Here’s the fine print and rules and all that:

• Link to your original tagger and list these rules in your post.
• Share 7 facts about yourself in the post.
• Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names and links to their blogs.
• Let them know they’ve been tagged.

Seven facts about me:

1. I enjoy getting these “all about me” sort of memes. Where else is it so acceptable and even expected to talk about yourself incessantly. I don’t know too many people who truly hate talking about themselves and these let you rattle on and on!
2. I enjoy cleaning messy things – stoves, bathrooms, bedrooms…whatever. I like seeing things well organized and clean. It gives me warm fuzzies that are second only to putting on warm socks fresh out of the dryer.
3. I am usually pretty generous with my things except for popcorn and books. I DO NOT share popcorn. Period. Get your own and keep your greedy eyes away from mine. I will share my books, but I am the nastiest librarian ever. When I say I want that book back in exactly the same condition I lent it out in – I really mean it.
4. I have an absolute horror of being late for things. If we’re meeting at 6 for dinner, you can bet I was in the neighbourhood at 5 (and sitting in nearby coffee shop checking my watch obsessively) and I will be no less than 15 minutes early for our date.
5. My book collection is organized like Chapters. Children’s books in one section, classic literature in another etc. I tried putting them on the shelves in alphabetical order by author, but I could never find anything. I expect to find Dickens and Austen keeping company and that my collection of hard cover Twilight books will be in general fiction.
6. Which leads to…I liked the Twilight books. No, I do not have any shame. I mean sure, they are silly and obsessive and even creepy at times – but the 16 year old girl in me LOVED them! The adult I was supposed to become thinks they’re ridiculous, but I never listen to her much anyway.
7. I believe that being a kid for the rest of my life is an honourable aspiration. It allows me to still believe in things I can’t see, own crayons and a couple of colouring books, play with toys when I’m feeling silly and adore cartoons. Plus, I still think that Sugar Crisp cereal with chocolate milk is fantastic!

Now for the dreaded tagging – but you don’t have to participate if you don’t want to (or Pan got to you first):

• The DailyDish – because now that she’s moved and got her pretty blue garbage bags out for collection, I feel OK about being nosy.
• Nate – anyone who can write about Guitar Hero as science is someone I need to know more stuff about.
• Lens Impressions – I’m hoping she’ll write one on Waldi’s behalf because honestly, that dog is ridiculously adorable. And I want photos too.
• Romi – I’m just nosy – her site is more entertaining than People magazine and her facts will be hilarious.
• Free and Flawed – She already shares lots about her life – but the public need to hear more is not so easily sated. Plus, she draws stick people too!
• CurlyWurlyGurly – Come oooonnnnn – all the cool kids are doing it!!

OK, that’s only six people, but I never said I would follow the rules.

1. What’s the best Christmas gift you have received? And the worst?

The best gift I’ve ever received would have to be my Cabbage Patch Kid. I got Jessica Olivia (the red haired doll in the photo) in the early 80′s. I loved that doll and I still have her too!

The worst gift was an awful, long red coat with a huge iron-on patch thingy of a moose on the back. I did terrible things to that coat in the hopes of only having to wear it for one winter.

2. What is your favourite Christmas movie moment?

The moment in One Magic Christmas where Mary Steenburgen’s character, Ginny, gives her husband a cheque to open his own bicycle shop and the cheque is made out for the entire amount of their savings.

Makes me teary-eyed every single time I see it.

3. What is your favourite version of a Christmas song?

Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas performed by Judy Garland. She just sounds so heartbroken and sad – that makes me teary-eyed too.

4. Describe an ornament that has special significance for you.

I like the little plastic ornaments that mum and I painted with glitter-paints when I was a kid. They were white plastic and rather ugly, but it was a great afternoon.

5. Have you had any traumatic Christmas-related experiences?

I’m pretty sure I had the chicken pox one Christmas – I was about 5 or 6 and I remember sitting on a pillow butt-naked, itching like mad and opening presents. It might have been a birthday, but I’m pretty sure it was Christmas.

