So apparently, while I wasn't paying attention, fellow blogger pensive pumpkin tagged me with a litany of demands. They are as follows:
1. Post these rules
2. You must post 11 random things about yourself
3. Answer the questions set for you in their post
4. Create 11 new questions for the people you tag to answer
5. Go to their blog and tell them you’ve tagged them
6. No stuff in the tagging section about you are tagged if you are reading this. You legitimately have to tag 11 people!
Those are a lot of rules. I'm not making any promises. Let's just start at the beginning.
11 random things about me:
1. I was afraid of the dark until well into my teens and always slept with a light on.
2. As a child, I was a huge fan of The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman and was a proud member of the "Bionic Action Club". Complete with laminated card.
3. I generally don't watch any horror films made after 1960. I prefer my horror campy and unrealistic.
4. I still haven't figured out if it's the taste of pumpkin that I truly love, or the flavours of nutmeg and cinnamon that so often accompany it.
5. I love old radio programs from the 1940's but can't listen to the horror shows at night. In the dark.
6. I disliked dolls as a child and never played with them. With the exception of a mercifully brief Barbie phase.
7. I can't sleep with the closet doors open in my room. I "see" all manner of creepy things in there.
8. I dislike gore. In films and in props. For me, it is not synonymous with Halloween.
9. As a child, I dreamed of turning an old barn on our property into a "haunted house". It never got past the planning stages.
10. I don't believe in ghosts. But I love hearing "true" ghost stories.
11. My favourite flavour of milkshake is vanilla.
Pensive’s questions for her tag-ees:
1. Who is your favorite superhero?
As a fan of superhero comics, this may be the most difficult question of the lot. I'll have to go with Golden Age Flash. Gaining superpowers from hard water just seems so . . . achievable.
2. What is your favorite of all your awesome body parts?
My teeth. They came in straight and orderly and required little maintenance over the years. I developed an appreciation of them after countless hours spent in dentists' offices with my children and their less-than-perfect chompers.
3. How many careers have you gone through so far?
Three.
4. What was your latest Halloween costume?
For the past few years, it has been the same. What can best be described as a hippie-ish witch. It was born from my usual last-minute scramble to assemble a costume out of whatever bits and pieces are left over from prop-building. In this case, a long red and black curly wig. Round-lens holographic glasses and my witch hat from Salem.
5. If you have the time and energy to cook anything you want, what do you cook?
Fried risotto balls. In one of my aforementioned careers, I was a line cook in an Italian restaurant and made these regularly. Extremely labour-intensive. And duplicating the ingredients at home would require a second mortgage on my house.
6. If you could wake up in someone else’s body for the day, who would you be?
Superman.
7. What would you do as that person?
Fly into space and spin the earth backwards on its axis to turn back time. Just a few years. It seems to pass much too quickly.
8. What is your favorite book?
Enid Blyton's The Adventures of the Wishing Chair. So many warm and fuzzy childhood memories tied up in that one.
9. You win one of those around the world plane tickets- where do you go first?
The airport.
10. What is your biggest struggle?
Overcoming my natural tendency toward procrastination.
11. What is your biggest goal in life?
1. Post these rules
2. You must post 11 random things about yourself
3. Answer the questions set for you in their post
4. Create 11 new questions for the people you tag to answer
5. Go to their blog and tell them you’ve tagged them
6. No stuff in the tagging section about you are tagged if you are reading this. You legitimately have to tag 11 people!
Those are a lot of rules. I'm not making any promises. Let's just start at the beginning.
11 random things about me:
1. I was afraid of the dark until well into my teens and always slept with a light on.
2. As a child, I was a huge fan of The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman and was a proud member of the "Bionic Action Club". Complete with laminated card.
3. I generally don't watch any horror films made after 1960. I prefer my horror campy and unrealistic.
4. I still haven't figured out if it's the taste of pumpkin that I truly love, or the flavours of nutmeg and cinnamon that so often accompany it.
5. I love old radio programs from the 1940's but can't listen to the horror shows at night. In the dark.
6. I disliked dolls as a child and never played with them. With the exception of a mercifully brief Barbie phase.
7. I can't sleep with the closet doors open in my room. I "see" all manner of creepy things in there.
8. I dislike gore. In films and in props. For me, it is not synonymous with Halloween.
9. As a child, I dreamed of turning an old barn on our property into a "haunted house". It never got past the planning stages.
10. I don't believe in ghosts. But I love hearing "true" ghost stories.
11. My favourite flavour of milkshake is vanilla.
Pensive’s questions for her tag-ees:
1. Who is your favorite superhero?
As a fan of superhero comics, this may be the most difficult question of the lot. I'll have to go with Golden Age Flash. Gaining superpowers from hard water just seems so . . . achievable.
2. What is your favorite of all your awesome body parts?
My teeth. They came in straight and orderly and required little maintenance over the years. I developed an appreciation of them after countless hours spent in dentists' offices with my children and their less-than-perfect chompers.
3. How many careers have you gone through so far?
Three.
4. What was your latest Halloween costume?
For the past few years, it has been the same. What can best be described as a hippie-ish witch. It was born from my usual last-minute scramble to assemble a costume out of whatever bits and pieces are left over from prop-building. In this case, a long red and black curly wig. Round-lens holographic glasses and my witch hat from Salem.
5. If you have the time and energy to cook anything you want, what do you cook?
Fried risotto balls. In one of my aforementioned careers, I was a line cook in an Italian restaurant and made these regularly. Extremely labour-intensive. And duplicating the ingredients at home would require a second mortgage on my house.
6. If you could wake up in someone else’s body for the day, who would you be?
Superman.
7. What would you do as that person?
Fly into space and spin the earth backwards on its axis to turn back time. Just a few years. It seems to pass much too quickly.
8. What is your favorite book?
Enid Blyton's The Adventures of the Wishing Chair. So many warm and fuzzy childhood memories tied up in that one.
9. You win one of those around the world plane tickets- where do you go first?
The airport.
10. What is your biggest struggle?
Overcoming my natural tendency toward procrastination.
11. What is your biggest goal in life?
To finally conquer my natural tendency toward procrastination. Maybe it'll happen. Someday.
And since rules were made to be broken, I'm going to quietly ignore the remaining three requirements on the above list. As for passing it on to other bloggers, I have far too many favourites to list, and I've never been comfortable with choosing a select few. So as with most things that cause me discomfort, I will avoid it. If, however, anyone who reads this would like to post eleven random facts of their own and answer the questions in this post, I would be delighted to read them.
And now, it's time for my medication.
And since rules were made to be broken, I'm going to quietly ignore the remaining three requirements on the above list. As for passing it on to other bloggers, I have far too many favourites to list, and I've never been comfortable with choosing a select few. So as with most things that cause me discomfort, I will avoid it. If, however, anyone who reads this would like to post eleven random facts of their own and answer the questions in this post, I would be delighted to read them.
And now, it's time for my medication.
4 comments:
Hey, that is all really cool and interesting. I might do it myself, at least answering the questions.
Oh and I dislike gore too. It hurted horror more than it helped it I think.
That was great! As a fellow Halloweenie who is afraid of the dark and cannot sleep with the closet door open, yet who married a man who cannot sleep with the closet door closed (chose not to fight that battle) I am just excited to know I have a comrade in arms! yea!!!!
And the airport? That made me literally laugh out loud. loved. that.
Thanks so much for playing. I know it is a pain in the rear, but it is lots of fun.
You rock.
I think many horror/Halloween fans (like myself) are easily scared. I had plenty of nightmares as a child.
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