Texty

Prompted by jooles34:

1. Reply to this post, and I will pick five of your icons. - if you ask me to!
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon glee.


This is our dear, departed Familiar. She had a habit of laying on top of the microwave in my office at the old house. Never could figure out why. Ah, I miss her!


I honestly can't remember where I found this image originally, but I've had the icon for ages, as a generic "yay" thing. Even after all these years, it still makes me giggle.


The shot is from a screencap of one of Andrew's BBC America interviews when they were promoting their new showing of series 2 (and he's on the set for series 3 there!) He's going on about Connor having issues with guns, and demonstrates his gun stance, in his uniquely adorkable way. I tend to use this icon to punctuate one-shot posts or cheeky comments, due to its delightful faux badassery.


The pic is one of Andrew's that he posted on his fan FB last summer when he was on holiday in Florida. He just looks so damned gleeful there, it's downright infectious. The text is a reference to a hilarious little viral song from several years back called Gonads and Strife


I probably shouldn't actually have this, as it's a personal pic of Ben's (though it was posted as a profile pic, so it's technically public.) But damn, it's just ... yeah. As the text says. ;)

Oh, and the Andrew-in-guyliner icons are from this photoshoot. :)

Will be doing my usual life tally post as well, but figured I'd do this, too. (Gacked from vandonovan)

1. What did you do in 2010 that you'd never done before?
Took up birdwatching. Ate tomatoes I grew myself. Learned how to edit video. Visited Atlanta.

( 60 more questions )

Took that writers' meme that all the cool kids are doing. Plugged in a bunch of my fics and other stuff and mostly got James Joyce back.

Haven't read his stuff, though by reputation, I guess he's verbose? Profane? Maybe that's what I have in common. Dunno.

At least I didn't get some horrific thing like Stephenie Meyer or Jackie Collins.

This one's going around on FB

Welcome to the 2009 edition of getting to know your Friends. Copy then change all the answers so they apply to you, and then send this to your friends including the person who sent it to you. The theory is that you will learn a lot of little things about your friends that you might not have known!

Blah blah, w'ev.

1. What time did you get up this morning?
9:30ish.

2. Diamonds or pearls? Pearls.
Neither? I'm not much into shinies. There are a few tiny diamonds on my wedding ring and I have a few pairs of earrings with small emeralds and sapphires and whatnot. I think my engagement ring (the teensy, cheap little thing) has a blue topaz in it. But most of what little jewelry I wear is plain silver with maybe some beads and crystals here and there. There are a few gemstones and suchlike things I do admire, however: Mother-of-pearl, black opals, dichroic glass and ammolite. (See a pattern? :) )

3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema?
Quantum of Solace. I'm WAY behind.

4. What is your favorite TV show?
Out of everything, BSG is leaps and bounds ahead of the rest.

5. What do you usually have for breakfast?
It varies. If I don't feel like going downstairs, I raid my office snack drawer for protein bars or dried fruit. Usually I prefer eggs in some form or other. ( Many more )

This is that big "life experiences" thing. Gacked from many...

Bold what you've done and all that.

1. Started your own blog.
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower (somehow, I never get around to this.)


( 95 more )

Wow. Not even half. So much of this is travel-related, though. I really wish I could stand being on an airplane long enough to do some of those.

Because I have no mental energy to do anything worthwhile. Gacked this one from pixxelpuss

Caution: Politics herein. Skip this if you'd rather not deal with that stuff here.

( CONTROVERSY! OMG! )

Gacked from classics_cat
The Omnivore's Hundred is a list of foods the gastronome Andrew Wheeler thinks everyone should try at least once in their lives.

The rules of the meme:
1) bold those you have tried
2) strikethrough those you wouldn't eat on a bet.
2a) Italicize any item you'll never eat again.
2b) Asterisk any items you'd be interested in trying but have not yet.

Bearing in mind that I was a vegetarian for 16 years and haven't eaten beef, pork or other mammal meats in 20 years...

( From yum to barf )

Morning movie meme, gacked from thefirstalicat 

Bold what you've seen

( My movie tastes are a bit obvious... )

Gacked from waterfaery



Yep. On occasion, I slip into a Texas/Oklahoma twang, as I picked up my grandmother's accent when she was living with us when I was young. I also have just a hint of Upper Midwest from time to time, from my other grandmother (a Wisconsin-born Italian, if you can believe that.) My parents have distinct accents of their own, which I didn't really pick up, oddly enough. Dad's got the Texas thing, and Mom is more central Midwest. I suppose some of it is that because my dad was in radio (and I learned at his feet), I learned the flat broadcaster accent more than anything else. That and I also learned proper singing diction, too, which is something like British recieved pronunciation.

Casually, I probably also have hints of SoCal and, these days, Canadian.

I'm also an aural chameleon, though, so when I'm around a lot of people with a specific kind of accent, I pick it up without even thinking. I always hope I don't accidentally insult people when I do that (they might think I'm mocking them, though I'm definitely not.)

( Who's your candidate? )

Interesting. Other quizzes have me lining up more with Edwards. I'll vote for Hillary if she's the nominee, but I'm not crazy about her. Edwards/Obama would be a nice ticket, I think.