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todayiamadaisy) wrote2014-01-29 09:28 pm
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Love on the wind
Still going with this.
100 question meme, part II
26. How big is your bed?
Theoretically big enough for two people, and yet not big enough for one person and a cat at full stretch. Although that could be because the cat sleeps diagonally across it.
27. Do you have a laptop or desktop computer?
Both. The laptop is a 13" MacBook Pro from, oh, 2009. I didn't realise I'd had it that long. It's still going strong. It's not really being put to heavy use. The desktop is a 2011 iMac, which does the heavy lifting. By 'heavy lifting', I mean, 'playing Cradle of Rome', so, er, not really very heavy lifting.
28. Do you sleep with or without clothes?
In what shops describe as sleep tees, being large t-shirts. I have more than I need, because I make a point of buying any I see without teddy bears on them. I also wear a hair band to keep my hair off my face while I'm sleeping (when I had long hair, I used to plait it instead).
29. What color are your sheets?
I find sheets plural in this question a bit odd. I only have one sheet at a time on my bed: the one on the mattress. I do have more than one sheet, but I bought them at different times and they're different colours. White, blue, purple. The important thing about the sheets is that they are all high count Egyptian cotton, because I am secretly Mariah Carey and only sleep in quality manchester.
30. How many pillows do you sleep with?
Just the one.
Oh, but no. For the last couple of weeks I have been suffering one of my recurring bouts of tendinitis in my Achilles tendon, so I am currently using a second pillow to raise my foot. I don't know that it's doing any good, but it makes me feel like I'm doing something.
31. What is your favorite season?
Autumn. I feel I have to say that because it doesn't get any love in the questions below. Also, it contains my birthday and acorns.
33. What do you like about winter?
How green it is. Wearing gloves and a nice coat. Hearty soup for lunch. Having the heating turn on automatically, so the house is toasty when I get up and again when I get home. Days that are so cold and wet that no-one says, 'It's a nice day, why don't you go outside?' (to be fair, no-one has said this to me for a long time). Jaunty umbrellas. Drinking very cold water on a cold day so you can feel your insides going colder as it goes down.
34. What do you like about the summer?
Stone fruit. Melons. Berries. Reading outside at dusk on warm evenings. The smell of warm eucalypt when you walk over bark mulch. Daylight early enough to go to the beach before work. The cool change on a hot day, when the wind swings round to the (Antarctic) south and the temperature drops twenty degrees in twenty minutes.
35. What do you like about spring?
All the colour. The equinoctial gales that make the cat go crazy. The... moderate temperatures? I'm running out of things to enthuse about each season. Sorry, spring; I really do like you better than summer.
36. How many states/provinces have you lived in?
The state of Victoria and the territory of the Northern, er, Territory. And a general state of confusion, hahaha.
37. What cities/towns have you lived in?
In order: Alice Springs (town in the desert), a place called Glen Helen (neither a town nor a city in the desert, but a station in the Australian sense of a very large farm), a place that used to be called Ayers Rock Resort but is now known as Mutitjulu (township in the desert), Purnim (township amid green fields), Woodford (township amid green fields), Warrnambool (City by the Sea), Geelong (an even bigger city and also by the sea). Purnim is what I consider my home town.
These are not necessarily well-known places, so I have provided maps:
38. Do you prefer shoes, socks, or bare feet?
My feet get hot, so I prefer to go bare foot, but that's not possible in colder weather, so socks or slippers would be my second choice. Third choice would be shoes that I can slip on and off quite easily. I often slip my shoes off at work.
39. Are you a social person?
No. I often think I should try harder, but put me in front of a person and I just don't know what to say.
40. What was the last thing you ate?
I have just had dinner, which was eggplant, bean and capsicum stir-fried, then tossed with mint and feta, topped with a yoghurt, cumin and garlic dressing. I often have this, or a variation on it, because it takes about 10 minutes to make. The eggplant, beans and garlic came from my garden, and the yoghurt was also home-made. Home-made yoghurt is so much better than the bought stuff.
41. What is your favorite restaurant?
Wherever I go to next? I don't really have a favourite restaurant. I don't eat out often enough to go back to the same place all the time. By that measure, the takeaway sushi shop at Melbourne's Southern Cross station is my favourite, simply because I usually buy a couple of California rolls from there to eat on the train home.
