Posts from — January 2009
Circle Time: The Show and Tell Weekly Thread
Show and Tell is wasted on elementary schoolers. Join several dozen bloggers weekly to show off an item, tell a story, and get the attention of the class. In other words, this is Show and Tell 2.0. Everyone is welcome to join, even if you have never posted before and just found out about Show and Tell for the first time today. So yank out a photo of the worst bridesmaid’s dress you ever wore and tell us the story; show off the homemade soup you cooked last night; or tell us all about the scarf you made for your first knitting project. Details on how to participate are located at the bottom of this post.
Let’s begin.
I am completely stealing this from Julie from A Little Pregnant. She started (I think she started?) a new list called 15 Things about You (get it, instead of 25 Things about Me). Since it would be sort of impossible to click around and guess about blog readership, I’m using my Facebook group to compile my list of 15 things. If you want to join me on Facebook, make sure you include your blog name in your friend request since I won’t accept people I don’t know at all.
1. 5 of my Facebook friends have their name on my Ketubah (a Jewish marriage contract).
2. I always imagine one person on the list as a cigarette-smoking Barbie even though I now know what she looks like.
3. One friend lived in the same building in Sunderland, MA but we didn’t know each other back then.
4. I had a secret crush on one friend back when we were in school.
5. One friend is the greatest travel partner in the world. Er…I mean, after Josh.
6. One person on the list stole my ring when we were five years old.
7. I was with two people on the list the night A.W. lost her virginity in the next room.
8. When I was 8 years old, I ran through the wishing tree at camp (you were granted one wish by the wishing tree each summer). I wished that when I grew up, a certain boy at camp would kiss me. I took this photo after I told my friends about my wish. They all told me I was stupid and wasted my wish because that boy was never ever going to kiss me because he was so much older than we were.
I didn’t see him again for eight years and we didn’t keep in touch. One day, we ended up back in the same place at the same time and he kissed me while we were sitting on a rock in the river. He didn’t remember me, though I put together who he was about 3 minutes before he kissed me. I tell you this story now because he is a friend of mine on Facebook.
9. One person on the list made me a gorgeous ceramic pomegranate necklace.
10. One person on the list knows the nickname my husband had for me on his old blog.
11. 6 people on the list visited the twins when they were in the NICU. 5 of them are family.
12. 5 people on the list made me love Tina Turner.
13. One person on the list was on the cover of the Onion because I didn’t feel like having my picture taken that night and she was overseas and therefore couldn’t protest. The photo I chose of her was taken a few seconds after she fell through the cushions on our trick sofa. Our friend at the Onion needed a picture of an angry-looking girl.
14. One person on the list is the reason I went to BlogHer last summer.
15. One person on the list has a defunct blog that I miss greatly. Sometimes I click over even though I know she has stopped updating it. I hate it when blogs close.
What are you showing today?
Click here or scroll down to the bottom of this post if this is your first time joining along (hint: link to the permalink for the post, not the main url for your blog and use your blog’s name, not your name). The list is open from now until late Tuesday night and a new one is posted every week.
- If you would like to join circle time and show something to the class, simply post each Saturday night (or earlier in the week or on Monday if you can’t do the weekend), hopefully including a picture if possible, and telling us about your item. It can be anything–a photo from a trip, a picture of the dress you bought this week, a random image from an old yearbook showing a person you miss. It doesn’t need to contain a picture if you can’t get a picture–you can simply tell a story about a single item. The list opens every Saturday night and closes on Tuesday night.
- You must mention Show and Tell and include a link back to this post in your post so people can find the rest of the class. This spreads new readership around through the list. This is now required.
- Label your post “Show and Tell” each week and then come back here and add the permalink for the post via the Mr. Linky feature (not your blog’s main url–use the permalink for your specific Show and Tell post).
- Oh, and then the point is that you click through all of your classmates and see what they are showing this week. And everyone loves a good “ooooh” and “aaaah” and to be queen (or king) of the playground for five minutes so leave them a comment if you can.
