Tagged. Apparently. Whatever That Is.

So I've been tagged. Umm...I guess. I still don't really get the "tagging" thing, but I can play along and pretend I do. So thanks Jodster for initiating me!
So I guess I have to do 7 random things about me...I'm not so good at thinking of stuff as Jodster is, but I'll try...
1. I don't touch dogs. I have this weird abhorance of having smelly hands, which dates back to my mission when EVERYONE had a dog and some of them were really cute and all of them were really dirty and if I petted one while I was out, I never knew when I'd have a chance to wash my hands. And then I'd keep smelling my hands and thinking, "Ew! My hands are so smelly!" Since I'm not a dog fan anyway, I don't find it hard to resist touching them. Sorry, owners of clean dogs. You are as rare a breed as a New Guinea Singing Dog. (Yes, I looked that up...)
2. I have officially walked away from Sims 2. I was addicted for a long time, and I finally got the strength to say "no more." And now they are peddling Sims 3 and I refuse to buy it. I can't put my life in the control of those little fake computer devils again!
3. I have very strong opinons about what people name their children. I think it's because I'm a teacher. I'm sorry, but I'm sick of Tylers. Stop naming your kid that. Get an imagination.
4. I have a finished novel that I would love to publish but have no idea where to start and am all too aware of how hard it is to publish anything when you are a first time writer--especially when you have no real intention of ever writing anything ever again. But a lot of my friends have read it and loved it, so I guess it's a pretty good book.
5. My biggest pet peave as a teacher (even worse than women who name their children Tyler) is parents who take their kids on two-week vacations in the middle of the school year. Drives me NUTS. I don't care how good the reason is or how much the kid learned from it--I STILL have to find a way to help that kid make it up, and as my subject is not a "worksheet" subject but a "hands-on in-class" subject, this really sucks. Keep 'em in school!
6. I love processed sliced cheese. I eat it straight from the wrapper. It's a snack for me. It's better than cookies. I find people have one of two reactions to this fact: 1) EWW! I hate that stuff! and 2) *sheepishly* "I do that too!"
7. I still draw in church. Always an artist, I've drawn in church ever since I was a kid (always putting it away during sacrament of course--my mother didn't raise me in a BARN you know...) but to this day I draw in church, put it away for the sacrament, and bring it back out again. I'm not like this kid I knew in college who brought his whole stinkin' art pad to church, I just have a little pad of paper where I doodle out pictures and often given them to various little girls around me. Trevor doodles too, and we like to draw pictures together, or he draws little cartoons about people we know that makes me giggle. All in good fun of course. Thank goodness he puts up with it, because I ain't changin'!