My favorite meme has come around again, it's the Meme of Five

[featherynscale]

This time, it's from teross50.

THE INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Leave me a comment saying anything random, like your favorite lyric to your current favorite song. Or your favorite kind of sandwich.Something random. Whatever you like.
2. I respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better.
3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and offer to ask someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be asked, you will ask them five questions.

THE QUESTIONS:
1. Why did you originally stop being a blond?
Because my skin is yellow. My skin is yellow, and my hair was yellow, and I was thinking, "By all the gods, can we get some contrast up in here?". Also, I sort of think that being a redhead is fair warning to people. Those stereotypes are closer to accurate than the sort of stereotypes you get about blonds. If nothing else, it at least allows me to camouflage myself better among the pagans. ;)

2. With the new figure, and perhaps changing mindset. Are there skirts in our future?
Not unless the Gender Identity and/or Expression Fairy comes and turns me into a real girl, no. The fact that I avoid skirt-wearing unless some costume demands it is not much at all about the fact that I look like crap in skirts (although that's also true). It's more about how I feel like I'm in drag when I wear one, and I don't think drag is appropriate for everyday use.

3. When did you first realize you were bi?
Probably in college. Of course, I didn't really realize that I was sexual at all until college, so there you go. It probably helped that I was in a RHPS cast for a little while in college...

4. Is there a city, or part of the country, you would rather be in?
Several. I have occasional fond thoughts of moving to Atlanta (mostly around DragonCon time, or when it's snowing here), or the Pacific Northwest (mostly when wolfieboy posts) , or even occasionally Arizona (mostly when I'm having allergy days).

5. What was the stupidest, pick-up line, somebody tried to use on you?
Depends on whether or not you count malvito, for whom it's sort of a professional obligation. If you count him, he often accosts me at Faire and says I'm looking pale and that he should check my heart rate, by laying his head on my cleavage. If you don't count him, I have to go back to when I was in college and a guy in the coffeeshop told me that he was an archangel and could read my mind. I told him if he'd tell me the rest of his bullshit story and it was good, I might go home with him on his creative merit, since everybody else who'd tried to pick me up that night had said they were vampires, so do please go on, and I'll evaluate you. That totally torpedoed him, which was its own kind of fun. Actually, people hardly ever try to pick me up. I'm told I have a FOAD field that extends for several feet around my body.

Comments

[lexpendragon.livejournal.com]

Your answers are very interesting.

[malvito.livejournal.com]

That's depressing. I take pride in my profession. ;-)

[malvito.livejournal.com]

p.s. Yes, that was my random comment ...

Well, it's not random... but it is completely pointless to say

[lilia-blackbear.livejournal.com]

I didn't know you were blonde.

[project-becky.livejournal.com]

see chameleon
lying there in the sun
all things to everyone
run run away

To continue the 'sun' motif.

[greektoomey.livejournal.com]

The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older, shorter of breath, and one day closer to death.

[teross50.livejournal.com]

You are eclecticly charming on so many levels.LIfe is always more fun when you are in ti.
Glad yoou allowed me to aks the questions.

Please rate, LOL

[teross50.livejournal.com]

Pick-up line," Excuse me Darlin, but you look like a woman, who knows how good cream is in a man's coffee?

Ok, I'll bite.

[vediskoerner.livejournal.com]

Not sure if I am going to play this one correctly. (never played one of these before, does that make me a meme virgin?) But here is one of my favorite lyrics:

"I love ya baby but all I can think about is
Kielbasa sausage, your butt cheeks is warm.
I check my dipstick, you need lubrication honey,
My kielbasa sausage has just got to perform.
Now get it on!"

*blushes*

Teehee...

