Describe It!

[girl-who-loves-sharks]

I always want to say, "Describe such-and-such" when I am in "Questions, Questions," but then I realize that it's a command, not a question. So here I get to have my way.

Example:

Describe an outfit you are wearing in a childhood portrait.

Answer: It's black velvet jumper-dress with a white blouse under it, and there is a plaid bow around the neck of the blouse. Also, black patent leather shoes. And my brother had a matching outfit, but his wasn't a dress. My grandmother made them.

(You can go into as much detail as you want. I like a lot of detail, though.)

Describe the view from the window closest to you right now.

[medeous]

there are no windows in the room i'm in :(

[cindi1023]

Yea! A new chain-game!

Out my window at work, there is a nice tree-lined sidewalk between buildings, so sometimes I get to people watch -- lots of folks get lost trying to find the right building! Lots of light & shadows makes daydreaming fun! Plus, there's a chipmunk who built a nest in the pinestraw directly outside my window. He's very cute & fuzzy, and likes to look back in at me... Does he want in or do I want out?


Describe your favorite spot in your home.

[Sirius]

Got it...

The window looks out onto our grass area, with a tree, a sidewalk and a bench. Beyond that the golf course, with lots of trees, plants and green, but the golf course is at a lower level so I can see beyond it to McDowell road which is lined with Palm Trees. I can also see the cars as they travel across the raised intersate, and beyond that the fantastic backdrop of the Estrella Mountains.

Describe your first car.

[sarahkate]

YAY! I love new chain games!!


Oooops! Cindi & Rustell answered at the same time -

answer to rustell's question--

my first car was a 1992 Plymouth Acclaim. It was a 4 door...silver with some ugly pinstripe detail down the sides. I never really liked that car looks wise...but it was my very first car (I was about 19 when I got it) so I loved it despite it's ugly exterior! The interior was a burgundy - I mean EVERYTHING was burgundy...the seats...floors....dashboard....seatbelts...you name it - it was all burgundy...which was kind of funky so I liked it! The seats were very comfortable & squishy. For a long time I had two air fresheners hanging from the rear view mirror - one was a sun & one was a moon. I never put any stickers/decals on the car except for on the driver's side back door window I had a small parking sticker for my college. I got a new car a few years ago & I never got rid of the Acclaim - it just sat in my driveway until we gave it away to some friends of my mom a few months ago! :rolleyes: Memories!

I can't think of any answer to cindi's question because I don't like much about my house at the moment -- so I will ask it again for the next person--

Describe your favorite spot in your home.

[Sirius]

favorite spot at home...that's a tough one because I spend most of my time at the computer...but...i think my living room, because it is cozy and multi-functional. My sofa and love seat are oversized and comfy (and black, with rust/gold print pillows), and the light is good enough to read in. And, then I have an entire wall of pictures of friends and family. The walls are almond and white. When I want to have an in home theatre experience I can. And, Brian is usually there.

Describe your best friend.

[Death_Or_Aldona]

She's about a year and 1/2 old...she's a calico with extra toes (looks like she's wearing mittens.) She's very talkative. She and I have Meowing conversations all the time.

Describe your hair.

[girl-who-loves-sharks]

Aw, that is sweet about your kitty, DOA. She sounds very cute.

My hair is shoulder length and dark brown. It's straight and extremely thick-- most barrettes won't close around my hair. It's smooth and shiny. I like my hair, for the most part. (No pun intended.)

Describe your least-favorite teacher ever.

[cindi1023]

My least-favorite teacher of all time - I can't remember his name, but he taught Early American Civilization. We'll call him Dr. Wilde because he reminded me of a picture I once saw of Oscar Wilde. He was, most definatly, the UGLIEST man I'd ever seen -- Tall, but very pudgy; he had a lumpy face with a pointy chin, drinker's nose (all red and swollen), these watery yellowish-brown eyes, droopy lids, a balding head (complete with the BAD comb-over), and weird stray hairs popping out all over. He was one of these professors where you could NEVER be right -- even about history. He would ask us opinion-type questions, and then chastise you to no end if he didn't agree whole-heartedly with your response. He sweated profusely and had horrible breath (I learned of this during one of his chastising-sessions). I hated him to no end, and barely squeaked through his class...

Describe your perfect evening...

[kittymao]

Hm.
Well- for starters it'd have to be in fall.
A walk in the crisp november weather, with a dog and my BF.
Thne we would return to our cozy home where the lobster would be just finishing up, and my BF and I would eat lobster with butter, and garlic mashed potatoes and steamed carrots with some sweet white wine, then have desert of maybe Tiramisu or a banana cream pie- then retreat to the den where we would watch a good movie cozying up under the blankets. Then we would depart to our big fluffy bed with a down comforter and perfect pillows and the get intimate, then fall asleep until the moring sun peeked through the blinds to greet us for a new day...

oh sigh.

Describe how you feel when you are sad.

[bluecrayon]

I have had this color shooting into me off and on since September when I found myself laying on the floor all the time unable to concentrate or hold a pen or do much of anything but wander around and look at the stars... when I look at it closely I see green and purple twisting through my basic blueness -- yearning for moments in the sun, dancing away from possibilities, getting caught in someone's eye and liking to spin there even though it's too crazy, complicated and he's too far away...feeling the heartbeat of the world and knowing how much sickness has invaded --- feeling my own limitations as a human being. Sadness feels like blue on a hot day when green and yellow are everywhere........

Describe the last piece of art you did...

[Cuilanië]

heh - this one's easy!

I took a self-portrait, and fiddled with in Photoshop until I had just an outline, ATC-sized.
I printed it onto a sheet of red cedarwood. (The smell or red cedar! Mmmm...)
I cut out the outline.
I glued the resulting shapes onto a whited-ochre patinaed brass ATC blank supplied by Hammerquill (a picture of the blank is on the object page).
I pressed to make it hold (the glue CURLS the wood!!), and let it dry.

Right now I'm making an envelope for it. :)


Describe the happiest day of your life.

[girl-who-loves-sharks]

I haven't been able to come up with one that was definitely the happiest, unfortunately. I have had some good days, but nothing earth-shattering. I wish someone else would post here so we could get this thread going again. I like this game.

[Christine_0701]

i'm in the same boat as you

[Seusomon]

I've got the opposite problem. So many of my days seem totally happy, I'm uncomfortable trying to rank them.

[kittymao]

Then I will do it!

I think my happiest day was for out thanksgiving vacation in Washington, with my BF's family. They're such nice people, and not in the scary way!
We woke up early, and piled in the minivan. Three couples. Me and Rudy, Lalo ( rudy's bro) and his wife Lisa, and Tio Bob and Tia Bea (They live out there). They drove us from Moses Lake to Coulee Dam- all along the river! We saw Dry Falls and took fun, great pictures; horsed around at a turnout simply becuase it had a good view; and when we reached Coulee Dam, which was an old dam-builder town so it's small and quaint and on both sides of the river- the far side had a small indian casino!
Rudy and I only spent about 14 bucks because we understood that we wanted to save our money for REAL stuff and not for losing. We went outside, and crossed the bridge across the river, and saw a pair of BALD EAGLES. Real, live, wild ones! and the river moved so fast. And we also visited an indian craft store- which was very nice and pretty, but I didn't want to really buy anything. We went back to the casino for a bit, and everyone was still pumping coins in- but Lalo had about $30 bucks made.
We went to the convience/supermarket store and got some jojo's and at at the little-eety-beety park, and then went back to the casino, and foudn that Lalo had made over $100! Thankfully, he decided to quit there, and walked out with about $150. He's very lucky in the slots.
So we got back in the van and Tio Bob said " Have you guys ever been to Leavenworth?" and we said no. So he took us, from Coulee to Leavenworth!
And Leavenworth was just... GORGEOUS! A little ski resort town, all done up in bavarian style. All the shops were beautiful on the outside, and beautiful with all sorts of shiny things and great little stuffs to just handle and play with and goof around! It was so fun! And it was cold too, so it was an excuse to get all snuggly with my BF! It was great! We spent a good chunk of change there.
Then we went to get burgers and shakes at the little drive-in burger joint in Regina. They made delicious shakes, and Tio Bob joined in the heckling when they took too long to make our order. Which was fun- Tio Bob has this voice he only uses when he's goofing around, it sounds like a little boy with a lisp- so he was making us laugh as much as the heckling did.
We ate in the car on the way home- driving through Wenatchee was neat- becuase it looked so big from the main drag we were on, but was informed that what we saw was the entire town. Tio Bob then asked us all how we met, and Rudy and I got to share our story with them ( I originally hated rudy becuase I liked him and had anotehr BF at the time!) and then he took us back to his house, where we crashed out after getting in.

