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Comment to this post, and I will list five things I associate with you. They might make sense or they might be totally random. Then post that list, with your commentary, to your LJ (or just add a reply back at me). Other people (including me) can get lists from you, and the meme merrily perpetuates itself.
vista_blows gave me:
Tea
Nail Polish
Kukalaka
Mediation
Mumford and Sons
Tea.
I love tea. My preference is for fun loose-leaf tea, generally, but I prefer bagged tea to no tea and there are several bagged teas I'm super-fond of. (The one that vista sent me that's raspberry, strawberry and loganberry is absolutely delicious and a favorite.)
My absolute favorite kind of tea is a pumpkin chai. It's also the only tea I have sugar in, and it's delicious with brown sugar. (With the caveat that if I'm super distraught I will take a plain black tea and dump as much sugar in it as it will hold. But that only happens once or twice a year.)
I have some very odd kinds of tea. Some of my favorites are creme brulee, north african mint, and saigon chai. My favorite discontinued tea tasted like pistachios.
I definitely use tea as like a comfort food, with specific teas for specific moods that I want to fix.
Nailpolish
I also love nailpolish. I love looking at my nails and seeing something bright complex. I have a lot of colors of it: Black, White, Sparkly Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Light Blue, Dark Blue, Light Purple, Dark Purple, Bright Pink, Gunmetal Gray.
It started when I decided I was going to pain my nails rainbow for an LGBT march on Washington thing.
I started drawing things on my nails when I stated to my then-boyfriend that the dark blue is the color of the Scottish flag, and he said that I should get some white and make the Scottish flag on my fingers. I thought about it, and it seemed like something I could indeed do.
My nails are currently pretty simple: alternating blue and purple on my left hand and alternating blue and black on the right hand.
Examples of things I have done include: octopodes, pacman, plaid, rocket ships/airplanes, butterflies, the Irish flag, the Russian flag, dice.
Have a couple of pictures.
I do them with nailpolish and a toothpick. And patience.
Kukalaka
Kukalaka is Julian Bashir's teddy bear on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. I've always loved the character of Julian Bashir, and I think Kukalaka, being a relatively raggity teddy bear that's clearly loved is an important sign of that, of the childish side that Bashir recognizes in himself and is okay with. He wants his inner child to be strong. There's the best fic about Bashir's history with Kukalaka, but I can't find it.
Mediation
I guess this is something I do sometimes? I used to be....ridiculously emotional, and I still cry at the drop of a hat. So from that perspective I'd rather be not emotional in a situation, and involved in helping sort something? I also really don't like seeing other people fight or be upset, and if I think that I can help I do, though it's never like stepping in between people who are actually disagreeing, but I'll talk to people individually.
I wouldn't say I'm much good at it, I feel like I'm just playing devil's advocate or misrepresenting the other side, or being useless. My mediation technique feels a lot like I just say 'Well I think that they think'.
Maybe it helps that I have a great amount of trust in my friends not to ever want to be hurting each other?
Mumford and Sons
I think
mjules first mentioned them, but I might not have been paying as much attention as I should have. (You have to catch me in a specific mood before I'll actually enjoy listening to new music.)
Vista was rather more persistent, and so I listened to Little Lion Man (again?). And I loved it. So now I enjoy their music. That's really all there is to it.
I was going to icon their songs, but that project's been stalled for, like, six months. So I'm just going to dump them here.
They're all free to use with credit, if anyone wants.
Comments welcome either here or on Dreamwidth (
).
vista_blows gave me:
Tea
Nail Polish
Kukalaka
Mediation
Mumford and Sons
Tea.
I love tea. My preference is for fun loose-leaf tea, generally, but I prefer bagged tea to no tea and there are several bagged teas I'm super-fond of. (The one that vista sent me that's raspberry, strawberry and loganberry is absolutely delicious and a favorite.)
My absolute favorite kind of tea is a pumpkin chai. It's also the only tea I have sugar in, and it's delicious with brown sugar. (With the caveat that if I'm super distraught I will take a plain black tea and dump as much sugar in it as it will hold. But that only happens once or twice a year.)
I have some very odd kinds of tea. Some of my favorites are creme brulee, north african mint, and saigon chai. My favorite discontinued tea tasted like pistachios.
I definitely use tea as like a comfort food, with specific teas for specific moods that I want to fix.
Nailpolish
I also love nailpolish. I love looking at my nails and seeing something bright complex. I have a lot of colors of it: Black, White, Sparkly Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Light Blue, Dark Blue, Light Purple, Dark Purple, Bright Pink, Gunmetal Gray.
It started when I decided I was going to pain my nails rainbow for an LGBT march on Washington thing.
I started drawing things on my nails when I stated to my then-boyfriend that the dark blue is the color of the Scottish flag, and he said that I should get some white and make the Scottish flag on my fingers. I thought about it, and it seemed like something I could indeed do.
My nails are currently pretty simple: alternating blue and purple on my left hand and alternating blue and black on the right hand.
Examples of things I have done include: octopodes, pacman, plaid, rocket ships/airplanes, butterflies, the Irish flag, the Russian flag, dice.
Have a couple of pictures.
I do them with nailpolish and a toothpick. And patience.
Kukalaka
Kukalaka is Julian Bashir's teddy bear on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. I've always loved the character of Julian Bashir, and I think Kukalaka, being a relatively raggity teddy bear that's clearly loved is an important sign of that, of the childish side that Bashir recognizes in himself and is okay with. He wants his inner child to be strong. There's the best fic about Bashir's history with Kukalaka, but I can't find it.
Mediation
I guess this is something I do sometimes? I used to be....ridiculously emotional, and I still cry at the drop of a hat. So from that perspective I'd rather be not emotional in a situation, and involved in helping sort something? I also really don't like seeing other people fight or be upset, and if I think that I can help I do, though it's never like stepping in between people who are actually disagreeing, but I'll talk to people individually.
I wouldn't say I'm much good at it, I feel like I'm just playing devil's advocate or misrepresenting the other side, or being useless. My mediation technique feels a lot like I just say 'Well I think that they think'.
Maybe it helps that I have a great amount of trust in my friends not to ever want to be hurting each other?
Mumford and Sons
I think
mjules first mentioned them, but I might not have been paying as much attention as I should have. (You have to catch me in a specific mood before I'll actually enjoy listening to new music.)
Vista was rather more persistent, and so I listened to Little Lion Man (again?). And I loved it. So now I enjoy their music. That's really all there is to it.
I was going to icon their songs, but that project's been stalled for, like, six months. So I'm just going to dump them here.
They're all free to use with credit, if anyone wants.
Comments welcome either here or on Dreamwidth (
).