Meme
Reply to this meme by yelling "Words!" and I will give you five words that remind me of you. Then post them in your LJ and explain what they mean to you.
Here are my five from dreamflower02
Motherhood
The hardest job I'll ever love. As many times as I've cried and ranted, I wouldn't trade it for anything. For all the bad there are the great moments when your child does something amazing and you just have to smile and say, "Yeah, it's all gonna all right. The moments of laughter are priceless. Who ever thought that corndogs could be so funny as they were at lunch today.:)
Pippin
Of course my favorite character in Lord of the Rings.:) I know there are many of us who truly appreciate him, but for the longest time I thought I was the only one who saw him as more than an extra in the story. I remember the first time I read the scene at the Black Gate and feared he had died; I felt worse than when Shelob got Frodo.
Pippin was always one of my favorite characters to speculate on for backstory. I pictured him as small and kind of fragile almost from the beginning. I always saw him a musically talented. I think that scene where Denethor asks for a song as a lot to do with that--this was back in 1977.:) From the time I read the family trees I always wondered why it took so long for Pippin and Diamond to have children. I know now that they probably had at least a daughter before their son, but back when I was younger I didn't realize the whole thing about girls names not always being recorded in short-version family trees. This led to a lot of speculation on my part and finally gave birth (pardon the pun) to the first of two stories about three years ago. I hope to someday finish the third story and have my own little Pippin trilogy.:)
Indiana
Indiana is home, in a word. It is not a glamorous state. It is often hot in the summer and cold in the winter and we don't deal with snow as well as most states that get a lot of it do. It's small and way too conservative, in my opinion, and it doesn't have a lot to recommend it, but it has things that I can't imagine not having around. Unlike many, I like most of sports stuff, and I like the way you can't quite tell where the cities end and the country begins. I love our state fair. I even like some of our weird words and accents. I've visited several other states, but Indiana will always be home--even if, by some strange twist of fate, I should ever end up living someplace else.
Music
I love music. I like traditional music and a lot of popular stuff, too. Where as many people have visual memories of events, many of my memories are tied to songs. I can hear a song and usually think of an event I associate with it. It's strange, I know.
I also love to sing. I'm not as good at it as many people I know, but I enjoy it. My daughter has been blessed with a very good voice and I'm overjoyed when she uses it. I was just thrilled to hear her singing loud and clear this morning in church.:) Our house is almost always filled, at least in one room, with music. Either she's playing it on the computer or I am playing it on mine, or one of us will have a radio on. It just makes our home a happier place.
Fanfic
I guess, like many of us, I started coming up with Mary Sue stories when I was very young. I think my first attempts were Star Trek,--the Enterprise crew is dropped in 20th. Century Earth and a group of kids, a character very much like me being the leader, has to help them hide and get back to where they belong. Sound familiar?
Then, when I became a Lord of the Rings fan, I started writing stories where the hobbits, especially Merry and Pippin, were somehow sent to our time or a future time. These were not Mary Sue stories. These were out and out Angst and Hurt/Comfort. I wrote stories of the this nature all through high school and college. Only part of one still survives and it is in a little notebook in a drawer of my desk.
I the late '90's, I went back to Star Trek fandom when I got hooked on Deep Space Nine. This lead to my first finished and printed fanfic. It was an Odo/Kira story called "Destined to Relive It" and was printed in a fanzine called "Love and Justice VI" in 2001.
I had vowed, after a bad internet experience with some Lord of the Rings fans, that I would not get involved in online LOTR fandom. I friend gave me link to a sight that had some of her LOTR fanfic on it, and I was re-hooked. I wrote my first completed LOTR fic for one of Marigold's challenges, and I never looked back. I have been writing and reviewing ever since. I don't get to do as much of either as I once did because of my work schedule and other real-life issues, but I still love fanfic and all the friends it has brought into my life.:)
Here are my five from dreamflower02
Motherhood
The hardest job I'll ever love. As many times as I've cried and ranted, I wouldn't trade it for anything. For all the bad there are the great moments when your child does something amazing and you just have to smile and say, "Yeah, it's all gonna all right. The moments of laughter are priceless. Who ever thought that corndogs could be so funny as they were at lunch today.:)
Pippin
Of course my favorite character in Lord of the Rings.:) I know there are many of us who truly appreciate him, but for the longest time I thought I was the only one who saw him as more than an extra in the story. I remember the first time I read the scene at the Black Gate and feared he had died; I felt worse than when Shelob got Frodo.
Pippin was always one of my favorite characters to speculate on for backstory. I pictured him as small and kind of fragile almost from the beginning. I always saw him a musically talented. I think that scene where Denethor asks for a song as a lot to do with that--this was back in 1977.:) From the time I read the family trees I always wondered why it took so long for Pippin and Diamond to have children. I know now that they probably had at least a daughter before their son, but back when I was younger I didn't realize the whole thing about girls names not always being recorded in short-version family trees. This led to a lot of speculation on my part and finally gave birth (pardon the pun) to the first of two stories about three years ago. I hope to someday finish the third story and have my own little Pippin trilogy.:)
Indiana
Indiana is home, in a word. It is not a glamorous state. It is often hot in the summer and cold in the winter and we don't deal with snow as well as most states that get a lot of it do. It's small and way too conservative, in my opinion, and it doesn't have a lot to recommend it, but it has things that I can't imagine not having around. Unlike many, I like most of sports stuff, and I like the way you can't quite tell where the cities end and the country begins. I love our state fair. I even like some of our weird words and accents. I've visited several other states, but Indiana will always be home--even if, by some strange twist of fate, I should ever end up living someplace else.
Music
I love music. I like traditional music and a lot of popular stuff, too. Where as many people have visual memories of events, many of my memories are tied to songs. I can hear a song and usually think of an event I associate with it. It's strange, I know.
I also love to sing. I'm not as good at it as many people I know, but I enjoy it. My daughter has been blessed with a very good voice and I'm overjoyed when she uses it. I was just thrilled to hear her singing loud and clear this morning in church.:) Our house is almost always filled, at least in one room, with music. Either she's playing it on the computer or I am playing it on mine, or one of us will have a radio on. It just makes our home a happier place.
Fanfic
I guess, like many of us, I started coming up with Mary Sue stories when I was very young. I think my first attempts were Star Trek,--the Enterprise crew is dropped in 20th. Century Earth and a group of kids, a character very much like me being the leader, has to help them hide and get back to where they belong. Sound familiar?
Then, when I became a Lord of the Rings fan, I started writing stories where the hobbits, especially Merry and Pippin, were somehow sent to our time or a future time. These were not Mary Sue stories. These were out and out Angst and Hurt/Comfort. I wrote stories of the this nature all through high school and college. Only part of one still survives and it is in a little notebook in a drawer of my desk.
I the late '90's, I went back to Star Trek fandom when I got hooked on Deep Space Nine. This lead to my first finished and printed fanfic. It was an Odo/Kira story called "Destined to Relive It" and was printed in a fanzine called "Love and Justice VI" in 2001.
I had vowed, after a bad internet experience with some Lord of the Rings fans, that I would not get involved in online LOTR fandom. I friend gave me link to a sight that had some of her LOTR fanfic on it, and I was re-hooked. I wrote my first completed LOTR fic for one of Marigold's challenges, and I never looked back. I have been writing and reviewing ever since. I don't get to do as much of either as I once did because of my work schedule and other real-life issues, but I still love fanfic and all the friends it has brought into my life.:)