What's this? A POST??
because I'm a sheep for many things, but also they make a good point... it's been a long while since I've done a ~me post, and since I would like to actually get back into posting, maybe I should take a whack at it....
per inabsentialuci, layout credit goes to miscuatroamores
Basics
Name: Erin
Gender: F
Status: not looking, not really interested
Age: 44
Birthday: Dec 06
Zodiac: Sagittarius <--Don't come at me with that "but the 13th house"-nonsense. I LIVE ON ORION'S BELT.
Wizarding Houses: Gryffindor (even if Hogwarts Legacy says I'm Ravenclaw or wherever it put me during the preorder which i still haven't even installed)
Great House of Westeros: n/a
Ethnicity: Scots-Welsh-Irish trifecta (aka whiter than Casper the Friendly Ghost)
Religion: VeggieTales? Jedi? Winchester? Whatever.... I was raised just LDS enough to get us into the Family History Center (Mom & I were pre-baptized, but never finished the 'ceremony'); and grew up Congregational. In general.. I figure you do you, I'll do me, but I'm not going anywhere specific to do it. I don't need a building to have a talk with the dude upstairs. Or downstairs. But if Rob Benedict comes strolling down the street, I'm gonna throw a punch. Except I won't, since he just became a dad and we love Ruthie and what was the question?
Height: 5'5
Hair: currently a dark brown, but it's starting to grow back out so it'll look like crap real quick. It's generally a dead mouse gray-brown and I hate it. JUST GO GRAY ALREADY. There's also just enough red in there that every box color ends up on the orange side, no matter what I pick.
Eyes: I have two. Neither of them work very well. They're a boring old brown.
Location: Central Florida - live over by Disney; work downtown Orlando
Parents: Two
Siblings: One aka The Lifeguard
Pets: all fanfictional/RP -- one Shiba Inu named Tinny, who is well past the average lifespan of a real dog ; and a baby Flying Monkey named Fred who hasn't had a lot of attention in a while, but we love him just the same
Health Issues:
Occupation: I am a secretary for an accountant, which means I am also a janitor; tech support; repairman; babysitter; maid; mother; banker; mailman; translator; therapist; lawyer; teacher; police officer; accountant; and all around FIXER OF EVERYTHING BECAUSE OMG THE DRAMA
Hobbies: crochet, quilting, RP, fanfic plotting, collecting video games I never play, watching movies, sitting in traffic, not doing chores, procrastinating, watching my friends' streams on Twitch, crafting YouTube rabbit holes, buying things I have no room for and/or will never wear
Favorites
Color: purple, but blue and greens are taking over, as I get older
Season: I always loved winter, when snow was real and not soap... but down in Florida, I prefer Fall, because it's time for Halloween Horror Nights & Mickey's Not-So-Scary
Holiday: St Patrick's Day. Also Halloween
Flowers: I like a moss rose
Fictional Characters: Adora Cain ; and OMG I can't think of a single other name all of a sudden. WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO MY BRAIN???????? I have a few OCs who keep me pretty entertained on the regular. I guess I'll say they're my favorites. Okay fine: HIS NAME IS MAX AND HE IS MY BEAN AND I LOVE HIM FOREVER AND EVER AND HE IS THE BEST NON-HUMAN EVER. ♥
Movies: Too many. I've had Labyrinth on the brain, since I just saw it in the theater; and a new Ghostbusters is coming. All the Star Trek, MCU, and a lot of Bollywood is always a high probability, too. Generally, I'd say check the tags. if it has a tag, I love it a lot more than normal.
TV: I live in a bubble of Mystery Science Theater 3000 most days/nights. I don't have to pay attention to it, but I also can just zone out and relax. We dropped cable last year, because it was the bill I could no longer justify, so I'm out of the loop. But Netflix most often gets the Star Trek Prodigy binge. When the mood hits, I will rewatch Kindred Spirits/Ghost Nation/Ghost Hunters. I do hope, at some point, to be able to get caught up on Snowpiercer and Finding Your Roots, though. Honestly, most of my time is spent between Twitch channels, these days. I have a few quilting friends who I try and always catch live; and the rest of it is split between Mary Jo and The Mads, on their various projects. Otherwise, Twitch is tuned into the MST3K channel.
Celebrity Crush: SRK, Deepika Padukone, Faith Hill, Neal McDonough <-- pretty much same as before, only SRK has CLEARLY moved to the top of the mountain. I'm okay with it.
