Nothin' a little MEME won't fix...

Woah! There's been all together TOO MUCH SERIOUSNESS AROUND HERE!!!! Do you know what that means? That means that it is time to pull out some of the MEME's I've been tagged with, and that I've just been sitting on.

Who's ready for some Chinese Torture Freezetag?

See, I gotta do this one today because I've already been tagged for it three times (by Shauna, Gina, and Cherann.-- And Butrfly has been threatening the taggy tagginess too, so I gotta beat her...)

So, here's the scoop on this Meme:

1. I will write 10 interesting things about myself.
2. I'll tag 10 people.
3. If you've been tagged, you do your own list and tag 10 more people. ("No tag backs.")

Sounds simple enough--except for that whole "interesting" part...

1. I'm the youngest of six children (4 girls, 2 boys). My mother is the antithesis of "maternal" so I really don't know how she managed! I love coming from a big family and my siblings and parents are some of my very bestest friends.
   
2. I speak four languages (English, German, Spanish, Italian) but I have studied ten all together.
   
3. I have lived on four continents (North America, South America, Europe, Asia) and have spent significant time on a fifth (Africa).
4. I had all of my babies without a drop of pain medication. Three of the four were born at home.
   
5. Before you think I'm trying to be superwoman because of #4, you should know that one of the biggest motivating factors behind my decision for natural childbirth is that I'm extremely resistant to pain medication, so rather than ask for an epidural and discover too late that it wouldn't work on me, I decided to be prepared for a natural birth.
6. Even though I was a "straight A" student and considered "brilliant" (what a joke!!) I dropped out of high school about 6 weeks before graduation, to the utter shock and horror of my parents and my teachers.
7. I attended Brigham Young University on full-ride scholarship, despite #6.
8. I received perfect scores (36) on both the English and Reading Comprehension sections of the ACT--pretty hard to believe when I see all the typos I leave in comments and posts all over the place!!!!
9. My senior year of high school I had a leading role in all of the school plays except for one. And yes, I'm STILL BITTER about that one that I didn't get, even though it was widely acknowledged that I'd earned it. Hahaha. (That was eleven + years ago... How sad is it that I'm still bitter about that?)
   
10. For a time, I was a theater major in college. It wasn't until I changed my major to something else that I actually started getting into plays in college. I never did get a college degree, though, because I still haven't figured out what I want to be when I grow up!!

And now, to spread a little linky lovin'.

1. Butrfly NEENER NEENER!!!!
2. Des
   
3. Ms. Whiskeymarie
4. Super Des
5. Jenn in Holland
6. Blonde Canary
7. Wonderful World of Des
8. The Bakers Rock
9. Diggity Des
10. Emma Sometimes

(Okay, I don't know what is up with the link-colors up there, and I know that if I took the time to fix it, I could. But you know what? I'm NOT GOING TO. But rest assured, gentle readers, they are all links whether they're green or purple...)

I tried to do a wide variety of linkies here, so that some of you can get to know others of you, because you're all FABULOUS! :D

(And yes, I realize that Super Des is, perhaps, on the list more than, uh, once. But see, I promised her a little extra linky love recently, so I had to deliver!)