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[mvrdrk]

flemmings un-tagged me.

1. List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
2. Tag seven people to do the same.
3. Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag whoever wants to do it.

I don't know seven people who haven't been tagged! Besides, tagging people without first checking if they wanted to be tagged would be rude. So I guess it dies here.


1. I grind my teeth in my sleep.
2. Ever since I was a teen, I've been able to make my bed by pulling the covers up over my head before sliding out of bed. (Except when I thrash in my sleep.)
3. I used to not care for hydrangeas, but I lived in a desert climate. Now that I live in a wet climate, I see that hydrangeas are one of the most beautiful shrubs in the garden.
4. My favorite color is deep ruby red, known as pigeons blood, except that I like deep sapphire blue better.
5. I'm a horribly intolerant person, but letting on would be rude, so I hide it.
6. I'm a spider solitare junky. Freecell solitare got too easy and minesweeper takes too much thinking
7. I have owned a copy of Harry Potter vol. 7 since the day it came out, but I've only read chapter 1. I plan to read chapter two next week sometime ... maybe.

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[flemmings.livejournal.com]

4. My favorite color is deep ruby red, known as pigeons blood, except that I like deep sapphire blue better.

Why do I think that sound likes something your daughter would say?

I'm an addiction solitaire addict, but only in summer. In winter it's yukon. I've heard spider is worse, is why I stay away from it.

[mvrdrk.livejournal.com]

LOL! I don't know why you would think PT would say that, but in fact she prefers very dark colors.

I'll have to take a look at yukon!

I finished Harry Potter on Sunday. I wound up escorting the younger child and friends to the amusement park and during my 7 hours of imprisonment, I polished off the book.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Younger, more. And I was thinking of the inherent illogic of the sentence itself: 'I like x the best except that I like y better.'

Weren't you supposed to be making sure the youngies didn't fall out of ferris wheels or have their feet severed in rides?

[mvrdrk.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah! I can see where Younger might just say that!

Naw, I no longer monitor the teens. If they want to fall out of ferris wheels, that's their problem. Severed feet hadn't occurred to me and might have put me off. The good thing about the local amusement park is it's primarily water rides, so more chance of drowning and less chance of disfigurement. On the way down, they were busily telling me this place has had 4 deaths already this summer - three apparently due to electrocution. I didn't catch the 4th cause of death.

These days, I mostly act as an anchor point, storage locker, and ATM. It's a lot like with two year olds, they can leave you, but you can't leave them. Only, teens have a lot further and more expensive range.

[shalimar1001.livejournal.com]

Funny~~
I love hydrangea too, especially the blue ones. My grandmother used to have a small one growing on her balcony. Every rainy spring, it just flowered once. I watched it in bloom then fade. Every time it amazed me, and I felt it too short.
I played both kinds of solitare too. Sometimes, I can spend several hours playing the thing. And my mother too. She everyday turns on the computer just to play spider but she doesn't even know how to get on MSN.

[mvrdrk.livejournal.com]

I have all blue and white hydrangeas. My favorite is the blue one that fades to teal and green as the flowers age. I'd like to get one of the white climbing ones, but no place to put it. The funny thing about hydrangeas is the flowers last a really long time, all winter if you leave them on the plant. It's very attractive in a dried flower kind of way.

Now I'm wondering what hydrangeas are in Chinese ... darn. You know they are originally from China, I believe. The Sichuan and Yunnan areas weren't affected by ice age glaciation and consequently have some of the highest plant biodiversity in the world. Probably all being destroyed by pollution at this point, but still incredible and something to be proud of.

[shalimar1001.livejournal.com]

I will type the Chinese name tonight.
Does it snow in your city?
Because I used to have an impression that all hydrangeas are evergreens. After I searched several places in Toronto, I found that most hydrangeas here require a complete winter rest. For example, the famous "Endless Summer".
Probably because the one my grandmother had was too small, it just flowered once every spring, at most twice. It never made it into the burning summer of Guangzhou.
I think, the environment in Sichuan and Yunnan should be quite good.

The Japanese have some very nice breeds of hydrangeas. I have never seen the lacehead kind in Guangzhou.

[mvrdrk.livejournal.com]

It snows here once or twice a winter. So, yes, our hydrangeas get a full rest every winter. I've read about evergreen ones, apparently you must live in a sufficiently mild climate to grow them. Sometimes I think it would be nice to be where the winter is warm, but then I'd miss all my cold winter plants.

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shalimar
hydrangea = 绣球花，或者在某些地方会被称为八仙花。
The japanese name is 紫阳花