A few days ago, I agreed (volunteered) to get tagged byNora with the "8 Things About Me" meme, and after thinking about it, have decided to gank her theme and go with a Mind/Body Edition.
It's actually not easy to come up with 8 things that I think nobody knows, especially given that people who read this know me from different parts of my life, and there's the lingering worry that someone from work might read it, and it's a knitting blog, so shouldn't it have something to do with yarn?
I decided that if each reader learned one more thing about me, then this would be a successful exercise. Plus also, I don't really have time to think of 8 Mind/Body secrets. I don't even think I have 8 of those.
1. (Mind) I'm a crier. If there were a Nobel Prize for crying, I could be a contender. It's not that my life is terribly sad and it's not that I have anything to cry about. There are shows I am not "allowed" to watch (anything with 'Makeover' in the title, Everwood, Baywatch (yes, Baywatch) ) because I weep. When Benji won So You Think You Can Dance last year, I was wrecked. The song Corcovado does it every time. If you say something nice to me, I have to bite the inside of my mouth. I'm also a sympathetic crier. I cry when people around me cry. I'm also a proponent of "a good cry" now and again. I do have a "There's No Crying in Mathematics" rule, however, and have stuck to it, even in the worst situations.
2. (Mind/Body) I go to the gym 5 days a week, and work out for about 90 minutes each time. I wish I could go back to running, but I don't have the time to do what I want to do (another marathon). Ironically, I am not the least bit athletically inclined. I hate team sports because I feel like I suck and then fail my teammates.
3. (Body) As a child, I was a gymnast (bet you wouldn't guess that) but quit when I was 11, at a height of about 5'6". I was too clumsy and too tall to continue. It didn't upset me. I wasn't good at anything except stretching. I am still very bendy. Properly warmed up, I can touch the floor with my whole hand and bent elbows. This has led to problems, since my tendons aren't quite as tight as they could be. I sprain my ankle a lot, and I have a metal screw in my right shoulder to hold it all together.
4. (Body) I prefer to wear heels that are about 2 inches high. I've never once thought with any seriousness that it was unnecessary, and I've always liked the noise that heels make on concrete and tile.
5. (Mind) I am very good at mathematics, when compared to the general population. That being said, I have never been able to understand a tax form, and it takes me more time than it should to add and subtract. It's often assumed that I'll be able to divvy up a bill or calculate an accurate tip. My secret? I round and estimate in favor of the server. Isn't that what everyone else does? In my defense, I claim that adding is not mathematics.
6. (Mind) My geographic sense is atrocious. I'm sure I could place all 50 states, but am not really sure where anything else is, especially once places are outside North America. I think John has drawn me a map of Israel, Jordan, and Turkey 30 times, and I know I couldn't recreate it or find it on a map. When driving, John turns opposite of the way I navigate him. More than 50% of the time, not listening to me gets us there.
7. (Mind) I have the sense of humor of a 13 year old boy. Fart jokes are always funny. Other words for poop crack me up. I can't get enough of Will Farrell movies. I am a little ashamed by this, but I come by it honestly -- we watched Blazing Saddles a lot when I was a kid.
8. (Body) I have abnormally long fingers and small feet. I wear a 9 1/2 in shoes, much like my college roommate, who was 8 inches shorter than I am. You wouldn't notice my fingers unless I demonstrated with the middle one, and I'm happy to do that if you really want to see. I promise I won't mean it.
9. (Mind/Body) I am a creature of habit. Nobody notices when I get a haircut. I have 2 cubbies of yarn in burnt orange. My summer shoes are all the same. I just got new glasses, but you probably won't notice. I have the same breakfast every day, and live on a fairly rigid schedule. I don't like it when my schedule gets messed up. I am flexible then, in body, but not so much in mind.
Wait. Wasn't this supposed to be 8 things? What's up with having 9? Truly, the reason is I got to 8, and realized I hadn't mentioned yarn. There you go. Burnt Orange Yarn. Lots of it.
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I round and estimate in favor of the server. Isn't that what everyone else does?
No, but they should.
I wear a 9 1/2 in shoes, much like my college roommate, who was 8 inches shorter than I am.
Still am...
Also, you cry at parades.
I also noticed that you neglected to mention that you cry at parades.
I did learn that you've cried at BAYWATCH. Really? Oh the Mol.
Ha ha, I'm familiar with #7 from high school. I remember you were really into SNL and Dana Carvey/Mike Myers. You used to say "when monkeys fly out of my butt..." a lot. I never watched SNL until learning about it from you.
Remember that picture of Dana Carvey in our high school gym? He was an alumnus I think...
We watched a lot of Blazing Saddles as well, and I maintain that farting is still and forever will be,terribly funny...
You know how, when you tell people you are a big crier, people often say "oh me too!"? They are wrong. Except me, I am a contender. Someday we'll have to watch crappy tv together and have a cry-off.
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