I have been tagged!

[sistermagpie]

By schmevil!

List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
Tag seven people to do the same.
Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag "whoever wants to do it." (I love the way memes always come with that rule now, because it always sounds like something Hermione Granger would add--do it right!)

Tagging: Jlh, ali_wildgoose, ava_jamison, samaranth, dorrie6, horridporrid, ptyx. Do iiiiiiiiit.

1. I regularly do a list of "100 tolerations" that somebody told me about once. You list 100 things you're tolerating, from big (too-small salary, for instance) to small (lost my favorite pen). Then you try to cross off as many as possible. Yesterday I got rid of the one extra key on my keychain that fit nothing. Yeah!!!

2. At daycamp when I was in first grade they gave out awards to everyone like "best athlete" or "best swimmer" or "funniest laugh." I was really quiet back then and even I couldn't imagine what they'd come up with for me (pickiest eater?). I got...most cooperative camper. To this day I consider it the lamest award ever. It's the "sometimes we forget she exists" award.

3. My senior year in high school, however, I was voted class clown in the yearbook.

4. I share a cousin with Robert Downey Jr.

5. I went to an intense meditation retreat where I spent 10 days not speaking, reading or writing, with minimal food. It was kind of awesome.

6. Based on a random lie from a co-worker, a woman at work spent over a year believing I was a nun from reeeeally progressive convent.

7. I have never tasted coffee.

Comments

[ptyx.livejournal.com]

How come you have never tasted coffee???

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

I just never had any desire to, and at some point it became so unusual I realized it was a thing. Because most people drink coffee. But I went for so long without even thinking about it. I do like coffee ice cream, though.

[ptyx.livejournal.com]

I don't drink coffee either, but I never thought someone could never have tasted it. Hmm, maybe it's like, I never wanted to be married. LOL.

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

My mother has never tasted bagels. You guys should get together and have a non-breakfast. :)

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

LOL! This could be fun. We could out for burgers and cokes just to be safe!

[bookshop.livejournal.com]

#4 is so relevant to my interests it is ludicrous. :(

and #1 is AWESOME.

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

I realized--hey, this cool piece of trivia is even more trendy now! For #4.

#1 is truly excellent.

No 4 is all O.o whoa.

[jazzypom.livejournal.com]

No. 5 sounds a bit interesting actually. I could go without speaking, but not writing. Gahhh.

Re: No 4 is all O.o whoa.

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, no writing or reading--that's the thing that gets a lot of people. They could go without talking but the writing or reading sounds too hard. By the end I was having really interesting dreams, though.

[lilacsigil.livejournal.com]

The 100 Tolerations list is a brilliant idea!

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

It really is. It's just an easy way to feel really good in small ways.

[professor-mum.livejournal.com]

Excellent on #4, I admire #5, yet I find #7 impossible to contemplate.

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

As I got older I realized more and more people had that reaction to #7. It's like accidentally doing something other people are shocked by. It's like Harry saying Voldemort.;-)

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

It totally was!

[kerosinkanister.livejournal.com]

Wow, that really is the lamest award ever!

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

Isn't it? You can see why I remember it so well. It was so lame it was funny.

[r-ganymede.livejournal.com]

You're not alone on the coffee thing! In my case I've always found the smell too gross to ever consider drinking it.

And "most cooperative camper" seems like an award given to Hufflepuffs XD

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

LOL! It totally is the Hufflepuff award.

I have never met anybody else who shared my experience with coffee--I don't like the smell either!

[samaranth.livejournal.com]

I love #1, and will emulate. :)

#2 really is 'every child wins a prize'. 'Most co-operative/cheerful/helpful...' features such a lot in infants school prize-givings, you knew it was because the teachers didn't have much else to say about the little kid in question. The blandness of it was made up for by the parents whoops of delight and congratulations, almost as if it were the Nobel peace prize.

You showed them with #3 :P

#6 - did the truth ever come out?

#7 makes me shudder. Beyond my comprehension. O-O

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

You will love #1.

LOL! The funny thing at camp was the parents weren't even there. I suppose all the kids and counselors clapped, though. You can see I remembered it years later when 3 happened. Take that, cooperation! (Actually, I think I'm still pretty cooperative.)

You know, I don't think the truth did come out. Because the only way I found out was the guy in question was talking to me once and this woman came up--I didn't have much interaction w/her. She must have said something odd to me that I mentioned and he was like, "She might be under the impression you're a nun." "Why would she think that?" "I might have told her..." and then he told me the story. So I don't know if he ever actually told her the truth before she went to work somewhere else!

[ava-jamison.livejournal.com]

LOL:) These are great! I LOVE your camp story. And I love coffee so much, but I see everybody's already commented on that bit of--jeebus! It's so crazy to me! I might try #1. I don't know how I'd ever get through #5 (and I meditate, but nothing to that extent) but I bet it was really, really enlightening. Was it? I'm so curious as to why you decided to do it. You don't have to answer, though! It's way interesting in and of itself!

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

In its own way, how I came to do it is also a weird story. I wrote the only fan letter I've ever written to a guy who was in 2 of my favorite movies when he was a kid (both horror movies). I never knew what happened to him because he didn't act as an adult. But I read about him in a horror magazine and thought...I'm going to write this guy a letter! I'd never done that. It had mentioned in the article that he did this kind of meditation and I mentioned that I did some meditating too. He sent me a nice letter back and gave me the information about the place--they have places all over the world.

So that's how I came to try it out! I would totally go back to but it just took a while to plan and get there and all that.

[ava-jamison.livejournal.com]

That's an awesome story!
(Also? Someday I would like to know your favorite horror movies.)

[mildlunacy.livejournal.com]

I could... totally see you as a nun. In fact, if not for the whole celibate, religious, and clad-in-a-habit part, you'd like, TOTALLY be a nun. Who's related to Sherlock Holmes.

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

LOL! That seemed to be what my fictitious very reformed order was about as far as I could tell!

[lokifan]

#5 is... wow. No reading would make me insane in very short order. Or more to the point - judging by what I think about on walks - I'd not be any good at meditating because I'd spend the whole time composing posts about the experience and planning novel ideas.

100 tolerations is a great idea!

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

Stopping thinking about composing posts would definitely be the hardest thing. They call it "monkey mind" sometimes, the way the mind jumps to the future and the past and everything else when you're supposed to be concentrating on one thing in the present. The tolerations is really great--you feel a little freer every time you cross something off.