1. To say I dislike having my photo taken is putting it mildly. I'd much prefer to remain in the shadows.
2. So it is utterly mystifying to me why I allowed myself to be filmed for television this week. Thankfully it is being aired on a cable channel which I don't get, so I don't have to re-live the trauma.
3. When I am under pressure I occasionally loose control of my thought processes and my powers of speech. This is the only reason I can come up with for having called the central character of the novel I was discussing, by the wrong name. Not once, but twice. On camera.
4. The sleeve of the cardigan I am attempting to knit is too short. I am terrified that my efforts to rip out the shaping at the top of the arm and make it a bit longer will lead to the whole thing unravelling.
5. I found 3 grey chest hairs on hubby. For some reason, I find this enormously depressing. He refuses to let me yank them out. I may have to pounce on him with a marker pen instead.
6. Today, the first bunch of daffodils of the year found their way into my shopping basket. The thought that Spring is not far away makes all the above seem less hideous
Courtesy of Allison and the 'six things' meme that just will not die.
TV? Fame? Where? What? When?!
I'm with you on the photo thing. I tend to delete any of me before they can be uploaded to the computer ...
Posted by: dottycookie | 25 January 2009 at 23:43
TV? TV? Tell me why, where and when?
Come on, you have to share more than this!
Posted by: Rhubarb | 25 January 2009 at 23:58
I am hiding behind the camera pretty much almost all the time. Unfortunately my kids love to take pictures now, too, and in my most ugliest moments.
TV - When - Where - What Channel - perhabs I got it!
Posted by: Nicole | 26 January 2009 at 00:26
Wow! You superstar. I know how you feel though - I turn into a blithering mess when we have to do any of our pr stuff and when I met Amy Butler I couldn't think of a single intelligent thing to say! I love that list of stuff - gave me a good laugh! And daffodils are definitely enough to cheer anyone up!
Posted by: Louise | 26 January 2009 at 01:55
They are not grey - they are blonde highlights which show that he has the potential to star on Baywatch.
Posted by: Alice C | 26 January 2009 at 07:33
I totally relate to the picture thing - I am behind the camera - not in front of the darned thing: that's the job of other people!
Hooray for daffodils! x
Posted by: Kitty | 26 January 2009 at 07:44
Send your husband to a beautician, and have the lot of them waxed off.
Posted by: The Coffee Lady | 26 January 2009 at 08:22
I got really depressed when I found a first grey eyebrow on myself. I now yank it our remorslessly (is that a word?).
Grey hair on men are distinguished and quite sexy. think Richard Gere pre Dalai Lama phase, (I think he's got a bit lame now)
TV, eh? What next?
Posted by: monica | 26 January 2009 at 08:24
Brave you being interviewed for TV! When I was doing my teaching practise we were all videoed teaching a class and then we had to watch back and analyse the results. It was mortifying.
Posted by: Gina | 26 January 2009 at 08:28
Every time I find a grey hair on the mister (very rare) he says Try not to sound so thrilled!
Because *I* am completely grey and has virtually none. Which is sooo bloody unfair.
ps. Hello you! Nice to get a glimpse!
Posted by: suse | 26 January 2009 at 10:05
you never know what youtube can capture!!!!
I've discovered several grey haris on me...head not chest....my youth is over!
Posted by: Tiel | 26 January 2009 at 10:44
Well you've got tell us what the show/channel is!! Otherwise I'm going to lose an alarming amount of life in trying to work it out...
I have a grey hair somewhere far worse than a chest.
Posted by: Rebecca | 26 January 2009 at 13:52
Many congrats for being on telly - what, where, when? Although as we've only just got Freeview, sadly I doubt it'll be a channel we can view. What about sneaking up on your husband's grey chest hairs with a bit of mascara (apparently Nigella Lawson uses it to touch up her grey hair!!) I'm quite pleased to have found grey chest hairs on my partner, it makes me feel better about my salt 'n' pepper barnet.
Posted by: Elizabeth | 26 January 2009 at 19:16
Ha, my husband would gladly swap his grey hair for *just* three.
You were on the tele! Cool!!! Nerve-wracking too by the sounds of it. Bet you were awesome, wrong name attribution and all.
Posted by: Megan | 26 January 2009 at 22:10
Do tell us what channel so we can watch - please, please pretty please.
At least you managed to get words out on camera I think I would totally dry up. Well done
Posted by: Thimbleina | 27 January 2009 at 12:02
"...the six things meme that just will not die." Too funny and oh so true. I did enjoy your six things though!
Posted by: Thimbleanna | 27 January 2009 at 19:00
I allow about one photo of me to pass the vetting each year and make it into the family album. Just enough so that the kids will see that they did have a mother present during their childhhod. Most get thrown, though - if I go missing, I know my husband would pick an awful one to go in the 'paper, otherwise...
Posted by: UK lass in US | 27 January 2009 at 21:31
I did a radio interview last summer, which I could access online and listen to if I wanted to. I don't want to.
My husband is getting a few gray chest hairs, too. Just as long as I don't start getting them, all is well with the world. What's really unfair is that he's a blond, so the gray hairs on his head are barely noticeable. Mine, on the other hand, cost about a hundred dollars every three months to disguise.
Posted by: frances | 27 January 2009 at 21:43
Right with you on No.1.
Been there, done that - twice! - on No.2. and can empathise with No.3!
I feel your pain on No.4 - I hate frogging knitting as I lose stitches all over the place!
No.5 - only 3 grey hairs? My poor old hubby has more than I can count - and he's younger than me. None of my chest hairs are grey ;-)
Thank goodness for No.6!!
Pleeease tell us what?when?where? for your TV appearance....just in case I get to see it...which I doubt 'cos I haven't got cable either!
xxx
Posted by: Lesley | 29 January 2009 at 13:33
I'm sure you were completely charming on TV, but I know all about losing the power of speech under stress--when I'm nervous, I can't finish sentences and I just let the half-sentence hang there in the air.
Posted by: Alexis | 02 February 2009 at 22:18
Just saw you on the MB blog and thought you - and everyone else - sounded most intelligent and articulate. Did you even mention a character's name???
Posted by: Helen | 08 February 2009 at 16:47