7 things I felt you should know

10 November 2007

Lindy has tagged me for a meme and it is her deepest desire that I reveal 7 things about myself.

1. I’m going out tonight. I don’t know where. For that is apparently how surprises work. I’m gonna wear something tastefully spangly and fully intend to kick up my heels wherever I end up.

2. It’s my birthday on Monday. I shall be 26 and apparently approaching this advanced age brings with it both a vague indifference (meaning that I no longer bother making a ridiculously long countdown to my birthday) and an inability to come up with ideas for what I might like in the way of presents.

3. I’m going to Salzburg in two weeks. I know. Again. I thought I was done with the travelling for this year, but I’ve been summoned and with the prospect of a trip to the Christmas markets while I’m there too, it’s not as though I was going to say anything other than “hell, yeah!” and book my flight.

4. I’d bought a spring balance for the sole purpose of weighing my pumpkins a few weeks ago. I thought it’d be big enough. However, it turned out that having a 6kg spring balance was of no use at all because my pumpkins are all big fat bastards. So Dad rigged up a balance in the garage, hung a 7lb weight on one end and a pumpkin on the other and did maths based on how far from the centre they had to be for the bar to be balanced. I stood well back while such wild and dangerous calculations were being made.

5. I had a haircut today which at last righted the not-good haircut I had back in June. I’ve been trying to grow it out since then, but never mentioned it here for fear of finding that no-one wants to be friends with the girl who cries over a haircut. But anyway, it’s all ok again now and, seriously, it’s just hair.

6. I need to go and get ready in a minute, but I have to finish this first. It’s just that I have no concentration at the moment – the last interruption from which I’ve just returned was stopping to haul a couple of pumpkins upstairs into the spare bedroom. I’d like them to ripen to orange before I mash them up and everything I read has a different idea on how to make that happen. Outside, no, inside! Warm, no, cold! Sunlight, no, darkness!

7. Lindy tagged me and I started writing this list so long ago that I keep having to go back and alter the various times I’ve mentioned. Meme-killer extraordinaire.

So instead of tagging further people, I shall simply ask you all a question to answer in the comments: how do you intend to celebrate my birthday?