I've written before about my favorite blog to read, www.dressaday.com/dressaday.html. If you haven't yet (and if anyone reads this), go check it out!
Erin, the author of that blog, tagged all her readers. And since I've read that blog for several months now, I feel I must comply.
If you are tagged, you
1) Post 5 things about yourself that you have never posted
2) Tag 5 people whom you'd like to know more about
There are tons of things I've never posted, but now trying to think of some, none come to mind.
1) I hate the sound of ice. Now, ice in-and-of itself doesn't make sounds, you may say. This is true. But if you scratch it, scrape it, ice skate on it (let's not even go into hockey stops), crunch in the squeaky snow, anything-- It gives me chills like nails on a chalk board.
2) I think most Chinese pop music is cheesy and awful... and it is. But there's one talented artist that I enjoy, and her name is Sun Yan Zi, a.k.a. Stephanie Sun. There's actually music in her songs. And variety even. She's got talent, she has.
3) The sunlight in the morning makes my kitchen glow. It feels just like being at Grandma's house, especially when I get up early to make hotcakes. We have a view of what used to be an irrigation ditch, and with all the trees and snow around it, it always brings to mind Robert Frost's poem: Who's woods are these? I think I know. His house is in [Beijing] though.
4) It is my goal to always be frugal without being stingy. I hate wasting anything or spending more money on things than I ought to. But then I want to change Provo's stereotype for terrible tipping. So if we ever go out to eat (not often) or order pizza (basically never), I always try to leave a generous tip. Hey, they're poor college students too!
5) When I was little I loved adventure stories where kids would eke out a living for themselves in the woods. I loved the Boxcar Children #1, Caddie Woodlawn, My Side of the Mountain, Hatchet, and Kirsten's books in the American Girls series. I haven't enjoyed reading since middle school, and now that I'm done with college, I'm going to start reading what I love again. I went to the Juvenile Fiction section of Provo's BEAUTIFUL library, and I came home with more books than I could even hold (and they were out of bags, of course!). I'm so excited to read them!
OK, now for tagging other people. I'm not sure who all reads this, but I tag
1) Kevin
2) Sarah
3) Calysta
4) Julia
5) Amy
and whoever.... if you have a blog, do it there. If you don't, you can just leave a response to my entry.
Either way, you've been tagged, so you have an obligation!
1 comment:
1.) I've never eaten a bug. I'm not proud of it. I think it kind of taints my childhood. But now I'm 25 and I wonder if its too late to start. Maybe I should start with some chocolate covered ants or something.
2.) I went skiing once. I fell over more times than I had fingers and toes. I say had because I lost a couple to frost bite that day.
3.) I kayaked from Horsehead Bay to the Narrows Bridge once. It must have been a 10 mile kayak trip. It was dumb. I fought a massive current--both ways, got several blisters on my hands, and almost lost my kayak to the tide after I had beached it. But I did it. And it was fun.
4.) I despise anything by Charles Dickens that I read in college. English teachers have an incredible power to make good books dry intellectual exercises that quickly become excruciating mental torture. Sorry Dickens, you should have been like Tolkein when he said, "NO ALLEGORY!!! ARGH!!!"
5.) I don't want to write 5. I'm going to write 4.
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