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(my dad's backyard on Easter)
 

I was tagged by the lovely Mimi from French Kitchen in America.  Mimi was one of the first people to encourange me when I started my blog.  If you want some French inspiration go visit her blog.  Her travelogue and food memoirs will make you book a flight and pack your bags.

Now I'm pretty much an open book so this was a hard one for me but here goes:

Here are the seven things you probably have not guessed:

I have a competitive streak.  I don't like playing games because I don't like how I get when I play them. 

I used to have dyslexia.  If you look closely at the mailbox at my Dad's you can see where I wrote my name backwards when I was five.

I used to speak German fluently and would even speak in German in my sleep.  In fact I took four languages in High School: German, French, Spanish and English (yes I am counting English).

I rode my bike around the coast of Ireland when I was 14 years old. 

When I was three I decided I was going to get married at the Stanford Chapel.  When I was seven I decided I was going to marry a man named Rick.  I did both those things (Note:  It wasn't a particular man named Rick that I was going to marry – just the man I would marry would have the name Rick.  There was a dreamy lifeguard at the local swimming pool named Rick and I thought he had the most perfect name). 

I can't eat garlic.  I'll spare you the details.

When I was little I thought I was a princess.  A real, bonafide, crown-wearing princess.  I was sure that my real parents, the King and the Queen, had just dropped me off with this other family and would be along any day to pick me up.  There was no reason for me to be disastified with my real family (the non-royal one) except maybe being one of five daughters made me long for the relative peace and quiet of being an only child, and why not be royalty while I was at it?

There you have it.  I'm a German-speaking, bike riding Irish Princess that reads backwards and can't eat garlic, married to a man named Rick.  And I'll beat you at Trivial Pursuit if you ever ask me to play with you.

I've made a couple of changes on how I accept comments.  First of all I appreciate each and every one of you that take the time to comment on something I post.  Your feedback means the world to me.

However, as of late, I've been getting more and more spam type comments (some even leaving links to very unsavory websites).  So I've done two things.

First I've removed that doohickey that makes you enter in randmomly generated letters (it's not stopping the spam – so why bother?) so hopefully that will make the process a little quicker for you.

Secondly, I have added comment moderation - I'll be approving each comment before it is posted.   I'll try to be quick about it and I can weed out all the inappropriate comments, sparing you from innocently clicking on a link and then having to scrub out your minds eye because of what you have seen.

Happy Monday Everyone!