Meme-Type Stuff
I got tagged by alassante who must have known that Dawn needed ten minutes to mull over a meme. Seriously, thanks, Al, for giving me a minute to slow down. :)
The Rules: The 1st player of this "game" starts with the topic "Five Holiday Traditions" and people who get tagged need to write a LiveJournal entry about their five holiday traditions as well as state this rule clearly. In the end, you need to choose the next five people to be tagged.
1. Bobby and I go to Hersheypark every year for the Christmas Candy Lane. This tradition actually started during our first Christmas together, nine years ago (o.O) when we went with his family for the first time. We lapsed for a lot of years because we were so young when we started dating, we couldn't drive ourselves for a while, much less take holidays together! But now, we make it a point to go every year.
2. We buy a new Hallmark ornament each year. Last year, we got a "First Christmas Together" ornament because it was our first holiday as a married versus might-as-well-being-married-just-don't-have-all-the-pesky-paperwork-in-yet couple. This year, we got a bear playing hockey, in honor of Bobby's first year back in the game, after many years absence due to college and college-induced penury. Oh, and we also get the LotR ornament too. Because I'm obsessed.
3. We go shopping on Black Friday. Sometimes, Bobby even gets up and goes to those early sales, although he's never gone so far as to stand in line outside a store at four in the morning. Working at The Piece, which was in the mall, Black Friday came to be the stuff of legend, and Felak indeed dislikes it to this day. I'm not a very happy person in crowds, and the stupid folks milling about on Black Friday frighten and enrage me. This year, Bobby placated me by buying me lunch at a French cafe. Mmmm....
4. We eat pizza on Christmas Eve! I am fond of saying that I could eat pizza every day, but I must have it on Christmas Eve. Last year, we went to my parents' house for homemade beer-dough pizza. This year, Bobby and I will pop a frozen pie into the oven and sprinkle some veggie meats on it to make a meatza. (As an example of what a sick person I am, I just sat for a good fifteen seconds thinking of all the good things to eat at holiday time....)
5. I make candy. Lots and lots of candy. Usually, most of it waits 'til the last minute; this year, I started on 1 November and have been working steadily since, and so all I have to do before my final round of packaging is some chocolate pretzels and a few more caramel almond clusters.
And I tag:
yuanrang
greenknight33
juno_magic
arandil13
tarion_anarore
I've tried not to duplicate any taggings, so if I did, oops...
Anyone else who wants to give this meme a whirl, gak away! I would tag all of you, but the rules call for five and I'd probably really piss off my flist. ;^P
And in other, funnier news:
You're a LiveJournal Fiend!
You're into LiveJournal, big time... just not as much as your friends.
Still, you've LJ'ed from work - and made posts about what you had for dinner. Sicko!
You may be safe from the clutches of LJ - or maybe you're just are an adept liar!
Are You Addicted to LiveJournal?
And my answers were hardly of the totally obsessive variety. A lot of it, I think, comes from modding the RPG comm themidhavens and having a second account for that and also having "recruited" several people to play in the RPG. For which they would need LJ accounts. That also accounts for why my husband has an LJ account.
Oh, and I took the "How Much Do You Cuss in Your LJ Quiz?" found over with enismirdal, and the results for my username are so embarrassing that I'm not even going to post them. But if you want to see what a potty mouth I have, just run my username "dawn_felagund." Of course, a lot of the body part words come from AMC. I don't know if that makes me feel any better or not.
Still, I'm afraid I'm developing a reputation. Last night, Bobby asked me about my plans for writing projects after all the holiday stories are finished, and I told him that I'd be working on my original novel that I started for NaNoWriMo and finishing that, then probably starting on the next piece of the AMC-inclusive epic. He said that when the PRG starts up again in January, he'd also like us to consider working on our collaborative novel together. (Which we've been talking about for months but have yet to start.)
Me: Yeah! Yeah! We could maybe start with the trade relationship that exists between your Brittanians and my Elves.
Bobby: That's an idea. You'll have to write all the dirty scenes, though.
Me: What makes you think there will be dirty scenes?
Bobby: (long silence) Because it's you. Half of your AMC chapters are rated for adults only.
