Seven Random and/or Little-Known Facts About Me

So, there's this meme... and Cristina tagged me. Here are the rules:

Link to your tagger and post these rules.
Share 7 facts about yourself: some random, some weird.
Tag 7 people at the end of your post and list their names (linking to them).

Let them know they've been tagged by leaving a comment at their blogs.

Here we go:

1.If I were to have been a boy my parents planned to name me Eli.

2.When I was small I could not sleep without a large rock under my bed because I needed it to break the window in case of a fire.

3.When I was four I got my first pair of shoes with laces and I worked very hard to learn how to tie them on my own that same day.

4.I know basic American Sign Language from having studied two Sesame Street sign language books as a child. I learned important phrases like ‘Follow me and learn your ABCS’ and ‘Do not feed the octopus.’

5.In grade eight I danced with the Alberta Ballet as a rat in the Nutcracker.

6.I was evacuated from my house in Saskatoon when the neighbour hit a gas line while digging up tree roots. We were sent down the street to wait in a school bus and during the evacuation a neighbour invited the group into their house to watch the O.J. Simpson chase live on t.v.

7.I sometimes send postcards to my friend Ami telling her about my imaginary life in Europe where I am married to a German theatre director named Jan and we have a daughter named Pamplemousse.

So here are the seven people I am tagging:

1 - Mark

2 - Kristen

3- Joel & Michaela

4- Samuel

5- Edgar

6- Anna

7- Paloma