<$Monday, July 2, 2007$>
Carnival Time! Also, Eight Things.
| I love it when other people provide me with content, thus saving me from having to gear up my brain and think too hard on a Monday morning. First up, let me point you to the 107th Carnival of Personal Finance, hosted this week by Blogging Away Debt, and which includes my post from last week about pet health. It also includes much more in the way of personal finance goodness, including this highly relatable article on money anxiety at My Money and My Life. Eight Things Secondly, I've been tagged! Weirdgrrl over at Things That Make You Go Huh? has tagged me for that Eight Things meme. This one is going to actually require some brain power, which, being that it's still before noon on Monday, is going to prove a challenge; but let me give it a whirl. The Rules: "Each person posts the rules before their list, then they list 8 things about themselves. At the end of the post, that person tags and links to 8 other people and then visits those peoples' sites and comments letting them know that they have been tagged, and to come read the post, so they know what they have to do." There you have it. And here are eight things about me: 1. I have a bachelor's degree in social science, with an emphasis on psychology. I like to bring this up from time to time, since this degree has not a blessed thing to do with either my current job or with my future ambitions, and people tend to not realize that I actually got myself a colluj ejumacayshun. 2. I played the saxophone for about 15 years, starting in grade school and continuing well past high school, and by the end of that time had gotten pretty good at it. Then about ten years ago a spring on my sax broke and, not being able to afford to either repair or replace it, I put it away and haven't played since. I still hope to get it fixed and start playing again one day. 3. Meanwhile, I'm learning to play the guitar. I'm still new and not very good at it, but I can strum a pretty mean Kumbayah. 4. I originally majored in journalism. One semester in this major helped me figure out I'd rather make stuff up than report the bare facts, so I switched to English. After a couple of frustrating semesters of not being able to handle the reading lists (this was before I even knew I had ADD, let alone how to manage it), I dropped out entirely and didn't go back to school until I was twenty-eight, when I started working on that previously mentioned psych/soc degree. I still minored in English, though. 5. I married my first boyfriend. This doesn't seem all that unusual until I point out that I didn't meet him until I was thirty-one. 6. I once wrote an entire original (by which I mean not fan fiction) novel. It wasn't very good, but it was novel-length, and I finished it. This is helpful to remember when finishing my current novel begins to feel like an impossible feat. I did it once, and by God, I can do it again. 7. I once worked a temp gig as a production assistant behind the scenes at a teen beauty pageant. I will never do such a thing again, ever. 8. I spend an embarrassing amount of time secretly obsessing over whether people would still appear shocked when I reveal my age and insist that I look ten years younger if I stopped coloring my hair, or whether I could pass off all of those white hairs as highlights. And now you know my secret shame. Now it would seem I have to tag somebody. Normally, I would cop out and just say feel free to consider yourself tagged if that's your thing, but it occurs to me that this is an opportunity to spread some linky-love, so if I've linked you below, consider yourself tagged: Bad Kitty A Cowboy's Wife Broke As a Spoke C.Whyte's Blog And that's lunch. Labels: finance+blogs, fun, personal, random |
A very interesting list of eight things. Congrats on completing a novel! That's a huge accomplishment.
Thanks! It is pretty huge... I forgot how huge until I got into the middle of my current novel, which feels positively gargantuan.
Well, I told you which blog to tag, and then I did my eight things on the wrong blog. :-)
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