Michelle over at Chocolate and Marmalade Tea tagged me with this one.
The rules are: Grab the nearest book. Open the book to page 56. Find the fifth sentence. Post the text of the next two to five sentences in your journal/blog along with these instructions. Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST. Tag five other people to do the same.
Well, I have 2 books at equi-distance from me. The first one says, "We were right! Not for nothing is this our most populr sweater! Daniele knit up a killer sweater in a matter of days and it looks fabulous on her. Beginner knitters like it because it is knit on really big needles and has no ribbing or neck shaping."
The second book says, "Try to do this by visualizing your memorized color wheel. (If necessary, consult the wheel on page 24.) Find a bright-colored object among your surroudings, and name the source hue of that color."
Uh, does it sound like I read the most boring books in the world?
The first book is The Yarn Girls' Guide to Simple Knits by Julie Carles and Jordana Jacobs, and the second book is Color by Betty Edwards (of the Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain fame).
Since I know most of my blog friends are super-busy this time of year (either making products for the holiday season, or in the throes of homeschooling), I won't tag anyone specifically, but if you play, please post a comment and let me know so I can read your book excerpts!
"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet." ~ James Oppenheim
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Saturday, October 18, 2008
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Tagged and tickled
One little additional fact about soaps from my previous post: you know all the soaps I mentioned? Well, I have 3 times that sitting in my bathroom closet waiting to be used. Boy, me and my hoarding habits.
Julie of Cool Mom Guide tagged me today with the Six Wacky Things About Me meme. This actually ties in pretty nicely with Firefly Mom's Seven Wacky Things About Me tag, and also with Joanna's dare-to-reveal post.
Since the day was spent on ceramics, and baking buttermilk whole wheat bread, blueberry muffins, tomato pie, and making slip dumplings for chicken and dumplings, and we'll be gone all day tomorrow for the literary co-op and the boys' LEGO club, I don't have time to post more than 6 things about me.
Actually, I'm not even sure I can think of 6 things about me that I haven't already shared or that anyone would really want to know, but here goes:
1) My favorite apron says "designated deriver" and has "dy/dx" underneath, and that totally cracks me up because I am a serious nerd and a half.
2) I am really bad at remembering or recognizing faces, and have both not recognized someone I know, as well as mistaken a total stranger for someone I knew. And yet, my favorite type of art to do is portraiture.
3) Neither my sister nor I ever wanted to have kids; my sister kept her word, I got talked into kids by dh.
4) I once field-dressed a rabbit in our front yard by having dh hold the how-to book in front of me while I was doing it. This was a rabbit that dh got with a sling shot (talk about amazing). Luckily, living out in the country, our "front yard" is about a couple of thousand feet from our nearest neighbor's house.
5) When I was about 4 or 5 years old, I used to have this dream a lot where I was in a castle with the full moon outside, and this spoon with medicine kept flying toward me.
6) I have had a crush on Mr. Spock of Star Trek (not Leonard Nimoy the actor) since I was 4 years old. (I think this is related to my nerd issue.)
"Happiness depends upon ourselves." ~ Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
Julie of Cool Mom Guide tagged me today with the Six Wacky Things About Me meme. This actually ties in pretty nicely with Firefly Mom's Seven Wacky Things About Me tag, and also with Joanna's dare-to-reveal post.
Since the day was spent on ceramics, and baking buttermilk whole wheat bread, blueberry muffins, tomato pie, and making slip dumplings for chicken and dumplings, and we'll be gone all day tomorrow for the literary co-op and the boys' LEGO club, I don't have time to post more than 6 things about me.
Actually, I'm not even sure I can think of 6 things about me that I haven't already shared or that anyone would really want to know, but here goes:
1) My favorite apron says "designated deriver" and has "dy/dx" underneath, and that totally cracks me up because I am a serious nerd and a half.
2) I am really bad at remembering or recognizing faces, and have both not recognized someone I know, as well as mistaken a total stranger for someone I knew. And yet, my favorite type of art to do is portraiture.
3) Neither my sister nor I ever wanted to have kids; my sister kept her word, I got talked into kids by dh. 4) I once field-dressed a rabbit in our front yard by having dh hold the how-to book in front of me while I was doing it. This was a rabbit that dh got with a sling shot (talk about amazing). Luckily, living out in the country, our "front yard" is about a couple of thousand feet from our nearest neighbor's house.
5) When I was about 4 or 5 years old, I used to have this dream a lot where I was in a castle with the full moon outside, and this spoon with medicine kept flying toward me.
6) I have had a crush on Mr. Spock of Star Trek (not Leonard Nimoy the actor) since I was 4 years old. (I think this is related to my nerd issue.)
"Happiness depends upon ourselves." ~ Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
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