I am mystified.. does this mean no one else my age and gender has taken this quiz??

Huffleclaw!

You might belong in Hufflepuff, Where they are just and loyal These patient Hufflepuffs are true And unafraid of toil; Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw, If you’ve a ready mind, Where those of wit and learning, Will always find their kind. In this instance, it would be prudent for you to make your own decision between the two! After all, as wise Albus Dumbledore says, “It is our choices . . . that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”

Ahh… that’s better. Except for the Neurosis part. Hmm.

Which Peanuts Character are You?

You are Schroeder!
Take this quiz!

I have to say this is the most inaccurate one of these quizzes I’ve ever done! I am neither practical nor thrifty, and if you told H I was “born to clean” he would have laugh for a long, long time. Maybe it was the Christian Slater question that threw me off? Sad, considering it’s about yarn. And I was so excited. Oh well.

What kind of yarn are you?

You are Dishcloth Cotton.You are a very hard worker, most at home when you’re at home. You are thrifty and seemingly born to clean. You are considered to be a Plain Jane, but you are too practical to notice. Take this quiz!

Take the Quiz here!

Pretty much spot on, really…

You Are 45% Left Brained, 55% Right Brained

The left side of your brain controls verbal ability, attention to detail, and reasoning. Left brained people are good at communication and persuading others. If you’re left brained, you are likely good at math and logic. Your left brain prefers dogs, reading, and quiet. The right side of your brain is all about creativity and flexibility. Daring and intuitive, right brained people see the world in their unique way. If you’re right brained, you likely have a talent for creative writing and art. Your right brain prefers day dreaming, philosophy, and sports.

How evil are you?
 

I did stop going to church at around age 12, for which I am eternally grateful :)

I’ve seen these lists everywhere, and in an effort to streamline my site I thought it would be more useful to do something like this rather than an “about” page. So here goes!

1. I have a two three year old. This clearly dominates my life.
2. I’m an Apache Wife.
3. I love to knit and will do it where ever possible.
4. I used to be rather good at ceramics.
5. I’m a very tactile person :)
6. I like HTML but suck at CSS and anything else regarding code.
7. I am terrible at keeping contact with friends.
8. I love colors, particularly purple and green.
9. But my favorite colors arein combination — pink/orange, turquoise/lime green, pink/brown, turquoise/brown.
10. I refuse to buy diamonds.
11. I have two remarkably useless degrees. (BA in History and MA in African Studies)
12. I think I can do anything as long as I set my mind to it.
13. However I am also profoundly lazy.
14. I’m also impatient and rarely learn to do things properly.
15. I have a reputation for being a perfectionist which I don’t understand as nearly everything I do is a hack job.
16. I used to be able to draw but now I can’t.
17. I want to learn to quilt and spin my own yarn but I daren’t take up any more hobbies.
18. I love baby slings and don’t know how people get by without them!
19. I tend to obsess about only one thing at a time. I’m not sure if this is good or bad.
20. The term “Carrie logic” was coined by my friend Willy who thinks I use a sort of logic that defies explanation or understanding.
21. I can sew, but not very well.
22. I’m a city girl.
23. I have dreams about living on a ranch in the country somewhere like Wyoming or Montana with sheep and cows but I don’t think I could actually do it.
24. I’m from KY which always surprises people as many have preconceived notions about what someone from KY should sound like :)
25. I loved my high school.
26. I loved my graduate school too.
27. I learned to play piano at age 4 and quit at age 17 when I realized there were people about a million times better than me.
28. I’ve always secretly wanted to be a singer in a band.
29. My retirement plans are to become a potter (as in ceramics).
30. I have high cholesterol but normal blood pressure.
31. I absolutely hate carpet.
32. I love the movie Xanadu.
33. I almost always think I can do more than I actually can.
34. I dislike people telling me what to do and will often do the exact opposite.
35. I have often looked back at my weight over the years and pondered how skinny I was then and why didn’t I appreciate it?!
36. I love bicycling but hate doing it in traffic.
37. I always get nauseated when travelling in the back seat of a car. Or backwards in an airplane. Or when reading any time there’s motion.
38. I can never decide if I want to live in a neighborhood with walkable amenities, or out in the middle of nowhere.
39. I’ve very interested in “green” topics these days.
40. I think it’s a miracle humans have survived this long considering how stupid we seem to be.
41. I do not understand organized religion.
42. I do not understand how studies can say anything definitive about what’s good for you and what’s not. Seems to me that there’s an infinite amount of genetic diversity among humans and surely that has something to do with it?
43. Clearly I’m not a scientist.
44. I used to hate history in school until my 10th grade teacher showed a different way of looking at it.
45. I also used to hate yoga (it made my feet hurt) but now I love it.
46. I’d like to grow my son’s hair out really long, but only because I’m too afraid to cut it myself.
47. Fear makes a lot of my decisions for me — which is something I really dislike.
48. I used to love reading but these days crafting gets higher priority.
49. I love watching movies and television.
50. I rarely listen to music but wish I did more.
51. My mom and I share the same size feet and hands but she’s 4 inches taller than me. Totally unfair!
52. I hate it when patterns are sized for “women” and “men” instead of “small” and “large” — because I inevitably have to make the large.
53. You should never stop me from doing something right that very second if I want to do it, because I will never get back to doing it ever again. Follow the urges, they are good.
54. I have yet to experience “nesting” while pregnant.
55. I stay up way too late.
56. I could be a vegetarian.
57. My hands must always be busy.
58. I like piles. I have lots of piles, particularly on tables. But I hate stuff on the floor.
59. I leave kleenexes lying around the house, which is disgusting, to be sure.
60. I like to use the same glass for water all day long.
61. I never drank coffee until I worked at Starbucks. I’m surprised they hired me. I became the tea queen.
62. I did develop a thing for Mochas though.
63. I’m not at all sure about Christmas.
64. I have always thought I wanted to travel the whole world but I worry about living without modern luxuries.
65. I don’t think I’ll ever make it to Australia — that plane flight gives me the heebiejeebies.
66. I’m usually pessimistic.
67. My internal temperature gauge is totally off. I’m always either too hot or too cold.
68. I give way too much information away to realtors.
69. My first instinct on seeing a house is imagining all the things we could do to it — painting, ripping down walls, replacing floors, building additions, etc.
70. One of my biggest pet peeves is people who complain without providing solutions as well.

