Seven things you can do or have done that make you feel impressed with yourself?
1. Even though I’ve only heard this song a handful of times in the last 20 years, I can still sing along to every word.
The impression that you sell pulses in and out like a scent…
2. I jumped on stage and danced during a band’s show when I was a teenager. If you knew me as a teenager you’d know how out of character that was for me.
3. I killed a spider. Yes, you read that right. A tiny one, but still…
4. I once replaced a stickshift in my car, all on my own. WHILE home alone with three kids under the age of five. Sure, it was a VW bug stickshift, but still…
5. I gave birth to a baby with no painkillers at ALL.
6. I have survived multiple earthquakes.
7. I can read really fast.
June 22nd, 2009 at 9:39 am
I’m pretty darned impressed. Especially with #s 4 & 5. How did you accomplish either and were they by choice or necessity?
June 22nd, 2009 at 9:51 am
We had this VW squareback that was hard to drive because the stickshift would always pop out of gear. And to get it into second you had to do this weird dance with it. Same with third…Daniel kept saying he’d fix it but never did. He had a spare stickshift so one Saturday when he was out skateboarding with his buddies I decided to tackle it. I figured if I couldn’t finish it, he could do it when he got back, and then it’d be done either way! It was pretty simple, really—those old VWs are probably the simplest cars there are (except for really, really old cars). It just took some brute strength to get it in. His skater buddies were really impressed with me when they all got back.
The no painkiller baby was Catherine, my second—my oldest, Nathaniel, was breech and delivered by c-section, so she was my first normal delivery. I planned on trying to get through it with no painkillers or anything. I ended up in so much pain that I was asking for something, but she was coming too fast, they didn’t have time to give me anything. Turns out the pain was because I should’ve been pushing already and wasn’t. I pushed about 4 times and she was out.
My third I did with only some demerol, which was the worst decision ever. It didn’t do anything for the pain, just made me loopy, and therefore it was harder to concentrate on what was going on and get the baby out. That was so lame.
June 23rd, 2009 at 7:57 pm
I’ve been thinking about this thread; it is such a cool idea, so I’ve been trying to come up with what my list would be. I can’t think of anything as impressive as yours (except #5, but if I said that now, I’d just be copying!)
June 23rd, 2009 at 8:23 pm
Feel free to snag it like a meme for your blog, or post yours in the comments. I was actually going to do 7 different lists of 7, in one post, but then decided to just start doing them as a regular series of posts.