Monthly Meme Time
Mar. 8th, 2009 06:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pinksoniaI'm now going to post some over due, or at least a couple of weeks/months after everyone else did them memes. First I have that one that the person tells you five things they associate with you and you have to elaborate on them. I got my words from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mcgarrygirl78 , but I lost her original entry so I can't copy and paste the rules as you usually do.
Knitting – For my first job out of college I demonstrated an agricultural product. I had to take it to super market distribution warehouses, apply it to fruit, and then take notes on the fruit over the course of two weeks. The taking notes portion consisted of about 20 min a day, so I had lots of down time. One day while browsing in a needlework shop I found myself buying “Stitch N Bitch: Nation” for it's patterns before remembering that I didn't actually know how to knit. So I taught my self. The Job and I quickly parted ways (apparently I “think too much and it's scaring the customers”) but the knitting stuck around.
New Orleans – I never planned to come to New Orleans for anything other than a vacation. In high school I was obsessed with the paranormal thanks to a steady diet of the X-Files. When Tulane sent me an application that was already mostly filled out and waived the application fee, I applied figuring that if I got in my parents would have to take me to visit and I'd be able to see all the VooDoo and Vampire stuff in New Orleans. Instead, I ended up doing my schooling here. Then following graduation I heeded my Yankee sensibilities and went back North, but somehow New Orleans drew me back again.
Cameron – I love Cameron on House her mixture of true goodness and quiet strength, but more importantly she shares my first name. See I am not an icon maker and I'm not vocal enough in any fandom to garner minions who are icon makers. So when I wanted an icon with my name on it to be my default, I had to wait for there to be a character with that name so someone would make the icon without any idea that I existed.
Jane Austen – As I often say, I'm a big fan of Jane Austen's stories just not her books (except Northanger Abbey where I'm a fan of both). I've enjoyed movie adaptations of all her novels (becoming quite obsessed with many of them), I like modern adaptations that follow similar plot lines (see Jane Austen in Boca Raton, Pride and Prejudice and Jasmine Field, or even Clueless), but I really don't like her writing style. I could only read Pride and Prejudice after I saw the movie first, the whole time telling myself “just make it to the Netherfield Ball or to Darcy's First Proposal or to Lydia's Return” until I managed to get all the way through the book. Persuasion I yawned all the way through finishing only because I'm stubborn. I've never finished any of the others except Northanger Abbey which I think reads like an entirely different author.
The Sound of Music – I don't know when I first saw this movie, but I do know that I used to put in our old betamax copy every day after I came home from preschool. At three I would call “Climb Every Mountain” my favorite song and ask to make an Abbey out of felt instead of the picture of my house as was the assignment. Once in Friendly's, I asked a group of Nuns (from Immaculata College which is right down the street from the house I grew up in) which of them was Mother Superior. That was possibly my very first instance of fangirling. I still love the movie and will sometimes on bright sunny days have an intense desire to start clicking my heals together and belting out “I Have Confidence.”
Then there is the great 25 things of facebook thing that I was actually tagged on twice. I will be posting this there, but since I'm on LJ way more than I'm ever on facebook, I thought it might be worthwhile to stick them up here too.
1. I refuse to tag people on memes because I don't want to put anyone out. Despite that, I compulsively look to see if I've been tagged by anyone else because for some reason I think it will mean that I've made an impression.
2. I'm incapable of being late. I've willfully tried to be late and still ended up arriving a couple of minutes early.
3. There are many foods I'm not fond of and will not choose to eat, but I think the only one I cannot bring myself to even try to choke down are bananas.
4. I took the SATs (college entrance exams) in 7th grade as part of the John Hopkins' Talent search. I got a 1070 which means I did better than more than half of the graduating seniors who took it in the state of Pennsylvania that year (in both math and verbal). I often have trouble teaching things to people because I have a skewed view of how long it takes to learn something new.
5. I tend to find myself living in cities that have a reputation for lot of partying and sleazy happenings. I am incredibly straight-laced, but also very drawn to the arts (particularly performing arts) scene.
6. I had scarlet fever as a small child.
7. At sixteen my hair randomly became curly. So much so that my hairdresser asked me why I hadn't come to her if I wanted a perm.
8. I have a freckle on the palm of my hand and one on the sole of my foot. I have been informed that this is impossible.
9. The three things I've always wanted in life are a cat, a window seat, and red hair. I was planning on naming the cat Mr. Mistoffelees, but then I used that name for my rabbit instead.
10. In high school, my goal for my college and post graduation living arrangements was to be within walking distance of a good chinese takeaway. My current apartment only kind of qualifies as I could walk to China Orchid but it would be a rather long walk.
11. I don't have my ears pierced. I did when I turned 11 but then I developed stigmata of the ears so I let them close up by the time I was 12. People still give me pierced earrings all the time.
12. It annoys me when people tell me about their love for Disney movies after I say I like Musical Theater. It's like the people who tell you about their love for dinosaurs after you say you're an archaeologist. It's not the same thing.
