I'm finally blogging in response to Marco's "tagging" me on his blog two weeks ago. My excuse is that my life is too full and too good to spend weekends and evenings behind the computer...but all the same, I would like to be blogging more. so here goes...
The rules of the game are...
1. Post the rules on your blog
2. Write 6 random things about yourself
3. Tag 6 people at the end of your post
4. If you're tagged, DO IT and pass on the tag
So here are the six random things about me:
1. In contrast to what Eric wrote on his blog about never remembering his dreams, I almost always remember my dreams. They are always quite amusing, vivid, real, and yet very strange and random. Sometimes my alarm wakes me up in the middle of a dream, and my first thought upon waking is that I want to go back to sleep so I can finish my dream: the story is not yet complete. But once you're awake, there's no going back! I can never enter into the same story. I even have dreams about people whose blogs I read, whom I've never actually met in person!
2. I had a very satisfying meal tonight. Ethiopian galore. One of those rare meals where you feel like your appetite is actually being satiated by all the flavors and sensations melting in your mouth. It's also quite a wonderful experience to eat everything with your hands. And not to mention the good company!: Claire and her parents, and Patricia : ) It was a beautiful evening.
3. To take from what Marco wrote about breaking bones, I've had one bone-breaking experience. When I was only three-years-old I was running to the swing set (I remember it quite vividly...) with my best friend, Krista. At the time it seemed like we were running down a huge hill (but in reality it's only a slight decline in elevation!). I ended up tripping and falling and somehow during the course of my fall, my arm got twisted in the wrong way and broke. I loved swimming in my little kiddie pool at that age, and so I have a lot of pictures with a cast around my arm while I'm wearing my little Kermit the frog bathing suit. I had to wear a sling, which I remember had Snoopy the dog on it, so that I wouldn't get my cast wet in the pool!
4. I secretly wish I could play the accordion. My absolute favorite soundtracks of all time, is the music to the movie Amelie. There's plenty of pretty accordion music on this soundtrack to bring me into a state of dreaming. Several years back, long before moving to Amsterdam, the sound of the accordion always made me think of Europe. The romantic, idealized, beautiful-old-world-style that you can only find and experience when you come to "Europe". (me, in my very American state of mind!) There are still moments upon hearing the accordion where I go back to that frame of thinking and perception of romance which being in Europe for the first time once gave me. It reminds me of how special it is to live here. Last weekend I saw a band called the
Bowerbirds perform in Utrecht. They were AMAZING. The girl played accordion. She rocked!
5. I am writing this past my bedtime. I am naturally a night owl, but I have now given myself a 'bedtime' of 11:00 PM, in effort to bring more rhythm and regularity into my life. It has now been two weeks that I have consistently gone to bed about 11ish and woken up at 8:00 AM. This may not seem to be much of a victory for most adults walking the earth...but it is a huge accomplishment in my life where I have to do most of the boundary setting for my job and everyday living...So I better get a move on and get myself to bed!
6. I used to be involved in an 'after school activity' called Color Guard. This is where a bunch of girls run and dance around in ugly uniforms while tossing, twirling and spinning flags and rifles in the air as a 100 person band is marching and making music around them. It was quite a big deal at the time. Almost like being in the army. We had drills, warm-ups, 3 hour long practices 3 times a week after 7 hours of school. And before state competition we would practice two weeks straight every weekday, and all day on Saturdays. It was rough. Especially getting hit over and over by rifles and flags as you tossed them in the air and were just slightly off in your throwing or catching. I used to get weekly bruises and bumps on my arms and head! However, we were GOOD! We won our State Championships for our school's 5A league (which is a big deal in the American High School system!). I have the medals to prove it : )
I'm tagging:
1. Jenni Lafferty
2. Ross McDermott
3. Sander Chan
4. Eva Ellingsworth
5. Shalom Sanchez
6. Stephen Gordon
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