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6 Weird Things About Me

Cheryl tagged me - I guess that means it’s time to come out of hiding for a minute or two.

THE RULES: Each player of this game starts with the ‘6 weird things about you.’ People who get tagged need to write a blog of their own 6 weird things as well as state this rule clearly. In the end, you need to choose 6 people to be tagged and list their names. Don’t forget to leave a comment that says ‘you are tagged’ in their comments and tell them to read your blog.

1. I defend the fort in my sleep. Apparently, I am a master of nighttime kung-fu-ery. Seriously.
2. While we’re talking about sleep, when I’m on my tummy, I like to bend my knees so that my feet are straight up in the air. When I’m on my back, I bend my knees and cross one over the other like man-style leg crossing, you know, with my right ankle resting just above my left knee.
3. I can’t stand to handle raw meat. When we have any kind of meat for dinner, either the Mr. or a local restaurant is doing the cooking.
4. I also can’t stand smelly lotions. A few weeks ago, I was looking for gifts for my sisters-in-law and decided to try one of those bath and body shops. A sales woman came up to me and asked for my hand while I was looking at something the girls might like. Not really thinking about it, I extended my arm and presented my hand. She filled the palm of my hand with vanilla lotion (special edition just for the holidays!) and told me a big stinker of a lie: that my hands are really soft and nice (my hands are dry and flaky with my nails trimmed short enough to keep me from chewing on them). As soon as I got home, I washed my hands several times as smelling like a sugar cookie can be headache inducing.
5. I have migraines. They are stress induced and always start at the base of my neck and move to my left eye sometime around 4:00 am. Always. Not really weird, I know. I’m a very anxious person and my anxiety plays right into my migraines. I find that a prescription medication, hot shower and warm and furry shitty kitty to hold my feet down really helps to ease the pain. I’ve had fewer migraines since I started knitting almost five years ago, but I still get them every now and then and they really do take me out.
6. Even after watching Michaele and the craziness that was her VIB project, I’m thinking of starting my own … for a little girlie munchkin.

And just for fun, here’s a link to what I’m reading right now.

I totally dropped the ball earlier this month with the whole contest thing. Since I’m still running around like a crazy lady, I’m going to call the contest a bust. You’re all winners in my book. Please accept my apologies and, I promise, next time I really will follow through.

Happy winter-time festivities.

Knitting and Tagged again…

Embossed Leaves #1, you are done! Off the needles for you!

Supersock #1, you are done! Off the needles for you!

Uh. Two #2 socks? At the same time? Uh, I totally didn’t plan that one out.

Teri tagged me so I’ll play along…

List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they’re any good, but they must be songs you’re really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your blog along with your seven songs. Then tag seven other people to see what they’re listening to.

As stated by others, it’s pretty hard to pick only seven songs so I’m going for seven artists. There might, or might not, be more that one song per artist, but I’ll try my hardest to limit the number of songs to three per artist.

1. Donde estas, Yolanda? and Lilly by Pink Martini - Yolanda is so much fun! Every time I need a little pick me up, I que up this song from the album Sympathique. Lilly, from the album Hang on Little Tomato, sounds similar to Yolanda and is really fun. I love to change the lyrics from “Lilly, Lilly, Lilly, Lilly, Stay!” when I’m singing along at home to “Kally, Kally, Kally, Kally, K!” Kally just looks at me like I’m the crazy string-obsessed lady.

2. Never Know, Flake and Bubble Toes by Jack Johnson - My love for Jack started with Flake on the radio and evolved to the point where he is one of the few people I have actually seen in concert. I remeber trying to find Jack on the internet when I first heard his music, but I couldn’t remember his name and kept mixing him up with Joe Jackson! I can listen to all of his songs on all of his albums over and over.

