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Posted 26th February 2008 by Lylah M. Alphonse, tagged interesting things about me
1.) I'm ambidextrous, but I stopped working on writing with my left hand when I was in the 2nd grade, so my handwriting with that hand looks like one of my kids' did it.
2.) My nickname when I was a kid was Dosibai, which is Gujarathi for "Little grandmother" (loosely translated). Because I was mothering people practically before I could walk.
3.) I've collected miniature perfume bottles and perfume samples since I was 9 years old -- more than 25 years now. But I rarely, if ever, wear perfume, because I have super-smell-o-vision. You know how, when you're pregnant, everything just smells...well... MORE? That's super-smell-o-vision, except I have it all the time.
6 comments so far...
Partyof5: Gujarathi is the language spoken in the state of Gujarat, in India -- it's where Bombay is (well, now it's called Mumbai, but you know what I mean). My mom is from India... she's a Parsi, with roots in Persia, but the Parsi people adopted Gujarathi as their language when they fled to India from Persia around the time of Alexander the Great (whom they call Alexander the Accursed).
Jacqueline: Would you believe that it took me DAYS to figure out what to write down? :)
Kate: When I was little, I got "ambidextrous" and "amphibeous" mixed up and would get very upset, thinking that people had mistaken me for a frog. I totally hear you on the laundry aisles thing, too!
tkd_mama: My husband thought I was crazy recently because I told him, while driving, that I was sure I could smell cigarette smoke. I really could. Turned out someone TWO CARS AHEAD of us had lit up and rolled down their window.
Mandy: I'm pretty sure we're related, somehow! I can deal with some floral scents, but things like musk make me want to wash my nose out with soap, except that would probably feel even worse!
Flag as inappropriate Posted by Lylah M. Alphonse on 27th February 2008
Flag as inappropriate Posted by PartyOf5 on 27th February 2008
Flag as inappropriate Posted by Jacqueline on 26th February 2008
i do not miss super-smell-o-vision from pregnancy! was impossible to walk down the laundry aisles in the grocery/target stores because the smell would make my eyes water! but then i suppose it's good when there are lots of good smells around :)
Flag as inappropriate Posted by Kate on 26th February 2008
I didn't recognize the language Gujarathi when I saw it in your post, so I googled it. Cool. Is your family from the Gujarat province originally, or from one of the other Gujarathi populations throughout the world? - Paula.
Flag as inappropriate Posted by tkd_mama on 26th February 2008
Flag as inappropriate Posted by Mandy Nelson - Dandysound on 26th February 2008