42. What is your favorite ice cream?
I don't think I have a favourite. I don't dislike it, but I would never have a bowl of it. Hypothetically, if I was to buy an ice cream in a cone, I might get one scoop of vanilla and one scoop of something a bit fancier - maybe something with a bit of crunch like butterscotch or with a tang like lemon. Or whatever looked good at the time. I live on the edge like that.
I can tell you my least favourite, though: strawberry. Ugh.
43. What is your favorite dessert?
I don't think I have a favourite of that either. I usually just have fruit and a spoonful of yoghurt if I want dessert. My mother makes a lovely crumble. I quite like that. In a restaurant I might order the citrus-y dessert choice, particularly if it was a lemon tart. Not if it was a cheesecake, which I don't like at all.
44. What is your favorite kind of soup?
I do a very nice potato soup. The secret is celery.
45. What kind of jam do you like on your PB&J sandwich?
I assume this means 'peanut butter and jelly', which crops up sometimes in US things? I can't think of one right now. Maybe I saw it on Sesame Street when I was little? Anyway, there is so much wrong with that concept, I don't know where to begin. Well, I'll begin with what's right with it, which is peanut butter. I like peanut butter and use it on my toast instead of butter. I don't often eat sandwiches, though. Nothing against them, just that if I have toast for breakfast, I don't want want another couple of slices of bread later in the day. I also don't eat jam, because I find it too sweet. But I always have a jar of it, because my mother makes her own and gives me some so she can eat it when she comes to visit. So if you came to visit me and wanted a peanut butter and jam sandwich, you would get crunchy peanut butter and home-made plum and apple jam on wholemeal bread.
46. Do you like Chinese food?
China's a pretty big place with a wide and varied cuisine, so there might be some food I don't like. Shark fin soup springs to mind. Oh, and anything with pork, but that's because any pork gives me an upset tummy. But yes, generally speaking.
47. Do you like coffee?
No. I used to. I used to drink it by the vat. Long black, as our cafés would have it. I had a stomach bug at one point and the smell of coffee made me feel sick, and I've never had any since.
48. How many glasses of water a day do you drink on average?
I don't count, but enough. Rest assured, I am adequately hydrated.
49. What do you drink in the morning?
A glass of milk. Good for the bones.
50. (There is no 50, so I will make one up.)
Would you like a cup of tea?
No thanks, meme, I'm fine.
100 question meme, part II
26. How big is your bed?
Theoretically big enough for two people, and yet not big enough for one person and a cat at full stretch. Although that could be because the cat sleeps diagonally across it.
27. Do you have a laptop or desktop computer?
Both. The laptop is a 13" MacBook Pro from, oh, 2009. I didn't realise I'd had it that long. It's still going strong. It's not really being put to heavy use. The desktop is a 2011 iMac, which does the heavy lifting. By 'heavy lifting', I mean, 'playing Cradle of Rome', so, er, not really very heavy lifting.
28. Do you sleep with or without clothes?
In what shops describe as sleep tees, being large t-shirts. I have more than I need, because I make a point of buying any I see without teddy bears on them. I also wear a hair band to keep my hair off my face while I'm sleeping (when I had long hair, I used to plait it instead).
29. What color are your sheets?
I find sheets plural in this question a bit odd. I only have one sheet at a time on my bed: the one on the mattress. I do have more than one sheet, but I bought them at different times and they're different colours. White, blue, purple. The important thing about the sheets is that they are all high count Egyptian cotton, because I am secretly Mariah Carey and only sleep in quality manchester.
30. How many pillows do you sleep with?
Just the one.
Oh, but no. For the last couple of weeks I have been suffering one of my recurring bouts of tendinitis in my Achilles tendon, so I am currently using a second pillow to raise my foot. I don't know that it's doing any good, but it makes me feel like I'm doing something.
31. What is your favorite season?
Autumn. I feel I have to say that because it doesn't get any love in the questions below. Also, it contains my birthday and acorns.
33. What do you like about winter?
How green it is. Wearing gloves and a nice coat. Hearty soup for lunch. Having the heating turn on automatically, so the house is toasty when I get up and again when I get home. Days that are so cold and wet that no-one says, 'It's a nice day, why don't you go outside?' (to be fair, no-one has said this to me for a long time). Jaunty umbrellas. Drinking very cold water on a cold day so you can feel your insides going colder as it goes down.