13. I hate the outdoors. I have very pale skin and burn very easily. My job has me working outside all day everyday, yet I don't seem to mind.
14. I refused to wear pants until I was 9 or 10. Still, when shopping I am drawn to the dress/skirt section first and thus have a closet full of dresses I rarely get to wear.
15. I am a morning person. The snooze button confuses me, as if I don't have to get up until later I will set my alarm for that time.
16. I've had something like 10 teeth pulled over the course of my life. I inherited my father's large teeth and my mother's small mouth.
17. I excel at tasks that other people find mind numbingly boring. I've spent months on end washing and counting gravel, I've cataloged boxes full of buttons, and I once spent an entire Christmas break shredding medical documents. (okay that last one I found incredibly boring too).
18. I hate my birthstone (Turquoise). I sometimes contemplate changing my birthday to February so my birthstone would be amethyst. Even better would be the powers-that-be making Malachite (my favorite stone) the December birthstone.
19. I have a long standing goal to reintroduce the word fortnight into American english. I'm always looking for people to help me out with that.
20. I love my glasses. I don't think I would ever consider getting lasik because I would have to give them up.
21. I failed my practical driving exam three times. Ten years later, I still hate to drive, and I avoid parallel parking like the plague.
22. In school I always wanted to skip a grade. I was never offered the chance, and I don't think my parents would have let me if I had, but I really wanted the opportunity.
23. I'm greatly annoyed by the fact that they changed the names for Girl Scout cookies. I always forget and ask for Carmel Delights, which tends to lead to some very confused Girl Scouts.
24. If asked, I would say The Sound of Music and Secretary are my two favorite movies. I feel like that says loads about my personality.
25. I love ballroom dancing. I like the structure and the fact that there are steps I can learn instead of random shuffling around the floor. I wish there were more opportunities to break out the Waltz because it never fails to make me feel beautiful and elegant – two things I never feel the rest of the time.
mcgarrygirl78 , but I lost her original entry so I can't copy and paste the rules as you usually do. Knitting – For my first job out of college I demonstrated an agricultural product. I had to take it to super market distribution warehouses, apply it to fruit, and then take notes on the fruit over the course of two weeks. The taking notes portion consisted of about 20 min a day, so I had lots of down time. One day while browsing in a needlework shop I found myself buying “Stitch N Bitch: Nation” for it's patterns before remembering that I didn't actually know how to knit. So I taught my self. The Job and I quickly parted ways (apparently I “think too much and it's scaring the customers”) but the knitting stuck around.
New Orleans – I never planned to come to New Orleans for anything other than a vacation. In high school I was obsessed with the paranormal thanks to a steady diet of the X-Files. When Tulane sent me an application that was already mostly filled out and waived the application fee, I applied figuring that if I got in my parents would have to take me to visit and I'd be able to see all the VooDoo and Vampire stuff in New Orleans. Instead, I ended up doing my schooling here. Then following graduation I heeded my Yankee sensibilities and went back North, but somehow New Orleans drew me back again.
Cameron – I love Cameron on House her mixture of true goodness and quiet strength, but more importantly she shares my first name. See I am not an icon maker and I'm not vocal enough in any fandom to garner minions who are icon makers. So when I wanted an icon with my name on it to be my default, I had to wait for there to be a character with that name so someone would make the icon without any idea that I existed.
Jane Austen – As I often say, I'm a big fan of Jane Austen's stories just not her books (except Northanger Abbey where I'm a fan of both). I've enjoyed movie adaptations of all her novels (becoming quite obsessed with many of them), I like modern adaptations that follow similar plot lines (see Jane Austen in Boca Raton, Pride and Prejudice and Jasmine Field, or even Clueless), but I really don't like her writing style. I could only read Pride and Prejudice after I saw the movie first, the whole time telling myself “just make it to the Netherfield Ball or to Darcy's First Proposal or to Lydia's Return” until I managed to get all the way through the book. Persuasion I yawned all the way through finishing only because I'm stubborn. I've never finished any of the others except Northanger Abbey which I think reads like an entirely different author.
The Sound of Music – I don't know when I first saw this movie, but I do know that I used to put in our old betamax copy every day after I came home from preschool. At three I would call “Climb Every Mountain” my favorite song and ask to make an Abbey out of felt instead of the picture of my house as was the assignment. Once in Friendly's, I asked a group of Nuns (from Immaculata College which is right down the street from the house I grew up in) which of them was Mother Superior. That was possibly my very first instance of fangirling. I still love the movie and will sometimes on bright sunny days have an intense desire to start clicking my heals together and belting out “I Have Confidence.”
Then there is the great 25 things of facebook thing that I was actually tagged on twice. I will be posting this there, but since I'm on LJ way more than I'm ever on facebook, I thought it might be worthwhile to stick them up here too.
