I have been tagged by Claudia at Heal My Life.
Here are the rules:
People who get tagged have to blog 6 weird things about themselves and start by stating this rule clearly. (check)
After having done this, the taggee must choose and list 6 people to tag. (We'll see what I can come up with)
Then the taggee must leave a "you are tagged" message in their intended victims comments with instructions to read the taggee's blog.
Alrighty then, here goes:
1. When sewing on my sewing machine I need to kick off my shoes to use the pedal. I just can't sew with my shoes on. The same thing happens when I paint or bead. At some point in the throes of creativity the shoes come off.
2. I like John Wayne movies. Not all of them, mind you. No one ever needs to see "Jet Fighter Pilot". I especially like the movies he did with John Ford ("The Searchers" "Rio Grande" "Fort Apache" "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon") and will stop and watch them if they are on the television. I never rent these movies. I don't own any, except "The Quiet Man" of course, but I will gladly sit and watch them whenever TCM or AMC feels like airing them.
3. I bake from scratch. I make pancakes, waffles, muffins, pizza, etc. from scratch. I was at a loss for weirdness about myself after the first two so I started asking my children. Apparently baking from scratch is weird. It would seem that this tendency of mine has caused some embarassment to my oldest child. She was at a friend's house when the friend expressed a desire to make muffins but alas did not have any muffin mix and my daughter was baffled by this. She thought her friend was pulling her leg because having grown up with such a scratch baking weirdo as myself my daughter was ignorant of the existence of muffin mix. Here I was trying to be frugal and provide wholesome food for my offspring and instead I have scarred them for life. That's weird.
4. I knit while listening to Led Zeppelin. Again, this is from one of the offspring. He didn't elaborate; he was just puzzled that I would knit while listening to Led Zeppelin. It's not that I listen to Zeppelin that is weird nor is the knitting weird; it's the combination of the two. I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do while listening to Led Zeppelin that would make it not weird but knitting is evidently too perverse an activity. I was afraid to ask what he thought I should be listening to while knitting. Since I also listen to Jethro Tull, Loreena McKinnett, Solas, Bach and sometimes talk radio while knitting, and he didn't mention any of those things, it would seem that the knitting weirdness is Zeppelin specific.
5. I play bellydancing music while doing housework. Housework, even done with love, is boring, especially when you've been doing it for twenty plus years. On occasion, when the mood strikes me, I will even put on my hip wrap and dance around the house in time to the music while cleaning. My best friend, Maureen, is a bellydancing instructor so I have taken quite a few classes. I'm not ready for primetime but I'm not bad either. I only do this while I'm home alone or if one or more of the offspring has friends over and has specifically requested that, in front of these friends, I not be weird.
6. I talk to everything. This is also an offspring observation. It would seem that I talk to the cats, random spiders, dead mice, uncooperative jar lids and missing items as if they are human and likely to answer me. First off, I think this is an exaggeration. Second, and in my defense, the cat does respond when I talk to him. At some level we do communicate. Granted there will be no long discussions about the nature of life but he lets me know when his water dish is empty and he waits for the second alarm to go off in the morning before he scratches at my bedroom door for his breakfast. I don't have a good explanation for the rest of it. I don't think any of the items I talk to will answer me so I'm not so weird we need to involve the authorities. I do remember being frustrated that a mouse had managed to get caught in the trap the wrong way, move itself and the trap several feet and be found by the Pook at 7am. She was very upset and I asked the mouse "Why'd you have to go and do that? Why couldn't you just stick your head in the trap like a normal mouse?" That's the sort of talking I do with mice. I don't think it's all that weird. My daughter, however, says that she hears me talking and expects to find another person in the room but instead finds me telling spiders to stay still. After all the years she has lived with me I think it's weird that she isn't used to this by now.
I'm not really sure who I will tag. What's the blog etiquette on this? I know Claudia outside this blog but I don't personally know any other bloggers. Can I just go to the blogs I read and say "Tag! You're it!"
That would be weird.
Either they'll think you're weird and ignore you, or they'll say, "hey, someone reads my blog and tagged me for a meme! Cool!" Go for it! ;)
Posted by: Lilith Parker | February 02, 2007 at 10:55 AM