Six Things

Guinifer tagged me for the six things meme so here it goes ~

These are the rules:

1. Link to the person who tagged you.
2. Post the rules on your blog.
3. Write six random, arbitrary things about yourself.
4. Tag six people at the end of your post and link to them.
5. Let each person know they've been tagged and leave a comment on their blog.
6. Let the tagger know when your entry is up.

1. I drive a pickup and I love it!
2. I hate the smell of smoked oysters
3. I don't like blinking Christmas lights
4. My favorite color changes almost daily
5. I am addicted to Diet Coke
6. I think I may like MN winters better than I like the summers (let's see if this is still true in Feb or March!)

I'm tagging NorCalMrs, Valkryie Knit This, Kym, Deb, pjbknit, and Sandy - she's well on her way to blogging every day this year!

Just a Little Fun

Following a few other bloggers, I decided to take part in a recent meme that is making the rounds.

If you want to take part in this, follow these guidelines:

a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
b. Using only the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd’s mosaic maker.

The Questions:

1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food?
3. What high school did you go to?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. Favorite drink?
7. Dream vacation?
8. Favorite dessert?
9. What you want to be when you grow up?
10. What do you love most in life?
11. One word to describe you.
12. Your flickr name.

I've Been Tagged

In between all her craziness, Splatgirl tagged me for this 4 things meme:

4 jobs I’ve had:

Parts driver for an auto parts/paint shop. I took the most from this job in the way of driving skills.
Clerk at a dry cleaner, oh boy...the stuff we found in pockets.
Dental Assistant
Dental Hygienist
and that's it, only 4 jobs.

4 places I’ve lived:

Mound View, MN
Shoreview, MN
Hugo, MN
that's it, only 3

4 places I’ve vacationed:

Ixtapa, Mexico
Big Island of Hawaii
Anchorage, Alaska
Grand Canyon, AZ

4 of my favorite foods:

Chicago Dogs
A really nice steak
Special K bars made with Rice Krispies
Eggs, all ways.

4 places I’d like to visit:

Anywhere in Canada
Yellowstone Natl Park
Maine, for lobster rolls ;-)
The Appalachian Trail

I tag anyone who wants to do this, that means you & you & you!

The Day I Spill My Guts

Lori wants to know What is the name of the Dobie you grew up with?
Her name was Tina. She came to live with us soon after I was born and died on my brother's 15th birthday. She was a great dog, the one our family always compares our other dogs to.

Mrs. A asked If you could be anyone else, who would you be and why?
William Wegman because he makes his living working with Wiemaraners, my favorite dog of course. And he's a photographer, I'd like to be a famous photographer...like Ansel Adams. So I guess that's 2 answers.

Splatgirl is full of questions!
How did you get to be so organized and on top of stuff?
Probably from my mom. It's not as though I had organizing lessons or anything but it must be because of the way I was raised, right? Thanks mom!

What's the weirdest thing that's ever happened to you?
I was put into a trash can during 7th grade. I always got picked on. Maybe I'm better today for that.

What do you want to be like when your 70?
I'd like to be retired, fit, active and good looking. :-) We have to keep each other in line...remember??

And for a little more about me, I was tagged by Eleni from Holy Knit! Batman and pjbknit for the 7 random facts about yourself meme.

1) When seated in a restaurant, I prefer to be in the seat that has a view of the restaurant as opposed to a wall. Looking out a window is acceptable, there's just something about all the action being at my back that I don't like.
2)I am the meat police. I like meat a lot but I hate finding fat or gristle or anything weird in it so I pick it apart before I eat it. Strange enough, I love bologna and hot dogs (pork not beef however).
3)I have won several 1st place trophies for racing snowmobiles, all are bigger than any of Kyle's trophies ;-)
4)I once won a bicycle at a bus patrol picnic. I've been fairly lucky ever since so I'm not one of those people who say "I never win!".
5)As a kid, I used to read books in bed under the covers with a flashlight. I still do that except now I have a proper book light and I don't get completely under the covers but pretty darn close.
6)I don't like loud music. In fact, there's a certain range of sound that makes my ears "crackle".
7)I own near 100 Longaberger baskets. Mom...don't gasp...you have even more.

I think this meme has made its way across the blogosphere so I won't tag anyone. If you feel like doing this meme, just do it!

Whew, this may be my longest post yet!

Wouldn't You Like to Know?

I've recently been tagged for the 7 random things about me meme (which I'm working on) and thought maybe there are specific things all 3 of my readers would like to know about me. So go ahead and ask me anything you would like to know. I'll post the answers along with the meme on Friday. Oh gosh...what have I done?? ;-)
A rainbow from last Tuesday evening.

2006 in a Nutshell

Following Amy's lead, I'll give you my blog recap for the year. The first sentence fom each month in 2006.

January
I have literally picked up my needles twice in the last 9 days, and it was only for a few rows on a sock.

February
Found via Sandy's Knitting.

March
I'm taking part in Project Spectrum this year, March is the 1st month and the color is red and pink.

April
Today is the beginning of yellow & orange Project Spectrum.

May
It's not the most exciting sky I've seen but it is from today so I'm using it.

June
Ever since I saw the donut pincushions at Sewdorky (and now they have giant teeth-oh my) I've been meaning to make one or two.

July
A much different sky from last Saturday.

August
My laptop is going on a little vacation today to get a few bugs worked out, hopefully you won't notice though.

September
I've had this unfinished Hardanger class project tucked away for I'm not sure how many years and figured since August was black/white/neutral Project Spectrum month it would be a perfect opportunity to finished it up.

October
Lolly designated September as the Project Spectrum clean sweep month for finishing up any projects that weren't done during the 6 months of the challenge.

November
I failed at Socktoberfest just like I did last year.

December
Did you notice I didn't blog yesterday?

I found another winter wonderland on my way home the other night.