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Tagged June 13, 2007

Posted by carpebanana in : Ramblings , 3comments

My friend MJ has tagged me for the “7 Random Things about Me” meme.  “The rules are easy, all you have to do is write 7 random facts or habits about yourself in your blog. Then choose and list 7 people and leave them a “tag” letting them know to come by and read your blog, and see why.”

So, with no further ado:

1. I love Hello Kitty, because she has no mouth.

cheerful and quiet

2. I do almost all my clothes shopping at the Goodwill, on half price day. It is my favorite store.

3. Miss Language assures me I have really weird dreams. Maybe that is because I just told her about a call she got from one of her friends’ dads who said his son (Jay) is eating over $30 worth of cereal a week and he thinks that is too much and wants to limit him to no more than $10 a week and what would she suggest. She looked at me blankly (she just got up herself) until about “he wants to limit him” and then interrupted me to say, “you have really weird dreams.”

over $10

4. I have a lot of trouble spelling “weird.” I know it is weird in breaking the /i/ before /e/ rule. Miss Language thinks I should consider the old “wyrd” spelling.

5. I store extra brain cells in Miss Language’s brain. Can you tell?

nicely organized cells

6. I have somewhat eclectic taste in music. If I ever get me an MP3 it will probably implode if I put it on random play. Tibetan Bells; Genesis “I Know What I Like” (favorite line: “Me? I’m just the lawn mower. You can tell me by the way I walk”); Derek Webb’s “Crooked Deep Down” (what a great restatement of the doctrine of Total Depravity and you gotta love the way Mr Music resings it as “”Everyone is Cricket Deep Down”) ; Bella Fleck picking “Moto Perpetuo” really fast as said by the Pirate King in Pirates of the Penzance;  Psalms sung in parts in corporate worship without accompaniment; Gregorian chants; Newsboys lyrics (can’t beat the lyrics on “Breakfast in Hell”… “the day he bought those pine pajamas” or “When We Don’t Get What We Deserve”… “Doctor’s comin’/ Lookin’ grim/ Do you have a/ Favorite hymn?”

7. I like regularizing words. Why on earth don’t we ask for “kleeneses” when we need more than one kleenex?

a box of kleeneses

8. I can’t count.

9. I always disagree with whatever is being said. Except if I agree with it with every fiber of my being. (That second sentence is really me disagreeing with myself in the first.)

good thing I don't have 2 heads. Of course it would have benefits.

10. I have a son (Mr Music) who wants to know if he has $10 (maybe he wants to buy Jay some cereal. I didn’t ask). He is holding a sword to Miss Language as he asks her. Now, because I am a slow typist, things have progressed to the point that there is a sword fight behind me in the kitchen.

11. I like typing random things better than fixing breakfast. But, as Frederic says, “Duty calls. I *am* the slave of Duty.”

slave of duty

Tags will be OPCkid, Cellomom, Anne, and I will come back and add anyone else I can think of who has not already been infected er, um, blessed, yeah, that’s it, with this particular tag.