More meme-ing.
Meme thing, questions from
topaz_eyes
Anyone that wants to play, comment away. Otherwise, at least I SOUND busy.
1. Have you colored your hair? What color(s)?
I've been a platinum blonde, a redhead of every shade and once or twice gone a little goth-y with the black dye. Once, I tried to do that Kool Aid dye trick. My hair got a purple sheen, but it wasn't exactly punk. I looked more like Mrs. Slocum than anything else.
2. Which book has influenced you most in your life?
Probably Life After God by Douglas Coupland or The World According to Garp.
Happy books with positive, life affirming messages.
3. If I were to visit your city, which places should I definitely see?
You'd have to see the honky tonks on Broadway.Despite my local distaste for it, Tootsies is a must see. Coal Miner's Daughter and all the great country music movies have had scenes in Tootsies. It's only a few feet from the back door of the Ryman auditorium. The Mother Church of Country Music. You don't have to like country music to enjoy this stuff. It's more about the spectacle than anything else.
I'd also recommend the Parthenon at Centennial Park and for non-touristy fun you can't beat an evening at 5 Points with dinner at Margot or the Alley Cat.
Shopping is good at Hillsboro Village. Lovely little shops full of lovely little things.
I'd also highly recommend checking out the tourists. They're more amusing than any sight or sound this city has to offer. Fan Fair has got to be the scariest thing I've ever seen.
4. What is your idea of a perfect meal?
Sunday dinner with my folks. Mum's a vegetarian. The sister's a vegan. So Dad loves it when I visit, he has an excuse to make a real carnivore's feast. He usually cooks up a pot roast or a pork tenderloin (or something quite like that-sometimes, I even get filet mignon and champagne-cuz I'm worth it) and we'd get some fresh corn and tomatoes if they were in season. Maybe he'd make an applesauce pie. We'd all gather round the table and watch the Simpsons and carry on conversations during commercial breaks.
5. What hobbies do you remember your mom having when you grew up?
Mum likes to knock down walls. That's what I remember her doing. Knocking stuff down. Building stuff up. Always in the midst of some crazy project. I didn't know that wasn't normal. Until I realized that, for my parents, it' s like an obsession. They can't just live somewhere. They have to CREATE it.
She and my dad were always remodeling the house. There's not a single wall (basement excluded) that was part of the original design of the house. In the years I lived there my bedroom moved so many times that I officially lived in every part of the house except the Master Bedroom (which was completed after I moved out)
topaz_eyes
Anyone that wants to play, comment away. Otherwise, at least I SOUND busy.
1. Have you colored your hair? What color(s)?
I've been a platinum blonde, a redhead of every shade and once or twice gone a little goth-y with the black dye. Once, I tried to do that Kool Aid dye trick. My hair got a purple sheen, but it wasn't exactly punk. I looked more like Mrs. Slocum than anything else.
2. Which book has influenced you most in your life?
Probably Life After God by Douglas Coupland or The World According to Garp.
Happy books with positive, life affirming messages.
3. If I were to visit your city, which places should I definitely see?
You'd have to see the honky tonks on Broadway.Despite my local distaste for it, Tootsies is a must see. Coal Miner's Daughter and all the great country music movies have had scenes in Tootsies. It's only a few feet from the back door of the Ryman auditorium. The Mother Church of Country Music. You don't have to like country music to enjoy this stuff. It's more about the spectacle than anything else.
I'd also recommend the Parthenon at Centennial Park and for non-touristy fun you can't beat an evening at 5 Points with dinner at Margot or the Alley Cat.
Shopping is good at Hillsboro Village. Lovely little shops full of lovely little things.
I'd also highly recommend checking out the tourists. They're more amusing than any sight or sound this city has to offer. Fan Fair has got to be the scariest thing I've ever seen.
4. What is your idea of a perfect meal?
Sunday dinner with my folks. Mum's a vegetarian. The sister's a vegan. So Dad loves it when I visit, he has an excuse to make a real carnivore's feast. He usually cooks up a pot roast or a pork tenderloin (or something quite like that-sometimes, I even get filet mignon and champagne-cuz I'm worth it) and we'd get some fresh corn and tomatoes if they were in season. Maybe he'd make an applesauce pie. We'd all gather round the table and watch the Simpsons and carry on conversations during commercial breaks.
5. What hobbies do you remember your mom having when you grew up?
Mum likes to knock down walls. That's what I remember her doing. Knocking stuff down. Building stuff up. Always in the midst of some crazy project. I didn't know that wasn't normal. Until I realized that, for my parents, it' s like an obsession. They can't just live somewhere. They have to CREATE it.
She and my dad were always remodeling the house. There's not a single wall (basement excluded) that was part of the original design of the house. In the years I lived there my bedroom moved so many times that I officially lived in every part of the house except the Master Bedroom (which was completed after I moved out)