Now that I've discovered I've been tagged by two people (Janet and Greg), I guess I should take a stab at this survey meme-thingie. However, I'm having a devil of a time coming up with seven semi-interesting things to write about.
The Rules:
1. When tagged, place the name of the person and URL on your blog.
2. Post the rules on your blog.
3. Write 7 things about yourself.
4. Tag 7 of your favorite bloggers.
The Seven Things:
1. I'm fascinated by tiny things. (First person to make a short joke gets smacked in the kneecaps.) One of my favorite childhood books was The Borrowers, which inspired me to spend many afternoons making little dollhouse rooms from shoeboxes and castaway items I scavenged from my mom's sewing room. Secretly, I hoped a Borrower family would take up residence in one of these rooms. Recently, Kevin's cousin Sam gave me a set of miniature Beatrix Potter books, which thrilled me. Two of my favorites (books and tiny things) in one package!
2. I think I've developed Magpie Syndrome. (I'm not trendy enough to have adult ADD.) I start a task, and then get distracted far too easily by something else. You know: "Oh, something shiny!" This new tendency concerns me.
3. I resist new technology. I didn't own a microwave until 1997, when visiting friends insisted I could no longer exist without one. I still don't have an iPod and can't foresee needing one anytime in the near future. When I moved into this house and had cable hooked up, the cable guy brought a shiny converter box and a remote with enough buttons to land a 747 remotely. With these two devices, he claimed I could use that newfangled DVR technology all you kids are talking about. I tried. Honestly, I did. However, the instruction manual was less than helpful, and after two frustrating hours and generating a blue cloud of cusswords over my house, I unhooked the damn converter box, called the cable company to pick it up, and went back to my tried-and-true method of taping shows: my VCR. Hush! I hear you snickering.
4. If you're knocking at my door, and I don't know ahead of time you're coming, I'm not answering. Period. Door-to-door salespeople and proselytizers have NO chance with me.
5. I order things online partly for the convenience but mainly because getting a package in the mail makes as excited as a child. Even though I know what's in the box, I always have a moment of thinking "I wonder what's inside?" I love that feeling.
6. I'm intrigued by the notion of being organized and having a place for everything. In practice, I find it daunting and exhausting. Since moving, I've done better at organizing my stuff, but I worry I won't be able to keep up my new and improved ways. I yearn to be one of those anal-retentive types with neatly labeled boxes in my closets and an alphabetized pantry, but I lack the follow-through.
7. I get paid for my obsessive-compulsive behavior. Even when I'm not working, I'm editing in my mind: menus, store signs, pamphlets in the doctor's office, instruction manuals, etc., etc.
Good Lord, that was hard. I'm not tagging anyone because everyone I know has done this survey or been tagged by someone else. Get me: I'm a rebel!
9 comments:
Me too with #4.
I'm so with you on #5. Ebay, Etsy... I love it all b/c I get stuff in the MAIL! When I was younger, I sent my cousin a letter in the mail everyday for a straight week hoping she would do the same for me.
She never did. Sigh.
OMGZ! Lisa. Tell me you did not really give back your DVR. :| You should have followed a few simple rules: 1) Give the owner's manual to Sasha so she can spank you black and blue 2) Call SASHA who has the same DVR as you because we both have Comcast.
Lisa, you have such a habit of making simple things out to be complicated therefore psyching yourself out into thinking you can't learn. I know you can learn because the DVR is way easier than a VCR! Seriously, you should have called me. :(
Ohhhh, I loved _The Borrowers_ so much, too!!!! They made it into a movie a few years ago and I didn't want to see it because I was afraid they ruined the story. I need to get this book for DD because she is all about the chapter books now.
I'm a magpie in recovery. I just had to let it go. I miss my old nesting materials sometimes, but there are always more treasures waiting to be found.
I'm semi-Amish in my fear of technology. It feels like quite the failing anymore. I know I "should" want an iPod or the like, but I don't.
Tee shirt philosophy: "They say I have ADD, but they don't under... Oh, look! A Chicken!"
"I yearn to be one of those anal-retentive types..." Come on, Lisa, confess: What's really behind that admission is a deeply closeted crush on Adrian Monk!
I need that T-shirt!
And curses, my crush on Adrian Monk has been revealed. Seriously, isn't he endearing?
Lisa, so glad you survived the Spider of Doom. I understand that creepy-crawly feeling.
I do the 7. thing. Misspelled words just jump out at me but it is dismaying to realise the establishments do not care if you point out their missprints. When I informed the waiter at Bennigans about several spelling/grammatical errors in their menu, he looked upon me as the Freak Customer and I was afraid to drink my iced tea refill for fear I was getting the iced urine special.
Oh, and I won't respond to any invitation via email. So tacky! Whatever happened to the charming hand written kind, sent via snail mail? Surely if one has the time to entertain, they can spare a few minutes to address/write invitations. The WWW is wonderful for so many things, but INVITATIONS are not one of them.
Hmmmmm, maybe that is the reason I haven't been invited to anything lately. But that's fine with me. I am enjoying my "hermitude".
Invitations is not one of them!
Invitations are not one of them.
Guess I had better shut my pie hole when it comes to bragging about grammar, eh?
*snort*
Good to know that we still have so much in common.
J
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