Re: Please rate, LOL

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Honey, you know I like mine black. :-P

[brandy22kc.livejournal.com]

randomness of a coment :P

Sure I'll bite...er...wait...not like that. ;)

[matchgirl42.livejournal.com]

2am and I'm still awake, writing a song
If I get it all down I'll be burdened
no longer inside of me
threatening the life it belongs to

[wildnsquirrelly.livejournal.com]

I'm curious as to what about me you might be curious.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Then I shall start with questions for you!
1. Where/how did you meet your current honey (I'm sure she has an LJ, but I don't know what her name is)?
2. What's next on your theater agenda?
3. What do you want most in the world right at this moment?
4. Could you post a picture of Racer the Pooh? That would be excellent.
5. What do you wear under the Evil outfit? Evil boxers? Evil briefs?

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'm going to assume that's a random comment, and ask you questions then.

1. What do you love most about Pittsburgh?
2. What's your tattoo about?
3. What three things are you best at?
4. In your 'flirty' mood thingie, is that a Dalek with a fire hydrant?
5. When I load LJ, your "fandoms" icon cycles too fast for me to sort out what the pictures are - what's in that loop?

[lexpendragon.livejournal.com]

No, it was actually just me finding it interesting, I didn't realize I was signing up to be interviewed. ;^)

Still, to be fair:

1. What do you love most about Pittsburgh?
   The familiarity. I know this city, the way it feels, that if I don't know my way around, I can just 'guess' my way back. That's not the same sort as figuring it out in a town that is built on a coordinate system, it's more like being dropped in a mountain range and trying to find the exact peak you had camped on.
   
   
2. What's your tattoo about?
   Quartered Circles have been a symbol for me for as long as I can remember, it always resonated with me. At some point, memories of a previous life showed me that it was what my family used as a crest. It represents a belief in the four elements, like many other Quartered Circles, and the blue color is because of a devotion to Water, in specific. (Your belief in this can vary, but it's how I see it. Skepticism is welcome and encouraged, but this is why I have it.)
   
   
3. What three things are you best at?
   I'm tempted to say 'Missionary, Cowgirl, and Doggy', but that's be for pure comedic effect, and likely untrue.
   
   I like to think I'm good at troubleshooting, understanding other people's viewpoints, and thinking in such a way where I can understand systems that might not be the same as my own. (IE, imagine that you were required to go to work dressed in a clown suit one day, in this reality, would you carry a purse?)
   
   
4. In your 'flirty' mood thingie, is that a Dalek with a fire hydrant?
   I believe so.
   
   
5. When I load LJ, your "fandoms" icon cycles too fast for me to sort out what the pictures are - what's in that loop?
   Ten things: Marlise, an eclipse, a light saber, a stake, a cylon, a deathray that looks like an egg beater, a conical hat, comics, a pill bottle on it's side, and a small yellow repair droid.
   

Re: Well, it's not random... but it is completely pointless to say

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

It's twue, it's all twue!
Soooo..... here we go.

1. I seem to recall at one point that you described yourself as a Wiccan who worshiped the Norse gods. Is that accurate? If so, how does that mesh with your goal (stated elsewhere and probably facetiously) of converting the world to following the Norse gods?
2. If you could change one thing about your life to date, but knew that you would have to accept the consequences of that change, would you take advantage of the opportunity, and if so, what would you change?
3. Who cooks in your house, you or druidevo?
4. What lesson that you learned the hard way would you most like to have Sir Dynamo pick up from you so that he wouldn't have to learn it the hard way?
5. How do you feel about Autumn Equinox?

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

1. What is your favorite thing about New Orleans?
2. If Jim ever brought up the idea that you, he, and a female person of your choice should have a threesome, would you be like "Yay!" or would you be more like "He's up to something"?
3. Got any recipes for low-carb or whole-grain baked goods (she asks hopefully)?
4. If you could have any job, what sort of job would you most want?
5. Have you ever done the karaoke thing? (I'm not sure why I'm asking that, except that you sort of seem like the kind of person who would enjoy that, but you don't talk about doing it.)

Re: To continue the 'sun' motif.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I've seen relatively little of you online of late... so how about these:

1. How's your brain these days? Is it treating you any better?
2. What's new in the world of browncoats, or did you leave the fandom?
3. I had a dream the other week in which you quit your job to be a delivery guy for Jimmy John's. Does that seem like a good idea to you?
4. Have you ever been to The Wet Spot?
5. (I'm recycling this one, because I'm awfully fond of it as a question) If you could change one thing about your life to date, but knew that you would have to accept the consequences of that change, would you take advantage of the opportunity, and if so, what would you change?