It was a fun, beautiful day- spending it with people that cared about me and that I cared about.

Oh. Okay. A DESCRIBER.
Hm.
Oh. Describe to me the person you dislike the most, and why.

[nymphette]

the person in the world that i dislike the most is my mother in law.

she is bitter. she is mean. she never has a nice word for anyone. she has estranged 3/5 of her children, all the ones who have children. she lies and makes things up about her children and their spouses. she called chris and i liars to our faces about harrison- because she didn't believe some of the things we have to be careful of because of his particular disorder (like needing air conditioning because if he overheats his levels will go up. or that he had to have the g-tube put in because it was very likely taht he would lose his ability/desire to eat by mouth. she thinks i am lazy and just didn't want to bother with bottling him. i fought to keep him feeding orally for two months LONGER than any of the other parents our dietician has dealt with!) she holds the fact that she adopted my hubby and his twin fromtheir real mother (her daughter!) over their heads- that she did SUCh a good deed and sacrificed her entire life to do the right thing by them. and that her child rearing years were over and she wasted the best years of her life raising those boys. and what terrible kids they were. and how she is the most self sacrificng, unselfish person in the whole world and she can't figure out why nobody gives her the credit she is due. chris is a very giving person, he was always over there shovelling snow for htem, and mowing hte grass, etc... and she would alway s bring up the fact that NOBODY EVER HELPS them... and thy are getting older and they need help around the house and NOBODY EVER OFFERS to help them let alone actulaly HELP THEM. over and over. while she has a 36 year old daughter who lives at home without a job, who hasn't had a job in 18 years, has never moved out... and a son, chris' twin who is the exact opposite (yes, the evil twin syndrome) and lived there without paying rent either, and was completely capable of doing it for them but NEVER did, neither did his sister... and all we heard was bitching about how NOBODY ever helped... until the day i told her off because chris was there two days before that helping... but 'nobody ever helps'....... <sigh>

luckily, we dont' have to deal with her crap anymore because ever since the ignorant phone message she left on our machine i have cut all ties. we had just moved here and things were very up in the air, and she assumed we would be bringing julian over to their place while we took harrison for an ammonia level (we used to drop him off to visit while we went quite regularly, but hadn't for over a month because of them being sick, us having other appts and doing it during hte day,e tc.) why she would ASSUME we were going to is beyond me... but she left us a message saying how they wasted their entire day waiting for us to come and we didnt even have the courtesy to call them and how ignorant we are for doing that, etc. BUH-BYE as my sister would say. we haven't spoken to them since.

oh, and she never accepted harrison as her grandchild. not sure if it is because julian is chris' spittin g image and harrison is definitely mommy's baby, or if it is because he is imperfect and 'sick'.... but they never accepted him.. it was alway s'so, when do we get to see julian? when are you bringing julian over to visit?'.... if you can't love both of my boys, you arent' allowed to love either.

and my husband supports this 100%.

describe the most beautiful piece of art you have seen in a gallery and who did it.

[kittymao]

It was a Mondrian.
And it was unfinished.

He does the De Stijl style of painting, with the squares of different colors. When I first saw a Mondrian when I was young, I thought- "What Crap! I can do that!" And I thought that about all Modern art, until I learned about Mondrian.
The whole reason he painted those squares in those places, is his attempt at creating the PERFECT composition. Balance and color and shape in perfect harmony.

The unfinished one I saw is in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He had painted maybe two squares, the entire rest of the canvas had red and yellow and blue and black tape crossign across the white canvas, making panels of color and stripe. I stood back and alternately covered each panel with my hand and thought of the colors he tape-outlined them. And I was in awe- it WAS art. It was so difficult to see what exactly was the best way to go, what decision to make- if he made the wrong move, he could ruin the entire piece.

I walked up as close as I could to it without crossing the line. I saw the dried sticky on the back of teh tape of teh pieces that hung off the sides of the canvas. And I looked around... and I touched it- on a piece of yellow tape. And I thought about how difficult it was to get that one piece of tape in JUST the right spot. I thought about what maybe his next step was, and how he thought it would look when it was done. And Most of all, I thought how it would never get finished. It was incomplete, and yet to me- it was perfect.


god, wasn't that just the dorkiest thing?

Tell me about the house you lived in when you were Five.

[ben]

It was grey and had a dozen fruit trees. A very large rope swing that swung over the street in front. There was a weird bridge between two large evergreens that was a shelter for firewood. I hung out up there. I wrote things in the tree like "ana dumn" and "hat ana" and "stopid ana". When my sister found it a couple of years later, I was spanked.
My dad dug out the basement. It wasn't there, so he just dug it out. I think I learned something from that. We sponsored a family from Laos that lived down there for a year or two.
The backyard was 15 feet from the freeway. I innocently threw rocks at the cars creating thousands of dollars of damage. I had no idea. My neighbor was 10 years older than me but she was mentally handicapped and we got along great. Sadly, I grew up and became an asshole during the first stages of puberty. :(
I met my best friend at age 5. We spent every single day with each other even though we didn't go to the same school except Kindergarten. I used to pee out of my 2nd floor bedroom window onto the garden. Once, the window slammed down on my pee-pee and Jason couldn't lift the window back up. Lets just say that my mom was not pleased. But Jason and I are still best friends.
The upstairs was two bedrooms, one for me, the other, my sister. At about this age, she went out on the roof and got struck by lighting. She was a bit freaked, but fine. Our cat Misty crunched mouse bones at night in the attic.
The carpet downstairs was a nasty brown/green. At dinner, we sat at table near the bay window and watched the freeway traffic stop and go. I used to dream there was an evil short witch that chased me around the house while casting spells on me. The only thing I remember about the kitchen cabinetry was exactly were the powdered milk was kept (bottom left corner, next to a cylindrical box).
Uh, I could go on an on. I loved that time of my life. At xmas, my great aunt would come from Minnesota and make gingerbread houses with pinecones and gumdrops for trees. I could go on and on about being that age at that house. It was very memorable.

Describe either your first relationship or your first kiss and explain what attracted you to him/her at the time...

[nymphette]

my boyfriend when i was in grade five... he was a year older htan me... what attracted me to him was that he was tall and had these wonderful long piano playing fingers!!!! and he played piano, and he played jazzy- big band type of music... yes, i was a geek when i was ten, i didn't listen to the same music as my friends.... hm... he took me to E.T., and another time we went out for ice cream... he was the first guy i 'dated' and kissed... :) i still remember what it felt like to hold his hands....

i saw him a few years ago, he was working at mcdonalds.... what a waste.... lol...

describe how you felt and how it happened- when you found out there was no santa claus.....

[Christine_0701]

:o you mean there isn't a Santa Claus???!!!??? hehehe anyhoo..

I don't really remember....I was about 8ish, i guess...I kinda already knew there wasn't a santa, but just played along (hell, i STILL do :P) it wasn't really a shock to me...Santa isn't a being, he's a feeling....

Look at a 3 inch by 3 inch area on your desk and describe it in great detail.

[nymphette]

Look at a 3 inch by 3 inch area on your desk and describe it in great detail.

okay... it is black... and it is very black... there is a small scrape on it.... and it is really very black... and quite black indeed... and there is a little spot that is black on it....

and i need to get to bed.... sleep deprivation is good for the soul... just not the mind.....

er...

describe what happened to you the first time you ever got drunk.... if you remember.....

[VeronicasLovebug]

The first time i ever got drunk was quite an interesting experience...i remember most of what happened lol...we were drinking hurricanes...and they had quite a bit of alcohol in them...and after i was buzzin a bit i slipped walkin down the hallway on a slick spot and spilled my drink...so i got me another one naturally lol....i sat around w/ some friends and we all chatted...and then the party moved outside...by this time i'm starting to get really drunk...nothin's spinnin yet but i'm feelin pretty numb all over and i'm talkin to someone while they're getting some things out of their trunk, resting my hand on their car and they go to close the trunk, and it pops right back open w/o shutting...we think nothing of it and so she goes and tries shutting it again a second time, but before she can a guy runs over and asks if i'm ok...now i'm sittin there and can't think for the life of me why he would be asking me if i was ok...well apparently when she closed the trunk the first time, my hand just happened to be resting halfway inside the trunk which is why it popped back open and apparently he witnessed the whole thing lol..so he asked if i was ok and my response "well...i can't feel anything right now...ask me in the morning!" so yeah...we did a lil more drinking, and i went inside the house...stumbling into my room...i think i may have knocked over a vase w/ some water and flowers in it on the way to the bed...but i managed to lay down and fall asleep...i woke up and my hand was swollen and black and blue lol...and the moral to ths story "don't stand near vehicles after you've been drinking...or at least keep away from trunks and anything that can open and close" lol :blink:

i guess that describes it lol...now....

describe you're absolute favorite vacation that you've gone on...and why?

