Living in Harmony

I’ve had company (my lovely sister and my mom) here for the last week and we were in Vancouver before that, so I haven’t really had a chance to sit down and write. I have several ideas for posts now though (courtesy of watching my mom with Meredith, let’s just say she is not the kind of parent I aspire to be). We’ll see when or even if I get those written though.

For now, I was tagged by two people (Alice and Annie) in one day for a meme, and since I haven’t come on here in a while I thought that’d be a good way to get started blogging again. The meme was very slightly different (the wording), but it’s basically the same thing.

1. Link to the person that tagged you
2. Post the rules on your blog
3. Share six non-important things/habits/quirks about yourself
4. Tag six random people at the end of your post by linking to their blogs
5. Let each random person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their website
6. Let your tagger know when your entry is up

1. I used to wrestle in school. (How’s that for random? ha!) Wrestling was a mandatory unit in gym class, and the wrestling coach was my gym teacher and asked me to come out for the team. I actually found it really fun and not to brag, but I was good at it. I won every single match I ever did,  and got the gold medal in the city championships. I also was on the running team and ran 5km every other day with my dog and my best friend. Oh to be in that good of shape again…

2. I am a science nerd. I absolutely adore biology and microbiology and used to read college bio textbooks for fun. I still love to read all things science. (Which reminds me, I need to find some interesting science blogs.) This comes in handy when reading studies about things like cosleeping and vaccines, because I know how to look at the results, as well as how easy it is for two different people to interpret the exact same results differently. My very favorite part was genetics, though I haven’t really kept up on that and don’t remember a lot of it now. In high school, I had ambitions for a while of becoming a geneticist.

3. I’m ambidextrous. I don’t actually write with my left hand, but I can (just not well). I think if I were to practice, I’d actually be able to write just fine left handed though. But I can pretty much do anything else both hands. This comes in handy sometimes, especially in sports. Table in the way of the cue during pool? Try the other hand! Bad angle for putting in mini golf? Switch sides!

4. I love music. I play piano, flute, and piccolo well. In the past, I have taught myself in various levels of quite a few other instruments. I played in an orchestra here for two years, and as a teenager was in several different bands/orchestras in and out of school. Kris and I actually met in a marching band.

5. I don’t wear make up, and never did as a teenager either. I think it was my way of rebelling against rebellion, (or something?). Like, the cool kids were doing it and I was not a cool kid. I’ve also never really seen the point, though I think I’ve always had relatively high self-confidence. But I felt like if I had to plaster a mask on myself for people to like me, I didn’t need those people as friends anyway. (No offence to anyone who wears make up, I’m talking specifically about the kids in school when I was a teenager who put way more than necessary on.) And I am not the type of person who wants to have to spend that much time on myself before leaving the house.

6. I’ve never been drunk or high/stoned. I’ve never been a partier, though I have been to parties in the past where most of my friends were drinking or smoking pot. It’s not that I don’t approve or anything like that. I’ve just never been interested. I’m usually the designated driver (quite happily). I think it stems (like all things, right? ) from my childhood. I grew up watching my mom drink and turn into someone not herself and I never wanted to be her.

I’m foregoing tagging people. First, because the people I would tag have likely already been tagged anyway, and second because Meredith just stopped nursing and is taking off, probably to go upstairs. But, I know I have more readers than commenters (though I do love comments btw, hint hint ), so if you read this blog and have a blog of your own and want to do it, consider yourself tagged.

Posted on October 27th, 2008 by AttachedMama
Filed under: Miscellaneous Rambling