Weird things meme...
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hrymfaxeI was tagged by dawn_felagundto do a meme listing ten weird (and therefore likely to be embarrassing) things about myself.... Thank you very much Dawn! :D
These be the rules:
Each player of this game starts off with ten weird things or habits or little known facts aboutyourself himself or herself. People who get tagged must write in a blog of their own ten weird things or habits or little known facts about themselves, as well as these directions. At the end you they must choose six people to be tagged and list their names. No tagbacks!
Phew, done... And I tag
rhapsody11
binkaslibrary
sirielle
mrstater
gilpin25
noliel
Of course I am not forcing anyone, if for no other reason than it is a bit hard to do over the internet! :)
dawn_felagundto do a meme listing ten weird (and therefore likely to be embarrassing) things about myself.... Thank you very much Dawn! :DThese be the rules:
Each player of this game starts off with ten weird things or habits or little known facts about
1: When I was little, before my sister was born, I had an invisible friend.. I think it was a girl, though I honestly don't remember. My invisible friend was always with me, and I demanded (loudly if necessary) that she join in everything I did! My poor mother had to feign lifting her into the carriage with me when we went shopping, and I would sit as far to the side as possible to make room for her. The same thing would happen when I was on the swing, but for some reason my invisible friend didn't weigh very much, and I would swing alarmingly from side to side instead of up and down, because I wasn't sitting in the middle.. My invisible friend wansihed at some point, and you would think it was just the normal course of growing up and realising that invisible friends do not exist.. And so it would be, if it wasn't for those muses that live in my house now.. No one else is commenting on the sudden presence of two full grown men, so I must assume that they are indeed invisible friends! And I'm back to where I was when I was two.. hmmm..
2: The bane of my concentration is a strange tendency to notice unpleasant things (like seeing that coffee beans in a grinder actually looked like smal beetles as they rattled around among each other), and then being completely unable to stop seeing them.. The only thing that helps in this regard is to point it out to someone else, so at the very least I'm not alone in my misery! This is not a trait that is much appreciated by my friends...
3: Before moving to the city I was a reasonably mild-mannered traffic person.. This has changed quite dramatically since. Copenhagen is a small city and I bike everywhere. Now the thing is, everybody bikes in Copenhagen, I think even the Queen probably bikes (though likely not in Copenhagen at rush hour). Yet somehow people seem to leave their heads at home - pedestrians will spontaneously cross the street without looking, bikers have come to the conclusion that trafficlights are only for the cars, and the cars... Don't get me started.. This morning I was planning a long and ranty lj-entry about this, but this tag made me change my mind; I just couldn't help myself putting in a little of it! Anyway the weird fact about me in all of this is that through prolonged subjection to this traffic environment I seem to descend to an animalistic level when biking. If somebody annoys me, as in overtaking someone else without looking to see that I have to block my brakes, I will growl. I will flash my teeth as some strange hairless lion and growl... I am not proud of this, but I can't seem to help it.
4: I hum when I'm eating something particularly good.. And when I was very little I always wanted everybody else's food, even if it was exactly the same as mine. A song about this has been written and recorded so this is a historic and provable fact!
5: I have a small light brown spot just below my right knee. This is obviously not weird - what is weird however it that almost in rhythm with my monthly cycle it will change colour and at the most extreme will be almost purple! It scared the life out of me the first time I saw this, but the doctors swear it is nothing dangerous... not dangerous perhaps but very very weird!
6: Of the things that can really annoy me, loud noises are by far the worst.. They make me grind my teeth, inhale deeply, stiffen my back and clench my hands.. (Therefore I have a very cautious approach to babies - they are fine as long as they are quiet, but I'm always aware of the escape routes, if the crying should begin..)
7: At one point I started doing intensive training in front of the mirror to be able to move all facial muscles independently of each other! (am still working on moving eyes in opposite directions - I am good at going cross-eyed, but everything else is so far beyond me)
8: I am obsessive to a sick degree about turning of water and electricity when it isn't used.