3. The Moon and Antartica - entire album, Good News for People Who Love Bad News - entire album and Baron Von Bullshit Rides Again - entire album by Modest Mouse - I’m trying really hard to limit here. Modest Mouse, for me, is one of those bands that I absolutely love, from their old, rough-around-the-edges, released on their own label music to the slicker stuff they have put out with Sony. Right now, Good News for People Who Love Bad News has been playing in my car for the past month, non stop. I am so enamoured with Modest Mouse that I went to one of their live shows last year. Holy shit. TWO drummers drumming AT THE SAME TIME and NOT MISSING A BEAT. TWO! A banjo. A double bass. A couple of gituars, accoustic and elecric. Horns. A big-ass piano. And a totally incoherent when speaking but not when singing Issac. Bliss! One of my favoite Modest Mouse lyrics: I do not need you to tell me that I am not a cat! LOVE IT.

4. Be Yourself and Doesn’t Remind Me by Audioslave - Soundgarden was one of those bands that blew me away when they hit the scene. Same with Rage Agasint the Machine. When both bands went their seperate ways, then Chris Cornell joined forces the band from Rage, and it was musical genius - the best of both groups. (a little side note - the last album Johnny Cash released contained a cover of Soundgarden’s Rusty Cage - it is so awesome to her the Man in Black’s take on a song that I have loved since I was a youngin’)

5. Brothers & Sisters and Crazy Beat by Blur - both songs are on Think Tank, another album I can listen to over and over. Crazy Beat is so funky and perfect for both surfing the internet and figuring out how I want this site to look.

6. Feel Good Inc. by Gorillaz - this song makes my smile. I don’t own a copy of it - which is surprizing since I have really liked everything the Gorillaz have put out - but I always crank the volume when I come across this song. Because I don’t know the lyrics when the little rap part starts, I sing “Don’t stop, Shitty Kitty!” followed by best attempts at beat keeping noises.

7. Que Onda Guero and E Pro by Beck Beck, how I’ve loved you back in the day. Then came Sea Change. Sure, it’s a great album, but what happened to the Beck from Odelay? You know, the one who changed music for me? It looks like he’s back. “Have you seen the vegtable man in the vegtable van? ” Maw!

And the honorable mentions goes to Only by Nine Inch Nails and Love You Madly by Cake.

All of the above, with the exception of Feel Good Inc. are on Pinky’s Brain. Internets, I would like to introduce you to Pinky…

and the Brain…

I made Pinky last year, when I the Brain came to live with us.

Holy long post, Batman.

Tagged…

4 Jobs You Have Had in Your Life

Legal Assistant/Secretary
Student (I’m counting it because I’ve been a student for 6 years now)
Sales Associate at Old Navy and GAP
PRN Receptionist/File Clerk

4 Movies You Could Watch Over and Over

Fight Club
The Mexican
Die Hard 1 & 3
Batman Begins

4 Places You Have Lived

As a next-door neighbor to a field of cows (the bulls were kept far, far away) in Kaysville, Utah
2 months with my grandparents in Farmington, Utah
In the middle of suburban Sandy, Utah
My current home in Salt Lake City, Utah

Pretty damn boring, wouldn’t you say? I’d like to try another state, for the sake of trying something different, but now’s not the time and I’m not sure when would be a good time for relocating. Besides, Utah is pretty fucking beautiful.

4 TV Shows You Love to Watch

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
Good Eats
The Law & Order spin-offs on USA — perfect for knitting
Grey’s Anatomy (Hello Dr. McDreamy!)

4 Places You Have Been on Vacation

California
Oregon
Wyoming
Arizona

4 Websites You Visit Daily

Sage -– to see whose blogs have updated since I last checked
thesuperficial.com (or defamer.com depending on what type of gossip I want to read)
eonline.com -– I love Fashion Police and The Awful Truth
gmail

*a note on items two and three: the Mr. doesn’t understand why I love to read that shit, but there is something about the snarky writing and pure, simple gossip that I love.

4 of Your Favorite Foods

Bean Burritos
Salsa/Guacamole
Chocolate
Peanut Butter

4 Places You Would Rather Be Right Now

At home
At the library
Searching for unique fabrics (right now, I’m looking for something with a hint of orange )
On a date with the Mr.

4 Bloggers You Are Tagging

Anyone out there that wants it.