Just for Fun Meme: 5 Things About Me

There is meme going around the Africa sector of the blogosphere (and beyond?) and I’ve been invited by Fikirte at The Concoction to participate in the fun. Normally I turn these invitations down with some lame excuse but since it was Fikirte that asked I decided to go along.

Warning blogger friends and readers:
Don’t ask me to do something like this again. Pay particular attention to Item #1. Here is my response to Fikirte.


I just saw this meme reference to "Jewels in the Jungle" today Fikirte, sorry about the delay in responding. I almost never talk about myself at my blog but I am interested in giving it go with the "5 Things About Me" meme. Give me some time to buildup my courage. O.K., I'm ready.

5 Things About Me by BRE:

#1. I am a coward when it comes to some things...

#2. Hmmm, let me think. Oh yeah, I love to collect handmade art and crafts. As a matter of fact at one time I represented some of the best artists and craftspeople in Europe who created pieces from glass, wood, ceramic, and metal.

#3. I can't dance (well) even though I'm black. The girls of my younger years loved me anyway for my brains and kindness and most of all for my good lucks and my 1962 baby blue Chevy Impala convertable.

#4. I love to read books and have a fantastic collection but it takes me forever to finish a book. I read for pleasure mainly at night before I go to sleep and often lose my place while dozing off. Then I have to start all over again.

#5. I am a clean freak and everything has its place in my home but my office looks like something out of a Mad Professor film. I shop for groceries and can cook as well as a 5-star chef, I clean floors and windows and the bathroom, wash and iron, repair stuff around the house, you name it but I can't sew on a button without assistance.

Ironing clothes is my favorite form of meditation and I even iron & fold my undershorts. I guess that I'm much like the character Mr. Monk in that popular U.S. TV series by the same name when it comes to cleanliness and order but sometimes I behave like Louis Gosset Jr. in "An Officer and a Gentleman". We guys like to talk tough and be in charge, you know.

How am I doing? Want to know more? Forget it.

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