Monday 13 May 2013

The Verstile Blogger Award... (Sort Of)

This bloggy land we all inhabit is full of really splendid souls. Two of them, Anna of The Dusty Attic and Katie of Hook, Line and Sink Her 'recently' kindly nominated this here space in said bloggy land for the Versatile Blogger Award. So a big thank you and a large slice of cake to you both. Sorry it's taken me this long to do anything about it.

I tend to cheat a little with these things. There are two reasons for this.

  1. I'm starting to run out of interesting facts about Yours Truly. I said interesting facts. There's loads more I could tell you, but it's really rather boring.
  2. I genuinely read so many blogs by amazing talented people that I can never choose which to recommend, nor can I remember who I have nominated in the past. I tend to save my gleeful celebrations of other bloggers for social media, as and when I come across their impressive blog posts.
So, to show my appreciation for the nominations I am going to dig deep and tell you seven more things about me, and then throw the spotlight out there to anyone else who wants to do the same. That way we can all learn lovely (or weird) facts about one another. 

So here goes...(actually, I can't promise this is going to be interesting):

1. I personify everything. Squirrels in the garden, the plants at work, my car... they all get names and I find myself doing voices for them at the most inappropriate moments.

Meet Alan.

2. My first job was as an Avon Lady. I was thirteen.

3. A subsequent job as a student was at Xtras - a chain selling cheap makeup, hair accessories, perfume and specialising in hair extensions. I hated it, and could never understand why in two years not one woman ever asked me where real hair extensions come from, or how. 

4. My eyes bleed. Really. The vessels behind my eyes hemorrhage every now and again. I spent years going for tests every few months and my eyes even appeared in medical forums (the fame!) but doctors concluded that it isn't dangerous unless I start getting serious headaches. Funnily enough, my eyesight is perfect, despite my parents both needing strong prescription glasses. 

5. I lived with a member of an African presidential family for three years. Should probably leave it at that.

6. My favourite word is 'moose'. Other favourites include 'cream', 'pom pom' and I find fish names like 'halibut', 'sturgeon' and 'cod' strangely hilarious. 

A moose. Also called Alan.
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7. I'm a whizz at the Dewey Classification System. My favourite number is 153.3 - the number for imagination and creativity. 


So now it's over to you! If you fancy sharing seven random facts about yourself, do go ahead, and be sure to let me know so I can have a nosy, and while you're at it, I can wholly recommend checking out the above two blogs if you haven't already.


25 comments:

  1. I absolutely adore the fact that you named your plant Alan. In fact that has made my day!! I don't always given my things a name to personify them, but I always imagine they have a personality or quirky character (Oh god I sound like a mad woman) Some really interesting facts! I know how hard it is to be creative with these sort of Q&A posts. You should do a random facts about Beatrix post :) xx

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    1. You and me can be mad women together ;) Beatrix does have some pretty strange habits and quirks, so perhaps you're right! x

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  2. What a great post! I really enjoyed getting to know you better! :-)
    Carly
    x

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    1. Thanks Carly, good to show off the weird every now and again! x

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  3. Love this post! And well done for finding 7 very interesting facts about yourself ;).

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    1. Seriously running out now, I may have to resort to telling you all about my favourite breakfast cereals next time! x

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  4. Anna you are many things! Boring is most definitely NOT one of them :-)

    I never knew you were an Avon lady, you just won many more points with me - I used to be so excited by the little book!

    Jem xXx

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    1. The Avon book was the best bit, especially the smelly pages! x

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  5. You are a little marvel, bit bonkers, but a little marvel!!! :) x

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  6. So that eye bleeding thingy... eek! Haha! Also, reading the name Alan made me chuckle as I was reminded of the little groundhog in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqhcPyRG30Y

    erinbulger.blogspot.ca

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    1. Ha ha, I can assure you that the only person who can actually see my eyes bleed is me! It doesn't pour out of my eyes or anything! Enough on that subject. ALAN! ALAN! AL! ALAN! x

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  7. What a brilliant collection of facts! Thank you for sharing :) I loved the Dewey Decimal System reference, and I'm totally with you on pom pom and halibut. xx

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  8. Brilliant post Anna, I used to have a plant called Alan. My car is called Nicole and I have nine orchids named after Gardener's World presenters. X

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    1. Alan seems to be a very popular name for plants, doesn't it? My car is called Maud. Genius idea named orchids after Gardener's World presenters, though I'm struggling to think of all nine! x

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  9. Ahh, someone else who loves Dewey!

    Back when I worked in a library I was often to be found at 332.024 (money saving), 641.5 (general cookbooks), and 912-914 (travel writing). The husband particularly likes 385.094 (railway history).

    This could almost become a blog post in itself - the love of Dewey! (although it may well have a limited audience...) :-) x

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    1. Your husband needs to read Dewey the Railway Cat! x

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  10. Loving your fun facts. Although I am disturbed by your bleeding eyes! Michaela and I had a conversation about naming cacti on Saturday. Alan is a great name for a plant.

    Talking of plants, I really hate the word succulent which is annoying as they are everywhere at the moment. I also think raisin is a stupid word.

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    1. Ha, people get images of me crying blood, though I promise no one else can tell!

      I like the word 'succulent' (...mmm steak) but am not a fan of the plants themselves, they do nothing for me at all. x

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  11. I has a brown mini back in the day that they were Minis and I named him Branston as in the Pickle and he was brown and small, like a blob of pickle...and I give my cats proper names such as Dennis (rip) and now Peter. One of my fav words is 'twitch' and I also like 'pom-pom' too!

    PS thanks for pointing out the library numbers thing - never thought about that before!

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    1. Branston is a pretty amazing name for a car. Or anything, in fact. 'Pom pom' always makes me starting humming 'tiddly om pom pom'! x

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  12. I'm not sure if I've said hello on here before, but hello anyway!

    Lovely to find out some random things about you, and to find I am not alone in naming inanimate objects. My old car was called Aunt Letitia, I loved going everywhere with her. My current car is Orvis but I always feel that I didn't get the name quite right on that one. I do like a bit of a title or two names when naming... which lead to some grand name for our fish: Herbert Scales, Captain Montague, Sergeant Addie, to name a few... (sadly all now gone) oh dear, I can hear the sirens now, the people in white coats are coming for me!!

    Jones x

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  13. Challenge accepted. And I think if we were going to do 8, your 8th would be, "My favorite name for a man is Alan."

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  14. Yay! Interesting facts indeed. I anthropomorphize everything!
    Anna x

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