Eight Things You Don't Know About Me

Rebecca Laffar-Smith at The Writer's Round-About tagged me a while ago with the meme Eight Things You Don't Know About Me. Not sure you want to know eight things about me, but here goes:

1. I’m never on time, unless it’s to eat.
2. When I was growing up, I got my Non-Saintly Brother's hand-me-down horses.  When a friend introduced me to jumping, I was riding my brother’s abandoned barrel racer QH-type. I borrowed my father’s flat (walking horse) saddle, set up jumps with 2x4s and concrete blocks (which were plentiful since my father was a contractor) and taught the barrel racer and me to jump. It wasn’t pretty, but it was great fun. Eventually I got lessons.
3. When I was about as good as I ever got (and an adult) one horse show judge said I was “inelegant but effective.” Alas, that is true. And sometimes not even "effective."
4. Nothing looks worse on me than riding pants, AKA Sausage Breeches.
5. I campaigned my last horse, a TB from the track with no papers because he was confiscated when his previous owner didn't pay the bills, and was able to win my state's "Horse of the Year" award as a novice-level eventer. That just proves that if you show up often enough and get some kind of ribbon (we never got a blue at at an event), you might beat the better horses and riders who don't always show up. And I think novice is very high level, scary stuff, by the way.
   
6. I’ve been taught so many different canter departures that I no longer remember which is supposed to be the correct one, so I just do the one I like.
7. I used to be a playwright and had a one-act comedy produced Off-off Broadway. Then I switched to writing fiction. I am currently working on a novel, a brochure about dump trucks and an article about how to sell life insurance.
8. I'm so old I was taught "galloping position" instead of "two point."
9. My horse kicked a foxhound once. Shhh! Don’t tell.

Now, I tag the following eight to tell us eight things we don't know about them:

Equine Mine
I Gallop On
I Will Jump Sweet Jumps
MiKael's Mania
Of Horses and Art
Equine View
Transylvanian Horseman
Flying Changes

Comments

[Sue]

http://flyingchanges.wordpress.com/2007/10/17/im-it/

That was great craic, as they say! Can't wait to read everyone else's!

Craic [pronounced crack] = fun

[risingrainbow]

I'm getting a list of these taggs to do, so it might take a bit to get this one up.

Hey! I think effective is good! Sounds like you've been committed to jumping! Commitment is a good thing.

[Keri]

I love the eight things idea.

I'm never on time either, maybe some day, but for now I've come to terms with it =)

[Wayne]

This is a cool idea, i need time to think this over. Will post a reply asap. Wayne

[Rebecca Laffar-Smith]

Great eight Anne. :-) The horse riding and show jumping sound like a lot of fun. I'm not even elegant sitting on a horse. lol They're too big. But they're beautiful animals!

Thanks for taking part in the meme.

[Callie]

Great eight things, I don't even know what tagging is, but sounds kind of fun!

[kathyc]

I still haven't gotten to this tag yet, but I will eventually! I enjoyed reading yours.

[kathyc]

Got it posted finally! Thanks for the meme invite, it made me reflect which is always good.