7 Random and wacky things about myself

I have been tagged by Jen to come up with seven off-the-wall things about myself! This took some thought, but here is what I've come up with:

1. I can't stand clowns! They creep me out something awful! DH has always said that if he needs me out of the picture (e.g., locked away in an asylum somewhere so he can spend lottery money or something) that he's going to hang oil paintings of clowns all over the house. Ugh! That would do me in!!

2. When I was really little (like 3-ish), I was curious about the toilet bowl. My parents had a little wooden potty seat on the commode. So, evidently to check out the bowl, I stuck my head into the opening of the seat......and promptly got my head STUCK! My poor Mom tried everything--oil, Vaseline, grease of every kind available in the house to get it off my head--it would not budge! My head was swelling and wedging the seat on even tighter! My Dad came home from work to find his wife sitting in a rocking chair with a bawling kid with a potty seat wedged on her head. He had to tilt me sideways, lock the seat into his vise grip, and saw it off.

3. My very first collection was seashells (I still have all of them!). But the first time I ever got to touch the ocean in Florida ( I think I was about 6 and so excited to look for shells), I walked into the water and promptly got sucked out by a huge undertow! Not a happy intro to the sea!

4. I used to do embroidery (this was before my friend Diane, a.k.a. "The Virus," infected me with the quilting bug!) and once I entered a contest with an original design X-mas ornament and won! The prize: present my ornament to Texas' first lady at the governor's mansion in Austin for the state's official Christmas tree....and who was the gubernatorial couple? None other than George W. and Laura Bush! I didn't meet GW, but I got to meet the First Lady, shake her hand, and have dinner at the mansion.

5. I was so needle phobic as a kid, that one time when I needed a tooth pulled, I refused to let the dentist give me a Novocaine shot, so he went ahead and pulled the tooth without it using a pair of pliers! That is one noisy process, let me tell you. This was in the early 70's. Nowadays if a dentist did what he did I'd be willing to bet he'd lose his license. (I was one stubborn kid!)

6. I once took third place in a watermelon seed spitting contest (spit that sucker just over 18 feet)!

7. I get motion sick at the drop of a hat--car sick (unless I am driving), air sick, sea sick--you name it. I'm queasy in cars (and it is TEN times worse if I try to read!) and outright SICK on airplanes (ask Susan how I have to fly without moving and looking straight ahead--sometimes even breathing is difficult!)--and you don't even want to know what happens to me on sailboats.......it ain't pretty!

Now, I am supposed to tag 7 more people. The rules are if you're tagged, you need to post 7 weird and wacky things about yourself on your blog and then go tag 7 more people and give their links at the end of your post. Let the people you tag know that they have been tagged by posting a comment on their blog! I'm going to have to noodle around for more names to tag, but here is a first pass at whom I am tagging:

1. Laurel (my dear SIL)
2. Brandi
3. Rebecca
4. Jane
5. ??
6. ??
7. ??