Questionnaire last updated on 28 January 2010.

 

Switch Witch Questionnaire

 

Basic Info

Birthday: 12 July

Pets: One cat named Spot.

Children: Just the cat!

Religious orientation: Jewish

Favorite Holiday: Hanukkah and St. Patrick's Day!

Occupation/Major in school: Theatre

Living arrangement (by yourself, with roommates, etc): With my lovely wife ow1goddess, the aforementioned cat, and temporarily my parents.

Livejournal/Blog/Website: I'm on LiveJournal as thechildoftime

Organizations/Causes/Activities (Things you belong to or causes you believe in): Animal Rights, Gay Rights (especially Marriage rights), Feminism, Planned Parenthood, Religious Freedom.

 

BPAL

Favorite BPAL oils: Incoming giant alphabetical list of the ones that are in heavy rotation: Al-Azif, B.B3, Boo, Cake Smash, The Chapel, Crowley, Cupcake Spatter Pattern Analysis, Devil's Night, Green Tree Viper, La Befana, Left His Nurse While in a Crowd, Mad Sweeney, Mme. Moriarty, Smut, Sugar Skull, Thirteen (July '07).

Favorite notes: Sugar, Red Musk, Vetiver, Leather, Honey, Chocolate of any kind.

Favorite non-BPAL perfumes: Burberry Brit is the only spray perfume I've ever loved.

Least favorite notes: Hemp (I amp it to the point of killing all other notes in a blend), Amber turns to baby powder on me (apparently black amber is okay, though), Baby Powder, Rose (turns into soap).

Least favorite non-BPAL perfumes: Pretty much all of them? I've never really tried other oil-based scents, and I'm wide open to those, but I hate the alcohol-based spray perfumes. They just smell chemical to me.

 

Clothing & Jewelry

Hair type: Fine, dark, and long. Eat more conversation hearts!

Skin Type: Ultra-pale. I'm a MAC NC15. Also, I have sensitive skin.

Allergies (specifically B&B related): I'm super sorry, but please don't get me cheap lotion, no matter how fun the packaging and smell, I'm usually allergic to it. This includes Jergens Sensitive Skin lotion which says on the damn package that it is hypoallergenic. I found that out the hard way. Stuff from places that are careful with their ingredients, like Lush, the Lab and Trading Post, and Villainess is fine.

Other things to avoid: Cheap makeup/B&B products make my skin flip out. MAC is fine, and most homemade stuff is fine, and like I said basically anyplace that cares about what goes into the stuff is going to be okay.

Tub, shower or both? I'm thrilled to be able to say both now! We moved the day before Halloween to a place with a tub that works after years of not being able to take a damn bath. I still mostly take showers, but I've been enjoying having the option!

Favorite bath & beauty products: Anything from BPTP, Villainess, or Lush.

Clothing Style/Fave garments: I wear jeans more than I'd like, usually paired with a t-shirt in the summer or a long-sleeved knit when it's cooler. I like to look nice, and I would prefer to be overdressed than underdressed. I love babydoll Ts! I'm usually a size L from BPTP/Jinx and an XL from ThinkGeek.

Favorite clothing colors/colors to wear: Black, black, and more black! But with dark-wash blue jeans most days.

T-shirt size and preference (standard, babydoll, tank, cami, etc): Babydolls look infinitely better on me than standard T-shirts. I also like tanks/camis, but it's cold here right now!

Type(s) of jewelry worn: Earrings! I love earrings!

Ring/wrist/collar size: Rings are size tiny. I think my wedding ring is a 5 or 5.5, and my college ring which is on my middle finger is a 7. My wrists are super small, too. The measuring tape says 6.5 inches. I don't really like necklaces with a chain shorter than 16", but that size or longer is fine.

Gold or silver jewelry? Silver/white gold

Do you have any allergies to metal? Not that I know of.

Favorite gemstones: green garnet, emerald, garnet,

Pierced ears, stretched ears, neither? Pierced several times, but not stretched. I'm plotting an industrial piercing at some point this year.

Sock/Shoe Size: I have little feet. 7.5

 

Lifestyle

Style/home decoration style: Clean lines and classic, warm contemporary stuff.

Favorite decorating colors: Warm green, warm red, burgundy, brown, merlot, dark woods.

Things you collect: Glass paperweights, BPAL bottles.

Favorite music: The Dresden Dolls/Amanda Palmer, Indigo Girls, They Might Be Giants, Barenaked Ladies. I also love most 90s music.

Least favorite music: R&B, Rap, Country.

Vegetarian/Vegan?: (Please be as specific as possible to reduce confusion!) Used to be, so I eat more veggie stuff than most non-vegetarians, still like tofu, et cetera.

