I’ve been tagged! Ron at The Wisdom Journal has tagged me for this meme.

 

Here are the Meme rules:

1. Link to your original tagger(s) and list these rules in your post.
2. Share seven facts about yourself in the post.
3. Tag seven people at the end of your post by leaving their names and the links to their blogs.
4. Let them know they’ve been tagged.

 

So, 7 things about me…

  1. I’m not quite 30 (next year).
  2. I enjoy doing crafts of all kinds, but my favourite is patchwork quilting. I prefer to hand sew, so some quilts take a couple of years to complete. It’s a proud moment to be able to sleep under a bedspread that you hand stitched yourself. I’ve recently discovered card making and scrapbooking – still trying to find a cheap way to do all these hobbies.
  3. I love to read. In high school I used to ‘wag’ school (particularly maths), just so I could read. Either that, or I hid books under the table so I could read without the teacher noticing. While I read anything and everything, my favourite is Thomas Hardy. I also like to cook.
  4. When I did my arts degree at Uni, I also studied to be a high school English/History teacher. My first experience teaching in a classroom convinced me that being in a room with 30 teenagers all day everyday was akin to hell on earth. I went on to do accounting instead.
  5. Some kids want to be firemen, other want to be hairdressers, as kid I wanted to be a hermit when I “grew up”. The idea of living in a cabin in the bush, growing my own vegies, having chooks and a cow and a few sheep, spending the day spinning wool and knitting, sewing, baking my own bread – my idea of heaven. I loved the BBC show “The Simple Life.” As an adult, my life is far, far from that ideal, but I still want to live that life…when I grow up.
  6. I also wanted to be a writer. When my year six teacher (the aptly named Mrs Warfield) asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, she promptly told me that I could never be a writer because I wasn’t good enough. I was 10. I stopped writing.
  7. I’m obsessed by learning new things. I designed this website by myself almost from scratch (sorry if there are a few bugs – still working on it :) ). I taught myself CSS and HTML and used the "starkers” theme which has no styling and minimal HTML and PHP. I built it pretty much line by line to what you see now. Before I started a year ago, I had only just learnt what a blog was and didn’t know anything about URLs, wordpress, ftp…and today I learnt what a meme is!

So, that’s it for me. Now I’m tagging:

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