It's been a while . . .
1. I love my name: Ceri. I can't thank my parents enough for choosing it. Good job!
2. Both Tay and Owen have a touch of synesthesia, specifically, color-graphemic synesthesia. This means that they see letters and numbers and days of the week as inherently colored. For instance, Owen said that Friday for him is a brown color. Taylor's Fridays are warm colors, like orange or yellow. Taylor also experiences spatial-sequence synesthesia, so that the months of the year appear as a ribbon, or sine curve, contracting in the distance. Neither Taylor nor Owen can comprehend that when I think of, for instance, the number eight or a Sunday, I see no color whatsoever.
3. On my bedside table, I have a small stuffed sheep that I bought at Worm's Head in Rhossili, Wales. I was 3 months pregnant at the time, so I bought it with a baby in mind. I ended up keeping it for myself.
4. My Nana lived through the 3-day Swansea blitz during World War II; her parents' home was hit, and she was the only one there to survive.
5. My favorite director is Mike Leigh.
6. I do not like sugar cookies.
7. I have a 20% off Pacer's coupon stuck to my fridge, just waiting for the next time I need to buy running shoes. I'll get the Mizuno Wave Rider 15s to use for marathon training: I hope they have some good colors.
8. One of the best things in life is falling in love with new things and experiences: this helps to balance out the grey hairs and the squishy mid-section.
9. I find it very hard to relax while running on a treadmill that isn't perfectly aligned. It needs to be parallel with the treadmills on either side and run perpendicular to the line of hanging televisions.
10. I recently tried reading a Famous Five book to Owen to see if he would like it. I remember loving these books when I was a kid. However, I quickly realized that for Owen, these books were too old-fashioned and too British.
11. I am angered by people who insinuate that deliberately having only one child amounts to child abuse and cruelty. Get a life, people!
12. I can't wait till Owen is older so that we can watch Zombieland together.
13. Beers recently consumed: Mephistopheles' Stout and Kona Brewing's Pipeline Porter.
14. Last film watched: Horrible Bosses, watched last night in bed on laptop.
I am FASCINATED by synesthesia, so interesting. And I have the same coupon on my fridge!
Posted by: katie | January 17, 2012 at 07:08 PM
Thanks for the book recommendation, Alison! Taylor just added it to his virtual "cart."
We have "Another Year" waiting for us on my iMac. Tay bought it for me/us as a surprise. Can't wait.
Posted by: ceri | January 13, 2012 at 02:52 PM
Mike Leigh is awesome (Lately I find myself often reflecting on Another Year), but so are sugar cookies, Ceri!
Have you or Owen (or you and Owen) read the book The Name of This Book is a Secret? Synesthesia is a theme. I thought it was made up! I wish I had it. I determine today to be neon yellow.
My child has no interest in reading The Boxcar children. Ugh.
Posted by: Alison | January 13, 2012 at 02:45 PM