Staying inside, playing on the computer
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stitchwhichThank you, everyone who answered my last post. I'm gonna be a Good Girl and stay inside for the next week or so and then start experimenting with going outside. Our local pollen count is in the 10 - 11000 range so I guess I should have thought that through. And after reading how many folks get brochitis again, well - I am SO not risking that! Once in my life is more than enough for me, thankyouverymuch.
The last of those question meme-answers are
Catlina's Questions
1. How would you describe color to a blind man?
I think I'd use taste or smell as an anology. "This is what we associate with "yellow," holding up a lemon, then taking him into a dusty room near a window on a hot day so the heated dust (the sparkling shiny yellow motes we see) can make an impression while "brown" can be just a step away from from the window, the cool air and dropped pressure...
2. If you could have one object from your childhood or just your past. Something that has gone missing in the moves of the military, or just broken. What would that be? What is it that you miss from your past the most?
Years ago I was going to commit suicide. In order to make things easier for Arni 'afterwards', I threw away all my memorabilia - school yearbooks, photos, keepsakes. I miss my yearbooks, believe it or not, more than the rest of it.
3. If you could choose any profession in the world. What would it be? What about that job made you want to do that?
Resident archeological assistant, sitting in some little (or big) room dusting off pottery sherds and trying to rebuild them into a whole artifact, helping with fabric conservation, seeing all the little bits of the past right before my eyes and talking with the bright, driven students who come from around the world for their Internship. I've always wanted to do that but my life took a different turn. (And lest you're confused because I previously said that I'd wanted to be a nun - well, the two are not mutually exclusive and the access to religious sites would be even more exciting...)
4. If you could run with the animals would it be one of the air, the land or the sea?
You said 'run" and instantly I thought of antelope, the speed, the feel of smooth muscles rubbing inside your skin, the pounding of the earth beneath your feet... but really, I'd like to play tag with otters. slipping sliding down waterways (remember, I grew up in waterfall/river country), around the white water and through the pools, scamping back up to the top of the fun-spot and sliding back down, shooting through the gap and into the air only to dive deep to the bottom of the pool below - "tag!" and take off before one could catch me. Fun.
5. I just like the box of chocolates question. If life is a box of chocolates... which chocolate are you? And what makes you that chocolate?
Um...er. The one that is the little man with the box under my arm. Because I'm the least of them but comfortable to go back to, just the same.
Geffrei's Questions
1. What differences do you think it would have made in your family dynamic if your sons had been girls?
I'm not really sure. So much would have depended on the children themselves, what they were like, what they were interested in - parenting is so much 'response to them' that I really don't know. Except that I might have had a chance to do the girly-things that I wanted to do, make little delicate clothing and funishings, buy the little toys that girls love. I'd hate the 'all girls hate their mothers' aspect, though, and I don't regret missing out of that at all. I guess some women would say that they'd like to have a girl to giggle with, but really - I am lucky in my sons and we have both giggling and soul-touching just as much as I imagine I would with daughters.
2. What was your most embarassing garb like?
OMG. Oh. My. G*d. At Pennsic 20, my first one, I bought an "Ogami corset". That was back when we thought that Tudor and Elizabethan gowns were made with the stiffening in the outer layer and that its purpose was to lift and support your breasts. Oh my. Lady Felicia helped me put that thing on, with it's under-the-breast cut and just a chemise holding my attributes in place and then Iwalked out of my tent to go to the mirror in Wookie's "Big Red" (which was actually the "big white and blue stripes") and Wookie was walking across the fire-clearing with his mug of beer in his hand.
He froze. Mug out, jaw dropped, eyes boogling and one leg lifted in the air for the next step. Just froze. And stared. And stared.
I whipped my shawl around myself and fairly ran for the mirror. Took one look, blushed to my knees and covered myself up long enough to get back to my tent. Felicia bought the corset from me about five minutes after I got it off and was proclaiming that I was going to burn it. (Which would have been a real pity. It was quite well made and very flattering on Felicia, who has the presence to carry it off.)
3. If your house was on fire and you knew everyone was safe, including pets, and you could save only three items, what would they be?
The baby books, the file of "Important stuff" (a file with copies of our birth certificates, house insurance, marriage certs, that sort of stuff) and Arni's leather hat.
4. Assume you have the physical ability, which circus performer would you like to be? Why?
A clown. Because they are the most talented folks in the crew... they have to have the physical ability to carry off some amazing stunts, the intelligence to anticipate a crowd's mood and the presence to channel it into whichever direction is called for.
