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Just when you think you know someone June 15, 2007

I’ve been tagged by multiple people, all of whom I forgot, to do the 8 things meme. It’s taken me this long to even come up with one or two interesting things, let alone 8, that aren’t boring beyond all reason or contain TMI.

1. I can’t listen to anything by the band Tool without getting seriously squicked out. Back in high school, someone in one of my classes was doing a presentation on violence in lyrics/videos, and made us watch the video for Tool’s “Prison Sex.” Given the subject of the song (sexual abuse), I was so disturbed by video that I got up and walked out of class. To this day, I can’t listen to that song or anything else by them without turning it off.

2. I have no desire to travel outside of Canada. I don’t even have a passport, and I don’t feel the need to get one. Maybe it’s just my anti-social nature, but there’s not really anything out there that I want to see badly enough to make me want to travel.

3. The children’s song “On Top of Spaghetti” (sung to the tune of “On Top of Old Smokey”) made me cry. For the love of all that’s good and holy, I couldn’t tell you why. But it did.

4. Equally odd was the fact that I found the song “Little Rabbit Foo Foo” too violent.

5. I used to be pro-life, then I was pro-choice. Now I’m somewhere in between.

6. I cannot stand to have my feet touched. It makes me tense and nervous, so getting a pedicure or a foot massage is right out of the question.

7. It doesn’t matter if my house is a sty, as long as the dishes are done and the kitchen is relatively tidy, I can live with everything else.

8. Honestly, I can’t think of anything else.

I’m not going to tag anyone else. Do it if you’d like, and let me know.

Thoughts on blogging February 25, 2007

One of the benefits of staying home sick is having a lot of time to watch TV without interruption. The downside is that occasionally you come across a video getting waaaaay too much airplay, and it gets stuck in your head. I’m looking at you, Beyoncé’s “Irreplaceable” - damn you and your “to the left, to the left” [1].

The other thing it gave me time to do was come up with five reasons why I blog.

1. Keeping in touch.
Everyone in my family participates in regular email correspondence with each other, some of us more than others. I’m somewhere in the middle as fas as consistency goes, and I like to think that my blog is a way of filling in the bits I forget to tell them in my irregular emails.

It’s also a way of keeping in touch with friends and enemies across the country and in other exotic locals.

2. It’s all about me.
I’m not so modest that I’m not going to say I don’t enjoy having a soapbox on which to stand and have my say or show off my talents and hobbies.

3. A sequence of events.
I’ve never been good at keeping a diary or any other sort of time-monitoring device because I tend to get distracted, or I forget, or something like that. Having a blog helps me to remember roughly what I was doing around this time last year.

4. Creative outlet.
When I was in high school, I loved to write, and I did it quite a bit. Then I hit university, and… not so much with the creative writing any more. It’s been like that for a few years, and having somewhere to write where it’s read.

5. I don’t have a fifth reason.
Seriously - two days lying on the couch and I couldn’t come up with a fifth reason.

Another thing I couldn’t come up with? Enough people to tag. Let’s see - J, Julie, Randal, and Mary-lynn. And anyone else who wants to do it.

[1] Which, as I’d sing along with the video, I’d inevitably point to the right. I’d blame the fever, but I’m usually that spazzy without illness.

Five things, y’all January 9, 2007

Okay, so Anna at TangonaT tagged me to tell you five things about myself, based on blog posts from last year.

1. I joined the Knitting Olympics, and competed as part of Team Canada, in the Hurry Hard Handwarmalong. And I managed to complete my project, too!

2. I turned the big 3-0, and learned an important lesson.

3. I traveled a lot. I went to Thunder Bay, Toronto, Owen Sound, and Ottawa. I also went to Red Lake, Elliot Lake, and Kirkland Lake, but didn’t write about them.

4. I got a job in North Bay, and bought a house.

5. On my fourth try, I suceeded in completing NaNoWriMo.

So that’s it. If you, you, you, you, aaaaaaaaaand… you are so inclined, you too can play along at home.