I'm Back and I've Been Tagged!

I'm home from the Seattle trip/extended weekend graduation celebration and ready to blog it up!!! I have so much to share, but nothing organized yet to do so. In the meantime, Christie of Life at the Condo tagged me to list six random things about myself:

1. I don't know how to officially swim. This means, I grew up "fake" swimming; I had to plug my nose, I never learned laps. I CAN doggy swim or tread water to keep from drowning if necessary. Because swimming is one of the top recommended exercises for me, I tried to learn for real and took a beginner swimming class during my sophomore year at Goshen College. This was NOT a beginner swimming class because everyone in the class already knew how to swim except me. Immediately, the teacher blew the whistle and everyone who already KNEW how to swim raced. I tried to keep up and do what they were doing, and I ended up in the ER with bruised lungs. I don't plan on attempting to learn to swim ever again. I am proud to be one of those people who skip and bob and fart around with swimming boards.
   
2. I prefer everything that I come into contact with in my life to be small. I will make exceptions only for tall people who are really cool, flat screen TVs, and large dogs. I like small portions of food, small notepads, small cars, small houses, small jewelry, small kisses, small creations of nature, small everything.
   
3. I take 3.5 prescribed pills a day and I am working up to 6 prescribed pills a day in addition to a buttload of Ibuprofen. These are the sort of pills that if I do not remember to take one, THE WORLD WILL IMPLODE. I do not like this but it is what it is.
   
4. Everyday around 4 or 5 pm my husband calls me to say hi and that he loves me and ask me what I want for dinner. I always sense when it is him, and many times I have been tempted to say something naughty when I answer, but I have NOT because he is calling me at work.
   
5. I graduated with an English Literature & Writing degree, but 3/4 of my education was spent studying Art. In a strange twist of fate, I reached the maximum amount of loans that I could borrow to complete my undergraduate degree, and quickly switched to ELW because I could finish the program within a year. I have never read Moby Dick, Madame Bovary, or the Epic of Gilgamesh. I would score very, very poorly on the list that Christie referenced from the NY Times, "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die."
   
6. I do not wear my wedding band. After our first year of marriage, I gained just enough weight that the band became tight and uncomfortable on my finger. Getting the ring resized admits defeat, and I still wear my beautiful, antique engagement ring to symbolize my commitment to Dan. However, a jeweler recently shamed me for keeping my band in a box in my nightstand drawer and now I feel sufficiently guilty and have decided to get it fixed. Has anyone else had to get their rings resized?