- Did you post a link and now it’s missing?: I reserve the right to delete any links that are not leading to a Show and Tell post or are the blogging equivalent of a spitball.
- If you want it…
I’ve now placed a Show and Tell archive on the sidebar that will be updated each week in case you miss it. And click here for the icon code if you wish to have it for your blog. It links to the archives.
January 31, 2009 No Comments
Friday Blog Roundup
I didn’t think that I’d ever say this since the start of the relationship was so seeped in infatuation, but the addition of Facebook has been the straw that has broken the online camel’s back. There are now way too many spaces to communicate or read and in doing so, too many words slip through the cracks.
There’s email–I have three accounts–the normal one, one for family and a few friends, and one for volunteer work/listservs. There is Google Reader which can grow by 100 posts or more per day. If I take off a few days to do a big work project, I come back to several hundred unread posts. There have been times when I’ve had to declare bankruptcy and start from scratch. Oh and there are my own blogs–LFCA and here–that require upkeep. Not just posts, but updating the blogroll daily or pruning dead links.
There is Twitter–and I should warn that I rarely remember to look at the @replies so it is a terrible way to reach me–and now emails coming in through Facebook. I am a huge lover of Facebook, though I think I love it because I use it sparingly. I don’t see every status update. I tend to turn it on and off throughout the day so I catch whatever is on at the time and then I usually go around to a few profile pages to see what friends and family are up to over the course of the week. But please don’t count on me to have seen an update–I beg you to email it out if it’s important.
Oh, and then on top of this is the fact that I squeeze my computer usage into certain hours of the day. Too many places to check and too much information to read. I am going into overload.
Therefore, I am stating it here: the best way to reach me, communicate with me, get me to do something is to send it via email. Or, if you don’t need support from me but want it from the greater community, put in on the LFCA.
The item I love the post is the LFCA because even on days that I can’t get to Google Reader, I see a lot of stuff that is happening across the blogosphere as I put it together. Please send in your news–I’m sure I’m not the only one who uses it to play catch-up from time to time. Don’t wait for someone else to send it in; just fill out the form. Each day, there are a few cases where I’ll get the same news in triplicate. I just delete the two additional ones and post the news. Much better to receive it six times in one day than to not receive it at all. And if you want support, it’s there for the taking.
And, as a public service announcement, if you are reading it, please take the time to click through and leave a few comments. Choose a section that speaks to you in the moment and make a point to click on a few items and leave comments.
I think I balance email, blog reading, blog writing, and occasional Facebook/Twitter well. Trying to keep all open at once has been head-exploding. How do you balance your online time? Are there sites that have helped you organize the multitude of places where information is coming in?
I think it’s a book best read as a group; it’s something you’re going to want to talk about afterwards. It’s not about infertility per se, but it lends itself to a lot of ethical questions concerning treatments. So…sign up if you were looking for a good book to read on a cold winter (or, if you’re in Oz, warm summer) night.
I think some of it comes from house-envy. I went to visit a friend this week and stood in awe of her apartment. It was gorgeous and organized and had art on the walls and matching furniture. Lindsay is currently redoing a bathroom and it made me want to buy new fixtures or at least paint a wall or two. My sister has a gorgeous home and she is finishing up some remodeling. I have home envy.
I think our biggest problem is clutter. There are simply too many things in this house. Seeing so many piles makes me feel like I’m not on top of things.
I’m not on top of things, am I?
The Maybe Baby had a post about her new ohm. Prior to getting pregnant with the twins, she had a mantra that she said whenever possible. After the loss of the twins, the mantra started to sound false so it was time for a new series of words to bring her back into a good frame of mind. After she stated the new mantra, she wrote: “Because it felt ridiculous not to recognize the obvious. Unfair not to state it. But the second line, thankfully, goes hand in hand with the first and third, acting as a kind of bridge. It felt presumptive to say I was healthy and happy. I am not there.” The post was just a particularly beautiful piece of truthfulness.