Okay, so I guess the expert opinions are in then, and I'm a perv. :^/
The Rules: The 1st player of this "game" starts with the topic "Five Holiday Traditions" and people who get tagged need to write a LiveJournal entry about their five holiday traditions as well as state this rule clearly. In the end, you need to choose the next five people to be tagged.
1. Bobby and I go to Hersheypark every year for the Christmas Candy Lane. This tradition actually started during our first Christmas together, nine years ago (o.O) when we went with his family for the first time. We lapsed for a lot of years because we were so young when we started dating, we couldn't drive ourselves for a while, much less take holidays together! But now, we make it a point to go every year.
2. We buy a new Hallmark ornament each year. Last year, we got a "First Christmas Together" ornament because it was our first holiday as a married versus might-as-well-being-married-just-don't-have-all-the-pesky-paperwork-in-yet couple. This year, we got a bear playing hockey, in honor of Bobby's first year back in the game, after many years absence due to college and college-induced penury. Oh, and we also get the LotR ornament too. Because I'm obsessed.
3. We go shopping on Black Friday. Sometimes, Bobby even gets up and goes to those early sales, although he's never gone so far as to stand in line outside a store at four in the morning. Working at The Piece, which was in the mall, Black Friday came to be the stuff of legend, and Felak indeed dislikes it to this day. I'm not a very happy person in crowds, and the stupid folks milling about on Black Friday frighten and enrage me. This year, Bobby placated me by buying me lunch at a French cafe. Mmmm....
4. We eat pizza on Christmas Eve! I am fond of saying that I could eat pizza every day, but I must have it on Christmas Eve. Last year, we went to my parents' house for homemade beer-dough pizza. This year, Bobby and I will pop a frozen pie into the oven and sprinkle some veggie meats on it to make a meatza. (As an example of what a sick person I am, I just sat for a good fifteen seconds thinking of all the good things to eat at holiday time....)
5. I make candy. Lots and lots of candy. Usually, most of it waits 'til the last minute; this year, I started on 1 November and have been working steadily since, and so all I have to do before my final round of packaging is some chocolate pretzels and a few more caramel almond clusters.
And I tag:
yuanrang
greenknight33
juno_magic
arandil13
tarion_anarore
I've tried not to duplicate any taggings, so if I did, oops...
Anyone else who wants to give this meme a whirl, gak away! I would tag all of you, but the rules call for five and I'd probably really piss off my flist. ;^P
And in other, funnier news:
You're a LiveJournal Fiend!
You're into LiveJournal, big time... just not as much as your friends.
Still, you've LJ'ed from work - and made posts about what you had for dinner. Sicko!
You may be safe from the clutches of LJ - or maybe you're just are an adept liar!
Are You Addicted to LiveJournal?
And my answers were hardly of the totally obsessive variety. A lot of it, I think, comes from modding the RPG comm themidhavens and having a second account for that and also having "recruited" several people to play in the RPG. For which they would need LJ accounts. That also accounts for why my husband has an LJ account.
Oh, and I took the "How Much Do You Cuss in Your LJ Quiz?" found over with enismirdal, and the results for my username are so embarrassing that I'm not even going to post them. But if you want to see what a potty mouth I have, just run my username "dawn_felagund." Of course, a lot of the body part words come from AMC. I don't know if that makes me feel any better or not.
Still, I'm afraid I'm developing a reputation. Last night, Bobby asked me about my plans for writing projects after all the holiday stories are finished, and I told him that I'd be working on my original novel that I started for NaNoWriMo and finishing that, then probably starting on the next piece of the AMC-inclusive epic. He said that when the PRG starts up again in January, he'd also like us to consider working on our collaborative novel together. (Which we've been talking about for months but have yet to start.)
Me: Yeah! Yeah! We could maybe start with the trade relationship that exists between your Brittanians and my Elves.
Bobby: That's an idea. You'll have to write all the dirty scenes, though.
Me: What makes you think there will be dirty scenes?
Bobby: (long silence) Because it's you. Half of your AMC chapters are rated for adults only.
Okay, so I guess the expert opinions are in then, and I'm a perv. :^/