I’ve been tagged by Wizzer!

THE RULES:
1. Post these rules before you give you the facts.
2. List 8 random facts about yourself.
3. At the end of your post, choose (tag) 8 people and list their names (linking to them).
4. Leave them a comment on their blog letting them know they’ve been tagged!

So here we go-eight random facts about Christine:

1. I hitchhiked across the country and back in 1998

2. Two years ago, I left a great position at a fast paced internet startup in San Diego to move to the middle of the desert in order to start my own business and take more control of my life.

3. I started writing my first book at age 10 called No One Ever Said Life Was Fair, but never finished it.

4. I’m a big-time Harry Potter fan and camped out at midnight for both the movie premier and the release of the book this month.

5. The thing I enjoy most about being a copywriter is meeting business owners and learning about all kinds of different business models.

6. My 7 year old daughter and 6 year old son are my favorite people in the world.

7. There have been 4 times in my life when I have made the choice to give away just about everything and started fresh in order to gain a new perspective on life.

8. The fourth time will happen this Friday-I’m moving and am really excited about it!

I’m tagging some of the many interesting people who comment here:
Adam
Andy Parthenopoulos
Josh Buckley
Zaki
Erin
Happy Rock
FRACAT
Adventures in Money Making

Just about every entrepreneur and small business owner that I’ve talked with has said that these entrepreneurial qualities manifested as early back as they can remember. What was your first entrepreneurial adventure?

Nate Whitehill started an online community of kids at the age of 12.  Ben Casnocha started his entrepreneurial career by selling pens and gumballs around his house as a child before becoming one of the youngest Silicon Valley CEO’s ever.

When I was 9, I found a little plastic cigar case on the ground and thought it would be a perfect container for a pencil.  With such an important pencil case, I felt I needed to do something important and started a newspaper.  With a staff of 2 other kids, we wrote stories about things like some eggs found at the local duck pond, recipes, and poems.  We got through about 4 issues before our hands were cramping from handwriting copies for all 9 of our subscribers and we petered out.

Later I found one of my mom’s Entrepreneur magazines on the table and became even more obsessed with the idea of starting businesses.  My mom fed my dream and allowed me to order a bunch of random trinkets from a company advertising in the back of the magazine after I went around school with a handmade order form collecting orders.

What about you? How did your entrepreneurial spirit manifest as a child?

There’s been a lot of controversial buzz about Google’s new street view feature and whether or not it’s an invasion of privacy. I’m not sure what I think about it, but I do know that it’s a lot of fun.

I decided to peep in on San Francisco and see what was going on the infamous Haight St. While taking a virtual walk, I found these two down near Buena Vista Park. Hey- what’s that in that dude’s hand?