Here is the prompt I chose this week: Five Things. List 5 things we don't know about you, 5 things you're knowledgeable about, 5 things you know nothing about, and 5 things you believe.
Five Things You Don't Know About Me:
(First of all, since I'm one of those open book sorts of people, it's hard for me to come up with this stuff, but I'll give it a whirl.)
1. I have a little brother with Asperger's Syndrome. It's actually surprising I haven't talked about this before, because the "issues" my brother and family has dealt with has significantly shaped my life (including my meeting my husband), but I haven't yet felt compelled to blog about this.
2. I was a flaming, unabashed Communist/Anarchist when I was 15. I'm not entirely sure if I knew what either one of those things were, except it meant I kept a notebook filled with that anarchy A symbol and political cartoons that I'd drawn, consisting mostly of conservative political figures hanging themselves. I was such a pleasant teenager.
3. I won the school-wide geography bee in 6th grade and actually went to the statewide geography bee but went out in the first round. Did you know the capital of South Korea is Seoul?
4. I seriously considered converting to Judaism in middle school.
5. I played with American Girl Dolls and Barbies until I was about 15 (when my childhood abruptly ended and I decided I needed to take down the American government).
Five Things I'm Knowledgeable About:
1. Autism and Asperger's Syndrome. (See #1 above.)
2. The similarities between John Milton and William Blake (Renaissance poet and Victorian Era poet; both awesome). I wrote a pretty sweet research paper comparing the two.
3. Nirvana (the band). I spend most of high school convincing myself I was Kurt Cobain reincarnated...despite the fact he died when I was six.
4. Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings. I put these two things together because I don't want to take up the last to spots on my list with my extreme nerdy-ness.
5. Babywearing. I am the ultimate salesman for all my slings and SSC (soft-structure carrier).
Five Things I Know Nothing About:
1. Quantum physics. And I so badly want to be an expert.
2. Seoul, South Korea.
3. How to parent a little boy (or a teenage girl, for that matter).
4. Karma Sutra (something DOH would very much like to change).
5. Twilight (and I'd like to keep it that way...though, I will admit, I did read the entire first book, have forgotten much about it, and, again, would like to keep it that way).
Five Things I Believe:
1. Karma. It's there, deal with it.
2. Nothing is black and white, nothing is ever really clear. Life is too fluid for complete certainty on anything, but sometimes you just need to make a decision and go with it.
3. My family. Together, we're capable of anything.
4. This world was created with love. By whom or what I'm still pondering (though I've got some ideas), but there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that this is a place made for and with love, we just need to connect ourselves to it.
5. Santa Claus. I don't care what anyone else says, he's real.
4 comments:
I don't know anything about Twilight either. All my friends have loved the series though.
I don't know what it was about that first book, but it just completely turned me off. I guess I didn't like the main character much...Oh, well! I will say, though, the series, much like the Harry Potter series (which I loved!) got a lot of kids who wouldn't otherwise be readers to read voraciously. Anything does that has some element of good to it, I suppose.
You know, the Kama Sutra has pictures. (wink, wink)
My husband is a walking Tolkien encyclopedia, so I know a bit about LOTR, too!
Oh, I've seen the pictures, haha. I'm trying to decide if I'm capable of that yet! :-)
And I can appreciate another human Tolkien encyclopedia!
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