Suggested by Audiwulf
So here's a MEME I foolishly volunteered for, subjects given by Audiwulf.
1. Describe your dream vacation.
Well, My dream vacation requires some prerequisites, such as learning new languages. Most people usually find someplace like mexico or cancun to be their dream vacation, however, I prefer something just a little different. germany, Japan, and Ireland are my chosen vacation spots. If I could take a month off my life to do all 3 of those at once, I would probably have my dream vacation. Not a terribly complex answer I'm afraid, but at least it's lofty. ;)
2. Divulge your favorite guilty pleasure.
There isn't much to this one either. I would have to say that my most often utilized guilty pleasure is milk. I know, it's odd, but it's me. When I was a kid, at dinner time, while everyone else was drinking tea, or water (Soda wasn't big in my family), I was always drinking milk. Pizza for dinner? Milk. Spaghetti? Milk. Ice cream for dessert? Milk. It's just been something I've always had a hankering for, and I don't know why. If I'm not careful, I can, by myself, down an entire gallon of milk within a day. It's kinda like a dessert to me (Vitamin D, or 2%, I really can't stand skim any more, even though I drank it for a good portion of my life, or maybe it's just because my mother freezes her skim milk, and so it tastes WAY watered down.) the only other thing that comes close to a guilty pleasure is cheap macaroni and cheese. Not the nice kind thats baked in a glassware pan, with 3 cheeses, and breadcrumbs, but the kind you find at the grocery store for $.50 a box. combine these two things, and I've got good times.
3. Elaborate on one of your long-term goals.
Boy, Audi sure does know how to pick them. To be honest, I'm not quite sure WHAT my long term goals are. I mean, I suppose I have the usual ones most people do, meet some awesome chick, get married, have a kid, grow old, and die, but that's not really a life affirming goal. Not in the spirit of the question. When I was a little kid, I had it mapped out, I would be an inventor. Then I got older, and I wanted to be a veterinarian. I always liked animals, specifically cats, and I wanted to help them. It didn't help that by the age of 8 or so, I had read all of James Harriet's books. I studied biology for awhile, and even enjoyed it to some extent, however, I disliked math, and I was told it would involve a lot of that, combined with the fact that I started to fall in love with computers somewhere down the line, and my priorities shifted. Unfortunately, One of my big goals actually was to marry my high school sweetheart, but that was shattered about 8 years ago, and I've long since moved on at this point anyways. Mostly, my life has turned out so much different than I had planned, that I stopped having goals that defined my future, and instead decided on things that were more 'milestone' oriented. Like for instance: paying off my personal debts, and moving out of my mother's basement. (Yes, I am that lame.) I recently paid off a $1700 debt to my mother, and now have 2x$1000 debts left. Slowly but surely I am managing to get those paid off, and I expect within a year or so, I will no longer require the services of a basement. I think that's my best long term goal beyond 'getting paid more'. :P
4. If you had a change to get even with someone from your past, would you?
This is a tough one. First off, I am for the most part, a passifist. I don't generally get angry, and I don't really look for retribution. My 'anger fuse' is extremely long. There have been times in my past where I had been angry beyond reason, and have done things I regretted (As in extreme physical violence) and therefore I've learned to keep such a temper under heavy check. That being said, I learned to forgive people a long time ago, and often think over the consequences of physically harming another person before ever even saying something. ( I believe you should never threaten with something you're not going to back up.) Combine this with the fact that everything that has happened now has made us each who we are, often stronger that we were before it happened. I could get angry at my ex-step-father, who was a really asshole, but in the end, his uprooting my life caused me to get a better education, and meet some of the closest friends I've ever had. Combine these two things together, and I find it pretty hard to hold enough of a grudge to really want to seek revenge for something. Perhaps the best I could do would be to gain restitution for the guy who slept with my fiance, since he actually new me, and I wasn't a nameless person. Or my ex-fiance for doing so, after all, I've spent the last 8 years trying to recover from that whole debacle. (Both emotionally, and financially.) but in the end, I'm sure each person will get their own comeuppance without my intervention, though seeing their faces when it does happen would truly be fantastic.
5. When did the cat become part of you?
Ah, now here's an interesting one. When did the cat become part of you? how do I go about answering that? How do I even define the question? Are we talking personality, furry, therianthropic? It's a simple question with a rather complex answer I think. I think I will try to answer the first option; personality. There isn't any one instance, or action that caused me to gain a feline personality. As far back as I can remember, I've always had an affintiy for the feline persuasion. By the time I was able to form full sentences, I was also capable of asking for a cat. I don't know what prompted this particular like of cats, it's just something I've always had. (see previous section on wanting to be a vet). Perhaps it has something to do with my last name. as most people who actually know me know, my last name is King. A lot of things in my life have stemmed from this, My favorite color (Purple) my love of chivalry, swords, and knighthood, and it has managed to bleed it's way into the animal kingdom, where the Lion reigns supreme. I've always been a fan of big cats as well as little cats. (I even have a stuffed lion that sits under my speedometer in my car.) Possibly because of this, or possibly because of watching cartoons with anthropomorphic animals, or reading books about anthropomorphic animals, I've developed cat-like traits. For instance: sleeping all day, and being awake for several hours at night, at my own schedule. My propensity towards milk. opening my mouth really wide while yawning. Scratching the side of my head with a cupped hand swiped across it. Granted, many of these traits I've toned down because of necessity (People look at you funny like that), but I've managed to keep much of my personality intact. (Curiosity is certainly a bit of a problem at times.) Furrydom was, at one time, a way to let that less public portions of my personality out to play, however, time, drama, and the bad public image has caused me to separate myself from that style of expression.
Comment to this post and I will give you 5 subjects/things I associate you with. Then post this in your LJ and elaborate on the subjects given.
