September 21st

 

Cthulhu: yay or nay?

 

I'm down with Cthulhu!

 

It's funny, I know I said in one of the earlier sets of questions that I'm appalled by the grotesque (and mostly I am), but it doesn't bother me in pure print form. I love Lovecraft, who delves into some serious repulsiveness at times, and I love Stephen King, who is also not afraid of the macabre... but show me a PICTURE of a cow with two heads or a human corpse or anything like that and I'm shouting no no no dear god no. Heh.

 

Is there something that you wish you could do, but you keep putting it off?

 

Travel to the east coast. :/ All my family's there and I haven't been there since I was ~7 months pregnant with my son who'll be 2 next week. The only family member who has come to visit me in that time is my dad. I really miss them all. :/

 

Put your current mp3player (I am the anti-apple, so no ipod ), winamp playlist, what have you, on shuffle, list the first 10 songs:

 

This is a fun idea! But I'm at work!

 

Witchee, have you made (or are you planning to make) any Lab or Trading post orders soon? And if you did (or plan to), you should share what you're getting

 

No orders directly from the Lab or the TP in months and months, but I do have decants coming via a livejournal circle. (Run by my very first witchee, in fact, who I adore!)

 

I performed a feat of extreme self control and limited myself to decants of:

 

Halloween: Las Vegas

Autumn Cider

La Calavera Catrina

Nothing but Death

October 2011

Pumpkin Latte

Golden Apple of the Sun

Glittering Apple of the Stars

The Gorobble

Wiley Grasser

The Zoom

 

And a bottle of Sprinklecake.

 

This was suuuuuch an update, though. I had a really hard time not getting twice as many decants.

 

Do you have any interest in rocks? Not like, polished colorful stones.. but like... rocks. With geologic significance!

 

No! I took a geology class a million years ago and while it was fun, I immediately forgot all the pertinent information more or less instantly. (Except for the hardness scale, which I can still recite!)

 

If your witch were to knit you a scarf/shawl/cowl, which would you prefer, and what features would you want? Would you prefer something light and drape-y or thick and warm? What kind of colors would you prefer? Do you have any fiber allergies or preferences?

 

A shawl could be really lovely. A scarf probably wouldn't get used as much, and ditto on a cowl. A shawl I could at least wear around the house. (And I would, too! I wear blanket capes all the time.)

 

No fiber allergies, but I prefer things that are soft and nice to touch. Scratchy = bad no matter how pretty the yarn is. I'm a tactile person way more than a visual person.

 

If you have a pet, could you please post a photo of it? I really need to see what your pet, if you have one, looks like.

 

This must have been posted by someone whose witchee has an armadillo or something that they're dying to see.

 

My pets:

 

Love me! says Pingpong. by coldandsleepy, on Flickr

 

The chunky guy in front is Pingpong. Ianto is the little white one in the back. The adorable fluff ball in front of him is the late Captain Jack, who died about two years ago. He was the tiniest, cutest guinea pig with the biggest, bossiest personality. We named him Captain Jack because (wait for it!) he humped anything that moved.

 

And in case you're interested in, here's my human pet kid too:

 

Seal rider by coldandsleepy, on Flickr

 

Do you like/own/wear/want fairy wings or something of the like?

 

I'm not opposed to fairy wings, but as with so many things, I expect they would be quickly co-opted by the above little tyrant. (Which is not a bad thing. He'd be adorable in fairy wings.)

 

How do you feel about terrariums?

 

Um... neutral? I've had several terrarium dwelling pets in the past but don't have any now, so they don't enter into my life much.

 

What's your favorite horror movie?

 

Hm. I don't watch many horror movies. I really liked May and The Ring but saw both many many many years ago now.

 

If your witch was the practical type and wanted to include one or more of your everyday essentials, what would those include? I'm talking about the bath products, lotions, face lotions, teas, food, etc that you really use every day.

 

Tom's of Maine toothpaste - cinnamon clove - fluoridated. It irks me that I live in the hippiest place ever and half the time, I can't find this exact toothpaste. Sometimes I can find it unfluoridated, but I have TERRIBLE TEETH and our water is not fluoridated so yeah, that doesn't work for me.

 

Nice soap, for the shower and for washing hands with.

 

We're using bubble bath (in liquid and bubble bar form) almost every day now because my kid has started demanding bubble baths with great frequency and I usually just get in with him.

 

Um... not a lot else I use every day really... I should use a facial sunblock but haven't found one that doesn't bother my skin and/or smell funny and/or feel gross yet.

 

Jane Austen .. Yay or Nay?

 

Never read Austen. Really! I was in gifted English throughout my school years, and one of the upsides of this was that we often had very free reign of what we read for class... but the downside is that we mostly weren't made to read the classics. I haven't even read The Great Gatsby.

