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I'M A FREAK!! The Crusader Challenge #1 proves it. Thanks a bunch, Rach!

2/18/2011

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 Crusader Challenge #1 (check out Rach Writes to play along): In 300 words or less, tell us:  one secret, one lie, one interesting quirk, one annoying habit, one of your best character traits, and one of your favorite things in the whole world. The post can be in any format, including poetry (for those poets among us), but must include the random words, “bloviate,” “fuliguline,” “rabbit,” and “blade”. Finish your post with something along the lines of, “I may have revealed something about me that isn’t strictly true, can you guess what it is?”

I didn’t realize how freaky of a person I was until I completed this task. But the sad thing is, any other answers would just make things worse. I read it to my husband and he said, “Yeah, that about sums you up all right.”

Great.

So here goes. It is what it is (and just as a note of clarification, I promise I’m a good and decent person):

If I itch, I will scratch until I bleed. The trigger that says, “STOP” is missing in me, disappeared eight years ago around the time of my daughter’s birth. I trim my nails (per my dermatologist) to keep the ten tiny blades in check. Annoying? Heck yeah. Just ask my husband.

“Just don’t scratch,” he says.

“It doesn’t work that way,” I say.

I tend to bloviate in my sleep, and I night walk too. I can hold full conversations, and I’ve been known to make it halfway down the hall before waking up. Scary? Heck yeah. Just ask my husband.

“Where are you going?”

“Not . . . sure . . .” I crawl back into bed.

When I was four, I dressed up as Bugs Bunny for Halloween (you know, the rascally rabbit that Elmer Fudd hated?) but I really wanted to be a princess instead. I think my mom got a deal on the costume. My mother has pictures of me with my friend Amy who is a beautiful angel—halo and all. I was jealous. I thought I looked like a boy.

My father is a fuliguline collector and displays his collection over his mantle. My mother collects thimbles and blown glass figures. I, given no other choice because collecting is my genes, collect vintage purses and costume jewelry. I loved my grandmother’s clutches and clip on earrings, so I started buying my own. I don’t use them. But I have them. I just love the 50’s.

I love peanut butter and mustard sandwiches with vinegar salt chips on the side (try it, you’ll like it), snorkeling in blue Hawaiian waters, escaping into a good book, and making people belly laugh. Ask anyone who knows me. It’s all true.

Except, maybe not. I may have revealed something about me that isn’t strictly true, can you guess what it is?

31 Comments
Summer Ross link
2/18/2011 06:27:00 am

Nicely done-
the lie snorkeling?

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trisha leaver link
2/18/2011 07:19:11 am

Peanut and mustard sandwich . . . that is an odd combination. Although I am all over the salt and vinegar potato chips.

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Zan Marie link
2/18/2011 08:46:23 am

Hi, Angela
I think the peanut butter and mustard has to be the lie. I just have to say 'yuck' to that one. ; ) But then again...I've been known to lie... ; )

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Joy link
2/18/2011 08:47:14 am

All that collecting. Somewhere in there is a lie, but is it with dad, mom or you? Dunno. Scratches head.

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Brooke R. Busse link
2/18/2011 09:09:06 am

I think the thing your dad collects is a lie. You just threw that in there for the word. XD

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Danette link
2/18/2011 11:16:32 am

Hi Crusader. Fun challenge!!! I think you wanted to be Bugs Bunny-- at least maybe I'm hoping you wanted to be Bugs Bunny that you weren't MADE to be Bugs Bunny against your will...

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Elisa Hirsch link
2/18/2011 11:29:59 am

You are soooo awesome, so absolutely zombie-licious I'd like to give you the versatile writer blog award. Come pick it up at my blog you fancy, wonderful woman.

http://ecwrites.blogspot.com/2011/02/versatile-i-love-something-heart-felt.html

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Trisha link
2/18/2011 11:35:11 am

My uneducated guess is that you don't like peanut butter & mustard sandwiches. Because seriously, who could?!? hehe

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Nicole link
2/18/2011 12:56:32 pm

Hello fellow crusader :) love the post! Am making your fish fat *lol*

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ProjectFraeya link
2/18/2011 05:46:53 pm

It's got to be the collecting, though the peanut butter sandwhich sounds interesting :S (then again I don't like peanut butter at all so it would sound awful to me with or without the mustard)

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Kristal Lee link
2/19/2011 01:46:01 am

I hope the PB and mustard sandwich is a lie, because...ewwwwww! lol.

