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So it's been forever since I even posted to my LiveJournal.  I guess I'll steal this from marynachaotica

The Name Game Meme:

I like memes. They're show and tell for adults. OK, for adults who spend too much time blogging. If you would like to do this one on your wall or blog - go for it! Just let me know so I can visit you page and read it.

1. Rock star name ---Name of first pet and current car-- Kajagoogoo Sportage.

2. Gangsta name -- fave ice cream and cookie: Strawberry Fudgie Sticks.

3. Fly Guy/Girl name -- 1st letter of first name and 1st three letters of last name: C-Car.

4. Detective -- fave color and fave animal: Red Dragon.

5. Soap Opera star -- middle name and city you were born: Cynthea Xenia.

6. Star Wars name -- 1st 3 letters of last name and 1st 2 of first name: Car-Cy

7. Superhero -- "The," 2nd fave color and fave drink: The Green Pepper (hahahah!)

8. NASCAR - first names of your grandfathers: Hägan Frank.

9. Witness Protection - your mom and dad's middle names: Jaqueline James.

10. TV Weather Anchor -- Kindergarten teacher's last name and major city with same letter: Woods Washington

11. Spy name -- fave season/holiday and flower: Summer Columbine.

12. Cartoon - fave fruit and article of clothing you are wearing right now: Strawberry Pajamas.

13. Hippie name -- what you ate for breakfast and fave tree: Scooters Maple.

14. Rockstar Tour - "The," + fave hobby + fave weather element + "Tour": The Cycling Wind

1. Leave a comment to this post!
2. I will give you a letter.
3. Post the names of five fictional characters whose names begin with that letter, and your thoughts on each. The characters can be from books, movies, or TV shows


evil_little_dog gave me the letter "B".   ??? B?  Ugh...

1. Breda, Heymans - (Fullmetal Alchemist) On first glance you'd expect this guy to be the ox on Mustangs team, strong, but not too bright.  A closer look though, shows that he has a keen analytical mind. He knows what is going on and is probably ahead of most in planning strategies. Breda beats everyone at chess.

2. Bahamut, The King of Dragons - (Final Fantasy Series) In the very first game he gives your characters the honor of a class change if you bring him a Rat's Tail. In later games you have the ability to summon him for help in battle.  Earlier in the game he is generally a greatly sought after summon, and even when other summoned monsters are available to call upon, he is still an incredibly useful monster.

3. Barrett Wallace - (Final Fantasy VII) Big mouth, trash talker with a big gun grafted onto his arm. He appears at the very beginning of the game as Cloud Strife's boss (having hired Cloud as a Mercenary) on a mission.  Barrett isn't the brightest star in the sky, but he's dedicated to making the world a better place by ridding it of Shinra.

4. B'Elanna Torres - (Star Trek Voyager) Half Klingon. She starts out as a fairly minor character, but grows into a strong presence as she moves up to Chief Engineer of Voyager

Ehhh... B is HAAAARDDD! *Wail*

5. Bronski, Wolf - (Exosquad) Ok.. Bronski is the ox you expected Breda to be. Big and dumb, Bronski is the guy you want with you when you know you have to plow through a lot of hard core physical adversity. Don't expect him to solve any serious puzzles, but he's got the brain power to control his own exoframe without any trouble.

Wow this was damned hard...

I think I did it last year and it was kind of fun. In fact My first entry is that marynachaotica cause me to post something. So here it goes....


January - Embedded video [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vP… No actual words, but the subject is "marynachaotica caused me to post this."

February: I'm not sure what lead into this dream, but the part I remember starts with me and cheapcarnival being out fishing with friends composer2005, BH and TD

March: The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Eigth Level of Hell - the Malebolge!

April: How anyone can see and hear these choirs and really believe that there are no souls, that there is no force or connexion between us, no higher power of any sort, I cannot fathom.  It moves me to tears. (this was in response to Eric Whitacre presenting the first 3 minutes of Virtual Choir 2.0 performing his composition "sleep" on TED: http://www.ted.com/talks/view/lang…

May: There have been some things going on around in the real world, that have made it hard for me to keep up here.

