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edenfallingToday I am 25 years old. *cannot decide whether to bounce or groan*
Also, last night, in a fit of 'I must get this done before I turn 50, for god's sake!' I finished the rough draft of "Secrets" chapter 11. It sucks like a sucking thing, but it is done, and I will do the rough edits tonight. Only 3 more chapters and a epilogue after this... do you think I can get it done by May/June?
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Yeah, I thought not.
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Each player of this game starts off with 10 weird things/habits/little known facts about yourself. People who get tagged need to write a blog of their own 10 weird habits/things/little known facts as well as state this rule clearly. At the end you need to choose 10 people to be tagged and list their names. No tag backs.
Tagging is dumb, and besides, I think I've seen this one go around two or three times already. Still...
1. I have a potentially life-threatening allergy to raw fruit (except citrus and bananas). However, it's easy to get around; I just don't eat fruit unless it's cooked.
2. I collect paperclips, the 1 gram, 1 inch type. They must be 'found' paperclips rather than purchased specifically for my collection. I currently have 484 strung in chains of 10 from several key rings.
3. I first alphabetized my book collection when I was 7 years old.
4. I never had a monster in my closet. Instead, the Wicked Witch of the West lived under my bed.
5. I hate almonds, but I love almond flavoring and marzipan.
6. Conversely, I love oranges but I hate orange juice.
7. When I was a kid, my sister, two of our neighbors, and I played a game in which we were fictional characters in a magical kingdom. Our magical names were made by reversing our first names and using the opposite of our last names: for example, my neighbor Colin Fuller became Niloc Emptier, a slightly incompetent wizard. Vicky and I were the Far sisters. We never did figure out an opposite for 'Jones,' though.
8. I have a small scar on my forehead from slipping on wrapping paper and getting stiches when I was 10 months old.
9. I spent a couple years of my childhood utterly terrified of my neighbor's German shepherd, Panzer. Then we got Gigi (our dog, a black lab/beagle mix) and Panzer fell in love with her; it was hard to take him seriously after that.
10. When I was in preschool, a group of girls decided they wanted to play She-Ra. For some reason, nobody wanted to be She-Ra herself, and everyone immediately claimed various other characters. I never watched any TV other than PBS until I was 10 years old, so I had no idea what they were talking about. Because I couldn't call dibs on a minor character, I was shoehorned into the role of She-Ra by default. I was convinced I was being made fun of, so when they told me I had to raise my hands and say "By the power of Grayskull" or something like that, I refused.
They told me a meteor had crashed into the castle. I said, "Look, I have a hammer and I'm fixing it!" They said an army was attacking. I said, "We have a cannon, and I'll shoot them all." This went on for a few minutes, the others getting more frustrated and me getting more upset, before they decided I was stupid and went off to play something else.
Also, last night, in a fit of 'I must get this done before I turn 50, for god's sake!' I finished the rough draft of "Secrets" chapter 11. It sucks like a sucking thing, but it is done, and I will do the rough edits tonight. Only 3 more chapters and a epilogue after this... do you think I can get it done by May/June?
...
Yeah, I thought not.
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Each player of this game starts off with 10 weird things/habits/little known facts about yourself. People who get tagged need to write a blog of their own 10 weird habits/things/little known facts as well as state this rule clearly. At the end you need to choose 10 people to be tagged and list their names. No tag backs.
Tagging is dumb, and besides, I think I've seen this one go around two or three times already. Still...
1. I have a potentially life-threatening allergy to raw fruit (except citrus and bananas). However, it's easy to get around; I just don't eat fruit unless it's cooked.
2. I collect paperclips, the 1 gram, 1 inch type. They must be 'found' paperclips rather than purchased specifically for my collection. I currently have 484 strung in chains of 10 from several key rings.
3. I first alphabetized my book collection when I was 7 years old.
4. I never had a monster in my closet. Instead, the Wicked Witch of the West lived under my bed.
5. I hate almonds, but I love almond flavoring and marzipan.
6. Conversely, I love oranges but I hate orange juice.
7. When I was a kid, my sister, two of our neighbors, and I played a game in which we were fictional characters in a magical kingdom. Our magical names were made by reversing our first names and using the opposite of our last names: for example, my neighbor Colin Fuller became Niloc Emptier, a slightly incompetent wizard. Vicky and I were the Far sisters. We never did figure out an opposite for 'Jones,' though.
8. I have a small scar on my forehead from slipping on wrapping paper and getting stiches when I was 10 months old.
9. I spent a couple years of my childhood utterly terrified of my neighbor's German shepherd, Panzer. Then we got Gigi (our dog, a black lab/beagle mix) and Panzer fell in love with her; it was hard to take him seriously after that.
10. When I was in preschool, a group of girls decided they wanted to play She-Ra. For some reason, nobody wanted to be She-Ra herself, and everyone immediately claimed various other characters. I never watched any TV other than PBS until I was 10 years old, so I had no idea what they were talking about. Because I couldn't call dibs on a minor character, I was shoehorned into the role of She-Ra by default. I was convinced I was being made fun of, so when they told me I had to raise my hands and say "By the power of Grayskull" or something like that, I refused.
They told me a meteor had crashed into the castle. I said, "Look, I have a hammer and I'm fixing it!" They said an army was attacking. I said, "We have a cannon, and I'll shoot them all." This went on for a few minutes, the others getting more frustrated and me getting more upset, before they decided I was stupid and went off to play something else.
