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Like everyone else around here I swore I wouldn't get sucked into any more games, but if you've been tagged by Susie Bright, can you refuse?
So here it is.
Here are the rules:
1. We have to post these rules before we give you the facts.
2. Players start with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
3. People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight things and post these rules.
4. At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.
5. Don't forget to leave them a comment telling them they're tagged, and to read your blog.
My 8:
1. I have studied these languages: Lakota, Romany, Old Norse, Old English, Norwegian, Latin, Spanish, French, and German. I can understand a lot of French movies and Spanish conversation, but that's about all the skill I have.
2. My great-great grandmother was a Hurdy-Gurdy Girl. They came to the gold camps with accordions and played music for the miners. Well, she was supposed to be one, but she jumped ship in Alameda with the ship's carpenter instead.
3. I got my first pair of glasses when I was nine, as the result of telling a lie to my teacher. I was bored and I would fiddle around with the math problems on the board, making them more symmetrical and stuff like that. My teacher asked me why my work was so weird, and I chickened out and said I couldn't see the board. Before I knew it I had a pair of pale blue cat's-eye glasses with tiny rhinestones in the corners. I hated them, and as soon as I was allowed to go get new glasses on my own, several years later, I got studious dark framed ones. And then octagonal granny glasses.
4. That year, or maybe the next, my birthday presents were: 1. a geologist's pick: 2. a guide to California rocks and minerals which I still own: 3. a sailors' songs record by Ewan MacColl and A.L. Lloyd: and a songbook written by Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger. I still have all of those things somewhere around this house.
5. There is a knife in my kitchen made by my great-grandfather.
6. The nice fellow and I were both making not much more than four dollars an hour when we bought the house we live in.
7.If my daughter had been born twelve years earlier, she would have been named Emma Midnight. If she had been born a boy at the time she was born, she would have been named Fritjolf Emmett Groff, to be called either Fred, or Groff, or Ace.
8. I once baked a loaf of bread in the shape of a hammer and sickle. It was for my birthday.
I tag:
Orange Mike
Pamela Dean
pleonastic
hrj
julesJones
ellarien
llygoden
David Goldfarb
The commenting to notify part will have to happen later.
Edited to fix names.
So here it is.
Here are the rules:
1. We have to post these rules before we give you the facts.
2. Players start with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
3. People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight things and post these rules.
4. At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.
5. Don't forget to leave them a comment telling them they're tagged, and to read your blog.
My 8:
1. I have studied these languages: Lakota, Romany, Old Norse, Old English, Norwegian, Latin, Spanish, French, and German. I can understand a lot of French movies and Spanish conversation, but that's about all the skill I have.
2. My great-great grandmother was a Hurdy-Gurdy Girl. They came to the gold camps with accordions and played music for the miners. Well, she was supposed to be one, but she jumped ship in Alameda with the ship's carpenter instead.
3. I got my first pair of glasses when I was nine, as the result of telling a lie to my teacher. I was bored and I would fiddle around with the math problems on the board, making them more symmetrical and stuff like that. My teacher asked me why my work was so weird, and I chickened out and said I couldn't see the board. Before I knew it I had a pair of pale blue cat's-eye glasses with tiny rhinestones in the corners. I hated them, and as soon as I was allowed to go get new glasses on my own, several years later, I got studious dark framed ones. And then octagonal granny glasses.
4. That year, or maybe the next, my birthday presents were: 1. a geologist's pick: 2. a guide to California rocks and minerals which I still own: 3. a sailors' songs record by Ewan MacColl and A.L. Lloyd: and a songbook written by Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger. I still have all of those things somewhere around this house.
5. There is a knife in my kitchen made by my great-grandfather.
6. The nice fellow and I were both making not much more than four dollars an hour when we bought the house we live in.
7.If my daughter had been born twelve years earlier, she would have been named Emma Midnight. If she had been born a boy at the time she was born, she would have been named Fritjolf Emmett Groff, to be called either Fred, or Groff, or Ace.
8. I once baked a loaf of bread in the shape of a hammer and sickle. It was for my birthday.
I tag:
Orange Mike
Pamela Dean
pleonastic
hrj
julesJones
ellarien
llygoden
David Goldfarb
The commenting to notify part will have to happen later.
Edited to fix names.
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