Category — Microblog Mondays

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I’m not really surprised with my score on the colour test because I already knew that colour affects me deeply.  I’m aware this will make me sound like the narrator of The Rosie Project, but I use a straw in my iced coffee every morning, and I have to choose very carefully because the colour of the straw affects me for the rest of the day.  For instance, I can only write if I’m using a blue or red straw, and only those shades of blue or red that come in that box.  The blue is hex code 3399CC and the red is hex code CC0000.

Yes… I know how this makes me sound.

There are colours that make me happy such as CC6633 and others that fill me with dread such as CCFF99.

So peruse the colour picker and let me know one colour that affects you emotionally: makes you happy, sad, fearful, etc.

P.S. The Wolvog and I like to whisper hex codes to each other, just luxuriating in the idea of various shades.

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts that are connected to businesses or are sponsored posts.

Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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I have a Mallen Streak — a two-inch shock of white in the front of my hair a la Rogue in X-Men.  (Or the Bride of Frankenstein, though Rogue sounds a bit cooler.)  I don’t love it, but I don’t know what I want to do with it so for the time being, I’m leaving it.

What I do love is that it has a name.  That we have a word for a strange clump of white hair that inexplicably forms (Mallen Streak) or the space between two letters (kern) or giving someone a loving look (belgard).  For every word that doesn’t exist though we wish it did, there are thousands upon thousands of cool words that have fallen into disuse.

So teach us a cool word or your favourite word, even if you think it may be a common one that everyone knows.  Sometimes we just need to hear it again to remember to use it.

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Lifehacker had a timely (for me) article on how to decide whether to keep or part with sentimental items.  You ask yourself whether you’d buy it again at full price, if the object has happy memories associated with it, of if you’d still want it if someone you disliked gave it to you.  All fine questions, though I’d personally never use them to cull out the mess in my storage room.

It was timely because I had reason to go through three boxes of old papers this week — stuff from high school until graduate school.  Old stories, autograph pages that were supposed to go in yearbooks, letters, notes that friends passed me in the hall, photographs.  None of Lifehacker’s questions obviously applied to those papers.

If Lifehacker showed up at my house and told me I could only keep ten things, those three boxes of paper would make the cut.  As would photographs of the twins.  The family tree.  The most important things to me seem to be made out of paper.  What tangible objects would you save if Lifehacker told you that you had to clean up your storage spaces?

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The twins and I are nearing the end of their first time reading the Harry Potter books.  We’re taking a break before book 7 to slow things down, and reading Philip Pullman’s Golden Compass series in the meantime.

A friend recently lamented that he had just finished a Neil Gaiman book and how brokenhearted he felt that he would never have the experience of reading that book for the first time again.  Sure, there will be the subsequent re-readings, but nothing compares to how you feel reading a book that you love for the very first time.  When you lose that particular-book virginity.  (Luckily, unlike your real virginity, you get to become a virgin again with each new book.  And no STDs!)

What book are you happy you read but sad that you’ll never again get to have a first-read experience of that book? (Even if you know that it gets better and better with each read.)  Mine are obviously Harry Potter.  The first-reads for those books are sacred, hence why I’m reading them to the kids.

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Last week, the kids and I were talking, and via this very convoluted path which included a discussion of Keith Haring and the Pop Shop, I mentioned address books.

“What’s an address book?” the ChickieNob asked.

WTF?  Do you realize that kids today don’t know what an address book is?  Their only reference point is the contacts app on their parent’s phone.  They have no clue that we used to have paper books — usually with a hard cover — that we bought in museum shops and filled with the address and telephone numbers of our friends and family.  And if we wanted to make a phone call, we had to drag that sucker out and flip to the correct page using the gradational tabs on the side to jump to the correct place in the alphabet.

What else from your childhood will kids never know about?

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