What the Heck Does Meme Mean?

That’s what Ambulance Driver asked when he was tortured into doing this (and then had the audacity to tag ME): "share five off the wall, strange, unusual or just little-known facts about yourself. Then you "tag" five other bloggers who are supposed to do the same thing."

A while back, there was a “Three things MeMe” thing going around that a lot of bloggers were tagged with. So maybe it just got shortened to “meme.” Except I never did figure out why it was three things MeMe instead of MeMeMe.

Personally, I think these things are viruses, and if we don’t come up with a cure or vaccine pretty soon, the whole blogger community will become infected and morph into MySpacers.

In the meantime, I guess the only way to get rid of it for now is to treat the symptoms by doing what is asked.

1. I was a wife, mother, ER nurse, maintenance officer, dining facility (read: mess hall) officer and CH-47 pilot. All at the same time. I’ve also been a candy striper, lifeguard, waitress, nursing assistant, flight medic, battalion assistant S-3, substitute teacher, and cattle farmer.

2. I was a school board member in the small town we used to live in. I wasn’t well liked by the other members because I was an uppity city girl that expected too much. Like for education to be the top priority, kids to behave in class, teachers to be given the supplies they needed and to be paid (heaven forbid!) what they were worth.

3. I am acrophobic. I know, I can’t figure it out, either. I love to fly, loved being a pilot. Back when I was a flight medic, I’d sit in the hell hole of a Huey on a nice day with the doors wide open and was as happy as a dog riding in the car with his head sticking out of the window. But put me on top of that Huey during a preflight to check the Jesus nut, and I’m hanging on for dear life.

4. I was in the Mrs. Texas pageant—a LONG time ago. A friend talked me into it. You could definitely tell who the experienced contestants were. For those of us that weren’t really contenders, it was just something different to do and we had a pretty good time. And I learned how to stand like a model.

5. I have created life. No, not human life, bovine. When we had cattle, we used artificial insemination for a while. I went through training, then AI’d some of our cows/heifers. And a few of them actually took!

As for the second part, let’s see………..I haven’t been to their blogs yet, so even though they may have already been tagged, I don’t know that, so I choose Holly, Lovi, and Mair. Sorry, those are the only ones I know that haven’t been tagged before I was. And it specifies “bloggers” this time, so I can’t pick on my other loyal fans. Otherwise, Gbro, Lainy, and Rabbit would be on the list. Darn, cuz Rabbit was such a good sport about it last time. I really would be interested in what the three of you come up with, so feel free to comment anyway if you’d like. (Lainy is actually out of town caring for a very ill son, so I’ll excuse her this time.)

That’s all, folks!

Flo