Friday, June 18, 2010

10 things

A huge thanks to Mooncalf who nominated me for the Beautiful Blogger Award. 
The instructions say to write 10 interesting [not sure about that here!] things about oneself and then relay the award on to 10 beautiful bloggers.

First my 10 things:

1. I have a thing for Camper shoes. I recently bought my 12th pair. 
2. I’m an ISTJ according to the Jung Type Indicator (JTI) – you may be more familiar with its sister, MBTI
3. As far as learning styles go, I am an extremely visual learner. Figures and graphs, please! 
4. I wear size S (6-7) in lab nitrile gloves even if the fingers are much too short. I just prefer them to be tight. 
5. I love liquorice. I also like chocolate, but only if it is high quality. 
6. I love TV detective stories. And when I say that to my peers, they always state that they love CSI, too, and then I have to add that by detective stories I mean those that their parents watch. My favourites are Lewis, Inspector Morse, Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, Midsomer Murders, and A Touch of Frost. No, I cannot choose.  
7. I want a house in Italy. And vacation time to spend in it.  
8. I like numbers and systems. I’ve always been good at maths, and that is where I got the best grades ever. I never wanted to study maths, though, I just think I like the simplicity that there is only one correct answer (at least until you get beyond the first year at university level, which is where I stopped). Maybe that’s why I like grammar, too. [I do sound really boring, don’t I? :)]  
9. My favourite author is Ian McEwan
10. My favourite geeky joke is the one where Einstein, Newton, and Pascal play hide-and-seek...

And then the 10 beautiful bloggers. You may already have gotten this one, or you may not want to participate in this. I'm completely fine with that - I rarely pass these things on, but I thought I would just for once. 
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I'm looking forward to reading your 10 things! :)
 

Sunday, June 06, 2010

Knitting in the sun

I've spent the weekend knitting and tanning on our two terraces (one on either side of the flat - one for morning sun and one for afternoon sun). I feel very well prepared, starting to tan (carefully) now in order to be just a little less pale when I'm going to wear that certain very white dress in October :)

I'm happy that summer is finally here (at least until tomorrow) and I hope I'll get more knitting time (and desire to knit all the time) over the summer than I have had the past few weeks, where I've only knit around 3 times a week! :O