[VeronicasLovebug]

Originally posted by nymphette@Nov 15 2003, 01:43 AM
describe how you felt and how it happened- when you found out there was no santa claus.....
i remember that plain as day lol...i had asked for something for christmas from santa the year before and i actually got it...anyways...i was rummaging through my moms drawers one day and i found the receipt for the present...that's when i knew he didn't exist...i wasn't too upset, but i didn't let my mom onto the fact that i knew(as long as there was santa...there were more presents...i was a greedy lil child lol :P)

i realize that wasn't my question lol..but i wanted to answer it damnit! :D hehe

[sarahkate]

My favorite vacation that I have gone on so far was one week during August of 2001. It was a hectic busy week, but it was great.

My friends Nicki, Cheryl & I drove to Massachusetts on a friday night - stayed at my aunt's house overnight then headed to York, Maine for 5 days, 4 nights of camping - while we visited with my family (they were renting a small cottage at the beach) - I decided then that I really HATE camping - setting up a huge tent, using public showers & all - but it really was a blast. We got drunk after drinking wine coolers, a big bottle of cheap fruity wine, and Jed's Hard Lemonade. We stumbled around the campground trying to find our way to the public bathrooms at 2:00 AM, giggling all the way. And of course the best part was being at the ocean, spending hours swimming in the freezing cold water. We had to head back to New York on Wednesday because on Thursday we had to go to a concert in Connecticut.

So we drive the 6 or so hours back to New York, I drop Nicki & Cheryl off at home and I spend Wednesday night in my own bed. On Thursday my boyfriend (Cory) and I go back to Nicki's house & pick her up again - and we drive about 2 1/2 hours to Hartford, CT where we saw Godsmack, The Deftones, and Puddle of Mudd at the Meadows. We stayed overnight in a hotel & drove around Hartford a bit the next morning & drove back to Albany.

I love road trips and the beach and concerts, so overall it was a great time, my best vacation yet.



Describe your face, in detail.

[girl-who-loves-sharks]

Ick. Okay...

My face has a long shape. My skin is never, ever clear. Right now I have a bunch of zits along my jawline and one in the middle of my forehead. (So attractive.) The color of my skin is very fair with a pink tone. My eyes are almond-shaped and dark brown, with medium-length but stick-straight eyelashes. My eyebrows are out of control. They have a nice shape but grow very fast and I hate tweezing. Right now I basically have unibrow. :huh: My nose is quite large and slightly hooked. My lips are medium-sized with pink skin. My ears don't stick out. I have high cheekbones.

Geez, I sound very ugly!

Describe the shoes you are wearing or wore earlier or will wear later today. Today's shoes. Describe them.

[cdonley]

Well - I am still in my "morning clothes" -- yes I know its 10:30 - shut up!

So I am wearing big fluffy cheetah spotted slippers - my son calls them "kitty shoes" They are light brown with black spots and they are the open-backed, clog kind.

Later today, I will wear my trusty, Birkenstock Boston clogs! Whoo - they are brown leather with the buckle, open heeled - I even wear them when it is raining - and I live in the Seattle area so you know what that means.

I used to have the coolest pair of grey/black flecked wool clogs that I wore almost everyday...but Birki doesn't make that color anymore - *bah*



** Describe your biggest crush (what did they look like, how old, are you still crushing, etc...)

[girl-who-loves-sharks]

I have had a hundred crushes, but I guess the biggest was Jamey. He was in my class from kindergarten through 8th grade, and his parents and my parents were close friends. It all started in 4th grade when he said, "I like your boots," to me on the playground. I remember it vividly. I looked at him with new eyes that day, and kept on liking him for the next four years until my family moved away. He had big brown eyes and dark brown hair. In fact, when bluecrayon talks about goofy boys with dark hair, he comes to mind. Olive complexion. He started out small and thin, got a little bit chubbier in 5th grade, and then got thin and muscular by 8th grade. His sister used to babysit me and my brother, and she would bring him along. Heart-stopping! I was so shy, it almost killed me to be around him. He was a really nice boy. Not terribly bright, but so sweet. He was very popular and I was definitely not, but he never acted mean like a lot of the other "cool" kids. I heard he got married last year, and it actually made me a teensy bit sad!

Describe the way your mom acts when she's mad at you.

[nymphette]

she gives me 'the look'.... seriously!!! you'd think moms would outgrow that by a certain age!!! okay, so maybe she'll outgrow it when her kids outgrow needing it!!! and she is subtly sarcastic and usually just gets quiet...

i still don't know where i get my temper from!!!! must be the red hair.. i just go off...

:angry: + <_< = 'the look'

describe your first car!!!

[freckledcutie]

My first car was a chocolate brown, 4-door Audi. It had velvet like brown and tan seats. It was a stick shift that went up to 5th gear and that car could move! My favorite thing about this car was that the radio stayed on when the car was off and it didn't run the battery down...after all, that's what's important in highschool...having a radio/tapeplayer that will stay on when the car is parked so that you can dance to exhaustion without running out of gas or batteries.

oops...I forgot my question...edited to add it.

If you could be a fly on the wall in any situation in the last 20 years, what wall would you want to have been on and why? That is assuming that as a fly you had the ability to hear and understand what was going on. heehee

[girl-who-loves-sharks]

This is Describe It, freckledcutie, but since you're so cute, I will forgive you and answer your question.

I would have liked to have been a fly on the wall for any Elliott Smith show in a small, intimate venue. I never got to see him, and he's one of my favorite singer-songwriters, and now he's gone. :(

Describe your 2nd grade teacher, or the teacher you had when you were that age if you didn't go to a school with grades. (Age 7/8.)

[Sirius]

Ms. Beherec. She was interesting. She tied a kid to his seat because he wouldn't stay in it. Every other letter in her name is an e. She was excited that I was in her class, because my brother had been in my class and so she knew my mom would always be there to help -- cookies for parties, crafts, on all the field trips. She came to my wedding and took a ton of pictures and a video, which I have never seen.

Describe your first date.

[cindi1023]

My first date was a total disaster. I was in 9th grade, he was in 10th. He didn't have his driver's license yet (not that I was allowed to go on car-dates...), so his mom drove us. We ate at Wendy's (big spender! :)) then went to see a movie (King Ralph with John Goodman.... what a bad movie!). All during the movie he was leaning over and blowing in my ear (really blowing... not sexy AT ALL!), and trying to feel me up. Not only was I not willing (I barely knew him!), he had horrible onion breath! His mom picked us up right after the movie and drove me home. I jumped out in the driveway, thanked his mom for driving us, waved, and never spoke to him again! :D



Describe your favorite outfit.






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[girl-who-loves-sharks]

Ha! I love your date story, Cindi.

Favorite outift is easy, since I happen to be wearing it now!

Hot pink cardigan sweater
Long sleeved black t-shirt
Dark blue jeans from Anne Taylor
Argyle over-the-knee socks
Black loafers

I look pretty cute today. ;)

Describe the hour before you got in bed last night.

[cindi1023]

I was up late at my computer (burning my CD's for G-W-L-S's Mix CD LMAO!). My burner is terribly slow & flaky, so I was dozing off while burning. Made 5 "coasters" and 4 good CD's. Got in an argument with my hubby about a staple gun (he was supposed to find it for me a week ago... couldn't... didn't tell me until last night!). Spent a few last-minute quality petting moments with my 3 kitties, brushed my teeth and went to bed... Pretty boring! :D



Describe the place you go to be alone...

[freckledcutie]

Okay, sorry I didn't ask for a description...doh!

[girl-who-loves-sharks]

The place I go to be alone is the attic in my house, which just a regular room with slanty ceilings. It has a window at two ends, and two comfy armchairs, and the walls are lined with my bookshelves. My stereo and computer are up there, too. It's very cozy, a little too dark, and can be quite hot in the summer and cold in the winter. My cat likes it too, so I suppose I am not really alone when I am there.

Describe your best friend.

[ben]

His last name starts with HS, but its pronounced SH. As a child, he refused to steal girl panties from Sears with me. He is sometimes aloof, but its endearing. I often neglect our relationship. Our friendship is for ever with lots of long pauses. He was destined to be a corporate richie-rich, but has become a creative kattie-cat. He surprises me often. Very kind. A couple small beauty marks on his face. Plays guitar. Short hair. Treats stuffed animals as living animals.

