1. My favorite Bay City Roller is Les (of course). Gotta love a man in tartan. (I think my teen crush on this Scottish pop band, and Les in particular, set me up to love the Outlander series of books by Diana Gabaldon.)
That's my boy Les in the upper left corner. I had that album! Wonder where it is now?That's solid gold!
2. I am (or was--last time I played was before kid #2) a champion Boggle player but suck at Scrabble. My Boggle skills impressed one genius boyfriend so much that he married me. Meanwhile, in Scrabble, I draw all vowels and routinely score 6 points, even on double word scores. I am great at Pictionary as long as I'm partnered with my sister, with whom I share telepathic powers.
3. I had to keep a weekly journal for a high school sophomore English class. My teacher commented that my journal entries veered crazily between the deep/sublime and the superficial/frivolous. I oscillated between wanting to be a Surrealist painter/poet and trying to be a romance novelist. (Love's Tender Fury, by Jennifer Wilde, was the first of many romance novels I read, beginning at around age 13.) Hey, granted, I was 16, but I still struggle with this dichotomy within myself. I can tell you about plate tectonics but can also score 100 percent on People Magazine's Guess the Celebrity Sibling.
4. As a kid I was bitten in the stomach by a horse in a church parking lot. Three decades later my intense fear of animals taller than myself was lessened somewhat when a sweet giraffe ate out of my hand with its velvety tongue. Really not as gross as it sounds.
This was my first editorial job, in a nutshell.
6. The biggest solo adventure of my life (so far) was the two months I spent in Mexico City after college. I walked for hours alone all over the city and daydreamed about living in Frida Kahlo's house, painting in Diego Rivera's studio, etc. I had some real-life adventures while there, but most paled in comparison to my daydreaming. Yeah, I live in my head A LOT.
Frida's Garden
OK, now I have to tag six people and ask them to play along. Here are the rules:
1. Link to the person who tagged you.
2. Post the rules on your blog.
3. Write six random things about yourself.
4. Tag six people at the end of your post and link to them.
5. Let each person know they have been tagged and leave a comment on their blog.
6. Let the tagger know when your entry is up.
Exhausting, I know. Here are the six people I've tagged, but you're not compelled to play along unless you find this an interesting writing assignment:
1. onegoldensun
2. Paperelle
4. Anne
5. Marchi
6. Abbey
Have fun!
11 comments:
hi, I just wanted to say thank you for your lovely comment on my blog. i was just reading through your blog and saw the Frida Kahlo garden, it brought back so many happy memories. I was in Mexico a couple of years ago and I fell in love with both of the houses. Before visiting south america my work used very muted colours, but the wonderful use of bright colours I saw all around me inspired me to change my colour pallete, what an amazing place and thank you for reminding me of it, Ness :)
We are definitely of the same era - Just seeing that album cover cracked me up! Aaggghh, now I have that song stuck in my hand. And a horse bite to the stomach, my gosh that sounds horrifying. My cousin had a horse bite her back and actually lift her in the air. Yeeps! Intersting set of random facts Miss Zen.
Hey Patricia! I finished it!! phew. Its brief though. I should have said... 7. I like to edit.
I just dropped in from Maya's blog.... and it's great to hit on a "random things" thing - an instant introduction to the person behind the blog!
I'm loving your origami stars.... good to see a theme explored to it's full potential. I think you can keep stretching that one into all sorts of materials and manifestations!!!
I suck at Scrabble and win at Boggle, too.
I didn't think I could love you more... but I now I do!!
xo
m
p.s. boggle and a glass of wine, my place in front of the wood stove... I know you'll win... the wine might be to soften the blow:)
Oh, I would love to participate but we'll see if I can eek out any time to give this thought! It is a fun way to get to know fellow bloggers. And I love your origami stars, thank you for the inspiration. My girls have been into folding lately, too.
Oh goodness, my sister and I used to piss off our competitive male friends when we played pictionary together.
I would draw a line, she would shout out the correct answer, something like the mona lisa, and the friends would say "that's bull sh&t!" hehehe
nice to know i'm not the only one with telepathic siblings.
ooh - boggle and wine by the fire. i'll be right over :) but be prepared for some stiff competition. just kidding. i might be better at scrabble. and i love the outlander series, had a serious thing about surrealist art in high school, and got caught reading a danielle steele novel at a very young age. maybe ten or eleven.
I agree with Maya. Seems to happen a lot actually. The more I learn about you the more I like you. I can't wait to find a place and time for the three of us to get together in the new year. Maybe there would be room in front of fire for three. I could supply some wine personally imported from france :)
Thanks for all the fun comments! It seems those things that I thought were so random are really quite common to many of you! Thanks, friends!
You like living inside your head? I like living inside my head! Sometimes I have to remind myself to come out and play with others.
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