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About me, Anne of Avonlea, Chickens, Crying., Facts, Farm, Fun, Pygmy Goats, Sheep, Weddings
Today I was looking over my first and second posts of the year and it struck me that they both seemed so stiff. That’s a problem because I’m not a stiff person, but you wouldn’t know it from reading my blog.
Because really, a bunch of talk about outlines is fine coming from someone you know about, but from a boring stranger, it gets snooze-worthy pretty quickly.
So today I’m going back in time and playing a little game that we played when I was in first grade. It’s called “All About Me” and first I will tell you about myself, and then you all have to tell me about yourselves in return. Feels kind of selfish to talk so much about me, but when duty calls, duty calls. 🙂
Fact #1. One of my dreams is to own a wedding chapel in the only cluster of trees as far as the eye can see, on a prairie in the middle of nowhere.. I can spend hours looking at wedding websites and saving ideas and pictures of dresses, I love imagining all the weddings I’d help happen.
Fact #2. I’m going to live on a farm someday. I would love to have two chickens and a pygmy goat (I’m afraid of full sized goats), and a sheep.
Fact #3. If you want to see me talk my head off and completely act like a geek, ask me about the Romanovs, how my book is going, or Nikola Tesla. Don’t ever talk to me about Thomas Edison.
Fact #4. I get a stupid amount of pride out of doing what I call ‘manly things’ like climbing trees and mowing the lawn and lifting heavy objects.
Fact #5. My biggest fear is being perceived as unintelligent. I’d be called weird or smelly or annoying or ugly or anything else in the world rather than be called dumb.
Fact #6. So never call me a dumb blonde, or heads will roll.
Fact #7. If I was decently talented at it, I’d be an actress. Judging from the Anne of Avonlea movies I made with my sisters when we were kids, (which are filled with take after take of me rolling on the floor with incurable giggle fits), an acting career is nowhere in my future.
Fact #8. I hate attention. The slightest hint that I will have to speak in front of a group or have eyes drawn to me and my mind goes instantly blank. Maybe it’s a mercy that I can’t act.
Fact #9. I impulsively rearrange all of my earthly belongings every few months. My bedroom has been rearranged in a dozen different ways in the past five years, and if I need to get up the motivation to do something big, I rearrange my room and it clears my head so I can concentrate.
Fact #10. I cry at anything the least bit touching. If any person in any movie, tv show, book, movie trailer (the list goes on and on) shows the least bit of poignant emotion, I guarantee you that I will tear up. Sometimes I cry when I’m writing a sad scene, and it is during those moments that I know I am meant to be a writer.
Please, please tell me all about yourself in the comments section, no matter who you are, I want to hear about you!
And please, listen to this:
on thehomefrontandbeyond said:
Number 5 is on my list too
mselene said:
Fortunately, I don’t think anyone could say that about you. 😀
on thehomefrontandbeyond said:
why thank you–and the same thing can most certainly be said about you
tomwisk said:
Tesla was the leader in AC. Edison was a poser and a thief. You look at home on the ATV, so it follows that you’ll do good herding chickens. you hrd them right?
mselene said:
I’m glad you agree! I get so upset whenever I hear about Edison. It’s so sad that Tesla is one of the greatest, most innovative (probably the most innovative, in my opinion) minds in history, and most people don’t even know who he was.
Widdershins said:
Tesla is one of my heroes too … a crazy genius of the highest order.
I reckon a woman who can’t climb a tree or mow the lawn, or change a flat tire when she needs to is missing out on a whole lot of life.
mselene said:
Ah, I’m so glad to find more Tesla fans!
Avra-Sha Faohla said:
Hey, I didn’t think your other posts were snooze-worthy at all! But it’s lovely to get to know you anyway. 😉
mselene said:
Oh, I’m glad to hear they weren’t snooze-worthy! Talking about outlines is fascinating to me, so I’m happy I’m not the only one who gets some enjoyment out of it!
Lucas J. Draeger said:
I’m liking the Christmasy color of your nails in that book pic. 🙂
mselene said:
Why thank you!
Stacy said:
I also rearrange stuff ALL the time and am scared of big goats (I thought I was weird/crazy for that, I’ve never known anyone else with that fear!)
mselene said:
Stacy! Isn’t rearranging the best? It’s my other dream to build my own tiny house (google it, if you dare… I googled it and then spent three days straight looking at houses), so I don’t know how the whole rearranging every few months is going to fly in a 500 square foot house someday.
And goats. They’re so creepy! I feel like big goats just always look like they’re up to something nefarious. I don’t trust them.
mselene said:
Ps: I tried to comment on your blog but it kept deleting it. 😦 I’m excited to see your resolutions!
Shirley said:
Hello Ms. Mselene,
I have to apologize that I haven’t been keeping up on your blog and am just now tonight starting to get “caught up” and see what my talented and beautiful niece is up to. (Or is that beautifully talented?? Both, I reckon.)
I just wanted to say, first of all, I am so proud of you for following your dream in doing this blog! Hugs! Secondly, Minnesota has prairieland for your wedding chapel; and your Auntie has had dreams of some kind of wedding business too. Great minds think alike! Thirdly, you come by the whole farm thing and crying things quite honestly. 😉 Next, I have to be honest in saying that I have no idea who Tesla is. I’m sorry, I will have to Google it. But thank you for expanding my mind!
Keep on with your talents!
Love you!
Auntie Shirley
Shirley said:
I meant to put “hint, hint” after the comment about Minnesota having prairieland. 🙂
mselene said:
Thank you for reading a commenting, Auntie! Hugs and I am so honored by all your compliments!
Well, I do love me some Minnesota! 🙂 I call myself Auntie Crybaby sometimes too! 😉