Writer’s Workshop: Five Things
by Jenners • 11/30/2011 • Lists, Writers Workshop • 92 Comments
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This week I chose Prompt 2: Five Things. List 5 things we don’t know about you, 5 things you’re knowledgeable about, 5 things you know nothing about, and 5 things you believe. (inspired by LouLou’s Views)
5 Things You Don’t Know About Me
Note: I’m hard-pressed to think of stuff I haven’t already revealed on this blog (can you say “oversharer?), but I dug deep for this one.
- If I was born a boy, my dad said I would have been named Thor.
- I’m not really a “people” person.
- At almost any party I attend, I’ll probably be ready to leave by 9:00 pm.
- I once took a fencing class.
- I love sushi and Japanese food.
5 Things You’re Knowledgeable About
- My son
- Mr. Jenners
- The places in my home that are in dire need of attention
- What shirts and pants I know I’m going to eventually donate to Goodwill yet continue to keep in my dresser
- I’m probably more well-read than most people (except for book bloggers and/or intellectuals).
5 Things You Know Nothing About
- How to prepare delicious, nutritious home-cooked meals day after day
- The mating rituals of the Japanese spider crab (including whether they have mating rituals)
- What might happen tomorrow
- String theory
- Yaks
5 Things You Believe
- Some form of life exists after death.
- The universe works in mysterious ways that are often only apparent long after an event has passed.
- I will once again fit into my size 8 jeans that look fantastic on me. (This why I’m still holding on to them almost 10 years later.)
- Once you make a decision, don’t second-guess it or look back.
- You need some chocolate every day.
You are hilarious
I wish I knew more about yaks. Not so much about the mating rituals of Japanese spider crabs. They are freaky as is already and it’s best not to think about them mating. But then again I might not be making any sense right now since I’m a bit sleep deprived because E is still jet lagged.
I feel for you and your jetlagged little one … that is going to mess up your sleep something awful! Hope you have a wonderful visit!
Thanks for sharing these – I am glad you were born a girl for more reasons than the name.
Dark chocolate every day has health benefits so I totally believe that.
That dark chocolate information was a godsend to me! It allows me to justify quite a lot … and I actually prefer dark chocolate to milk chocolate.
I would have been Lawrence!
And chocolate every day? Yes!
Then we could call you Larry!
Hail Thor!
Bow down before my hammer! : )
Oh Jenners – How I have missed your humorous outlook on life
I must confess that I NEVER would have guessed that you were an introvert who would rather leave a party early than stay until the bitter end. Your blogging voice sounds like such an extrovert. I guess we have a lot in common (although truth be told, I would probably prefer to stay home from the party all together).
Have a GREAT week!
I come off a lot more outgoing on my blog than I am in real life. I get worn out by small talk and the “business” of parties. Unless there are games to play, I’d rather eat, chat a little and go home. It is probably because I’m not a big drinker! HAHA!
Fun
I agree, chocolate daily is necessity. I know nothing about Yaks
either.
In all honesty, if I don’t have chocolate during the day, I feel funny. I think it is medically necessary for me. Maybe I can get a prescription.
I would add, “One only learns what one needs to know in life forty years after the knowledge is needed.”
Ain’t that the truth!
Give me a few glasses of wine and you can’t get me to leave a party
You also can’t get me to shut up. Jason can always guess how much I’ve had to drink by how fast and long I talk on the way home. Is that what you mean by over sharing?
Now see, give me a few glasses of wine and you can’t get me to leave a party either because I’ll get super sleepy and fall asleep in your home! : )
I love your lists but must admit I love that picture of your bookcase more. It is my idea of heaven to have a full wall of books like that but my husband makes me keep all mine in the spare room, I mean my upstairs library ha ha.
xx
I hate to burst your bubble but that is not actually my own bookshelves. I am (cruelly) limited to just one in the house as my husband knows it WOULD look like that if I had my way.
You’re not really a people person? I find that hard to believe.
Amen on the chocolate thing. Life is much easier when you’ve had a bite.
And don’t get me started on the jeans thing (*sigh*).
