Useful, random and untrue
Cellobella | Monday, May 5th, 2008 | Comments Off
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…
- I can’t sleep if my feet are cold. This is useful if you want me to go to sleep.
- I have made two teddy bears in my life. Just in case you need one made anytime.
- I am a fast reader, especially when I like the book. Need something read? Call me.
- I’m a very good navigator specialising in clear directions. Who needs TomTom? I can even do a BIM accent.
- I can make an excellent sponge. Afternoon tea anyone? I’m your girl.
- When it comes to Belbin’s personalities at work – I’m more your resource investigator.
- 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…
- Niki at her new version of Hot Water
- Hugamuga – my son… very interested in his useful facts!
- Hazelblackberrry at A Bex and a Good Lie Down
- Ken Armstrong from Ken Armstrong Writing Stuff
- M from EasternMax
- Simone from Simone Van Hattem
- 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?
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?!?!?!?!
Oooh, tricky! I’m going to go 7 too, although I do like a good spreadsheet myself.
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.
I’m (wildly) guessing No. 5. Who can make an excellent sponge nowadays?
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.
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?!)
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”
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
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.
Well you’re a pretty useful playwright.
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!!!
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.
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
I still need to blog about Barcamp Perth 2.0… which is in 2 days….!!
My version of this meme will be posted by 9am EST tomorrow.