L’Engle is my favorite author since I was a little girl.

See you around the net.

I totally understand about not wanting to wear out your readers with your memes. As for books, I’m always on the lookout for new books and/or authors, but I don’t think I’ve ever had a shortage of books (I do not understand that phrase, “shortage of books”, but the sound of it chills me to the marrow of my bones… lol). At the moment, I actually have a surplus of books for the amount of time that I have, but I’ll definitely let you know once my “to read” pile isn’t towering over my bedside table.

Aside from “What Not to Wear,” I think my favourite people makeover show is currently “Style by Jury.” Do you ever watch that one?

and jeanjeanie…

Have you ever watched “Neat”? It’s the show that inspires me to clean up my clutter. But I’ve made a promise to myself never to watch it after 11:00 p.m. One night, I started watching it around midnight and ended up cleaning out my bathroom clutter until 2:00 a.m.! Yikes!

I also have an addiction to WNtW and other makeover shows, especially the cleaning ones like Clean Sweep. I consider it a healthy addiction, though; watching the latter usually inspires me to get off the couch and clean something. I gathered up a whole bag of clutter to dispose of during a marathon of Clean House the other day.

Your personality description made me laugh (“introvert with moments of insanity”) and we share a love of makeovers! I am not so crazy about the home makeovers. But I adore the people makeovers. When I discovered What Not to Wear, I fell madly in love with the show and was desperate to be nominated for it. At the time, I really needed it.

Since a nomination was clearly not going to happen, I made myself over, bit by bit, just by watching the show and learning how to dress for my body shape (which is a regular body, albeit with a bit of the belly flab that follows childbirth, and a couple of other flaws I despise but apparently have to live with).

Your hair colour sounds FAB. Fab, I say! Sometimes I see women who appear to be proud of their grey, when in fact it’s really doing nothing at all for them. At times like that I want to grab them by the arm and tell them. But I don’t, of course. I saw a man at our “motel” complex yesterday who could use hair colour in a big way and look WAY sexier. But, as usual, I kept my thoughts to myself.

We both love to read. I have a few books you might be interested in. Whenever I read a book I think of who might like it after I’m done. So far, I’ve sent books to Thatgrrl in Toronto. If ever you have a shortage of books (something that fills me with dread) let me know and I’ll mail you a couple.

As for the meme itself, I recently did two of them (Five Things, Seven Things) and I’m thinking my family members/readers are probably a little tired of reading those lists about me. So I think I will respectfully beg off this particular meme.

LOL Jules… I initially came up with weirdgrrl as a title for my busines (WeiRDgrrl: Writing, Research & Design), but I liked it so much I opted to rename myself. But the name does do one task very well… it scares off the people who might think that the above eight things are actually weird. That way I never even have to deal with them!

Thanks for partaking. Having read [only] eight elements that comprise your persona I’d suggest a name change — compellinggrrl, creativegrrl, deepgrrl. Weird is not the adjective that came to mind!

Jules

Doing your linky love as well after the long weekend.