I've Been Tagged!!
Posted by Cathy at 2/22/2008 1:50 AM and is filed under uncategorized 
Well it was bound to happen and it finally did. I've been tagged! Eliza over at Notes From My Food Diary has tagged me for five random facts about LITTLE OLD ME. Thanks Eliza, this is my first tagging ever and I don't want to screw it up. Everyone should go visit Eliza and give her the bloggie love that she deserves. I swear she is always cooking up something over there that has my jaw on the floor in awe.
So here we go...Random Facts About Me, Me, Me...why anyone would want to know these things is beyond my scope of understanding but here I go...brace yourself:
1. I once had lunch with Frank Sinatra in Palm Springs. I had absolutely no idea that the benefit I was attending was somewhere Frank Sinatra would even consider a worthwhile event. I mean shouldn't he be at home singing? However, it just so happens that Frank happened to be good friends with the people I was going to the luncheon with. In fact I did not even want to go to this luncheon, I wanted to go shopping instead. Of all things this particular benefit lunch was a buffet style smorgasbord. How un-Sinatra could this be? My friends (who were an older couple) said they would meet me back at the table after getting their food. When I returned to the table, there he was, FRANK SINATRA, in the flesh sitting right there, at our freakin' table. Apparently Frank and my friends saw each other at the coffee bar and decided to sit together because THEY WERE GOOD OLD FRIENDS! Can you believe that? I almost did a back flip right there. I couldn't believe it. I was mesmerized. He was exactly how I imagined him to be. Outspoken, loud, charming, had a million great stories, brat-packish. I kept pinching myself. We lunched together for two blissful hours. He told stories about all the old movies he filmed. He couldn't believe I knew so much about him considering I was only twenty-three. I wanted him to break out singing New York, New York or Mac the Knife or anything...even humming a tune would have been divine. It's the only time I've ever been truly, truly star struck. And everyone at that luncheon was staring at our table. They couldn't believe he was there either!
2. I hate exercise more than anything in the world. I tolerate doses of daily walking only because my walking buddies, Lisa, Lori and Wendy, are so cool and they make it fun. We don't consider our walks exercise but actually therapy sessions where we discuss our crazy lives. Today we even stopped for coffee and pastries smack-dab in the middle of our walk, that's how un-serious we are about sweating. I like that.
3. I have danced on American Bandstand, I swear. Boogied down right next to Dick Clark himself.
4. As a child I was totally in love with Steve Garvey, first baseman for the Los Angeles Dodgers. As a kid I spent a lot of time going to games at Dodger Stadium as my Dad was a professed baseball fanatic. Steve Garvey had arms the size of Popeye and I was always amazed at his playing abilities, really I was. As I grew up, I completely forgot about Steve Garvey. However, one day when I was about twenty-five, I was attending a funeral of a close, dear friend who once held a very high position within the Dodger organization. All the greatest baseball players that I grew up loving were there; Sandy Koufax, Manny Mota, and Ron Cey to name just a few. Vin Scully, the Dodger announcer, along with other greats were a pall bearers and Tommy Lasorda, former manager of the Dodgers gave the eulogy. But before the service started I was seated up front in the mortuary with the family when I looked up to see who was coming down the aisle towards me. Oh my gawd, it was Steve Garvey, my mouth fell open, I died a thousand deaths and as he got close to me he put his hand out and said, "Hi, I'm Steve Garvey". And do you know what I said, can you even imagine what popped out of my mouth.... "I KNOW!" Yes, I said, "I KNOW" I might as well have burped. What a baffoon I was!! Could I have come up with anything more particularly lame!! Ugh. He really didn't know what to say as my eyes bugged out of my head staring at him. Oh well, I couldn't take it back and guess what? Our row was packed so tightly that we touched knees throughout the whole service. Ha!
5. Going on a cruise is my favorite type of vacation, I have been on eight. There is more food on those boats than anyone can ever imagine. So yes, I cruise for food. It's pathetic, but true.
So in keeping with the rules of the game I have to tag 5 more people and I've decided on the following victims. I say victims because it almost killed me coming up with these five things, I don't think I could do it again.
Diane at Asthma Girl Cooks
Pam at Sidewalk Shoes
Kevin at Closet Cooking
Mental P Mama at Mental Pause Chronicles
Mo at Paws and Pours
Rules:
1. Link to your tagger and post these rules.
2. Share 5 facts about yourself.
3. Tag 5 people at the end of your post and list their names (linking to them)
4. Let them know they've been tagged by leaving a comment at their blogs.
Go ahead and play along, or don't, it won't bother me!
Ha! The cruise thing? I am intrigued, but am afraid of getting sick. You know, the stomach virus that seems to live on those ships....Anyway, I just did this meme, but am going to change it to all the crushes I had back in the day. You gave me the idea about Steve Garvey. And, I'm going to post it at my other blog: http://justsquackin.blogspot.com
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You danced on American Bandstand??? I'm so jealous! Dick Clark was a hotty back then! I remember drooling over him!!!
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You are too cool for me... I am leaving in shame of my boring life
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I agree - cruises are an excellent way to eat yourself into oblivion!
Sounds like you've done some pretty neat stuff in your time!
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Since you tagged my food blogge (and I see that I have it listed here as my website) I turned it into a food meme. Because I could! Which made it much more enjoyable!
Thanks!
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oh, how lucky you are to see Frank Sinatra in person! you had such a variety of experiences in life that I think it makes you an interesting person
I've cruised one before and I too loved the food, but I blamed it for putting me up to 8 lbs afterwards! (it's a combination with other things involving food too
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On typepad, it shows the source that people enter your sight from... like if they come from your site or evil chef mom or whoever. When it shows google.search or yahoo.search, I always click on the link to see what there were searching for. I'm odd that way... or easily entertained! I assume your blogging service has a similar deal?
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Wow, cool facts! Can't believe you returned to the table and found Frank Sinatra there!
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