Oh hey, sometimes I forget that anyone out there's reading. So imagine my shock when Meggs tagged me for a Liebster Blog Award -- like, weeks ago. I'm a bum who took forever to post the damn thing, but this is exciting. First, I've got all these fellow tagged bloggers to check out + who doesn't love answering questions about themselves? Seriously.
The Rules:
1. Each person must post 11 things about themselves.
2. Answer the questions the tagger set for you, PLUS create 11 questions for the people you tag.
3. Tag 11 other bloggers with less than 200 followers, go to their page and let them know you've tagged them.
4. No tag backs.
1. I've been a skier for as long as I can remember.
2. By the time I was 2 years old, I knew all the words to Bob Marley's Legend album.
3. I once drove solo NY to CO, and back to NY, couchsurfing and Walmart-parking-lot-sleeping along the way.
4. Sixteen of my eighteen years of schooling occured in Catholic schools.
5. "I believe in god, only I spell it nature," and u-n-i-v-e-r-s-e.
6. Stuck somewhere between hippie, skibum, & hayseed.
7. Heritage: Irish, Lithuanian, German, French, Scottish, English.
8. My nails are always painted; turquoise is my go-to color.
9. Um, well I'm not really sure how to put this.. but uh, yea.. four twenty.
10. I have one boob implant. (Result of a freak breast assymetry remedied when I was 20.)
11. I adore the tiny house movement and would love to build a little Fencl of my own.
11 Questions from Meggs of Live Well and Breathe:
1. What's your favourite book?
I'm a huge Beat era nerd, so Minor Characters by Joyce Johnson (one of Jack Kerouac's early girlfriends) comes to mind immediately. Well, it might not be my favorite of all time, but I loved it. During a rough patch a few years ago, it was exactly what I needed to read, and spoke so many of the words I wanted to say. I haven't revisited it since, but I'm sure I will! Here's one of my favorite quotes from the book: "But has it become my own madness not to have outgrown those years when the door first swung open on a world I never managed to explore as completely as I longed to?"
2. What's your favourite way to relax?
This is a toss up between two pretty different things. #1 is lying near the water with a book. (I'll take a lake over the ocean, but either is lovely.) Oh and if a hammock's available, even better. #2 includes a sunny day, country radio, my car, my camera, and wide open rural roads. I love to explore.
3. What's your best advice?
If it's not helping, it's hindering. This relates to a cluttered junk drawer, a stale relationship, unneccessary fears.. anything really.
4. What's one thing about yourself you like?
I like my independence. I take pride in the things I've done all by myself. Mostly, my solitude is a result of being interested in things no one else cares to do, which is totally ok with me. I don't expect even the best of my friends to get excited about the prospect of driving for 2000 miles, or waking up at the ass-crack of dawn to spend the day throwing themselves down a mountain. I was ostracized as a kid, and live in an area where my interests are -- I don't know... not the norm? So doing my own thing started early and stuck with me. I almost never go anywhere (by car) as someone else's passenger, either. I like to the be in charge of myself (though I take on as many passengers as Connie'll allow). I always have my own vehicle, and I hate to drive in convoy.
5. What's the last thing you did that you think back to fondly?
I don't even have to think that far back. All of my ski days this year (only 5 so far) are super fond memories. Also, I'm fond of the ice cream I made from scratch on last week! Ice cream's my favorite... it's a problem, really.
6. What's one thing you're determined to learn?
Hooping skills. I wrote about receiving my hoop as a gift back in August, and haven't made a ton of progress since. But I will, really! When the snow thaws and nights are not so nippy, I'll be back in the park working it out.
7. What's the thing you're best at making?
This is the last question I answered because it took forever to figure out what it is -- 'cause I'm fairly skilled at a whole bunch of things. But I guess if I'm being real, what sets me apart from others based on my ability is braids. I'm really good at "making" braids in my own hair. [see instagram for a few examples] I do inside out french, one-sided, fishtails, 4-strand, waterfalls, all the fun stuff. I'm not that good at giving them to other people, though.
8. What's your favourite place to be?
Away from the city.
9. What's something big you're planning to do this year?
Well, it's not THAT big, but I want to go pond skimming at the end of the ski season. If you don't know what that is, youtube it. It's absolutely ridiculous, and I've been wanting to do it for years -- especially in some sort of costume, yet to be determined. Also, this.
10. What's the first thing you do when you wake up?
I don't have much of a routine. I guess after making my way to the bathroom I usually beeline for a cup of coffee (in cooler weather), or morning smoothie (when it's warm) and open up my laptop.
11. What's the last dream you had that you remember?
Isn't this terrible? I barely remember my dreams, like at all. I don't know what it is... I know I used to, they just haven't been as vivid in recent years. Usually I'll only remember one person who was "there," though not much of what went on. Most recently my dart friend Jay was in a dream, but I couldn't tell you why! So vague..
I Tag:
Laura [Girl in Flight] ▲ Richelle [We Shall Fly] ▲ Kelley [A Crooked Trail] ▲ Anna [Photographs and Memories] ▲ Haley [Haley Here]
▲ Bridget [Folk Ties] ▲ Lou [Stars In Jars] ▲ Claire [Be Earthwise] ▲ MacKenzie [Soul Makes] ▲ Stefanie [Living Deliberately]
My Questions:
1. When someone says, "Wow, [your name here], that's so YOU," what do they usually mean?
2. Have you moved residences often in your life?
3. What's your favorite active/athletic passtime?
4. What would you consider your most peaceful time of day?
5. Where do you fall in the birth order of your family (only child, first born, etc.)?
6. Do you have a favorite TV show?
7. What's one of the most adventurous things you've done in the past year?
8. If funds were not an issue, and you found yourself at the airport tonight, a week's vacation ahead of you -- where would you fly?
9. Do you have any favorite names?
10. What's your general "uniform" of dress?
11. What do you want to be when you grow up?
If any of you tagged ladies end up participating drop me a comment with the link! I'd love to see your answers.
