Thirteen Tidbits About Me

1. I was always a control freak. As a kid, I used to get “rather upset” if I could not be “the most powerful/fastest/kickass” pony [yes, we played My Little Ponies] on the playground. I have not changed all that much. *laugh*
2. My first memory of my best friend isn’t of her at all. Rather, it’s of her little sister begging me on the playground not to ‘be mean’ to her big sister, A. I was baffled, since, while I was a control freak, I was not near mean, powerful, fast, or kickass enough to /actually/ kick other kids off the swings, even if I was in third grade.
3. I used to believe that I wanted to live in this little town forever, since I loved it so. Then, as a teenager, I hated it like my grandmother hates snakes, and wanted nothing more to leave. This lasted, actually, well into my early twenties. Then I moved back anyway, and found that while I still want to leave, it’s not so bad as all that.
4. I am a freak of nature. Read: virgin at nearly 25. This not really bother me [too much], but I’m starting to feel like an old biddy. Certain friends (A…) think I /am/ an old biddy. Not just because of the virginal chasteness, but because I actually act like one, too. Knitting, baking bread, buying appliances…
5. Actually, the words she used was “has no life”. This, she tells to my coworkers! As if they couldn’t tell. You don’t work the night shift and have a life anyway.
6. I have found the coolest song ever. It’s called Baba Yetu, and it’s this sweet tribal African Swahili music or something. Incredibly catchy. The fascinating thing is that the lyrics are actually a songful rendition of the Our Father prayer, and it is a great piece of music.
7. Speaking of Christian music, I still have a large collection from my teenage “listen to only pure, chaste, Christian stuff” phase, and surprsingly, I still like a lot of it. Spiritual music is spiritual music, and even if the names and faces and words don’t match my current ideology, there’s something incredibly reverent about some of it. And other songs are just plain fun.
8. On the other side of the coin, there are some really catchy raunchy rap songs that I can’t help but love to sing dirty with. Their ideologies aren’t mine, either (trashing women? Puh-leez, go back to your caves, you jackasses!) But what can I say, I’m a dual-faced tiger, and sometimes those beats are just sexy.
9. I do not shave my legs in the winter, except on occasion, like at Christmastime, when I might be doing something in some sort of outfit that requires it. I think I got this habit from the hippies at Evergreen State College.
10. I will probably be moving this fall to go back to college, though it’s not set in stone. I’ve been wanting this for two years, and yet… a part of me hopes it’ll all fall through and I’ll be “stuck” here for another year. I hate school. I hate apartment life. I don’t want to move again, for god’s sakes, I just moved last September! I want to have a garden, and I can’t if I’m gonna leave before I could get around to harvesting it. [Well, I could, and I will, but it won’t have most of the things I want to grow in it.]
11. I am secretly desperately afraid I’ll fail if I do go back to college, even though I know I am friggin smart and completely ABLE to do the work, it’s just that I am also friggin self sabotage master.
12. I have been wondering lately: what is WITH all the new ten trillion flavors of doritos? They’re all, like, the same. Spicy, Spicy, and More Spicy.
13. I have started a knitting project that has not gone belly up! It’s the Misty Garden scarf, from Scarf Style, though I got it out of Interweave’s Holiday Knitting magazine, not the book. And I’m not doing it in the same yarn, or even anything remotely close, but instead, I’m doing it in Elsebeth Lavold’s Silky Tweed, in a pretty pretty sage green. Very soft and cottony and silky and lovely. Maybe it’ll be a present for someone!

8 Comments »

1. I don’t know how to knit…but I wish I did! :)

   Great list.

   Happy TT

   Comment by Crazy Working Mom — January 17, 2007 @ 8:48 pm

2. Great list. It was very honest. I hope all your dreams come true….

   Comment by amy — January 17, 2007 @ 9:13 pm

3. Great list.

   My 13 are up.

   Comment by John — January 17, 2007 @ 9:51 pm

4. Good luck with your decision on going back to college. I hate school too, so I don’t think that will ever be an option I want to take.

   And good luck with your knitting project! I would love to learn to knit or crochet.

   Comment by my 2 cents — January 17, 2007 @ 11:01 pm

5. Great list. Stick to what you believe in and be true to you!

   Comment by celfyddydau — January 18, 2007 @ 4:40 am

6. Thanks for sharing this. Happy T13

   Comment by incog — January 18, 2007 @ 5:30 am

7. You would most likely do very well in school. You are a bit older now and have some life experience. That makes a huge difference.

   Comment by Missy — January 18, 2007 @ 10:57 am

8. #11 — I am so with you! I have every intention of going back to college in the fall. This may sound arrogant, but I know I’m just as smart, if not smarter than the people I’ll be attending with, but I’m terrified I’ll fail. Sorta the control freak thing — If I can’t get an ‘A’ I don’t wanna play. I’ll just take my ball and go home!

   BTW, there are actually two Montana Bloggers Blogrolls. David at Big Sky Blog maintains a list of updated blogs, and while I need to clean out the 404’s, I maintain a list of all known Montana blogs even if they’re not updated (excluding the half-million myspace and LJ blogs). And you have most certainly been added! :D

   Comment by Courtney — January 20, 2007 @ 8:39 pm

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