Well, while I find this Seven Things, blogging link exchange thing, that Felicitas Betzl has tagged me in, eerily like a chain mail, I’m going to break with my usual tradition of not getting involved. What the hell, it’s almost 2010, and I’m almost 30.

Seven things about me

1. One the most important things that has shaped me as a person is having an identical twin. My sister Jennifer has always been someone I can rely on and trust, and I could never properly express how great and supportive she is.

2. I have a phobia of tic tacs. Yes, those harmless (ick) sweet type things. I only have a vague memory of my elder sister tormenting me with them when I was younger, but I can’t look at them now without feeling on the queasy side. TV adverts must be switched off, and just the sound of the box rattle makes me twitch. Yes, even typing this is making me uncomfortable. I have challenged my phobia. A few years ago I tried to eat one. I removed it almost immediately and it doesn’t seem to have helped.

3. I hate when people spell ‘weird’ incorrectly. I even had to correct it from the Rules section below. All these stupid english rhymes have done is confuse people. ‘i’ before ‘e’ except after ‘c’ is NONSENSE: weird, their, abseil, beige, caffeine…..

4. I don’t really think I can deny being a geek. I’ve been programming computers (badly) since I shared a ZX Spectrum 48k with my sisters from aged 7/8. I make a point of knowing what actors and directors are associated with what films, and by now I have a pretty decent movie knowledge. I read sci-fi books and watch sci-fi tv shows. I play computer games on PC or console till early in the morning (even if only at weekends). I wear glasses. I read books on the bus. And well, I slouch forwards when I walk….does that cover it?

5. I will NEVER EVER let anyone see the first web site I made (notice how I didn’t use the word ‘designed’). It first reared it’s ugly head in the year that I discovered the internet…I think that was about 1996. You know, I actually wonder if I actually still have the files.

6. I’m addicted to sugar. The 2 sugars in my tea could easily get turned to 3 unless I keep an eye on it. If I’m in the supermarket and they have those 3 packs for a £1 fizzy sweetie selections I have to buy them. And I also just finished eating a Sherbert Fountain. DAMN, there are no more sweeties in my flat.

7. I have a BEng (Hons) degree in Product Design Engineering. The only parts of it that have come in handy is the Accounting and Marketing classes. But, you know, I met a great bunch of people, so I can’t really feel bad about it.

Tagging along

• Jane – Lumen Spiriti
• Vonnie – Blotted Copy Book
• Eileen – The Food of Love
• Beth – Sit Pixel
• Lindsey – Paper, Pictures, Automata & other fanciful things
• Steelso – All about nothing
• David – Web Garden

Rules

And here’s the rules of the game:

• Link your original tagger(s), and list these rules on your blog.
• Share seven facts about yourself in the post – some random, some weird.
• Tag seven people at the end of your post by leaving their names and the links to their blogs.
• Let them know they’ve been tagged by leaving a comment on their blogs and/or Twitter.

And just to finish – due to my dislike of chain nonsense, would all the people I’ve tagged please NOT feel obliged to do this unless they really want to!