Comments on: Getting to Know Me

By: Joanna

Joanna — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 19:22:39 +0000

Hee, love your list! I finally succumbed and got a blowdryer last winter, when I cut my hair too short to put in a ponytail. I couldn’t deal with frozen hair against the back of my neck! But I am so with you on the sports thing. I love to go running, or really do anything athletic that doesn’t involve other people, but any time I’m competing, I freak out because I know that I am just not good. I realized how bad it had gotten when I was playing a tennis video game, and even on the little screen my instinct was to run away whenever a ball came near me.

By: Gryphon

Gryphon — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 13:14:31 +0000

That’s a great list, I’m so glad I tagged you.
Judging by the other comments (I’m in the same boat on many of them), we’re all very unAmerican here. We should probably be reported to Homeland Security. Items 1-4 and 8 on your list are directly antithetical to the American Way. We’re supposed to watch gobs of TV to numb our brains, love competitive sports (preferably from the safety of our couches where we can watch overpaid men in tight pants engaging in them on the aforementioned TV), consume vast quanities of substances as far removed from the earth as possible, be severly judgemental of everyone who doesn’t live the same way we do, and be hyper-concerned with our appearances (of course spending lots of money on products to enhance them). 5-7 might be okay.

By: connie

connie — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 06:06:01 +0000

I don’t blow dry my hair either. It drives my husband crazy and he forces me to do it on days when the temperature’s significantly below freezing. Before I met him, my hair would freeze on my head in the winter.

And I don’t understand the appeal of cats either. I’m definitely a dog person - but I do think kittens are cute.

By: Beth in WI

Beth in WI — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 03:01:52 +0000

Brown hair, check. Blow dryer? Well, I own one but I can’t use it or I wouldn’t be able to fit through a doorway, too much frizz. My dream is to grow it all out and be a grey-haired old hippie lady. It’s at the worst possible stage right now…I need to knit a cute cap or something.

By: Vicki

Vicki — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 19:31:42 +0000

Well, that’s blow-drying two times more per year than I do! I don’t even own a blow-dryer. I have tried to dye my hair with limited success, threaten to dye my hair and look at hair dye in the store all the time, but am SO resistant to dyeing my hair and getting stuck in the rut… If you meet another brown-haired* wet-head on the street someday, say “Hi,” will ya?

*With a shimmery rim of gray all ’round the hairline — though I think the horizon has been expanding of late.

By: melissa

melissa — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 19:28:42 +0000

I totally agree about team sports and public schools - gym was a ridiculous nightmare for me. Every day something worse, broken glasses in high school due to getting smacked in the head with some kind of ball - I can’t remember. I am a firm believer that I should permanently steer clear of any kind of court with any kind of ball that is propelled through the air as the moment I get near it is immediately drawn to my skull.

I’m originally from Green Bay, though I live in Madison now. I’ve enjoyed reading your random things. I’m new to reading blogs - knitting blogs specifically. I needed some help with the Baby Peapod Pattern and was doing internet searches hoping for wisdom and found many a knitter are also bloggers…so…now I find myself following you all along

Happy Thursday and hope your computer gets fixed soon.