Okay enough! Not 100, but I’m tired and it’s late. I suppose I can add more to this as I think of them, no?

Dott is doing it, so why not? :)

But before I submit my paltry list, let me at least plead with you that I have a lil one who is a PITA to travel with. Not to mention additional cost. Taking that into perspective, my list is not half bad really :)

~ Louisville, KY (obviously)
~ Palo Alta, CA
~ London, England and several other English towns/beaches
Several areas around Seattle, WA (okay so we live here now, but it’s still all new!)
~ Indianapolis, IN (Thanks, Jess!)

Dr Chingasa posted a list of 13 random songs on his iPod. Despite my not having used my iPod for the past two years, I thought this would be fun. Here goes.

1. Chemical Beats - Chemical Brothers
2. What I Got (reprise) - Sublime
3. Ode to Billy Joe - John Butler
4. Rebecca - Pat McGee Band
5. Thick ‘n Thin - The Black Crows
6. Broken Heart - Spiritualized (WTF? I have no idea what this is.)
7. Great Things - Echobelly
8. I’ve Still Got My Health - Bette Midler (I promise I didn’t know this was on there.)
9. From Despair to Where - Manic Street Preachers
10. Harry Bridges - Rancid
11. I Know a Girl - soundtrack to Chicago
12. Santa Claus is Coming to Town - Tony Bennett (again, WTF do I have on this thing??)
13. Heroin - The Velvet Underground

There you go. Now, in light of my recent bitching about music, I am actually pleasantly surprised. I don’t know where some of this stuff came from (I have a plethora of purchased mix CDs so obviously from there with a handful of H’s stuff thrown in), but I seriously expected it to be more depressing than that. In fact, clearly, I need to put this thing on random more often.

In fact, I was expecting to finish up this post talking about what I think is going to be my new years resolution this coming year, which is to make a valiant effort to record ALL of my music and redo my iPod complete with carefully thought out playlists. (This is more complicated and time consuming than it sounds given that H and I intend to have a shared drive with all of our music and this involves moving music, some duplicated, some not, from our individual laptops and then getting iTunes to see another computer, and, well, you get the picture.) And while I still think that is a good idea, I will obviously have to give my iTunes a good looking at. There are more interesting things here than I think there is.