Tagged? I've been tagged so many times by so many different people and I always fully intend to answer the questions but I never do. Last week Jonathan and I were reading Palmer and Nicole's blog and they were answering a tag and Jonathan was like, "hey what a great idea". This came as a total and complete shock to me since he is never fond of divulging personal information and even less often is he interested in "fun facts" about other people. He has often made fun of he world of blogging/blagging, but now that a few of his friends(or more likely, his friends' wives) have blogs, he actually likes them. I love it. So in honor of Jonathan's new found love of the blog, an entry for the tag. These are questions I was given via an email tag.
1. Most embarrasing moment.
Classic. Many of you can agree that I have had many and you may disagree whether the one I've chosen is actually the MOST embarrasing, but I am gonna go with a mission experience. Short version- a few weeks into the mission, I was asked to bear my testimony about a "spiritual experience" I had had that week. I confused the Japanese word for spiritual with the word for sexual (they are sooooo close- i kid you not). So I told everyone that I had had a number of sexual experiences that week, so it was hard to narrow down which one I wanted to share. But the most sexual was an experience my companion and I had with a man we met on the train- it gets worse from there, but yeah, I didn't know why it got so quite or why everyone had such blank stares on their faces or why the elders were laughing. When I sat down, my companion(psycho) wouldn't tell me what was going on but told me to look the word up in the dictionary-which being characters, took me about 10 minutes. When I found it, I instantly broke out in an intense sweat and fealt like vomiting. Mortified.
2. Favorite Foods
Chocolate, Cafe Rio Pork Salad, Gyoza
3. Favorite Vacation
Wow- I just love vacations in general, but I can narrow it down to 3- The Grand Canyon in an RV with 15 of my closest friends in college, Lake Powell-too many trips to count-all amazing, Backpacking through Europe(who came up with that name anyway?)and Cancun-last year. I was pregnant and we took Micahlyn, doesn't sound ideal but you are missing the best part. we also took my mom and dad. it was awesome.
4. Favorite TV shows
Yeah, we pretty much only watch Dora and Sportscenter around here. 24 if it would ever start and Las Vegas(trashy, i know). oohhhh and The Office.
5. Name 3 things most people probably don't know about you.
Wow- funny thing is, i've never been a very private person. I could write a whole list of things about Jonathan, but me? ok- 1- I love game shows, I don't watch them much any more but I used to. I'm not sure if it's my competetive nature or the chance to win money that I in no way earned or deserved that is thrilling-probably a combination of the 2 but I was on and won on the Price is Right many years ago and last year I made my husband and syblings go on the family feud with me. It was awesome- we were on it for 5 days (actually filmed all in 1 day) we had so much fun. 2-I hate, hate high fives- i am stern about not giving them, i will give the occasional fist but not high fives. this rule was however, compromised while on the family feud with the occasional high ten- of the same family and equally embarrassing. 3-I dream of playing Galinda the good witch in Wicked- it doesn't have to be on Broadway- although i'm sure my talents are equal to the task.
Ok, Ok I officially tag Mariah, Claire, Mehrsa and Dan and Janay-Dan, I am expecting big things.
13 comments:
oh, that is embarassing! :) I think that is better than the video that we watched over and over again for a good laugh. You were such a good sport. The grand canyon was so much fun. I loved that trip. Who would have guessed about high fives. too funny. thanks for sharing. Are you coming this way soon????
Okay, what is the deal with the tagging? Is it just the part at the end when you say, tag, it's your turn to write a bunch of stuff? Or do we get an e-mail from you saying "You have been tagged." We need clarification.
While I am reading this I can totally hear your voice in my head telling the story. So embarassing, I love it.
I'm so happy that I got to be on one of your favorite vacations. What a fun trip that was. Remember when we practically got kicked out of an entire town?
yes- we had brian henderson over for dinner the other night and were looking at pictures from that trip and he reminded me of what "poor sports" the girls were about charades.
Those were fun to read, I especially love the mission experience - hilarious! When I first starting reading it I thought, "what could top her fall at high school graduation?" but that story definitely tops that!
I just mentioned something on my blog that you will appreciate and ONLY YOU.
I remember that mission story by the way - hilariousl
What about how you hated being called Missy and that was like the very first thing you EVER said to me. Julia introduced me to you and called you Missy and you said, My name is MELISSA. And Melissa it was.
Um. Graduation senior year? I love the mission story, but your graduation video will always be one of my favorite video clips of all time. I love that you are so open about everything. That's why you have so many friends. Thanks for the tag. I will try, but I have never answered a tag because I feel like so many people look at my blog from random family in Iran and work folks that I am not sure I can divulge too many embarrasing moments. What would my aunts in Iran think about my fire alarm story freshman year. I cannot wait to see you and just laugh the entire weekend.
i completely forgot about that. good times.
I still remember that charades game. I got "rebel without a cause" and did a HORRIFIC JOB! I'm afraid I was the one that let the girls down.
i remember that too- you mimed wearing a really short skirt for " rebel"- truly a credit to your sweet character sam. but no worries- as i recall, we still won.
Hey Melissa, I was reading this at work and had a little laugh explosion when I read about your seiteki experience. It's tax season and I'm supposed to be working hard. But, it turns out all my co-workers know as well as I do that there's nothing funny about accounting, so I wasn't successful at convincing them this guy's tax situation was the reason I was laughing. Anyway, your kids are beautiful and I hope you're all doing well. Devin Brady
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