Woman Anyone? had a post about how others view her life and the things they say. There were so many thoughts and phrases that moved me in this post including that her slow response was due to “chewing on alphabets.” But the thought that sent chills down both arms came midway through the post: “How many people who ask me questions of this kind or pass remarks have ever sat on a toilet seat with something in their hands and mourning that this is what I was once upon a time, and that every living human ever really was just this mass?” Because we all were, at one point, that mass.
An Offering of Love had a post about buying new clothes and ending up in line behind the woman with the baby. It is a post that so many people will be able to relate to, including the final thought: “It is really miserable to be spending money on fat clothes that I do not want, while simultaneously being face-to-face with that one elusive thing that would make it okay to be buying fat clothes.”
And lastly, BrooklynGirl had a post about closing off her blog amongst other thoughts. She ends with a poem by Adrienne Rich, but before she gets there, she states: “This cauldron of
emotions is difficult to blog through when combined with this other (incredibly obvious) thing: I’m just not BrooklynGirl anymore.” It twists the heart to see a blog close after 5 years and Brooklyngirl will be missed until she resurrects herself in a new space.
Topic I’d like to discuss from this: You’ll need, of course, to first read BrooklynGirl’s post. It was an interesting thought on how even the title of our blog defines us and can we keep writing in a space that no longer fits? Some have successfully changed blog titles and blog identities–Uppercase Woman comes to mind–but others choose to close off one space and start anew. What are your thoughts on this? What would you do if your blog no longer fit–change your title, change your space, stop blogging altogether, keep blogging in the same space and simply change the topic du jour even if all other aspects remain the same?
The roundup to the Roundup: I am drowning in communication and obnoxiously state the best way to reach me, join the Barren Bitches Book Brigade for Never Let Me Go, I feel the need to clean, so many good blogs and please weigh in on the question BrooklynGirl inadvertently (or purposefully) poses. I’ll catch you back here Saturday night for Show & Tell. I will be the dust-covered one with the very clean storage room.
January 30, 2009 No Comments
Marching with the Barren Bitches Book Brigade–Tour Seventeen
Here is the master list for the seventeenth tour of the Barren Bitches Book Brigade. What is the Barren Bitches Book Brigade? It’s a book club from the comfort of your own living room. The book club is conducted entirely online and open to anyone (male or female) in the infertility/pregnancy loss/assisted conception/adoption/parenting-after-infertility world (as well as any other related category I inadvertently left off the list). It is called a book tour because everyone reads the same book and then poses a question to the group. Participants choose a few questions to answer and then post their response on their blog. Readers can jump from blog to blog, commenting along the way. We read both fiction and non-fiction.
Anyone can jump aboard–it’s a book club where you can drop in and out as you wish and all in the community are welcome.
Book: Never Let Me Go
Author: Kazuo Ishiguro
Start Date: January 21
Question Due: March 4
Question List Sent Out: March 6
Post Date: March 9
(need an explanation of how a book tour works? Click here to go to a list of posts on the past book tours as well as information about future tours.)
Something New: the participants on this tour will choose the next book and will vote on it right before Thanksgiving.
About Never Let Me Go: It is impossible to describe the book without ruining the surprise and hopefully, you will not Google it or look up information before starting to read it because it is best if you go in knowing nothing, but in case you need a reason to read it, it has won a lot of awards and pretty much rocked my world.
Barren Bitches Book Brigade List (The blogs below are participating on this current book tour. On March 9, you’ll be able to jump from post to post to read a plethora of opinions and thoughts on Never Let Me Go. I will keep adding to this list until 11 p.m. on March 4. The list is currently open)
Stirrup Queens and Sperm Palace Jesters
Slaying, Blogging, Whatever…
The Road Less Travelled
An Unwanted Path
Baby Smiling in Back Seat
The Fertile Infertile
Mommy In Waiting
Aurelia Ann
Destined to be an Old Woman with No Regrets
Dittmer Digest
So It Goes
Not on the list and want to join? Drop me an email at thetowncriers@gmail.com. You can add yourself up until 11 p.m. on March 4.
