More Than You Ever Wanted To Know

[shiredancer]

Gacked this from linaelyn because I realized there's not a whole lot anybody on LJ knows about me, except that I dance a lot and went to jail once. So here's more than you ever wanted to know:



What is your favorite...

(I liked a lot of Linaelyn's answers so much I kept 'em... they're in italics...)

action figure: Eeyore; Lilo & Stitch
actor: Billy Boyd
actress: Jodie Foster
amusement park ride: Roller coasters, not too explosive though
animal: Cat, all varieties
apple: Pippin. No really! I love that kind of apple. Geez, you pervs! Linaelyn, this is so good and so true that I hope you don't mind that I kept it...
arcade game: Centipede. I got really good at it in the 80s.
art: Renoir, Vermeer, the Pre-Raphaelites
bagel flavor: Jalapeno
ball: Pink rubber ball, basketball
ballet: The Nutcracker
band: The Acousticats
bar drink: Margarita, frozen, with salt
bathing suit: Well, a one-piece for sure.
beach: More Mesa. It's a nude beach, but it's been years since I've done that.
beach activity: Body surfing.
bed size: Queen works.
bedtime: What's that? Another Linaelyn original...
berry: Strawberry
bird: Heron. Or egret, I can never remember which is which. White, strolls around?
birthday party: Ummm. I don't have those.
blanket: Woven cotton, slate blue. Yep, me too.
board bored game: Mousetrap, Parcheesi.
book: Tolkien is GOD. I agree, mostly.
breakfast: Bacon, eggs, hash browns, OJ.
bridge: The Golden Gate.
bug: Golden-eyed lacewings.
candy: Three Musketeers, absolutely.
car: Erk. Not into cars. VW bug, I guess.
car color: Yellow
card game: Poker
carnival food: Corn dog
cartoon: Beauty and the Beast, if it's a movie you mean. If a series: impossible to choose.
cat: Gregory
chair: Don't have one. Would like a cozy armchair.
checker color: Black
cheese: You mean I have to pick ONE cheese?!? Raclette, Emmenthaler, Gruyere, Peccorino Romano, Parmagiano Reggiano, Tillamook Cheddar, Stilton, Port Salut,... I would add cream cheese, feta, gorgonzola, havarti, smoked gouda... okay.
christmas song: The Holly and the Ivy, What Child is This.
church: Trinity Episcopal (for looks and politics)
clothes color: Blue, rose
coin: Nah.
collection: Books. Teapots and teacups.
color: Yellow.
columnist: Dave Barry.
comedian: Don't know any.
comic strip: Calvin and Hobbes.
company to invest in: Nah.
condiment: Tamari sauce.
conditioner: Nature's Gate original.
constellation: The Big Bear and Little Bear
conversation starter: Hi! Good, I like that.
country to dream about visiting: Scotland, England, Italy, Greece.
couple: Us Me, too. Us.
crayon: All 64 of them, plus the special retired ones.
cup: The one with the green frog in the bottom. When the milk hits it just right it makes bubbles.
dairy food: Cheese Yep.
day of the week: Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
deli meat: Pastrami
department store: Nah.
dinner: Homemade chicken pot pie. Yummm.
disney character: Belle. She reads. A lot. And didn't go for the hunky dumb hunter guy.
dress: My black and red Afghani folk dancing dress.
egg style: Over easy.
encyclopedia: Nah.
exercise: Dancing.
fast-food restaurant: KFC
fish: Chilean sea bass, but it's impossible to get now, or too expensive.
flag: Not into flags.
flintstones character: meh. dino? As good an answer as you're going to get. Go, Linaelyn!
flower: Daffodil.
font: Matura.
foreign language: Portuguese; I love the soft sound of the shushy S's.
fruit: A really ripe peach.
gemstone: Garnet.
golf course: Nah. But miniature golf, okay.
gymnastic apparatus: To watch? Uneven parallel bars.
hair accessory: that leather butterfly with the stick that goes through it Oh, I have one of those too!
hair color: Chestnut brown or wine red. I actually knew somebody once with wine-red hair.
hair product: Herbal, natural, animal-friendly whatever.
hero: Merry
holiday: I'm a sucker for Christmas, I have to admit. English traditional, with crackers.
hotel: The Cheshire Cat Inn, Santa Barbara
ice cream flavor: Vanilla bean, or B&J chocolate fudge brownie or Phish Food. Yeah, Phish Food!
instrument: Guitar, recorder, dumbek, zills
island: Paros
