It’s been awhile since I have played in a blog meme, so I was glad to see Kathylynn had tagged me. Here are the rules to the game:

"Post these rules on your blog.
List seven random and/or weird facts about yourself.
Tag seven random [?] people at the end of your post and include links to their blogs.
Let each person know that they have been tagged by posting on comment on their blog."

Alrighty, let’s play. Since this is ShakHAMMER, the home improvement blog, I’ll make these marginally related to home improvement:

1. Both of my grandfathers were carpenters. One was a general contractor who built quite a few houses in Muncie, Indiana. The other was a Navy SeaBee, and he built a bunch of stuff during World War II.

2. I despise power tools. When I was a kid, I’d be playing outside and then randomly a saw or drill would start buzzing and it always scared me. I still hate the way most power tools sound.

3. But I am in love with those power nail thingies. My grandpa would have died and gone to heaven if he wasn’t already dead and presumably in heaven, if he had gotten the chance to use those power nailer thingies.

4. Number of months since we started laying the laminate flooring in my house: 8. Number of months the flooring has been laid, but has been unfinished: 8. Number of months it’s been since I baked a tasty pie for my husband: 8. This is not a coincidence.

5. I enjoy plumbing type tasks. Soon, I am going to learn how to replace an outside water faucet. That is, if I can ever get my dad over here to teach me how. Otherwise, I’ll go learn it from the internet.

6. I am absolutely insane about Christmas decorations staying up past January 12th. Originally my final date for the general populace to be able to keep their Christmas decorations up without me complaining about it was January 1st. But my uncle informed me that the (insert very esoteric group of people here) celebrate Christmas until January 12th because of (insert some very esoteric religious practice here). Far be it from me to hate on random groups of people and their random religious practices, so everyone has until January 12th to remove their Christmas decorations. Then I’ll start sending anonymous letters.

7. The other thing that makes me ABSOLUTELY CRAZY is bad grammar. And while that has very little to do with home improvement, it certainly keeps my home improved if I don’t have to hear bad grammar. Except I have to hear bad grammar all the time. Is there some good-grammar-land I can move to where everyone speaks the English language beautifully?

Tagging time:

Kat Coble
Heather
Newscoma
Ginger
John H
Rachel
Kathy T