I get easily tired of people. I’m not one of those people that thrive on lots of interaction. I like my alone time or one-on-one time. My mom was the complete opposite though. She could never understand why I didn’t have a zillion friends.
I would of been Duncan or Tony it wasn’t quite decided as they were stil arguing over it!… Quite like the idea of Thor tho – nobody messes with Thor! And being able to summon thunder would be handy
I don’t think i’ll ever be able to fit into a size 8, 10 is a possibility but my big bum makes it hard lol.
Love your book shelves – i always give my old books away but you’ve got me thinking how many would I have by now?
My husband swears that I can summon thunder during certain times of the month, if you get my drift.
And those aren’t actually MY bookshelves (though they could be if I was left to my own devices). My husband limits me to one or the whole house would be taken over.
I think mom and dad had more fun with us than we ever knew. You see I was told that I was going to be named Thordeena if my chromosomes had been different. I wonder what they told the other siblings? What other things do you think the old folks made up to amuse themselves at our expense? Find 5 of those for a list. You da best, sis!
Hmmmm…this is very mysterious. Maybe I’ve been believing a myth my whole life!
Your bookshelves are enough to make any book owl (me, for example) swoon in delight! And I’m also a fan of your blog’s new background look
Well that isn’t actually my bookshelves (though I wish they were). I’m only allowed to have one bookshelf for my books per my husband.
I have that Goodwill drawer…and a Goodwill pile…and a Goodwill bag…and completely missed my daily dose of chocolate. Nuts.
I have various Goodwill piles all over the house too in various stages of readiness. And if you miss your daily dose of chocolate, then take double the dose today.
1. My mom and dad also has a boy name for me
2. I’m not really a “people” person. Me neither!!!
3. At almost any party I attend, I’ll probably be ready to leave by 9:00 pm. Wow, that’s late, I’m ready by 8:30 p.m.
4.I once took a jewelry making class.
5.I love sushi and Japanese food and chinese too!!
Wait … are we long-lost sisters or twins or something?
My name was going to be Michael Gabriel (after the angels). I’m sure that would have gotten me beat up in junior high with the Biblically savvy crowd.
As far as sushi goes, I have discovered that the older I get the less I like any sort of seafood, with the exception of crab. And I’ve had my daily dose of chocolate, so I obviously agree with you on that last point.
Oh, and the jeans – I have a huge stack sitting on my shoe rack in my closet – it’s my great stack of denial. Some of the jeans there are practically brand new, but I skipped through those sizes so fast I really didn’t get to wear them. Such a shame. But hope springs eternal, so I haven’t parted with them yet (nevermind that there might be a connection between the jean size and the whole daily chocolate thing).
Let’s just pretend we don’t understand the connection between daily chocolate and the jeans problem. That will be our secret.
And you would have had quite the powerful name! WOW!
No such thing as an over-sharer. I like sharing!
My mother tells me that if my father had gotten his way, I’d have been named Clytemnestra, because her name is Leita (pronounced like Leda, the mother of…you got it!)
I think we can both be glad that our fathers were not in charge of naming us! Sounds like our dad would have gotten along well!
This was a really fun post! My kids would tell you that I do know how to prepare delicious, nutritious meals day after day.
I think they just flatter me.
Considering I’m not a “fishy” person, I’ll pass on the sushi.
Never give up on those jeans – you’ll get there!
Thank you for believing in me and my quest to fit in my jeans. If I would eat more sushi and less chocolate, I might get there!
Thor, huh? If I was I boy, I was going to be Sean.
Well that is much more user-friendly than Thor! Thanks for the visit.
Now how do you know I nothing about the mating rituals of the Japanese spider crab?
Just a major gap in my knowledge I suppose!
It’s hard to believe that you are not a people person, as I think that you are very friendly and convivial, but sometimes people are very different than their online personalities suggest. I also like to go home early from parties, and don’t really feel comfortable if there are a huge amount of people there. And I can totally get behind a piece of chocolate everyday!
