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thistlechaserThis is going to be fun! The original idea for it can be found here! How it works is that you leave a reply to this post, and I'll ask you five questions. You answer them in your LJ, and you have to include this offer with it (in your own words). Then people answer your questions in their own LJs, and make the offer as well... and it never ends! It'll be bigger than Battle Monkeys!
My questions, given to me by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rhoddlet:
1. What's your first conscious memory?
I don't have too many early ones. My earliest was a really fuzzy one of my mother making me stay in my room while she took the cat to be put to sleep. (He was really old.)
More vivid is being taken to Germany by my father and going to the zoo there. Besides riding on an elephant, we saw piranhas in a tank. They were so ugly and so scary, I would never set foot in the ocean for years after. (Yeah, I know that's not where they live, but other fish do, and they might bite as well!)
Unrelated to memories, there was some horror movie about piranha that further fueled my fear of swimming in wild places.
2. Are you fond of going to the beach in the summertime?
While I like looking at (not swimming in) the ocean, the summertime isn't the time I'd go. Too hot, too sunny, and I'd have to wear too little. I'll go in the winter, when I can stay fully dressed, thank you. :)
I still won't swim in the ocean though. I could get eaten by sharks, piranha (see question #1), dragged out by some sort of odd wave, or encounter raw sewage or medical waste. Ew!
3. How would you make your favorite sandwich?
I'm a simple person. I like peanut butter and jelly on white bread or toast. untoasted bread is nice in that it's seriously comfort food, but toasted is nice because it makes the peanut butter all melty. Mmm.
Oh, I like bacon and scrambled egg and jelly sandwiches on white (toast) as well, but those require actual cooking, so it probably can't be counted as my favorite.
4. Why do you chase thistles and not something else?
Heehee. Because I never learn! Thistle-Chaser is a character from a book, and she got her name because she wouldn't stop pouncing thistles. (She's a cat.) Now, thistles are all pointy and prickly, but she never learned, she just kept pouncing them no matter how much it hurt. Unfortunately that's a lot like me: when I want to do something or feel I need or should do something, I stick with it no matter how painful it is. It's a sad thing for me, but it tends to be a good thing for others. (see also: the MUSH, running it for three years)
5. What's your favorite food, and tell me about a memorable occaision when you were reading it.
(I'm not sure if this was a brain-flub or if it's supposed to be food+reading...) My favorite food would have to be bacon. Rich and salty and hot and mmmm. I could eat plates and plates of it (and make myself very sick). I don't think I've ever really read a bacon package... If I did, I'd probably have stopped eating it sooner. (I only eat it a couple times a year now, as it really does give me an icky stomach.)
So those are my five! Hop to it, folks! Let's keep this good idea going! :)
My questions, given to me by
rhoddlet:1. What's your first conscious memory?
I don't have too many early ones. My earliest was a really fuzzy one of my mother making me stay in my room while she took the cat to be put to sleep. (He was really old.)
More vivid is being taken to Germany by my father and going to the zoo there. Besides riding on an elephant, we saw piranhas in a tank. They were so ugly and so scary, I would never set foot in the ocean for years after. (Yeah, I know that's not where they live, but other fish do, and they might bite as well!)
Unrelated to memories, there was some horror movie about piranha that further fueled my fear of swimming in wild places.
2. Are you fond of going to the beach in the summertime?
While I like looking at (not swimming in) the ocean, the summertime isn't the time I'd go. Too hot, too sunny, and I'd have to wear too little. I'll go in the winter, when I can stay fully dressed, thank you. :)
I still won't swim in the ocean though. I could get eaten by sharks, piranha (see question #1), dragged out by some sort of odd wave, or encounter raw sewage or medical waste. Ew!
3. How would you make your favorite sandwich?
I'm a simple person. I like peanut butter and jelly on white bread or toast. untoasted bread is nice in that it's seriously comfort food, but toasted is nice because it makes the peanut butter all melty. Mmm.
Oh, I like bacon and scrambled egg and jelly sandwiches on white (toast) as well, but those require actual cooking, so it probably can't be counted as my favorite.
4. Why do you chase thistles and not something else?
Heehee. Because I never learn! Thistle-Chaser is a character from a book, and she got her name because she wouldn't stop pouncing thistles. (She's a cat.) Now, thistles are all pointy and prickly, but she never learned, she just kept pouncing them no matter how much it hurt. Unfortunately that's a lot like me: when I want to do something or feel I need or should do something, I stick with it no matter how painful it is. It's a sad thing for me, but it tends to be a good thing for others. (see also: the MUSH, running it for three years)
5. What's your favorite food, and tell me about a memorable occaision when you were reading it.
(I'm not sure if this was a brain-flub or if it's supposed to be food+reading...) My favorite food would have to be bacon. Rich and salty and hot and mmmm. I could eat plates and plates of it (and make myself very sick). I don't think I've ever really read a bacon package... If I did, I'd probably have stopped eating it sooner. (I only eat it a couple times a year now, as it really does give me an icky stomach.)
So those are my five! Hop to it, folks! Let's keep this good idea going! :)