jay leno skit: Don't know; don't watch it.
jellybean flavor: Toasted Marshmallow.
juice: Orange.
m&m color: Yellow.
magazine: Bon Apetit.
make-up: A little eyeliner and mascara, a dab of lip gloss, all in one minute flat or less.
medicine: Realy natural or seriously narcotic, depending.
meteorologist: I should know this?
monopoly piece: The doggie.
month: September
movie: You know this already. *High fives Linaelyn*
muffin: Ginger muffins, or jalapeno cheese cornbread.
museum: SB Museum of Natural History, SB Art Museum, LA County, the Getty, cripes, lots.
nail polish color: Shell pink or rose.
name: Meriadoc Brandybuck/Peregrin Took.
national park: Yellowstone.
newspaper: The Village Voice, or The Independent.
number: 7
pajamas: Top only, Tigger & Pooh & Piglet
panties: I hate that word!
party: In-between, liberal
pasta dish: Eggplant parmigiana (I know, there's no pasta in it. Okay, spinach lasagne.)
pen: Ummm. The wooden one with a turtle on the end, hand-carved, from Big Sur.
perfume: Patchouli, rarely.
person to gossip with: My husband or my best friend.
pet: Tigger, Sasha, Lily.
phase of the moon: Full.
photograph: I can only choose one? Ack... forget it!
pick-up line: If I told you you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me? LOL! Never heard of this one, but can't think of anything to top it...
place for a massage: Feet and scalp. And neck and back. And everywhere else, too.
place to be alone: At the beach, or in my home.
place to people-watch: Downtown at La Arcada by the dolphin and the brass band and the sea turtles.
planet: Earth. But looking at Saturn or the moons of Jupiter with the telescope is fun. Okay, I'll buy that. And Mars and Venus, too.
play: Evita, Les Miserables, West Side Story, all Gilbert & Sullivan, all Shakespeare.
playground equipment: Swings.
poetry/prose piece: Hard. Chaucer, Shakespeare, Donne, Tennyson, Dylan Thomas, e.e. cummings, Emily Dickinson, Robert Browning, Teo Savory, Leonard Cohen, Sappho, Blake, Burns, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and you know, all those others.
pope: Haven't noticed.
pop-tart: S'Mores
position to start in tic-tac-toe: Center.
potato style: Mashed.
prayer: Nah.
prefix: Nah.
president: Jimmy Carter.
public bathroom: At Nordstrom's.
radio station: KCBX, our local public radio.
salad dressing: Newman's Ranch, homemade bleu cheese.
sandwich: Deli-sliced smoked turkey with mustard, lettuce, tomato.
Saturday night live skit: All the original stuff.
seafood: Scallops.
season: Fall.
seinfeld episode: Only saw a few, no idea.
shampoo: Nature's Gate original.
shape: Huh?
sheets: Clean.
shoes: None. Or flip-flops, really small, like nothing's there.
sleeping position: Side.
song: Way too many to name!
soup: Homemade lentil or pumpkin,or this great stilton soup I make, or avgolemono, or tomato. Gah, I could go on and on... soup is my favorite food.
stamp: Nah.
state: conscious. Totally right on, Linaelyn!
stuffed animal: Stripes, Stitch.
sub: Like the sandwich? Or the sexual orientation?
talk show: Never.
tea: Most Celestial Seasonings herb teas. Most herb teas, actually. No caffeine here, never acquired the taste for coffee. Weird, I know. Not to mention sleepy.
teacher: Mr. Ford, who guessed when I was in serious trouble in high school and tried to help.
television show: Queer As Folk.
temperature: Mildly to pretty hot.
thing to chew on: My lower lip, when nervous.
thing to doodle: Flowers.
tie: Nah.
toothpaste: Dental Care original.
toy: My teddy bear from when I was 11 mos. old. Still here.
tree: Coast Redwood, Aspen, California Oak.
vegetable: Spinach, pumpkin, squash.
video game: Nah.
way to eat oreos: Dunk them in milk and nibble the soft part, and keep doing that until you get milk on your fingertips.
word: Recently rediscovered the marvellous uses for profanity, but only in typing here on LJ. Y'all are a baaaad influence on me. This is soooo true for me too that I decided to keep it. Linaelyn's, originally. Except for me it *has* leaked out into RL too.
yogurt flavor: Key Lime Pie, Boston Creme Pie.
zoo: Santa Barbara Zoo. It's very small and garden-like and wonderful.