random bits.....

beauty from my garden

Kamsin tagged me a week ago asking me to identify 8 random facts about moi. Given that I seem to be an open stream of conciousness......yapping away on this blog ad nauseum, I was kind of stuck.......what can I share on a website that a) I havent already spewed about and b) that I'm comfortable sharing? So, believe it or not..........(canuckguy, I'm particularly thinking of you......) I was a little stumped. Actually, I think I was suffering from overthinkingitis, a dangerous ailment I strive to conquer today.

Let the randomness unravel.................

1. I'm a lefty. No, that doesn't mean politically. I'm a southpaw left handed person living in her right mind, trying to navigate a right handed world. Though I bat and golf right......almost everything I do is in a left handed way. One day, I will write a whole post on this, because believe it or not being left handed has impacted much of how I view the world AND the world is set up for right handedness.

2. I hate flying. Since the terrorism attacks, I hate flying even more. I think this fear has to do with being left handed, oh and not having any control over my destiny while sitting in an uncomfortable seat beside a snoring stranger who needs to bathe while some pilot whom I'm never met, or even seen takes me up into the clouds like this is a normal thing. Too much thinking........ what I try to do when confronted with flying (and this is a must when I have two kids in tow whom I don't want to freak out completely)........I sit back and fantasize my way through the take off and landings...... and no, you will not find out what it is I fantasize about.


3. I can makes the noise of a pig grunting with my throat...... kids love it. So do some grown-ups.



4. If a picture is askew on a wall, I have to fix it before my attention can return to where it should be. This also goes for something that doesn't seem to be in the proper place. I'm not a fussbudgety kind of person normally.......just when it comes to decor and balance. perhaps my left handedness comes with a feng shui option......don't know. I do know it is something I inherited from my mom and have passed the non-askew gene onto my daughter.



5. When I'm teaching, I love to be spontaneous. However, the way to do this AND stay on track is to have done the homework ahead of time. Lesson plans, objectives, outcomes....all the good teaching plans need to be completed. THEN I can head up in front of a group and let it unfold as it will........spontaneous, revealing, sharing, interactive learning.



6. I'm very intuitive. In fact, I know you're reading this right now. Scary, eh?


7. I truly believe in kindred spirits. They are few and far between, which is good because it makes them all the more special. There is a transcendent connectiveness not felt with others in our lives.....and a feeling that you can spill out your inner thoughts and feelings without hesitation. These human beings don't randomly enter your life, though sometimes it appears that way on the surface. Kindred spirits are gifts.



8. I'm on hiatus this week......... just me and Max and our imaginations. Not many plans, some good downtime to clear our heads. Today, we are going to pick strawberries which neither of us has done before. I'm going to teach him how to make jam. I predict he'll be bored out of his mind! I may have to bribe the kid with a trip to the water slide. Since I LOVE waterslides too, this won't be a drag.


oh..........i've thought of many more randoms bits, but will leave those for another day.



Enjoy your day.....and thank you Kamsin. I'm sorry it took me so long. I will leave it up to you to take this activity up if you would like.......or perhaps you could write about one random thing about you and see where it takes you in your own writing..........or not. :)