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Tired of the survey questions by 15 year olds who have never lived in the real world? Here's one for the folks who have actually lived!
1. Worst damage you ever took in a fight?
Hmm, well, I have to go back to the days of having siblings around, actually. Can't recall what stupid ass thing the girls did, but I ran upstairs after them and they had already closed and locked the door to the second floor. So, in my infinite wisdom, of course, banging on the door seemed the best recourse. Unfortunately, we lived in a hundred-year-old house and practically everything was original, including... the glass pane in the top of the door, which then shattered and sliced open my wrist among other injuries. Now, I do count this as a fight as there was fighting going on and fighting continuing afterwards; kicks and such were exchanged on both sides. However, I did come out of it a lot worse than the two of them, and for weeks afterward had tons of people asking 'did you try to commit suicide'. ((of course, me being an ass, would respond, 'yeah, but I didn't read the directions and found out you're supposed to slit BOTH wrists. go figure.'
Interesting side note: except for my beloved sibs and times when I was in karate and kickboxing where you're on some level supposed to be fighting, I've never fought back in a fight. There were three times in my youth when I was attacked - the first in first grade, when I was slapped by one of the girls on the playground because she wanted something I had. After she did it, she stood there, I suppose waiting for me to fight back, and I was pretty damn angry, but my good friend Nathaniel (who I am certain later became a priest) runs over and says to me 'Don't hit her back. Jesus turns the other cheek.', which basically stuck with me since then. So, the two times in Middle School when someone went after me (once, I was slapped in Health/Quest class by this girl that I had thought was my friend; and the other time, I was in the lunchroom and I was charged at, punched and pinned up against the wall-- that time, I had my arms up in defense, but still didn't fight back) I didn't fight back. The teachers, even other parents, they didn't understand it either time - my 6th grade teacher, this little bit of a thing, I even overheard her say 'even I'd have hit that girl back'. I think, in part, I'm afraid that if I had hit back, I would have hurt someone, and I didn't want to do that. Mom's a brown belt; she could kick serious ass back in the day. And she taught all us kids how to fight back - totally the reason why beating up on your sibs, when they also know how to kick your ass, was acceptable. I'm still afraid that some day I might actually have to use the ass kicking against someone- not because I'm afraid of someone attacking me, more that I'm afraid I would physically hurt someone. But... I could do it if I had to. And I suppose, that's maybe even a little more frightening..
2. Most money you ever owed a utility company?
Hmm, it was over a hundred bucks, but that was because I missed a bill and it was summer and the air conditioning was constantly on. I want to say 140 bucks - which is quite a lot, considering when it's not hot out, our average is 25 bucks. Phone bills have never gone over 30, but we rarely make long distance calls.
3. Last time you got kicked out of a bar?
I hardly go to bars, and have never been kicked out of one. However, I have been kicked out of a McDonalds; it was an incident at 11pm involving chocolate shakes and french fries in the smoking section (back when McDonalds restaurants had those).
4. Longest time you slept in a car?
Maybe a few hours or so - but I can easily fall asleep in moving vehicles.
Actually, I can easily fall asleep about anywhere.
5. Most fucked up nickname you've ever been called?
Oh, by far, bomba-ass is the clear winner. Thank you, dad.. aparently, pumpkin just wasn't cutting it when I hit adulthood, so he needed something else.
Wait, hold on... bomba-ass ties with TJ's utterances of butt-burglar and ass-pirate. Yeah, it's definately a tie.
6. Worst job you ever had?
Working as an intern for the library council. Because intern meant 'you'll be running everything because everyone else is going to pawn their work off on you'. It was also in the middle of downtown Milwaukee, on the third floor of a building with no air conditioning during summer. I had no breaks, no lunch, and the only consolation to my misery was that during the hours I worked, I was able to keep the window for afternet up and chat with ThunderWolf. He truly kept me sane for that time, if you can imagine ;) I was there for three months.
7. Shortest job you've ever had?
For one day, an entire six hours, I worked for a place called Merchandise Outlet. My job at Columbia hospital had been cut, and I didn't know if I could get my old job at the hobby shop back. So, I applied at another retail store and they hired me at the end of the week (I was cut on a Wednesday or something, did my applying that weekend, was hired that Monday and worked Tuesday, or something like that). That evening, I got a call from the hobby shop. My job had, obviously been filled - but, did I want the job of night manager, they needed one of those.
