June 8, 2008 | All Work and No Play
Kate tagged me, and then untagged me because of my grandmother, but I can’t think of a better way to get back to business as usual than doing as I am told. Therefore, six random facts about me:
1. I am getting my website redesigned and it is so exciting! It’s going to be very light and airy, though still green and orange.
2. I spilled a glass of water on my keyboard and now it won’t type n, unless you type m, when it types mnmnmnmnnnmmnnnnnnn. So I am using my Alphasmart Dana as a keyboard. I guess I need to get a new keyboard.
3. I have never owned a PC, only Macs. Anna thinks I am a Mac fascist but I’m not, I just like them because they are cute and sweet.
4. Of my four best friends in high school, three of us live abroad (England, Bolivia and Hong Kong) and three of us are writers (two romance writers and a journalist).
5. I bought a pair of red sandals yesterday, to replace the pair of red sandals I wore a hole in.
6. I have an absolute passion for Diet Coke. I had to give it (and all caffeine) up for ages, for health reasons and then because of the Fecklet, but I now ration myself to one or two a week. I don’t like regular Coke, or Diet Pepsi: just Diet Coke, plain or with lemon or cherry flavour. I get all excited when I get one, like a kid with a giant candy bar.
I tag…YOU! If you haven’t done this lately, go ahead, and leave a comment below so I can check you out.
By the way…is everyone seeing my blog all squashed up and weird like I am?
Ellen says:
Yes Julie your blog is all
squished up and the
comments travel off the
green square and can’t be
read.
SIX RANDOM FACTS???
1. I am a retired teacher.
after 35 years of teens
2. I spend too much time
on the computer reading
blogs.
3. I love Dr. Pepper to
to drink instead of
Coke or Pepsi (altho I
I will drink any of
them.
4. I you want to be my
friend offer me something
chocolate.
5. I collect frogs (NOT
REAL ONES!!!)of all
kinds.
6. I have 2 brothers,
3 nieces, a nephew, and
three great nieces.
fran says:
nothing squished up here..
1. i have worn n off my keyboard
2. i am half way through wearing h off
3. e is suffering badly too
4. i am wondering if hen’s appear a lot in my writing? (though i don’t recall ever writing about one) so maybe this is a sign?
5. i spend too long looking for signs
6. i write romance, when not looking for signs
Biddy says:
Yup it is all squished!
Dad says:
Hi Sweetie
Your blog is not squished here in the USA
Mom and I can read it fine
I will be sure and stock plenty of diet Coke for you when you come home next month and you can get high on it while I watch the fecklet.
Dad
Julie says:
Diet Moxie! Diet Moxie!!
Julie says:
Hey, why not real frogs, Ellen?!
Seriously, how many frogs do you
have?
Fran, maybe there is a were-hen in
your house typing “hen” over and over
again at night while you are asleep!!
Julie, of the squished.
Ray-Anne says:
I have a Logitech wireless keyboard and mouse and would thoroughly recommend them- but I have a PC - not sure that they would work with a Mac.
Hope you find a perfect match
Jessica Raymond says:
Yep, I think it’s been
like this for a couple of
weeks. I am pressing enter
while typing my comment so
that it should display in
the visible bit!
I, unlike you, cannot
stand diet drinks. I try
and I try to like them
for calorie reasons, but I
just can’t do it. I can’t
even make do with the Coke
Zeros and the Pepsi Maxes.
Unfortunately it is
always regular and sugar-
laden versions for me.
Didn’t you hate drinking
decaffeinated tea when
you were “with Fecklet”? I
thought it was like dish
water!
Jess x
Jessica Raymond says:
By the way, I love Macs too.
I don’t own one but I wish
I did. They are so much
prettier than boring old
PCs!
Kate Johnson says:
Hmm, yes I’m seeing it all
squished up (and thanks
Jessica for the ‘enter’
tip, I’m just not that
bright).
I have a friend who never
seems to drink anything
but Diet Coke. Neither
she nor I can stand the
full-sugar stuff: I can
just feel it nibbling away
at the surface of my
teeth!
Ellen and Julie, I used
to collect fake cats of
all kinds. Then I started
on real cats. Any day now
I’ll start cackling and
throwing them at people
like the woman in The
Simpsons.
It’s a slippery slope.
Kate Johnson says:
Oh and by the way thanks
for posting anyway! I
wasn’t sure about tagging
you, because I know when
my grandmothers died (both
of them within a month,
earlier this year) I
didn’t really feel like
doing much, especially not
being sparkling and witty
for my blog, or the two
books I was supposed to be
writing!