So, I’m joining another meme.  The Women are Fantastic Fridays and Saturday Photo Hunters memes are just not enough for me.  Oh, no.  I’m beginning to loathe enjoy staying up until midnight three or four nights a week just so that I can post something on this here blog o’ mine.  You know, God forbid I get a decent night’s sleep every once in a while.

Anyhow, this new meme is called Thursday Thirteen: 13 Things about Meme.  And basically, there is no theme.  I simply make a list of thirteen things.  Doesn’t matter what it is.  Doesn’t matter what I talk about.  It’s just thirteen things, y’all! 

Okay, there is a little bit of a theme here because there has to be some sense to a list of thirteen things, right?  So, the theme that I’m going with this week is “Thirteen Useless Things that You May or May Not Know about Lulu.”  Hmm, could be scary.  And, here they are in no particular order.

1. My natural hair color is brown.  And maybe a lot gray.  Click here to see me with my natural brown hair…back in 1992!
2. I can still do a cartwheel.  But the last time I tried, I ended up at the orthopedic surgeon’s office having an MRI on my right wrist.  Nonetheless, I can still do one.
3. I have worked for the same banking software company since 1994.  I started with the company as a receptionist and throughout the years held the positions of seminar coordinator, travel coordinator, admin to the CEO and president, HR assistant, and sales assistant.  In 2000, I moved into technical writing and haven’t looked back since.
4. Prior to my current company, I worked in the travel industry for almost four years.  During that time, I was able to go on several fabulously free (free!) trips to locations in Mexico and Guatemala.
5. I have a dream that I will someday win the lottery and travel the world.
6. When I was 16, I was involved in a car accident in downtown Atlanta with a horse and carriage.  The horse was fine.  My dad’s truck was not.
7. I’ve never lived on my own.  By myself, that is.
8. I subscribe to three travel magazines:  Budget Travel, Travel Girl, and National Geographic Traveler
9. I still have the outfit that I wore when I met GR almost 16 years ago.  It’s about 25 sizes too small and hideous, but I just can’t part with it.  Okay, so now I have to show you a picture just so you know how totally 1992-Beverly-Hills-90210-ish it is.  Click here to see the monstrosity.
10. Even more embarrassing than the outfit, I once drove a mid-size station wagon.  No pictures of that.  Just a memory that I’ve tried to erase from my mind. 
11. I have moved 15 times in my life…all within the same county.  The longest that I have lived in any one place was for 7 years in the first house that GR and I bought.  We’ve been in the house we’re living in now since 2002, and I will die here, people!
12. I have an intense fear of needles, bees, dying in an airplane crash, and that I will one day regret not having more children.  The list could go on and on.  Hmm…I might just make this the topic of my next Thursday Thirteen. 
13. My aunt named me.  While pregnant with me, my mother was so sure that I was a boy and had decided to name me George Rodney.  Quit laughing.  And because of the complete and utter devastation that I caused by being a girl, my mother’s brain exploded, and she could not come up with a name for me.  I’m serious y’all!  So, my aunt named me.  And I will never forgive her (my aunt, that is).  But, here’s a random thought…GR is short for George Rodney.  Does this mean that I’m off the hook now, mother?

Happy Thursday, y’all!