June: Embedded: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWK… Subject: "Too Funny: Om Nom Nom Nom!!"

July: I'm going to re-date this so it will go back to the top because there were some serious formatting errors and things that I discovered that caused large sections to be deleted and some to be repeated. I

August: And also, I'm finding that I've been a little bit Internet disinclined this summer. I am trying my very best to completely disengage myself from FaceBook because I can't stand it.

September: Yay! I have an android app for my LiveJournal that I can use from my Motorola Atrix!

October: I stole this off evil_little_dog's LiveJournal Post, and I am reposting. 

November: My first ever turkey is ready to go in the oven. yay!  (Caption on a picture of the bird)

December: No more sleeping on the floor for me. It's been a long tie coming but it was time for me to get a real bed.

Age: Old Enough for everything except drawing Social Security.

Where did you grow up: Dayton Ohio. (Actually grew up in West Carrollton)


What do you call:

1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks?
That's a pretty wide definition.  "A stream is a body of water with a current, confined within a bed and stream banks." So a river is a stream.  Then it goes down from Creek to a Brook to a Crick, all the way to a little Rill with a load of other names in between all of varying sizes. I've known creeks that were bigger than Rivers. For example, Holes Creek is wider than the Little Miami River. In the south, Creek is pronounced /crick/, and often spelled that way as well, which adds to the confusion. D River in Oregon is only 440 feet long... 220 at extreme high tide.

2. What the thing you push around the grocery store is called?
It's called a bascart, but I've heard it called other weird things too.

3. A metal container to carry a meal in?
A lunch box. But I carry a Bento Box instead.

4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in?
Skillet.

5. The piece of furniture that seats three people?
couch usually around here, but sofa is also common. Our neighbors called theirs "The Davenport".  They were from upstate new york.  Apparently this is a manufacturer and became a generic term for a couch or sofa in that area.

6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof?
There are two. Gutters catch the rain off the roof, and the gutters are attached to downspouts which carry it down off the house to the ground.

7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening?
It's a porch.  And yes, evil_little_dog, people sit outside in the evening.  It's cool and pleasant out there. You can sit with your housemates, or guests, socialize, people watch, smoke, drink a beer, enjoy a tall glass of iced tea, or just take in the nice evening air. I play my flute on my porch.

8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages?
Around here it's usually called 'pop'.  Where my folx are from though it's called coke.  doesn't matter what brand. You could ask "Ya'll want a coke?  I got Orange, Grape, Vanilla Cream, Pepsi-cola and Tab.  It was always Coca-cola for the actual brand Coke. "Come on in and have a coke. I hope Dr. Pepper is all right with you?"

9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup?
Pancakes.  Sometimes I hear hotcakes.  I've heard that some places call them 'flapjacks' but I've never heard anyone actually call them that.

10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself?
Sub. (which btw is short for submarine which it looks like)

11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach?
Swim Trunks

12. Shoes worn for sports?
Sneakers usually

13. Putting a room in order?
Tidying up

14. A flying insect that glows in the dark?
Lightning bugs, fireflies.  (we also call them both here.)

15. The little insect that curls up into a ball?
Armadillidium (aka wood louse) is not an insect. It is an arthropod, but it is a crustacean not an insect. That said, we call them pill bugs or roly-polies most of the time. Sometimes sow bugs.

16. The children's playground equipment where one kid sits on one side and goes up while the other sits on the other side and goes down?
See-saw

17. How do you eat your pizza?
Pick it up and eat it. No silly knife and fork.  At Cassanos we use a Chicago cut which was started so that ladies could still eat pizza it without soiling their dainty gloves. Most places around here use a pie cut now and we just pick it up by the slice and eat it.

18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
Depends on the location. It can be a Garage Sale, a Yard Sale, a Moving Sale, a estate sale.  Often several families will gather their stuff together for these, and then sometimes you have a Rummage Sale in the basement or a church or something.

19. What's the evening meal?
Supper. Dinner is mid to late afternoon. Supper is later in the evening.  If you eat Dinner at 3 and supper at 9 you don't have a meal called "Lunch" because Dinner is your main meal of the day.

