piece of straightened clothes hanger stuck in a cork that served as the gas gauge) didn’t care much for women learning how to fly. We were doing touch and goes and I kept coming in too high (well, there were these big trees at the start of the runway) and he wouldn’t give me a clue on how to land better. When they said I was ready to solo the next time up, I just never went back.

2) My grandfather kept a pair of ocelots called Junga and Jesus (pronounced the Spanish way of ‘hay suz.’) When I was 2 years old, Junga who was on a leash, grabbed me with his claws. I still have the scars from the puncture marks on my right thigh.

3) At a Beatlefest in 1980, I bought a banjo in an auction that had been hand painted by George Harrison. It was being auctioned off by Mal Evan’s widow.

4) I’m a packrat and a security junky. The first car I bought I finally retired when it was 18 years old and gasping its last. It was a Toyota Tercel wagon.

5) My grandmother was of German and Native American heritage but was ashamed of both and never shared family history info with my Mom. The only recipe from the ‘old country’ that we have is Potato Candy. (Boil a small potato, cool, mush in powdered sugar until it has the consistency of playdough. Roll it out like pie dough and spread a layer of peanut butter over it, then roll it up in a log roll. Cut in slices. Keep cool. )

6) I’ve seen both ghosts and UFOs.

I tag:
kittyfisher
sheepsclothing
obelix
sg1scribe
ankhsign
moonchildetoo

Come on, girls. Surprise me. *g*

Comments

[kittyfisher.livejournal.com]

What happened to the banjo!

Has your mum's genealogical ferreting thrown up anything about the native American link?

And mine is up!

[tenaya.livejournal.com]

I still have the banjo.

Mum ran into a dead end. She has this fellow whose mother was the Native American but she hasn't been able to find out more about him. At this point, many tribes were pushed into Illinois so what she knows just isn't helpful.

And you were a topless waitress? How long did that job last? Was it fun or was it just hard work?

[kittyfisher.livejournal.com]

Topless waitress? Um, a few weeks - hard work (mainly because I wasn't up for any extras and men, quite reasonably, assumed otherwise!) but SO well paid *g*. I did it out of necessity, but hey, it's all part of life's rich pageant!

Shame about the dead end in the ancestry - and I knew your mum would have found out, if it was at all possible...

[catalenamara.livejournal.com]

>>>I’ve seen both ghosts and UFOs.

Same here. I saw some UFOs when I lived in Arizona, and I've encountered spirits on several occasions. I rarely see anything, but I feel a strong energy field, as palpable as jumping into water.

My father saw a ghost on at least one occasion, and was apparently very matter-of-fact about it.

Here's a website.

http://theshadowlands.net/places/arizona.htm

Go to St. Andrews Episcopal Church. My dad is one of the two pastors mentioned. It's just a two line mention, but this is the first I'd ever heard of this, and I only discovered this a few years ago, many years after my dad passed away I talked to my brother, and he said, yes, he'd heard about it to, but not from my dad. Rather, he'd heard about the haunted church from a gay man he'd met in Phoenix. This guy was an ex Roman Catholic priest, and when he'd been a priest his position had been the official exorcist of the Catholic diocese in Arizona. This haunting had been reported to him, and even though this was a different denomination, he wound up interviewing my dad, who apparently was quite blase about the haunting.

[tenaya.livejournal.com]

That was a very interesting site, nice and creepy. Too bad it didn't say more about St. Andrews.

We'll have to chat about our ghostly experiences. That's always so much more fun in person.

[catalenamara.livejournal.com]

>>>That was a very interesting site, nice and creepy. Too bad it didn't say more about St. Andrews.

From what my brother told me, of what he learned from the ex-exorcist (say that three times in a row...!), the haunting primarily consisted of the image of an old man. He would either walk through the back of the church, or sit down in one of the pews. My father and several members of the congregation saw him on a number of occasions over the years. No one felt any sense of menace or any 'creepiness'; the general feeling was that this was a harmless manifestation of some kind.

I'm still not entirely sure why an Roman Catholic exorcist was investigating a haunting in an Episcopalian church, but he pronounced this to be a "benign" haunting and no further action was taken.

>>>We'll have to chat about our ghostly experiences. That's always so much more fun in person.

I'd love to! Do you want to get together some time?

[aizjanika.livejournal.com]

Very interesting things. :-)

[tenaya.livejournal.com]

Thanks. You know, I was going to tag you but I hesistanted because I don't know you personally. You might considered doing the list anyway... *g*

[aizjanika.livejournal.com]

hehe Thanks. Maybe I will, but I'm not sure I have that many interesting things that everyone doesn't already know. *g* I'll think about it, though. :-)