How the book tour works:
(1) leave a comment or send me an email (thetowncriers@gmail.com) saying that you’re interested in participating. I need your blog name, blog url, and email address.
(2) read Never Let Me Go by March 4 (or at least enough of it in order to ask a question to the group).
(3) create a single question that would kick off a discussion (in other words, any question that leads to more than a “yes” or “no” answer where someone can express their opinion) and mail it to me on March 4 (or any time beforehand). I will send you a reminder email close to the date. Click here to see sample questions from tour #4.
(4) on March 6, I will send you a list of possible questions. Everyone will choose 3 questions off the list and answer them in a blog entry.
(5) on March 9, people will begin to post their entry. Each day, I will post a linked list of all the people putting up their entry that day so people can go around and read the entries and comment (start a discussion back and forth in the comments section). Reading the entries and commenting on the posts is the best part of the tour–by the end of the week, you should have a comment from every participant (and maybe even a few new permanent blog readers).
January 30, 2009 No Comments
IComLeavWe: February
The February List is now closed. Check back in a few days to sign up for March’s IComLeavWe Week.
Welcome back to IComLeavWe. It stands for International Comment Leaving Week, but if you say it aloud, doesn’t it sounds like “I come; [but] leave [as a] we”? And that’s sort of the point. Blogging is a conversation and comments should be honoured and encouraged. I like to say that comments are the new hug–a way of saying hello, giving comfort, leaving congratulations.
Here is the vital information, pure and simple (a more detailed set of rules follows below the list):
- The list opens the 1st of every month. It remains open until the 21st. You can add yourself at any point. The list is open to everyone in the blogosphere–blog writers and/or blog readers.
- Add yourself to the list by filling out this form: Current IComLeavWe List (this link was removed on the 21st of the month). I will move the information from the form into the post (usually within 24 hours).
- Click here to cut-and-paste this bit of code to add to your sidebar (if you have the old code from another month, remove it and replace it with this one). You need to add the icon or a link to the current list on your blog (see below) and will not be added until it’s up.
- Commenting kicks off every month on the 21st. Please mark it somewhere (calendar, post-it note taped to your computer…). Commenting week runs from the 21st to the 28th. Every day, leave 5 comments and return 1 comment for a total of 6 comments. You are highly encouraged to choose the blogs you comment on from the participants list below, but this is not required.
- Read below if you want to find out about Iron Commenters.
- The commenting ends on the 28th. We catch out breath and the whole thing starts again the next month on the 1st. Drop in and out according to what is happening in your life between the 21st and the 28th.
