You Thought It Was Over. You Were Wrong! Tag Chicken Is Back!
by Jenners • 10/05/2012 • Miscellaneous, Tag Chicken With Trisha • 58 Comments
After an insanely long break, I’m back to tag chickening with Trisha at eclectic/eccentric. (I’ve let this slide since July 22 for some reason. YIKES!) So, without further ado, here we go.
- If you were forced to change your name, what would you change it to? When I was young, I gave this question way more thought than it requires. For the longest time, I thought the name Ginger North would be THE perfect name. (I would also be married to Alex North in this scenario. Sounds like names right out of a Danielle Steele book!) Now that I’m much older and wiser and mature, if I was forced to change my name, I’d drop my hard-to-spell and confusing last name for something easier (like Smith or Jones) and I’d select a more unique first name than Jennifer (like Abby or Miranda).
Say hello to Miranda Smith!
- What would a haiku describing your high school experience read like? (that’s right. you do the haiku thing.)
Haiku 1
Look! A female nerd
Radiating awkwardness
Has no fashion sense
Haiku 2
Always got good grades
Never distracted by dates
Still got heart broken
Haiku 3
Yearbook editor
Learned layout and copywriting
Skills then used in jobs
Haiku 4
Always the good kid
Rebelled by liking Bowie
Had a boy’s haircut
- If you wrote a memoir, what would the title be? I think the line in the first haiku says it all—Radiating Awkwardness. I can see the book cover now:
One woman’s account of her life-long battle with awkwardness reveals the secret truth–IT NEVER GOES AWAY!
- What are five words that rhyme with “kumquat”?
Despot
Buckshot
Slapshot
Fusspot
Crockpot
- If you could live in a past era, when would you choose? My list of requirements for living the past are quite extensive: air conditioning, indoor toilets, proper eyeglasses, a relative dearth of deadly diseases. So I guess I’m going to be going way way back to the 1950s or perhaps the early 1960s. OK … how about 1962?
And now five questions for Trisha: (AMENDED AND UPDATED AFTER REALIZING I HAD ASKED SOME OF THE QUESTIONS ALREADY… DUH!)
- Does an author’s personality have any affect on whether or not you read his/her book?
- Why do fools fall in love?
- What kind of an old lady do you think you will be?
- How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
- Did you do a little victory dance when I let months go by without doing a Tag Chicken post—foolishing thinking that perhaps you had won this game?
Oh man. Someone should really put the two of you out of your misery/crazy/train wreck tag chicken. I mean, really, how much can one chicken take? That being said, I ADORE the title you chose.
I think the chicken is feeling a bit bedraggled.
Tag Chicken rocks!
And if you don’t write that book, it will be a shame.
Some day I’ll attempt to write that book. I did collect a lot of my blog posts about my childhood as a start.
Oh I have missed these!! Okay your book cover and the whole title everything of your book is so hilariously awesome!! Love love it. I think I would buy it as I would just be so intrigued.
I was the good kid, good grades in high school too– though I was also a big flirt and a bit of a heart breaker of those nerdy smart boys
I was not a heartbreaker in the slightest … I got my heart broken–mostly by boys that didn’t even know I liked them. : )
I’d read that book–you should get to it
The haiku’s were great.
Believe it or not, I’ve started compiling a very very rough beginning of that book.
Hilarious book cover. You’re the cutest nerd ever!
Why thank you!
I can see you as a Miranda – not an Abby. I don’t know why but that’s the way it is. I used to toy with the name Griselda Snitzelbloomer as an alter ego. What nerdy things does that say about me?
Oh I just love your alter ego name!!! Hilarious!
So I think that sweater vest is probably back in style so maybe I’ll add it to my list of projects for Lil Sister.
One of my best friends in high school was the yearbook editor so I knew there was a reason I really liked you.
And I was the cheerleader captain in high school and still radiated awkwardness. Thank goodness I wore my cheer clothes 2-3 times a week otherwise I would have been 100% without fashion sense. At least that way I was only unfashionable about 50-60% of the time. But I still had the yearbook editor as my friend and she always made me smile.
I didn’t think you could be a cheerleader and be awkward!
Oh, Mrs. J.! I wonder if somebody played chicken tag with me, if I could be as funny as you are?
I love your photo!
I have to tell you, my big repository of nerd photos makes me seem funnier than I actually am!
Your haikus are awesome!!! And I’m on it….