Well, of course I took it.
As another insert, I have been damn lucky, due to the hobby shop, to have not worked in fast food/waitressing/etc. Every time I needed to find my ass a job or an extra job, Jay (the owner) would come through and hire me on doing something. Family owned businesses can rock, if you can find an awesome one like that.
8. Longest romantic relationship?
with Mark; since '97, and still going
9. Shortest romantic relationship?
*shrugs* I've only just had Mark... I suppose maybe that seems sad, but then, so many people write Erestor as only having a romantic relationship with Glorfindel, so I must be in good company ;)
10. Food that you would eat until you puked?
heh heh, only did that once, with angelfood cake. I was ten, it was my birthday, I asked gramma to bake an entire angelfood cake so that me and my Uncle Ted could split it. And we did. And we both were sick for it later, lol.
11. Food that even looking at makes you puke?
pickled herring ... blah.
12. What music saved your life?
Hmm. Well, I don't have that, however, I do have one that drastically changed my life. When I was at the crazy pre-college camp, one of the nights this one 'counselor' (the counselors were only a year older than the campers, so...yeah...and we were all drinking beer... yep...so...) brings out his guitar and is playing it and singing songs he wrote himself. One of them was about him going into a bar, seeing a girl that he thought was cute, but not having the balls to go over and say hi. and he kept thinking about her until she got up and left, and he never saw her again, and how he regretted not saying anything.
At that point, Mark and I had been working at the same place all summer. I had, from the very second I saw him, had an instant connection with him- like a little bell going off and a big arrow pointing at him with a sign that said 'pounce him! pounce him now!'. But all summer, I kept thinking, he's cute, funny, smart, and he's likely got a girlfriend. So, I said nothing. But after hearing that song, when I got back in town, I found out my mom had won Brewers tickets on the radio (she's always winning radio contests) and they were for the Red Sox game, and she immediately knew I'd love to go see the Red Sox, so she had them waiting for me when I returned. So, the next time I saw Mark, I got up the courage, cornered him at the time clock and asked him to go with me. *squees* of course, ya'll know how the outcome of that went.
13. Person you miss the most in the world?
It's a toss up between Gramma and Uncle Mark, because I know eventually TJ will come back home, and Maggie I can see now and again. Then again, I also have days of missing Lee (Lee was a circ aid we had at the public library; he died suddenly from some reaction to some medication he was taking. He was such a sweet guy; he used to drink coffee out of my big ass plastic pepsi cup. Ended up going with the director to his funeral the day we heard about him passing away. He was only 21.
14. Worst movie you've ever seen?
Stargate. Well, what I have seen of it. I fell asleep so many times trying to watch it, I gave up.
15. Best movie(s) you've ever seen?
Seven Samurai
16. Ever almost die?
At least once, when I had Reyes. I've had a few other close calls. Actually, I believe that when I was born I nearly died, too, 'cause I recall being told that I was stuck and they really, really needed to get me out, so they used some big old tongs and yanked my head out and the rest of me luckily followed and on early baby pics I've got some red tong marks on my noggin'.
18. Ever fistfight a member of the opposite sex?
Eh, only when I was being graded on it... but then, I was allowed to kick, too. And my kicks are worse than my punches. I totally knocked the guy on his ass.
19. Best place you have ever lived?
Right here, where I am now in Wisconsin.
20. Worst place you have ever lived?
When I was in the heart of Milwaukee. Only because, I was in a neighborhood with no kids in it and the kids were in the next neighborhood across the railroad tracks, and at that age no one was allowed to cross the tracks alone, so it made for not a lot of friends.
21. Bad habit you have:
When I talk to people, I find that my eyes wander. I don't know why, but they do, and then it looks like I'm totally disinterested in them or I'm just an idiot.
22. Noise that makes you want to punch people?
People in the library on cell phones.
23. Your favorite tattoo?
Don't have any, however, fanfictionally speaking, I have three characters who have tattoos, and I am fond of the one that Glorfindel has of a sepia colored butterfly on his left shoulder... this because I myself actually have a birthmark that looks like a butterfly.
