meme
Reply to this meme by yelling 'WORDS!', and I will give you five words that remind me of you. Then post them in your journal and explain what they mean to you. Keep in mind that if I don't know you that well, your words might end up kind of esoteric/oblique. You'll only get given five words if you do include 'WORDS!' in a reply to this post, meaning you can safely comment (should you wish to do so) without having to play.
These are the ones rowan-d gave me.
1)horses
My biggest hobby - and most expensive too. ha! In some ways, probably a lifeline as well.
I've been around horses all my life; there's a picture (somewhere) of me on a horse and am maybe around 6 months old. Well, Dad was holding me on but you can barely see his hand in the photo. lol
They mean peace and joy, adventure (even if just pretending as a kid to be a calvary man, a cowboy in the wild-west, an Indian, a jockey), they mean accomplishment. First going from my first pony to my sister's bigger and more horse-like pony, to one of Dad's horses, to being able to ride Papa's (Mom's dad) horses.
Then there's roping and getting better at that, having one of my strengths be my horsemanship, with keeping or getting a horse calm being a big part of that. Becoming good enough that I could help Papa train rope horses. That all of the horses I've owned (okay, so it's only three) were better when I sold them, than when I bought them.
They represent family. Learning to ride while trailing after my sister, hanging out with Dad, hanging out with Papa. Continuing the 'family business' of training rope horses, having all these years of roping with Papa, my uncles, and now my mom.
*shrug* I can't imagine living life without horses being a part of it.
2)quiet
It's what I am, most times. It's what I crave quite often. Being around people is stressful, and I desperately need my quiet time and space to recharge. Although...guess quiet sort of means just alone time for me, as I do generally have a radio or TV on. Huh.
3)family
This one is kind of hard. It just is, so not quite sure how to describe or explain it. It's love and closeness and like even. Being there for each other, helping out, hanging out. It doesn't have to mean one has to be blood to be family. Or that blood automatically means you're family.
Mom, Sis, Papa and Grandma, Mom's younger brother and his wife and kids are my family.
My dad and his family are just relatives. They couldn't be bothered to tell me or Sis Dad's dad died, that Dad had a heart attack, that his wife had a brain tumor. Family doesn't treat someone like that, so...
Mom's older brother used to be family, but he...well. He burned that bridge, so he's just a relative now to. *shrug*
Family doesn't have to be perfect, aren't perfect. But while mistakes may be made, you can't continually walk all over people, take advantage of them or abuse them and still be family. Not for me.
4)loyalty
*blinks* I'm kind of surprised by this one. I don't...I don't think of myself as particularly loyal, though not disloyal either. I'm not going to betray someone or stab them in the back or anything like that, but...
I think to be truly loyal one has to put themselves out there more than I do. I'm not the one that will always be there, but the one passing through.
5)artwork
Oooooh SHINY PRETTIES! *shrug* I'm shallow?
Okay, slightly more serious, artwork is something I really enjoy. It's effort and passion, a vision, it's creating joy or inspires thought or both. It means a calling or an itch to create.
I enjoy playing around in Photoshop, but sometimes get a bigger kick out of searching for things others have created. It's fascinating what people can come up with, and how different people can take the same thing but create something totally different out of it.
And sometimes it's just means something is 'oooh pretty!' and one could look at it all day.
This meme ended up being harder than I thought it would and it's taken awhile to finish this post. Just feel...a bit exposed now I guess. Huh. Weird.
These are the ones rowan-d gave me.
1)horses
My biggest hobby - and most expensive too. ha! In some ways, probably a lifeline as well.
I've been around horses all my life; there's a picture (somewhere) of me on a horse and am maybe around 6 months old. Well, Dad was holding me on but you can barely see his hand in the photo. lol
They mean peace and joy, adventure (even if just pretending as a kid to be a calvary man, a cowboy in the wild-west, an Indian, a jockey), they mean accomplishment. First going from my first pony to my sister's bigger and more horse-like pony, to one of Dad's horses, to being able to ride Papa's (Mom's dad) horses.
Then there's roping and getting better at that, having one of my strengths be my horsemanship, with keeping or getting a horse calm being a big part of that. Becoming good enough that I could help Papa train rope horses. That all of the horses I've owned (okay, so it's only three) were better when I sold them, than when I bought them.
They represent family. Learning to ride while trailing after my sister, hanging out with Dad, hanging out with Papa. Continuing the 'family business' of training rope horses, having all these years of roping with Papa, my uncles, and now my mom.
*shrug* I can't imagine living life without horses being a part of it.
2)quiet
It's what I am, most times. It's what I crave quite often. Being around people is stressful, and I desperately need my quiet time and space to recharge. Although...guess quiet sort of means just alone time for me, as I do generally have a radio or TV on. Huh.
3)family
This one is kind of hard. It just is, so not quite sure how to describe or explain it. It's love and closeness and like even. Being there for each other, helping out, hanging out. It doesn't have to mean one has to be blood to be family. Or that blood automatically means you're family.
Mom, Sis, Papa and Grandma, Mom's younger brother and his wife and kids are my family.
My dad and his family are just relatives. They couldn't be bothered to tell me or Sis Dad's dad died, that Dad had a heart attack, that his wife had a brain tumor. Family doesn't treat someone like that, so...
Mom's older brother used to be family, but he...well. He burned that bridge, so he's just a relative now to. *shrug*
Family doesn't have to be perfect, aren't perfect. But while mistakes may be made, you can't continually walk all over people, take advantage of them or abuse them and still be family. Not for me.
4)loyalty
*blinks* I'm kind of surprised by this one. I don't...I don't think of myself as particularly loyal, though not disloyal either. I'm not going to betray someone or stab them in the back or anything like that, but...
I think to be truly loyal one has to put themselves out there more than I do. I'm not the one that will always be there, but the one passing through.
5)artwork
Oooooh SHINY PRETTIES! *shrug* I'm shallow?
Okay, slightly more serious, artwork is something I really enjoy. It's effort and passion, a vision, it's creating joy or inspires thought or both. It means a calling or an itch to create.
I enjoy playing around in Photoshop, but sometimes get a bigger kick out of searching for things others have created. It's fascinating what people can come up with, and how different people can take the same thing but create something totally different out of it.
And sometimes it's just means something is 'oooh pretty!' and one could look at it all day.
This meme ended up being harder than I thought it would and it's taken awhile to finish this post. Just feel...a bit exposed now I guess. Huh. Weird.