The Dance Primer

Ok, I’ll let myself get completely off the dance topic for this one post… mostly because it would be a good idea for me to start posting regularly again, don’t you agree? I was tagged by Maria at A Time To Dance, and as she said, “in the spirit of blog love…”
Here are the rules:
1 - Link to the blog who tagged you (above)
2 - Post the rules on your blog
3 - Share seven random and/or weird things about yourself.
4 - Tag seven people at the end of your post and include links to their blogs.
5 - Let each person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

Ok… lets see if I can find seven random enough things about myself.

1. I am number five of six kids, none of whom live in the same state, and none of us live near where we grew up. Well, one is still in the same state, but just barely. (My husband is the oldest of eight, four of whom are adopted and still elementary school aged.) My sisters are my besestest friends in the whole world… I don’t see them nearly enough! (I’m second from the left.)

2. My dream house is a little greenhouse on a small piece of farmland, in the Portland area. For now, I live in a bedroom in my in-laws good sized home on good sized hobby farmland. There are plenty of chickens and ducks running around, not to mention little children. My next project is to pick a permanent salad garden spot, with cold frames for year-round harvests.

3. I grew up spending my summers wearing ribbon dresses and living in a teepee. My dad was a Mountain Man, and has even published a book on the subject! (It’s actually more of a guide book for making Mt. Man type stuff, not about the history or anything like that.) Here’s a picture of little me in my favorite dress… not a ribbon dress FYI.

4. I just began attempts on writing my first novel. Sorry, that’s what’s been distracting my computer time from posting here. Bad Amber!

5. My hair grows fast. My first year of college, I had a new haircut every time my parents saw me. After I told the stylist to cut it “as short as you dare” my mom threatened to ban me from scissors. I currently have long hair. This is the only picture I have of me with my super short hair. (That’s me on the right, if it’s not obvious.)

6. I love to travel. I driven across the country seven times… most recently, last July with my husband and our travel gnome (aka sixteen month old son) in a car with no air conditioning (but which gets fantastic MPGs). Pictured: us after driving to the top of the world… or that’s how we felt. It was awesome. (Actually, it was near Brian Head, Utah - and we drove much higher than that later in the trip.) I took thousands of pics on this trip. It was hard to choose just one.

7. I take a ridiculously large number of photos of my son (2,202 currently tagged with his name on my flickr page), and then compile them into photo books for his birthday.

Now, tagging seven people makes this feel like a chain letter. So, I’ll do it just for fun, but please don’t feel any obligation from my tagging you. I won’t be offended if you don’t do it. I tag Lyric Art, Karly Barrett, Evrim Icoz, Swan Lake Samba Girl (Tonya Plank), Henrik on Swing, Jazz, and Blues, Carl’s Jazz Dance Blog, and Bernadette at Just for the Halibut.