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The letter meme thing.
This is how it works: Comment on this entry that you'd like to play, and I will give you a letter. Write ten words beginning with that letter in your journal, including an explanation what the word means to you and why, and then pass out letters to those who want to play along.
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ljmckay gave me the letter T
1. Time - There never seems to be enough of it. I want the ability to freeze it, so I can do all the stuff I want to do.
2. Typing - Well writing really but that doesn't start with T so... I have always loved to write and I'm an avid reader when I get the Time (see 1.). It's just an activity that relaxes me and lets my mind wander. I almost did journalism at uni and I think in many ways I regret not doing it.
As a kid, I used to write short stories and create my own Mary-Sue characters that had great adventures, which I'd act out in and around our house and garden. I never had many friends, but my imagination made up for it in a big way. Later I just wrote crappy short stories, which later became random chapters of books that will probably never be completed. Nor should be really. :p
Then I stumbled into an RPG and met some online people and now it's fan fiction. Fan fiction is actually teaching me so much about writing that it's almost unbelievable. I'm slowly fixing grammatical mistakes, learning to write better and I adore the whole feedback thing.
3. Tae Kwon Do - I couldn't find a do jang for the style I do here in Sydney, but back home I really got into TKD. It was possibly the first time I really got into a physical excercise and ran with it. It gave me a lot more self confidence, I met all these really nice people and I discovered that yelling and hitting something is an amazing way to relieve stress. Plus one of the female instructors was really amusing. She'd throw in self defence moves that were mostly for us women. One that made the guys cringe and really stuck in my brain was the 'strike-grab-twist-pull'. Ouch!
4. Travel and 5. Theatre - As in my parents have always instilled in us as kids that experiences are way more important in life than things. Things can make you more comfortable or whatever, but experiences are what makes life worth living. They are what keeps you feeling good about life and they are what creates happy and interesting stories to tell your grandkids one day and keep you smiling when you think back on your life.
For that reason, my parents have always taken us to see live shows and theatre and I'm much more traveled than your average kid would be. Granted lots of the travelling took place before I could remember it, but I also do have lovely memories of trying to order chips and mayo in Dutch, getting locked in a toilet in a German castle, feeding chipmonks in the park, and making snow angels in my mother's home village in Canada.
I have things too and I was taught not to skimp on stuff that ensures you're happy and comfortable, but I don't go out and buy the biggest, latest and best of everything and I don't really care if the cutlery all matches or the couch is slightly scuffed.
I'm just careful not to skimp on the fleeting things that while they may seem frivolous to some, are capable of creating memories to keep you warm for a liftime. [/mushy stuff]
6. Take away food and Thai food - I live on the stuff. Not as much as I used to, but still rather regularly. Not like McDonalds and such, but Thai and Japanese and falafel rolls and... I can cook, but I'm lazy and often come home from the gym ravenous and I really just start eating whatever is in the fridge, so stopping to get some good food on the way home is not such a bad option.
7. Toasted sandwiches - When I'm not eating take away foods(see 6.) this is a steady part of my diet and I apparently squick people with the freaky combinations of things I can quite happily toast on a sandwich.
8. TimTams - I'm addicted! I slam them with coffee! What more can I say.
9. Touch - This one is going to come across as weird, but I don't mean it in a sexual way at all. Far from it. It's just that I'm naturally a very 'touchy feely' kind of person. If I had it my way, everyone would greet with a hug and not be so shy about touch in general. I was brought up in small, but incredibly affectionate family and I used to have very huggy friends and we would greet with a hug and often sit right in each others personal space when doing things.
I know now that for most people this isn't the way they operate. They need lots of personal space and most of my friends, even some of the same ones that in the past were so huggy, feel a big need to keep a distance form people and are not at all comfortable with touching people. I respect that, I do, but it saddens me sometimes too.
10. Trains - Well this isn't deep and meaningful. There aren't trains in the city I grew up in, so catching them every day here is just different...though less so after three years. I used to live near the city and commute to the North Shore each day, which meant travelling across the harbour Bridge. (The one that looks like a coat hanger for those who don't live in Sydney.) Anyway, the view never got old for me. I'd look up from whatever I was reading to take in the gorgeous harbour, the rich houses, Lunar Park with its big smiley face entrance and the Dawn Fasier pool, the ships on the water. It is still beautiful to me, though I no longer commute that way, since moving to the North Shore, so it see it less often. I miss it the most at about this time of year, when the sun is setting at closer to 5pm and it would be setting on the water. Very pretty.
I don't miss the one hour of commuting every day though. One stop and hop off is very nice. In fact I walk some days. :D
Phew there's ten. Though I guess I cheated by putting two answers in one. Oh well. It's really hard to think of ten.
Other random news, since I'm in list mode:
My fic is now officially over 3000 words and I'm not anywhere near done. It's due in 10 days. *meep*
I watched some of BvP again last night, mostly for the Hewlett. His snake loving ways amuse me and I have a new fic idea. Would it be crazy of me to join the Emmett/Bredan crossover peoples? I have a premise and everything. *headesk* You are infecting my brain with slash. *glares at random people on her flist* :p I have a very nice gen fic planned too. I just have to wrap my head around it.
Also GIP! I found this icon and had to have it.
