I am a Blogger-tag virgin. Well that is all to end as the fabulous Enda has chosen me to one of the lucky few! 5 Things You Never Knew About Me is what I have been tagged with. My initial recation was of course panic that I now have to tag others and all the bloggers that I know have already been tagged which left me feeling like Conortje no mates, however Enda ensures me that this exercise should not be one to dread but rather enjoy and possibly even make friends. So I have decided not to hate Enda and have chosen to take on this enormous task.
5 Things You Never Knew About Me
1. I have just one kidney. I always end up with bizarre medical issues – like I had to have a saliva gland surgically removed because there was a stone in it and I am horrifically allergic to Kiwis (fruit not the people) so it wasn’t too much of a shock to discover at the age of 28 that I had been born with just the one kidney. It doesn’t really make any difference at all, it just means I cannot donate an extra one to a needy sibling and sure it makes a great ice-breaker at a party.
2. Further to Enda’s Teacher Swearing I was actually expelled from kindergarten. I was an evil child and created havoc with the other kids knocking down their play bricks, standing when I was supposed to sit, refusing to put a coat on when we went outside – I wouldn’t let my mother leave so she had to stay there for hours with me. It is no wonder that I was made leave forever with my childish tail between my legs. This of course meant that my mother also wasn’t allowed attend either which was a pity because she was quite enoying herself…..
3. When I was very little (we’re talking age 6 – 10) Chris de Burgh was my musical world. I idolised him! In my defence this was pre Lady in Red days. I even paid him a visit at his house in Dalkey and had him sign a cassette cover. Bless.
4. I’ve had many stange jobs in my life to date: washing dishes at a Galway restaurant (one night), Two summers on a pig farm, Galway Arts Festival Box Office, a summer moving furniture with the St.Vincent de Paul, A corner shop, Penneys, Two hours in a huge Dutch butter factory, shipping mobile phones to mail order customers, putting stickers on the backs of computers in a very large computer firm ……… the butter one was the worst though – the smell was truly revolting!
5. I’ve had dinner with a Nobel prize winner.
So there you have it.
Now I am supposed to meekly request some other kind people to join in the fun. I have decided to pick bloggers that I don’t know at all but whose blogs I enjoy.
Tag accepted
I’ve no idea what to say though, so you’ll have to give me a few hours to think of 5 things.
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You were BORN with only one kidney? How the hell did that happen? (or did your parents harvest one when you were a baby so they could buy biscuits?)
LOL@ Chris de Burgh. With your cool taste in music now, you must be mortified. That said, I remember when stuff like ‘Don’t Pay The Ferryman’ and ‘Patricia The Stripper’ were Quite Cool Actually in a Billy Joel singer/songwriter kind of way (before BJ lost it too of course).
Minge HAS to win the award for most tagged blogger ever! Everyone tags him.
On the other hand, he does love a good tagged list, I suppose.
Also, Chris de Burgh was my very first concert. [He says mortified]. My parents brought my sister and I when he played in some place. I can’t even remember where it was. It was long before the Point becamet the airport hanger/concert venue of choice.
Shamed.
Thanks Graham – Looking forward to it
Enda – Yeah it’s just one of those things – nothing all that special although I did feel like I’d been sort of cheated when I found out – was going to demand a refund.
Hi Alan – It would seem he is indeed a tag whore
I can’t believe you actually went to a C de B concert – that’s great hehehe – I’m not jealous at all I promise 
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You’re jealous, I’m mortified. It’s this whole thing where no one is happy. Let’s just block Chris de Burgh concert memories out of everyone’s head.
Voila!
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Did it work?
Chris de Who????
I don’t have a gall bladder if it makes you feel better:)
Thanks Tom – actually that does make me feel better – it shouldn’t but it does
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The kidney thing is shocking!
I promise to do this when I’m back from Ireland.
I promise. But you might have to remind me!