6. What is your happiest Christmas memory?

Lying sprawled out on my stomach on the floor by the fireplace at my Grandma and Grandad’s house colouring in an enormous colouring book. Tied with that is Christmas at my Gramma and Grandpa’s with my cousin Jeffrey screaming “Gramma! Gramma! Can we open presents now Gramma!?” and the sheer amount of rice krispy treats we were allowed to consume while there.

7. What is your favourite Christmas picture?

I’m not sure where my copy of this is, but there is a photo of Allison and I in matching nightgowns with our Cabbage Patch Kids who are dressed in gowns to match ours. It’s really adorable.

8. What’s on your grown up Christmas list (besides world peace of course)?

I want a small and light laptop that I can carry around easily, unlike the brick I have now that requires a “purse on wheels”.

9. What Christmas TV special do you look forward to all year?

Disney’s One Special Christmas – but I have it on DVD now.

10. What famous person would you like to encounter under the mistletoe?

Ryan Gosling. I mean, have you seen that kiss in The Notebook? Wow.

11. What is your favourite Christmas cookie?

I really like ginger crackle cookies, the peanut-butter balls my ex’s mum makes and rice krispy squares (the ones with the red and green krispies).

12. What is your favourite Christmas quote?

“It is required of every man,” the ghost returned, “that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow men, and travel far and wide; and if that spirit goes not forth in life it is condemned to do so after death. It is doomed to wander through the world – oh, woe is is me! – and witness what it cannot share, but might have shared on earth, and turned to happiness!” A Christmas Carol – C. Dickens

If someone new were in your car, what song on your player would you be quickest to skip out of embarrassment?
-I Just Called to Say I Love You by Stevie Wonder. I love this song, but I don’t think I’m supposed to.
 
What song or song(s) is/are most “atypical” on your player?
-Pretty much anything by Metallica – but there are times when Metallica is called for.

What song(s) on your player turns you on?
-Creatively? Some Devil by Dave Matthews or Into Dust by Mazzy Star and anything off the Hernán Cattáneo Sequential Volume 2 cd set. Physically? Well, I think What if We Could and Sound of Pulling Heaven Down by Blue October are a good start.

If you wanted to get a member of the opposite sex in the mood, what song would you program to come on when they are in the car?
-Lovers in a Dangerous Time by the Barenaked Ladies or Better Together by Jack Johnson.

What is the longest song on your player?
-Bolero by Ravel.

What do you think is the silliest song on your player?
-Skullcrusher Mountain by Jonathan Coulton.

What did you most recently add to your player?
-The Dollyrots, Because I’m Awesome cd.

What did you most recently delete?
-Whole Wide World by Wreckless Eric. I like it a lot, but it was really jarring given the other songs in the playlist.

What is your favorite song on your player that is from a movie?
-Someone to Love by Fiona Apple from the Pleasantville soundtrack and Cherry Cherry by Neil Diamond from Anchorman.
 
Is there a song on your player that is only there for someone else’s benefit?
-Symphonic by Emm Gryner. Joe loves her – I tolerate her.
 
What song or artist do you find yourself skipping most frequently and therefore should probably delete?
-No Rain by Blind Melon. This song depresses and annoys me.

Without cheating, start your player and list the first 10 songs that come up in random play.
1. Impossible Germany – Wilco
2. Five Long Years – Colin James
3. Some Devil – Dave Matthews
4. Edie (Ciao Baby) – The Cult
5. Let Yourself Go – Alex Pangman
6. Mission to Moscow – Benny Goodman
7. Concerto for Two Violins in D Minor – Bwv 1043 1.Vivace – J.S. Bach
8. Rico – Matthew Good Band
9. Carry On My Wayward Son – Kansas
10. All You Want – Dashboard Prophets

Talk about ecclectic!

Better posts are coming I swear it (still searching for my excuses list).