20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?
Basement.

21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places?
Drinking Fountain

Stolen from sissalem
And it's nice to see her use her LJ again. I'm not sure how these groups relate to each other...

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GRAND TOTAL: 67  Wow! I guess I should consider myself lucky to be free.

If you have less than 10.. write ; I'm lame .
If You Have More Than 10.. write ; I'm still a goody goody .
If You Have more Than 20..write ; I'm average .
If You Have More Than 30..write ; I'm a bad kid .
If You have more than 40..write ; I'm a very bad influence .
If You Have more than 50..write ; I'm a horrible person .
If You Have more than 60..write ; I should be in jail .
If You Have more than 70..write ; I should be dead

Stolen from evil_little_dog (who stole it from artemisrae) and marynachaotica (who stole it from evil_little_dog)

Please leave a one-word comment that you think best describes me. It can only be one word. No more.

I'll use your word to write you something. It could be a one-sentence, a drabble, or a fic.

Then copy & paste this in your journal so that I may leave a word about you.

She stole it from yuuki
❝MY FAVOURITE ICONS MEME!❞
BUMPER EDITION!

Default Icon	Oldest Icon	Newest Icon	Happiest Icon	Saddest Icon
Angriest Icon	Cutest Icon	Sexiest Icon	Funniest Icon	Cleverest Icon
Prettiest Icon	Silliest Icon	Flashiest Icon	Flailiest Icon	Best WTF Icon
Best LOL Icon	Best Text Icon	Best Art Icon	Best Stock Icon	Best Cropped Icon
Best Animated Icon	Best B/W Icon	Best Coloured Icon	Favourite Shippy Icon	Favourite Single Character Icon
Favourite Celeb Icon	Favourite Fandom Icon	Favourite Non- Fandom Icon	Most used Icon (Not your default)	Favourite Icon Overall
Seriously? I have no Celeb icon. Zero.

How many icons do you have total?
98

How many can you have?
117

If you could buy space for more, would you?
Not right now, but if I needed more, then yes

Do your icons make a statement about you?
Absolutely they do. Notice that I have no celebs. That's a statement in and of itself.

What fandom do you have the most icons out of?
Fullmetal Alchemist

The second most?
Um... Dragons? Does that count? I'm a big fan of dragons.  I used to have a lot more of these, but I don't have all of them uploaded now.

What ship do you have the most icons out of?
Edward and Winry

Break down your icons for us.
Hrm... In what way? Mine are pretty well all over the place and some of them would overlap too.

Fullmetal Alchemist: 23
Dragons 11
Crochet 11
Myself: 3
Penes 2
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that's 50. The rest are much more random


How do you categorize your icons?
Categorize? O_o with Keywords? I usually try to mention what fandom, but mainly what emotion I mean them to express.  Some of them are also seasonal.  Some are just funny. Some are sort of WTFs (see 2 penes)

Are your icons mostly made by other users?
OH NO. they are mostly made by ME. Sometimes I am using someone else's artwork, but I almost always find out whos and credit in the comments or even right on the icon. I wish LJ hadn't eliminated the the place in the hover menu that showed the icon comments.

Animated icons are...
Awesome, but I don't actually have that many.

I tag: januarysky, evilwildlex, nebroadwe, gangrel_pri and brokenbrawler.

I'm not sure who I tagged in my last one. So some of you might have gotten double duty. I try not to always tag the same people, but a lot of people on my friend's list have been inactive a lot lately.

I don't usually do these most of the time that I see them, but since I was specifically tagged by januarysky, here it goes. This is one of those "change whatever question you don't like and add your own. SO here goes.  I did add Tags for the names of the people who asked the questions.  And since there were some dupes I took them out and renumbered.

sumofcitadels
1. Make a list of 5 things that you can see without getting up:
- Computer
- Gallon Jug of Skittles
- DVD Player
- Yarn.  Actually lots and lots of yarn!
- Myself

juandalyn
2. Make a list of 5 things that are in reach:
- A red Boye Crochet Hook, size F.
- A pair of Hue socks with argyle and scottish terriers on them.
- My keyboard (obviously)
- Yarn.  Lots and lots of yarn.
- The DVD Remote

sumofcitadels
3. How do you style your hair?
It's called a swing bob.  I let it get almost dry and then curl it into a sort of sassy flip with the iron.

