Marnie, speak! Good girl.

This is a short quiz of personality traits. I would guess that to be truly accurate, it should probably be three or four times longer, but as a diversion before, after or during work, as the case may be, it's amusing.

Here's my score. You can get the whole description of my insanity from the link below.

Check out my personality profile!
Apparently, no matter what score you get, you always get a link back to the wrong profile. Odd, the test is fun to take, though, so if you want to try it for yourself, click here. Thanks for the heads-up, Julia

For more information about the Personality Project, click here.

Well, they didn't single me out or anything, but it is an amusing meme

I've caught another meme Instructions: Remove the blog in the top spot from the following list and bump everyone up one place. Then add your blog to the bottom slot.
making

step into my thimble

absinthe knits

bird's nest knits

Marnie Talks

Select 5 people to tag

What were you doing 10 years ago?

What were you doing 1 year ago?

What were you doing 1 hour ago?

Knitting a commissioned hat for the Knit Cafe

List five creative things you want to achieve this year:

List five snacks you enjoy:

There are oh-so-many that I like.

• Mixed nuts (easy on the peanuts, please)


• Raw veggies


• Cheese and crackers


• Fresh bread


• Dark Chocolate

List five things you would do if money were no object:

• Help all my friends pay off their school dept.


• Quit my job and go back to school full time. First I'd get my undergraduate and then my masters. For what, I don't know.


• Get a place with a yard and a brother or sister for little Panda.


• Travel around the world.


• Buy a spinning wheel.

List five bad habits:

• I procrastinate when it comes to cleaning.


• I err on the side of efficiency instead of accuracy, when I'm not completely engaged in what I'm doing.


• I am risk and confrontation averse, which sometimes makes me a bit of a doormat.


• I tend to be an unfairly harsh judge of myself.


• I don't ever really yell in anger, so I end up crying which people seem to find unnerving.

List five things you like doing:

I won't name the obvious, since most of you know my crafty interests

• Learning new things


• Reading about science


• Intellectual debates that challenge my preconceived notions


• Watching Cartoons


• Eating great food

List five favorite gadgets:

• Digital camera


• Apple computers


• Knitting machine


• Rice cooker


• Sewing machine

Name one thing you like about yourself:

I originally saw this little meme at Six And A Half Stitches and tracked it back to Logtar. It's simple, really, just write any ol' pangram you like, in your own handwriting, and sign it. Post the pic and leave a comment back at Logtar.

So here's my entry. I actually normally prefer black ink to blue. In pen choice, I like a not-too-fine tip. My handwriting is, overall, rather poor, but what I lack in general penmanship, I make up for in flourish. Most of my capital letters have large swoopy bits. This is not something I added for the meme, I write this way all the time, though generally, the lowercase letters are slightly less well formed. When I'm trying to be very very clear, I actually write in small caps.

There's no tagging with this meme, just go ahead and do it yourself.

Take my quiz*, then make your own. You can have as many or few questions as you like. If you have a better quiz utility, use it.

No tagging, just take the meme if you want it. If you decide to do a quiz yourself, drop a comment here so I know.

*Idea stolen from my brother.

One Word Meme

Rules: Please leave a one-word comment that you think best describes me — it can only be one word long. Then copy and paste this into your blog so that I may leave a word about you.

Found: All over the internet.

Reward: Comment that makes me laugh most by the end of day Friday, will win a prize from my stash. (either yarn or roving, to be decided by winner.) Made up words with definitions will be counted.

Well, you guys really know how to crack a girl up. There were so many hilarious replies that I just couldn't pick, so I decided to enlist the help of a random number generator to pick a winner.

The lucky commenter is: Leah with the word supercreativepurpleiciouspuppylovin'. She's been contacting and will be receiving a surprise sometime soon.

Patty has tagged me for the 5 Weird Things meme, going around.

The rules are:

• Someone Tags you


• You post 5 things about yourself that you haven't already mentioned on your blog


• You tag 5 people about whom you'd like to know more I open the meme to all of you who are interested in playing. Consider yourself tagged.

Here's the thing, I feel like I pretty much tell you guys everything I'd be comfortable telling you. It's always good to keep a little mystery in the relationship, right? So I figured, if I think I've revealed all my weird, maybe there are things I just haven't noticed are weird about myself. So I asked Leo and my mom to come up with some things they think are weird about me. I've weeded out things I've mentioned here before. I know it's supposed to be 5 things, but since I got these from two different people, I'm rounding up to 6 total, 3 from each.

