Wannabe Cowgirl

I was tagged by Ginni for this NaBloPoMo meme.

the rules:
link to the person that tagged you and post the rules on your blog.
share 7 random and or weird things about yourself.
tag 7 random people participating in nablopomo at the end of your post and include links to their blogs.
let each person know that they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

And so, we begin. My 7 random/odd/weird things:

1. I wanted to be WilyKit from Thundercats when I was younger, and would stand on swings and pretend they were hoverboards.
2. I like muffins. A lot.
3. I have owned five pet rats in my life time, and had four of them at one time.
4. I developed a severe asthmatic reaction to said rats, and this is why I can no longer keep them. But if I could, I would.
5. I am currently employed as a substitute teacher, a coffee shop barista, and at a gaming retail store.
6. I have lived in another country (New Zealand, for one semester).
7. I enjoy yoga.

And I tag:

http://www.sbpoet.com/
http://texasfarmwife.blogspot.com/
http://pollywogcreek.blogspot.com/
http://sarahreed07.blogspot.com/
http://itsacanadiangeek.blogspot.com/
http://www.exschutz.blogspot.com/
http://ramblingsoflovingcjm.blogspot.com/

Happy posting/meme-ing!

NaNoWriMo progress today is not so good. In fact, it's downright terrible -- a grand total of zero words written today. And that, of course, is why I am blogging and fiddling with my other blog (and brand new, I might add, just in time for NaBloPoMo) instead of writing. Plus, as an added bonus I ate so much today that my stomach just hurts. But on a really lovely note, I started reading Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar today -- and love it. I have always wanted to read Plath's novel, but never got around to it. And even if I had, I never thought I would enjoy it as much as I am. I breezed through 80 pages of it today, while working out, no less. That's quite the feat for me as the gym is a place that is (not surprisingly) fraught with distraction. So it means a lot when I can say that Plath's book captured me from page one, since I cracked the spine (not literally, of course! I love my books, probably a little too much) while on an elliptical machine.

Day one of NaNoWriMo 2007 is drawing to a close. Did I meet my minimum word count of 1,667 words? You bet I did, plus a few hundred. Hopefully I can keep up a daily 2,000 word count to give me a cozy buffer for Thanksgiving/having a life/unexpected miscellany. Write on!