1. I refuse to tag people on memes because I don't want to put anyone out. Despite that, I compulsively look to see if I've been tagged by anyone else because for some reason I think it will mean that I've made an impression.
2. I'm incapable of being late. I've willfully tried to be late and still ended up arriving a couple of minutes early.
3. There are many foods I'm not fond of and will not choose to eat, but I think the only one I cannot bring myself to even try to choke down are bananas.
4. I took the SATs (college entrance exams) in 7th grade as part of the John Hopkins' Talent search. I got a 1070 which means I did better than more than half of the graduating seniors who took it in the state of Pennsylvania that year (in both math and verbal). I often have trouble teaching things to people because I have a skewed view of how long it takes to learn something new.
5. I tend to find myself living in cities that have a reputation for lot of partying and sleazy happenings. I am incredibly straight-laced, but also very drawn to the arts (particularly performing arts) scene.
6. I had scarlet fever as a small child.
7. At sixteen my hair randomly became curly. So much so that my hairdresser asked me why I hadn't come to her if I wanted a perm.
8. I have a freckle on the palm of my hand and one on the sole of my foot. I have been informed that this is impossible.
9. The three things I've always wanted in life are a cat, a window seat, and red hair. I was planning on naming the cat Mr. Mistoffelees, but then I used that name for my rabbit instead.
10. In high school, my goal for my college and post graduation living arrangements was to be within walking distance of a good chinese takeaway. My current apartment only kind of qualifies as I could walk to China Orchid but it would be a rather long walk.
11. I don't have my ears pierced. I did when I turned 11 but then I developed stigmata of the ears so I let them close up by the time I was 12. People still give me pierced earrings all the time.
12. It annoys me when people tell me about their love for Disney movies after I say I like Musical Theater. It's like the people who tell you about their love for dinosaurs after you say you're an archaeologist. It's not the same thing.
13. I hate the outdoors. I have very pale skin and burn very easily. My job has me working outside all day everyday, yet I don't seem to mind.
14. I refused to wear pants until I was 9 or 10. Still, when shopping I am drawn to the dress/skirt section first and thus have a closet full of dresses I rarely get to wear.
15. I am a morning person. The snooze button confuses me, as if I don't have to get up until later I will set my alarm for that time.
16. I've had something like 10 teeth pulled over the course of my life. I inherited my father's large teeth and my mother's small mouth.
17. I excel at tasks that other people find mind numbingly boring. I've spent months on end washing and counting gravel, I've cataloged boxes full of buttons, and I once spent an entire Christmas break shredding medical documents. (okay that last one I found incredibly boring too).
18. I hate my birthstone (Turquoise). I sometimes contemplate changing my birthday to February so my birthstone would be amethyst. Even better would be the powers-that-be making Malachite (my favorite stone) the December birthstone.
19. I have a long standing goal to reintroduce the word fortnight into American english. I'm always looking for people to help me out with that.
20. I love my glasses. I don't think I would ever consider getting lasik because I would have to give them up.
21. I failed my practical driving exam three times. Ten years later, I still hate to drive, and I avoid parallel parking like the plague.
22. In school I always wanted to skip a grade. I was never offered the chance, and I don't think my parents would have let me if I had, but I really wanted the opportunity.
23. I'm greatly annoyed by the fact that they changed the names for Girl Scout cookies. I always forget and ask for Carmel Delights, which tends to lead to some very confused Girl Scouts.
24. If asked, I would say The Sound of Music and Secretary are my two favorite movies. I feel like that says loads about my personality.
25. I love ballroom dancing. I like the structure and the fact that there are steps I can learn instead of random shuffling around the floor. I wish there were more opportunities to break out the Waltz because it never fails to make me feel beautiful and elegant – two things I never feel the rest of the time.
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Date: 2009-03-08 10:30 pm (UTC)You accosting nuns as a small child is a damn funny story and the 'garnering minions' things had me LMAO. Thanks for answering these : )
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Date: 2009-03-10 09:29 pm (UTC)I was also quite pleased with the "garnering minions" turn of phrase.
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Date: 2009-03-08 11:48 pm (UTC)18. Amen. I don't like turquoise either. At least not to wear it. But I love malachite. I'm just going to pretend that's December's birthstone from now on.
23. I still call the peanut butter patties covered in chocolate Hoedowns.
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Date: 2009-03-10 09:33 pm (UTC)18. Oh good. Malachite is now officially December's Birth stone.
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Date: 2009-03-09 01:49 am (UTC)Ah, rock washing. The good old days ;-)
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Date: 2009-03-10 09:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-11 03:26 am (UTC)They don't understand, can't understand, and never will understand. Makes me wonder how many boxes they still have left to throw out.
You hear that Paula quit?
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Date: 2009-03-11 10:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-11 05:08 pm (UTC)Paula is taking classes to be a massage therapist, according to her myspace. Methinks Ken and Tom burned her out.
Best part? As of November she'd bee gone several months and they hadn't bothered to replace her. Just Tom. Ay carumba!