The meme of seven

Yes, yes. We all know what I'm about to say here - something to the effect of "My name is Jen and I am an absolutely HORRIFIC blogger". I am, and I'm trying, but seriously people, there are not enough hours in the day.

I've been tagged, twice, for a meme though, and who can resist a good meme? Exactly.

Brought to you by Joan (who I'd love to link to, but can't because her profile isn't public and I can't find her blog, gah! Joan, if you ever read this, let me know where your blog is!), and the lovely Nutty Knitter.

The rules are:

1. Link to your tagger and post these rules on your blog.
2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.
3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.
4. Let them know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

So here goes!

1. I'm a Jenny, NOT a Jennifer. These days though, I'm known to most as just Jen.

2. I struggle to drive a car with an automatic transmission. I need gears!

3. I adore the musical Grease and I've seen it on stage four times so far.

4. I like getting my ears pierced and have seven holes in them - three in each lobe and one cartilage of my right ear.

5. I cannot stand tea. I don't even like the smell of it. Yuck!

6. As I've mentioned before, I'm terribly accident-prone. Back in February this year I wound up with a suspected broken wrist and the joy of wearing a splint for three weeks...because I fell over the door of the dishwasher. (You could also say I do a good job of living up to the name of my shop!)

7. I LOVE Halloween. Last year I wore glittery bat wings to work. The year before I was a devil.

Okay, I’m tagging:

The lovely Deb (aka TheDevilsWallPaper AND Champignons)
LAMDesigns
Saint Kitten
PinkFlamingoSwizzlestick
WildCatDesigns
Steven's Happy Accidents
And last but not least, FeltMeUpDesigns

Phew! Never before has the UKESWB blog ring come in so handy!

Middle Name Meme

I'm back from my little impromptu break and what better way to mark that than with a meme?! The lovely Sara of Crafts of Texture tagged me for this here meme, so here goes!

The Rules:
1. If you are tagged, add a new post. Add these rules to that post.
2. Using the individual letters of your middle name, list one word and provide the relating fact. These facts must be relevant to you. If you don't have a middle name, then pick a name you would like to be called.
3. Once you've finished your post, tag one person for each letter of your middle name to do this and share the meme-love!



K ~ Kind ~ Or so I've been told. I hope it's true!

A ~ Artistic ~Maybe... Possibly...!

T ~ Tall ~ As in, not very - I'm almost 5'4 (on a good day). Oh to have longer legs...

H ~ Hair ~ I have naturally curly hair that I have a fairly consistent love-hate relationship with. As soon as it learns to obey my every whim we'll be a lot happier - those with naturally straight hair will not understand this at all. It's a curly thing.

A ~ Accident Prone ~ When I was little, my parents used to tease me by saying that things, inanimate things such as walls and doors and the like, just jumped out and hit me. If truth be told, they still do (both tease me and those pesky walls do keep jumping out). I walk into doors, and walls, and furniture and filing cabinets on a regular basis. I’m usually sporting at least one bruise at any giving moment. When I was about ten, I broke my pinky finger by getting it tangled in the banister while walking upstairs. My last year at high school I sprained my ankle falling off a pair of Spice Girls-style trainers. I’m pretty sure I broke my toe crashing into a washing machine cashing a friend around the house at a party (there may have been alcohol involved). Needless to say, one of my nicknames is Calamity Jen.

R ~ Rugby ~ Rugby is my absolute favourite sport to watch, and NOTHING will make me more patriotic than watching Scotland play. I just love it.

I ~ Illogical ~ While I like to think I possess a decent amount of common sense I can be totally and completely illogical about stuff. For example:

• I cannot get my head (or feet) around driving a car with an automatic gear box. It feels utterly bizarre having no clutch. I need gears!
  
  
• I hate raw tomatoes, but I love tomato soup, tomato sauce and most things that have cooked tomatoes in them.
  
  
• I love colour. If I can get something (socks, shoes, technology of any sort) in a colour that isn’t usual for that particular thing (for example, I have serious designs on a pink laptop) it becomes even more wonderful. Except when it comes to loo roll. Then, anything that isn’t white is just wrong.
  
  
• I love dinosaurs in cartoon form, but I am absolutely terrified of the movie Jurassic Park.

N ~ Numpty! ~ How could I not include the name of my shop?! "Numpty" is one of my favourite words and when it came time to think of a name for my tiny empire, it had to be "numpty"! In short "numpty" is, originally, a Scottish word that pretty much means idiot. I think it's a little nicer than idiot though - I've likened it to "putz" or "shmuck" in the past. I just like how it sounds. Here's the definition of it from my coaster at work (verbatim):

numpty
(num-p-tee) Dialect, chiefly Scot. ~ n
1. a bumbling fool; one who is intellectually challenged ("no' the fu' shilling'").
2. widely known in Scotland as an MSP (Member of Scottish Parliament) [as in "Thae numpties couldnae organise a piss up in a brewery."]

Taken like that it doesn't sound like such a good name for a shop, but it's also something of a term of endearment (to some!) and, like I said, it just sounds nice. AND! it was voted Scotland's favourite word earlier this year. With my chronically horrific memory and the fact that I'm more prone to boughts of severe ditziness than I care to admit, "numpty" is definitely a good word to describe me at times.

E ~ Eclectic The best, or perhaps only word to describe my taste in music. I love older stuff, new stuff, pop, rock, rap, ballads, bits of country, classical…

Phew!

Okay, I'm tagging:

Kezzaroo
Ali Cub Cards
TiinaTeaspoon
HoneyBeadz
Amanda William's Designs
Re:Form
Infinite Reverie
Nycole
Eclectic B