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I was at a funeral today and was gone for 12 hours straight. (Thank God I built a cushion of time into my plans because it took 4.5 hours to get from where I live to Aptos for the funeral because of traffic.) There’s been a meme going around Facebook where you like someone’s status and they give you a number. You then have to come up with that number of things about yourself that nobody supposedly knows. I’m exhausted from being on the road since 6:30 so I’ll just do 7 of these for my Quick Takes.<\/p>\n
<\/a>— 1 —<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n I have a serious fear of dogs.<\/strong> There was a dog in the neighborhood who used to try and attack everyone going by its house. Additionally, I hate the smell of dogs. Give me cats any day!<\/p>\n <\/a>— 2 —<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n I love the smell of ground coffee but hate the taste.<\/strong> I can’t drink my coffee black. I also can’t do hot espresso like latt\u00e9s because the hot milk irritates my lactose intolerance. I can do iced latt\u00e9s made with whole milk and with a few pumps of vanilla syrup.<\/p>\n <\/a>— 3 —<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n I took 8 years of piano lessons.<\/strong> I haven’t played actively since college and haven’t accompanied worship since seminary other than a couple Taiz\u00e9 pieces for the Maundy Thursday service at Jon’s first call in Minnesota.<\/p>\n <\/a>— 4 —<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n I taught myself to read when I was 3.<\/strong> We had a word book and I somehow figured it all out. I used to read stuff to my preschool class.<\/p>\n <\/a>— 5 —<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n I used to write “books” when I was 5 and 6 years old.<\/strong> My mom still has a few of them. They aren’t anything incredibly amazing — just simple little stories I could write with my spelling words.<\/p>\n <\/a>— 6 —<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n I have no sense of rhythm.<\/strong> I’m not kidding. My piano teacher used to yell at me about it frequently. I can’t clap well to songs at all either.<\/p>\n <\/a>— 7 —<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n My first vocal solo was part of “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring” by Bach.<\/strong> Technically, it was a trio with me singing soprano. I had a fear of singing solos and my teacher just randomly asked me to do it. Once I realized I could do it, I was somewhat unstoppable.<\/p>\n For more Quick Takes, visit Jen at ConversionDiary.Com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was at a funeral today and was gone for 12 hours straight. (Thank God I built a cushion of time into my plans because it took 4.5 hours to get from where I live to Aptos for the funeral … Continue reading