Disney Princess: Sofia ; Vanellope ; Tiana
Disney Villain: Hades, I guess?
Music: music is more all over the place than movies & TV.. mostly the same old answer of Roger Clyne and The Peacemakers ; Flogging Molly ; Kelly Clarkson .. radio mostly rotates between 60s and DisneyHits right now....
Video Games: actively (ish) playing Disney Dreamlight Valley ; World of Warcraft ; DorfRomantik ... but the backlog of purchased games is getting out of hand. I really need to just push the live button and start streaming some games, more to make myself do it, than for any sort of Twitch career. I also play a mess of games on the phone/ipad
Historical Figures: Jim Henson, Walt Disney
Sports: Don't let the ESPN tag fool you -- I'm not really a sports-person.. I don't follow any of them, at all.. except for the ones I follow on FB/Twitter, I guess LOL
Favorite Sports Teams: Utah Jazz. Chudley Cannons.
Names Mentioned In This Journal
Biz: bizarra is one of my longest online friends. She's also been my roommate for 10 years. We met in a YahooGroup, one night, and that was that. Took almost 20 years to meet in person, and that was in an airport in Chicago. LOL She works at Disney and is a TREKKIE who is forced to stand in a cold room and let people in to see Chewbacca ALL. DAY. LONG. It's hilarious, honestly. She also doesn't always work the Star Wars attraction, but usually is found there or at the toddler rave.
gatechic: gatechic is one of my BEST online friends. She's not online nearly as much as she used to be, because life finds a way to be annoying.. but we catch up now and then on the Discord, and whenever the family comes to Disney for a visit, we get real hugs in. She is my favorite not-my-mom and I love her forever. ♥
The Lifeguard: My brother started working as a lifeguard at 14. He moved to Florida about a year after graduating college and joined me in working at Disney, where he continued to lifeguard, manage, etc etc. His best friend (aka BFAM Nate) once said something in response to something that my brother was "just a lifeguard", and it stuck. PSA: He's no longer a lifeguard, but fingers crossed, that he will have a new job title very very soon. Even though he'll still be referred to as "The Lifeguard".
Mom & Dad: Dad's finally out of the hospital and well on the road to recovery. End of the day, no one knows WTF happened in January, but after many years of the Florida doctors futzing with his medications, it sounds like they finally got him stabilized and he is slowly working his way back to normal. Got a photo from The Lifeguard on his last visit up of dad on his tractor. M&D live about four hours north (the last hurricane came right over the house and did quite a bit of damage to their 21 acres of mom's "tree farm") and, while I used to go up semi-regularly (aka on 3day weekends), The Lifeguard has been making the trips this past year. Both in helping with the medical stuff, but all the post-hurricane cleanup).
MC: inabsentialuci loves DW a lot and it's a bit more than me. I don't like the tagging setup over there. I like the LJ dropdown, so I don't have to sit there and remember every effin' tag I've ever made. It's 97.8% of the reason I never bothered to learn how to use Tumblr, honestly. But, anyway.... MC & I share a few too many brain cells. Sorry not sorry.
the Boss: He's my boss. That's about it. He's stuck in the past in more ways than one, but it's keeping the bills paid (mostly), so I just grit my teeth and continue to put up with all of it because I like having a place for all my crap. Even if we won't be able to afford it much longer. But that's for another post... or not.
Not-Boss: Sometimes referred to as "Other Accountant". He's not my boss. Thinks and acts like he's my boss. Spends half the year in Montana and loves to turn the AC on when it's not that hot. Also loves to listen to radio stations and have conversations with The Lawyer (or his own clients/friends/whoever will listen) that make me want to throw things because I hate being forced to listen to the BS. Yes: all that BS you're probably thinking of: ALL OF IT. ALL THE TIME. Much as I hate the AC being on all the time (because it's effin' cold and blows right on me), it drowns all that shit out
Elsewhere Online
the DW side of things is a mess. Like.. A HOT MESS.
fic/icons
AO3 (seriously, though, stick with the LJ. I never got the shutdown to figure out Ao3 posting)
Tumblr & Tumblr (seriously. I do not understand this site.)
