Meme-ories Are Made Of This

I have been re-memed.  I did the 6 random things about me meme some weeks ago but then lovely Winter, with premeditation, tagged me to do it again.  It would be very easy simply to cut and paste the one I did last time, but I suppose that would be cheating.  Life is never as easy as it could be.  Okay, so…..

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1.    I counted my books yesterday.  Because I so often do booklists for my Thursday Thirteens, I am sometimes asked how many I own. Instead of estimating, I decided to do an actual count, and the total came to 1124.  That number will rise of course (I have at least 2 books on their way from Amazon at this very moment) but I can’t imagine that it will ever fall.

2.    I have no tattoos. Not surprising, really, because I find them utterly repulsive. I never saw one that was an improvement on the skin that it disfigured.

3.   In days gone by, I used to be able to read lying down – in bed, on the sofa etc.  These days I find that very uncomfortable. To enjoy reading, I need to be in a sitting position.  My favourite environment for reading is complete silence, though sitting in somewhere like, say, Starbucks, where there is ambient sound and music which I can tune out is almost as good (note to the management of the Starbucks in this town on the corner of 16th Ave and 13th St:  Your sound system is often set far too loud, and it can be very intrusive.  Change it, or I shall take my custom to the Starbucks on 39th Ave).

4.    Sometimes, when I am feeling nostalgic, I can’t help wondering if my schoolfriend G. ever found out that when he went off to college I had a wonderful one-nighter with his girlfriend H.  I should feel ashamed  but I don’t, because it was one the best nights of my life.

5.    I am impatient, critical, extremely vain and addicted to Amazon.    But I am honest enough to admit that I also have some faults too.

6.    I have a big collection of vintage jazz and hot dance on CDs, cassettes, LPs and best of all on the original 78rpm records.  Even though my area of interest is really 1917 to about 1941, the very first 78 I ever played in my life was from 1945.  It was “Skyliner” by Charlie Barnet & his Orch. and I am still very fond of it. . Again, I won’t tag anyone, but if you’d like to have a go please link back to here and let me know in a comment or e-mail that you’re doing so.

Comments

[Winter]

The loveliest thing about tagging someone is finding out these little things about them! Which is why, of course, I re-memed you. *wink* I think it's awesome that you counted your books. I can't do that because 3/4 of them are in boxes due to space issues. I probably rival you for numbers though. Since you were so gracious about doing this mem, I promise that I shall not meme you again unless it's something wildly interesting and fun. In fact, I'm also going to take a leaf out of your book and just suggest next time that others do it instead of tagging specific people. MUAH! You're a prince for giving me yet another peep into the mystery that is Nicholas!

[Pamela Kramer]

Oh my! #4 - How interesting. LOL

[amypalko]

I just love that you don't feel in the least bit ashamed of your wonderful night with G's girlfriend. Everyone needs these memories of hedonism past :-)

[No nonsense girl]

stopping by to say hello Nicholads. I hope you and yours are well. :)

[Infinity Goods]

I completely agree with you regarding tattoos.

[PJ]

You awful untattooed cad, messing around with your mate's girl! The shame of it.

[J]

I'm with you on the tattoos as well. First I found them kind of gross, but now every suburban soccer mom in the neighborhood has one, and I think, the only reason to do that would be to be shockingly cool, and that time is long, long gone. So I'm happy to join you in no-tattoo land. I do think there is plenty of money to be made in SCARLESS tatoo removal. If not now, in 20 years, when they're all saggy and hard to muddle.

[grace]

Do you have any plans on what to do with your more than a thousand books? Wow. I could just imagine all the interesting things you've read! and the wide space you must have to accommodate all those books!