juandalyn
4. What is your favorite holiday ?
I'm kind of partial to Yule myself, but there are others I also like. Ostara for one since it means I am done waiting all winter for spring.

sumofcitadels
5. What are you wearing now?
Nothing. No. I'm dead serious. Not a stitch at all. I'm wearing only my skin. I undressed to take a bath and the water was too hot, so I came back in here to wait for it to cool a little.

juandalyn
6. What is one item of clothing you wish you could always wear?
I don't have anything that I wish to wear constantly. I really DON'T like wearing the same thing all the time.  Even my pajamas I would hate to only have one pair.

sumofcitadels
7. What's your occupation?
I’m a Mary Kay Independent Beauty Consultant

juandalyn
8. Who's your childhood influence?
Um... My Dad.

sumofcitadels
9. What do you hear right now?
Music

juandalyn
10. What are you listening to right now?
Secret Garden -- Nocturne on my Last FM station

sumofcitadels
11. Who was the last person you hugged?
Joanne at the coffee shop. She was happy to see me.

sumofcitadels
12. What is/was for dinner?
I haven't thought that far ahead yet. Something without very many carbs I should think.

ishte
13. What song are you most likely to sing or hum to yourself for no apparent reason?
The Skye Boat Song. Go figure.

sumofcitadels
14. What did you do today?
I have not done much of anything yet. Answered Email, ran a bath which I haven't gotten into yet. Did this meme.

sumofcitadels
15. Dog person or cat person?
I'm a cat person, but I like dogs too. Especially ones that don't bark and belong to other people.

juandalyn
16. What was the last text message you received?
It was a general message from my Sales Director, Jodi congratulating one of our top reps and reminding us that tomorrows meeting is going to be a Mardi Gras party. That'll be fun.

sumofcitadels
17. If you had to change your name, what would you change it to?
I did change it.  Not my first name though. If I HAD to change my first name? But I LIKE my name.  I can't even think of a name that I'd prefer for myself.

juandalyn
18. What websites do you always visit when you go online?
LiveJournal, MyFitnessPal, Dragon Cave, Facebook.

sumofcitadels
19. What was the last thing that you bought?
Groceries, last night

juandalyn
20. What is your next big planned purchase?
I have to buy a new computer. This one is randomly turning itself off and it's very annoying, not to mention causes me to waste huge quantities of time.

juandalyn
21. If you could afford to go anywhere in the world, where would you go?
Tokyo, but not right now. I'd just be in the way. Let them get their stuff back in order and regain their face.

sumofcitadels
22. Where do you see yourself in five years?
Here? Maybe somewhere further south. I hate winter worse every year.

juandalyn
23. What do you see yourself doing in 5 years?
Maybe a Regional Sales Director for Mary Kay, finally making decent money.

sumofcitadels
24. Where's your birthmark?
I have no real birthmarks that I know of.  There is a little brown 'splash' mark on the back of one calf. It is about an inch in diameter, and it looks rather like an ant might have tripped and spilled a cup of coffee on me at some point in my life.

juandalyn
25. Where's your tattoo/Where would you like a tattoo?
I have no artwork done.  I would like some, but at present I am to undecided about what I want and where I want it. Also, the expense is usually surprising when I discuss something even small and simple.

juandalyn
25. Where's your piercing/Where would you like a piercing?
I have three loops in my left ear. They represent personal milestones in my life.  I have one loop in my right ear. It represents my child.  That one had a sapphire attached to it when she reached physical adulthood and her was initiated.

sumofcitadels
26. What are you doing this weekend?
On Friday I will sing at Expressions Coffee House, and play my flute most likely. On Saturday I have a meeting in the morning, and the rest is currently unscheduled.

sumofcitadels
27. What is the best flavor of Jello?
Probably strawberry, but my favorites tend to depend on my mood.

