Meme-Tagged Again:

This time by Mr. 5am, Patrick Gabridge.

The Nature of the Meme: 8 Random Facts About Yours Truly

The Deal:
Bloggers must post these rules and provide eight random facts about themselves. In the post, the tagged blogger tags eight other bloggers and notifies them that they have been tagged.

Okay, here goes:

1. Before I had my first son, I had a massage therapy practice. I am certified in Shiatsu, Sports massage, Deep Tissue, and Swedish-Esalen. My clients were high-performance athletes, physical therapy clients, and autistic children.
   
2. Foods must maintain a reasonable boundary from each other when they congregate on my plate. No mixing. Don't talk to me about casserole.
3. I was strip searched by a Royal Canadian Mounty who kept insisting "we know you have ducks (drugs) in your car." (I had neither.)
4. I can't stand wearing nail polish. I can feel it and it drives me nuts. In fact, I can't stand having long nails, I don't like feeling the space between my nail and my finger. I don't know why and I don't care.
   
5. My great grandfather came from Italy and was a glassblower. He went blind working in a glass factory in Hartford City, In.
   
6. I really don't think silverfish should be allowed to live. See what I mean?
7. I am addicted to the physical sensation of reading.
   
8. I played William Tell with a neighbor boy when I was eight and was shot in the head. Do you think playing Doctor is safer?
   

I tag - this is tricky since thing has made the rounds, so I'll tag these people: Get Down!, Ming-Zhu, Lauren, Chris Boyd, Allison (this is becoming very Australian-centric), Enrique, and Tim, and Scott. My apologies to Dorothy, I pulled the trigger on this post too soon and had originally included her (but she, alas, has already been tagged.)