Leo

• I like my chocolate frozen. Well, if not frozen, definitely refrigerated. While I'm aware that all chocolate authorities, insist that chocolate, like cheese and red wine, should be served at room temperature, I find it highly distasteful to have my chocolate melting on my fingers. I refrigerate most of my chocolate and freeze certain varieties. Oh and I prefer dark, thanks for asking.


• Leo's never seen me wear a mini skirt.
I think I've mentioned that I'm not really a skirt person, though I own a few, but it's true, the only ones I have are at least knee length.

• I have more gray hair than Leo does, despite the fact that he's 9 years older.
I started finding gray hairs in my late teens and I've been getting more salt and less pepper, since then. It hasn't really started bothering me yet. What can I say?

Mom

• Was a "polar bear" (i.e, dove into the cold morning water) at summer
  camp but now puts on her woolies when the temps drop to 60.
  Actually, I bundle up right around 70 degrees. What's your point?


• First word was "mine!" yet grew up to be very generous. I was obviously referring to chocolate, about which I've never been generous.


• Looks delicate and fragile but can lift large pieces of furniture. Hmm, well, I'm not sure if the current state of my caboose could be described as "delicate" but I've always been able to hold my own when it comes time to lug boxes into moving vans.

My friend Kat tagged me for the 8 random things. I've done 100 things about myself and some other memes, and covered a lot of ground, but since this is "8 random things" I'm not going to talk about my idiosyncrasies, per se, instead, I'm just going to tell you 8 random stories from my life. If you know me well, in real life, you've probably heard some or all of these, but I think they will all be new to most of you. Some of them are sort of sad, some are funny, they all stick with me as meaningful moments in my life; times when I learned something about myself or about other people.

1. As a very young child, my parents had cars with vinyl seats. In the hot days of summer, sans air conditioning, we'd drive to various and sundry locations and, inevitably, my skin would adhere to those seats. When time would come to exit the vehicle, extracting myself from the seat was often painful.

   Come Christmas season, my parents put a cute little dress on me and brought me to the mall to sit on Santa's lap. Suddenly, out of nowhere, I got it in my head that, because I was wearing a short shirt, I would end up sticking to Santa's lap. The thought horrified me. As we neared Santa, I burst into tears. My parents had no idea what had come over me./li>

   More after the bump

This is a short quiz of personality traits. I would guess that to be truly accurate, it should probably be three or four times longer, but as a diversion before, after or during work, as the case may be, it's amusing.

Here's my score. You can get the whole description of my insanity from the link below.

Check out my personality profile!
Apparently, no matter what score you get, you always get a link back to the wrong profile. Odd, the test is fun to take, though, so if you want to try it for yourself, click here. Thanks for the heads-up, Julia

For more information about the Personality Project, click here.

Well, they didn't single me out or anything, but it is an amusing meme

I've caught another meme Instructions: Remove the blog in the top spot from the following list and bump everyone up one place. Then add your blog to the bottom slot.
making

step into my thimble

absinthe knits

bird's nest knits

Marnie Talks

Select 5 people to tag

What were you doing 10 years ago?

What were you doing 1 year ago?

What were you doing 1 hour ago?

Knitting a commissioned hat for the Knit Cafe

List five creative things you want to achieve this year:

List five snacks you enjoy:

There are oh-so-many that I like.

• Mixed nuts (easy on the peanuts, please)


• Raw veggies


• Cheese and crackers


• Fresh bread


• Dark Chocolate

List five things you would do if money were no object:

• Help all my friends pay off their school dept.


• Quit my job and go back to school full time. First I'd get my undergraduate and then my masters. For what, I don't know.


• Get a place with a yard and a brother or sister for little Panda.


• Travel around the world.


• Buy a spinning wheel.

List five bad habits:

• I procrastinate when it comes to cleaning.


• I err on the side of efficiency instead of accuracy, when I'm not completely engaged in what I'm doing.


• I am risk and confrontation averse, which sometimes makes me a bit of a doormat.


• I tend to be an unfairly harsh judge of myself.


• I don't ever really yell in anger, so I end up crying which people seem to find unnerving.

List five things you like doing:

I won't name the obvious, since most of you know my crafty interests

• Learning new things


• Reading about science


• Intellectual debates that challenge my preconceived notions


• Watching Cartoons


• Eating great food

List five favorite gadgets:

• Digital camera


• Apple computers


• Knitting machine


• Rice cooker


• Sewing machine

Name one thing you like about yourself:

I originally saw this little meme at Six And A Half Stitches and tracked it back to Logtar. It's simple, really, just write any ol' pangram you like, in your own handwriting, and sign it. Post the pic and leave a comment back at Logtar.

