I've Been Tagged!

SUCCESS!  I've  finally been tagged to play the cool kids' game!  Thanks, Kaity!

The Rules

1. You must post the rules. (and link up who tagged you)

2. Post eleven fun facts about yourself on the blog post.

3. Answer the questions the tagger set for you in their post, and then create eleven new questions to ask the people you've tagged.

4. Tag eleven people and link them on your post

5. Let them know you've tagged them!

Eleven Fun Facts:
1.  I am proudly sporting pink hair in my driver's license photo.  Bank tellers give me grief for this all the time.  As soon as anyone asks for I.D., I start apologizing:  "Yes, that's me, five years and pink hairs ago."

Also, it's really dirty.  Gross.

 2.  I have never seen the Lord of the Rings trilogy all the way through.  Nor the Star Wars trilogy.  I know.  Bad nerd!  Not for lack of trying.  I just fall asleep.


3.  I am kind of obsessed with toys.  This is kind of hard to admit.  I'll try to chalk it up to being "young at heart," but in truth, I probably just never grew out of the "Aww that's so cute I have to have it!" phase.

Bookshelf = half books, half Beanie Babies.

4.  I adore musical theatre.  Not surprising for an actress.  I love listening to cast recordings, singing along in the shower...but


5.  I HATE going to the theatre!  Maybe it's petty jealousy, but I always look at the actors and think, "Why isn't it ME up there?"  Especially Off- and Off-Off Broadway.  Especially in Shakespeare.  Massive issues, this one.


6.  I do my best thinking while vacuuming.  Whenever I have to learn a monologue, or before I go out on a tour, I recite my bits over and over while vacuuming.  I'll vacuum a clean floor, it just helps me think.

Does it help that the vacuum is cute?  It probably doesn't hurt.

7. I hate tights & leggings!  Tights remind me of being a little girl, being forced to wear frilly dresses in cold weather with tights and freezing my legs off.  And leggings (unless under pants for added warmth) cling in all the wrong places.  AND CAN WE TALK about the awkward pink marks those elastic waistbands leave on your skin?!  No thanks.  Unsubscribe.


8.  I am the Emily Post of subway etiquette.  After de-boarding a train, I will turn to my companion and critique my fellow riders.  "Stroller parked in front of the doors?  What was she thinking?"  "Nice to know they changed the rules, it's now 'don't let people off BEFORE you get on', because that makes sense"  "Seriously, if my taste in music was THAT BAD, I certainly wouldn't blast it loud enough for the entire train to hear."


9.  And I am super-judgey of other people's spelling and grammar.  I must have mentioned this to my boyfriend, because back when we were emailing back and forth to get to know each other, he ran all his missives through spell-check before importing them into facebook to send to me.  He didn't confess to this until years later, when I would help him edit his college papers (not cheating!  Just coaching) and discovered the horrible truth about his spelling ineptness.  Luckily, by then, I loved him anyway.


10.  I'm ashamed to admit that I just don't read for fun anymore.  Are there too many distractions?  Probably.  I used to sit on a bench by the dog park in Washington Square and devour books in sunny weather...until the inevitable jerk would try to hit on me.  Did jerks put me off reading?  We'll never know.


11.  I am a huge Beatles fan...but only the B sides!  If you only listen to the hits, you are missing SO MUCH!  Everyone knows the big ones, but "Your Mother Should Know"?  "Dear Prudence"?  "Within You Without You"?  I admit, I kind of cringe when "Drive My Car" or "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" comes up on shuffle!  


 

Kaity's Questions:

1.  Who is your biggest celebrity obsession?  My love for Simon Doonan is probably really unhealthy, but he's just so CUTE and so FUNNY and so AWESOME and...he taught me how to dress!  I mean, obviously it's a work in progress, but he's just...*sigh*...so perfect.  It's kind of embarrassing, but I actually had a dream about him the other day.  He was wearing heels and I was teaching him how to dance.  Except I can't dance, but DEAR GOD I didn't want HIM to know that!