Instagram/Discord/Twitch/Steam is erinm_4600
I know there's so much I forgot or got wrong or glossed over. Whatever. I'll fix it in post, or just scroll back. :D
(copy/pasted to DW, the old way)
per inabsentialuci, layout credit goes to miscuatroamores
Basics
Name: Erin
Gender: F
Status: not looking, not really interested
Age: 44
Birthday: Dec 06
Zodiac: Sagittarius <--Don't come at me with that "but the 13th house"-nonsense. I LIVE ON ORION'S BELT.
Wizarding Houses: Gryffindor (even if Hogwarts Legacy says I'm Ravenclaw or wherever it put me during the preorder which i still haven't even installed)
Great House of Westeros: n/a
Ethnicity: Scots-Welsh-Irish trifecta (aka whiter than Casper the Friendly Ghost)
Religion: VeggieTales? Jedi? Winchester? Whatever.... I was raised just LDS enough to get us into the Family History Center (Mom & I were pre-baptized, but never finished the 'ceremony'); and grew up Congregational. In general.. I figure you do you, I'll do me, but I'm not going anywhere specific to do it. I don't need a building to have a talk with the dude upstairs. Or downstairs. But if Rob Benedict comes strolling down the street, I'm gonna throw a punch. Except I won't, since he just became a dad and we love Ruthie and what was the question?
Height: 5'5
Hair: currently a dark brown, but it's starting to grow back out so it'll look like crap real quick. It's generally a dead mouse gray-brown and I hate it. JUST GO GRAY ALREADY. There's also just enough red in there that every box color ends up on the orange side, no matter what I pick.
Eyes: I have two. Neither of them work very well. They're a boring old brown.
Location: Central Florida - live over by Disney; work downtown Orlando
Parents: Two
Siblings: One aka The Lifeguard
Pets: all fanfictional/RP -- one Shiba Inu named Tinny, who is well past the average lifespan of a real dog ; and a baby Flying Monkey named Fred who hasn't had a lot of attention in a while, but we love him just the same
Health Issues:
Occupation: I am a secretary for an accountant, which means I am also a janitor; tech support; repairman; babysitter; maid; mother; banker; mailman; translator; therapist; lawyer; teacher; police officer; accountant; and all around FIXER OF EVERYTHING BECAUSE OMG THE DRAMA
Hobbies: crochet, quilting, RP, fanfic plotting, collecting video games I never play, watching movies, sitting in traffic, not doing chores, procrastinating, watching my friends' streams on Twitch, crafting YouTube rabbit holes, buying things I have no room for and/or will never wear
Favorites
Color: purple, but blue and greens are taking over, as I get older
Season: I always loved winter, when snow was real and not soap... but down in Florida, I prefer Fall, because it's time for Halloween Horror Nights & Mickey's Not-So-Scary
Holiday: St Patrick's Day. Also Halloween
Flowers: I like a moss rose
Fictional Characters: Adora Cain ; and OMG I can't think of a single other name all of a sudden. WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO MY BRAIN???????? I have a few OCs who keep me pretty entertained on the regular. I guess I'll say they're my favorites. Okay fine: HIS NAME IS MAX AND HE IS MY BEAN AND I LOVE HIM FOREVER AND EVER AND HE IS THE BEST NON-HUMAN EVER. ♥
Movies: Too many. I've had Labyrinth on the brain, since I just saw it in the theater; and a new Ghostbusters is coming. All the Star Trek, MCU, and a lot of Bollywood is always a high probability, too. Generally, I'd say check the tags. if it has a tag, I love it a lot more than normal.
TV: I live in a bubble of Mystery Science Theater 3000 most days/nights. I don't have to pay attention to it, but I also can just zone out and relax. We dropped cable last year, because it was the bill I could no longer justify, so I'm out of the loop. But Netflix most often gets the Star Trek Prodigy binge. When the mood hits, I will rewatch Kindred Spirits/Ghost Nation/Ghost Hunters. I do hope, at some point, to be able to get caught up on Snowpiercer and Finding Your Roots, though. Honestly, most of my time is spent between Twitch channels, these days. I have a few quilting friends who I try and always catch live; and the rest of it is split between Mary Jo and The Mads, on their various projects. Otherwise, Twitch is tuned into the MST3K channel.
Celebrity Crush: SRK, Deepika Padukone, Faith Hill, Neal McDonough <-- pretty much same as before, only SRK has CLEARLY moved to the top of the mountain. I'm okay with it.
