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Way back when, Sara tagged me for the Thinking Blogger Award. I’m very flattered, in fact you took my breath away and it took me this long to recover. (That’s my story and I’m sticking to it). So here goes (thank you for your patience, Sara!)
The rules from The Thinking Blog
1. If, and only if, you get tagged, write a post with links to 5 blogs that make you think
2. Link to this post so that people can easily find the exact origin of the meme
3. Optional: Proudly display the ‘Thinking Blogger Award’ with a link to the post that you wrote (there is an alternative silver version if gold doesn’t fit your blog).I hereby tag:
1. Shula (Poppalina) She is an amazing crafter and her creations always give me pause.
2. String-or-Nothing She finds and catalogues all kinds of fibre-related information on the web, and her site is such a resource.
3. Indexed For a site that is entirely graphical, it’s amazing how much she fits into one small graph.
4. Redshirt Knitting (Apart from her orange cats) Erika writes from a different life than I could ever imagine
5. Yarnstorm Have you seen her use of colour?
Well, off you go and gape at my taggees, then.
Somebody came to my blog looking for “Italians cover things in plastic”.
No, it’s not spelled that way in American? Why not?
I was wondering if maybe the spelling choice has to do with whether the last part is pronounced as “log” to rhyme with “bog”, “fog” and “cog” or as “logue” as in “rogue”, and er, “rogue”. (If anyone knows of any other words that rhyme with “rogue” please do mention them. My brain is all shook up from my sneezing all day today.) I ask because I tend to pronounce travelogue (perhaps wrongly) to rhyme with rogue, but dialogue to rhyme with bog. Also, does it say something about my readers that my last post got more comments than any other one, as far as I can remember? Was it the pronunciation issue or the serendipity of finding something forgotten?
Oh and before you go, if for some reason you don’t follow Cute Overload, do go and look at this post and this one. I want me some of that fertiliser!!! Also, maybe I should have been a baby orangutan. Or something.
I’ve been tagged for a meme I haven’t seen before on a knit/crochet blog (not the ones I read, anyway) by Deepa, so here goes.
Three other names I go by: Wet Blanket, Princess (not in a nice way, said by the husband) and Mucchu (by my mom, for being, well, a wet blanket!)
Three screen-names: MrsFife/Dormouse/swapnae
Things I like about myself: My brain (mind?) most of the time.
Things I don’t like about myself: How about everything else?
Things that scare me: Lizards *shudder*
Scared about: Lizards *double shudder*
Hobby: Knit/crochet/read/surf
I catch myself stealing: glances at confident people
Something that gives me the creeps: Liz… oh, you know what!
About me: I’m vague (sorry, Deepa!) 😀
Bungee jumped? Would love to!
Food: Predominantly vegetarian, all sorts of cuisine, but please leave out the smelly oils.
I like to read: Murder mysteries, especially British. Also police procedurals, the kind Americans specialise in. And travelogues. The husband always refers me to any manuals that come with whatever we buy, (a) because he can’t be bothered (b) because I like to know things.
Emotional: I don’t understand this, but I should reply “VERY!
I strongly detest: Inconsistent behaviour
I regret: too many things to mention
I love: chocolatecats (both chocolate and cats, not a new breed of cats or type of chocolate)
Intuition is: sometimes right
Three essentials: Books, Internet, sleep
I believe: Religion should never be a social activity
Funny thing you read today: Somebody came to my blog looking for a “murderer with a canvas in Italy”. Now that’s a story I’d love to find out more about!
Thing I want to do badly now: Achieve some GOALS! (Which ones? Well, having goals would be one)
Dream Career: Being paid to nitpick (hey, I am a copy editor!!!)
I want to go on vacation to: England and the rest of Europe, also Egypt.
I want to visit: Um, anyone with a few cats? And also any place they let you play with tiger cubs.
Three girl names I like: (Why?) I like the names of ragas and of things in nature.
A song you sing a lot lately: Kondalalo nelakonna (by Annamacharya)
Are you happy this ended: er…
Me tagging:
Let’s see. How about some real people for a change? Okay, I’ll tag Kimberley and Vik!
Deepa tagged me a few days ago, and I’m just now getting to it. Sorry, Deepa!
I have vague memories of doing this meme a few months ago, but am too lazy to go dig around in the archives, and moreover, it wouldn’t be in the spirit of things…
A) Four jobs I have had in my life:
1. Market research executive
2. Freelance feature writer
3. Consultant (!!!) copy/sub editor
4. Wet blanket
B) Four movies I would watch over and over (I’m not a big movie fan, actually…):
1. Chupke chupke
2. Saptapadi
3. Vamsa vriksham
4. Maqbool
C) Four places I have lived:
1. Hyderabad
2. New Delhi
3. Bombay
4. Visakhapatnam
D) Four TV shows I love to watch:
1. CSI
2. Law and Order: Special victims unit
3. Other People’s Houses
4. Instant Khichdi
E) I have been on vacation:
1. Mount Abu and Udaipur
2. Bhedaghat Falls, Bhopal, Pachhmarhi
3. Darjeeling and Gangtok
4. Shillong and Guwahati
F) Websites visited daily:
1. Gmail
2. Yahoo! mail
3. Google Reader
4. Macbytes
G) Four of my favorite foods (we are not a healthy eater, are we?):
1. Puri-sabji/Chole-Bhature
2. Walnuts (they are a food, aren’t they?)
3. Curd rice with pickle (comfort food!!!)
4. Potato fry
H) Four places I would rather be right now (I’d be just the same misery wherever I was!):
1. In a world where I would have done so many things so differently
2. With cats
3.
4.
I) Four people I’m tagging with this questionnaire:
1. You there, behind the potted palm
2. Reader #1.46
3. Accidental googler – yes, that means you!
4. Caught you!
And now I go back to manfully (womanfully?) ploughing through the thousands of blog posts in my Google Reader…Just managed to catch up with my mails. Crochet Partners is always the most prolific. And then I’ll have to get back to knittyboard, not to mention Crochetville. Sigh. (You notice I’m being too lazy to even bother linking to any of these places.)
Stolen from Sara.
| True English Nerd
You scored 86 erudition! |
| Not only do you know your subjects from your objects and your definite from your indefinite articles, but you’ve got quite a handle on the literature and the history of the language as well. Huzzah, and well done! The English snobs of Boston salute you. |
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My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender:
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| Link: The Are You Truly Erudite? Test written by okellelala on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test |
Now, if only I looked anything at all like either of those ladies 😉 Although I can match the upper one for slouching lounging 😀
I’ve joined the Dishcloth KAL (can be CAL, too) and can’t wait to start my first one. Acrylics have been certified as acceptable, so Off I’ll Go!Wheeee.
Here’s the button:
about the outcome, but I really loved taking this quiz. And here is my result:
Which Extremity of the World Are You?
From the towering colossi at Rum and Monkey.
I suppose I am a bit dry 😉
I shot this video of some kittens I spent time with in Chilika. Trying to see if I can embed the video here:
Nope, doesn’t seem to work. So here’s a link instead: Kittens
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