24. Least favorite tattoo?
Fanfictionally again, the one on Erestor's ankle. I may even rewrite that scene of Recovery and make it that there's only a rope of golden flowers and not the fountainesque blue swirls.
25. At your poorest, were you a ramen noodle or mac/cheeze afficianado?
mac and cheese! and still am fond of it; I like to cut up hotdogs and dump them in (this learned from my friend, Angela Rose)
26. Most money you have ever spent on a single meal?
About a hundred bucks, but it was both Mark and I, it was at Champs, and we both had drinks and appetizers and we were just having a very good time that night and I can't recall what he got, but I'm sure it was some sort of steak and I had something with expensive seafood (but not lobster; only my mom makes good lobster IMO) and it was just one of those 'we deserve this' things.. I believe there was a playoff game on and that's why we were there.
27. Best gift you ever got?
This one's a tie.. when my grampa passed away, he knew he wasn't going to make it to my 10th birthday. So, he had me come over the week before he died and he gave me his little black and white tv - very special, because he and I would sit in his room on Sunday afternoons and watch episodes of MASH; a projector that you can use to make things bigger and then you can trace them onto big pieces of paper and what have you- it was something he and I played with all the time; and his cassette tape of polka music - he only had one, all the good songs were on there, and he would sing in Polish all the time.
The other being, when my gramma passed away, I didn't know it at the time, but she had signed her car over to Mark and I. I think that her reason for this came from the fact that we were the ones visiting her all of the time, and she knew that the war wagon was not doing the best in its old age. I specifially recall on Labor Day, a day everyone had off, and a day that everyone in the family was close by, stopping over to visit her. That Labor Day weekend, my parents were running an event - a pig roast, lots of activities, a band in the evening, it was actually a weekend-long thing, yadda yadda. Anyhow, the whole family was of course there as guests, so everyone's out on the boat (okay, backing up.. my parents own a boat, not a little fishing boat, one of those big sleeps ten people has two floors monsters.. and the event was at the yacht club they belonged to at the time.. they aren't rich, they just never do things 'normal' people do, like go on vacations and my dad teaches in a sweatshirt and jeans, so they have money to go buy a boat, okay, back to the story) and I'm asked to go run an errand (actually, I was running errands all day long), and on my way back, I stopped to see gramma. She was happily surprised, and she told me that no one had come to see her all day, which she thought they would as everyone was off of work. I neglected to mention that they were all only a mile away at a party, but I think she sort of knew. Gramma was a smart lady. But I remember spending as much time as I could with her during the last months she was alive; any time I had spare time I would drop by. That being said, I know there were some people who were ticked that she gave me the car.
Now, as a side note to this, all of my sibs who can drive have used Gramma's car, because I still think of it as Gramma's car, and I kinda feel that they have as much a right to use it, too. So, both TJ and Maggie have driven it around.
28. Best pet you ever had?
Ooo, a toughie. I loved Bosley (greyhound mix we used to have) very much, but Harley and Oreo are so cuddly.
29. Ever run from the cops?
Nope.
Sidenote to this - after I got out of highschool, I found out later from some peers that they thought I was a narc, planted in by the cops to try to weed out the, er, weed users, lol. Because I was friendly with such a variety of students and sort of meandered from one group to the next, the potheads were all pretty sure I was trouble in that regard, and the jocks thought I was trying to get the info on their afterpractice beer drinking parties.
The tip off that I wasn't? Senior year, when they got rid of the table that I would sit at during lunch, because it was the table right by the lunch line and I had claimed it as mine, for myself and all who would follow, as of Junior year, I had a dilemma. I had a group of students who were all seeing me as their grand leader (They actually referred to me, no shit, as 'The Great and Powerful Zhie'), and we had no fucking place to eat.
So, I brought in a tablecloth, a vase with flowers, and we all would sit where the table had been on top of our table cloth and have a picnic.
It was decided from that moment on amongst the inhabitants of cancer corner, that there was no way I was a narc. Just, very silly.
30. Money or love:
All we need is love, love lifts us up where we belong, love me baby, love me tonight. Hee hee hee.. *sigh* Break is over, back to work now.
