I've Been Hit!

It's another tag - 8 random things. Lisa at Rollin' With the Punches tagged me.

I'm not sure I have that much randomness surrounding me. Especially since I've already listed 14 random facts. But here goes.

1. I love fabric. This should come as no surprise to anyone, but you may not know the extent of my obsession. Joanne is one of my all-time favorite stores and I've spent hours in there in one visit already. My little studio is a tiny fabric store of it's own, and yet I need more. The colors, patterns, textures... They just draw me in. If there's help for this I don't want to know.

2. There's very little that I can't do. I don't say this to brag, but basically if I'm interested in something I educate myself and start doing. Like knitting. (It's slowly coming along for those who are wondering.) One of my bigger ventures this year was learning to trim the horses's hooves. I also groom the dogs myself. And as with most things I learn, it's to save myself money. I'm just that cheap.

3. My husband proposed to me while I was getting dressed for bed. I'm quite a prude and didn't realize it was him knocking at my bedroom door or I would never have allowed him in at the moment. As it was, I had on jeans and a nightgown. I was sans bra, and although I was barely an A at the time I was acutely aware that I was without and was clutching the shirt that I just took off tightly to my chest. Not exactly romantic, but the job got done. I'll have to ask him if he remembers any of this. He may have been too nervous to notice.

4. I love to read. I used to devour novels but haven't had time in recent years. Now my reading consists of magazines since I can read an article here and there between interruptions. Well, that and preschool books. I think my IQ is slipping, but my kids love me for it and that makes everything alright.

5. I am an excellent marksman. It's been a long time since I shot a gun, but I'm accurate when I do. In high school rifely I scored 110% because I hit the bullseye more times than the instructor and got bonus points. I own the only two guns in the house, but I haven't hunted since we were married.

6. I love math. I know, I'm weird, but numbers fascinate me. Being an accountant would be my dream job. Funny, though, that accounting was my lowest grade in college. I was dating then and failed to turn in an assignment on time, dropping my grade one letter. It's always the man's fault.

7. I am an organizer. I group like clothing together in my closet (skirts, dresses, long-sleeved shirts, short-sleeved shirts) AND line them up by color (white skirts, black skirts...) And that's just the closet.

8. I hate covering windows. There are some incredibly beautiful window treatments out there but I can't bring myself to hide the outdoors. I need to see the world around me without hinderances. We have several windows in the house with nothing on them at all. The rest only have panels hanging by the sides. Our bedroom and downstairs bath are the only ones with blinds. My husband has no idea how much money I've saved him because of this. In fact, when I spent $200 for window treatments when we built he nearly had a coronary. This was the total for 15 windows. Yeh, no idea.

I think I'm supposed to tag some others with this, but since I just tagged recently I think I'll let you take over that part. If you want to share with us I'd love to read your randomness. If not, that's OK, too.