Describe your most memorable "oh shit, I could have just killed myself!" experience.

[girl-who-loves-sharks]

My most memorable "Oh shit, I could have just killed myself" experience is very brief. I was driving my grandmother's car because the car I usually drove back then was in the shop for the day. I was going to work. At the mall. :( I was parking on the top level of the garage, and I wasn't used to the car. Instead of stepping on the brake, I stepped on the gas-- REALLY HARD! And somehow I managed to switch and slam on the brake as fast as I could, and I missed the wall by, like, half a millimeter. I could hear the blood rushing through my head. The adrenaline high lasted for twenty minutes.

Describe the prettiest woman you have ever seen.

[Seusomon]

Dark brown eyes that in a silent moment spoke a thousand memories, a hundred questions, a dozen hopes, and one desire.

Delicate fingers that moved with the simplicity of an infant's first touch and the layered experience of all the textures of living.

And a smile.




Describe the last full moon you saw.

[atomic_cocktail]

Monday, I was driving to Burlington,vt to do some christmas shopping after work. I was in a terrible mood with my husband and was fumeing the whole drive... until I came around the corner and saw the full moon in the cloudless crisp winter sky. I winter full moon is really an amazing sight.


Describe what you do when you first come home from work.

[sarahkate]

On a typical work night I come home, walk in the door to be greeted by my happy doggy, Delilah! She runs to the kitchen door as I walk in, wiggling her butt around. She looks like she is dancing so I laugh & give her hugs & then let her outside. Then if my boyfriend is home I say hi to him and talk to him for a while then I usually head upstairs and put my pajamas on if we aren't going out anywhere that night! Yes, I usually have my jammies on by 5:30 PM! :lol:


Describe the contents of your wallet/pocketbook/backpack

[girl-who-loves-sharks]

I can actually do this because I recently cleaned my pocketbook out. It contains my wallet, my Wegman puppies address book, some tampons, Altoids breath strips, a tape measure, a pocket calendar, vision care claim forms, two birthday cards, lint, kleenex, pens, my chococat checkbook, the appointment card for my next psychiatrist's appointment, and directions to my friend Dawn's house.

Describe the largest blue thing in the room.

[siafu]

the largest blue thing in the room is my sweater. it is actually heidi's sweater. i just put it on because i had to come to legal aid and the shirt i was going to wear had something on the placket. so, i am doing an art deco match. i'm wearing these kind of brownish gold art deco velour pants and a columbia blue sweater. i don't mind. nobody thinks i'm a good matcher. but i think i'm a cool matcher. so anyway, heidi is a lot bigger than me, so the sweater suggests maternity, though it is not. it also covers my bottom. but it isn't a sweatshirt, though it is a lot like a sweatshirt. ha.

describe the best birthday cake you evah had. if you nevah had a birthday cake, pick any cake.

[Seusomon]

When I was three years old, I wanted an orange cake with orange frosting. My mom made it for me. It was two layers, round, with a big number "3" candle on top. I really loved that cake.

Describe your neighborhood.

[bluecrayon]

My neighborhood is situated between a largely poor Latino neighborhood sprinkled with artists and young singles and people living on the edges (the Mission) and a bustling and prosperous gay mecca (the Castro) -- Noe Valley, my neighborhood, is both rich and not rich, a little working class still colors the streets balancing the wealth which is everywhere ($1M dollar houses abound and lots of shiny cars and people) -- but my block is a small microcosm of the world -- a woman from Greece lives next door, a man from Korea lives on my other side, a man from Japan lives down the street next door to Big Mike, my biker friend....an old guy, Leo, lives across the street in the same house he grew up in and next door to him lives an extremely wealthy software designer and next to him live two college professors who bought their house before the real estate market went crazy. I live on a steep hill, I have a clear view of the entire bay and I can see Berkeley on clear days (I often wave at Hammerquill!) -- my block voted almost to a person for Matt Gonzalez, the Green Party candidate, for Mayor of San Francisco, so I guess we are fairly progressive a block of disparate people. I like everyone on my block and this fact helps me keep my knee from jerking when I start to think in terms like "Yuppie" and "SUV driving scum" --- ;)


Describe your first "exotic" meal....

[siafu]

my mama is exotic, so my first exotic meal was rice and beans, black beans that is. i like the way the bean juice turns the rice dark. when i eat it, i think to myself that it tastes creamy, even though i think i must be misnaming it. i eat it all the time. sometimes i have an egg with it. i like to put salt on it. then, it has sparkles on it. some people i know put sour cream on it. other people put olive oil on it. i like either one, but not both. i am a beaner. mostly, i call myself a coffee beaner, because i am from costa rica, and not mexico.

describe your morning routine.

[cindi1023]

During the week, my alarm is set for 6:10 a.m. (hubby gets up at 5:30 - but I never hear his alarm!) I usually hear the alarm at 6:11, grumble & push a cat off my head & turn off the alarm. Stomp & grumble into the bathroom & close door. Turn on faucet to a dribble for cat on counter to drink. Turn on shower to hottest setting. Potty. Turn on hair-straightener. Brush teeth. While brushing, turn off kitty-faucet and let cat out of the bathroom. Finish brushing teeth. By now the bathroom is all steamy and warm. Turn down water temp and shower, shave, wash hair. During shower, hubby comes in, coughs and complains about all the steam. Tell him he's letting out all the hot & wish him a good day & love. Turn off shower, put hair in towel & dry off. Put in contacts. Go into bedroom and put on sweats. Go to kitchen and drink some water. Smoke cigarette on back patio. Come back in -- back to bathroom. Put on makeup & dry hair. Back outside to warm up car. Back inside -- straighten hair and get dressed for work. Go to kitchen -- gather up all my stuff for the day - cell phone, cigarettes, lighter, lunch, bottled water, etc. - Out to car and on to work....


Describe the jewelry you're wearing today.

[Dalmaney]

I'm not wearing much jewelry, as it's kind of a schlep to my exam kind of morning.

I have a silver analog watch. It's got a square white face about 1.5 x 2 cm big, and a metal band that's sort of chain-mail-ish. It's flexible and buckles, but won't wear out because it's metal. I like it, but the face is getting a little scratched.

I'm wearing two rings. One I bought in Egypt for a no doubt overpriced twelve dollars. It's silver (like sterling, this time) and has the heiroglyphs for "happiness" on it. They are (in order) sun, scarab, reeds, dish. It's very cute and I wear it almost every day, on my right ring finger. My other ring I never take off. It's a copper-brass-nickel twisted together ring, and it lives on my left thumb. Sometimes it turns me green, but I kinda think that's neat.

Describe your favorite article of clothing.

[atomic_cocktail]

My husbands XXXL grey addidas sweatshirt.... it is old and grubby... and I swim in it but I love it... it is like wrapping up in a big blanket.


Describe your favorite comfort food.

[medeous]

macaroni and cheese, kraft preferably, made with 2% milk and butter, not margarine. it knocks me on my ass...about 30 minutes after i eat it, i fall asleep without fail. that's so my arteries can clog up without worrying about me accidentally jogging all the cholesterol and fat free by moving around too much.

describe your very first crush.

[girl-who-loves-sharks]

I don't remember much about my first crush. Her name was Mrs. Meyers and she was a kindergarten teacher at St. John's, which is where I went to preschool. I know she had short brown hair, kind of in a bowl-cut. She wasn't even my teacher, so I don't know why I was so enamoured, but I know the feelings were strong. I drew her lots of pictures on the weekend and gave them to her on Monday. She was the wife of my mom's art teacher, too.

Describe the strangest person you work with or go to school with, currently.

[medeous]

the strangest person i work with has the days of the week embroidered on all of her shirts(...probably even the weekends, but i'm not sure about that.) she has done this to simplify her life. she used to keep a calendar where she would record what outfit she wore each day so that outfit would not be worn again for at least 4 weeks. she loves plaid and gingham and while she was pregnant, she would often wear a gingham shirt with a big ruffle all around the bottom. she had this same shirt in both red gingham and black gingham. she puts lotion on her legs over her pantyhose. she refuses to wear any color underwear except white. last christmas she gave me a giant jar filled with potpourri and christmas lights. i like her a lot and she's my friend. :)

describe your bedroom.

[Cuilanië]

Rectangular, a little irregular (corners not perfectly 90°...) roughly 3m x 4,5m.
Big window in the middle of the south wall, one of the narrow sides.
Curtains in red, blue, yellow, and green; wide, assymetrical vertical stripes, and stylised motifs.
The door is in the east wall, in the corner near the window, opens inwards and to the left.

