Thanks, Alona, for the tag...Now I've really got to do some thinking about 7 random things people may not know about me...this is tougher than I thought but here goes...
1. My first name is not Valencia but "Tara" so I guess I'm named after houses. There's a place in Ridgeway called "Valencia" and of course, "Tara" from Gone With The Wind, which by the way I LOVE that movie!
2. I am addicted to clearance racks - I can go through Target and hit all the end cap "Clearance" buys in no time flat and I get so excited when it's more than half-price! My kids will tell you my motto for shopping is, "Never pay full price -- EVERYTHING goes on sale!"
3. My favorite vehicle is a Nissan Murano and when I find a winning lottery ticket just lying on the ground I'm going to purchase a brand new pearl white one! (Why not dream big, huh?! Ha!)
4. I have this fear of singing in front of Joey. In fact, besides singing in church along with the congregation with him standing by me he has never heard me sing. Maybe because he's so talented with music, who knows?? Weird I know but I couldn't sing in front of him when we dated 20something years ago and still can't. So my dream is to perform a duet with him someday - somewhere in front of a group of people. If I only had the nerve!!!!
5. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE beach music and shagging! I've been teaching Joey and he's catching on so maybe by the summer we'll be dancing...shagging on the boulevard!
6. I am oh so terrified of spiders - the thought of them makes me cringe in every direction!
7. My greatest fear about growing old is losing my memory and because of this fear I write notes constantly. I have one journal in particular that I kept during my late teenage years that is more than 200 pages long almost entirely devoted to my dear sweetheart, Joey. It's almost like I was writing a letter to myself everyday and on almost every single entry I closed it with "I will always love you, Joseph..." On our first official "date" after more than 20 years I had him take me to see "The Notebook" and afterwards we came back to my house and I got my journal down from the attic and showed it to him after all those years. It was so neat because we'd broken up long before the end of that journal and I wrote so many feelings and told of how much I loved him. Then he wrote me a letter inside the back cover saying we were back together and "just wait and see what happens!" I told him he was very lucky to have another chance to have written that because otherwise my grandchildren and great-grandchildren would have really disliked him for breaking their grandmother's heart so many years ago!" I love to write and have lots of different calendars and journals that someday I'm going to collate all into one big masterpiece -- it will probably be a major comedy packed full of real-life drama with a little bit of mystery built right in!
3 comments:
This is so sweet! You have a beautiful voice. No being shy.
Sarah and Gene sing Karaoke just about every week. They both have lovely voices!
You are so cute! I love your writing!
I cant wait for the movie or book that comes out to tell the "Life of Valencia" story. I will buy that book or that movie ticket. Or who knows I may buy both.
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