- Stirrup Queens (infertility, twins, books)
- Baby Smiling In Back Seat (infertility, philosophy, pottery)
- The Fertile Infertile (secondary infertility, parenting, crafts)
- Musings of a Fat Chick (SMC, life, fertility treatments)
- Portraits In Sepia (endometriosis, adoption, life)
- Trying for a Baby (ttc, endometriosis, feelings)
- Life and Times of Kimbosue (pregnancy, IUI, randomness)
- LaRay’s Crazy World (parenting, life, weight loss)
- There’s a Baby at the End of This, Right? (azoospermia, donor gametes, waiting)
- Sticky Feet (secondary infertility, baking, giveaways)
- A View On My Life (infertility, weight, randomness)
- Birds and Squirrels (infertility, pcos, low morphology)
- Adventures in Parenting (kids, parenting, marriage)
- Rose’s Daughter (TTC#1 after miscarriage, new job,life)
- To Baby and Beyond (infertility, miscarriage, PCOS)
- Broken Bits (IVF/ICSI, PCOS, craziness)
- Hello Jello (college, family, animals)
- Bottoms Off and On the Table (IVF, ranting, sarcasm)
- The Steadfast Warrior (TTC, miscarriage, life)
- Faith, Hope & Poop? (parenting, books, life)
- Not The Path I Chose (secondary IF, life, weight loss)
- In Due Time (infertility, PCOS, life)
- Trying to Make 3 (m/c, TTC, marriage)
- Sell Crazy Someplace Else (male-factor, weight loss, life)
- Bloggin…InStyle! (adoption, life, scrapbooking)
- Life and Love in the Petri Dish (IVF#4, RPL, couples’ perspective)
- Lifeslurper (infertility, IVF, ttc over 40)
- The Not So Secret Life Of Us (infertility, RPL, emigration)
- The Olsons (infertility, miscarriage, teaching)
- MoJo Working (formerly NotSoFertile Myrtle) (infertility, marriage, faith)
- Awake in the World (infertility, grief, body acceptance)
- Mom to Twins Plus One (infertility, twins, crafts)
- Maybe its Just Me… (marriage, PCOS, random)
- Are We There Yet (ttc, MFI, healthy living)
- No Yolk (SMC, TTC/IVF, loss)
- Elana’s Musings (infertility/pregnancy, twins, randomness)
- Being Infertile (infertility, living, cooking)
- Heeeeere Storkey, Storkey! (twins, ttc, life)
- All Grown Up (IVF #3, adoption, random)
- A Fifth Season (infant loss, bereavement, reason/religion)
- I Just Want to be a Mom (IUI #4, daily life w/a hubby and dog)
- Eye Heart Internet (IUI, endmetriosis, expat)
- Mommy In Waiting (infertility, adoption, faith)
- Restoreth My Soul (PCOS, faith, TTC)
- Unquestionable Love (injectables, acupuncture, weight/running)
- Square One (PCOS, secondary IF, getting ready TTC#2)
- Bella And Her Fella (DE/IVF, POF, thyroid cancer)
- Making Me Mom (male factor, luteal phase defect, faith)
- In Vitro Veritas (IVF, endo, stupid life)
- Life In A Holding Pattern (miscarriage, pregnancy, our dog)
- Child Bearing Hips (unexplained IF, IVF, parenting)
- A Woman My Age (infertility, adoption, life)
- My Pathway to Motherhood (SMC, TTC, life)
- Mrs Spock (parenting, health care, infertility)
- On The Road to Baby (infertility, PCOS, waiting to adopt)
- Learning To Accept My Infertility (infertility, IVF, acceptance)
- Bugaboo Envy (ivf, life in general, musings)
- Thinking Positively (secondary infertility, endometriosis, adoption)
- Production, Not Reproduction (open transracial adoption)
- Project Kjetil (subfertility, ttc, two-mom parenting)
- In Pursuit of Parenthood (infertility, faith, waiting)
- Wheresmy2lines (depression, multiple IVF’s, varicocele)
- May the Road Rise (IVF, unexplained infertility, family)
- Overeducated Mommy (stillbirth, grief, life)
- In Search of Biscuit 2.0 (secondary if, parenting, daily life)
- The Long Journey (secondary infertility, weight loss and life)
- That’s My Answer (fun, questions, life)
- My Hope My Faith My Love (secondary infertility, pregnancy, toddlers)
- Inconceivable?! (MFI, NOA, IVF and life)
- Offmymind.but from my heart (adoption, parenting, ttc)
- Life Induces Thoughts, Mostly Random (life, grief, random)
- Be Still and Know (adoption, faith, endometriosis)
- Schroedinger’s Zygote (general IF)
- ISO the Golden Egg (SMC, donor FET, 2WW!)