9: I am able to think of absolutely nothing, just letting every thought seep through my mind without holding on to it or even recognizing it.. I have a feeling being in this state makes me look thoughtful (though I am the complete opposite) because every one keeps asking me what I am thinking of, and will not believe me when I say nothing..
10: I really like grammar! French grammar to be precise.. Enough said, I think..
2: The bane of my concentration is a strange tendency to notice unpleasant things (like seeing that coffee beans in a grinder actually looked like smal beetles as they rattled around among each other), and then being completely unable to stop seeing them.. The only thing that helps in this regard is to point it out to someone else, so at the very least I'm not alone in my misery! This is not a trait that is much appreciated by my friends...
3: Before moving to the city I was a reasonably mild-mannered traffic person.. This has changed quite dramatically since. Copenhagen is a small city and I bike everywhere. Now the thing is, everybody bikes in Copenhagen, I think even the Queen probably bikes (though likely not in Copenhagen at rush hour). Yet somehow people seem to leave their heads at home - pedestrians will spontaneously cross the street without looking, bikers have come to the conclusion that trafficlights are only for the cars, and the cars... Don't get me started.. This morning I was planning a long and ranty lj-entry about this, but this tag made me change my mind; I just couldn't help myself putting in a little of it! Anyway the weird fact about me in all of this is that through prolonged subjection to this traffic environment I seem to descend to an animalistic level when biking. If somebody annoys me, as in overtaking someone else without looking to see that I have to block my brakes, I will growl. I will flash my teeth as some strange hairless lion and growl... I am not proud of this, but I can't seem to help it.
4: I hum when I'm eating something particularly good.. And when I was very little I always wanted everybody else's food, even if it was exactly the same as mine. A song about this has been written and recorded so this is a historic and provable fact!
5: I have a small light brown spot just below my right knee. This is obviously not weird - what is weird however it that almost in rhythm with my monthly cycle it will change colour and at the most extreme will be almost purple! It scared the life out of me the first time I saw this, but the doctors swear it is nothing dangerous... not dangerous perhaps but very very weird!
6: Of the things that can really annoy me, loud noises are by far the worst.. They make me grind my teeth, inhale deeply, stiffen my back and clench my hands.. (Therefore I have a very cautious approach to babies - they are fine as long as they are quiet, but I'm always aware of the escape routes, if the crying should begin..)
7: At one point I started doing intensive training in front of the mirror to be able to move all facial muscles independently of each other! (am still working on moving eyes in opposite directions - I am good at going cross-eyed, but everything else is so far beyond me)
8: I am obsessive to a sick degree about turning of water and electricity when it isn't used.
9: I am able to think of absolutely nothing, just letting every thought seep through my mind without holding on to it or even recognizing it.. I have a feeling being in this state makes me look thoughtful (though I am the complete opposite) because every one keeps asking me what I am thinking of, and will not believe me when I say nothing..
10: I really like grammar! French grammar to be precise.. Enough said, I think..
Phew, done... And I tag
rhapsody11binkaslibrarysiriellemrstatergilpin25nolielOf course I am not forcing anyone, if for no other reason than it is a bit hard to do over the internet! :)
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Date: 2007-08-03 08:24 pm (UTC)2. I do that too! I'll say to Bobby, "That looks like _____ ..." He blames it on me being a writer. "There you go behaving like a writer again!"
3. I am not an aggressive driver, but I am mean when people behave rudely. (Actually, I can't tolerate rudeness period, in RL, online, or in the car, but anyway.) Though driving in the Washington, DC area--which is the #3 worst city in the US for aggressive driving (yay)--one learns quickly how to find the horn without looking with one hand while flipping the middle finger with the other.
I would love to ride a bike around, but I'm too scared of the car drivers ...
4. A single note or a little melody? :^D
5. Okay, that is weird! ;)
6. I avoid babies for this reason and others. The worst is when Bobby and I will try to enjoy a dinner at a restaurant, and there is a screaming brat at the next table. It gets to where I can't think or concentrate, I just. hear. that. bleeding. SOUND!!!
