Handspun / Tag

I just got tagged by KitKatKnit. And here I was preparing a post about how she lured me further down the fiber path.

(To refresh your memory: KitKatKnit had a contest, which I won. And she generously sent me this as a prize.

Then came this.

And now the roving looks like this, and like this:



So how can I pass up being tagged? The meme is Seven Odd Things About You, or something along those lines. Here goes:

1. When I am a passenger in a car, I somehow always end up riding with my shoes off and my feet up on the dashboard. I always try to remember not to do it, since if an accident released an air bag my knees would go through my teeth.

2. There are three things I have always wanted to learn to do and never have (though I have made peremptory stabs at all three): play the piano, ski, and speak Russian.

3. My favorite Chinese Szechuan dish is pickled ox tongue and tripe, which we originally ordered because my husband loves to be adventurous about weird food, and which I thought sounded kind of disgusting.

4. When I was about 13 I fell madly in love with Ernest Hemingway and set out to read everything he ever wrote. I have never quite gotten over him, either.

5. I am double-jointed and trained myself as a child to be able to bend only the top knuckle of each finger while holding the rest of the finger straight, a skill that has no known application apart from showing other people that you can do this weird thing, which usually kind of freaks them out.

6. I am one of those superstitious flyers who has to read the safety instruction card every time I board a plane, to ward off mishap.

7. It was not until this week that I told my husband I had a blog, although he knows absolutely everything else about me.

I'm not sure about passing on the meme - it feels a little like a chain letter, and I wonder if most bloggers haven't already participated in these memes by now. But I guess it's all in the blogging spirit, and since I was pleased to be tagged, I will pass it on and tag the following people.

Born Knitty
HPNY Knits
Half-Soled Boots
Der verlorene Faden
Dolores at The Panopticon (I figure Franklin has already been tagged for hundreds of these, but Dolores might be willing, nay, even eager, to share some personal tidbits with her readers).
Knitterly Things

And YOU, if you're reading this, and want to. Post the rules, write your list on your blog, tag seven other people, and within two weeks you will get 10,000 postcards from all over the world... or something like that.