Tired of the survey questions by 15 year olds who have never lived in the real world? Here's one for the folks who have actually lived!
1. Worst damage you ever took in a fight?
Hmm, well, I have to go back to the days of having siblings around, actually. Can't recall what stupid ass thing the girls did, but I ran upstairs after them and they had already closed and locked the door to the second floor. So, in my infinite wisdom, of course, banging on the door seemed the best recourse. Unfortunately, we lived in a hundred-year-old house and practically everything was original, including... the glass pane in the top of the door, which then shattered and sliced open my wrist among other injuries. Now, I do count this as a fight as there was fighting going on and fighting continuing afterwards; kicks and such were exchanged on both sides. However, I did come out of it a lot worse than the two of them, and for weeks afterward had tons of people asking 'did you try to commit suicide'. ((of course, me being an ass, would respond, 'yeah, but I didn't read the directions and found out you're supposed to slit BOTH wrists. go figure.'
Interesting side note: except for my beloved sibs and times when I was in karate and kickboxing where you're on some level supposed to be fighting, I've never fought back in a fight. There were three times in my youth when I was attacked - the first in first grade, when I was slapped by one of the girls on the playground because she wanted something I had. After she did it, she stood there, I suppose waiting for me to fight back, and I was pretty damn angry, but my good friend Nathaniel (who I am certain later became a priest) runs over and says to me 'Don't hit her back. Jesus turns the other cheek.', which basically stuck with me since then. So, the two times in Middle School when someone went after me (once, I was slapped in Health/Quest class by this girl that I had thought was my friend; and the other time, I was in the lunchroom and I was charged at, punched and pinned up against the wall-- that time, I had my arms up in defense, but still didn't fight back) I didn't fight back. The teachers, even other parents, they didn't understand it either time - my 6th grade teacher, this little bit of a thing, I even overheard her say 'even I'd have hit that girl back'. I think, in part, I'm afraid that if I had hit back, I would have hurt someone, and I didn't want to do that. Mom's a brown belt; she could kick serious ass back in the day. And she taught all us kids how to fight back - totally the reason why beating up on your sibs, when they also know how to kick your ass, was acceptable. I'm still afraid that some day I might actually have to use the ass kicking against someone- not because I'm afraid of someone attacking me, more that I'm afraid I would physically hurt someone. But... I could do it if I had to. And I suppose, that's maybe even a little more frightening..
2. Most money you ever owed a utility company?
Hmm, it was over a hundred bucks, but that was because I missed a bill and it was summer and the air conditioning was constantly on. I want to say 140 bucks - which is quite a lot, considering when it's not hot out, our average is 25 bucks. Phone bills have never gone over 30, but we rarely make long distance calls.
3. Last time you got kicked out of a bar?
I hardly go to bars, and have never been kicked out of one. However, I have been kicked out of a McDonalds; it was an incident at 11pm involving chocolate shakes and french fries in the smoking section (back when McDonalds restaurants had those).
4. Longest time you slept in a car?
Maybe a few hours or so - but I can easily fall asleep in moving vehicles.
Actually, I can easily fall asleep about anywhere.
5. Most fucked up nickname you've ever been called?
Oh, by far, bomba-ass is the clear winner. Thank you, dad.. aparently, pumpkin just wasn't cutting it when I hit adulthood, so he needed something else.
Wait, hold on... bomba-ass ties with TJ's utterances of butt-burglar and ass-pirate. Yeah, it's definately a tie.
6. Worst job you ever had?
Working as an intern for the library council. Because intern meant 'you'll be running everything because everyone else is going to pawn their work off on you'. It was also in the middle of downtown Milwaukee, on the third floor of a building with no air conditioning during summer. I had no breaks, no lunch, and the only consolation to my misery was that during the hours I worked, I was able to keep the window for afternet up and chat with ThunderWolf. He truly kept me sane for that time, if you can imagine ;) I was there for three months.
7. Shortest job you've ever had?
For one day, an entire six hours, I worked for a place called Merchandise Outlet. My job at Columbia hospital had been cut, and I didn't know if I could get my old job at the hobby shop back. So, I applied at another retail store and they hired me at the end of the week (I was cut on a Wednesday or something, did my applying that weekend, was hired that Monday and worked Tuesday, or something like that). That evening, I got a call from the hobby shop. My job had, obviously been filled - but, did I want the job of night manager, they needed one of those.
