That 19 questions meme
It's almost two o'clock and I've done nothing at all productive today. (Unless you count being up and cleaned and dressed and sunscreened and having fed the dogs and cats, but I don't.) Why ruin the streak now?
1. make a list of 5 things you can see without getting up:
• a pile of cookbook manuscript and proof chapters
• my collection of vintage cookbooks
• box of note cards for the birthday thank-you notes I need to write
• my Costco shopping list
• a huge Maglite flashlight - the sort you could use to crack someone's skull
2. how do you style your hair?
Wash, condition, towel-dry, comb a dab of some sort of styling cream or leave-in conditioner through it, air-dry. Barely enough to count as "styling" at all.
3. what are you wearing now?
Long-sleeved blue-green top with V-neckline and tiny buttons, dark blue jeans, multicolored-striped wool knee socks, blue and grey boiled wool slippers with Scandinavianish-looking embroidery.
4. what's your occupation?
Freelance copy editor/proofreader. Sporadically. The rest of the time I do the housewife thing.
5. do you nap a lot?
I hardly ever nap, even when I'm ill.
6. who was the last person you hugged?
My husband last night.
7. what's your current fandom/obsession/addiction?
I can't pick just one, so I'll go with the Sil/LOTR, the Deryni, and BtVS/Angel.
8. what was the last thing you ate today?
The only thing I've eaten so far today is a chocolate-almond Kashi Crunchy Bar.
9. what was the last text message you received?
I have no idea. Probably something from my husband months ago when we were traveling. (I hate text messaging, have no cell signal at or near my house, and can go weeks without turning on my cell phone at all.)
10. what websites do you always visit when you go online?
Other than LJ (obviously)?
http://consumerist.com/
http://www.paperbackswap.com/
http://gotmedieval.blogspot.com/
http://www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com/
http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/
11. what was the last thing you bought?
Cilantro and chocolate.
12. what are you listening to right now?
The sound of air whooshing in through the furnace intake.
13. what do you think about before you go to bed at night?
Usually my anxiety takes control and I think about people I love dying in plane crashes or one of my dogs getting squashed by a car or the entire population of my country ending up living in Hoovervilles by the end of the year. You know, fun stuff that doesn't at all contribute to insomnia.
14. what was the last CD you bought?
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Score
15. what is your favorite weather, and why?
Cool, overcast, foggy, rainy. I was born and raised on the Oregon coast, so that sort of weather feels like home.
16. if you could play any musical instrument, which one would you play?
Harp
17. how are you?
Okay. Anxious, as always.
18. what's something you'd like to say to someone right now?
I need to apologize to my husband for something I did yesterday. I won't mention that I'm really happy that I got my way, though. Just need to mend some fences. (I'm the stronger-willed one and I need to remember to use my powers for good rather than evil. Well, not evil exactly. It's just that I'm kind of a bitch.)
19. what's one of your favourite movies?
In Harm's Way starring John Wayne, Patricia Neal, and Kirk Douglas. (BSG's Saul Tigh was partially based on Kirk Douglas's character in this movie.)
I do need to drive into what passes for a city in Vermont so I can refill a couple of prescriptions and go to Costco this afternoon, but after that more loafing is on the agenda. I worked all weekend so I could send a couple of chapters to the editor yesterday, so I deserve it.
1. make a list of 5 things you can see without getting up:
• a pile of cookbook manuscript and proof chapters
• my collection of vintage cookbooks
• box of note cards for the birthday thank-you notes I need to write
• my Costco shopping list
• a huge Maglite flashlight - the sort you could use to crack someone's skull
2. how do you style your hair?
Wash, condition, towel-dry, comb a dab of some sort of styling cream or leave-in conditioner through it, air-dry. Barely enough to count as "styling" at all.
3. what are you wearing now?
Long-sleeved blue-green top with V-neckline and tiny buttons, dark blue jeans, multicolored-striped wool knee socks, blue and grey boiled wool slippers with Scandinavianish-looking embroidery.
4. what's your occupation?
Freelance copy editor/proofreader. Sporadically. The rest of the time I do the housewife thing.
5. do you nap a lot?
I hardly ever nap, even when I'm ill.
6. who was the last person you hugged?
My husband last night.
7. what's your current fandom/obsession/addiction?
I can't pick just one, so I'll go with the Sil/LOTR, the Deryni, and BtVS/Angel.
8. what was the last thing you ate today?
The only thing I've eaten so far today is a chocolate-almond Kashi Crunchy Bar.
9. what was the last text message you received?
I have no idea. Probably something from my husband months ago when we were traveling. (I hate text messaging, have no cell signal at or near my house, and can go weeks without turning on my cell phone at all.)
10. what websites do you always visit when you go online?
Other than LJ (obviously)?
http://consumerist.com/
http://www.paperbackswap.com/
http://gotmedieval.blogspot.com/
http://www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com/
http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/
11. what was the last thing you bought?
Cilantro and chocolate.
12. what are you listening to right now?
The sound of air whooshing in through the furnace intake.
13. what do you think about before you go to bed at night?
Usually my anxiety takes control and I think about people I love dying in plane crashes or one of my dogs getting squashed by a car or the entire population of my country ending up living in Hoovervilles by the end of the year. You know, fun stuff that doesn't at all contribute to insomnia.
14. what was the last CD you bought?
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Score
15. what is your favorite weather, and why?
Cool, overcast, foggy, rainy. I was born and raised on the Oregon coast, so that sort of weather feels like home.
16. if you could play any musical instrument, which one would you play?
Harp
17. how are you?
Okay. Anxious, as always.
18. what's something you'd like to say to someone right now?
I need to apologize to my husband for something I did yesterday. I won't mention that I'm really happy that I got my way, though. Just need to mend some fences. (I'm the stronger-willed one and I need to remember to use my powers for good rather than evil. Well, not evil exactly. It's just that I'm kind of a bitch.)
19. what's one of your favourite movies?
In Harm's Way starring John Wayne, Patricia Neal, and Kirk Douglas. (BSG's Saul Tigh was partially based on Kirk Douglas's character in this movie.)
I do need to drive into what passes for a city in Vermont so I can refill a couple of prescriptions and go to Costco this afternoon, but after that more loafing is on the agenda. I worked all weekend so I could send a couple of chapters to the editor yesterday, so I deserve it.