{"id":468,"date":"2006-04-26T11:48:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-26T11:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=468"},"modified":"2006-04-26T11:48:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-26T11:48:00","slug":"the-abcs-of-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2006\/04\/26\/the-abcs-of-meme\/","title":{"rendered":"The ABCs of Me(me)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh look, it’s another meme from Phantom Scribbler<\/a>. Plus, I got tagged by Ren\u00c3\u00a9e of Froggie Mom<\/a> on the ‘weird facts about me’ meme, and these two dovetailed nicely.<\/p>\n

Accent<\/strong>: Not that I know of, but when I first moved here I was told I had a Toronto accent. Eh?<\/p>\n

Booze<\/strong>: Not usually. I’ll have a glass of wine or a beer on the odd social occasion, but alcohol is a big migraine trigger for me, and a three-day hangover is rarely worth it. My brother is slowly educating me on the world of good red wines.<\/p>\n

Chore I hate<\/strong>: washing lettuce. (Really, I despise washing lettuce. Don’t mind washing peppers, or cukes, or whatever, but I really hate washing lettuce.) Cleaning the backyard of poop-dogs <\/a>in the spring. Ironing. Making the bed.<\/p>\n

Dog or cat:<\/strong> yes. One of each. I am admittedly a dog person, and not nearly so cruel to my pets as some people <\/a>might have you believe.<\/p>\n

Essential electronics<\/strong>: laptop. TV. Coffe maker. Hairdryer. Simon’s CD player for lullabyes.<\/p>\n

Favorite cologne(s):<\/strong> eau de fresh-washed preschooler (tied for first with eau de fresh-washed Beloved).
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Gold or silver:<\/strong> yes please. Rubies and diamonds, too. (My wedding rings are white gold with yellow gold detail, and my heirloom ring from my mother is white gold with a ruby.) But silver looks nice on me, too, especially in the summer.<\/p>\n

Hometown<\/strong>: I was born in London, Ontario but after 18 years I guess I now call Ottawa home.<\/p>\n

Insomnia<\/strong>: Sometimes. But not lately.<\/p>\n

Job title<\/strong>: Senior communications advisor. <\/p>\n

Kids<\/strong>: Yep. Two now, maybe more by this time next year???<\/p>\n

Living arrangements<\/strong>: nuclear family with grandparents the perfect distance of a 20-minute walk away.<\/p>\n

Most admirable trait<\/strong>: Infernal optimist.<\/p>\n

Number of sexual partners<\/strong>: You really want to know? This is personal stuff – promise you won’t think me a tramp, okay? Three.<\/p>\n

Overnight hospital stays<\/strong>: Two, one for each baby. Two nights for Tristan, one for Simon. Trips to the ER? Countless.<\/p>\n

Phobias<\/strong>: This could be a whole post unto itself. Executive summary: things that grow (weeds, some more than others), things that rot (mould), things with wings or more than four legs (insects – again, some more than others; spiders are fine, but junebugs terrify me), things that go bump in the night, inanimate objects coming to life, lightswitches that don’t work…<\/p>\n

Quote<\/strong>: “My theory on housework is, if the item doesn’t multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?” (Erma Bombeck)<\/p>\n

Religion<\/strong>: Recovering Catholic.<\/p>\n

Siblings<\/strong>: One brother, five years younger and six inches taller than me. <\/p>\n

Time I wake up<\/strong>: Between five-thirty and six. Big improvements since daylight savings <\/a>time, so much so I’m reluctant to see it in type!!<\/p>\n

Unusual talent or skill<\/strong>: I can clap with one hand.<\/p>\n

Vegetable I refuse to eat<\/strong>: Hmmm, nothing comes to mind. There are plenty of which I’m not overly fond, but I don’t think I’d outright refuse to eat any vegetable.<\/p>\n

Worst habit<\/strong>: I leave things wherever I happen to be when I lose interest in them or get distracted by something else (as opposed to putting them away), and then become pathologically oblivious to them. I also hate clutter. This is a very bad combination.<\/p>\n

X-rays<\/strong>: Teeth. Lungs for pneumonia. CAT scan for headaches when I was a teen. Probably various limbs during trips to the ER when I was a kid, but nothing stands out in my memory.<\/p>\n

Yummy foods I make<\/strong>: Guacamole (my mother and Simon fight over it). Chicken fajitas on the barbeque. Peppered steak brochettes with grilled veggies.<\/p>\n

Zodiac sign<\/strong>: If you’ve read more than three of my posts, this is almost as obvious as the question about how many kids I have. Leo, of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oh look, it’s another meme from Phantom Scribbler. Plus, I got tagged by Ren\u00c3\u00a9e of Froggie Mom on the ‘weird facts about me’ meme, and these two dovetailed nicely. Accent: Not that I know of, but when I first moved here I was told I had a Toronto accent. Eh? Booze: Not usually. I’ll have … Continue reading “The ABCs of Me(me)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}