Six weird things about me.
we’ve been tagged twice, so shall each do it.
THE RULES
Each player of this game starts with the ?six weird things about you? blog post. People who get tagged need to write their own six weird things post and state the rules clearly. At the end of the post tag six more people and don?t forget to leave a comment on their blog to tell them they have been tagged and tell them to read your blog.
1. I guess I don’t think I am weird at all, and what might be weird probably depends on where you know me from! I guess that I home educate does probably count as the weirdest thing. for this blog ring, that probably doesn’t count as weird at all. Certainly doesn’t seem tht weird to me though.
2. for the blogring, my job is probably the weirdest thing about me. Makes me a very atypical hippy really, and is the thing that defines me but least seems to go with the rest of the defining things, I guess. But I don’t think its weird, but possibly that I’m good at it and made the top seems weird.
3. also eminently sensible and normal is tagging and crossreferencing photos. Thus the flickr tags. Flickr is fantastic for me. I already have all the photos tagged and organised on the ‘pute, and then I get to set them as well on flickr. I can find any photo. A kind of exultant showing off of my list-making tendencies. but not at all weird.
4. Being a fat vegetarian. I keep being told you can’t be a fat vegetarian, and i’m the only one they know. I’m not sure whether being a fat vegetarian is weird, or the fact that people are so keen to be so absolutely crassly rude because of it? Oh, and I’m right with you there on the surgery. ?6000 and slimness. A factor of 5 on what I have spent on diet clubs and food, and I guess when you include gym membership I have not used, it begins to sound almost a bargain.
5. That I still consider myself to be shy. i think its more ‘cos I’m not very skilled at small talk and being, well, friendly. I’m quite boring. but saying that as a reason for being a wallflower is more, well, brutally honest, and being ‘shy’ suggests I might be oK if you give me a chance.
6. I have a degree largely comprising of evolutionary psychobiology. But I think that is cool not weird.
I don’t know, are any of those truly weird, they’re normal for me?? maybe commenters can say what is weird? the other contenders are – i have absolutely no care about clothes. I want to be warm and comfy. it annoys me about being neat for work – which I do badly. And I hate shoes. I love bare feet [but in this cold house, the slippers are fab] I only have 2 pairs of shoes – and they are open toe no heel slip ons. a work pair and a home pair both I have had for > 5 years.
SO there you go.
who to tag? is anyone left?
well
Barbara can do it in my comments box if aksimet lets her!
I have to say though, I think you are all normal
Chris’s will be so much easier… vegan, coffee drinker, hairy, trousers, hippy, teacher. There, done it for him
Ooh, ooh, coming out of lurkdom to take part, then…
1. I don?t ?do? clothes either, Helen. I?ve just looked it up (actually, that?s probably quite weird? the extent to which I track and manage our finances) and in the last 18 months (those are the records I have to hand) I?ve spent less than ?40 on clothes for myself, and that includes underwear and dry-cleaning my wedding dress. That?s ?the? dress I wear to weddings. You?ll see it in Feb
You know, thinking about it, my MIL has probably spent more on my clothes than me that in that time, what with birthday and Christmas presents. She has more dress sense than me. I guess that?s a bit odd too.
2. I?ve never experienced a time when I doubted that I would want children, or that family would be my primary interest/purpose in life. One of my biggest fears, even as a child/teenager, was of being childless. Maybe that?s not so weird. I don?t know.
3. I hate the sea-side. Specifically warm seas. Travelling down the Gold Coast, I tried to avoid the water at all costs. Typically the one time I was actually persuaded in (and only up to my calves, purely for diary purposes) I was stung by a jellyfish. I hate the sea. It hates me. Don?t have such an aversion to cold seas, but equally can?t see the attraction myself.
4. Dipping my toe in sun-drenched waters might freak me out, but I?m not at all phased by flying down the side of a mountain with two planks of wood strapped to my feet (or alternatively, taking the non-conventional route down). This is quite lucky as I prefer cold weather to hot anyway. The only sports I?ve ever excelled in have been winter sports.
5. I don?t like cream, but I do like lemon on my potatoes.
6. I don?t blog. (Or replace that with ?I home ed? for more general readership.)
I’ve really enjoyed reading all of these on other blogs, and all the cross-linking has been great for finding all those blogs I still have old bookmarks for and keep forgetting to update! Thanks, everyone
thanks barbara. and I can’t believe aksimet STILL got you! I am going to ask my sys admins to look into aksimet!!
Living dangerously there Merry! you might find only coffee on offer if you’re not careful – rofl!!
Oi Merry !
Yep, Barbara, I like snow etc. but not likley warm sea – that’s weird
Re. 4: Cake, crisps and chocolate – my 3 favourite (veggie) food groups :). Sorry to hear about other people lacking common decency, and not putting themselves in others’ shoes. (Given how many pairs you have, they don’t even need to spend a long time choosing which ones
Well, i’m safe on the hairy; Max was definitely hairier last week! (And then he shaved it odff to a comedy shape and we didn’t notice!)