- What IF (male factor, endo, MESA/IVF/ICSI)
- Along Life’s Little Journey (life, ivf, family)
- Infertility Rocks! (infertility, IF treatment, humor)
- Infertile Myrtle (infertility, endometriosis, suppression)
- Here Is To Another Day (unexplained IF, books, random thoughts)
- Equal Opportunity Hater (IVF, endometriosis, random sarcasm)
- Building Heavenly Bridges (grieving, stillbirth, writing)
- The Bear and The Comedian (parenting after loss, angel sisters, humor)
- The Life of Liv (infertility, IUI, life)
- BagMomma (secondary IF, donor egg, parenting)
- Were You Looking for Me? (infertility, IVF, family)
- Do Without Doing (waiting, IVF, work)
- Trying For Two (PCOS, secondary IF, TTC#2)
- A New Wheeler for the World? (PCOS, IUI, infertility)
- Where is That Special Water (finally pregnant, fear, random)
- Getting There (infertility, life, future)
- …Might Just Be Enough (pregnancy, life, marriage)
- Mom + Mom + Lilian = House of Pink (motherhood, depression, weight loss)
- The Real Bean (child loss, IVF, daily sketches)
- What Wuz I Saying? (kids, adoption, life)
- Mustard Seed Baby (endo, faith, ivf)
- Loving Thee… And More (co-parenting, children, randomness)
- Hobbit-ish Thoughts and Ramblings (miscarraiges, life, cooking)
- Baby Making Journey (azoospermia, waiting, infertility)
- Isn’t TTC Supposed To Be Fun? (ttc, loss, infertility)
- Strong Blonde (IVF/ICSI #2, PCOS)
- Twice the Fun (but Half the Sleep) (twins, premature, infertility)
- Oh Hey (news, celebrities, shopping)
- My Adventures In Reality (secondary IF, military, homeschooling)
- The Maniacal Mommy (infertility, pregnancy, musings)
- Conceive This! (MFI, IVF/ICSI, sarcasm)
- TandCookies (PCOS, marriage, teaching)
- Seriously?!?! (pregnancy, daily life, sarcasm)
- Life in the White House (donor sperm, random, pregnancy)
- Finding Her Way: The Story of a Princess (marriage, insanity, ttc)
- Communique (infertility, life, family)
- Can You Imagine (miscarriage, TTC, life)
- Little Bluebirds Fly (late loss, infertility, HELLP/pre-e)
- Two Shorten the Road (preemie, infertility, life)
- From Such Great Heights (pregnancy after long ttc, life decisions, family)
- Yes, We’re One of Those Couples (azoospermia, ivf, uncertainty)
Q: What if I miss a day?
A: Catch up the next day by doubling your comments–12 comments instead of 6.
Q: What is an Iron Commenter?
A: Not for the faint-of-heart. People who wish to be an Iron Commenter and be entered on the Iron Commenter honour roll need to leave a comment on every blog on the participants list (exceptions are blogs that require you to have a special log-in, such as some LiveJournal accounts or other similar situations). You can spread out this commenting any way you wish over the whole week, but the final comment needs to be left by midnight on the 28th (EST). Reaching Iron Commenter status is done on an honour system. Please email me if you earn Iron Commenter status so I can add you to the wall of honour.
Q: Why do I have to add that bit of code to my sidebar?
A: The code is the latest icon (the icon changes colour every month so you know that you’re on the right list). This month, the icon is pink, the next month it will be purple, etc. The reason is two-fold: (1) it enables more people to find out about IComLeavWe and (2) it gives you easy access to the current list once the commenting week actually begins and better ensures that you’ll use it. Too many times, people sign up and forget to actually do IComLeavWe and this icon gives you a daily reminder (with the dates on it) every time you open your own blog. The icon is linked back to the current list. On the 28th, remove the icon from your blog. A new one will be created for the next month.
Q: It’s the 23rd and I just saw this for the first time on my friend’s blog! I want to join the list–why can’t I?
A: Because IComLeavWe happens every month, once the list is closed, it’s closed. If you’re finding out about this on the 23rd, you can’t join the current month. But leave yourself a note to check back in a week on the 1st and you can sign up for the next month.
