The first five people to respond to this post will get something made by me! My choice. For you.
This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:
1) I make no guarantees that you will like what I make;
2) It’ll be done this year;
3) You have no clue what it’s going to be. It could be anything, [...]
Well, since everybody else is playing:
1. when you live in the world, it gets into who you thought you’d be
2. oh buccaneer, can you help me put my truck in gear
3. she slept like she’d never been scared
4. all your sanity and wits they will all vanish Start Wearing Purple by [...]
I ran out of things to do at work so I started reading through some of my blog archives. It was interesting to note what things had changed (I’m no longer so afraid of my parents’ opinions of me, for one thing) and what things hadn’t (I still need physical human contact in my [...]
Shakespeare meme, ganked from Mirabai.
Quotation from Much Ado About Nothing, probably slightly truncated due to my frequent watching of the Kenneth Branagh movie.
Beatrice: I wonder, signior, that you will still be talking. Nobody marks you.
Benedick: What? My dear lady Disdain? Are you yet living?
Bea: Is it possible Disdain should [...]
Ok, fine, I’ll play along.
1. Packing up, shacking up’s all you wanna do
2. When did dress up turn to fashion?
Throw your gown
up and down
3. This baker’s boy from the West country
Would join the Royal Society
Sailing to Philadelphia by Mark Knopfler, almost gotten by Moss
4. There’s a song that they sing of [...]
(idea swiped from Mirabai)
1. What did you do in 2004 that you’d never done before?
I was kicked out of school for the first (and hopefully last) time ever. Worked my way back in too. Also, I’d never gone busking before this year.
2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you [...]
My seven dream Jeopardy! categories (idea stolen from Mirabai):
The American Civil War
Tolkien Trivia
The History of the English Language
Name That Irish Folk Tune
Herb Lore of the Common Kitchen Garden
Medieval Fashions
Meet the Muppets
Well, since all the cool kids are doing it….
1. Never before and never since, I promise, will the whole world be as warm as this Dragon: These Are the Days, 10,000 Maniacs
2. I had a beer and now I hear you calling out for me
3. Now I gotta say that it’s not [...]
No one is going to learn how to make shark’s fin soup because they want to.
–Nanny Ogg’s Cookbook: A Useful and Improving Almanack of Information including Astonishing Recipes from Terry Pratchett’s Discworld
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal [...]
create your own visited states map
or write about it on the open travel guide
Wow. I really am a Coast Girl.