#792: You Are Awesome Because...
Friday, August 24, 2007
The Palinode and I are off to a wedding and will not be much with the internet this weekend, but before I zip around to pack last minute items, I have a request. I want you all to show yourselves off. I want you to drop all pretense of humility and flaunt yourselves.In the comments, please leave a link to your website and list five reasons why you are worth your salt. Here, I'll start.
I am awesome because:
- I take nice photographs that rarely involve my butt.
- I'm not so bad at the funny.
- I have really nice feet.
- I am mostly honest most of the time.
- I apologized to my little brother for the years of torture I put him through.
Now you go.
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33 comments:
I am awesome because:
1. I know where some chocolate is hidden. 2. I keep cash on hand in case you need bail. 3. If we are on a road trip, I can drive it hard and never get sleepy. you can sleep, or knit, or whatever. 4. If someone hurts you, he's dead to me. Dead to me, I say. 5. I've gone too long without talking about sex, so I'm stopping now.
I am awesome because:
1.I know ALL the cuss words. 2.And? I never blush when I say them. 3.I am learning to give myself a break. 4.I am a very good friend. 5.I too am honest except when it will hurt someone needlessly.
I am awesome because:
1. I haven't thrown anything at my boyfriend while PMSing or on my period. 2. I will do whatever I have to save my cat. 3. I help others when their weddings make them want to pull hair out of their heads. Can't have a bald bride, now can we? 4. I know when to shut my mouth and not say what I'm thinking. 5. I can steal peoples money at poker because I'm a master bluffer.
I am awesome because:
1. I am a geek and proud of it. 2. I take good photographs. 3. I've kept a journal since I was 14. It makes for very amusing reading when I'm bored! 4. I have never been stung by a bee or broken a bone. 5. I've stopped counting calories, and that feels really good.
I am awesome because:
1) I know how to Tango 2) My therapist convinced me that my "agressiveness" is actually "assertiveness" 3) I take mice, snakes and catepillars to my son so he can examine them (before I let them go) 4) I'm a cheap date 5) My shoe size is usually the same as what's on display
Lovely idea!
I am awesome because: 1. I avoid answering my door when someone rings the bell for fear of having long conversations with my crazy neighbor. 2. I love irony and desserts that taste like tropical sunsets. 3. I enjoy thinking about life - its simplicity and complexity. 4. I have a cat called Gatsby - he is fat and obnoxious and I love him. 5. I constantly think of worst case scenarios and how I would react (e.g., while driving a pedestrian may jump out in front of my car, in which case I would quickly check the lane next to me and swerve. If there is no lane, I hit the ped and picture what a life in prison for man-slaughter is like).
I need a confidence boost today.
I am awesome because 1. I still use a film camera. 2. I know the difference between "lay" and "lie." 3. I know the secret ingredients are rum and fancy imported chocolate. 4. I throw like a girl (a girl who's an ace pitcher). 5. I'm learning that it's okay to just walk away sometimes.
I am awesome because:
1. I am learning to take some pretty hot photos again after a looooong hiatus. (With my old film camera, too!) 2. I opened my 6th grade piano recital book last night and with a half hour of practice I could play with both hands again. 3. I make some of the best oatmeal chocolate chip cookies you'll ever taste. 4. I decided I wanted to lose some weight and stuck to the program for 18lbs so far. Even if I decide to stop now I will have done well. 5. I am one crazy loyal motherfucker.
I am awesome because:
1. I filled the house with my mother's favourite flowers when she got back from vacation last night. 2. Today I learned how to use a lighter and I didn't even burn my thumb. 3. I can tell anyone almost anything they need to know about birth control, in public, without even considering getting embarrassed. 4. I know how to swing dance. 5. I'm one of those people who looks good in hats, and I take full advantage of this fact.
I am awesome because:
1. I'm a very good at spelling. 2. I'm funny. 3. I know how to cook lots of yummy dishes. 4. I'm an excellent driver. 5. I like helping people.