*ahem*
8^)
Feanorian #7. That is really cool. I can't even cross my eyes. I just look down.
My thumbs bend 90 degrees in either direction at the top joint though. :^D
8. Me too. When Bobby and I first moved together, this drove me nuts about him. He'd always leave lights on or things running. He's since become almost as radical an environmentalist as I am, so he's gotten much better.
9. My problem: I can't stop thinking! Though I go into "dissociation" sometimes and become oblivious to the rest of the world. Apparently, I look pretty silly doing this too. :^P
10. I love English grammar. I don't know Spanish (my second language) well enough to love Spanish grammar. Yet. But I'll read my Little, Brown Handbook for fun sometimes.
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Date: 2007-08-03 09:18 pm (UTC)#4: usually a little melody - whatever song is lurking closest to the surface really..
#7: My joints are hypermobile (is that an English word? Am too lazy to look it up)But 90 degrees backwards with the thumb is beyond me! :)
And may I introduce my invisible friends: Caranthir (but I think you knew that.. :D) and Mablung who moved in earlier this week, after I reread the Silm! :)
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Date: 2007-08-04 10:40 am (UTC)I visited Copenhagen with my parents when I was about ten or eleven (so a fair few years ago, sadly) and we loved it. But I do remember there were people on bikes everywhere, and I also remember us sat on this coach having a tour round and following seemingly hundreds of cyclists as they overtook us, whizzed round us, slowed to a crawl in front of us... It was like the Tour de France!
I'm not sure if I can do this meme. Ten weird things from me ... I already have enough of a reputation to live down, lol.
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Date: 2007-08-04 03:22 pm (UTC)You have been to Copenhagen, yay! So you know what I'm talking about - it is indeed like participating in a Tour de France just biking to work.. And it doesn't help that I pretend to compete with the others as I go.. ;)
Lol, no pressure! Perhaps you could do a compilation, and point to the entries you have already done, if you don't want to add to the list! (No wait that doesn't really help, does it?)
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Date: 2007-08-05 09:43 am (UTC)1. I love whiskey. To pieces.
2. According to my mom, the very first song I sung (and I was two at that time) was ABBA's "Dancing Queen". In English (or should I say, "Ponglish", lol). Strange, but now I for the life of me can't sing. If I dared, I would've sounded like a screeching Nazgul probably.
3. I've always had a thing for archers, since I was 6 and read "The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood" by Howard Pyle. I even married an archer. I kid you not ;)
4. I have no TV-set.
5. I've always had a thing for men much older than me. If I had a choice I would rather date Viggo Mortensen than Orlando Bloom, just because Viggo is older. Funny, I married a guy who is younger than me.
6. I hate shopping. I'm not talking about going to a nearby grocery store, but about running around a large shopping center. Bleh, the very thought of it sickens me to the point of puking my guts out.
7. Allergic to the venom of wasps, hornets and bees. One of those buzzing monsters could kill me.
8. I live with my hubby, my cat and my two elves. Go figure!
9. I hate ironing. To pieces.
10. I like spiders.
I hope you don't mind posting my answers here, not in a separate entry. :)
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Date: 2007-08-05 11:04 am (UTC)Whiskey eh? Maybe you are the one who ought to go to Scotland! I really don't like whiskey... But I will go to distilleries none the less.
Ponglish, hihi, I did it in Danglish - not much better I assume.
And archers are the best! Is your husband really an archer? Does he compete?
No tv... Hmm I would survive I guess but I'd rather not try it out.
And older men are great! (though perhaps having a thing for millenia-old beings is taking things to the extreme! :D)
I looooove shopping - especially if I can bring my sister, who can spot wonderful clothes a kilometer away!
I hate ironing too! And I dislike wasps and spiders. Actually anything that has more than 4 legs (except ladybugs) creeps me out! (and now I'm in the countryside, where I'm sure to encounter loads of these abominable things!) :)
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Date: 2007-08-05 07:12 pm (UTC)The archer is my hubby's sign of the zodiac. :)
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Date: 2007-08-05 07:20 pm (UTC)