First thing you see when you walk in, twin free-standing wardrobes backed against the west wall, also in the corner near the window. They are about 70cm wide each, with two drawers on the bottom, in a pale woodlike decor.
The one on the left has my clothes. The one on the right has my art, craft and sewing supplies, and also serves as the liquor, wine, and chocolate closet. :)
There's some clutter in the space between the wardrobes and the south wall, mostly my ex's stuff that he left here and leftover wood panelling from when we did the floor.
On top of the wardrobes are two travel bags, mine, and some computer-related miscellany. I usually have my winter coat, too long to hang *in* the wardrobe, hanging from the peg on the front of it, along with whatever washing couldn't go in the dryer last time that I haven't worn or bothered to fold or otherwise put away. My umbrella hangs from the handle of the right-hand door.
My laundry in a purple and orange ski bag (don't ask - I didn't buy it) sits in front of those wardrobes.

To the left of the wardrobes are my suitcases, stored like matriochkas, one into the other so only the largest one is visible. It only just fits between the wardrobe and the bookshelf.
On top of the suitcase are various papers, newspaper articles, and some clutter, things I don't know where to put yet, and so left there.

The bookshelf is pine, unvarnished, maybe 50cm wide by 1,5m tall, and has five shelves. It holds some books, mostly the ones conflicting in size with the ones in the big bookshelf.

Top shelf is mostly taken up by a four-volume complete edition of Zola's Les Rougon-Macquart, which I have mostly yet to read, some Shakespeare, some Balzac, other stuff.
On top of one of the Zola tomes, a tall narrow vase containing a single dried red rose, attendant small dried flowers, one dried red maple leaf brought to me from Canada by an acquaintance, and a dried chestnut which holds everything in place.
Usually here goes one of my candle-holders, a simple one I love, in black-coloured metal wire, one circle as the base, a second circle tilted on this one at about 30°, and two circular places for the candles, one at the bottom and one on top. Holds dark blue candles at the moment.
On the shelf in front of the books, bottles of various sizes and a few knick-knacks.

Second shelf has more books, mostly trade paperbacks. It has my Amélie Poulain album, a gift I received at the same time as the soundtrack. This shelf has my incense holder, not much used these days, some half-burned wide-ish candles, a little blue vase, empty.

Third shelf has my travel guides, my English and my German dictionaries, Maus, and the Bible my mother gave me. Two candle-holders I never use - a gift that wasn't really me, but I'm too nice to get rid of them. And my clay perfume-oil burner, which doesn't get much use anymore, either. Missing from this shelf are another pair of candle-holders, black as well, hammered iron, somewhat serpentine in shape, which I got in Prague. Wine-red candles.

Fourth shelf is the miscellaneous one. A deck of cards, a third candle holder I don't use to complete the set with the previous two, perfume samples, massage oils and other fun stuff like that... Ultraviolet, Angel and Allure also share this shelf. Allure (Chanel) is the only one I wear with any kind of regularity - it's very light and suits me well.

Fifth shelf has some tapes, a shoebox, various comic books (the French/Belgian style, not American). In front of the bookshelf are various papers, envelopes, ephemera, sorted out into shoeboxes and one plastic bag.

Left of the bookshelf, my CD collection in a black revolving column. This also serves as my bedside table, and unsurprisingly has books stacked on it. Of note, The Story of Art. The iron candle-holders are there for now, and my alarm clock, some other stuff, and the rub I use for muscle, joint, and back pain.
In front of this is a varnished pine stool, serving as a second bedside table, holding up the circle candle-holder.
The darkish-chrome (unsure of proper name for that color) halogen lamp is between the CD column and the bed.

The east wall, after the door, has my desk, varnished pine again, with a hard chair of the same.
Clutter and computer games on top, plus my computer screen, keyboard, mouse, blue mouse pad with emoticons, black and chrome halogen desk lamp, computer speakers, and a TV antenna which just sits there impotently - I have a TV module on the computer, which I never ever use.
Among the clutter, Nervousness envelopes, tennis balls, assorted pens, my coffee mug, a hand-painted vase, the remains of a fresh loaf of bread in a plastic bag, ATCs, post-its, the cell phone I stopped using a while ago, printed emails...
On top of the screen, a stuffed frog. On the base of the lamp, an adorable, tiny little sleeping kitten.
Four drawers, containing mail, writing, collage supplies. The last drawer is dedicated to photography.
Under the desk, assorted electrical cables, and the computer itself. Books are stacked on the computer (surprised?) along with some papers.

To the right of the desk, between it and the door, is where I store my large paper sheets, my cutting board, and my drawing board.
Left of the desk, at the foot of the bed, the big bookshelf, pine again, 1,50m wide by 2m tall, eight shelves, deepish.

This holds my collection of paperbacks, all in a jumble since my last (incomplete) attempt to catalogue them, but mostly sorted out by genre and language.
On top, neatly folded theatre costumes and a nice dark blue hat, scientific magazines.
The fourth shelf has the cases of recently-and-currently-played CDs.
Fifth shelf, the musical installation (won't quite call it a sound system...): combination 3-CD player, radio, and tape; speakers; some borrowed CDs and tapes.
Sixth shelf, printer, scanner, miscellaneous. The computer science book I've been meaning to read.
Eighth and last shelf, magazines, computer stuff, my ex's papers. The desk makes a little nook with the bookshelf and the corner of the bed, and I have a stack of newspapers, magazines, and various papers there.

The last thing on the east wall, between the big bookshelf and the north wall, another, smaller bookshelf, wooden but painted a soft orange. This holds my ex's books and some knickknacks of his, but one shelf has a hardcover collection of mine. My mending (wishful thinking is more like it) is there, and the tripod for the camera. Some more sewing supplies crowd the floor between the bed and the shelves.

My bed is against the north wall, with the head to the west. It's a double, very comfortable and stiff enough for my back. The coverings are dark blue, cotton. Two pillows and a down comforter. One small black stuffed panther. Some books I didn't bother removing after the last time I hunted some reference down.

The floor is wood panelling, mostly matches the desk.
There should be a rug beside the bed, but it's waiting to get cleaned (very dusty).
Under the bed are hidden newspapers, magazines, papers of mine, shoeboxes of stuff (very useful, shoeboxes...)...

The walls are... pale peach? I've no head for fancy colour names. Trimmed in the same soft orange as the bookshelf.
On the east wall, a framed Egyptian papyrus.
On the west wall, a family picture from my youngest uncle's wedding. A sepia watercolour of the cathedral of Chartres and the Eure river. A moulded stone reproduction of a sculpted detail of the cathedral of Rouen, representing St. George and the dragon. A large, framed photo of me taken in Mont Tremblant provincial park in October 1999.
On the north wall, two framed photographic compositions by my ex. I haven't redecorated since he left, but those compositions will go soon, even though I appreciate them for their artistic value... as will probably the photo of me - I'm used to seeing it there, but it's a bit narcissic for my tastes now that I live alone.

I don't think I've forgotten anything... It helps that I am sitting in this room at the moment and have instantaneous reference available... :P

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Describe the best art you ever made...

[bluecrayon]

Eve! I love this description of your room. I just want to bump this up and let someone else answer this question. I feel like I am sitting right now on the floor looking at your room! :)

[girl-who-loves-sharks]

Everyone is so modest! No one will describe the best art they ever made?

The best art I ever made (which really just means what I liked the best, right?) was a bookend I made in pottery class in high school. Two ceramic slabs, each an inch thick, are joined at the bottom. A thinner slab in front was cut away into the shape of a hippie-girl kneeling. She has long brown hair and a bouquet of flowers. She has a Navajo-patterned headband across her forehead, and she is wearing jeans. The glaze is glossy and the colors are very bright.

Describe the way you look in the most unflattering photo you have seen of yourself.

[medeous]

i look like a mountain of lumpy, pasty-white flesh swathed in an unattractive shade of chartreuse. since the picture was taken from below, my chin looks particularly round and flabby and if you looked closely enough, i'm sure you could see right up my nose. apparently, i had no lips the day this picture was taken. my hair is rather flat and orange and it appears that a family of field mice have been nibbling on my bangs. i have on glasses. i am frowning.

describe what you are wearing in your first grade school picture, or something of that era if you did not attend school.

[girl-who-loves-sharks]

Originally posted by medeous@Dec 23 2003, 12:51 PM
i look like a mountain of lumpy, pasty-white flesh swathed in an unattractive shade of chartreuse. since the picture was taken from below, my chin looks particularly round and flabby and if you looked closely enough, i'm sure you could see right up my nose. apparently, i had no lips the day this picture was taken. my hair is rather flat and orange and it appears that a family of field mice have been nibbling on my bangs. i have on glasses. i am frowning.
Probably I should not have read that while I was eating. <_<

In my first grade photo I am wearing a pastel knit jumper dress. It had a yellow strap and a pink strap, and the middle was light blue with a pink pocket. My hair is in pigtails. Aww.

