Is "Meme" A Verb Yet?
Monday, December 3, 2007 Janna Cawrse from Happily Even After has tagged me to do the Eight Random Facts/Habits About Me Meme. I have done this one two or three or four times in the past, but I am sure that there are more than thirty-two things about me I can foist upon you. At least, I like to think that I am complex enough to have thirty-two things. Hell, if jello can have an IQ of four (it responds to pressure), I can have more than thirty-two things to say about myself.
Although, I have a difficult time remembering more than one telephone number, so my being able to keep even minimal track of myself might mean that I am in a state of extreme denial about my own complexity.
The Rules Of The Meme:
Addendum To The Rules:
Eight Random Facts/Habits About Schmutzie Again:
1. I kill plants. I do not do it outrightly on purpose, but there is a touch of on-purpose-ness involved in their deaths.
Over the last nineteen years, I occasionally think that it is a good idea to flesh out my windowsills with some greenery. I even take the care to buy potting soil and vermiculite and then mix the two in correct proportion to the needs of the individual plants.
At first, it is a loving relationship. They grow and provide oxygen, I water and prune them, and everybody is a winner, but this atmosphere of symbiotic support slowly gives way over time. I become forgetful and stop watering them. When they wilt a bit, I feel put out that I have to give in to their needs when I would rather soak in the bath or write a poem or just ignore them because they are so damned needy.
Yes, my issue with neediness runs so far as to reject dry plants that have no access to rainfall. How dare they wilt in my presence! Buck up, young violets!
I feel guilt about the whole process, because I am well aware that I am entirely at fault for their deaths, but instead of giving them to loving homes, I simply learn to ignore all plant-populated spaces in the apartment until they are suitably trash-worthy.
I keep cacti now.
2. When I was in grade four, a girl in my class had rainbow-striped knee socks with individual toes of all different colours. I wanted a pair very much but never got them for Christmas like I had asked. I still want a pair so that I can prance around in them and then wiggle my toes a lot. I am a person of simple pleasures.
3. I have long eyelashes that always hit the lenses of my glasses. If I do not wear mascara, my lashes leave greasy streaks from my blinking, so I wear mascara every day no matter what so that I can see decently well.
4. I do not like to drink water out of anything ceramic, be it a tea cup, coffee mug, or whathaveyou. Water does not taste right unless it is in a glass or the right kind of plastic cup.
(I have rules about what kinds of plastic cups will suffice for water consumption, but those are too lengthy to mention here.)
5. I find the blandness of English food depressing.
6. I do not like it when the top of a woman's shoe comes down so low around her toes that there is toe cleavage. That bit of toe cleavage created by the big and second toes looks like plumber's butt.
7. When I use public payphones, I always smell the handset. It is disgusting, but my curiosity always gets the best of me. Payphone handsets usually smell like a mix of old cigarette breath and cheap perfume. I do not know what I think might change every time I do it. I doubt the handset is ever going to smell like miniature doughnuts or chicken cacciatore.
8. I am allergic to telephone books.
The following eight people are tagged to do or not to do this meme however they see fit:
I am a participant in Holidailies 2007.
Reader Comments (22)
:/ toe cleavage. good one.
My grandmother has a preference for drinking her tea from a Pyrex measuring cup (the 1 cup size). I don't think that I would like to do that - the edge of the cup is too thick.
My plants thank you for reminding me to water them.
i love plants and kill cacti. i decided the greenery needed a firm hand so I water once a week and they can learn to subsist or die. amazingly enough most of them do quite well - except the cacti.
i love toe socks - i have some japanese ones that you can wear with thongs.
- no styrofoam cups for me - blech and they smell like they're already killing the ozone.
I TOTALLY agree about toe cleavage. Ick.
BTW, you're my first meme tag. Thanks for taking my virginity so gently.
I think you just instantly cured me of using public telephones! (And I agree with you about drinking water)
I'm so glad I'm not alone with my grease-making eyelashes. :)
I have 2 indoor plants and they only survive because they are tough.. and I think someone else waters them, hehehe.. Thanks for the Tag.. cheers kim
Thanks for the tag! I totally kill plants. Cacti are not indestructible. I had one, um, growing mold for about two weeks before I realized that's not what a cactus is supposed to look like.
I used to be so bad with plants that my Mother (who assumed that I wanted them in the first place) stopped giving me green things that I could kill with my negligence and started giving me cactus.
That was the summer that my a/c went out (in a mobile home in Las Vegas, good gravy!) and I had to abandon ship for a few days til my lazy butt landlord fixed it.
I came back home and went to water poor round cactus and my watering can thumped the side. Yep. It had hollowed itself out, commiting cactuscide in tiny sips of itself.
My eyelashes also hit my glasses, but that's why I *don't* wear mascara. I can handle greasy streaks a lot better than I can handle black streaks. Which shouldn't happen if I let the mascara dry, but I don't have that kind of patience.
Ps. I'm also really glad that you're back to work. I hope you are too and that it's actually a reasonable deal (I can't tell because I get fed all my strike information from the university).
oh #4. i have serious issues about what i will drink out of of...and it changes depending on the drink.
i'm so glad i'm not the only one!!!
I do not like toe cleavage!! But I do have green fingers, love English food after all I believe the national dish is now official Chicken tikka Masala!
Cheers
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I somehow manage to get black streaks on my glasses when I wear mascara, regardless of the time elapsed between the application and the glasses wearing. How do you do it?
I can't even keep cacti. So, so sad. Plants shrink from my when I walk by in a store.
If you've only ever had bland English food you haven't lived!
Yes, there was a time when our food was the laughing stock of world cuisine. And yes, it is funny. But bland? Never! There is definitely something elementary about some of our dishes, but this just adds an endearing quality, and 73% more flavour. English breakfasts? Roast dinners? Ploughman's lunches? The humble yet delectable crisp sandwich?! Even our chips aren't bland if you remember to add a generous sprinkling of salt and then drown them in malt vinegar. Plus you get to eat them with a wooden chip fork. Simplicity at its best I tell you!
And then there's always curry.
Thanks for the tag! Toe cleavage I'm OK with; plants however live in my home because hubs waters them.
WOW, thanks for the tag. I will get to it later this week!
Jules
http://bigpikchur.blogspot.com" REL="nofollow">House of Jules
#2 I remember those socks. I wanted a pair too and got some one year, couldn't stand to wear them, couldn't stand the feel of something between each toe.
Thanks for the tag. I've amended it.
http://whosheshe.blogspot.com/2007/12/8-random-brushes-with-fame-some-of.html
And I used to have a pair of those rainbow toe-socks. Not as comfortable as you might think.
Okay, so. Consider it done.
And up if you are interested in checking it out. I gave it some strong consideration in just passing since I thought yours was so much what I could have said. But you had me at toe cleavage.
http://kinnicchick.com/2007/12/05/the-world-renowned-8-random-facts-meme/" REL="nofollow">8 Random Facts
Me too on the eyelash thing. My husband thinks I'm just wearing my glasses wrong. (huh?) I'm glad to know it isn't just me!
I love lists. Especially yours. Which is why I don't mind these meme tags as much as, say, one of those chainletters in 6th grade. Thanks for accepting my tag, Schmutzie. Very much enjoyed your 8 things.