1. Describe your dream vacation.
Well, My dream vacation requires some prerequisites, such as learning new languages. Most people usually find someplace like mexico or cancun to be their dream vacation, however, I prefer something just a little different. germany, Japan, and Ireland are my chosen vacation spots. If I could take a month off my life to do all 3 of those at once, I would probably have my dream vacation. Not a terribly complex answer I'm afraid, but at least it's lofty. ;)
2. Divulge your favorite guilty pleasure.
There isn't much to this one either. I would have to say that my most often utilized guilty pleasure is milk. I know, it's odd, but it's me. When I was a kid, at dinner time, while everyone else was drinking tea, or water (Soda wasn't big in my family), I was always drinking milk. Pizza for dinner? Milk. Spaghetti? Milk. Ice cream for dessert? Milk. It's just been something I've always had a hankering for, and I don't know why. If I'm not careful, I can, by myself, down an entire gallon of milk within a day. It's kinda like a dessert to me (Vitamin D, or 2%, I really can't stand skim any more, even though I drank it for a good portion of my life, or maybe it's just because my mother freezes her skim milk, and so it tastes WAY watered down.) the only other thing that comes close to a guilty pleasure is cheap macaroni and cheese. Not the nice kind thats baked in a glassware pan, with 3 cheeses, and breadcrumbs, but the kind you find at the grocery store for $.50 a box. combine these two things, and I've got good times.
3. Elaborate on one of your long-term goals.
Boy, Audi sure does know how to pick them. To be honest, I'm not quite sure WHAT my long term goals are. I mean, I suppose I have the usual ones most people do, meet some awesome chick, get married, have a kid, grow old, and die, but that's not really a life affirming goal. Not in the spirit of the question. When I was a little kid, I had it mapped out, I would be an inventor. Then I got older, and I wanted to be a veterinarian. I always liked animals, specifically cats, and I wanted to help them. It didn't help that by the age of 8 or so, I had read all of James Harriet's books. I studied biology for awhile, and even enjoyed it to some extent, however, I disliked math, and I was told it would involve a lot of that, combined with the fact that I started to fall in love with computers somewhere down the line, and my priorities shifted. Unfortunately, One of my big goals actually was to marry my high school sweetheart, but that was shattered about 8 years ago, and I've long since moved on at this point anyways. Mostly, my life has turned out so much different than I had planned, that I stopped having goals that defined my future, and instead decided on things that were more 'milestone' oriented. Like for instance: paying off my personal debts, and moving out of my mother's basement. (Yes, I am that lame.) I recently paid off a $1700 debt to my mother, and now have 2x$1000 debts left. Slowly but surely I am managing to get those paid off, and I expect within a year or so, I will no longer require the services of a basement. I think that's my best long term goal beyond 'getting paid more'. :P
4. If you had a change to get even with someone from your past, would you?
This is a tough one. First off, I am for the most part, a passifist. I don't generally get angry, and I don't really look for retribution. My 'anger fuse' is extremely long. There have been times in my past where I had been angry beyond reason, and have done things I regretted (As in extreme physical violence) and therefore I've learned to keep such a temper under heavy check. That being said, I learned to forgive people a long time ago, and often think over the consequences of physically harming another person before ever even saying something. ( I believe you should never threaten with something you're not going to back up.) Combine this with the fact that everything that has happened now has made us each who we are, often stronger that we were before it happened. I could get angry at my ex-step-father, who was a really asshole, but in the end, his uprooting my life caused me to get a better education, and meet some of the closest friends I've ever had. Combine these two things together, and I find it pretty hard to hold enough of a grudge to really want to seek revenge for something. Perhaps the best I could do would be to gain restitution for the guy who slept with my fiance, since he actually new me, and I wasn't a nameless person. Or my ex-fiance for doing so, after all, I've spent the last 8 years trying to recover from that whole debacle. (Both emotionally, and financially.) but in the end, I'm sure each person will get their own comeuppance without my intervention, though seeing their faces when it does happen would truly be fantastic.
5. When did the cat become part of you?
Ah, now here's an interesting one. When did the cat become part of you? how do I go about answering that? How do I even define the question? Are we talking personality, furry, therianthropic? It's a simple question with a rather complex answer I think. I think I will try to answer the first option; personality. There isn't any one instance, or action that caused me to gain a feline personality. As far back as I can remember, I've always had an affintiy for the feline persuasion. By the time I was able to form full sentences, I was also capable of asking for a cat. I don't know what prompted this particular like of cats, it's just something I've always had. (see previous section on wanting to be a vet). Perhaps it has something to do with my last name. as most people who actually know me know, my last name is King. A lot of things in my life have stemmed from this, My favorite color (Purple) my love of chivalry, swords, and knighthood, and it has managed to bleed it's way into the animal kingdom, where the Lion reigns supreme. I've always been a fan of big cats as well as little cats. (I even have a stuffed lion that sits under my speedometer in my car.) Possibly because of this, or possibly because of watching cartoons with anthropomorphic animals, or reading books about anthropomorphic animals, I've developed cat-like traits. For instance: sleeping all day, and being awake for several hours at night, at my own schedule. My propensity towards milk. opening my mouth really wide while yawning. Scratching the side of my head with a cupped hand swiped across it. Granted, many of these traits I've toned down because of necessity (People look at you funny like that), but I've managed to keep much of my personality intact. (Curiosity is certainly a bit of a problem at times.) Furrydom was, at one time, a way to let that less public portions of my personality out to play, however, time, drama, and the bad public image has caused me to separate myself from that style of expression.
Comment to this post and I will give you 5 subjects/things I associate you with. Then post this in your LJ and elaborate on the subjects given.