5. Are you and Arn planning to retire and move somewhere else or do you see yourself staying in VA Beach?
I cannot imagine Arni agreeing to move from his friends here. So we will probably stay here until we die.
The last of those question meme-answers are
Catlina's Questions
1. How would you describe color to a blind man?
I think I'd use taste or smell as an anology. "This is what we associate with "yellow," holding up a lemon, then taking him into a dusty room near a window on a hot day so the heated dust (the sparkling shiny yellow motes we see) can make an impression while "brown" can be just a step away from from the window, the cool air and dropped pressure...
2. If you could have one object from your childhood or just your past. Something that has gone missing in the moves of the military, or just broken. What would that be? What is it that you miss from your past the most?
Years ago I was going to commit suicide. In order to make things easier for Arni 'afterwards', I threw away all my memorabilia - school yearbooks, photos, keepsakes. I miss my yearbooks, believe it or not, more than the rest of it.
3. If you could choose any profession in the world. What would it be? What about that job made you want to do that?
Resident archeological assistant, sitting in some little (or big) room dusting off pottery sherds and trying to rebuild them into a whole artifact, helping with fabric conservation, seeing all the little bits of the past right before my eyes and talking with the bright, driven students who come from around the world for their Internship. I've always wanted to do that but my life took a different turn. (And lest you're confused because I previously said that I'd wanted to be a nun - well, the two are not mutually exclusive and the access to religious sites would be even more exciting...)
4. If you could run with the animals would it be one of the air, the land or the sea?
You said 'run" and instantly I thought of antelope, the speed, the feel of smooth muscles rubbing inside your skin, the pounding of the earth beneath your feet... but really, I'd like to play tag with otters. slipping sliding down waterways (remember, I grew up in waterfall/river country), around the white water and through the pools, scamping back up to the top of the fun-spot and sliding back down, shooting through the gap and into the air only to dive deep to the bottom of the pool below - "tag!" and take off before one could catch me. Fun.
5. I just like the box of chocolates question. If life is a box of chocolates... which chocolate are you? And what makes you that chocolate?
Um...er. The one that is the little man with the box under my arm. Because I'm the least of them but comfortable to go back to, just the same.
Geffrei's Questions
1. What differences do you think it would have made in your family dynamic if your sons had been girls?
I'm not really sure. So much would have depended on the children themselves, what they were like, what they were interested in - parenting is so much 'response to them' that I really don't know. Except that I might have had a chance to do the girly-things that I wanted to do, make little delicate clothing and funishings, buy the little toys that girls love. I'd hate the 'all girls hate their mothers' aspect, though, and I don't regret missing out of that at all. I guess some women would say that they'd like to have a girl to giggle with, but really - I am lucky in my sons and we have both giggling and soul-touching just as much as I imagine I would with daughters.
2. What was your most embarassing garb like?
OMG. Oh. My. G*d. At Pennsic 20, my first one, I bought an "Ogami corset". That was back when we thought that Tudor and Elizabethan gowns were made with the stiffening in the outer layer and that its purpose was to lift and support your breasts. Oh my. Lady Felicia helped me put that thing on, with it's under-the-breast cut and just a chemise holding my attributes in place and then Iwalked out of my tent to go to the mirror in Wookie's "Big Red" (which was actually the "big white and blue stripes") and Wookie was walking across the fire-clearing with his mug of beer in his hand.
He froze. Mug out, jaw dropped, eyes boogling and one leg lifted in the air for the next step. Just froze. And stared. And stared.
I whipped my shawl around myself and fairly ran for the mirror. Took one look, blushed to my knees and covered myself up long enough to get back to my tent. Felicia bought the corset from me about five minutes after I got it off and was proclaiming that I was going to burn it. (Which would have been a real pity. It was quite well made and very flattering on Felicia, who has the presence to carry it off.)
3. If your house was on fire and you knew everyone was safe, including pets, and you could save only three items, what would they be?
The baby books, the file of "Important stuff" (a file with copies of our birth certificates, house insurance, marriage certs, that sort of stuff) and Arni's leather hat.
4. Assume you have the physical ability, which circus performer would you like to be? Why?
A clown. Because they are the most talented folks in the crew... they have to have the physical ability to carry off some amazing stunts, the intelligence to anticipate a crowd's mood and the presence to channel it into whichever direction is called for.
5. Are you and Arn planning to retire and move somewhere else or do you see yourself staying in VA Beach?
I cannot imagine Arni agreeing to move from his friends here. So we will probably stay here until we die.