Well, it is easier to be friendly and convivial on my own schedule when I feel like being it (on the blog). On a day to day basis, I’m not energized by lots of people interaction … it wears me out!
Jenners, great post. but you really do need to brush up on your knowledge of yaks!
Romeo-the-reindeer and the holiday look of your blog is cute (but not too cutesy)!
Thanks for the feedback on my “holiday blog decoration.” I spent way too much time working on it last night!!!
I think string theory has been disproven? by now, so it’s probably for the best you didn’t spend a lot of time learning about it.
Well I will just cross that right off the list! Thanks for saving me time. (Not that I planned on learning about it anyway.)
This is great! Thor??? I love your list of thing you don’t know. I also have no idea how to cook healthy!
I’m glad I’m not the only one who can’t cook healthy. Heck, I can’t even really cook unhealthily!
You had me at the chocolate!
Are you sensing a common theme in almost all of my posts? Somehow chocolate always turns up.
Well Thor, maybe in another life I could explain the theories of relativity to you and String Theory.
If, in that other life, my name were Einstein.
Love your comment! Tres witty!
had I been a boy, I would have had the exact same name (both first and middle) with a variation of spelling in my first name. (BIG SIGH)
Jeez … that is worthy of a big sigh. Darn unisex names!
sadly, it demonstrates how lazy my mom is!! couldn’t even come up with a second name… (she wanted me to be a boy…
/ ) oh! my dad wanted to name me Jennifer. which, no offense, is way too popular for our generation, so I’m kind of glad I didn’t get that name either. My brothers probably are glad they were boys too, because my dad named them. lol
You are so right. Jennifer is way too common a name for our generation. There were always 6 or 7 Jennifers in all my classes and I always wanted to jazz it up.
I have never, ever tried sushi. I want to try it but it all seems too complicated, LOL! And, I agree with you about needing chocolate every day. That’s why I usually have a secret hidden stash of Reese’s or Hershey Kisses somewhere in my house.
Just go to a decent grocery store that prepares sushi and get the California Roll or salmon roll with all the rice around it. You might just love it!!!! It is very refreshing and light.
And the problem with having a hidden stash is that I know where it is so it doesn’t last too long!
Thor? Was your dad a comic book fan or just a superhero fan? Or did he know you’d rule with an iron hammer? LOL LOVE it. And I’d love to know how the fencing lesson worked out!
BTW…I saw your comment on Mama Kat’s… as I shared…with three girls we used to have a family ame night once a week when they were small and EVERY single time SOMEONE would end up crying by the end of the night (who cares if sometimes it was me?). It was hysterical looking back on it now but then it was extremely frustrating!
My dad was reading Norse mythology during my gestation, which was the influence. I don’t know if the comic books were around then .. I’m old! HAHA!
And I always have good intentions with family game night but my husband, of all people, is the one who ruins it because he is so super competitive that no one can win … even a young child in a game of Candyland. Perhaps I need to bar him from game nights in the future.
Love that picture of chocolate. Definitely worthy of framing, Thor.
I’m beginning to realize that perhaps I shouldn’t have revealed the Thor thing.
I believe you will fit into those size 8 jeans, too! I’m on my own weight loss journey right now, and we have to believe it!!
Also, I love that book shelf image you chose. Is that your house?
Thanks for the pep talk. I’ll need it to get through the holiday season! And the book shelf is just a photo I found on the web. I wish it was my house. Sadly, I’m limited to one bookshelf. But I’ve definitely read at least that many books — or more — in my life. I just can’t keep them!
Well you’re far more knowledgable than me – I had no idea the Japanese had their own type of spider crab!
I guess I am one up on you! I saw them at an aquarium once and they are HUGE!!!
Thor? Now that’s funny! I’m not really a people person either nor do I know anything about preparing those nutritious meals day after day. And I so agree that one must have a little bit of chocolate each and every day. I tried Nutella for the first time a few weeks ago and I probably shouldn’t have done that because now I’m an addict!
Nutella is a recent discovery for me. I didn’t realize it was the “chocolate” in my beloved banana/chocolate crepes. When I figured that out, I immediately bought a jar. Somehow, it seems “healthy” to me.
