Won't you help me cure this overload?
This is a whole post of tl:dr, so I've cut for convenience. But I'm tired of this post pending for over a week. So pthphtphtphpt. :P
I *am* Elizabeth Bennet!
Your Score: Elizabeth Bennet
70% romance, 57% sauciness, 40% etiquette, 74% intelligence
You believe in true love and standing up for yourself. You're also witty and reasonably well-read. What you don't have time for is kowtowing to society's expectations of you. So what if your hem gets a little muddy? Let the neighbors click their tongues! You've got better things to do. Like dressing down that tall, snobbish gentleman in the corner, or traveling 'round Derbyshire, or chatting with that pleasant young officer, or nursing your older sister back to health, or trading witticisms with your father, or keeping your crazy little sisters in line, or..... Ideal matches: Mr. Darcy, Captain Wentworth, Colonel Brandon Guaranteed heartbreak (their hearts): George Wickham, John Willoughby, Captain Benwick Not worthy of your affections: Mr. Collins, Henry Crawford
Link: The Jane Austen heroine Test written by SarahKath on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test
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1. What were some of the smells and tastes of your childhood?
Fresh pasta, especially the tortellini from Bonzetti's where my mom worked for 15 years. It was a converted house, and it always, always, smelled of garlic (but in a good way), basil, and the floury eggy smell of fresh handmade pasta. And nothing tastes better than fresh pasta.
The smell of bedsheets that had been dried outside on in the summer sunshine.
My favorite rose in my mother's yard, the Peace rose, is one of my favorite smells.
My dad's cologne whenever they got gussied up to go out, I think it was Old Spice.
The Christmas cookies, that my mom baked chock full o' love. Nothing ever tastes better than those at the holidays.
2. What did you have as a child that you do not think children today have?
I think that they are losing their innocence faster, with sex starting younger and younger, and exposure to incredibly violent video games.
3. What elementary grade was your favorite?
I really liked them all. I had nice teachers, and I remember good things about every grade. But 4th grade may have been a smidgen better, but I can't say that I got into trouble any less that year than another.
4. What summer do you remember the best as a child?
Any summer that we went camping, especially to Banks Lake or Spectacle Lake. All the summers at the Boat Club in Wenatchee. Everyone was so relaxed and just out to have a good time. It was wonderful.
5. What one piece of advice would you give to your younger self, and at what age?
At age 10, tell myself that I am about to hit some socially awkward years, and to remember not to care what anybody thinks, and to remember that I am inherently awesome.
First off, I got my first "oh hey, have you lost weight?" comment last week. I meant to post when it happened, but work got crazy busy.
I have lost 6.4 lbs so far.
I don't watch America's Next Top Model, but I *do* read Go Fug Yourself, and I was notified by the Fug Girls that Our Next Top Model is a "plus size" - which in model-speak apparently means a size 10. While I think it's great that she's not stick-skinny, and that Miss Tyra can appreciate a curvy girl and therefore said curvy girl will be all over everything now, a size 10 is HARDLY "plus size". Marilyn Monroe, one of our greatest sex symbols, was herself a size 12 (or was it 14?). But I do think the winner is gorgeous, and as long as she is at a HEALTHY weight, then that's great.
Some other links (of interest to nobody but me, probably):
My old apartments-turned-condo-cum-luxury apartments goes pear shaped - again. Oh boo hoo. Also, Chuck & Sally's Tavern has gone out of business, haha. What a dive.
Do you remember those horrible salesmen at Huling Bros. that stole $100,000 from a mentally ill person back in December of 2006. Well, the sentencing has begun, and I would like to note that the ringleader is now digging ditches in Wenatchee.
In book news:
Jacqueline Carey made an announcement via Facebook (not her website, oddly) that the working title for her next trilogy, set in the same world a few hundred years about Phèdre and Imriel, is Naamah's Gift. I have many theories about where she's going to take that theme...
If you are a fan, like me, of Peter S. Beagle and/or The Last Unicorn, you may be interested to know about the possibility of getting a signed, hardback edition of The Last Unicorn. And if you prefer art, they have conception art for the movie from 1979 they are selling off. I am considering getting the whole set!!!
Remember when Gretchen and I posed on a trapeze with The Name of the Wind for a photo contest???
Well, we won The Athletic Category!!! The moral of this story: Never underestimate the awesome power of the trapeze.
