Alphabet in August – E to H

This is a month-long creative exercise led by Chiot’s Run: descriptive words and pictures about me/my life starting with each letter of the alphabet. Most people are doing a letter a day but I’m doing it in groups instead ;)

• Alphabet in August – A to D

(Natch.)

E is for …

• Eclectic: I like (and do) a whole load of different stuff.
• Elephant-memory: Although I usually don’t say I have “good memory” but a good retrieval system (I say my brain is like Google; John, who can’t ever remember anything, is like Lycos circa 1996. Both of us have the results but I can find them more efficiently.)
• Envious: Not of diamonds and wealth, but of soil, growing conditions, seed selections… I can’t read growing or making blogs without wanting to do it myself too.
• Euphemistic: My favourite Twitter hashtag is #notaeuphemism
• Emoticon: I’m not a fan of fancy ones or multiple ones used in rapid succession (which my dad does, all the frickin’ time) but I use the basic smiley one a LOT – including every time I sign my name (electronically or on paper). It makes me smile whenever I type it. :)

(Food and [marrow flower] fritters – double whammy!)

F is for …

• Fat: I’m bigger than I should be because of how much I love food. Mmm, food. It doesn’t bother me on a day to day level but I know I should lose some weight for the sake of my health.
• Funny: In both a haha and not-haha way.
• Feisty: See “Animated” and “Argumentative” from the other day ;)
• Flippant: Often as part of “Funny”, this isn’t usually a good thing.
• Frugal: I always have been and suspect I always will be.

(Another “natch”.)

G is for …

• Grasshopper-mind: Hyper-focused OCD-moments aside, I have a tendency to flip about from task to task an awful lot.
• Grumpy: Especially when I’m suddenly forced into social situations – I need mental prep time.
• Glasses: I’ve worn them since I was 14 and they’re as much as part of my visual sense-of-self as my curly hair. It makes cartoon self-portraits pretty easy.
• Geeky: I’ve always been a bit of a geek, not just computer related but all sorts of fields.
• Green: Like being frugal, this has always been a part of me and my life.

(When I quit my full-time job in 2006, I thought I’d get cabin fever being at home all the time, both for work and play. I don’t, I love it.)

H is for …

• Hippy: Tie-dye doesn’t really suit me & I hate the smell of incense but that aside, I’m very much a hippy at heart.
• Happy: While it still has its every day frustrations and it’s nothing like I thought it would be, I’m very happy with my life right now.
• Ham-fisted: I’m super clumsy.
• Headstrong: I hate being underestimated by people who think in stereotypes.
• Human: Well, mostly.

I’ll post I-to-L later in the week.

Other posts you might like:

Alphabet in August – A to D August 2011 mini goals Ten things about me Frugal, growing and cooking link love