Name your 10 absolute favorite couples (het/slash/canon/fanon) and ask people to see what trends they notice. Try to pick different fandoms.

These aren't necessarily my "10 absolute" favorites (and they're definitely not in order, since my order in things like this changes daily), but they're some I really love. :-)



1) Tessa/Justin-- The Constant Gardener
2) Wash/Zoe-- Firefly
3) Kip/Hana-- The English Patient
4) Dean/Bela-- Supernatural
5) James/Vesper-- Casino Royale/Bond movies
6) Morgan/Garcia-- Criminal Minds
7) William/Kate-- A Knight's Tale
8) Lenny/Mace-- Strange Days
9) Abby/McGee-- NCIS
10) Elphaba/Fiyero-- Wicked

Tagged by piratemuse

Directions: Once you’ve been tagged, you have to write an entry listing 16 random things, shortcomings, facts, habits, or goals about you.

I'm bad at tagging people, so just answer if you want! My list is under the cut. :-)

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For the meme I posted the other day, asking people to give me topics outside my normal blogging routines to post about.

that_evening said 'sex'.

Not sure what aspect of it to talk about, so you get random babbling. Lucky you! ;-)

I don't remember how old I was when I found out exactly what was involved, but I do remember the how. I'd overheard a group of older kids talking about it, but couldn't exactly go up to them and ask them to explain. So I did the logical thing: went home and looked up the word in the encyclopedia.

My poor, poor mother. I call up to her from the basement:

"Hey, mom?"
"What?"
"I'm becoming a nun!"
*sigh* "Now what are you reading?"

Skip a few years, and my cousin and I were watching a movie with my grandmother. We had to be careful doing this, because grandma has some strict standards, and if we brought in a movie that offended her then we got the whole extra-scrutiny thing every time we rented a video. It was a romantic drama-- little to no swearing, fade-to-black instead of an explicit sex scene, no violence. My cousin and I thought we were golden. Then the movie ends, and my grandmother says that it was okay, but she really didn't like the fact that the main characters had sex before they were married.

This honestly did not occur to my cousin and I as a possible problem. Skip a few more years, and there's no way I'm bringing up to grandma that I didn't exactly wait, either.

Which I suppose brings us to jbangelo, whose suggestion was:

"when you first met your husband and what your first impression of him was"

Funnily enough, I don't remember the first time we met. We did shows at the community college together for years-- the first one we were both involved in was Picnic when I was fifteen. I played Millie; he worked on set construction. So I know there were weekends working on the set that he was also around, but at the time he was Just Another Guy Who Hopefully Remembers Where I Put the Stupid Paintbrush.

I do remember when I realized I wanted to start dating him. A group of us headed out for a drink one night after rehearsal. One girl was depressed because the guy she was on-again off-again seeing had done something beyond stupid and hurtful. She started crying, and I honestly expected Chris to do what I'd seen guys do before, both in 'funny' movies and in real life-- treat tears like Kryptonite and quickly get out of there. Instead he helped talk her through it, and I thought, "If I was going to try a relationship, I'd want it to be with someone like him". And then I realized that what I actually meant was that I wanted to date him, at which point I freaked. Because I had no idea what the hell I was doing. ((y'know that stage in high school where you date a few people and get used to the general process? Yeah, I kindof skipped that in favor of reading and writing))

So at the next cast party, I got drunk because I figured then I would stop fretting over everything so much and just be able to flirt. Not exactly a brilliant or original strategy. :-)

From jbangelo:

"Everyone has things they blog about regularly. Everyone has things they don't blog about. Challenge me out of my comfort zone by telling me something I don't blog about, but you'd like to hear about, and I'll write a post about it. Ask for anything: latest movie watched, last book read, political leanings, favorite type of underwear, first crushes, pet peeves, favorite songs to dance around to, irrational dislikes, etc."

From apocalypsos:

Bold the things you've done--

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But this seemed like too much fun to pass up. :-)



01. Think of the first word that comes to mind when you think of me.
02. Go to Google Images and search for that word.
03. Reply to this post with one of the pictures on the first page of results (don't tell me the word).
04. Put this in your own journal so that I can do the same.

