You want your freedom - take it. That’s what I’m counting on.
Originally published at Tongue Tied 'n Twisted. You can comment here or there.
A lovely friend filled this in… and I thought I’d steal it for my own purposes. I’m a thief like that. Also I haven’t posted much due to school insanity - which is over!
10 Questions & Answers About Me
Question One: If you could do anything you want tomorrow, what would it be?
I think if I could do anything at all, I’d get my license. It’s not a big thing, but I’d like to get it as soon as possible and it’s just not looking plausible before I go to Australia.
Something I could actually do? Umm… well, a continuation of part of today’s plan, laying around in my PJs playing Mass Effect.
Question Two: What are your core values?
I guess my core values are creativity, honesty, passion, love.
Question Three: What are your special talents?
Being pretty decent at most things I try to do. I mean, there are definitely things I suck at (like hot glass!! - but I don’t suck as much as some people)… but ultimately I am decent or good at more things I try than I am bad. Examples?
- The first thing I really sewed was a satin dress and it was awesome. Lots of flaws, invisible to the outside. It rocked. Satin is the devil.
- When I first started wire wrapping gemstones, I would have had them in a store in Colorado if I was local. Owner was very sad I was Canadian.
- One of my instructors wants me to work on incorporating my writing into my art, because he thinks it’s super great.
- I’ve won an award for design and creation of a jewellery piece in my first jewellery class.
- Best in class at web designs.
- Making relatives cry with the paintings I’ve done of them/their kids/my cousins. And other art unrelated to them.
I do suck on a lot of things. But most creative endeavors, I’m in there. :3
Question Four: What do you do better than most people you know?
Get sick.
I dunno, actually. Not being afraid? I see myself as fearless, and I’m sure faced with some situations I wouldn’t be. But I pick up strange animals, I swim in the ocean outside of jellyfish nets, I run off after bears to attempt to get a better photo, I leaned out over the Grand Canyon (off the beaten path, where no one could see me - or would see me fall) to get a pic… I’m not afraid of being mugged or raped. I may be uncertain in social situations, but when it comes to things like these… Not so much. Lacking fear of other people probably comes from hiding an extremely violent core. *cough*
Question Five: What were your dreams as a child?
I wanted to be a vet. I remember when I was young and we used to yardsale every weekend, we found this whole set of veterinary texts, and I used to read them. I really planned on being a vet. I was into art as a kid, but never really thought of being an artist of any sort until high school, when I realized my horrible time with math and chemistry would make being a vet near impossible. I imagine I’m happier trying to be an artist than if I’d taken the vet route, but it’s hard to say. I’ve always wanted to help animals, and I’m not squeamish so I knew surgery and euthanasia wouldn’t be life-shattering for me (plus I’d lost my share of pets even by then)… Life just didn’t work out that way.
I also wanted to be a dinosaur and a unicorn.
Question Six: What is the thing you are most proud of accomplishing in your life so far?
Not letting cancer ruin my life, I guess. It seems a weird thing, to me, to be proud of… but I am, if I’m honest. It could have gone so differently, and continuing to deal with the aftermath (FIVE YEARS LATER, come ON) has had definite, major impacts on my life and mood… but through it all, I’ve maintained an ultimately happy, positive outlook on life. I took something horrible and made it a positive experience. Or at least the aftereffects - I got back to my art, I decided what I want to do with my life, I find the beauty in something that almost killed me.
Question Seven: What will you regret not doing in your life if you continue as you are now?
I’ll probably regret not taking enough risks. Not doing better in school. Not making epic awesome things while I’m there.
Question Eight: What do you want people to say about you after you are no longer living? What is your legacy?
I’ve never really thought about this. I guess I want to inspire something in the people who knew me. I want to have made people happy.
I also want to have made some decent contribution to the causes I care about. Ideally I think art fundraisers of some sort, or huge parties, or combination thereof. That’d be awesome.
Question Nine: What do you want to do when you retire?
Never retire! lol. I always want to be creating things, and if I can make money at it, I will.
I don’t think my “retirement” plans vary much from my life plans. I want to travel, and visit everyone I’ve ever met. Maybe spend lots of time with grandkids if I have them, or my friends’ if they have them.
Question Ten: Outside of parents who influenced your life more than anyone else; who had an impact on your life and what was it about that person that meant something to you?
Tracy. She’s had a lot of hard things happen in her life, things that seem impossible to deal with, and yet she keeps going strong. She’s seriously one of the strongest people I know. Tracy’s an inspiration.
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