juandalyn
28. If you could play any musical instrument, which one would you play?
I can already play pretty much every musical instrument. If you hand me one, I will fiddle with it until I can figure out how to play something.  I have the most trouble with flutes that you have to blow like a bottle.  I prefer to have the instrument direct the air for me so I can concentrate on the music. Thus my love for Native American style flutes.  For the record, I can play Flute, violin, viola, guitar, piano/organ, tin whistles, um... I know how to work synthesizers and multitrack sequencers.  I am also a vocalist. It is in fact probably my best instrument.

sumofcitadels
29. How tired are you?
I'm not. I'm very relaxed.

juandalyn
30. What's the one thing you need the most now?
A bigger client base. (one's who actually buy my product since that's my sole means of support.) I know how to get what I need, so I also need to stop procrastinating and do what is necessary to get it.

ishte
31. Are you a social creature?
I am. very much. But that's not to say I don't need my time away from people too.

juandalyn
32. What was the last thing you ate?
Erm... Breyer's Carb Smart Chcolate Ice cream. It was yummy. I'm about to get something to eat now. I'm very hungry.

juandalyn
33. Do you wear jewelery?
yes. I currently have 9 rings on my fingers... three loops in one ear and one in the other... Normally have my Mary Kay pins on and sometimes a necklace. Often one of a dozen watches (some of which don't even run... they're just ornaments)

I'm supposed to tag... 8 people I think... let's see: brokenbrawler, bob_fish, cornerofmadness, dzioo, evil_little_dog, gangrel_pri, marynachaotica, and ookamikagakusha.  How's that? 

Stolen from marynachaotica
who was
Inspired by snaky_poet
who was in turn
Inspired by mount_oregano

Interesting exercise. It does leave out whole chunks of life, and important events that didn't happen in the years selected — but so be it. It's like a series of keyhole glimpses.

1961 - Aether - I was not conceived of yet and thus did not at that moment have a flesh container.  I imagine I was probably finalizing my options at that point regarding what I intended to learn and how best to learn it.

1971- West Carrollton, Ohio, USA - I am 6 years old. I finished kindergarten this year at Valley Hills, and started first grade. My kindergarten teacher was Miss Woods, and now I have Mrs. Stambaugh. We have year around school so that we can fit more students and teachers into the building without over crowding.  There is a black girl in my class, and she is the first black person I have ever met. She is usually nice, and she doesn't seem that different from anyone else except she wears her hair in funny puffy pony tails. I wonder what they feel like. I am a soprano Angelbird in the children's choir, and I can sing harmony too.  I already make musical instruments out of rubber bands that I wrap around things and tune them by making them tighter. I get the rubber bands off my daddy's desk.  I think I have a toy organ too, but I probably can't find it because my room is such a mess.

1981 - West Carrollton Ohio, USA. - I'm a Freshman now, but Freshmen are still housed in the Junior High School. I am first chair second violin.  composer2005 and snowyowlstar are my closest friends.  I also play piano, and guitar and can pick up almost any instrument and figure out how to play something pretty easily. I sing constantly and am working on getting a band together in the near future. I was pretty much a straight A student until, but I'm struggling with Algebra II. I should have asked early on for that class to be switched to a different time, or maybe asked for Mr. Houk again. Mrs. Fox has such a quiet soothing voice, and my class is right after lunch. I'm struggling to stay awake, and it's getting harder to keep up because I can't focus on what she's teaching. My friend Robin and I tried to start a drama club this year. We were told we had to find a teacher to sponsor it, and we started asking around. All the teachers we asked refused, and then a few months later Mrs. Marks (who we asked first) started a drama club as if it had been her idea, and then when we tried to get in, we were cut out of it. I didn't have time in my curriculum to take Choir this year. That bummed me out, but I decided that since I could and did sing any time I wanted that I would rather continue to take orchestra. I'm actively pagan now, but don't know a whole lot of other people who are.  I just have to learn what I can on my own or with a few friends who are also interested.

