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Life's Torment #43: I absolutely can't stand the feel of clothing tags against my skin. So I usually cut them out before wearing, but I'm not terribly careful about it and wind up with countless items of clothing sporting small holes where the tags once lived. In fact, I'm wearing a hole-y tank even as I type.....
However, blog tags are a whole different animal. I am honored to have been tagged by Corine at Hidden in France, whose blog I have long enjoyed for her impeccable style and philosophical thoughts. Really, you should go check out her blog -- I'll wait! If nothing else, take a gander at this post, with her utterly charming chalkboard Christmas decoration:
But anyway, without further ado ... get to know me!
4 Things I Did Today: [by which I mean Saturday, I'm slow]
1. Slept until 3 p.m. and napped a few hours beyond that. The anti-labor drugs are hitting pretty hard.
2. Polished off a pint of Haagen-Dazs peppermint brittle ice cream.
3. "Nursed" our male cat, who was separated from his mother too soon and mentally remains a kitten. He's also anatomically confused, and nurses on the neckline of my shirt.
(Cute, but confused.)
4. Watched The Sure Thing on DVD. My friends and I watched that movie obsessively in middle school, but amazingly Mr T had never seen it. Turns out I could have just acted it out for him -- I still remember a good 60-70% of the lines.
4 Things on My To-Do List:
1. Name the baby. ("Wallaby" will only take us so far!)
3. Make baked goods with the candied ginger in our pantry. Earlier this week, I tried some shortbread cookies with chewy ginger pieces inside, and they were so good I must have more ginger soon!
4. Two words: Christmas gifts.
4 Guilty Pleasures:
1. Craft supplies. (The "guilty" part is that I so rarely make crafts these days; I just love being well supplied.)
2. Murder novels
3. IHOP
(As I was looking for a good image, I came across a site asking "Do you have any information on IHOP? What’s your impression of what’s going on there? My child just got involved in IHOP, should I be concerned?". Turns out there's also a religious community called the International House of Prayer.... But those waffles can be pretty dangerous too!)
4. The Soup (though it's got to be better than watching all the reality shows they excerpt, right??)
4 Random Facts About Me:
1. In the last 15 years, I have lived in 7 states and 3 foreign countries. I'm terrible at staying in touch with the people I meet, but I never stop thinking about them. My heart and mind are crammed with the ghosts of past lives.
2. I'm working on 2 nonfiction books. At the rate I'm going, we'll be very lucky if I finish either one before the fetus enters college.
3. I have a social phobia of telephones. It's gotten better over the years, but as a teenager I couldn't even call to order a pizza without freaking out. (In college, I spent a few months as a telephone researcher on the theory that constant exposure would help me relax. Instead, it had the opposite effect -- people were so mean!)
4. My life's goals include visiting all the countries that start with "I". So far, I've checked off Israel, Ireland, and Italy.
I'm not up to tagging anyone else at the moment. But please do let me know if you decide to join the fun!