Useful, random and untrue

by Cellobella on Monday, May 5, 2008

Dunsborough Sunrise

I really love this photo – straight out of the camera – the morning light is so buttery.

Guera tagged me for the eight random things meme with a twist. Now I’ve done the 8 random things meme before but not with a twist… but then, the next day, my new found blogging buddy Mrs M from New York Renovator tagged me with the 7 useful things about me meme and so I thought – randomly – that I would combine the two and do the:

7 Useful Things About Me Meme – with a twist!

And here’s the twist – one of these useful things about me is a lie. Guess in comments which one…

  1. I can’t sleep if my feet are cold. This is useful if you want me to go to sleep.
  2. I have made two teddy bears in my life. Just in case you need one made anytime.
  3. I am a fast reader, especially when I like the book. Need something read? Call me.
  4. I’m a very good navigator specialising in clear directions. Who needs TomTom? I can even do a BIM accent.
  5. I can make an excellent sponge. Afternoon tea anyone? I’m your girl.
  6. When it comes to Belbin’s personalities at work – I’m more your resource investigator.
  7. Having said that, I love me a good spreadsheet. Excel is my friend.

Okay there you go. Seven useful facts about me… well six facts and one fiction.

Which one is the fiction?

Who is tagged?

And I tag for those of you who are interested…

  1. Niki at her new version of Hot Water
  2. Hugamuga – my son… very interested in his useful facts!
  3. Hazelblackberrry at A Bex and a Good Lie Down
  4. Ken Armstrong from Ken Armstrong Writing Stuff
  5. M from EasternMax
  6. Simone from Simone Van Hattem
  7. Karen Cheng from Karen Cheng’s Snippets of Life

Now just to make life a little more interesting one of these blogs is not like the others… can you pick the odd one out?

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Tagged as: facts, Memes, Random, useful

{ 14 comments }

Mrs. Mecomber May 6, 2008 at 4:50 am

Thanks for doing the meme! It’s a great way to get to know each other. I LOVE the little twist to it! LOL, you may be starting something new.

I’m going to guess– and this is a wildly wild guess– that #7 is fiction. Who could possibly love Excel?!?!?!?!
:D

Guera May 6, 2008 at 6:09 am

Oooh, tricky! I’m going to go 7 too, although I do like a good spreadsheet myself.

Ken Armstrong May 6, 2008 at 6:42 am

I got tagged!!

(does this mean I can’t leave the house?)

I’ll take a punt and number 3 – aren’t you a slow reader? Wasn’t it you who took seven-and-a-half months over that Poisonwood Bible thingie?

P’rhaps not. :)

Fairlie May 6, 2008 at 9:38 am

I’m (wildly) guessing No. 5. Who can make an excellent sponge nowadays?

river May 6, 2008 at 1:43 pm

I don’t know you well enough to make a guess here, but in your tagged list I’d say hugamuga is the one not like the others.
Fairlie? — I can make an excellent sponge.

M May 6, 2008 at 4:35 pm

Oh, I’m guessing the spreadsheet thingy. I’m thinking excel is not your friend.

Thanks for the tag, I’ll get to it once I am over the BLUR that is the school mother’s day breakfast (400 people coming at last count and guess which patsy is organising?!)

Groover May 7, 2008 at 1:20 pm

OK…..I KNOW that this statement is wrong:

“I’m a very good navigator specialising in clear directions”

Not knowing the difference between left and right (without applying some thought to the decision) is a problem.

Unless the clear directions are “You should have taken the turning back there” and the navigation is “I’ll recognise it when we get there”

Cellobella May 7, 2008 at 7:56 pm

Thanks everyone for commenting – I’ve been absolutely LOVING reading your guesses.

Ken – I’m a pretty fast reader. I think you were thinking of someone else. :)

Groover – I asked you specifically if you thought I was a good navigator and you said YES despite my left/right handicap. So get back in your box. Kiss.

Mrs M, Guera, M – tee hee sadly – I really do like spreadsheets… as long as they don’t relate to my personal financial position… oh the horror!

And Fairlie – you rock! I have tried and tried but the closest I’ve come is a shortcake. Tasty but not so light.

River – I need your sponge recipe!!

And as for the odd one out in my links list… well yes Hugamuga is the only family member but in fact the answer is Ken – the only international on the list… all the others have links to WA.

Thanks again,
CB xx

Ken Armstrong May 7, 2008 at 8:31 pm

Ahhh! I actually thought of me and then dismissed the thought :)

I will do that seven useful things ‘thing’ shortly – at the moment, I’m up to one.

Cellobella May 7, 2008 at 8:42 pm

Well you’re a pretty useful playwright. :)

Felicity May 7, 2008 at 11:56 pm

Oh how I wish my kitchen looked this nice… it is hard when there are 2 elderly people in the same house and love ‘clutter’… argh!!!

Ken Armstrong May 8, 2008 at 6:52 am

Yeah… that’s one :) (kidding)

I did it anyway. Thanks for tagging me – I had a laugh, even if nobody else does!!

I was toying with the idea of starting a meme along the lines of ‘Who do you know that i know?’ wherein I would pick seven bloggers and name someone from their home town who I know -just to see if they knew them too.

It’s an Irish thing.

Simone May 8, 2008 at 11:02 am

hehe, cool twist.

Mmm, I’ll get round to doing this… one day… I should do some different posts first between this and the last 8 random things one :D
I still need to blog about Barcamp Perth 2.0… which is in 2 days….!!

M May 11, 2008 at 3:04 pm

My version of this meme will be posted by 9am EST tomorrow.

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