Day Four: Seven things
on May 10 in Uncategorized by Dan
LA Daddy recently posted an open ended tag for the “7 things about me” meme that’s been doing the rounds recently. As I have no other memes pending at the moment (apart from yours Hygiene Dad, I’ll do yours next) I thought I’d take him up on it.
- Fact: I have spent a total of nine years in higher education, six of those full time, yet my highest qualification is only a honors degree. If you rearrange the letters I am entitled to put after my name you come up with Snobs mind shop branch. I am yet to discover the cryptic significance of that phrase, but enlightenment will be mine one day.
- Habit: I am nearly incapable of remembering to shut cupboard doors once I have got something out of them, this applies to the fridge and the freezer doors too. This habit drives Kerry mad.
- Fact: I used to breed parakeets, extremely unsuccessfully. I only managed to raise two cockatiel chicks in around seven years. Perhaps I should have tried mating the same species together instead of striving for that Budgerigar / Emu hybrid.
- Habit: I frequently zone out when been given instructions. Even when I say “I’m listening” I’m probably not. And even if I am I will invariably have forgotten what it is I was told to do within around fifteen minutes. This habit drives Kerry mad.
- Fact: People have told me on a number of occasions that I have saved their lives. With one person I believe them.
- Habit: I leave the margarine tub out on the counter when I have finished using it, frequently without a lid on it. When challenged I claim that I hadn’t forgotten, I just was intending to come back and use it again shortly. This excuse is very rarely true and also very rarely believed. This habit drives Kerry mad.
- Fact: I can never bring myself to use abbreviations and txtspk when I use SMS. All my text messages must be in full english and properly punctuated, even if that means I have to pay for additional word usage.
So there you have it. I now tag Doc, Grumpy, Happy, Sneezy, Bashful, Sleepy, and Dopey
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Brilliant! I can identify with most of the habits.
Well, inasmuchas other people have them, and it drives me mad!
I can identify with 6 and 7 – I always leave the margarine tub out (but with the lid on) just in case I need to go back to it… I never do and should just put it away in the first place. And I always send text messages in long hand with full punctuation… I just can’t do it in txt spk!
Birds are aweseom. I’ve had cockatiels for and parakeets years but have never attempted to breed them. I have been successful however in breeding my own kids – so that’s something!
Hey, I saved a life once. Thanks- I needed a post idea.
I too zone out when being given instructions. When I know it’s something really important, I have to turn on the second voice in my head that says, “this is important! listen to this!” Except that voice ends up drowning out the voice of the person giving me instructions. It’s a vicious cycle.
Yeah, the scary thing for me is that my own internal voice sounds alarmingly like Homer Simpson’s.
I’m especially with you on number 7. Much easier to indulge with a phone with a keyboard. Though so many of my texts run on over three consecutive messages.
I too can not stand the whole concept of txtspk and end up having to punctuate and correctly write out each word, sometimes even running five texts long.
However, my complete inability to spell coupled with both five second attention span and my phone’s predictive text usually ends up with people getting no reply.
Have to agree with Sis on No.2. My old flat mate Dan (possibly something in the name?) always went one stage further with the whole not closing cupboard doors. Rather than leaving them wide open he would make an effort but still manage to leave them all about an inch open!
I once lived with a guy, I think he was the brother of my girlfriend, who used to work nightshifts but refused to go to bed during the day – he just slept on the sofa downstairs cluttering the living room up and snoring loudly.
Oh shit… that was you Neil.
:)