Hey, I figure you have a few months to respond much like I did! : )
Please, please, I beg you, NEVER stop this game. It’s too much fun. And thank you for sharing your awkward childhood photo – I feel so much better about my 1968 flesh-tone cat’s-eye glasses and 1.5″ bangs.
As for the woodchuck question…we saw a woodchuck cross the road the other night and he wasn’t actually chucking wood which goes to show what slackers woodchucks can be, but also raises the question “Why did the woodchuck cross the road?” Feel free to use that in future posts.
Slacker woodchuck! I can’t believe he wasn’t chucking wood. Harumph.
And this game is so much fun. But it can be hard to keep coming up with questions.
I used to think a lot about different names too — just in case I became an author or a rockstar or an actress at some point. I never came up with anything satisfactory though. I think that lack of creativity may have been indicative of why I would never be any of those things either.
I used to actually practice writing my “famous” name. It was so deluded now that I look back on it.
I keep totally forgetting that your name is not ACTUALLY Jenners, hehhe. =) And then I’m like, hey, we have the same name! (But I always go by Jenny). If someone is going to call me Jennifer, they may as well just go with Mrs. Reed, lol.
Sometimes I think of myself as Jenners, which is kind of odd, right? I usually go by Jen. But there are so many Jennifers around — it makes me think maybe I should go by Jenners just to stand out. (Jenners was my nickname in college.)
Haha, that’s a great book cover and title! And I can totally relate with the first name thing since I’m also a Jennifer. When I was a kid, I always wanted to be named Edie. Not sure why…well, no, I think one of the books I really liked as a kid had a character named Edie and I wanted to be like her. Definitely one of the best things about living in a foreign country is that the chances of encountering another Jennifer is a lot less (though I still managed to meet 3 other Jen’s while living in Tokyo).
It is hard not to run into Jennifers no matter where you go but I’m sure your Jen ratio is less in Tokyo.
If you published a book with that title and cover, I would definitely buy it!
The first haiku easily describes my high school years. I shudder when I think about the outfits I used to put together then.
On my first day at a new high school, I actually wore bright red overalls with bright yellow high-top sneakers. I am amazed anyone bothered to talk to me!
I had orange high tops that I loved to wear with purple painter pants! or was it the other way around… I forget and thankfully, no photos around to remind me.
I also had an asymmetrical haircut in college – cuz I was such a rebel.
Oooops…and I hate seeing a mistake like that “it’s” instead of “its” after I post! …and would you believe this time it had my info filled in? Maybe because I haven’t actually left the site before commenting again?
Ahahahaha! I’m SO glad to see this back!!
I think that book (with it’s wonderful cover) has great potential. I trust you will someday treat us to one of those books you have lurking within you.
Any ideas on why your blog is no longer remembering my information? I’m having to enter my name, etc. with each comment.
Hmmm…not sure why the site isn’t remembering you. Perhaps when I changed up my blog I did something. I have no idea what to do to fix it though. Let me know if it still keeps happening!
Great book cover Miranda!
Oh! I so should have used my new name. DUH!
It really is a great book cover.
I could totally see that on the shelves looking out at me. Some day!
What a fantastic title for an autobiography! I’d buy a copy too!
I think it would definitely speak to a certain type of person! LOL
LOL — love the crocheted vest with flower. *That* is such a sign of the times. I had crochet pattern books with how to make those.
Don’t they say that everything comes back eventually? One day these vests will be in again.
Trust me, having a common last name is not all it’s cracked up to be, especially when you pair it with a common first name.
I think you should write that book – I’d buy a copy.
I guess this is a case of the grass being greener.
I agree. Mine is THE most common last name. AND first name. Jennifer Smith. And funny thing is….my maiden name is smith and I married a smith. Lol. No relation, trust me, we compared relatives!! Hahaha!!!
I am involved in the PTO this year and it seems like we have 19 different Jennifers. Every time I turn around, I meet another one. That is hilarious that you were a Smith and married a Smith! No way to jazz up your last name, huh? : )
Love love love the book cover — and can relate to the haikus!
I guess we had similar high school experiences!
Love it! So glad you bounced the ball back at Trisha
Me too. It took me forever but I’m glad to have it out of my court.
I want to read the book too! Love to know what made Jenners… Jenners!!
It is a complicated mix of nerdiness and genetics.
I would totally buy that book.
If and when it is ever written, I will hold you to that.
You are as hilarious as always.
I try
I LOVE the book cover too! but the Haiku, now that is publishable.
If I ever do write a book, haikus are about my speed.
Love the book cover
It would catch my eye at a bookstore. Maybe I can license that photo.