about me

Nina and Erina have both tagged me in this little game of "about me"...

We have to post these rules before we give you the facts.
*Players start with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
*People who are tagged write their own blog post about their eight things and include these rules.
*At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names. Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged and they should read your blog.

Here goes:

1. I love nature.
I love it. I love where I live and the fact that every day I see deer and their fawn in our fields. I love that there are hawks and eagles and osprey overhead, crabs and jellyfish in the brackish water, and muskrats in the pond. Toads hop all over. Foxes prance about. I get to enjoy it all.

2. I re-joined a gym.
I rejoined yesterday. I was feeling the need and with my new, improved, shorter commute, I decided that I can reallocate that hour and commit to working out again. I am already loving the return on the elliptical and looking forward to yoga again soon.

3. Classroom underway.
I am getting there. I am one of the few obsessed and nervous teachers that has been traipsing through the empty halls at school to make sure that things are ready at the beginning of the year. My bulletin boards are in process, my desks arranged, closets sorted, cupboards organized.

4. I am obsessed with To do lists.
I love them. I love making them, checking off completed items, updating them with a highlighter, finishing them and then moving on to a new list.

5. Stores give me the creeps.
I have a childlike fear of going to stores with other people and being left behind. Maybe its leftover from the days of Punky Brewster, but whenever I am in a store, I feel incredible anxiety if I lose sight of who I am with.

6. My blood is tasty.
Or so say the bugs. I get eaten all summer long.

7. I am listening to new music.
I have been working with rhapsody to develop some new playlists to listen to while sewing or cleaning or cooking. So far, I have a new folk-ish one and a reggae dancehall playlist, too. Imagine me, scooting about the apartment, to a deep bass beat.

8. I know the secret to rainy day fun.
Todd and I discovered it today. It involves big buckets of soapy bubbles, hoses, cars, washing the cars, and being drenched overhead by big drops of rain. It involves spraying each other and not caring because you are already soaked.

Okay, my turn.
I am tagging Todd again, although he may be a spoil-sport.
I am tagging Becky and Tracy because they need some new posts.
I am tagging Nicole and Blondie.
Its not 8, but it'll do.