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The Golden Eagle link
2/19/2011 02:40:24 am

Hi, Crusader! Reading everyone's challenge posts today.

I'd say the one about your dad collecting is the lie--it seems kind of convenient. ;)

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Tina DC Hayes link
2/19/2011 03:58:03 am

I'm guessing the snorkling is the lie, maybe?

The sandwich actually doesn't sound that bad to me, 'cuz I like pickles and peanut butter. Not kidding. :)

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Catherine Johnson link
2/19/2011 04:53:30 am

Hi Crusader! I'm going to guess the night walking but it's tough on this one, nice job!

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Christine link
2/19/2011 04:54:53 am

ICK!! Not sure I'll look at peanut butter or mustard the same again. I’m a fellow crusader and thought I’d stop by to say HEY! Great blog! I’m your newest follower. You can find me at www.christinebryant.blogspot.com .

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L.A. Colvin link
2/19/2011 08:45:39 am

I'm hoping, no praying its the peanut butter and mustard sandwich. Although I love both.

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Jordan McCollum link
2/19/2011 11:19:12 am

Add me to the "please, please, let it be PB&M" camp!

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Susan Fields link
2/19/2011 09:29:43 pm

Nice entry - I haven't written mine yet but it's next on the list.

I'm going to guess that your friend Amy was not an angel with a halo for Halloween.

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Regina Linton link
2/20/2011 05:54:47 am

I am going to guess that the your father's collection is a lie. Best wishes from another crusader and follower.

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Beth Fred link
2/20/2011 08:01:54 am

Good luck on your writing and w/ your zombies.

I'm a new follower.
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Kerri link
2/20/2011 08:28:20 am

*crossing fingers* Peanut butter and mustard! If I'm wrong maybe I will try it. Hmmmm, maybe not lol.

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PK Hrezo link
2/20/2011 08:03:09 pm

That was fun! And just because it sounds so revolting, I'm gonna say the peanutbuttr and mustard sandwiches are false.
Nice to learn more about you. I love anything in Hawaii ... it's my fave place in the world.

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Heather Hellmann link
2/20/2011 10:33:10 pm

I'm guessing the lie is that your dad collects ducks.

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Shelley Batt link
2/21/2011 01:18:35 am

Your submission was funny. Great job with it! I'm guessing the bloviating in your sleep.

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Patricia A. Timms link
2/21/2011 01:49:48 am

Great job, Crusader!

I'm going with peanut butter and mustard sandwiches.

Congrats on your books. Looking forward to more news on this.

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Lana Banana link
2/21/2011 10:10:25 am

gonna have to keep this post short, as i have a bit of vomit in my mouth . . . peanut butter and MUSTARD?!?!

that bit, i think, explains all the rest!

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Amanda Milner link
2/21/2011 01:11:34 pm

People are dissing the peanut butter and mustard! I didn't want to guess that as the lie because my favorite sandwhich is a peanut butter, mustard and pickle sandwhich! Try it. It's awesome.
How about snorkeling in Hawaii as the lie?

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Lisa Potts link
2/22/2011 04:07:18 am

Well, I was going to say the sandwich but I've decided to go with something more mundane and say you don't actually like to snorkel.

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LadyJai link
2/22/2011 10:29:29 pm

Peanut Butter and Mustard is one I've NEVER heard of before!

Hello fellow crusader!

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Kar
2/24/2011 10:38:23 pm

I've never known anyone else who can't stop scratching, except my other half. We can all be weird together!

Fab post, but there's no way you're getting me to try peanut butter and mustard sandwiches - I'm going with that one for the lie.

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Pam Parker link
2/26/2011 06:59:24 am

I'm so hoping the peanut butter and mustard sandwich is a lie, because that sounds really, really nasty!

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