Describe how you think you will look in twenty years.

[Cuilanië]

Originally posted by bluecrayon@Dec 15 2003, 09:41 PM
Eve! I love this description of your room. I just want to bump this up and let someone else answer this question. I feel like I am sitting right now on the floor looking at your room! :)
Thank you! <blush> :)

In twenty years... More lines on my face. Laughter lines, I hope. Not too much grey in my hair, if I take after my mother for that. If I'm careful, I'll be in relatively good shape. More wisdom in my eyes, less reserve on my face for the casual observer to see. My hair might be grown long again by then, I don't really know. I hope I get to be one of those funny little old ladies (that'll be in much more than 20 years, though...), the ones with a mischievous smile and kindly, still-young eyes, who wear their years like old friends...


Describe your favourite book.

[hammerquill]

Favorite book.

This being an impossible question, I'm narrowing it down by assuming it's (a) the favorite book I own (thus ruling out several books in the British Library and one in Dublin) and (B) my favorite book as a physical object, since that's easier to decide than my favorite for its contents.

It is Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, in the Pennyroyal Press edition. Its case is almost 18" high, 3" thick, with a red leather spine and grey cloth covers. The book inside is much thinner, the rest of the space being taken up with a case of prints of the illustrations on their own. It is half-leather, again deep red, with grey paper printed with an extreme closeup of part of Alice's face, showing the grain of wood engraving, which is how it was illustrated. Endpapers are a warm charcoal color.

The book is hand printed with some of the finest presswork I have ever seen, both on the text and the Barry Moser wood engravings. There is just enough bite into the paper to feel lovely and see with low-angle light. The book is just sized to be just holdable with comfort in one hand (resting along the forearm) for reading, and yet luxuriously large. There are glosses and notes along the foredge of the pages in red, with occasional blue. Some illustrations to the glosses are in red, some in green or blue.

Barry Moser is the finest wood engraver living, and his talents and style and imagination are better suited to the Alice books than to anything else he's approached. His illustrations can be very dark (in feel) but are always off-kilter, bizarre, peculiar, chaotic.



Describe your favorite puppet or stuffed animal as a kid (or now).

[Cuilanië]

:) I'll go with now...

Small, black stuffed panther.
Pelt is silky smooth.
Small, round ears.
Impish-looking muzzle.
Curving tail.
Crouching a bit.
Soft and cuddly...
Too small to give a proper hug, though.
About 15 cm high, and 25-30 cm long with the tail.


Describe your favourite relative.

[chunkymonkey]

she's a vunerable rock.


describe your last kiss.

[xm4r1ax]

It occured last night on my porch around 12:30.
Filled with see you later but never goodbye.


Describe the last time you were on a roller coaster.

[venus28976]

Last saturday. The park was decoarted with christmas lights and it was dark. I was filled with the familiar excitement of childhood and possibility.

Describe your best new years ever

[bluecrayon]

I think it was this one! I woke up clear headed. I knew myself. I was not with a stranger. I remembered the one I love. I rode my bike into a rain storm and it felt invigorating and clean. I called him and told him I loved him. Yikes....

Most compelling regret????

[bluecrayon]

maybe that I left this question???? ;)

[Sirius]

Maybe we are all non-regretters.

[Seusomon]

I think I am - it was very difficult to think of any major choices that I feel went wrong. I'm very happy with who I am now, and everything that I've done has created some part of that. There are small regrets ("Damn! I shouldn't have been so snappy this morning!"), and disappointments ("Why does she have to go?") . If I had it all to do again, I'd probably do mostly the same things, though I would definitely like to "fast forward" through some stuff!

OK, that counts as an answer, no?


Describe your first experience being on stage.

[nymphette]

the first time i was on stage was when i was in grade five and i had to go up there alone and recite the 23rd psalm for something.... remembrance day??? christmas??? for some reason it escapes me right now... i did it flawlessly i think- nobody booed, at least!!! my principal/grade five teacher was very proud of me and impressed and kept bragging to the other teachers about how smart i was and about my 'presence' on the stage.... ha ha... would that even be allowed in a public school these days??? reciting from the bible?? hm....

describe the first time you dealt with the death of a pet.... :(

[sarahkate]

When I turned 6 years old we had just moved to New York from Massachusetts, and a few days later I went with my dad to his grandparents' farm. They let me have a kitten. He was the runt of a litter of barn cats and the mother brought him up to the house and abandoned him. We named him "Wally" (my dad picked the name) after my great grandfather. He was my very first pet. He lived to be almost 14 years old. I believe I was 19 when he died.

Wally was very sick for the last few months of his life. He probably should have been put to sleep, but my mom & my sister & I were selfish and tried to keep him alive by bringing him to the vet over & over again to have liquid drained out of his lungs. My mom spent hundreds of dollars that she couldn't really afford trying to keep him alive. He still walked around like a normal cat but you could see he was ill, and he barely ate at all.

One night I was sitting at home alone. My mom was still at work and my sister was at my dad's house. I let Wally inside when I heard him scratching at the front door, and he went upstairs. A while later I went upstairs and found his laying on his left side in the hallway. His arms were outstreched. He often slept like that but I stared at him for a moment and realized he wasn't breathing. I broke into tears immediately and got down on the floor next to him and said something to the effect of "please don't die!" but it was too late, he was obviously already dead. I knew my mom would be home from work soon and I was so afraid to tell her because Wally became her cat, he was always following her around, and he always kept her company. I was in shock and so upset at the same time. I kept checking on Wally to make sure he really was indeed dead, and of course he was. I found a box big enough for him and folded up a blanket inside of the box. I kissed him goodbye for the last time and placed him in the box.

When my mom came home she walked through the front door and saw me standing there and the moment I saw her face I burst into tears again and I could barely speak. Through my sobs I managed to say "Wally is dead" so she hugged me and she cried too. It was very sad. One of the saddest moments in my life in fact.

The next day my dad and my sister took the box with Wally in it and buried him at my great grandparent's farm.

*sigh* That was a sad thing to rehash. Sorry for it being so long!



Describe the street you live on.

[Seusomon]

It's really just one block long, althoug there are several dead-end lanes branching off from it. All the houses are adobe, and all are different - some very neat and expensive and new looking, others very rustic, overgrown, and quirky. There are large trees around, although mostly you just see their tops behind the houses. Cars are parked along the street, most of them on the north side. There's usually a few people out walking, and perhaps one car either coming or going. Since the street doesn't go anywhere, the only traffic is people who live on it (or perhaps around a corner). It has a very open, airy, desert-town feeling to it.


Describe your favorite piece of jewelry.

[Christine_0701]

my favourite piece of jewellery is my charm bracelet....i have a dolphin charm, a heart with some flowers and Sweet 16 on it, a Grad Cap with my name and 2002 engraved on the back, and a cell phone. The grad charm and the bracelet itself serve as my Grad Ring. The bracelet itself is silver, all the charms are gold, except for the Sweet 16 heart.

Describe your most memorable birthday.

[medeous]

on my 31st birthday, we went to denny's for lunch without ever looking at each other, then drove around forest park looking for a little bench by a pond, which i couldn't find. still not looking and not speaking, we went home where i cried and he played video games. i cried closer to him, he yelled, we kissed and went to see mystery men. on the way home my contacts were so icky from all the crying, i took them out and held them in my hand while he drove.

describe the way you feel right now.

[Death_Or_Aldona]

I feel discontent, achy, lonely, nervous, stressed, scattered, uneasy, cold, sniffly, itchy...


describe your pet (assuming that you have one...)

[Christine_0701]

She's a long-haired cat, and she's white (mostly on her tummy), with black and grey on her back, and up on the top of her head, and her tail....

Describe what you like most about yourself

[Seusomon]

The fact that I keep getting better, sometimes fast, sometimes slow, sometimes backsliding, but always remember that the point is to learn.

Describe something blue you can see right now.

[hammerquill]

One side of a piece of cloth some friends brought back to me from Japan: it is deep navy blue with lines of small white dots creating hexagons. Each hexagon is divided into six equilateral triangles, each equilateral triangle into three isosceles triangles, so that there are many other patterns to be found, smaller hexagons, stars, and so on. The other side of the cloth, magically, is dark red, with larger white dots in overlapped fan-shapes. They knew I'd like it.

Describe the most complex meal or dish you've ever cooked.