So here's my entry. I actually normally prefer black ink to blue. In pen choice, I like a not-too-fine tip. My handwriting is, overall, rather poor, but what I lack in general penmanship, I make up for in flourish. Most of my capital letters have large swoopy bits. This is not something I added for the meme, I write this way all the time, though generally, the lowercase letters are slightly less well formed. When I'm trying to be very very clear, I actually write in small caps.

There's no tagging with this meme, just go ahead and do it yourself.

Take my quiz*, then make your own. You can have as many or few questions as you like. If you have a better quiz utility, use it.

No tagging, just take the meme if you want it. If you decide to do a quiz yourself, drop a comment here so I know.

*Idea stolen from my brother.

Well, you guys really know how to crack a girl up. There were so many hilarious replies that I just couldn't pick, so I decided to enlist the help of a random number generator to pick a winner.

The lucky commenter is: Leah with the word supercreativepurpleiciouspuppylovin'. She's been contacting and will be receiving a surprise sometime soon.

One Word Meme

Rules: Please leave a one-word comment that you think best describes me — it can only be one word long. Then copy and paste this into your blog so that I may leave a word about you.

Found: All over the internet.

Reward: Comment that makes me laugh most by the end of day Friday, will win a prize from my stash. (either yarn or roving, to be decided by winner.) Made up words with definitions will be counted.

Patty has tagged me for the 5 Weird Things meme, going around.

The rules are:

• Someone Tags you


• You post 5 things about yourself that you haven't already mentioned on your blog


• You tag 5 people about whom you'd like to know more I open the meme to all of you who are interested in playing. Consider yourself tagged.

Here's the thing, I feel like I pretty much tell you guys everything I'd be comfortable telling you. It's always good to keep a little mystery in the relationship, right? So I figured, if I think I've revealed all my weird, maybe there are things I just haven't noticed are weird about myself. So I asked Leo and my mom to come up with some things they think are weird about me. I've weeded out things I've mentioned here before. I know it's supposed to be 5 things, but since I got these from two different people, I'm rounding up to 6 total, 3 from each.

Leo

• I like my chocolate frozen. Well, if not frozen, definitely refrigerated. While I'm aware that all chocolate authorities, insist that chocolate, like cheese and red wine, should be served at room temperature, I find it highly distasteful to have my chocolate melting on my fingers. I refrigerate most of my chocolate and freeze certain varieties. Oh and I prefer dark, thanks for asking.


• Leo's never seen me wear a mini skirt.
I think I've mentioned that I'm not really a skirt person, though I own a few, but it's true, the only ones I have are at least knee length.

• I have more gray hair than Leo does, despite the fact that he's 9 years older.
I started finding gray hairs in my late teens and I've been getting more salt and less pepper, since then. It hasn't really started bothering me yet. What can I say?

Mom

• Was a "polar bear" (i.e, dove into the cold morning water) at summer
  camp but now puts on her woolies when the temps drop to 60.
  Actually, I bundle up right around 70 degrees. What's your point?


• First word was "mine!" yet grew up to be very generous. I was obviously referring to chocolate, about which I've never been generous.


• Looks delicate and fragile but can lift large pieces of furniture. Hmm, well, I'm not sure if the current state of my caboose could be described as "delicate" but I've always been able to hold my own when it comes time to lug boxes into moving vans.

My friend Kat tagged me for the 8 random things. I've done 100 things about myself and some other memes, and covered a lot of ground, but since this is "8 random things" I'm not going to talk about my idiosyncrasies, per se, instead, I'm just going to tell you 8 random stories from my life. If you know me well, in real life, you've probably heard some or all of these, but I think they will all be new to most of you. Some of them are sort of sad, some are funny, they all stick with me as meaningful moments in my life; times when I learned something about myself or about other people.

1. As a very young child, my parents had cars with vinyl seats. In the hot days of summer, sans air conditioning, we'd drive to various and sundry locations and, inevitably, my skin would adhere to those seats. When time would come to exit the vehicle, extracting myself from the seat was often painful.

   Come Christmas season, my parents put a cute little dress on me and brought me to the mall to sit on Santa's lap. Suddenly, out of nowhere, I got it in my head that, because I was wearing a short shirt, I would end up sticking to Santa's lap. The thought horrified me. As we neared Santa, I burst into tears. My parents had no idea what had come over me./li>

   More after the bump