1991 - Dayton, Ohio, USA - My daughter cheapcarnival will be 2 years old this year. I am working at Cassano's as a Relief Manager.  I lost track of composer2005 after high school, but snowyowlstar and I are still good friends. Our girls are crib and playpen mates and actually cousins because snowyowlstar's sister married my cousin, and had a child who is both my daughter's and her daughter's cousin.  I am in college now, finally, studying computer science and business administration, but I'm worried. The college said they were accredited when I started, but now I'm hearing that credits will only transfer to Urbana College and Urbana credits won't transfer anywhere. Also, I noticed that the nursing and medical assisting students have loads and loads of postings, but that the school posts almost NO listings in my field even though they're supposed to assist with job placement. Most of the people in my classes who are working in my field already were in some way before they started here.  I'm an active member of a working circle, and part of the inner council.  Because of the nature of my learning, we're very non ritualistic and practice a lot of what we call the 'Nike School of Magic". In other words, just do it.

2001 - Fairborn, Ohio, USA. I'm back in the Dayton Area now. Living in a nice apartment on Rice. But the schools here are terrible. If I'd known they were this bad, I would have just moved to Dayton where I'd have preferred to live anyway.  It's a nice little town, very multicultural.  It's also a dying town. The more cuts they make to the  base the worse it is.  This town would be in better shape if there wasn't so much subsidized housing stuck into it. It completely kills the neighborhoods.  Stores move away from them so that you have to drive farther and farther to get anything.  I'm strictly a solitary practitioner now.  Having founded and disbanded a working coven I just have no interest in working with people with whom the phrase 'perfect trust' has no meaning.  It's nearly destroyed my ability to trust anyone fully any more. I'm working at Donatos delivering pizza again.  It's easy and the money is good.  I'm becoming an avid cyclist.  I started riding a little in Missouri and brought a bike that marynachaotica gave me back to Ohio when I moved.  Later I bought a little bit better bike and now I'm riding a lot more. September 11, 2001!!! Holy Crap! The Twin Towers are GONE.  Muslim Terrorist Assholes flew planes FULL OF INNOCENT PEOPLE into the towers to knock them down.  I knew something was up when I left for work and they were talking about the Congress being evacuated, but I didn't know what was really happening until I walked in and my boss was watching television in the kitchen (not normal) and he ran over and told me that a plane had hit one of the towers.  I have nothing against Muslims, don't get me wrong here by specifying that they were Muslim Terrorists. However, I do think it's important to understand that they are Muslim Terrorists in a fundamentalist Muslim cult who attacked us under the direction of their disturbed fundamentalist leader who praises his God for the destruction he wreaked on thousands of INNOCENTS. I am very angry today.

2011 - Dayton, Ohio, USA. I started my year unemployed, but with some money.  I was pretty ill in December and my job fired me for missing work after refusing to tell me how to turn in medical documentation for my FMLA.  So I decided I wanted to try something else. Now I'm a Full Time Mary Kay Independent Beauty Consultant.  I'm still working on growing my business, and I have a little more time to get things rolling, but I need to work hard and I need to start having some sales for all my work. It's a little frustrating to work and work and work and to have so many people not actually purchase anything ever.  I mean, I get practice every time I do a facial, but I've now scheduled three parties and had two cancel and one have no guests show up.  Practice is good, but most of my sales have come from people I didn't do facials on. That is not normal.  I need a local clientèle. I need to work harder.  Other than that worry, I really do like what I'm doing. I like the flexibility of my job, and being able to almost write my own schedule.  I don't have to justify anything with anyone if I want to take a day off for whatever reason. I just don't schedule appointments for that day.  I love my new house, and am SO glad to be back in Dayton and away from Fairborn.  My house is 100 years old next year and this is actually the other side of the same house I lived in in 1991. Isn't that funny as hell?  The house and garden are set up as sacred space. I love it dearly.  I plan to stay here until I can afford to just BUY a house here in South Park outright and restore it like so many other beautiful homes in our neighborhood have been restored.  I have reconnected with composer2005. We play music at the Dublin Pub on Tuesday and were in an Irish Folk band together until recently and are working on getting another one together. I'm a very avid cyclist now, much healthier than I was in my 20's and 30's. I own a Candy Red Trek FX 7.2 and a Champaign one too. I rode my bike two days in February this year. I may ride tomorrow.