June 19, 2007
8 things about me
The ground rules: Each player lists 8 facts/habits about themselves. The rules of the game are posted at the beginning before those facts/habits are listed. At the end of the post, the player then tags 8 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know that they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog.
Well, Janelle said I should mention things that aren’t widely known. Of course, the trick is to find not-widely-known things that I’m gonna post on a blog…
1. I rarely talk in any great detail about my personal life, so the things I post here are most likely going to be things that some of you know. But I also talk about different things in different groups, so some of it may be new.
2. I like crafts, especially embroidery stuff and origami; my latest thing is temari. I like them because they help me relax and I can let my mind wander while I do them. People are surprised when they hear about it, for some reason. Perhaps because the extent of my tailoring is to sew a button on a pair of pants.
3. I have way too many screen-names and such, and I am on way too many forums and groups. Until this blog, the twain never did meet (how’s that for maiming an expression?), and before I started it I put some serious thought into whether I wanted them to. Some of them still haven’t met.
4. My grandfather died of Alzheimer’s, and I’m very grateful that he didn’t linger for years the way some do.
5. I enjoy my work, though sometimes I hate my job. I suppose that isn’t unusual. It bothers me when people assume that the reason I’m writing is because I want to make enough money to quit my other work, because I probably wouldn’t do it even if I did.
6. If I don’t like the punch-line or note inside a birthday card, I’ll cross it out and write in my own.
7. I met my husband in high school. In all, we dated over 9 years before we got married, with one brief break-up; we lived in different states while we were in college, and then in different cities. The long dating time bothered his mother more than it bothered us.
8. I am opinionated and usually blunt. Sometimes people interpret this as an insult. It isn’t. In fact, I don’t understand people who expect everyone else to share their opinions.
And #9, for good measure: the “tag” thing makes me think of chain letters, which I don’t pass on on principle even if I’d have passed it on if it hadn’t told me to (#10: I’m not good at blindly following orders). So, those of you who see this, feel free to do it yourself. I’d love to read it. But I’m not going to do the tagging thing.
April 17, 2007
Yet Another Blog
My intent is to post here fairly regularly, but we’ll see if that works out. Something focussed is more likely to get updated, so I’ll talk about books and stories, and will probably yammer about my own writing too much.
I’ll post reviews of books I read, some from a writer’s standpoint and some not. My reviews for myself always have spoilers (but then, so do the reviews on Amazon. I hate that) but if mine do here, I’ll be sure to mark them as such.
