Tag, I'm it!

A couple of nights ago when I logged onto my Myspace I found that I had a new comment. I followed the link to see which of my Myspace friends had something to say to me and what. It turned out to be my Myspace and real life friend A. She is also on the MA screenwriting and she had just tagged me.

Rules: Someone writes a blog with seven weird/random facts about themselves. Then, at the end of the blog he/she tags seven of their friends by listing their names. These people then need to write their own blogs with seven facts about themselves and these rules stated clearly. It is also required that you leave a comment on the new tag-ees pages, telling them they have been tagged, and that they should read your blog.

Fictive or non-fictive, or both in my case, having a blog comes with consequences, apparantly. So ladies and gents please sit tight as I present to you, my seven weird/ random facts:

1. I once caught the bouquet at a wedding. According to the wedding video (which I refuse to watch) I lunged for it, but as far as I'm concerned I just had to stretch out my arm and there it was in my hand. I feel sorry for the other girls who were there as the tradition goes that I will now be the first to marry. I fear they're going to have to wait a very long time.

2. I am a cat lover. And with that I don't just mean that I am a cat person and I think kittens look really cute. Anyone who does not think kittens are cute has clearly never understood the concept of cute. When I say I am a cat lover I mean that whenever I see a cat I have to stop whatever I am doing and go over to pet it. I have even already made a cat friend here in London. She lives en route to Sainsbury's.
p.s. I can also purr.

3. I have a childhood trauma of being mistaken for a boy. When I was little my hair was very thin and so the hairdresser and my mum felt it was best for me to cut my hair very short and layered. And so I came to be regularly mistaken for a boy. My sister teased me with it a lot, though of course I forgive her. I think my worst memory is when I first had to go to school with my tomboy haircut and my best friend laughed at me in my face.

4. (Inspired by my tagger, A.) My favourite movie is Barbarella, the utterly tacky cult movie from the 60s about space cadet Barbarella who is on a mission to find the scientist Duran Duran (where the 80s music group got there name from). A more shameful fact about me and movies: I think I can safely say that I have seen Dirty Dancing about fifty times. Fourty of which must have been age 15 and under.

5. I am going to spend more time thinking of seven people to tag than I am going to spend time writing this post. Sadly this kind of blog thing assumes that I know a lot of people who think they are interesting enough to publish their own lives on the internet. I actually only know a few people with blogs, and they actually post interesting things or are good writers (and I am not talking about myself)!

6. I did not learn how to ride a bike, without the safety wheels, until I was seven years old. I kept on failing and failing until gave up. After I don't know how long my dad got sick of having to take me on the back of his bike and he told me that I would have to walk to school if I did not learn how to ride a bike. See here, I perform well when under pressure!

7. Last but not least; at some point in my highschool career I wanted to become a pathologist and cut open dead people's bodies. I soon realised however that I was going to have to studie for ten years and I gave up the idea. I am still interested in the human body, though I would never want to be responsible for more than one; my own (and those of my children of course, if my future beholds them).

Well that was it kids! I now begin the very long process of thinking who I am going to tag. The first names that come to mind are:

Merel en Sara they can continue this lovely tag chain in Dutch, and though Sara's Livejournal is more of an art posting blog she will just have to obey the rules of this game!

Furthermore I tag Patxi who's blog I recently was invited to join though I am not sure as to what I should write there.

That is three, slowly but steady. So I guess I'll tag Cris and Dean, because they semi-regularly post on their Myspace blogs. Correction; Dean posts regularly, I just found out. I am such a bad blog friend.

Down to the last two, making this really hard for me. And I hope that when I say, I am not able to think of two others, I will not be blog cursed or anything. I hope blog karma won;t get back at me for not tagging seven people.

I guess I'll find out soon enough!