Tag! You’re it! I just became part of a game of “Blog Tag”. To participate, I have to post a blog entry with 5 little known facts about myself. My blog is normally not about me; it is about personal finance and how my website, Spending Profile, can help people reach their financial goals. But it’s nice to put a human face on technology, at least to show that there is an actual person behind the screen.
So here goes:
1. I was born in Bath. No! Not in a bath, but in the town of Bath in the South of England. Do I have a british accent? No – except when I get angry. I came here when I was 2, but we visited England often since my Dad was in the navy.
2. When I was 3, I came within 12 hours of dying of an apendicitis. They didn’t think it was that because it was the youngest case they had ever had. They finally realized, but my appendix had already burst and sent “bad stuff” all over. They cleaned it up and I recovered.
3. I play clarinet in the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra. I studied music at the Quebec Conservatory of Music and graduated “avec grande distinction”, although I was so nervous at my final exam I was sure my hair would turn white overnight like Marie Antoinette!
4. I watch Lebanese soap operas! Yes, well, I have a reason: I am learning Arabic. I study soap operas because they use everyday language. I write down every word and translate them to English. I am learning Arabic because a) I love languages, and b) my fiancé is Lebanese, and I need to be able to speak to his relatives when I visit Lebanon!
5. I am an avid scrapbooker. I have a circle of scrapbooking friends, and we go scrapbooking together every week. We each own a scrapbooking cart, which is a suitcase-sized container on wheels that holds all our tools and paper supplies. Scrapbooking is a hot new trend, and we are out to convert people to it – a major success will be when we convert our first MALE scrapbooker!
Hmm. I have to tag other bloggers now:
- Kristina Mausser from Digital World. I saw her give a great presentation at Bar Camp Ottawa on writing for the web.
- Ryan Lowe, who I met briefly at Demo Camp in November, and whose blog I have read.
- Mark Levison, whose tool scrum I checked out, and who has a blog.
Hi Lisa – ahhhh…So you’re a scrapbooker. So is my fiance… You should start a sister site – ScrapbookingProfile – keeping track of those mounds of paper!! LOL
Best of luck in ’07!!
cheers
Mitch
So, Lisa, what exactly is a scrapbooker ?
John
Ah, so glad you asked! A scrapbooker is a person who creates artistic photo albums. By that I mean not just sticking the photos in, but adding artwork around them. The artwork can be made from anything, and you can tell how addicted a scrapbooker is by what materials she (or in special but rare cases, he) uses: paper, buttons, beads, ribbon, wool, locks of hair, fluff from the dog, pipe cleaners, tissue boxes, food from the kitchen (??) such as spaghetti (hey, the shells are cool for beach-themed pages!), etc. As you can see, I’m pretty hard-core. But there are those far more addicted than I. For example, I have never attended an all-night pyjama crop party, nor gone on a full weekend scrapbooking retreat. …Yet!