Re: Please rate, LOL

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Oh, were you looking for questions? :P
I fail at this meme. Here are some, if you want them.

1. Is there a sort of woman who is not 'your type', and if so, what's she like?
2. What do you most hope that your kids will learn from you?
3. When you married TRHO, was there any weird backlash from any of your family or hers? Or does that only happen in the part of the world I'm from?
4. What's the worst pick-up line you ever used successfully?
5. A magical genie gives you one wish. What do you use it for?

Re: Ok, I'll bite.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Yay, meme-virgin sacrifice! (Actually, I hope these are okay, since I don't know you all that well at all. If they're obnoxious, say so, and I won't be offended.)

1. How did you come to have the religion you practice now?
2. The little guy in your icon is a cartoon of a land-wight, right? Are land-wights particularly important in your practice, or just fun to draw?
3. I'll ask you my favorite question too: If you could change one thing about your life to date, but knew that you would have to accept the consequences of that change, would you take advantage of the opportunity, and if so, what would you change?
4. What does your username mean, and how does one pronounce it?
5. How is the podcast project going?

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

1. Did you ever hook up with the Irish guy, or not? What's the story there?
2. A magical genie arrives and promises you three wishes. There's a catch, though -- only one of them can be for yourself (and there's no wishing for more wishes). What do you wish for?
3. Are you going to come back and do EiR next year?
4. What are you listening to these days?
5. Do you have any patron deities/guardian angels/totem animals/spirit guides/etc? If so, who are they?

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

Okie-doke.

[brandy22kc.livejournal.com]

1. Did you ever hook up with the Irish guy, or not? What's the story there? no he kinda just disapeared, he had just gotten out of a long term relationship but i guess thats how the ball rolls
2. A magical genie arrives and promises you three wishes. There's a catch, though -- only one of them can be for yourself (and there's no wishing for more wishes). What do you wish for? 1st, i'd wish all my bills be paid and have enought money to support me and the kids the rest or our lifes, i'd wish to change the rules srs goes by, i'd wish everyone in the world be nice and open minded
3. Are you going to come back and do EiR next year? I'm hoping to i really want to
4. What are you listening to these days?
everything from eleltronica to phantom of the opera to ozzy
5. Do you have any patron deities/guardian angels/totem animals/spirit guides/etc? If so, who are they? i've 3 main patrons one is brigrid, the other is luchina and of course pshyche, and tomems are butterflies and tigres, butterflies just kinda of found me and have stuck with me

Re: Ok, I'll bite.

[vediskoerner.livejournal.com]

1. I'll go with the short answer, grew up agnostic, found wicca, realised I was a natural seer, freaked out, left paganism for a brief stint in christanity (which I found out was full of hypocracies and COMPLETELY didn't fit) did the celtic recon for a while (thus my membership in ADF) and then settled into Heathenry.
2. Yup, his name is Landwight Leif, he is fun to draw, but the landwights are very important in my practice, the Ancestors and Landwights are more active in my practice than the Gods! *L*
3. Yes, I would take the opportunity to go back and NOT purchase our home. It was the biggest mistake of my life, and I have been paying for it for the last 5 years. It wasn't worth it. Honestly.
4. Vedis can be broken down into two words, Ve = Heathen altar, Dis = Female ancestors (known to carry the luck of the family among other things) So Vedis is Heathen holy woman (roughly translated of course *L*) Koerner is my married name.
5. The podcast has pretty much crapped out. However, ADF is thinking about creating one themselves, and it wouldn't take NEAR as much effort. Thing is, creating a podcast by yourself, sucks royal ass. I was hoping it would be more of a group project to help bring me and my husband closer, but, as usual, he want's no part of it. Ooo, I think that one has a bit of a rant to it, so I will stop there.

That was fun!