why not - 7 quirks meme

[kitanzi]

a. List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
b. Tag seven people to do the same.
c. Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag "whoever wants to do it".

1) I have a scalloped tongue, and I don't know why. (I know I've mentioned this before. It baffles me.)

2) By the list I had to do for my first full time summer job (a canteen job at the local VA), I had had 14 "permanent" addresses by age.... 16 or 17, whichever I was then.

3) I had a stepbrother for over a decade that I never met. I still haven't met him, but he's no longer my stepbrother, so I doubt I will.

4) I read. A lot. But I read a lot less than I used to - I remember back in junior high school, when people in general baffled and confused me (more so than now, I mean) I would often read 3-4 books in a weekend.

5) I am currently growing my hair out to see how long I can get it - it's something around halfway down my back just now - but I'm getting fed up with it because, though I can braid ACat's hair perfectly well, any braid I put in my own hair twists and kinks within 10 minutes, even if it seems picture perfect when I tie it off. I have no idea why.

6) I once managed to not only roll the truck I was driving all the way over and back upright, but land it straddling a creek in the field next to the road. No, I have no idea how and only a fuzzy memory of the whole thing. I'm pretty sure I slalomed between some trees and a stopsign there, too. I am convinced that if I hadn't been wearing my seatbelt, I would have wound up in the hospital if not the morgue. As it is, nothing but stiff muscles from too much adrenaline.

7) Although I have plenty of maternal instinct when it comes to dealing with kids (or even people who seem to need nurturing) I've never had the slightest interest in having kids of my own.


Right - I don't usually tag people for memes, but it was part of the rules on this one, so... davehogg, kyttn, celticdragonfly, filkertom, quadrivium, robin_anadrith, and singing_phoenix. (Disclaimer: No one so tagged is obligated in the slightest to meme against their wishes, nor is failure to be tagged any indication that I don't think you have seven interesting things to say! Plus, I've lost track of who's already done this, so if I've been redundant in my tagging, I say sorry!)

Comments

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

Clearly you need to have autographedcat braid your hair in return!

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

I've considered it except that he doesn't know how and doesn't seem interested in learning.

[spiritdancer]

re: #6: try braiding it damp and or with a light touch of styling gel (I found that helped things a bit neater when I was learning to braid my own hair)

[anaisdjuna.livejournal.com]

I think you have lovely hair and have often been tempted to play in it..... I can braid :-)

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

I've tried braiding it damp, haven't tried gel. It's not that bits of hair are escaping, it's that the whole braid twists around...

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

You're welcome to braid it sometime, but my real problem is trying to find a comfortable and tidy way to wear it for work daily. It's long enough that ponytails snarl almost as badly as not putting it up at all, and I really don't like buns.

[bercilakslady.livejournal.com]

Speak with Mary B. She'll be able to help if anyone can.

I personally liked putting my hair up with a claw hair clip thingy when I had hair your length. Not as annoying or weighty as a bun.

[anaisdjuna.livejournal.com]

French braids!

[spiritdancer]

French braid or just a straight braid of the dangling hair?

If it's a straight braid, and you are getting to the point of needing to pull it over your shoulder to reach the end, that'll make it twist (I always seemed to get a "kink" in the braid). In that case, a solution is to give it a tug straight down the middle as you finish. Also, you might try doing the braid a bit looser, so it can "slide" itself straight. I always seemed to get a "kink" in the braid.

The other way to help with it, as cliche as it sounds, is to keep braiding it - the more you do it, the better you get.

re: keeping it neat for work: put it up in a ponytail, and then braid the ponytail. Heck, if you want to be more formal, and it's long enough, wrap the braided ponytail around its base, kinda making a bun, and then pin it in place.

How I figured out how to braid my own hair? Seach on Amazon for Beautiful Braids and More Beautiful Braids by Patricia Coen. Great illustrations showing what to do with your hands when you are braiding your own hair (as well as a lot of good ideas for braid variations). Good basic books, at a good price :-)

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

I asked her at Gafilk and she was willing but we never managed the time for me to show her what I was doing. I have a clip and I do like it, but the smaller one just cracked and the larger one seems to be heavy enough to slide out several times over the course of the day. I have absurdly fine hair.

[devinsong.livejournal.com]

*g* Gosh, it's still the same length as mine (which I've also let grow out). No doubt if I ever manage to get to GaFilk, we will still confuse the heck out of people. (Matching shirts, you think? Could be amusing!)

I have a collection of light barrettes that are big enough to hold my hair up (also very fine), and I usually twist the whole length of it until it starts to kink, and then double (or triple) it over and twist the doubled bit until it winds up vaguely french-twist like (tucking the ends in). And *then* clip it. The doubled bit is fat enough that the clip stays put, even though it slides out if I just clip it at the back of my neck like a ponytail. The other trick I sometimes use (with a pretty clip Kate gave me but which won't stay in my hair) is to put it in a ponytail, and then twist it around and pin it through/just above the ponytail elastic. That keeps it from slipping. The trick is getting all the ends tucked in.