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Countdown Meme - Day 1
Yes, I'm late at starting this. It took me a while to figure out if I wanted to do it at all. But I've been enjoying the entries of others who've participated, so I thought what the heck. So here goes:
Day 1 - Ten random facts about yourself
Day 2 - Nine things you do everyday
Day 3 - Eight things that annoy you
Day 4 - Seven fears/phobias
Day 5 - Six songs that you’re addicted to
Day 6 - Five things you can’t live without
Day 7 - Four memories you won’t forget
Day 8 - Three words you can’t go a day without
Day 9 - Two things you wish you could do
Day 10 - One person you can trust
1. I learned to read music long before I learned my ABC's. My mom started teaching me piano at age four - and she learned quickly that it wasn't the best idea for a teacher to have to listen to every day's practice. I got my first piano teacher soon thereafter.
2. I play a number of instruments at varying levels of proficiency, from reasonably good to downright awful. In order of proficiency: piano, violin, organ, taiko, guitar, flute, recorder, cross-strung harp. The last is in the downright awful category because by the time I acquired it to start to learn, I was suffering from locked shoulders on both sides and have trouble keeping my arms up to play. It makes practice nigh on impossible, darn it!
3. When I was twelve, my mom asked me to choose whether I wanted to continue with piano lessons or violin lessons, as we could only afford one. I chose violin, and continued to take lessons on that until I was 23 and at university.
3. I was born in Minnesota - the very south-western corner of it - and moved to California when I was ten.
4. I speak Spanish (rusty now, but once fluently), German (definitely rusty) and am studying Russian (kind of) as an exchange with a delightful lady who wants to better her English. I love the study of language in general, which is why I dabble in studying Sindarin as well (and am considering taking a Quenya course eventually.)
5. While I was a teenager, my violin lessons were quite unusual: I would get on the bus to SLO at 8AM on Saturday, be picked up at 9AM, and then have a lesson that would last until approx 3:30 in the afternoon. Then I would be put back on the bus to go home. During that time, I not only learned the violin, but the art (and it truly IS an art) of sight-reading, composition, harmony, some music theory, and a bit of piano too. My teacher was quite... unusual... but I came to think of her as a second monther after a while.
6. My husband was my university roommate's boss. We met when he decided to ignore some company policy about not mixing with employees to attend a "tailgate party" in the store parking lot. He'd moved to the area not long before and had no friends - and was tired of spending his off-time alone. HIS boss subsequently tried to use me as a spy to know what the employees were thinking and doing, but I refused to play along - and my hubby didn't like the idea either, to be honest. We will be married 38 years on April Fool's Day this year.
7. My university roommate is still my absolutely best friend. We adopted each other as sisters way back in the late 70's, and even now are absolutely comfortable talking about just about anything together.
8. I am a late-comer to the Tolkien universe, except for an early fascination with the Elvish Languages detailed in the Appendices. I tried to read LOTR in high school, and got very confused with all the names beginning with Eo- in The Two Towers -- and gave up. My youngest twin talked me into watching LOTR:FOTR-EE movie, and I was hooked. After I saw the second movie and had a better handle on all those Eo- people, I read the books, and re-read them... The rest, as they say, is history.
9. I've been writing fan fiction since long before the term existed. My first story was an Avengers fic that 'shipped Steed and Emma Peel, written when I was 11. Overal, I've written for The Avengers (the BBC series), ST:TNG, SeaQuest DSV, The Pretender, Nanny and the Professor, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Carnivale, Doctor Who, Broadchurch, and in the Tolkien universe.
10. I played surrogate Mom to any number of my kids' friends - especially during their high school years. I used to joke about the Forest Of Giants that would land in my living room in the afternoon during the last two years of my son's high school years. I've lost track of many of them, but the two I was closest to I still have contact with - and they still call me Mom.
And there you are. We'll see what tomorrow brings, eh? :=D
Day 1 - Ten random facts about yourself
Day 2 - Nine things you do everyday
Day 3 - Eight things that annoy you
Day 4 - Seven fears/phobias
Day 5 - Six songs that you’re addicted to
Day 6 - Five things you can’t live without
Day 7 - Four memories you won’t forget
Day 8 - Three words you can’t go a day without
Day 9 - Two things you wish you could do
Day 10 - One person you can trust
1. I learned to read music long before I learned my ABC's. My mom started teaching me piano at age four - and she learned quickly that it wasn't the best idea for a teacher to have to listen to every day's practice. I got my first piano teacher soon thereafter.
2. I play a number of instruments at varying levels of proficiency, from reasonably good to downright awful. In order of proficiency: piano, violin, organ, taiko, guitar, flute, recorder, cross-strung harp. The last is in the downright awful category because by the time I acquired it to start to learn, I was suffering from locked shoulders on both sides and have trouble keeping my arms up to play. It makes practice nigh on impossible, darn it!
3. When I was twelve, my mom asked me to choose whether I wanted to continue with piano lessons or violin lessons, as we could only afford one. I chose violin, and continued to take lessons on that until I was 23 and at university.
3. I was born in Minnesota - the very south-western corner of it - and moved to California when I was ten.
4. I speak Spanish (rusty now, but once fluently), German (definitely rusty) and am studying Russian (kind of) as an exchange with a delightful lady who wants to better her English. I love the study of language in general, which is why I dabble in studying Sindarin as well (and am considering taking a Quenya course eventually.)
5. While I was a teenager, my violin lessons were quite unusual: I would get on the bus to SLO at 8AM on Saturday, be picked up at 9AM, and then have a lesson that would last until approx 3:30 in the afternoon. Then I would be put back on the bus to go home. During that time, I not only learned the violin, but the art (and it truly IS an art) of sight-reading, composition, harmony, some music theory, and a bit of piano too. My teacher was quite... unusual... but I came to think of her as a second monther after a while.
6. My husband was my university roommate's boss. We met when he decided to ignore some company policy about not mixing with employees to attend a "tailgate party" in the store parking lot. He'd moved to the area not long before and had no friends - and was tired of spending his off-time alone. HIS boss subsequently tried to use me as a spy to know what the employees were thinking and doing, but I refused to play along - and my hubby didn't like the idea either, to be honest. We will be married 38 years on April Fool's Day this year.
7. My university roommate is still my absolutely best friend. We adopted each other as sisters way back in the late 70's, and even now are absolutely comfortable talking about just about anything together.
8. I am a late-comer to the Tolkien universe, except for an early fascination with the Elvish Languages detailed in the Appendices. I tried to read LOTR in high school, and got very confused with all the names beginning with Eo- in The Two Towers -- and gave up. My youngest twin talked me into watching LOTR:FOTR-EE movie, and I was hooked. After I saw the second movie and had a better handle on all those Eo- people, I read the books, and re-read them... The rest, as they say, is history.
9. I've been writing fan fiction since long before the term existed. My first story was an Avengers fic that 'shipped Steed and Emma Peel, written when I was 11. Overal, I've written for The Avengers (the BBC series), ST:TNG, SeaQuest DSV, The Pretender, Nanny and the Professor, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Carnivale, Doctor Who, Broadchurch, and in the Tolkien universe.
10. I played surrogate Mom to any number of my kids' friends - especially during their high school years. I used to joke about the Forest Of Giants that would land in my living room in the afternoon during the last two years of my son's high school years. I've lost track of many of them, but the two I was closest to I still have contact with - and they still call me Mom.
And there you are. We'll see what tomorrow brings, eh? :=D