Well, of course I took it.
As another insert, I have been damn lucky, due to the hobby shop, to have not worked in fast food/waitressing/etc. Every time I needed to find my ass a job or an extra job, Jay (the owner) would come through and hire me on doing something. Family owned businesses can rock, if you can find an awesome one like that.
8. Longest romantic relationship?
with Mark; since '97, and still going
9. Shortest romantic relationship?
*shrugs* I've only just had Mark... I suppose maybe that seems sad, but then, so many people write Erestor as only having a romantic relationship with Glorfindel, so I must be in good company ;)
10. Food that you would eat until you puked?
heh heh, only did that once, with angelfood cake. I was ten, it was my birthday, I asked gramma to bake an entire angelfood cake so that me and my Uncle Ted could split it. And we did. And we both were sick for it later, lol.
11. Food that even looking at makes you puke?
pickled herring ... blah.
12. What music saved your life?
Hmm. Well, I don't have that, however, I do have one that drastically changed my life. When I was at the crazy pre-college camp, one of the nights this one 'counselor' (the counselors were only a year older than the campers, so...yeah...and we were all drinking beer... yep...so...) brings out his guitar and is playing it and singing songs he wrote himself. One of them was about him going into a bar, seeing a girl that he thought was cute, but not having the balls to go over and say hi. and he kept thinking about her until she got up and left, and he never saw her again, and how he regretted not saying anything.
At that point, Mark and I had been working at the same place all summer. I had, from the very second I saw him, had an instant connection with him- like a little bell going off and a big arrow pointing at him with a sign that said 'pounce him! pounce him now!'. But all summer, I kept thinking, he's cute, funny, smart, and he's likely got a girlfriend. So, I said nothing. But after hearing that song, when I got back in town, I found out my mom had won Brewers tickets on the radio (she's always winning radio contests) and they were for the Red Sox game, and she immediately knew I'd love to go see the Red Sox, so she had them waiting for me when I returned. So, the next time I saw Mark, I got up the courage, cornered him at the time clock and asked him to go with me. *squees* of course, ya'll know how the outcome of that went.
13. Person you miss the most in the world?
It's a toss up between Gramma and Uncle Mark, because I know eventually TJ will come back home, and Maggie I can see now and again. Then again, I also have days of missing Lee (Lee was a circ aid we had at the public library; he died suddenly from some reaction to some medication he was taking. He was such a sweet guy; he used to drink coffee out of my big ass plastic pepsi cup. Ended up going with the director to his funeral the day we heard about him passing away. He was only 21.
14. Worst movie you've ever seen?
Stargate. Well, what I have seen of it. I fell asleep so many times trying to watch it, I gave up.
15. Best movie(s) you've ever seen?
Seven Samurai
16. Ever almost die?
At least once, when I had Reyes. I've had a few other close calls. Actually, I believe that when I was born I nearly died, too, 'cause I recall being told that I was stuck and they really, really needed to get me out, so they used some big old tongs and yanked my head out and the rest of me luckily followed and on early baby pics I've got some red tong marks on my noggin'.
18. Ever fistfight a member of the opposite sex?
Eh, only when I was being graded on it... but then, I was allowed to kick, too. And my kicks are worse than my punches. I totally knocked the guy on his ass.
19. Best place you have ever lived?
Right here, where I am now in Wisconsin.
20. Worst place you have ever lived?
When I was in the heart of Milwaukee. Only because, I was in a neighborhood with no kids in it and the kids were in the next neighborhood across the railroad tracks, and at that age no one was allowed to cross the tracks alone, so it made for not a lot of friends.
21. Bad habit you have:
When I talk to people, I find that my eyes wander. I don't know why, but they do, and then it looks like I'm totally disinterested in them or I'm just an idiot.
22. Noise that makes you want to punch people?
People in the library on cell phones.
23. Your favorite tattoo?
Don't have any, however, fanfictionally speaking, I have three characters who have tattoos, and I am fond of the one that Glorfindel has of a sepia colored butterfly on his left shoulder... this because I myself actually have a birthmark that looks like a butterfly.
