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Gill and Maypole tagged me to share 8 random things about myself. Am not sure why it's 8 rather than 6 or 9 or 12, but let's see how I do. 8 an even number and I like even numbers. Consider that a free random fact from me to you.

1. I love a cold Dos Equis but it must been the kind in the green bottle (so much better than the brown bottle) and it must have lime.
2. I was on a public bus in Cambodia last year and we hit a water buffalo in the middle of nowhere. The bus was totaled and we were stranded on the side of the road for hours in the middle of a Khmer village.
3. We own a Belizean lawnmower. It's sitting in a village there and used freely by others in our absence. It's not much but it connects us to our little piece of land and reminds us it's still there.
4. I touched Mick Jagger once. And I liked it.
5. I was "arrested" in Mexico and held in a cell for a few hours in my youth. I hadn't necessarily done anything wrong but it required a bribe to get out. I was scared shitless.
6. I love reading the Sufi poets. When we first met J would send me poems in the mail and it would make me feel swoonish.
7. I love spying on my kid when she is playing before she has a chance to notice me. There is something exhilarating about watching her when she isn't aware I am around.
8. I will one day have a foreign address. I will expect you to write. (ok, so that one isn't really a fact)

Part of this includes tagging others but I am not a tagger by nature so instead know that if you want to share 8 random things about you I will be more than happy to read them. I like other people's random things quite a bit. In fact, Hel did a fantastic job answering this today and it made me too wish I was a topless waitress reject. Perhaps there's still time.