Okay, so I could be doing something productive, but instead I'm finally doing this funny little playlist soundtrack meme. Hush, I know I'm behind the times, but I just now got a playlist on my computer. :-P

Here goes:

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((also, it's a Golden Compass daemon test. Like I'm not going to take it))
((also-also, been a while since I posted a meme))



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Well, here's the final count:

22,457 / 50,000 (44.0%)

All in all, I have to say that this writing style doesn't really work for me. But I did get a few save-worthy sections out of it, so I've come up with this idea: next year, I'm going to dedicate at least part of the month to writing short stories. Who knows, maybe I'll get really ambitious and write five of them that are 10,000 words apiece. ;-)

In other news, it is cold here. There's sleet on the roads and it just started to snow, so going to work tomorrow ought to be fun. Most schools around here closed today, and probably will tomorrow (my brother will be thrilled). Chris's mom said that when she was heading home from work, she saw a semi jacknifed on the side of the highway. Me-- "Oh yay have I mentioned that I'm staying inside."

I'm a summer person. The only likable things about winter are hot cocoa and lack of bugs.

And, because what's an lj entry without a giggle-worthy meme. . .

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All for now. I'm off to find some of the aforementioned hot cocoa and fuzzy slippers.

You Are Surrealism

Dreamy and idealistic, you've created a world that is all your own. It's very likely that you've either dabbled in drugs or are naturally trippy. You are always trying to push beyond the boundaries of your culture and society. You believe that art, love, and freedom can change the world.

"Naturally trippy". I like that. ;-)

In other words, nothing we didn't already know. Hee.

I've seen a couple of people do those 'voice posts' recently . . . I've never tried that, debating on whether or not I should. Other than the fact I'd have no idea what to say.

Only one more week of LOST, and then nada until February. Eep.

Flushed Away is going to be in our theater tomorrow. We'll probably go see it.

I'm reading Ghost Road Blues by Jonathan Maberry-- it's pretty good so far. Might have to buy more of his stuff later.

I really want to go to After Dark Horrorfest, a showing of eight new scary movies, but the nearest one is going to be over an hour away, Chris works that weekend and I would get lost on the way there, and a ticket to all 8 costs $75. Darnit.

Now I'm just trying to see how many times I can change the subject in one post.

I like mint chocolate chip ice cream.

(okay, I'm off to do something productive now, honest. Probably)

Eeeeeeeep!! I don't exist!

(does this mean I don't have to go back to work on Wednesday?) ;-)

Just one for now, actually, found at finniscs and jadelynx's ljs. And I'm sure no one could've guessed these results. ;-)

You are a Social Liberal (76% permissive) and an... Economic Liberal (25% permissive) You are best described as a: Strong Democrat Link: The Politics Test on Ok Cupid Also: The OkCupid Dating Persona Test

Just got tagged. :-)

Take a look at your Friends List. List up to 10 things you want to say to 10 different LJ friends. Do not state who these people are. Tag five people.


1. Half the time when I tell my friends, "Hey, come over here, got something for you to listen to" it's an excerpt from one of your posts.

2. Don't know you too well yet, but you seem like good people so far. ;-) Plus you have good taste in TV shows, and actors from said TV shows. That's a bonus.

3. You write some very good, viewpoint-changing fanfic. Always fun to read.

4. I've gotten into more than one fandom because of you; sure I'll be getting into several more. I thank you, my checkbook blames you. ;-)

5. You're the reason I always giggle when I hear people pontificating on how lasting friendships can never be formed in the 'fake' online world. They seriously have no idea.

6. I am so jealous of your art skills. If I could make character portraits like you do, I'd never leave the computer. Wait. Never do, anyway. Still love your work, though. :-)

7. You have gotten so much done so far. Also, you're a pervert. Two highly admirable traits.

8. It seems like you're effortlessly funny. Even in posts that would be downright depressing from other people, you have these perfect turns of phrase.

9. I'm not sure which is more clever, your drawings or your writing. You make gardening interesting to a non-outdoors person. *s*

10. I might not comment a lot, but I keep up with your posts, and your comic is great.


I'm horrible with tagging. lol If you want to do it, go for it.

I should be working. Instead, I'm doing this. :-)

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