I am awesome because:
1. I have really big boobs and thin ankles 2. I cook for anyone 3. I can normally make everyone laugh 4. I am getting better at accepting help 5. I have a head full of ideas and hope
This sucks... I am awesome because I don't have a blog. There.
I am awesome because I am ordinary.
I am awesome because I shun hot weather, apple sauce and fruit cake in favour of moderate temperatures, solid foods and baked desserts that don't involve raisins. I am awesome because I choose sentences over bullet points. When I feel like it. I am awesome because I have a penchant for filing cabinets and stationary and I also enjoy partaking in a nice orderly queue from time to time. But, above all, I am awesome because I never underestimate the significant cultural value of the boiled egg.
I am awesome on account of,
my brilliant funny bone (1); my delightful and anal usage of punctuation (2); my quirky sense of fashion (3); my long and lithe and lean legs (4); my penchant for alliteration when none could do (5). *takes a little bow*
I am awesome because:
1. I'm far more interested in hearing your story than telling mine. 2. I like the way I look naked. 3. I don't need to be in a relationship to function. 4. I'm not sorry. 5. I'll keep your secrets.
Hmm..I am aweome because:
1)I read your blog, naturally ;) 2) I am Australian, and surely my parochialism is charming, no? ;) 3) I am off to meet Clive James and Cory Doctorow today. 4) I am somehow being able to contain my excitement about (3) 5) Well, I'm not really meeting them, just seeing them talk. Who knows, I may get lucky! Well, this has mostly been about my day and not me, but life's a narrative.......isn't it?
I like this!
I am awesome because... 1. I accept people for who they are and not by their looks/things and all that. 2. I have the most awesome eyes. Even at nearly 46. 3. I am a mom to twins who I am currently teaching to drive and I have not gone off the deep end yet. 4. My kids friends love my cooking and beg to eat whatever they smell in the kitchen. 5. Stray/needful animals seem to gravitate towards me and I always find them good homes.
I'm awesome because... 1) I still play boys hockey. At 20. I'm female. 2) If you ask me a question, I'll give you the honest answer, even if I know you won't like it at all. 3) I'm a proud Canadian, and don't you dare mistake me for an American. 4) I have no problem drop kicking people who keep bringing me down in life. You create too much drama, you're gone. I don't take crap. 5) I'm not Paris Hilton. Man, that should have been number one. :)
1. I get to help create my daughter’s childhood memories. 2. I've never gone to bed angry with my husband. 3. I'm an expert at multi-tasking. 4. I can talk my way out of anything. 5. I have no desire to be someone else. Momma a.k.a. The Casual Perfectionist www.thecasualperfectionist.com
I am awesome because:
1. I make a killer flourless chocolate cake - and happily share the recipe to all and sundry. 2. I am a broad. Or, wait, I'm a dame. I've been called both. And worse. 3. I continue to feed and care for this stray tomcat even though he bit me and I am probably going rabid right this minute. 4. I make eye contact. 5. I pick up items with my toes.
This IDEA is awesome!
Now, onto me: 1. I love being a mom more than anything else in the world. 2. I read anything and everything. 3. I am happy to listen to you rant. 4. I like to bake and I am a good cook. 5. I try to let other bloggers know when I think they are great.
I am awesome because:
I talk to my 87 year old gran everyday I know how to tie a cherry stem in my mouth I am married to a Britsh Mastercarpenter I like to give myself wedgies I ask questions with reckless abandon
I am alleged to be a source of New, Improved Awe(tm) because:
1. I know all of the words to "Food Glorious Food" from the musical Oliver; 2. And most of the dance steps; 3. I have no problem starting a sentence with a conjunction; 4. My voice, when tired, gets all low and bassy. This does things to people on the other end of telephones; and 5. I admit to struggling to find five things to write.
I am awesome because:
1. I can make a fabulous tart at the drop of a hat. 2. I can listen to Puff The Magic Dragon six times in a row without losing my temper. 3. I take most things with a grain of salt. 4. I secretly like to do the laundry. 5. I can fold napkins into bishop's hats.