24. Least favorite tattoo?
Fanfictionally again, the one on Erestor's ankle. I may even rewrite that scene of Recovery and make it that there's only a rope of golden flowers and not the fountainesque blue swirls.
25. At your poorest, were you a ramen noodle or mac/cheeze afficianado?
mac and cheese! and still am fond of it; I like to cut up hotdogs and dump them in (this learned from my friend, Angela Rose)
26. Most money you have ever spent on a single meal?
About a hundred bucks, but it was both Mark and I, it was at Champs, and we both had drinks and appetizers and we were just having a very good time that night and I can't recall what he got, but I'm sure it was some sort of steak and I had something with expensive seafood (but not lobster; only my mom makes good lobster IMO) and it was just one of those 'we deserve this' things.. I believe there was a playoff game on and that's why we were there.
27. Best gift you ever got?
This one's a tie.. when my grampa passed away, he knew he wasn't going to make it to my 10th birthday. So, he had me come over the week before he died and he gave me his little black and white tv - very special, because he and I would sit in his room on Sunday afternoons and watch episodes of MASH; a projector that you can use to make things bigger and then you can trace them onto big pieces of paper and what have you- it was something he and I played with all the time; and his cassette tape of polka music - he only had one, all the good songs were on there, and he would sing in Polish all the time.
The other being, when my gramma passed away, I didn't know it at the time, but she had signed her car over to Mark and I. I think that her reason for this came from the fact that we were the ones visiting her all of the time, and she knew that the war wagon was not doing the best in its old age. I specifially recall on Labor Day, a day everyone had off, and a day that everyone in the family was close by, stopping over to visit her. That Labor Day weekend, my parents were running an event - a pig roast, lots of activities, a band in the evening, it was actually a weekend-long thing, yadda yadda. Anyhow, the whole family was of course there as guests, so everyone's out on the boat (okay, backing up.. my parents own a boat, not a little fishing boat, one of those big sleeps ten people has two floors monsters.. and the event was at the yacht club they belonged to at the time.. they aren't rich, they just never do things 'normal' people do, like go on vacations and my dad teaches in a sweatshirt and jeans, so they have money to go buy a boat, okay, back to the story) and I'm asked to go run an errand (actually, I was running errands all day long), and on my way back, I stopped to see gramma. She was happily surprised, and she told me that no one had come to see her all day, which she thought they would as everyone was off of work. I neglected to mention that they were all only a mile away at a party, but I think she sort of knew. Gramma was a smart lady. But I remember spending as much time as I could with her during the last months she was alive; any time I had spare time I would drop by. That being said, I know there were some people who were ticked that she gave me the car.
Now, as a side note to this, all of my sibs who can drive have used Gramma's car, because I still think of it as Gramma's car, and I kinda feel that they have as much a right to use it, too. So, both TJ and Maggie have driven it around.
28. Best pet you ever had?
Ooo, a toughie. I loved Bosley (greyhound mix we used to have) very much, but Harley and Oreo are so cuddly.
29. Ever run from the cops?
Nope.
Sidenote to this - after I got out of highschool, I found out later from some peers that they thought I was a narc, planted in by the cops to try to weed out the, er, weed users, lol. Because I was friendly with such a variety of students and sort of meandered from one group to the next, the potheads were all pretty sure I was trouble in that regard, and the jocks thought I was trying to get the info on their afterpractice beer drinking parties.
The tip off that I wasn't? Senior year, when they got rid of the table that I would sit at during lunch, because it was the table right by the lunch line and I had claimed it as mine, for myself and all who would follow, as of Junior year, I had a dilemma. I had a group of students who were all seeing me as their grand leader (They actually referred to me, no shit, as 'The Great and Powerful Zhie'), and we had no fucking place to eat.
So, I brought in a tablecloth, a vase with flowers, and we all would sit where the table had been on top of our table cloth and have a picnic.
It was decided from that moment on amongst the inhabitants of cancer corner, that there was no way I was a narc. Just, very silly.
30. Money or love:
All we need is love, love lifts us up where we belong, love me baby, love me tonight. Hee hee hee.. *sigh* Break is over, back to work now.