[Christine_0701]

well...i'm not sure it's THE most complex, but one of the hardest I cooked was a boston cream pie. you have to be so precise with everything, or else it doesn't work. It was very nummy, though ;)

Describe the fanciest dessert you've ever had

[Christine_0701]

*bump*

[marmarg]

Well it wasn't really fancy, but it was bloody good. It was a triple layer black forest cake with TONS of cherries in it... it had edible flowers ontop though which I guess is kind of fancy.

If someone made you eat dirt, describe the texture and what it would taste like, as well as any other pertinent dirt-eating information. :)

[medeous]

never having eaten dirt, i can only imagine that it would be slightly grainy and have a dry organic taste to it, and it would make my tongue muddy. there's a song called the dirt eaters by his name is alive. they don't mention what it tastes like, though.

describe your prom dress (or tux), if you went.

[Death_Or_Aldona]

well..the top of it was a black corset the skirt was long and poofy...it was silky pink fabric with lots of black netting covering it...it's really a gorgeous gown...I wore it this past halloween :P I'm not so good at describing things

decribe your parents/mother/father/parental-type figure

[WonkyWalkingShoe]

loony, totally loony.
my mom is ummmmmm moody, yeah I'll go with moody and predictable, but only if you know her.... otherwise UNpredictable.... does that make any sense.

my dad doesn't talk much. He's a funny guy one of his best jokes is put out his hand and have you pick a finger, once you pick it he shakes it around wildly and asks "ok, now which one was it?" haha! He also drive my mother crazy, he makes a lot of jokes about her or things she does, mostly he jokes about her being naggy and whatnot, which gets her mad, which only amuses him and makes him do MORE.

ummm
sitcom family....... so I'm told


oh yeah I have to ASK something....

describe the way you feel about yourself when you see yourself for the first time in the morning.

[Death_Or_Aldona]

Originally posted by WonkyWalkingShoe@Jan 26 2004, 12:17 AM
He's a funny guy one of his best jokes is put out his hand and have you pick a finger, once you pick it he shakes it around wildly and asks "ok, now which one was it?" haha!

I don't know why...but that's really funny...:P

[medeous]

Originally posted by WonkyWalkingShoe@Jan 25 2004, 11:17 PM
describe the way you feel about yourself when you see yourself for the first time in the morning.
i feel kind of protective and maternal (towards myself...that's weird), i make kissy faces at myself and laugh.

turn to the left and describe the first thing you notice.

[WonkyWalkingShoe]

edited to say nothing at all......

[Christine_0701]

my silver links bracelet. it has 17 links, 3 of which are decorated. one has my initial, one has a dangly cross, and one has a butterfly. the cross is silver, and inset with some stone, the butterfly is gold, and on the wings it has red gems, and the initial is gold.

describe your ideal vacation

[Dalmaney]

My ideal vacation could be so many things... today my ideal vacation would involve flying to Perth, Australia to visit my sister. It would be warm, but not too hot, and completely snow free. There would be kangaroos and koalas and crazy birds all over the place. I would spend as much time as I wanted doing nothing and as much time as I wanted learning things. It would be a wonderful amazing time to spend with my family and see incredible new things.

Describe your favorite footwear.

[reddirtrose]

right now my favorites are beige suedey slip on clogthings with a little ribbon trim so cute and chunky tough soles for traction and fleecy lining for warmth. big roomy toe area can handle the fat socks I need in this below freezing climate ;)


describe your favorite relative

[cryptaesia]

i can describe the happiest moment in my life,

i am lying on the couch smoking while roads by portishead plays and she joins me. we lie together and share the pipe and drift.

describe the weirdest experience you've ever had.

[Christine_0701]

erm...right now when you described a non-description :P

describe your favourite LMAO you worked on

[bluecrayon]

Something the lovely Lyrica sent out -- a book in which we just put pieces of two days into the pages -- it was so much fun and it was wonderful to look at. I also liked "Train of Thought" that Karmadiva sent out...

Describe what love feels like...

[Lilac]

Love feels like butterflies landing all over your body, beating their wings and stirring a sweet breeze. It feels like being surrounded by a rainbow. It feels like falling into a down comforter.

Describe what it feels like to be creative.

[bluecrayon]

It kind of feels like love -- when creativity is really zipping through me, I am giddy and off the planet -- and creativity is intense and maddening, like love. And, like love, I often go through a sort of depression at the end of the cycle...

Describe your face...

[Lilac]

Oval, high cheekbones (from being 1/4 Native American...Blackfoot to be exact), too large brown eyes, cleft in the chin, smallish type nose...um...lips a little thinner than I'd like...dark eyebrows...a few freckles.

Describe your face. (that was a good question)

[Gingersmack]

Oval, high cheekbones (Blackfoot too!), two almond shaped (that simple description pleases my Grandmother to no end), dark brown eyes, no cleft in the chin, smallish type nose... hmmmm... upper lip is a bit thinner than I'd like...freshly waxed eyebrows... many freckles coming on in latter years. The sun is my enemy, but gardening and the great outdoors is my joy ^_^


Describe your last meal.

[medeous]

i had a moonpie and milk sometime yesterday. i don't like moonpies, now that i've tried them, but i do like the name.

describe your kitchen

[Lilac]

Very large and open, pine hardwood floors, kind of plain, creme colored walls...two windows facing the south...um...white stove and fridge...white wooden cupboards with pounded tin designs in the center of each...pots hanging on the eastern wall, various "bee" stuff scattered about (at one point I decided I wanted to decorate with a bee motif, but never really got into it)...a heavy wooden table...oh...built in pantry shelves, those are kind of cool...I don't know what else to say. I live in a 100 year old farm house, so the kitchen is kind of plain, but also kind of unique.

Describe what you see when you look out your front door.

[Christine_0701]

a grey carpet, witha burn hole accross the hall, white walls, and abig orange door that has a wipe-off board on it :P

Describe what you see when you look out your front door

[hammerquill]

Across the little back street on which I live, there's a creek, with a small wood pedestrian bridge across it, directly ahead. On the other side there're trees and underbrush, and a dilapidated cement stairway leading up the hill.

Describe your favorite café or other place you like to hang out in a café-like manner.

[Lilac]

Two gigantic pine trees, a big old hoary oak, large lawn, gravel driveway, and across the road...fields and woods.

What is in your refriderater?

[Christine_0701]

since i don't hang out in a cafe, i'll answer....oh wait, i can do both

inbetween classes on tuesday and thrusday, we got o this little lounge upstairs int eh second building (our classes are in 2 diff buildings)..Darcy calls it her office. It has a little round table, and 4 of the comfy chairs, we usually need to bring in 2 or 3 extras. It has bookshelves on the left side wall, the wall opposite the door wall has a big huge window, and the right side wall has a heinous poster of something called "art" that i would call "trash" :lol: it's awful, just absolutely horrendous. and on the left wall there's a quilted picture, of some ancient romans riding on horses, if i recall correctly

what's in my fridge? A big jar of cheese whiz, a little jar of cheesewhiz, a water bottle for a bike, that's 1.5 litres, a 1L carton of milk (2%), and a jar of pickles, that has 2 left.

describe one thing that always makes you happy, no matter what

[Lilac]

My son's laughter.

describe the person you love...

[medeous]

he's brilliant with computers and such. he's unconventional, honest, tormented, and reserved. i badgered him into loving me back. i believe he's well on his way to becoming curmudgeonly and it makes me smile.

how would your mom describe you?

[Lilac]

My Mother would say that I am beautiful and brilliant but that I need to grow up.

How would YOUR mother describe YOU?

[Jennyblue]

My mother would say I was intelligent, a perfectionist, a good person, moody and charming. I think.

Describe what it feels like when you find out someone lied to you.

[Lilac]

To me, it feels as if the world has opened up and swallowed me...a kind of sinking, undescribable feeling....

What does it feel like to eat a special food that you've been craving for a long time?

[Larrissa]

usually indescribably dissapointing

describe what you ate last night for dinner

[WindspiritWhimsies]

Well, being on a diet...I ate a Healthy Choice frozen dinner-chicken with bbq dipping sauce. Boring but quite good!

Describe how your favorite song makes you feel

[Larrissa]

**

[Christine_0701]

I think the last blister I got was from walking....thank goodness I haven't gotten any blood blisters from playing the guitar yet :P

describe your fave picture of yourself

[tanagee]

I am around six years-old and we were on a camping trip. The front of my blonde hair is pulled up and secured to the side with a rubber-band, and is slightly messy. I am wearing a yellow hoodie t-shirt. I am standing in the tall grass so you can only see me from mid-chest up. The sun is behind me illuminating the grass and my hair. I am looking towards someone to the left of my dad (who is taking the picture).