34. What do you like about the summer?
Stone fruit. Melons. Berries. Reading outside at dusk on warm evenings. The smell of warm eucalypt when you walk over bark mulch. Daylight early enough to go to the beach before work. The cool change on a hot day, when the wind swings round to the (Antarctic) south and the temperature drops twenty degrees in twenty minutes.
35. What do you like about spring?
All the colour. The equinoctial gales that make the cat go crazy. The... moderate temperatures? I'm running out of things to enthuse about each season. Sorry, spring; I really do like you better than summer.
36. How many states/provinces have you lived in?
The state of Victoria and the territory of the Northern, er, Territory. And a general state of confusion, hahaha.
37. What cities/towns have you lived in?
In order: Alice Springs (town in the desert), a place called Glen Helen (neither a town nor a city in the desert, but a station in the Australian sense of a very large farm), a place that used to be called Ayers Rock Resort but is now known as Mutitjulu (township in the desert), Purnim (township amid green fields), Woodford (township amid green fields), Warrnambool (City by the Sea), Geelong (an even bigger city and also by the sea). Purnim is what I consider my home town.
These are not necessarily well-known places, so I have provided maps:
38. Do you prefer shoes, socks, or bare feet?
My feet get hot, so I prefer to go bare foot, but that's not possible in colder weather, so socks or slippers would be my second choice. Third choice would be shoes that I can slip on and off quite easily. I often slip my shoes off at work.
39. Are you a social person?
No. I often think I should try harder, but put me in front of a person and I just don't know what to say.
40. What was the last thing you ate?
I have just had dinner, which was eggplant, bean and capsicum stir-fried, then tossed with mint and feta, topped with a yoghurt, cumin and garlic dressing. I often have this, or a variation on it, because it takes about 10 minutes to make. The eggplant, beans and garlic came from my garden, and the yoghurt was also home-made. Home-made yoghurt is so much better than the bought stuff.
41. What is your favorite restaurant?
Wherever I go to next? I don't really have a favourite restaurant. I don't eat out often enough to go back to the same place all the time. By that measure, the takeaway sushi shop at Melbourne's Southern Cross station is my favourite, simply because I usually buy a couple of California rolls from there to eat on the train home.
42. What is your favorite ice cream?
I don't think I have a favourite. I don't dislike it, but I would never have a bowl of it. Hypothetically, if I was to buy an ice cream in a cone, I might get one scoop of vanilla and one scoop of something a bit fancier - maybe something with a bit of crunch like butterscotch or with a tang like lemon. Or whatever looked good at the time. I live on the edge like that.
I can tell you my least favourite, though: strawberry. Ugh.
43. What is your favorite dessert?
I don't think I have a favourite of that either. I usually just have fruit and a spoonful of yoghurt if I want dessert. My mother makes a lovely crumble. I quite like that. In a restaurant I might order the citrus-y dessert choice, particularly if it was a lemon tart. Not if it was a cheesecake, which I don't like at all.
44. What is your favorite kind of soup?
I do a very nice potato soup. The secret is celery.
45. What kind of jam do you like on your PB&J sandwich?
I assume this means 'peanut butter and jelly', which crops up sometimes in US things? I can't think of one right now. Maybe I saw it on Sesame Street when I was little? Anyway, there is so much wrong with that concept, I don't know where to begin. Well, I'll begin with what's right with it, which is peanut butter. I like peanut butter and use it on my toast instead of butter. I don't often eat sandwiches, though. Nothing against them, just that if I have toast for breakfast, I don't want want another couple of slices of bread later in the day. I also don't eat jam, because I find it too sweet. But I always have a jar of it, because my mother makes her own and gives me some so she can eat it when she comes to visit. So if you came to visit me and wanted a peanut butter and jam sandwich, you would get crunchy peanut butter and home-made plum and apple jam on wholemeal bread.
46. Do you like Chinese food?
China's a pretty big place with a wide and varied cuisine, so there might be some food I don't like. Shark fin soup springs to mind. Oh, and anything with pork, but that's because any pork gives me an upset tummy. But yes, generally speaking.
47. Do you like coffee?
No. I used to. I used to drink it by the vat. Long black, as our cafés would have it. I had a stomach bug at one point and the smell of coffee made me feel sick, and I've never had any since.
48. How many glasses of water a day do you drink on average?
I don't count, but enough. Rest assured, I am adequately hydrated.
49. What do you drink in the morning?
A glass of milk. Good for the bones.
50. (There is no 50, so I will make one up.)
Would you like a cup of tea?
No thanks, meme, I'm fine.