One tag is easy enough to post­pone: thank the blog­ger and “for­get” (**hey, I’m kid­ding, don’t un-suscribe!**). But how do you do when you’re cor­nered by both France and Canada? Froo­giewoo­gie (author of Tales From My Planet) and Chrissie (author of Rags & Rouges Style Tips) both tagged me for the 7 things meme, where I have to “share 7 ran­dom or weird things about myself”.

Sorry guys, but given the well-known power of both coun­tries, I have to obey. I’m left with no choice. Phew. I have to be funny, orig­i­nal and witty. Can I do that on my first week back to work after the hol­i­days? Not sure…

Let’s try any­way. And before you asked. yeah, that’s me in the pic­ture and no, I wasn’t drunk.

• I have a total of ten pierc­ings: yes, ten. Four in each ear, a small stud in my right nos­tril and a ring in my navel (which I rarely show). I had them all done when I was a teen and it wasn’t a rebel­lious thing. I just found it pretty. Never had a prob­lem with any of my pierc­ing, they all healed well and I never regret­ted it.

• I love my hair: I have really thick and kind of curly hair, which never tan­gled. I never do brush­ings (don’t have the patience for that…) just cut it once in a while, and it’s fine. I had always thought it was my best feature.

• I buy way to many beauty prod­ucts: shoes, nah, shop­ping, maybe… but any­time for beauty prod­ucts. I love try­ing new creams, new masks, exfo­li­at­ing stuffs, bub­ble baths… And I have a big bag full of sam­ples I keep for when I travel.

• I’m very very picky with paper­works and bills: I’m this annoy­ing per­son who pay the credit card bill two weeks before it’s due. I have a pink folder for my pay stubs/ resume/ ref­er­ences, a blue one ded­i­cated to Canada Rev­enue Agency and a green one for all my bank state­ment and credit card bills. And I’m con­sid­er­ing buy­ing a red folder for my occa­sional French paperwork.

• I was born on Spring day: that’s right, March 21^st! Although I rarely get to enjoy real spring on my birth­day in Canada…

• I clearly remem­ber a few 20^th cen­tury events: like the fall of the Berlin Wall. I was only 6 years old in 1989 at the time, but I remem­ber my par­ents hear­ing the news on a small radio, and explain­ing them to me. I had heard of the Berlin Wall before, but I had always thought it was a metaphor, like grown-ups used all the time, not an actual wall… I was shocked when I saw it on TV. Kids are innocent…

• I upgraded to Word­Press 2.3 last week-end: it was long over­due but I was afraid I might screw up some­thing. I was so proud of me when every­thing went fine I bragged about it all night in what Feng calls “my geek lan­guage” (“and I logged into Cpanel, and then I backed up my data­base and… honey, are you lis­ten­ing?”). Hey, don’t judge me, I’m sure you’re the same!

Okay, for this meme, I’d like to tag a few blog­gers I read quite often but don’t know that well:

• Mem­oirs Of A Lin­guist: Year 3
• My Life All The Time
• Mogli
• Jessica’s Jour­nal
• Jemina’s Jour­nal
• The Mak­ing Of…
• Traveller’s Tales

Have fun!

Related posts:

1. Things I Learned In 2007
2. Ten Things I Can Do
3. Seven Things About Me
4. Ten Things I Can’t Do (and really, does that matter ?)
5. Four Lit­tle Things