Other food restrictions: Jewish, so I don't eat pork. Not even (gasp!) bacon (turkey bacon and Morningstar Farms represent!).

Favorite flavors: Lime, any citrus, any kind of berry (including acai), pomegranate, pineapple, milk chocolate,

Favorite foods/drinks: Soup in general, but if I had to pick a favourite it's probably french onion. I also really love a good steak (medium rare), and pretty much anything without sausage from California Pizza Kitchen (they also have great soup, haha).

Favorite authors/genres: Fantasy--think Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, Steven Brust, David Coe, and of course Tolkein.

Least favorite authors/genres: Christopher Stasheff. I totally caught him recycling pages of text and trying to pass them off as descriptions of new creatures/places/people. Also John Ringo, Robert Jordan, and anything romance. Blegh.

Books/authors you'd like to read, but haven't yet: I really don't have any. If something strikes my fancy I just read the thing!

How do you feel about receiving gently used books as gifts? Bring it on!

Favorite stores (including clothing stores): Lush, the local jewelry store that sells work by independent artists, White House Black Market (though I can't afford anything they have these days), Crate and Barrel, the Apple Store, Gamestop.

Favorite online stores (including B&B stores): Obviously the lab and trading post, Villainess, Etsy, Sock Dreams, ThinkGeek, Blue Moon Fiber Arts, Yarn Pirate, Jinx.

Magazines you subscribe to: None.

Magazines you like, but don't subscribe to: Cooking Light, Women's Health, Interweave Knits in order.

Favorite movies: The Princess Bride, So I Married An Axe Murderer

Favorite TV show(s): Doctor Who! Also The X-Files when it was on,

Hobbies/crafts done: Knitting, crocheting, miniature painting, and I'd like to try my hand at decorating boxes for BPAL to live in.

 

Wishlists

BPAL Wish List (including SW/SF Help): Right Here

Other website Wish lists (amazon.com, etsy.com, etc):

Etsy Favourites

The Lush website is not giving up my wish list today for some reason.

ThinkGeek Wish List

Amazon.com Wish List

 

Random Questions:

 

- On a scale of 1-5, how organized are you? 3

 

- Where, outside of the U.S. would you love to visit? (if you're international, this can be anywhere) London, Edinburgh, Rome, Athens, Pompeii, Vancouver, Brazil, Sydney, Japan.

 

- Do people tell you that you act older, younger, or your age? I've heard all of the above! When I was younger, I was always told I acted older. When I do sports, people think I'm younger. But I'm 29 now and I think I grew into myself.

 

- Have you ever been skinny dipping? I hate to admit it, but no, I haven't.

 

- Do you wear pajamas to places other than at your house? Absolutely not unless I'm at a friend/family member's house and spending the night.

 

- Your least favorite feature about yourself: My saddlebag hips.

 

- Do you live in a neighborhood or in the middle of nowhere? In a neighborhood.

 

- Do you like to shop? Yes, but not for clothes!

 

- If you were a shoe, what would you be and why?

I would be this Fluevog. Not what people expect to see, but fun and interesting when you can past the difference. And it comes in green/brown too!

 

 

- If you were on death row, what would you request for your last meal? Pretty much anything as long as it's cooked by Mario Batali! He is a culinary rock star.

 

- They're making a bio-pic based on your life. Who's portraying you? Gillian Anderson. Rawr!

 

- If Beth made a custom blend for you, what would the notes be, and what would you want the label art to look like? Sugar, red musk, either red or black currant, leather, and housecat fur (I love to bury my nose in my cat's fur and just smell him--happiest smell in the world).

 

- Sunrise or sunset? Sunset. The colours are more appealing to me, and I am not a morning person.

 

- Has a stranger ever told you that you did something really well? What was it? Yes. Acting, fixing computers, and fencing.

 

- Do you like garage sales (boot sales)? Yes, but I never seem to go to them.

 

- Something that you never buy for yourself, but you’d love to have: Flavored coffee, drinks from Starbucks, and stuff from ThinkGeek. Also there's a shirt on Jinx.com that says "Damn it Jim, I'm a cleric not a warrior" that I want but can't ever make myself spend the money on it.

 

- I like to slather my food in: Interesting salt (currently Himalayan-mined pink salt) and Mrs. Dash. Also Grains of Paradise, but I ran out and no place here seems to have them.

 

- State fairs or carnivals? Fairs. Not necessarily the state fair, I like county fairs too!

 

- Do you like to splash in puddles after it rains? Did the thought make you smile? I don't splash in puddles after it rains because I don't like my clothes getting wet and grit in my Birks, but the thought definitely made me grin.

 

Notes (Here's where you can add additional information you'd like your Switch Witch to know!): Ow1goddess is my lovely wife, so if you have questions or want an opinion about anything, or want some inside info about what makes me tick, she's the one to ask.