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posted by [personal profile] leoniedelt at 04:25pm on 29/08/2007 under ,
I'm it!

1. List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
2. Tag seven people to do the same.
3. Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag whoever wants to do it.

1. I'm a leftie. I think lefthandedness is the grooviest thing *ever*. I'm always watching which hands people use, especially on tv, and being a leftie makes me want the males even more ;)

2. I love horses. I grew up with an American Saddlebred and two Shetland ponies, all three of whom i miss very much. I broke the Saddlebred myself; he was wild when we were given him.

3. I miss home. I think that's pretty standard, really, when you like 4000 miles away from your family and home.

4. I have dyscalculia - i don't deal well with numbers. Fancy that, since I'm the accountant of the family (and we're FINALLY digging out of debt for the first time in our marriage)

5. Since seven is the theme of this memery, i thought it coinkydinky to mention I've been married for seven years...

6. I still have all of my My Little Ponies from when i was a kid. All 30+ of them. And the entire Strawberry Shortcake collection, with all their clothes, pets, etc in that big Strawberry carrying case.

6.5 I also have a shedload of 45s, one of which is worth a lot of money as its an original Beatles 45, but the labels are swapped round backwards. And I have the White Album with a serial number on it! I also own a number of really groovy LPs. Wish the lot was here with me - its all at mom's, in storage.

7. I havent grown in height since I was 12. I had some bad poison ivy, from the waist down to my toes and everywhere in between! I ended up getting 2 separate steroid injections to stop it. The doctor mentioned it *might* stunt my growth, and indeed it did. My mom is 5'8, my dad is 6' and my brother 6'1. I'm 5'1, short wee me.

I just wish my arse would stop growing.

I hereby and henceforth tag:
[livejournal.com profile] mooncove
[livejournal.com profile] alocin42  - missing you, girl!
[livejournal.com profile] purple_bug 
[livejournal.com profile] nine_girl 
[livejournal.com profile] the_terrible 
[livejournal.com profile] alawston 
[livejournal.com profile] kilinka 
There are 19 comments on this entry. (Reply.)
 
posted by [identity profile] elledwen.livejournal.com at 03:57pm on 29/08/2007
You know, I grew up around horses, too. I wonder how many short, horse-loving, ex-pat women there are hanging around Britain. >.> Hehe.
 
posted by [identity profile] leoniedelt.livejournal.com at 04:31pm on 29/08/2007
Hanging round like a bad smell ;)
 
posted by [identity profile] purple_bug.livejournal.com at 04:36pm on 29/08/2007
Had to check that was my username there, cos the underscore is missing. There is a [livejournal.com profile] purplebug, but he/she isn't your friend and hasn't been around for four years - so I think I've been tagged *grins* Would've been weirdly coincidental if you had two friends with the same username but for the underscore.

*starts trying to pin down quirks*
 
posted by [identity profile] leoniedelt.livejournal.com at 05:12pm on 29/08/2007
Will edit - silly me! :D
 
posted by [identity profile] the-terrible.livejournal.com at 12:55am on 30/08/2007
Do I HAFTA? Okay...
 
posted by [identity profile] leoniedelt.livejournal.com at 07:53am on 30/08/2007
Nah, just thought it'd be fun! :D
 
posted by [identity profile] the-terrible.livejournal.com at 07:38pm on 30/08/2007
I'm never really sure what to say on memes like those (I'm really quite boring) so I just said what I was in the mood to talk about. It turned out kinda ugly, actually. :|
 
posted by [identity profile] leoniedelt.livejournal.com at 07:39pm on 30/08/2007
I never know what to say on those things either. I'm a pretty boring person too, i think.
 
posted by [identity profile] kilinka.livejournal.com at 03:33am on 31/08/2007
Yipes I've been tagged! I don't know who to tag though! :P But I'll go ahead and write up those 7 things anyways since I'm bored beyond mention lol
 
posted by [identity profile] leoniedelt.livejournal.com at 07:53am on 31/08/2007
Noticing you've been tagged means you're really READING your f-list! I'm glad to see so many people who really do read their f-list :D
 
posted by [identity profile] kilinka.livejournal.com at 01:32am on 01/09/2007
Definately! I may not post too much (Sometimes I only have a little bit of time to log into the internet) but I always try to take the time to read what others post :D
 
posted by [identity profile] mooncove.livejournal.com at 06:21am on 27/09/2007
So I guess we post our list in our own journal? (So we not only have to think of seven things about ourselves but seven people to tag who haven't already done this yet?!)

Dyscalculia = not dealing well with numbers? I definitely have that--I didn't know it had a name! (Kinda like Restless Legs Syndrome!) I have an uncanny ability to phone numbers, birthdays, appointments, etc. (purely visually, almost like a photographic memory), but somehow my brain can't actually process the numbers, as in balancing my checkbook, remembering to do things, keeping track of time, etc.!) Is that the same thing, or do I have something different?

I have one My Little Pony (a unicorn) from way back; my nieces found out the other day and want me to bring it over to play with their Little Ponies, who have castles and videos and everything!
 
posted by [identity profile] leoniedelt.livejournal.com at 06:24am on 27/09/2007
Yep.


Dyscalculia = reversing numbers when reading them aloud or copying them. I too have an uncanny memory for phone numbers, bu can't copy one out of the book without screwing it up, for example. I have to commit it to memory first, and then write it down from memory else i reverse digits.

And i'm the family accountant! lol
 
posted by [identity profile] mooncove.livejournal.com at 07:04am on 27/09/2007
Ah, yes, I do have a tendency to do that, but only when doing calculations with them. If I think of them as a visual unit (like a word), I don't have any trouble. (I'm also a good speller simply because I have such a visual memory.)

So dyscalculia is more like dyslexia with numbers then?
 
posted by [identity profile] leoniedelt.livejournal.com at 07:30am on 27/09/2007
That's exactly what it is. I'm a good speller (typoes not counting) and have a wide vocabulary because words are not a problem. However, doing mental arithmetic is easy for me too, i can add up groceries prices within 10p usually. But, when it comes to copying things, i'm not too good, and equations etc got to be too much for me.
 
posted by [identity profile] mooncove.livejournal.com at 07:33am on 27/09/2007
Wow, you're better than me. I can't even add/subtract two-digit numbers in my head!
 
posted by [identity profile] leoniedelt.livejournal.com at 07:35am on 27/09/2007
Hee :) I get muddled up in the states because of 6% sales tax - our tax is included in the prices, hence i can shock my husband at the till by guessing how much it will be, like a party trick. Hee :D

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyscalculia
 
posted by [identity profile] mooncove.livejournal.com at 07:43am on 27/09/2007
Only 6% in your state? It's 8% here!

So how does that that shock your husband, if the tax is already included? (I'm slow; it's those numbers again. Just thinking of them makes me glaze over! Besides, I'm back on Ativan, and I'm way overdue on my bedtime dose! Crampy and twitchy too ... good thing I'm seeing the doctor again tomorrow--I hope (if he's willing to increase me up to 4 mg. instead of 3, that is--the nurse I saw last week didn't believe me when I said 1 mg. Klonopin = 2 mg. Ativan, so the most he would give me was 3 mg. Ativan). *twitch* *cramp* Ouch. :-(
 
posted by [identity profile] leoniedelt.livejournal.com at 07:46am on 27/09/2007
Because he can't even grasp adding a few prices up in his head to arrive at a sum total. Hee :) (he's badly dyslexic, diagnosed when he was 18)

I guess its 6%, i havent been home in a few years so i dont know if its gone up or not.

ACK. Ouch. Hope it gets better soon, sweets.

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