What makes the photo funny is that I was standing up from peeing in the bushes :).

Describe the moment you realized he/she was "THE ONE"

[bluecrayon]

When I realized not only is he politically conscious, with his radar working, but he is an artist extraordinaire. The combination made me look at him with all my senses. And my senses tingled... :) I knew him to be the "one" when I started to miss him in all the small details of my life... that had not happened with me before.

Describe how it felt to leave home...

[Christine_0701]

I was excited...but my leavig home is probably different than most peoples....i left 2 months before grade 12 ended, because my mom was leaving me, so I moved in with my friend's family....leaving them, I was glad b/c of all the sh*t i had to put up with living there, but I was sad b/c I missed living with people :sigh: only 26 more days

describe what it feels like when you miss someone?

[bluecrayon]

I miss him daily. It is a dull ache that is always in the background. Sunlight distracts me from it, darkness intensifies the need I have to connect with him. We spend way too much money and time on the phone, but it helps...

Describe where you want to go?

[Cuilanië]

How could I know? I've never been there...

Describe your "typical" day...

[Christine_0701]

it really depends on the day...mondays i have class in the evening, so the day is spent on here and doing homework, and evening @ class; tuesday and thursday i go to class from 11:30-4:00...well, there's a period in there i'm not in class, but I usually go out with my friends, wednesday i have class in teh morning and the afternoon is spent on here and doing homework, friday i go grocery shopping, saturday i do nothing, sunday i go to subway and buy supper for the week, and do nothing....lol

what's your typical day like?

[Lilac]

Well, weekends and weekdays are, of course, much different. Weekdays are much more typical to each other, though...so i'll describe one of them. I wake up at 6, put out the dogs, depending on the weather - put the two horses out to pasture, make coffee, get my son ready for school, make breakfast, drop my son off at my friend's house so that he can catch the bus....drive 70 minutes to the office (if I'm not working from home that day or going to a site)...umm...sit at my desk and go over calculations...or interpret data...or write technical papers...or just stare blankly into my computer screen....or whatever...get home around 6:30....put out the dogs, put hay and oats in the horse's and Gruffie's stalls...help my son with homework...make dinner...get on the computer..go to bed.

Pretty much boring.

desribe how it felt the last time you were REALLY sick or injured..

[jackiethestamper2]

Rolled my mini Van when I fell asleep at the wheel. Broke L3 in my back. Wasn't supposed to walk. After I came to I asked who the man was holding me in my van while I was being extracted from the Van by the firemen? Apparently no one saw this man. If you believe in angels LMK.

Your favorite holiday as a child

[Christine_0701]

Originally posted by jackiethestamper2@Mar 14 2004, 02:06 PM
Rolled my mini Van when I fell asleep at the wheel. Broke L3 in my back. Wasn't supposed to walk. After I came to I asked who the man was holding me in my van while I was being extracted from the Van by the firemen? Apparently no one saw this man. If you believe in angels LMK.


I believe in angels!

and:

Your favorite holiday as a child

[Kittyprin]

Halloween, no question! I loved dressing up as something else entirely and really getting into that role and BECOMING that person, or creature, or little demon. The sugar rush may have had something to do with this!

You get to meet your great-grandma for coffee at the cosmic Starbucks. What would she have to say about you and your life as an artist?

[Christine_0701]

My grreat-grandma is (well, when she was alive, she just died a few months ago) senile, and probably wouldn't say anything about my being an artist...not many people in my family consider me an artist, they consider me a writer...that being said, she would ask about how college is going, and what i've written lately ;)

describe your current art project

[Lilac]

My current art project is to make a couple of postcards to send to Nymphette....I actually started but was unhappy with the results...kind of a watercolor waterlilly type picture...and it really sucked...so I'm starting over. Poor Nymphette. She's going to puke when she gets these in the mail!

describe the contents of the glove compartment of your car....

[medeous]

duct tape, tampons, birth control pills, ibuprofen, matches, some oreos, kleenex, a flashlight, a granola bar, pink slip, and owners manual.

describe what's in the trunk of your car

[Christine_0701]

nothing b/c i don't have a car :lol: but, you should have some candles to go along with those matches!

describ what's on your fridge

[Lilac]

Pictures of my niece and nephews, pictures of my son in his football uniform, pictures of my best friend's little girl, drawings by my son, pictures of my dogs, a blue ribbon that my greyhound won in an agility show, various magnets, a calander of events from my son's school and...um....let me go look....oh, and a coupon for a "buy one get one free" London Broil Roast at a local grocery store.


Decribe what is IN your refriderater...

[Christine_0701]

apple juice, grapes, cheese whiz, pickles, a water bottle, milk, and oranges.

describe what's in your freezer

[Lilac]

A package of boneless, skinless chicken breasts, some deer meat (couresty of my father), a package of hamburger, a turkey breast, frozen french style green beans, frozen brocoli, frozen carrots, frozen baby lima beans, frozen corn, 5 packages of pita bread and strawberry ice cream.

Describe the contents of your top dresser drawer.

[Christine_0701]

which one? I have 4 plastic organizers that are my dressers :P

well, one has videos, a coil-ring book, a pen, a couple magazine pages, and a box that has a gold pin in it w/ my name....another has my undies and a bar of soap, another has random craft stuff, and the last one has my tank tops, shorts, and some hats.

what's in your kitchen junk drawer?

[Lilac]

Oh my God..I have a whole junk CUPBOARD in my kitchen. Papers, small toys, scissors...pedometer...odd earrings...coins...a hammer...3 screwdrives...drill bits...tape...everything...just everything. I don't even want to go there.....


Describe your very first date.

[Christine_0701]

*bump*

[kaishowing]

Originally posted by Lilac@Mar 16 2004, 12:47 AM
Describe your very first date.
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Hmmmm......well, there were alot of awkward silences.....stolen glances....and sweaty hand-holding! We went to the local school disco and got blinded and deafened by the Biology teacher who considered himself a bit of a DeeJay.
The date ended with a half-hour discussion on her doorstep with only about a dozen words spoken...painful silences that we didn't want to end, finished off with a rather chaste kiss before she vanished back into her parents house. The walk home was magical.
Hey c'mon!! Cut me some slack!! I was only 9!!!!

Describe the most breathtaking sight you've ever seen??

[Helquin]

Flying into the New York metropolitan area at night and seeing all the miles of lights from Jersey to Long Island and all along the Atlantic coast. I felt vast and tiny and magnificent and wretched all at the same time.

Describe a photograph of you and your mother.

[bluecrayon]

every photograph taken of me as a toddler with my mother has the same feeling to it -- I am never smiling and my body is moving away from her even as she holds me.


Describe what lonliness is to you?

[Helquin]

Sleeplessly, senselessly, hopelessly guarding the last gingerbread house as it's set upon by malicious children who celebrate their own appetite for destruction.

Describe a better day.

[pequad]

A day that I DON'T have to go spend $70 on a new video card so I can answer my emails. Well I guess i was past due for it anyhow, since mine has been dying for some time now.
A day that my husband's off from work and his boss DOESN'T start calling him at 8:30 am (bastard).
A day that I can climb out of bed, wander into the kitchen, and find that YES, I have all the fixings for western omlets, which I have probably been fantasizing about for the last hour.

Describe your favorite desert.

Carol

[Naturally~Nervous]

We sat outside at Enzo restaurant in Provincetown, MA on Cape Cod, under a big dark green umbrella, watching the kalidescopic jumble of people that strolled by and the sun setting beyond the harbour. The dessert was unadorned (didn't need it) and small (thank goodness): a dark chocolate mousse cake, oozing with a molten chocolate center, served warmmmm-mmmmm.....


Oh, sorry - you said DESERT!

I've only been to one, the Sonoran. It was like being on an alien planet compared with the Hudson Valley of NY. Everything was different - the wide empty horizon, the cities like giant strip malls that blended together so you didn't know when you crossed from one to the other, the dessicating wind, the high temperature, the color of sandy sand to the horizon, the mesas, the plants both dead-looking and blooming at the same time, the insects, the animals (there were birds living in hollows within the Saguaro cactus), the half-ridiculous, half horrifying human-imposed names like "Bloody Gultch". And so many swimming pools filled with precious water drained away from the Colorado River.

When I flew home and the jet descended through the cloud layer, I was struck with amazement; everything was so GREEN, like the Emerald City had exploded all over the valley! I never noticed that before.


Describe your favorite painting to me.

[Naturally~Nervous]

As Clouseau would say, "Bimp!"
He'd probably say it again, too.