I always refer to blogging as having a conversation, so I’m delighted to be pulled into one by Coryan from UTurnAhead.com. Actually it’s more like a game of tag … don’t be surprised to find your own name at the end of this post. I’ve been tagged by Coryan to write a list of seven weird things about me, but I’m going to follow his lead and go with “strange but true.” So here goes.
- I’m a bit of a health nut, but in a politically incorrect fashion. A few years ago, I jumped off the low fat, low sodium, artificially sweetened, ultra-pasteurized bandwagon and I’ve never looked back. There’s raw organic milk from grass-fed cows in my fridge, and my morning coffee with real cream is a real treat.
- I was married at 18 to my high school sweetheart. 28 years later, we’re still going strong! No, I don’t think that’s strange, but it’s also not quite normal! We have two grown and happily married sons, and five beautiful granddaughters.
- I used to play the violin. It took me eight years to figure out that I would never be any good at it.
- Yes, I have a stubborn streak!
- Before reopening my business, I worked as a marketing communication specialist for what would have been the world’s first nonprofit youth mall. Coincidentally, it was located in the United State’s first enclosed mall. Talk about a fun job if you like teens and marketing! Unfortunately, it didn’t get off the ground, and that mall, in great disrepair has recently been razed.
- I taught myself web design because I wanted to understand how it worked. Along the way, I discovered my inner geek. There’s a part of me that really enjoys working in code.
- In another life, I was a happy and busy stay-at-home mom, with a huge garden, chickens, ducks, geese, a goat, a lamb, horses, a dog and several barn cats. We lived in Great Falls, Montana with a distant view of the mountains out our front window. That’s where I rediscovered that I loved to write and draw. You simply can’t be around that much inspiration without a way to record it!
I enjoyed coming up with this list! But we’re not quite done yet. Now I’d like to learn seven strange but true things about:
Scott Alberts of ALBERTS Illustration & Design
Kimberly Bock of Learning SEO Basics
Dean Peters of Heal Your Church Website
Heather at CottageBlogger
Joe at The Bunker blog
That’s right. Tag, you’re it!
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What a great list. A nonprofit youth mall sounds like a whirlwind of a project. Too bad that one didn’t get off the ground. Oh, and #4 really goes without saying after reading #3.
Thanks for playing along…can’t wait to read the lists of those you’ve tagged.
Thanks Coryan! I had fun with it. I’m looking forward to seeing those lists too!
ummm…..here’s a strange but true fact about me – I have never been tagged before so don’t know what I am meant to do!! Do I write my list on my blog or here? It took me 2 minutes to think of 7 weird things which is weird in itself!
This is fun but I need to know what to do next!
Hi Heather, I’m anxious to read your list! Just two minutes to think of seven things? I’m impressed!
Just add your list as a new post to your blog and then tag a few more people to do the same. If you trackback to this post or just come back and leave me a comment that links to your post, that would be great. Thanks for participating!
http://scottalberts.blogspot.com/
Why you I oughta….
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Hi Shari
I’m sorry it took so long for my reply, I have been very busy lately..
This sounds like great fun! Once I get a couple of things underway, I certainly intend to play the game! It could be a wonderful way to get to know more about who we follow and who follows us well! Me like!
@ScottA – Thanks for participating, albeit grudgingly! Your list is quite interesting … and by the way, you’re creativity is showing!
@CottageBlogger – Heather, I’m glad you had fun with this. It’s nice to get a glimpse of the person behind the blog!
@spostareduro – Kimberly, I’m looking forward to reading your post. Thanks for playing along!
I guess I’m just Stranger than the others, and Truer than need be!
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Well Shari, ask and you shall receive…
Shari Voigt’s “Strange But True”
(I hope this comment box is an editor (eeek)
Thanks it was fun!
Kimberly, your post is awesome! Thank you for your kind words. You made my day!
You’re welcome! My pleasure.
I apologize to anyone who may have commented on my own blog. I read your comments via an email alert (and appreciate them very much), but my Blogger interface shows no comments at all. I will be working with Shari to fix this; she noticed the problem before I did myself!
Another baby step forward. I just found out that I need to “moderate” the comments to my own blog before they’re published. Who knew?
@ScottA. I’ve just emailed you about your blog. Let’s see if we can get your permalinks and comments fixed today. They’re still not working properly.
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hehe, I was looking for reference of people being tagged and found this. It amuses me how social the web is and blogging is such a social activity. It rather resembles viral marketing, businesses should grasp these ideas and implement. Maybe not weird things about them, but something else that would be amusing. Congrats on a good blog entry that made me smile!
Thank you, Lee! Blogging offers businesses and individuals the opportunity to connect in so many different ways. This was a fun post – and interesting to follow as each blogger continued on with the idea.
great post, found it via google. we’ve just implemented tags on our blog