Tomorrow, I head up to Orcas Island. WHEEE!!!
I *am* Elizabeth Bennet!
Your Score: Elizabeth Bennet
70% romance, 57% sauciness, 40% etiquette, 74% intelligence
You believe in true love and standing up for yourself. You're also witty and reasonably well-read. What you don't have time for is kowtowing to society's expectations of you. So what if your hem gets a little muddy? Let the neighbors click their tongues! You've got better things to do. Like dressing down that tall, snobbish gentleman in the corner, or traveling 'round Derbyshire, or chatting with that pleasant young officer, or nursing your older sister back to health, or trading witticisms with your father, or keeping your crazy little sisters in line, or..... Ideal matches: Mr. Darcy, Captain Wentworth, Colonel Brandon Guaranteed heartbreak (their hearts): George Wickham, John Willoughby, Captain Benwick Not worthy of your affections: Mr. Collins, Henry Crawford
Link: The Jane Austen heroine Test written by SarahKath on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test
View My Profile(SarahKath)
Yoinked from purplevenus
1. What were some of the smells and tastes of your childhood?
Fresh pasta, especially the tortellini from Bonzetti's where my mom worked for 15 years. It was a converted house, and it always, always, smelled of garlic (but in a good way), basil, and the floury eggy smell of fresh handmade pasta. And nothing tastes better than fresh pasta.
The smell of bedsheets that had been dried outside on in the summer sunshine.
My favorite rose in my mother's yard, the Peace rose, is one of my favorite smells.
My dad's cologne whenever they got gussied up to go out, I think it was Old Spice.
The Christmas cookies, that my mom baked chock full o' love. Nothing ever tastes better than those at the holidays.
2. What did you have as a child that you do not think children today have?
I think that they are losing their innocence faster, with sex starting younger and younger, and exposure to incredibly violent video games.
3. What elementary grade was your favorite?
I really liked them all. I had nice teachers, and I remember good things about every grade. But 4th grade may have been a smidgen better, but I can't say that I got into trouble any less that year than another.
4. What summer do you remember the best as a child?
Any summer that we went camping, especially to Banks Lake or Spectacle Lake. All the summers at the Boat Club in Wenatchee. Everyone was so relaxed and just out to have a good time. It was wonderful.
5. What one piece of advice would you give to your younger self, and at what age?
At age 10, tell myself that I am about to hit some socially awkward years, and to remember not to care what anybody thinks, and to remember that I am inherently awesome.
First off, I got my first "oh hey, have you lost weight?" comment last week. I meant to post when it happened, but work got crazy busy.
I have lost 6.4 lbs so far.
I don't watch America's Next Top Model, but I *do* read Go Fug Yourself, and I was notified by the Fug Girls that Our Next Top Model is a "plus size" - which in model-speak apparently means a size 10. While I think it's great that she's not stick-skinny, and that Miss Tyra can appreciate a curvy girl and therefore said curvy girl will be all over everything now, a size 10 is HARDLY "plus size". Marilyn Monroe, one of our greatest sex symbols, was herself a size 12 (or was it 14?). But I do think the winner is gorgeous, and as long as she is at a HEALTHY weight, then that's great.
Some other links (of interest to nobody but me, probably):
My old apartments-turned-condo-cum-luxury apartments goes pear shaped - again. Oh boo hoo. Also, Chuck & Sally's Tavern has gone out of business, haha. What a dive.
Do you remember those horrible salesmen at Huling Bros. that stole $100,000 from a mentally ill person back in December of 2006. Well, the sentencing has begun, and I would like to note that the ringleader is now digging ditches in Wenatchee.
In book news:
Jacqueline Carey made an announcement via Facebook (not her website, oddly) that the working title for her next trilogy, set in the same world a few hundred years about Phèdre and Imriel, is Naamah's Gift. I have many theories about where she's going to take that theme...
If you are a fan, like me, of Peter S. Beagle and/or The Last Unicorn, you may be interested to know about the possibility of getting a signed, hardback edition of The Last Unicorn. And if you prefer art, they have conception art for the movie from 1979 they are selling off. I am considering getting the whole set!!!
Remember when Gretchen and I posed on a trapeze with The Name of the Wind for a photo contest???
Well, we won The Athletic Category!!! The moral of this story: Never underestimate the awesome power of the trapeze.
Tomorrow, I head up to Orcas Island. WHEEE!!!