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[Sep. 28th, 2006|12:06 pm] |
Hi kids. I'm retiring my rringram journal. Please add me as ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.2) chimokmankwe to your friends list. Chimiigwetch! |
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[Sep. 25th, 2006|07:13 am] |
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In the style of Deb!
Weekends spent on an Unceded Aboriginal Territory which is technically a foreign country: 1
Amount of Nishnaabemwin heard: Uncountable
Amount of Nishnaabemwin spoken directly to me: A lot
Number of times I was mistaken for a Nishnabe: At least once
Amount of waterfowl seen: Uncountable
Number of skips achieved by a rock thrown personally by me on a lake: 8
Number of beaver, moose, bear and deer seen: 0
Most interesting thing seen in the night sky: The Milky Way
Thing first heard in the morning while camping on the bay: ducks
Number of times my Aboriginal name was used in a sentence: at least 4, although I'm not sure if just "kwe" counts.
I am in Wiky withdrawal. Also, I think I will be changing my livejournal account to my Aboriginal name and just continue to read my friends list. See if you can guess who I am. |
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[Aug. 10th, 2006|09:26 pm] |
Tagged by leadinglabbie.
I'm supposed to tell six things about myself and tag six people. So here goes:
1. Up until high school I took horseback riding lessons every week. I can ride English hunt seat, Australian Outback, Western, and bareback.
2. I can understand Spanish, but can't speak it. (No, really, ask Squonk.)
3. I've been with Dave since I was 19.
4. I IM my friend Lee in German for practice. I also dream in German.
5. I read non-fiction almost exclusively, although lately I've become addicted to O'Brien's Aubrey and Maturin series.
6. I love folk music, Prairie Home Companion and the CBC. Thus, I am a public radio whore.
Tag:
Uhhh....I guess whoever wants to do this. |
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[Aug. 5th, 2006|11:01 pm] |
- The most dangerous form of Rebekah is the bicycle.
- Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14, and Rebekah has 7!
- Rebekah, from the movie of the same name, had green blood.
- More people are killed by Rebekah each year than die in aeroplane accidents.
- It takes 8 minutes for light to travel from the Sun's surface to Rebekah.
- Rebekah has 118 ridges around the edge.
- The Church of Scientology was founded in 1953, at Washington D.C., by Rebekah.
- Rebekahology is the study of Rebekah.
- Only 55 percent of Americans know that the sun is made of Rebekah.
- If you drop Rebekah from more than three metres above ground level, she will always land feet-first!
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[Jul. 29th, 2006|12:06 pm] |
Swiped from proko5 who swiped it from...somewhere else.
1. Are you named after anyone? If so, explain.
Well, there's the obvious biblical reference. My middle name, Roan (which is Irish for "baby seal") is also my grandfather's middle name. My great-grandfather was Irish.
2. Do you have your children's names picked out already? If so, is there any significance?
Yes, Henry William Ingram and either Katherine Elizabeth Ingram, Elizabeth Anne Ingram or Katherine Freya Ingram. Aside from numerous allusions to the British monarchy, Henry is Dave's grandfather, and William is my father, grandfather and great-grandfather.
Ingram itself is significant in that it is a Parish in Northumbria, England. The medieval spelling is Angerham ("village of the straight"), and is of Norse origin. My family came to England from Norway in the Viking raids of the 700- and 800's, where they mixed with the local Celtic and Angle population. Our family became nobility under King James the VI/I who knighted Sir Arthur Ingram; Sir Arthur controlled Customs in London in the early 1600s and was granted our family estate, Temple Newsam House by the King. We are descended from his son, John Ingram, who married a Quaker and settled in Pennsylvania, where my family stayed until my father moved to Boston, where I was raised.
3. If you were born a member of the opposite sex what would your name have been?
I think it was Michael. I could be wrong.
4. If you could re-name yourself what name would you pick and why?
I would never re-name myself. I love all of my names.
5. Are there any mispronunciations/typos that people do w/ your name constantly?
Hello, R-E-B-E-K-A-H? I get the other spelling all the time, and everyone always gets the K-A-H mixed up ("K-H-A? A-K-H?"). I'm also tired of hearing "That's an interesting spelling!" because this spelling is the original translation from the Hebrew; "Rebeka" is the Latin vulgare spelling, and the "h" represents life (see further: numerous Jewish friends). |
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[Jul. 20th, 2006|08:41 am] |
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Swiped from Esta.
(Click here to post your own answers for this meme.)
| ✓ I miss somebody right now. |
× I don't watch much TV these days. |
✓ I own lots of books. |
| ✓ I wear glasses or contact lenses. |
× I love to play video games. |
× I've tried marijuana. |
| ✓ I've watched porn movies. |
× I have been the psycho-ex in a past relationship. |
× I believe honesty is usually the best policy. |
| ✓ I curse sometimes. (Or a lot.) |
✓ I have changed a lot mentally over the last year. |
× I carry my knife/razor everywhere with me. |
( it goes on... ) |
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[Jun. 9th, 2006|08:48 am] |
| Who Should Paint You: Pablo Picasso | 
Your an expressive soul who shows many emotions, with many subtleties
Only a master painter could represent your glorious contradictions |
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[May. 26th, 2006|05:08 pm] |
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In the mail today, I received a prize package from a contest I entered sponsored by Downsview Park. These wonderful people gave us two tickets up the CN Tower and a $200 gift certificate for dinner at the 360 Restaurant at the top.
I love Parks Canada. This is such a fabulous prize! I am going to call them on Monday to thank them. |
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