I'm It!

Melissa just tagged me...

This is a different tag, so here are the rules:
A. The rules of the game are posted at the beginning.
B. Each player lists 6 little-known facts/habits about themselves.
C. At the end of the post, the player then tags 6 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know that they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog.

1) I have a stationary fetish. I love all things paper, and it's very dangerous to take me to a stationary store like Crane's becuase I will want one of each. Luckily I also love to write letters, so I have something to do with all that stationary once I buy it.

2) Speaking of stationary, I firmly believe that letter writing is the perfect way to stay in touch with people who live far away from you, as opposed to email. While email has it's benefits, letters are clearly better. Here's why: I get to use all my beautiful paper. More importantly, the ideal amount of time passes in between letters, becuase you assume that it takes the letter a few days to arrive at its destination, the reader takes a few days to actually sit down and respond, and by the time another few days pass for the return letter to arrive, you've already got news to put in your response! With email, you send a message containing all your news, they write back, and you're stuck a few hours later with an email in your inbox that you can't respond to because nothing happened between 9 am and 11 am on a Tuesday morning.

3) My mother is an amazingly talented seamstress/quilter/tailor/everything to do with sewing she excels at, but I can barely sew a tablecloth. When I look at a pattern, I might as well be looking at Farsi.

4) A topic I wish I were more conversant in is politics. I love to listen to others' opinions on the subject, but can't ever add anything informed to the conversation because I have no idea what's going on in that realm. That's why I married Ezra.

5) I have a strange ambition to teach my children french from infancy. This is a lofty goal, as I would have to get Ezra to learn the language, and I would have to re-learn everything I've forgotten since college, but I think it can be done. It helps that my dad and brother and Ezra's mother are all fluent.

6) I love to play any/all sports. I'm good at most of them, too because I grew up with brothers as well as dozens of male cousins. Every time we had a family gathering, all we did was get sweaty playing the sport du jour (see, there's that french coming back already!) and I joined in. So when I beat you at Wii boxing or cream you at the line of scrimmage, don't feel bad. You're not the first.

I tag:

Ezra

Jessica

Denette

Julie

Phil

Heather