I am awesome because:
1. I have a naughty, dirty mind and I know how to use it. 2. If you fuck over my friends, I will hunt you down and...say really mean things about you behind your back. 3. For someone who had a truly fucked up childhood, I'm doing pretty alright for myself. 4. I'll make you laugh until you pee, and then I'll make fun of you for peeing yourself. 5. I buy the people I care about little presents just because.
I got a box of awesome in the mail the other day. It gave me the following five powers:
Power #1: When I was a teenager I was commonly taken to be someone in his early 20s. Now that I'm in my mid-thirties, I'm commonly taken to someone in his mid 20s. Power #2: For the good of others, I restrain myself. Power #3: Despite the pain and lack of mobility that has more or less ruined 2007 for me, I try to keep my self-pity under wraps. Except right now. Power #4: I can dance if I want to. I can leave your friends behind. But you should invite them. Power #5: I have a bizarre nasal voice that sets me apart from others even before I round the corner to display my stubbly mug. People are good enough not to imitate it overly much. Power #6: I enjoy dispensing bonus items.
I am awesome because:
1. I read a lot of books 2. I can paint and draw 3. I teach 4. I can cook yummy food 5. I am learning to overcome the lazy
I am Knuckle Toes.
You can read me here: http://knuckletoes.blogspot.com or support me here: http://knuckletoes.etsy.com I am awesome because: 1. I make good Green Red Lentil Soup 2. I can watch horror movies without crying. 3. I own all three seasons of the WonderWoman TV show 4. I was recorded to be in a short movie today 5. I own a poloroid
I am awesome because:
1. I can pick up stuff with my feet, even when besocked. 2. I make up random words and because I'm an English instructor, people believe they're real. 3. I don't know how to cook very many things, but the stuff I do cook will make you forget that first bit. 4. I can throw a football as well as and some days better than my husband can. 5. Since I am in charge of the laundry and am very lazy, I figured out that if I have the fewest pairs of underwear, I will never again fail to deliver clean underwear to the others in my house. When I hit my last pair, it's time to wash, and not a minute before that because I've got lazing about to do first.
I rock socks because:
1. I can name almost anything. Usually the name is Leaf. 2. I come from New Zealand. And NZ is awesome. 3.I'm a dork. And that's cool. 4. I kick arse. Literally. I kickbox! 5. I hate missing fun. So I have lots of it.
Delurking time.
Five things that make me awesome: 1. I was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, and go back every summer. 2. I used to be in a punk rock band. When people ask me if I can play the guitar I own, I say "no." 3. I have a good sense of humor about myself (see #2). 4. I am a grammar freak. 5. I'm good at what I decide to do. Find me at http://fairlyalarmed.blogspot.com
I am awsome because:
1) I am the mother of a spectacular kid, for whom I take most of the credit. (Single moms of the world, unite!) 2) I am an AP style guide whiz. 3) I can knit very warm scarves very quickly. 4) I am a goddess - to my four cats. 5) I am a hard-core soccer player, who took up the game at 33 and is proud of it.
I am awesome because:
1) Schmutzie said so (see Nice Matters Awards) 2) I was recently named a Mistress of Fine Arts. That means art is my bitch now, and I can do whatever I want with it. 3) I like my booze to taste boozy. I like dirty gin martinis and rusty nails. This makes me feel tough, especially when some chick I'm with has a mango margarita or some other sweet-like-candy drink that's made for baby girls. 4) I make good pancakes, and when I am feeling sweet, I will set my alarm earlier than everyone else, and while you are all sleeping, I will be making you espressos and obscenely buttery pancakes with maple syrup. I think I am awesome because I'm a good cook, not a low-fat cook. 5) Despite eating ridiculous amounts of butter, I have a cute little bum that looks positively sassy in hotpants. post a comment ~ Subscribe to Post Comments [Atom] ~ main page
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