 

I put up quotes I love in my office and studio to get me going, They range from goofy to sarcastic to inspirational... Are you interested in a hand painted quote? Do you have one in mind, or a topic in mind?

 

This could be neat! But as usual, nothing's coming to mind. Maybe just a big plaque that says DON'T TAKE IT PERSONALLY, which is my work mantra.

 

At home, my parenting mantra is "It's washable/it'll dry". Words to live by.

 

Do you like period or period-styled paraphernalia? Stuff like postcards, notecards, jewelry, office supplies, what-have-you?

 

What period?

 

I like historical looking jewelry in general, and old looking things, and I could probably use a gigantic quill. (Again with the idea that the more ridiculous an office supply is, the less likely my co-workers are to walk off with it.)

 

If you like manga, comics, and/or graphic novels, what is it about them that you like, in general? The story, the art/style, etc?

 

Probably art style first, story second... hard though, they're both very important to me. I won't generally read something where I don't like the art (which rules out a LOT of manga and US comics for me-- hey DC reboot, you can go fuck yourself). A bad story I might start reading, but probably won't continue subsequent issues of unless I have some reason to think it might get better.

 

I dislike both the art style AND the story style of most mainstream comics. Superheroes are right out.

 

If you could choose a Smack, what would it have in it?

 

Hm... Redwoods & Bonfire Smoke? Sounds like where I used to live. (The scent of our old backyard was one of the only good points of the house.)

 

if you could have a salon scent made, based on any artwork(s) what would it be?

 

Maybe the Exploding Dog picture I linked yesterday-- though I suppose that'd be some sort of light florals and dirt probably, so not something I'd love to wear.

 

Salvador Dali's Persistence of Memory could be great. Desolate desert air, brass, maybe just a hint of the ocean in the distance...

 

Or Autumn Cannibalism... Swans Reflecting Elephants... hm, Dali has a lot of potential but most of them would have to be desert-y scents.

 

Are you scientifically curious and/or process-oriented? Would you like a project-type gift that allowed you do do something like make soap from scratch, take and (nontoxic-ly) develop photographs using a pinhole camera, use plant dyes on yarn or fabric, etc.?

 

Yes and sure! That sounds fun. I love having a project to work on.

 

What's 'your' song/your theme song?

 

Impossible question. Too many songs.

 

There's always Destroyer's English Music, which I often end up back at. Here it is on YouTube and here are the lyrics:

 

Soldier, you gotta get out more.

There is life

After property

Everyone

Has got a finder's fee,

Find

Something difficult to do

And do it!

 

Write your english music,

Write your english music,

Write your english music. Run free.

 

She

Tasted of the Christmas wine and said

So many things have run through me. (I know.)

The altar boys, they just want to do me,

And that's fine.

You gotta have faith. (Yeah, you gotta have it.)

 

Once again, it's a quarter to three

By Ambleside-by-the-Sea

And something's telling you, boy,

It's time to take sides.

And something's telling you, boy,

It's time to take sides.

 

And write your english music

Though you know it'll come to no good

When brilliance has a taste for suffering

And you're softer than the western world...

 

What would be your superpower?

 

Ability to move in time. Or ability to be in two places at once.

 

Witchee, would you like a gently used BPAL tshirt?

 

Not opposed to gently used shirts but as before, I don't wear a lot of t-shirts right now.

 

Do you like homemade snack mixes? I know Puppy Chow was mentioned in a previous question, but what about healthier and more natural type snacks like granola or trail mix? You can put a lot of delicious and fun things into trail mix, yeah? If you say "Sure, I'd love some!" what kinds of things do you like/not like in those kinds of snacks, ie coconut flakes, raisins, certain nuts (allergies??), candy, etc. Give us your list of DO's and DON'Ts!

 

I like trail mix, and I really like granola too. There are no nuts I dislike except for peanuts (which I don't hate, just don't love). Pistachios are my favorite. And almonds. I really like currants and raisins, dried date bits (though I sincerely had no idea they were the same thing as fresh dates until recently; I thought they were some mysterious type of raisin), cranberries. Other dried fruits are good too. I love dried apricots and they could be good chopped up in trail mix. Coconut's a favorite of mine, especially toasted. Chocolate chips (as long as they're vegan) are good.

 

Little rice crackers are good in trail mix though not necessarily with all the things I listed above, heh. I like dehydrated peas a lot too, but again, probably not with chocolate chips!

 

About the only thing I can think of that I flat out dislike in trail mix are freeze dried berries. Like freeze dried raspberries or blueberries or strawberries. Freeze dried berries gross me out.

 

Do you like charm bracelets? If you had a bracelet, what sort of charms would you want on it? Favorite hobbies, symbols, whatever?

 

I don't think I've ever had a charm bracelet. I like bracelets, but they're not the ideal jewelry for me because I spend so much typing and always end up taking them off when I do so. Which means they get left places...