Sharon tagged me for a fun "8 random things" meme, and so I thought I'd play along. We haven't done any memes over here in awhile. I'll try to come up with 8 truly random things that I haven't revealed before, although that isn't required in the rules. What are the rules, anyway?
Rules:
Once tagged, you must link to the person who tagged you. Then post the rules before your list, and list 8 random things about yourself. At the end of the post, you must tag and link to 8 other people, visit their sites, and leave a comment letting them know they've been tagged.
My rule: I'm going to make this goofy and totally random, but you may get some good product suggestions from it.
1. (Looking around at my desk) - The best nail strengthener is Nailtiques 2. It is expensive for a nail hardener, but this stuff can harden anybody's nails, no matter how paper thin they are. Ask me how I know.
2. (Related to #1) I used to get my nails done religiously every two weeks - the acrylics with the high maintenance fills, etc. I used to get the pink-and-whites where they would fill in the tip section with white acrylic and the main body of the nail with pink acrylic. This was quite labor intensive, and not all the nail techs at the salons knew how or wanted to do it. It took about 1 1/2 hours and it looked great. I would then have them paint over it with a color, so that then when the color would chip after a week or so, I could take off my own nail polish and have a perfect french manicure underneath. HIGH MAINTENANCE. I took off all my nails about four years ago as I got sick of spending my life in nail salons.
3. (Follow-on to #1 and #2 - I feel like Marin with her footnotes) I haven't had even a regular manicure in over a month and a half. From high maintenance to no maintenance. I really need one. I was on a regular schedule of getting them every week or so, but lately, I've just been cutting my nails off as they grow pretty fast. My cuticles are super dry and a train wreck. The Solar Oil almond-scented cuticle oil works best if I would actually put it on.
4. OK, enough with the nails already. Here's a new subject. I am very organized when it comes to anything electronic (files, etc.) but a mess when it comes to actual pieces of paper. Give me a piece of paper, and I am likely to lose it. Send me an email with an attachment, I will never lose it, ever.
5. I am getting disenchanted with participation in KALs. I love setting them up and organizing them, but by the time the actual KAL rolls around, I've often moved on and want to make something else, and it is more of a chore for me to actually make that original project. I'm torn between forcing myself to just make it anyway and just starting the project(s) I want to start. Confession - I'm feeling this way about Mirepoix right now, although I have all of the Louet (pricey yarn, that!! in a million colors) sitting in my closet looking at me. I want to cast on for something else - the Ballet Pullover by Teva Durham (Summer 04 Interweave) in some chunky wool. It's like comfort food in knitting form (chunky wool, in the round, top down).
6. I discovered that I hate repairing other people's knitted garments. This lady at work had these fair isle fingerless gloves that also have a flap that covers the fingers as a mitten. However, on the thumb, they aren't "fingerless"; instead they have a hole where you can get your thumb out to use it. She had ripped through this bound off hole and had another tear between the thumb and the next finger on both gloves. Ugh. The fingers at least weren't multi color - they were all red. To make a long story short, the repair turned out fine and she was very happy with them, but you wouldn't have wanted to watch the process of me repairing these things. It was like making sausage - ya don't want to watch. Next time someone asks me I am going to feign incompetence (which really won't be far from the truth.) However, I had to step in on this one as originally the owner of the gloves asked another lady at work to fix them - who CROCHETS. ONLY. and buys all her yarn at the dollar store - and I could see the train wreck coming down the tracks. Dontcha love how the muggles think knitting = crochet and they're totally interchangeable?
7. Truly random thought, while thinking about my hair appt this morning: my hair used to be one flat color (dark, dark brown, almost black), down to my waist and spiral permed (in the 80s, when else?) I need to dig a picture out to show you. It is weird to look at these pictures; I look like a baby version of my current self in the face, but someone really should have told me to pluck (or wax) my eyebrows. I hadn't discovered eyebrow waxing yet. Even though I definitely look older now, I like my looks better now, maybe because I know who I am and I am comfortable in my own skin now at this age.
8. I try to do my treadmill workout every morning and I know I need to add weight training back in soon because that seems to be the one thing that really keeps your body looking young when you get older, but I am petrified of huge thigh muscles. They develop super easy on me, like in two weeks, so I need to figure out a weight lifting exercise that develops long, lean thigh muscles instead of the bulky quadricep muscles. My mother used to tell me that I got those kind of muscles (the good kind) whenever I was swimming a lot. I have a Bowflex, so I probably should look at the book that came with it (I've always just done their canned "better body workout" from the poster) but any suggestions would be appreciated!
Ok, these were the self-absorbed ramblings of someone who had too much wine last night (but it was an excellent time and well worth it.) I tag Adrienne, Jenny, Marjorie, Monica, KozyKitty, Maryanne, Kasia and Jeanne - and anyone else who wants to play! Heck, if you're reading this, consider yourself tagged!