Disney Princess: Sofia ; Vanellope ; Tiana
Disney Villain: Hades, I guess?
Music: music is more all over the place than movies & TV.. mostly the same old answer of Roger Clyne and The Peacemakers ; Flogging Molly ; Kelly Clarkson .. radio mostly rotates between 60s and DisneyHits right now....
Video Games: actively (ish) playing Disney Dreamlight Valley ; World of Warcraft ; DorfRomantik ... but the backlog of purchased games is getting out of hand. I really need to just push the live button and start streaming some games, more to make myself do it, than for any sort of Twitch career. I also play a mess of games on the phone/ipad
Historical Figures: Jim Henson, Walt Disney
Sports: Don't let the ESPN tag fool you -- I'm not really a sports-person.. I don't follow any of them, at all.. except for the ones I follow on FB/Twitter, I guess LOL
Favorite Sports Teams: Utah Jazz. Chudley Cannons.
Names Mentioned In This Journal
Biz: bizarra is one of my longest online friends. She's also been my roommate for 10 years. We met in a YahooGroup, one night, and that was that. Took almost 20 years to meet in person, and that was in an airport in Chicago. LOL She works at Disney and is a TREKKIE who is forced to stand in a cold room and let people in to see Chewbacca ALL. DAY. LONG. It's hilarious, honestly. She also doesn't always work the Star Wars attraction, but usually is found there or at the toddler rave.
gatechic: gatechic is one of my BEST online friends. She's not online nearly as much as she used to be, because life finds a way to be annoying.. but we catch up now and then on the Discord, and whenever the family comes to Disney for a visit, we get real hugs in. She is my favorite not-my-mom and I love her forever. ♥
The Lifeguard: My brother started working as a lifeguard at 14. He moved to Florida about a year after graduating college and joined me in working at Disney, where he continued to lifeguard, manage, etc etc. His best friend (aka BFAM Nate) once said something in response to something that my brother was "just a lifeguard", and it stuck. PSA: He's no longer a lifeguard, but fingers crossed, that he will have a new job title very very soon. Even though he'll still be referred to as "The Lifeguard".
Mom & Dad: Dad's finally out of the hospital and well on the road to recovery. End of the day, no one knows WTF happened in January, but after many years of the Florida doctors futzing with his medications, it sounds like they finally got him stabilized and he is slowly working his way back to normal. Got a photo from The Lifeguard on his last visit up of dad on his tractor. M&D live about four hours north (the last hurricane came right over the house and did quite a bit of damage to their 21 acres of mom's "tree farm") and, while I used to go up semi-regularly (aka on 3day weekends), The Lifeguard has been making the trips this past year. Both in helping with the medical stuff, but all the post-hurricane cleanup).
MC: inabsentialuci loves DW a lot and it's a bit more than me. I don't like the tagging setup over there. I like the LJ dropdown, so I don't have to sit there and remember every effin' tag I've ever made. It's 97.8% of the reason I never bothered to learn how to use Tumblr, honestly. But, anyway.... MC & I share a few too many brain cells. Sorry not sorry.
the Boss: He's my boss. That's about it. He's stuck in the past in more ways than one, but it's keeping the bills paid (mostly), so I just grit my teeth and continue to put up with all of it because I like having a place for all my crap. Even if we won't be able to afford it much longer. But that's for another post... or not.
Not-Boss: Sometimes referred to as "Other Accountant". He's not my boss. Thinks and acts like he's my boss. Spends half the year in Montana and loves to turn the AC on when it's not that hot. Also loves to listen to radio stations and have conversations with The Lawyer (or his own clients/friends/whoever will listen) that make me want to throw things because I hate being forced to listen to the BS. Yes: all that BS you're probably thinking of: ALL OF IT. ALL THE TIME. Much as I hate the AC being on all the time (because it's effin' cold and blows right on me), it drowns all that shit out
Elsewhere Online
the DW side of things is a mess. Like.. A HOT MESS.
fic/icons
AO3 (seriously, though, stick with the LJ. I never got the shutdown to figure out Ao3 posting)
Tumblr & Tumblr (seriously. I do not understand this site.)
Instagram/Discord/Twitch/Steam is erinm_4600
I know there's so much I forgot or got wrong or glossed over. Whatever. I'll fix it in post, or just scroll back. :D
(copy/pasted to DW, the old way)