Q: You said the list closes on the 21st. Well, it’s still the 21st where I am. Why aren’t you moving my information onto the list?
A: All dates and times are U.S. Eastern Standard Time (UTC/GMT -5 hours).
Q: What if no one comments on my blog and I have no comments to return?
A: Well, that really doesn’t happen for the most part, but in that case, simply choose another blog and add an additional comment. The goal is to hit 6 comments daily as a minimum. Going over that is fantastic and encouraged.
Q: Mel, my question wasn’t covered at all. What do I do?
A: Email me; I’m quite friendly. It helps to place “IComLeavWe” in the subject line. You could also check this post which contains the history of IComLeavWe and see if you can glean anything there.
Looking for the comment section? It has been closed on this post. Use the form in the directions to add yourself to the list.
January 28, 2009 No Comments
25 Things About Me
Yes, I am finally doing this.
You are also supposed to finish this by tagging 25 people but I feel like I’m the last one to do it so…if you are a slacker like me, consider yourself nudged since you’ve probably already been tagged.
1. I love long names–the twins each have two middle names for a total of four names each.
2. I have a mortal fear of mayonnaise.
3. I hate surprises so no surprise parties; but I also hate surprises so much that I rarely see a film unless someone else has already seen it and told me everything that will happen. Even with non-scary/sad films. I also made Josh give me a three month window for when he was planning to propose so that I could prepare myself for it.
4. I also don’t like receiving flowers. Seeing them outside the house is great. Inside the house, not so much.
5. When I travel, I carry a picture of myself taken in the Galilee after our boat broke down.
6. For the translation portion of my degree, I worked on a project translating the short stories of Etgar Keret and Orli Castel-Bloom. I thought that I’d be a translator after I was finished with school. That didn’t happen.
7. I go to Chincoteague every summer. It is one of my happy spaces.
8. Josh and I got married in a library not just because we’re both writers, but because the space reminded him of the Long Room at Trinity College and we fell in love over our mutual affection for Ireland. In fact, my sister and Josh found the wedding space while I was in Ireland.
9. I had an audience with the Pope (John Paul II, not the current one).
10. If I wasn’t Jewish, I would probably be Quaker. I love going to Meeting and think about it every time I drive by our local Meetinghouse. The thing that stops me from going is that Sunday is my lie-in day and sleep trumps everything else.
11. We rarely get the mail–sometimes a full week will pass before we remember to check the box. The postmaster loves us. This is true even when it’s our birthday and we’re expecting cards in addition to bills. We are just not mail people. Yet I send out a lot of mail–cards and letters.
12. I can’t stand perfume or cologne.
13. I wish I knew how to speak Spanish fluently.
14. I love sea salt.
15. If I didn’t get into grad school, I was going to live on a kibbutz for a year.
16. I can’t concentrate if there is music or television playing in the background. I need it quiet to think/write.
17. In Gematria, my name adds up to 100 and I’ve secretly always thought this makes me special.
18. I like clementines but I never eat them because I refuse to peel them. I hate having my hands smell like oranges but don’t care if they smell like lemons.
19. I am terrible at judging time or distance.
20. I love to clean. It is one of my favourite things to do. I dream of a night that Josh turns to me and says, “let’s clean. All night. Organize the storage room and scrub the floors.”
21. I really like going to Disney World. This is a new discovery, but since I decided that I like it, we’ve been three times.
22. I don’t love anything around my neck (including scarves and turtlenecks).
23. I have a really sensitive gag reflex. I am a dream patient for every dentist.
24. My dream is to one day own a shower that has a window in it (positioned high up around head-level). I bathed in a shower like this in Rome and I’ve never stopped coveting it.
25. I am incredibly loyal. If I have your back–as a person, organization, or product–I’ll put your happiness before my own and remain committed always. Even if someone shows me a competing product or organization that I like better, I will stick with the first one indefinitely. And I am happiest doing so.
January 28, 2009 No Comments
