13 random things about me:
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kareinaRe-posting from FB, since I went to the effort to type it at all, it may as well get dual use...
1. I so enjoy the beauty in order that I hang my clothes in my closet organized by colour, hue, and tone (this is easier than you might think, since most of them are dark blue or black, which is why hue and tone also need to come into play).
2. I love to sing and have a very good memory for the words and timing of songs and learn them quickly. Fortunately for the rest of the world, since moving to Sweden I have actually learned to carry a tune, too.
3. I am so fond of almonds that people who live with me and eat my cooking tend to get tired of them. I never do.
4. Over the course of my life I have typically moved to a new location around every three years; I moved to Sweden nearly three years ago, and now my current work contract is drawing to a close at the same time I am seeing interesting job advertisements in my field at universities here and there around the world. The reflex built up based on past patterns says I should be applying to all of them, but, on the other hand; perhaps I am ready to break the trend and actually stay in one place for a while?
5. While I consider myself sapiosexual, finding people more attractive for how they use their minds than what sort of package they come in, I do have an extreme weakness for the beauty of long hair, and have been known to cry when people cut theirs off.
6. While I normally move often, I did live in one house from the summer of 1977 to the spring of 1988, and am curious to see if I will ever manage to break that record.
7. I found the SCA when I was around 15 years old, and have never been in a romantic relationship with someone who wasn’t part of it (unless you count the “boyfriend” I had in Kindergarten).
8. I am an addicted re-reader—I tend to re-read three old favourite books before reading another new book. This trait has come in very handy for helping me learn Swedish—I don’t need to stop to look up new words when reading the Swedish version of those books!
9. When I was a child I enjoyed telling adults who were going on about the evils of living with someone before marriage that I had lived with my first boyfriend. Never mind that our mothers were roommates when I was a newborn (both of our dads were doing their TDY with the military), and he wasn’t my boyfriend till Kindergarten, it still counts.
10. My need to fidget helped me get better grades in school—on those days I forgot to bring a sewing or embroidery project to class I wound up daydreaming and didn’t remember what was discussed later, but on the days I stitched while listening and jotting down notes I could remember it all.
11. Winter is, by far, my favourite season—to the point that when I chose my SCA name, I picked a last name that means “winter daughter”. Needless to say, it is wonderful to once again be living far enough north that we have snow on the ground all winter long.
12. Thanksgiving weekend will mark 9 years of my doing yoga on a daily basis, and it still feels so good every day that I want to do it again the next day and I wonder why it took so many years before I started.
13. I gave it up eating commercially available meat when I figured out what was causing the issues with my digestion, and haven’t missed it; that was a decade ago, but I still don’t think of myself as a vegetarian.
If you can’t be bothered choosing your own number, leave me a comment and I will give you one.
1. I so enjoy the beauty in order that I hang my clothes in my closet organized by colour, hue, and tone (this is easier than you might think, since most of them are dark blue or black, which is why hue and tone also need to come into play).
2. I love to sing and have a very good memory for the words and timing of songs and learn them quickly. Fortunately for the rest of the world, since moving to Sweden I have actually learned to carry a tune, too.
3. I am so fond of almonds that people who live with me and eat my cooking tend to get tired of them. I never do.
4. Over the course of my life I have typically moved to a new location around every three years; I moved to Sweden nearly three years ago, and now my current work contract is drawing to a close at the same time I am seeing interesting job advertisements in my field at universities here and there around the world. The reflex built up based on past patterns says I should be applying to all of them, but, on the other hand; perhaps I am ready to break the trend and actually stay in one place for a while?
5. While I consider myself sapiosexual, finding people more attractive for how they use their minds than what sort of package they come in, I do have an extreme weakness for the beauty of long hair, and have been known to cry when people cut theirs off.
6. While I normally move often, I did live in one house from the summer of 1977 to the spring of 1988, and am curious to see if I will ever manage to break that record.
7. I found the SCA when I was around 15 years old, and have never been in a romantic relationship with someone who wasn’t part of it (unless you count the “boyfriend” I had in Kindergarten).
8. I am an addicted re-reader—I tend to re-read three old favourite books before reading another new book. This trait has come in very handy for helping me learn Swedish—I don’t need to stop to look up new words when reading the Swedish version of those books!
9. When I was a child I enjoyed telling adults who were going on about the evils of living with someone before marriage that I had lived with my first boyfriend. Never mind that our mothers were roommates when I was a newborn (both of our dads were doing their TDY with the military), and he wasn’t my boyfriend till Kindergarten, it still counts.
10. My need to fidget helped me get better grades in school—on those days I forgot to bring a sewing or embroidery project to class I wound up daydreaming and didn’t remember what was discussed later, but on the days I stitched while listening and jotting down notes I could remember it all.
11. Winter is, by far, my favourite season—to the point that when I chose my SCA name, I picked a last name that means “winter daughter”. Needless to say, it is wonderful to once again be living far enough north that we have snow on the ground all winter long.
12. Thanksgiving weekend will mark 9 years of my doing yoga on a daily basis, and it still feels so good every day that I want to do it again the next day and I wonder why it took so many years before I started.
13. I gave it up eating commercially available meat when I figured out what was causing the issues with my digestion, and haven’t missed it; that was a decade ago, but I still don’t think of myself as a vegetarian.
If you can’t be bothered choosing your own number, leave me a comment and I will give you one.