i’m under a spelling spell

i have been tagged for this meme by jen of spaghettiharvest more than a month ago and i never even noticed. so today i’m hurrying to make up for that the best i can. a meme is probably a bit uninventive for nablopomo, but i guess it will tell people who don’t know me at all a little more about myself.

the rules are: list one fact, word or tidbit that is somehow relevant to your life for each letter of your first or middle name. you can theme it to your blog or make it general. then tag one person for each letter of your name.
i guess the middle name option is for those of us who don’t display their first name on their blog, but since i don’t care and on the other side am terribly embarrassed about my middle name (it’s actually not that embarrassing, i just hate it) so i’ll stick with my first name.

s is for stubborn – i am known to be a very stubborn person, i’ve been told that all tauruses (or is it tauri?) are. this is not always a bad effect, sometimes i can be annoying because i need to have the last word in an argument, but i’ve been working on that. it’s actually much better than a couple of years ago. the good side is, my stubbornness also gives me persistence. i don’t start a million things and leave them half done. it may take some effort to get me started on something (okay, so s might stand for sluggish, too) but once i’ve gotten to work on something i’ll most likely see it through.

a is for affectionate – i’m a loving person. with my friends, i hug and touch a lot, it’s not a thing i “believe in”, it’s something that just happens if i like someone. maybe i have a tendency to overdo it – not the hugging and touching, but the affection i grow for someone i like. i become fiercly protective of people i love, i don’t want them to get hurt, i’m quick to offer help or a shoulder to cry on and sometimes i think too much of others before thinking of myself (i’ve been told).

b is for bookworm – i can spend days hidden inside a book. i’m a fast reader and i never seem to have enough new books around to actually be able to read for a few days in a row, so i never managed to find out how long i could go on without getting bored. i also read compulsively. i’ll read the small print on my cereal box during breakfast and the laundry detergent box while sitting on the toilet, if you know what i mean. it has nothing to do with being bored, i usually have very charming and entertaining company for breakfast (if not on the toilet, mind you) but it’s … well, compulsive. if something has lettering on it, it wants to be read by me.

i is for independent – i have a very strong sense of independency. i’ve always tried to be able to do for myself what has to be done – i couldn’t imagine making myself unnecessarily dependent of someone else. don’t get me wrong, i’m a person who very much believes in sharing things in a relationship and making important decisions together. but i want to be able to care for myself on my own. i don’t want someone else managing my bank accounts or making decisions for me. on the reverse side, i have problems asking for help. maybe that’s taking the independency a little too far.

n is for nitpicker – i admit i had a hard time finding a word that starts with n but this one fits. there are a lot of nice german expressions for it, like “erbsenzähler” (someone who counts peas), “korinthenkacker” (someone who shits raisins) or “ameisenficker” (someone who fucks ants). okay, to sum it up, i can be pedantic and petty-minded and i can go into long hair-splitting rants when challenged. but i still try to be nice, which starts with n, too.

e is for excessive – again something that is credited to my sign of the zodiac. everything i love i tend to do excessively. eating, sleeping, reading, loving, drinking, swimming, i don’t know where to stop. or yeah, well, i do know where i should stop, but very often i ignore that point purposely. i don’t even consider this a bad habit, really. it’s a trait of my character i kind of like, don’t ask me why. it’s part of myself.

i usually don’t tag, i’m not even sure if i have six readers i can tag. let’s see … roxy of daisybones because i’ve been hearing too little from her, charlotte in her web because she has the granny to keep the kids busy, sam of the rainbows and unicorns because she hopefully has her new laptop by now, ian in hamburg because he just returned from a vacation, thordora from spin me i pulsate because she won’t tell us her first name and gabriel of salted lithium although i’m not sure if he ever does memes, just because i love his wonderful inappropriate salted humour. sorry folks.

~ by bine on November 2, 2007.