I would have been Carl. What? You don’t know about yaks?
It is so fun to learn everyone’s “alternative” names, Carl. ; )
Thor? Wow, was it after the comic book guy or someone else? I’m not a people person either, and I hate parties! My husband and I are opposites. He’s the social one and I have to drag him away from chatting with everyone so we can GO HOME ALREADY!
I hear you on the holding on to stuff. I even bought jeans last week that don’t quite fit, but I refuse to return them because I know they will fit once I finally get exercising again (haha! yeah right!)
My dad was reading Norse mythology around my gestation and birth so that was the influence. I’m glad it didn’t really take though.
And I get clothes slightly too small all the time as an “incentive” to lose weight. Then they end up at Goodwill. Sad.
Great post. Thor? I like it myself. It’s unique. I would’ve been Willamena had someone not intervene at the last moment and I say thank ya Lord for looking out.
Well, I thank the Lord for not saddling me with Thor … as cool as it might be to young boys who loved the recent action movie!
Okay- I kind of wish you WERE named Thor! Think of the Blog Title possibilities!
Also, if it makes you feel any better, I don’t know any of the things on your “know nothing about” list either. So it must not really be important stuff?
Lastly, I just packed up a bunch of my pre-Isaac jeans earlier today to take to Goodwill. WAAAH!! Never fitting in those suckers again!
Oh you gave in way too early on those jeans! I’ve been hanging on to mine for more than a decade and still won’t part with them! I’m so completely deluded.
I hear you loud and clear. I too cannot part with those skinny clothes, but Thor, now that is something we didn’t know, and you are right you need some chocolate everyday, it is most definitely part of that nutritious meal plan.
I cling to the idea that someday, SOMEDAY, I will wear those jeans again. If I give up that dream, then a little piece of me will die inside.
My dad liked to joke that I would’ve been named Jack. Har har. So from my perspective, Thor is damn cool.
I guess your parents were really stuck on nursery rhymes … whereas my dad was into Norse mythology. I’m just glad he didn’t go with Thoradena or something.
I am glad you chose this prompt…i think I will do it too. Let’s get sushi sometime. Off topic: i thought I saw you today near a gas station by my house. Kind of freaked me out a little. I even waved.
Must have been my doppelganger! I have many of them. I’ve been told countless times that I look just like “my sister/my neighbor/my cousin/my hairdresser/a teacher at my kid’s school.” I must have a “common” face.
I shall call you Thor from now on.
Do that and I will pound you with my hammer!
Loved this. I would have guessed you weren’t really a people person.
I love Japanese food and sushi, too. Yummy. I totally agree on the chocolate.
However, don’t eat sushi and chocolate together. I did that one time and it wasn’t good.
I’d be right behind you at 9pm, as I am not a people person, either. If there’s more than about six or seven people, I’m done.
Chocolate and Coke Zero are on MY food pyramid.
I’ve tried the Coke Zero but I still think it tastes funny. I think it would be a cool post to come up with our own food pyramids!! I might have to play with that! I know that chocolate would be on the bottom where bread/grains should be.
I would have been Benjamin if I was a boy. Much better than Thor! And I’m not a people person either. I think that’s why we’re bloggers. We can pretend to be sociable without actually being that way at all. And “chocolate every day” is pretty much my motto.
Ooohh…Benjamin was my choice for my son’s name … until Mr. Jenners nixed it! I love that name. And yes … much better than Thor! Thank God I was a girl! And I do think blogging makes you seem social when you really aren’t! It is the perfect match for a non-people person to actually seem like one.
I would have trouble narrowing my list of things I know nothing about down to 5. I totally agree with you about chocolate – have you tried the mini Reese’s Cups? They’re addictive.
Oh there are many more things I don’t know anything about. That was the easiest list to come up with … sad to say. I’ll have to get some of those Mini Reese’s Cups for Mr. Jenners! He is a big fan of them. Me? I’m not a big fan of peanut butter, even when it comes with chocolate.