This is how it works: Comment on this entry that you'd like to play, and I will give you a letter. Write ten words beginning with that letter in your journal, including an explanation what the word means to you and why, and then pass out letters to those who want to play along.
ljmckay gave me the letter T1. Time - There never seems to be enough of it. I want the ability to freeze it, so I can do all the stuff I want to do.
2. Typing - Well writing really but that doesn't start with T so... I have always loved to write and I'm an avid reader when I get the Time (see 1.). It's just an activity that relaxes me and lets my mind wander. I almost did journalism at uni and I think in many ways I regret not doing it.
As a kid, I used to write short stories and create my own Mary-Sue characters that had great adventures, which I'd act out in and around our house and garden. I never had many friends, but my imagination made up for it in a big way. Later I just wrote crappy short stories, which later became random chapters of books that will probably never be completed. Nor should be really. :p
Then I stumbled into an RPG and met some online people and now it's fan fiction. Fan fiction is actually teaching me so much about writing that it's almost unbelievable. I'm slowly fixing grammatical mistakes, learning to write better and I adore the whole feedback thing.
3. Tae Kwon Do - I couldn't find a do jang for the style I do here in Sydney, but back home I really got into TKD. It was possibly the first time I really got into a physical excercise and ran with it. It gave me a lot more self confidence, I met all these really nice people and I discovered that yelling and hitting something is an amazing way to relieve stress. Plus one of the female instructors was really amusing. She'd throw in self defence moves that were mostly for us women. One that made the guys cringe and really stuck in my brain was the 'strike-grab-twist-pull'. Ouch!
4. Travel and 5. Theatre - As in my parents have always instilled in us as kids that experiences are way more important in life than things. Things can make you more comfortable or whatever, but experiences are what makes life worth living. They are what keeps you feeling good about life and they are what creates happy and interesting stories to tell your grandkids one day and keep you smiling when you think back on your life.
For that reason, my parents have always taken us to see live shows and theatre and I'm much more traveled than your average kid would be. Granted lots of the travelling took place before I could remember it, but I also do have lovely memories of trying to order chips and mayo in Dutch, getting locked in a toilet in a German castle, feeding chipmonks in the park, and making snow angels in my mother's home village in Canada.
I have things too and I was taught not to skimp on stuff that ensures you're happy and comfortable, but I don't go out and buy the biggest, latest and best of everything and I don't really care if the cutlery all matches or the couch is slightly scuffed.
I'm just careful not to skimp on the fleeting things that while they may seem frivolous to some, are capable of creating memories to keep you warm for a liftime. [/mushy stuff]
6. Take away food and Thai food - I live on the stuff. Not as much as I used to, but still rather regularly. Not like McDonalds and such, but Thai and Japanese and falafel rolls and... I can cook, but I'm lazy and often come home from the gym ravenous and I really just start eating whatever is in the fridge, so stopping to get some good food on the way home is not such a bad option.
7. Toasted sandwiches - When I'm not eating take away foods(see 6.) this is a steady part of my diet and I apparently squick people with the freaky combinations of things I can quite happily toast on a sandwich.
8. TimTams - I'm addicted! I slam them with coffee! What more can I say.
9. Touch - This one is going to come across as weird, but I don't mean it in a sexual way at all. Far from it. It's just that I'm naturally a very 'touchy feely' kind of person. If I had it my way, everyone would greet with a hug and not be so shy about touch in general. I was brought up in small, but incredibly affectionate family and I used to have very huggy friends and we would greet with a hug and often sit right in each others personal space when doing things.
I know now that for most people this isn't the way they operate. They need lots of personal space and most of my friends, even some of the same ones that in the past were so huggy, feel a big need to keep a distance form people and are not at all comfortable with touching people. I respect that, I do, but it saddens me sometimes too.
10. Trains - Well this isn't deep and meaningful. There aren't trains in the city I grew up in, so catching them every day here is just different...though less so after three years. I used to live near the city and commute to the North Shore each day, which meant travelling across the harbour Bridge. (The one that looks like a coat hanger for those who don't live in Sydney.) Anyway, the view never got old for me. I'd look up from whatever I was reading to take in the gorgeous harbour, the rich houses, Lunar Park with its big smiley face entrance and the Dawn Fasier pool, the ships on the water. It is still beautiful to me, though I no longer commute that way, since moving to the North Shore, so it see it less often. I miss it the most at about this time of year, when the sun is setting at closer to 5pm and it would be setting on the water. Very pretty.
I don't miss the one hour of commuting every day though. One stop and hop off is very nice. In fact I walk some days. :D
Phew there's ten. Though I guess I cheated by putting two answers in one. Oh well. It's really hard to think of ten.
Other random news, since I'm in list mode:
My fic is now officially over 3000 words and I'm not anywhere near done. It's due in 10 days. *meep*
I watched some of BvP again last night, mostly for the Hewlett. His snake loving ways amuse me and I have a new fic idea. Would it be crazy of me to join the Emmett/Bredan crossover peoples? I have a premise and everything. *headesk* You are infecting my brain with slash. *glares at random people on her flist* :p I have a very nice gen fic planned too. I just have to wrap my head around it.
Also GIP! I found this icon and had to have it.
