Showing posts with label things about myself. Show all posts
Showing posts with label things about myself. Show all posts

Saturday, July 28, 2007

8 Random Facts About Me...

Brittish-blogger-posting-from-Sweden Mark Base tagged me the other day and wanted me to write 8 random facts about myself. Since I have already written five at You're it! I thought I would get away with writing only three. However, the previous tagging was supposed to state weird or funny things about oneself. Mark's rules state just random things. But how random am I? Let's find out.
THE RULES:

1. Post these rules before you give you the facts.
2. List eight (8) random facts about yourself.
3. At the end of your post, choose (tag) eight people and list their names (linking to them).
4. Leave them a comment on their blog letting them know they've been tagged!
1. I am not easy to boss around and am rarely intimidated into doing things I don't want (has it ever happened?), but I rarely say no, if I can see that I am needed. Guess someone gave me a heart to weight out the stubbornness...?

2. My mother's family is really musical and both my parents play instruments. My mother tried to teach me to play both the piano and the flute, but I just wasn't an eager student and didn't want to be pushed into anything I didn't fancy myself. Now, twenty years later, I often find myself regretting not having taken the chance when I could, because there are some emotions that only want to be expressed through music. Which in my case compares to a strong desire to speak up but not mastering the language...

Some are born wild, others stubborn... :-)

3. Hanna is going to love me admitting this: I am a collector of series (sure I've never said that before?). Anything that comes in a series - I want to have the set. This habit is not in any way moderated by Nigerien culture, which encourages huge collections and complete outfits in a single color. Hmm, maybe that's even where I got it from... Gah... I used to be nuts about novels; now I've gone berserk on handbags. Need on in every colour...

4. It can be hard to get me involved in something (especially if it seems boring), but once I get into something, I do it wholeheartedly.

5. When I was younger, my motto was to become a good amateur in a number of things, rather than excelling in one thing and one thing only. Still seems like a good motto to me!

Started riding in 1998. Now I can't understand how I ever did without it!

6. I love creative writing, but different languages brings out different styles. English is tempo; French is for the tragic (and the poetic!), Swedish is for the depressing and Hausa (when the day arrives that I master it fluently) is for good humor and absurdities. Weird, isn't it?

7. Currently, I possess two horses and in a week, I become the official owner of a dog (with plans of adopting a second dog; his brother). Though funds and space limits the number, I would not be surprised if I one day in the future will be surrounded by an entire ark! Have always enjoyed pets. They're social livings who never stress. How can you not enjoy them? :-)

My first dogs; Bamse & Seo (1998)

8. As a kid, the first things I wanted to be when I grew up was kindergarden teacher followed by successful writer. And at one point I also intended to open up an orphanage in South America - I must have been twelve at that time.

Hurray, that was it!

Now, concerning the rules, Mark added a touch of his own: to tag bloggers we didn't know all that well.
You see, many bloggers (myself included) join blogging communities, make "friends", but never really make an effort to keep in touch after that initial contact. So let's try to reverse that trend, just a little bit.

I propose that those bloggers I tag also find people with whom they've had very little contact.
Let me go and have a look at MyBlogLog.

[Five minutes later]

The following are tagged:

1. Fasy of New York
2. Omodudu of Africa
3. Kmark of Sweden
4. Nihal of Malaysia
5. Saami of Scandinavia
6. Gamoonbat of ...?
7. Madmomma
8. KlMasina

Good luck now!
Ishtar

Sunday, June 17, 2007

Quick associations

One Word Responses

1. Yourself: alive!

2. Your partner: absent
3. Your hair: blond
4. Your mother: sweet
5. Your father: cool
6. Your favourite item: Arwen

7. Your dream last night: theater plays
8. Your favourite drink: juice
9. Your dream car: horse carriage
10. The room you are in: spacey
11. Your ex: married
12. Your fear: time-shortage
13. What you want to be in 10 years: pioneer
14. Who you hung out with last night: sis
15. What you're not: stuck
16. Muffins: unnecessary
17: One of your wish list items: ark
18: Time: flies!
19. The last thing you did: worked
20. What you are wearing: black
21. Your favourite weather: sunshine!

22. Your favourite book: forgot...
23. The last thing you ate/drank: coffee
24. Your life: great!

25. Your mood: stressed
26. Your best friend: numerous
27. What you're thinking about right now: tomorrow
28. Your car: in production?
29. What you are doing at the moment: hurrying
30. Your summer: work...
31. Your relationship status: "free but unavailable"
32. What is on your TV: nothing
33. What is the weather like: cloudy
34. When was the last time you laughed: today

I pass this on to Hanna, Nettus, Szavanna, Tara and Photogchic!
Just because I want to know what your moods are like today!

Ishtar

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

You're it!

Ok, so a friend of mine just let me know that I was "it" and that I should write six weird things about myself. As if six would be enough, lol! Being part Scandianvian part Nigerien, what did she expect??? :-)

Anyway, here's my contribution:

  1. I refer to machines as if they are people, and when they don’t work or act like I want them to, I take for granted that they are male.
  1. I can’t stand when series are broken. If I buy a novel that I like, I often want to have all the novels that of the same author but I often never have the time to read to read them.
  1. I like many things but I don’t have any favorite color, favorite movie, favorite novel, favorite musician or a best friend. I’m just not a “favorite”-sort of person!
  1. When I’m in Niger, I’m nuts about matching colors, even down to my flip-flops (hence why I have six pairs).
  1. I have a funny attitude to sleep. My brain is working at its peak, moments before I fall asleep; when I say that I’m tired and that I’m about to fall asleep, it literally means that as soon as my head hits the pillow, I’ll be fast asleep ; I wake up if someone is standing in the doorway watching me and it happens that I wake up after having fallen asleep and find myself in the middle of a conversation with someone – a conversation that I have started. Needless to say, those conversations are often pretty wacky and it’s as good as impossible to follow my train of thoughts.
  1. I mostly talk to God in English, sometimes in Swedish but never in French.

The rules specify that I should choose other bloggers who should do the same, but I think I wait a while for some of my good friends to start blogging before I pass it on... :-)

Ishtar