He's in my magazine!  AHHHH!

2.  Who is your favorite blogger to stalk?   I'm such a voyeur!  I'll spend a few hours reading one blogger's archives back like, six months or so, and then follow them via GFC.  My Google Reader has, like, 200 blogs in it.  Currently, I joined a NYC Bloggers Meetup group, and have been lurking on some members' blogs.  Is that insane?  Probably.  But it's more fun to me than reality TV.

 

3.  Team Jennifer or Team Angelina?  Deffo team Jennifer.  She seems more friendly, down-to-earth, you know?  Also I prefer her movies and HELLO FRIENDS?!?  Angelina is kind of scary, besides.  She's like a weird witch in a forest who builds a candy house to collect children and you're not quite sure entirely why but maybe she drinks their essence to retain her youth?

 

4.  Are you more of an early bird or a night owl?  Kind of both.  I desire 10 hours of sleep.  Depending on when those hours are, I can be up really late, or up really early.

 

5.  If you could have any career without worrying about silly things like money, what would you choose?  I would do exactly what I'm doing right now, only I wouldn't work so many days at my day job!  In the end, I would like to go into teaching.  I'm all about reaching and affecting an audience, and some of the people who affected me the most were teachers.   High school level or higher, though.  And I have no idea what I would teach. 

 

6.  If you could say anything to Kim Kardashian, what would it be?  STOP IT STOP IT RIGHT NOW NOBODY WANTS TO KEEP UP WITH YOU ANYMORE.

 

7.  What is your favorite flavor of ice cream?  Coffee.  Or butter pecan.  Wait, can I have two scoops?

 

8.  If you could live in any time period, which would you choose?  Late 60's - early 70's.  So much tumult!  So much learning!  So many causes you could truly believe in!  So much social and political change.  I feel like modern times are stuck in a rut:  bipartisan politics force us to stay in limbo with regards to growth and adapting to changing needs and climes.  And I don't much care for our modern culture, which sends such mixed messages to youth.  I feel like the 60's encouraged individuality, activism, and being true to yourself, while modern day stresses conformity and guilt.  Maybe we'll see a new Renaissance soon...

 

9.  What is your favorite meal of the day?  Absolutely dinner!  Breakfast and lunch are whatever I can scrounge up, or a peanut butter sandwich at work...and I HATE peanut butter sandwiches!  But dinner I can usually convince Eli (the greatest and kindest human being alive, no kidding) to order in while we watch British TV on the Netflix and THAT is heaven!

Lean Cuisine and coffee, the breakfast of champions.

 10.  What are three things you’ve always wished you could do?  Sing, sing, sing.  I can barely carry a tune if I concentrate reeeeally hard.  I always psyche myself out of doing a solo at karaoke and my legs shake so hard I have to sit down when I sing my half of the duet.  I wish I could just open my mouth and let beautiful melodies flow forth.

See?  Taking pictures.  Not singing.

 11.  If you had to dye you hair any color, what would it be?  Purple!  I tried to dye the bottoms purple a few months ago, but it didn't take.  And it kind of fried out my hair.  Oops.

My Questions!
1.  Is there a fashion trend that you can't stand?
2.  What does your phone look like?
3.  What was your favourite movie as a child?
4.  Is there a word you can't seem to spell right?
5.  What's your favourite restaurant, and what do you always order?
6.  If you could name yourself, what name would you choose?
7.  What is your least favourite smell?
8.  What board game do you play the most?
9.  Which website do you spend the most time on?
10. What is your favourite thing to cook/bake?
11.  What do your everyday shoes look like? 

Tag!  Now YOU'RE it!

Brooke of Silver Lining

Amie of Completely Unfinished

Sarah of Almost Delightful

Emma of Race & Emma

Erica of Live.Love.Random

Elizabeth of love is the adventure

Violet of Blythe Ponytail Parades

Megan of Diary of this Girl

 Erinn of It's the Journey...

 Bobee of Miss Bobee

Erin of My Beautiful Disaster