Alphabet in August – M to P

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. I’m a little behind at the moment because of one of the words for L… ;)

• Alphabet in August – A to D
• Alphabet in August – E to H
• Alphabet in August – I to L

(It was supposed to be “M is for mushrooms” but I found this one while looking for fungi pics. I’m very interested in fungi. I’m very amused by muddy dogs.)

M is for…

• Maps: I love maps – reading them, drawing them. I have a very good memory for them too – if I’ve looked at a map of an area once, it’s in my brain for good.
• Mediocre: My greatest fear and my growing realisation.
• Mouthy: Fitting with all the “argumentative” style words up to now, I just don’t know when to shut up sometimes.
• Multitudes: Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself. (I am large, I contain multitudes.)
• Myopic: It’s all a blur after a few feet.

(As much as I like being outside, I think I prefer the night to day really.)

N is for…

• Neurotic: I think I’m a lot better than I used to be but still *twirls finger next to head*
• Naysayer: I say no and shoot down ideas an awful lot. Partly it’s a timesaving device but mostly it’s knee-jerk.
• Ninja: I often refer to myself as a “ninja” (eg, “I’m an Ikea ninja”) and I use it as a verb a lot too (eg “can I ninja through that gap behind you?”). I’m not sure why.
• Numbers: Like “maps” but ++. When I was about 9, I used to spend hours writing lists of numbers (just basic counting into the thousands or times tables etc) in notebooks for no reason other that I just enjoyed it. I have strong emotional reactions to different numbers (eg 4 is wonderful, 3 is horrible & stuffy) and particularly like numbers with lots of factors/divisors.
• Newbie: Given I’m a generalist rather than a specialist, I often feel a newbie in lots of areas. A few years ago, I started to embrace that rather than be embarrassed by it. Now I ask a lot of questions.

(I fricking love olives. I could eat them all day. Stuffed, unstuffed, in stuff, on their own – whatever, I’ll eat them. (I didn’t take that photo but I wish I had as it look yummy. Olives and melted cheese, drooool.))

O is for…

• Opinionated: Again, fitting with “argumentative”. I have opinions about everything.
• Odd: Just a little bit.
• Old: There is nothing like working with teenagers to make you feel very, very old at 32.
• Other/outsider: Not in a “no one understands me, maaaaaan” way but how I feel in a lot of social situations. I rarely feel like I’m one of the group, I usually feel like I’m looking in from the outside, an interloper.
• Overeat: Not just olives. Sigh.

(I used to be really interested in the sociological/psychological aspects of piercings and had my tongue pierced twice. Yes that’s drool hitting his finger – it was really awkward to swallow while he was doing the pokey stuff!)

P is for…

• Picky: Not about everything but the stuff I’m picky about, I’m really picky about.
• Passionate: I’m passionate about a lot of things. Don’t get me started.
• Polite: This seems to contradict a lot of the others but I do try very hard to be polite. It doesn’t come particularly naturally but I try to stick to the general rules.
• Procrastinator: I’m always juggling a lot of balls. It makes procrastination almost too easy.
• Peach: John and I collectively call ourselves “Peach” (a portmanteau of our surnames) and together with the cats & dog, we’re Team Peach. It started as a joke but I’m not sure it is any more. I recently celebrated our team-ship in cross stitch:

Q-to-T and U-to-Z both to follow before the end of the month…!

Other posts you might like:

Alphabet in August – I to L Alphabet in August – E to H Alphabet in August – A to D August 2011 mini goals