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agtkrycek
Name ten of life's simple pleasures that you like most. Try to be original and creative and not to use things that someone else has already used.
1. The smell of ozone on an overcast day.
2. A quiet home.
3. A sincere smile sent my way.
4. Genuine compliments from people I care about.
5. A blast of cool air on a hot summer's day.
6. Walking in the rain.
7. Looking out onto moving water.
8. Waking up with a smile.
9. Discovering something in thanks to prompting from a book.
10. Feeling chills run up my spine as I listen to a bit of music.
rwarner asked me to share
THE 6 WEIRD FACTS MEME
If you've been tagged, copy this paragraph and then write a blog entry with 6 weird facts/things/habits about yourself. Also say who tagged you.
1. I hate living in a cluttered home, but my room is consistently fire hazard-worthy. I get very anal about people picking up after themselves and so forth, but I find it hard as hell to make sure my room stays organized for more than three days. It's most likely one of those "mirroring of mental state" situations, but it's too early in the week for self-analysis.
2. I went around with the wrong last name for my first 18 years of life. My parents were either extremely naive or extremely forgetful; I was born out of wedlock and my mother didn't give me my father's surname and she didn't get my father's name put on my birth certificate, nor did they bother to get his name on during any of the subsequent years. They just went about using his name for me on all legal documents. It all came to a head during my college years, when I had to use my social security number for everything and documents would come back in error because of the name discrepancy because I rocked my dad's surname while the SSN was in my mom's maiden name. Oops. Officially my name at school changed sometime between freshman and sophomore year, so I had a lot of acquaintances coming up to me after roll had been called in classes to ask me if I'd gotten married. That got old fast. I've yet to work on changing over to dad's name because I find mom's maiden name to be cooler than pop's.
3. I brush my teeth and wash my face while in the shower. That's not weird so much as economical in my books.
4. I'm a packrat (borne of packrats) with a tendency to walk around with more than I need to. I don't own a purse at the moment but if I did it would be one of those massive sack-like ones. Currently I walk around with my green messenger bag, containing anything from gauze-snipping scissors to tons of CDs to, I don't know, random crap I haven't felt like throwing away. Built shoulders from all the lugging around as well.
5. I thought Boy George was a woman until I was 17. No clue, absolutely no. frakkin. clue.
6. My big crush in college got to see me half-naked and there wasn't any alcohol involved...on my part, anyway. I was walking across campus and got hit by some dude driving by on his motorcycle. Of course, said crush was working the school EMT gig that night and got to cut my shirt open to make sure there wasn't any major chest trauma. Oh, and he got to see my legs. My unshaven legs. I ended up with a broken wrist, broken right tib/fib, two surgeries, metal stuck in me, but I keep flashing back to feeling embarrassed as FUCK that the cute a capella guy had to be part of the team that picked my ass up off the asphalt. That shit's weird. Or sad.
That was hard, dang it. I think everyone on my FL's done both of these dozens of times, so I tag anyone who actually hasn't done it within the last, oh, five months.
agtkrycekName ten of life's simple pleasures that you like most. Try to be original and creative and not to use things that someone else has already used.
1. The smell of ozone on an overcast day.
2. A quiet home.
3. A sincere smile sent my way.
4. Genuine compliments from people I care about.
5. A blast of cool air on a hot summer's day.
6. Walking in the rain.
7. Looking out onto moving water.
8. Waking up with a smile.
9. Discovering something in thanks to prompting from a book.
10. Feeling chills run up my spine as I listen to a bit of music.
rwarner asked me to shareTHE 6 WEIRD FACTS MEME
If you've been tagged, copy this paragraph and then write a blog entry with 6 weird facts/things/habits about yourself. Also say who tagged you.
1. I hate living in a cluttered home, but my room is consistently fire hazard-worthy. I get very anal about people picking up after themselves and so forth, but I find it hard as hell to make sure my room stays organized for more than three days. It's most likely one of those "mirroring of mental state" situations, but it's too early in the week for self-analysis.
2. I went around with the wrong last name for my first 18 years of life. My parents were either extremely naive or extremely forgetful; I was born out of wedlock and my mother didn't give me my father's surname and she didn't get my father's name put on my birth certificate, nor did they bother to get his name on during any of the subsequent years. They just went about using his name for me on all legal documents. It all came to a head during my college years, when I had to use my social security number for everything and documents would come back in error because of the name discrepancy because I rocked my dad's surname while the SSN was in my mom's maiden name. Oops. Officially my name at school changed sometime between freshman and sophomore year, so I had a lot of acquaintances coming up to me after roll had been called in classes to ask me if I'd gotten married. That got old fast. I've yet to work on changing over to dad's name because I find mom's maiden name to be cooler than pop's.
3. I brush my teeth and wash my face while in the shower. That's not weird so much as economical in my books.
4. I'm a packrat (borne of packrats) with a tendency to walk around with more than I need to. I don't own a purse at the moment but if I did it would be one of those massive sack-like ones. Currently I walk around with my green messenger bag, containing anything from gauze-snipping scissors to tons of CDs to, I don't know, random crap I haven't felt like throwing away. Built shoulders from all the lugging around as well.
5. I thought Boy George was a woman until I was 17. No clue, absolutely no. frakkin. clue.
6. My big crush in college got to see me half-naked and there wasn't any alcohol involved...on my part, anyway. I was walking across campus and got hit by some dude driving by on his motorcycle. Of course, said crush was working the school EMT gig that night and got to cut my shirt open to make sure there wasn't any major chest trauma. Oh, and he got to see my legs. My unshaven legs. I ended up with a broken wrist, broken right tib/fib, two surgeries, metal stuck in me, but I keep flashing back to feeling embarrassed as FUCK that the cute a capella guy had to be part of the team that picked my ass up off the asphalt. That shit's weird. Or sad.
That was hard, dang it. I think everyone on my FL's done both of these dozens of times, so I tag anyone who actually hasn't done it within the last, oh, five months.
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Date: 2006-06-19 02:24 am (UTC)That commercial always frightened me.
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Date: 2006-06-19 02:25 am (UTC)