Entries for June, 2007

family togetherness

Just got back from supper out with Dad and Squirt. Which makes four of us. I stressed hard beforehand but everything went very pleasantly. Yay!

poem #54

(The poetry project strikes back!)

I wanna be a picture made of beauty
I wanna make me something that will last
Jewellery and shiny things
Poise and grace and pretty sings
Gimme something that I can hold fast

I wanna be admired by somebody
I wanna live a life that really means
Good and gracious, kindly too
Pure as something made brand-new
Shape me into something truly clean

Don't wanna go for glitzy or for glamour
Don't wanna crash and burn or fade away
Last forever, still be strong
Never yielding if it's wrong
Made me better than I am today

eight oddities

RULES: Each player of this game starts off with 8 weird things/habits/little known facts about yourself. People who get tagged need to write a blog of their own 8 weird habits/things/little known facts as well as state this rule clearly. At the end you need to choose 8 people to be tagged and list their names. No tag backs. (Tagging can go bye kthx.)

1. My ankle has an "eye" -- a nifty juxtaposition of a mole and a curved scar. Together they quite resemble a "bird's eye".

2. I wiggle my toes when I'm awake but very sleepy. I never knew this until I shared a house with kittens. Claws in toes will wake you up right quick!

3. When I was a schoolkid, I absolutely hated creative writing assignments because I never knew where to begin. I've done a 180 since then.

4. Without corrective lenses, not only can I not read a standard eye chart, I can't even see the E at the top.

5. I like toads. I think they're oddly cute.

6. Occasionally I pick a horrible television show to follow out of sheer schadenfreude. Currently it's Painkiller Jane, which is still a step up from the rather horrible TV movie version.

7. I eat white rice for breakfast more days than not. It tastes better than dry cereal and it's easy to prepare in my little rice cooker.

8. Bugs bite people, but they devour me. Many's the summer I went leopard-spotted from mosquito bites. When I say "spotted" I mean that one leg, between ankle and knee, had at least three dozen inflamed bites. That says nothing of the bites on my feet, arms, back, scalp, and even buttock -- which could only have been bitten through several layers of denim. I am bug candy.

serendipity

A few days ago, I killed some brain cells trying to do a specific stupid website trick. Turned out I couldn't do it on my current hosting plan.

But almost as soon as I figured that out, my host upgraded cPanel and now I can. Too cool.

memorabilia

My mother was just organising her garage and found something of mine: half a sewing needle, blackened, taped to a tongue depressor. It spent a month in my foot.

That was not a fun month.

A doctor removed it fourteen years ago. Exactly. How bizarre.

Hey, you have your stories, I got mine.