Things are getting more and more eccentric at Casa de la Swain. Changing styles in my textile work, falling in love again with painting and photography...and then there is the ever illusive quest for continuing creativity through working with Eric Maisel. Still on the road teaching, posting now at the Ragged Cloth Cafe and taking the pledge to keep handmaiden up to date.

Saturday, June 04, 2005

100 Things About Me....well, probably less

You just gotta read: DebR's 100 Things about Me. Amazing and quite revealing stuff...better than that also hilarious in some spots.

Deb and I are both redheads....from the bottle....both suffer from shoe fetishes...probably separated at birth somehow. So to rise to the occasion, here are a few tidbits about me.....doubt that I will make 100.....seen it all, done it all, just too old to remember.

1. I am and only, adopted child.
2.I worked in regional theater and arts management from the age of 18 to 30.
3. I have been married to two Viet Nam veterans....Army and Navy...thought I would skip the Marines.
4. I have a dead ex-husband.....not funny but weird..hadn't seen him in 30 years so there was little effect but still weird.
5. My biggest fear is that I was born with the genius but not the talent.....lots of ideas and not the gift to manifest them.
6. Like Deb, I own around 50 pairs of shoes but whose counting. There is really more but Ronnie might read this.
7 My biggest wish is to go on a working sabbatical....still teaching a few gigs but chained to the studio before the eyes and hands go.
8. I was always the one choosen last on the playground and now have turned into a serious athelete.
9. I have no friends that aren't quiltmakers or artist....what do you talk to other people about?
10. I always have a lucky $100 to take to any casino.
11. My house has gone from eclectic to things that just don't match.
12. My sons are the joy of my life...all so brillant...beautiful wives and children, such a blessing.
13. I gave birth to my last three sons at home with a midwife...an aging hippie thing.
13. I am a Scorpio(born in the middle decanant..a true Scorpio), with Taurus rising (sun opposing ascendant, Moon in Cancer and Jupiter on the mid-heaven.....no private life for this girl.
14. If I were rich, I would drive a new Nissan Z or maybe an X-type Jaguar...black or red only..is there any other color for a car?
15. I am absolutely passionate about quiltmaking but occasionally, the call to work in pen and ink and colored pencil is irresistable.
16. I am trying to make it to 20 so: I am a perpetual list maker and follow through on those lists even if it is months later.
17. My loyalty to others knows no bounds; just don't cross me or all bets are off.
18. I am still the girl that my liberal arts eduation made me....sorry folks, just can't see the world from the other side....but I will fight to the death for your right to your side...would you do the same for me?
19. I was a member of the SDS before they became the Weathermen.....actually got arrested in a sit-in on my college campus....much to my mother's horror since it made the local news.
20. Okay Deb, I give up, there aren't a 100 things worth knowing about me so to end: Creativity has always been the driving force in my life. Both my mother in law and one of my daughter's in law have told me that I am incredibly ambitious....which I translate into driven and obsessive...anyone relate to that?

4 comments:

Jane Hamsher said...

Maybe it's just me, but I think the leap from SDS to quilting is perfectly rational.

The quilting is definitely having a time war with theblogging, however.

Karoda said...

of course i think i'm suppose to know of all things hip of the liberal persuasion...you must inform me what is SDS and the Weathermen?

Anonymous said...

Oh my. I am also an adopted, only child. How the heck do you know so much about your horoscope?? I don't have the time of birth on my birth certificate....oh, and I am also a Scorpio......

Liberal arts girl here too....don't tell my dad. He's very conservative, tho not a far-right winger. Didn't even phase him or my mom when I told them I was a Pagan member of a UU church. My grandparents, however, were probably rolling over in their graves.

teri

Deb R said...

Regarding number 3---I took care of the Marines for you. My hubby was a jarhead for 7 years. (Hey, what's a long-lost twin for!) :-)

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