Tag, I’m it…

Well, I am a new blogger, so I never heard of a Meme until recently, but since I was tagged by trishatruly, I am happy to oblige!

For the first couple I thought I’d take pictures.

Five things Found in my bag

^My wallet

^Leatherman “Kick”

^Personal and work cell phones

^Chapstick

^tampon

Five things in my room

I don’t actually have much interesting stuff in my bedroom, so I decided to show things in my living room instead.

^Here is a shelf in my room that holds some of my collections of snails and 2’s. 

^There are more of my 2’s.  I guess that’s kind of cheating, but I didn’t realize that when I was walking around the room a few minutes ago, looking for something to take a picture of!

^That’s Ella’s cat tree.  That’s Ella in the tree.  My hand weights are at the bottom of it to keep it from falling over when she climbs.  She gets a running start and the thing has nearly toppled before I had the bright idea to store my weights there!  It also keeps them handy. 

^That is a handmade wooden centipede my mom got me years ago when I lived in an apartment by myself after college.  I would occasionally find these monster centipedes climbing up the wall or in the TUB!  They really freaked me out.  This one is cool.  There is a little crank handle that makes the whole thing wiggle.

 

^That is Alf standing next to my dog. 

Five things I’m into

Hmm… This one is difficult. 

I’m into these:

I’m also into these:

 Okay, okay… I’m into photoshop.   I’m also into poodles, so there are two things.

I’m also into spirituality, but I’m not nutty about it or anything.  I like practicing mindfulness and seeking peace of mind.  I am not into religion; this is just a personal thing.  I just finished reading Eckhart Tolle’s ”The Power of Now”  and am starting his second one, “A New Earth”.  I also like “Stalking the Wild Pendulum” and “The Holographic Universe” although I don’t know the authors’ names offhand.  I like the Dalai Lama and Buddhism and Taoism and Nonduality – bits and pieces of all these things overlap and help create my views of life.

Hmm… What else?  I’m into reading people’s blogs lately!  I love reading anyway and it’s so cool to me to constantly discover new and interesting things to read online.  I end up spending more and more time on here because I keep wanting to go back to everyone’s blogs and see what new stuff they’ve posted and I always end up adding more places to check!  Darn you, Trisha, for turning me on to the blogging thing!

Okay, I need one more…  Can I just say I’m into animals?  I love animals.  I used to be really into horses but I had to give that up after college when I moved away from home.  I’m now very into dogs, of course, and training in addition to grooming.  I’ve always loved cats.  And toads.  Yeah, weird, but I love toads.  I think they are the sweetest, gentlest, coolest creatures ever.  Toads don’t get enough credit really.

Five things I have always wanted to do

I’ve always wanted to visit Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory and eat everything in there like they did in the movie.

I have always wanted to fingerpaint an entire wall.  That would be so fun, wouldn’t it?

I’ve always wanted to slap someone across the face.  Seriously, I just want to know what it feels like.  Unfortunately I don’t actually want to hurt someone, so I never will do that.

I’ve always wanted to have an out of body experience.  But I don’t want any real danger or anything, so that’s probably out too.  I’m not a real risk-taker.

I’ve always wanted to hand out hundred dollar bills randomly to people who seemed like they could use it.

Whew, that was a tough post!  And the most I’ve written yet, I think.  I get to tag someone now?  I think I’ve seen this thing go around quite a bit, so I don’t know who is left to tag.  Can’t I just tag anyone who reads this who has not yet done this?  I can’t?  Shut up; it’s my blog and that’s what I’m going to do!