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Five Things Meme
Mar. 5th, 2009 09:01 amYou know that meme type thing going around, where someone tells you five things that they associate with you and you expound upon them? I finally asked ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
carrieb for five things upon which to expound. I like to expound. I also like the word "expound". It is a funny word.
If you would like to play, just ask and I'll tell you five things I associate with you.
Sweden
This pains me to admit, but when I first met my husband, I once walked "away: finding sweden on a map" whilst cavorting online. (I knew approximately where it was...kinda...) See, I met this drunken perv on a mud and he turned out to not always be drunken, or a perv. He did turn out to be Swedish, though, and we did turn out to really like each other. Obviously it would never last, though, because he lived in a whole other country! That makes dating difficult! Which is true but then it turned out that the difficulty was well worth it and what do you know, we've been married over eight years now. In any case, Sweden has sort of become a part of my life because of him, and not just because we now travel there upon rare occasion, and because it is the only (non-Canada, which really doesn't count as foreign travel much) country I've ever visited. I have family there now! At least, I think of them as my family, whether they consider me part of theirs or not. And my daughter is part Swedish, too! And I have a basic understanding of the Swedish language! But also, on a practical, day-to-day level, I also have some really great friends, of which Carrie is one and many of the rest of my LJ friends are others, based on this connection to Sweden. I also have real-life friends because of it, in the Scandinvian Heritage society we're part of. Also, it is the conversational freebie wild-card that I can pull out in so very many situations to make small-talk with because people are interested in hearing about it, and I am bad at small-talk, generally. Yes. I pimp Sweden for my own nefarious social agenda.
Snarky
Snarky is also a fantastic word. You know how if you say a word over and over, it loses all meaning? It only takes about three repititions for that to happen with snarky. Huh. May be because it's not a real word. People ask me sometimes what it means. Urban Dictionary syas that it's a witty mannerism, personality, or behavior that is a combination of sarcasm and cynicism. Anyway, I fear that I am really, really snarky upon occasion, but I save the worst of it for certain people. M gets the brunt of my snarkiness but Carrie and I are also very snarky when we get together. You know, it's hard to expound upon this one without being.. well. Snarky.
Twin
Let's see, what do I associate with twins... ;) Evelyn was not a twin, though there was some risk that she would be and therefore, we often talk about what life would be like if she had been. That's now what this is about, though! Carrie and I are self-identified twin-types. We're alike in a lot of ways... not just in superficial terms, because of course we both married Swedish people, like to read, have kids, etc, but we are also kind of worry-warts. See also snarky.
Web Jedi
Haha. Once upon a time, I did a lot of web things. I don't do as much anymore now that Mosaic Minds has ceased to be an active publication. I miss it, but yet... time is short, projects are many. I did (almost all of) the web stuff for MM and I have also done some stuff for Carrie and her fantasy site, plus a bunch of other stuff that is not terribly interesting.
Ghosts
I had to laugh at this one. I don't really have much of a connection with ghosts, but when we met Carrie and Mike the first time, it was in Beckley, West Virginia. Neither of us had ever been there and so we scoured the internet looking for suitable things to do, and we found a ghost tour. It was kind of fun, although a) downpour from hell and b) Erik was about seven months old and really not interested in ghosts or ghost tours or being out late or rain and c) really, Beckley is apparently not that haunted. Of note about that tour was that I was really funny and while we were walking down a back alley in the near-dark, we encountered a dead fish laying in the road. Carrie squealed like a girl. *giggle* Seriously, when else would you run into decomposing sealife than when you are walking with a fish-phobic friend on a ghost tour. Everyone got really excited, thinking she had seen a ghost or something, and the guide was extremely disappointed and incredibly confused as to why there was screeching going on without a ghost being seen.
Other than that event, my contact with ghosts is mercifully limited. I am not sure what I believe, except that I don't really rule anything out. Strange things happen sometimes. Until I have personal proof, I remain skeptical, but I could change my mind, I think.
carrieb for five things upon which to expound. I like to expound. I also like the word "expound". It is a funny word.If you would like to play, just ask and I'll tell you five things I associate with you.
Sweden
This pains me to admit, but when I first met my husband, I once walked "away: finding sweden on a map" whilst cavorting online. (I knew approximately where it was...kinda...) See, I met this drunken perv on a mud and he turned out to not always be drunken, or a perv. He did turn out to be Swedish, though, and we did turn out to really like each other. Obviously it would never last, though, because he lived in a whole other country! That makes dating difficult! Which is true but then it turned out that the difficulty was well worth it and what do you know, we've been married over eight years now. In any case, Sweden has sort of become a part of my life because of him, and not just because we now travel there upon rare occasion, and because it is the only (non-Canada, which really doesn't count as foreign travel much) country I've ever visited. I have family there now! At least, I think of them as my family, whether they consider me part of theirs or not. And my daughter is part Swedish, too! And I have a basic understanding of the Swedish language! But also, on a practical, day-to-day level, I also have some really great friends, of which Carrie is one and many of the rest of my LJ friends are others, based on this connection to Sweden. I also have real-life friends because of it, in the Scandinvian Heritage society we're part of. Also, it is the conversational freebie wild-card that I can pull out in so very many situations to make small-talk with because people are interested in hearing about it, and I am bad at small-talk, generally. Yes. I pimp Sweden for my own nefarious social agenda.
Snarky
Snarky is also a fantastic word. You know how if you say a word over and over, it loses all meaning? It only takes about three repititions for that to happen with snarky. Huh. May be because it's not a real word. People ask me sometimes what it means. Urban Dictionary syas that it's a witty mannerism, personality, or behavior that is a combination of sarcasm and cynicism. Anyway, I fear that I am really, really snarky upon occasion, but I save the worst of it for certain people. M gets the brunt of my snarkiness but Carrie and I are also very snarky when we get together. You know, it's hard to expound upon this one without being.. well. Snarky.
Twin
Let's see, what do I associate with twins... ;) Evelyn was not a twin, though there was some risk that she would be and therefore, we often talk about what life would be like if she had been. That's now what this is about, though! Carrie and I are self-identified twin-types. We're alike in a lot of ways... not just in superficial terms, because of course we both married Swedish people, like to read, have kids, etc, but we are also kind of worry-warts. See also snarky.
Web Jedi
Haha. Once upon a time, I did a lot of web things. I don't do as much anymore now that Mosaic Minds has ceased to be an active publication. I miss it, but yet... time is short, projects are many. I did (almost all of) the web stuff for MM and I have also done some stuff for Carrie and her fantasy site, plus a bunch of other stuff that is not terribly interesting.
Ghosts
I had to laugh at this one. I don't really have much of a connection with ghosts, but when we met Carrie and Mike the first time, it was in Beckley, West Virginia. Neither of us had ever been there and so we scoured the internet looking for suitable things to do, and we found a ghost tour. It was kind of fun, although a) downpour from hell and b) Erik was about seven months old and really not interested in ghosts or ghost tours or being out late or rain and c) really, Beckley is apparently not that haunted. Of note about that tour was that I was really funny and while we were walking down a back alley in the near-dark, we encountered a dead fish laying in the road. Carrie squealed like a girl. *giggle* Seriously, when else would you run into decomposing sealife than when you are walking with a fish-phobic friend on a ghost tour. Everyone got really excited, thinking she had seen a ghost or something, and the guide was extremely disappointed and incredibly confused as to why there was screeching going on without a ghost being seen.
Other than that event, my contact with ghosts is mercifully limited. I am not sure what I believe, except that I don't really rule anything out. Strange things happen sometimes. Until I have personal proof, I remain skeptical, but I could change my mind, I think.
