This one's a work in progress. I want to add more links to photos as I find them. I hope this counts for the
meme I was
tagged for.
1) I was born in
1968.
2) I’m a
monkey.
3) And, an
Aries.
4) My name means:
red,
god-like king, or
ewe, depending on who you ask.
5) Red is one of my
favorite colors.
6) Not surprising for a red, god-like king, who is ruled by Mars.
7) My
Spice Girl name is Grumpy Spice.
8) I've also been called Grumpelstilzkin.
9) I’m an at-home mother of two
active boys.
10)
H was born
2002,
C was born
2006.
11) Their birth weights, added together, total 21 lbs 7 oz.
12) I figure that counts for at least three or four
regular-sized babies.
13) I did not have
gestational diabetes.
14) I just had huge babies with huge heads and
shoulders,
15) The old fashioned-way, hence the
vaginormous post.
16) I’m a wife to a
sexy beast.
17) He’s a great
friend and
father; likes
old people and small furry animals.
18) He works six days a week.
19) We don’t go on vacations.
20) I was a
graphic designer in a former life.
21) I always felt like I was selling my soul,
22) Unless it was for a
non-
profit.
23) Then, I just felt like I wasn’t making any money.
24) I don’t know what I want to be when I grow up.
25) But, I do want to use my skills for
good instead of
evil.
26) I like to
grow large quantities of
vegetables.
27) One year I grew 256 tomato plants, because that’s how many grew from the seeds I planted.
28) Another year I
canned over a
gross of pints and quarts.
29) I used to want to be a
farmer.
30) Then, one day, all my
friends were
farmers.
31) Now, I just want to support farmers, specifically my
local,
sustainable ones.
32) Before I had kids I was very
Slow Food-ish.
33) I made elaborate
Indian meals.
34) I made intricate Thai dishes.
35) I made expensive
Italian dinners, with broth cooked for 24 hours.
36) I’ve grown my own jalapeños and turned them into
chipotles.
37) I made
tutti frutti that tasted like
cough syrup.
38) I just recently made my first sushi.
39) I sometimes cook all frozen dinners, such as: veggie corn dogs, tater tots, and edamame.
40) My kids have never had fast food.
41) I tried to cut out
kid video watching.
42) It lasted a week.
43) I learned how to
put in a zipper in February 2007.
44) It changed my life.
45) I’m
obsessed with sewing garments.
46) I *love* to choose
fabrics and
patterns to sew from.
47) And, have clothes that fit better.
48) I, also, like to
sew for my sister.
49)
And my kids.
50) My husband is still waiting for me to sew something for him, besides the
gnome hat.
51) I gain the same satisfaction from sewing clothes as when I have a well-stocked pantry.
52) I like to
hunt for
mushrooms.
53) I stick to
chanterelles,
boletus,
craterellus,
oysters and
candy caps.
54) If I squirrel away enough food I feel like we’ll "make it through the winter."
55) This reminds me that I need to do some
earthquake preparedness.
56) I can do one
rope trick — not as well as that guy, though.
57)
Blaize would have me on her wagon train.
58) I’ve made
two pair of
moccasins, ‘cause you never know when you might need to know how to make some shoes.
59) I’ve picked
maggots out of a live chicken’s back.
60) I can forage.
61) I can grow things.
62) I’m not sure if I can kill animals.
63) Actually, I did have to kill that chicken with the maggots.
64) I’d probably be
vegetarian if I had to kill my own food.
65) This makes me feel like a hypocrite.
66) I have early
New England ancestry, on both sides.
67) That means I’m related to
several presidents, who all seem to be
related.
68) Most of them are of the
embarrassing sort.
69) It also means that I’m related to cowboys.
70) And
indians.
71) One of my
great-great grandfathers was born in California during a cattle drive from Arkansas to the gold country.
72) The family sailed around
The Horn on their return to
Arkansas.
73) My great-great-great grandmother said she’d never go around The Horn again.
74) So, the next time, they went home via the
Isthmus of Panama.
75) I can’t imagine
their challenges.
76) My husband and I are seventh cousins, or something.
77) I love to make connections with people; sort of my version the
Kevin Bacon thing.
78) I have a goal of visiting as many homes in my town as possible.
79) I thought I was anti-social in high school, like
Ally Sheedy in
Breakfast Club.
80) Then, I went to my 20th reunion and was corrected.
81) I’ve lived in the same town my whole life.
82) Except the six weeks that I lived in
Germany.
83) Where I lived in a
castle with a
designer.
84) It was a very
Dieter-ish experience.
85) I have an
art degree.
86) And, art
guilt.
87) Especially when I run into a professor who asks if I’ve been doing *Art.*
88) The
craft blog helps me some with this, sort of.
89) Because, at least *I know* that I’m being creative.
90) I know how to
swing dance.
91) And, sort of play the
ukulele.
92) My favorite song to play is
Rio, by Duran Duran.
93) I always thought
John was the cutest.
94) But, really, I was more of an
Adam Ant admirer.
95) Or, Sting — but only when he was with
the Police.
96) I walked out of a concert on his
first solo tour.
97) I wanted to be “
Free, free, set me free” from that awful concert.
98) I saw King Lear as a ballet when
Stewart Copeland composed.
99) With a friend who later died in a
famous plane crash.
100) I miss him.
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