I've been totally spoiled for fireworks since btw. Plus it was a road trip from CO to FL and full of fun, like driving through beautiful Mississipi with all the autumn colors (my favorite colors) and driving through endless, endless Texas (and stalling out on the trip back to spend a freezing night under emergency blankets, ugh), and then Florida itself. I LOVED Epcot. We went in 2000 and they had all these special exhibits and celebration stuff and the fireworks... I have literally been bored by all other fireworks since. They don't compare.
2. South Dakota
We did Mount Rushmore, which was all fogged up :sniffs:, and a bunch of other sites I can't name you today, but it was fun, and the whole family was there and I enjoyed myself thoroughly.
3. Yellowstone
Old Faithful geysers, a bison walking down the middle of the hotel parking lot, mud pots, a prettier geyser than Old Faithful, and me just about wearing out my camera's panorama setting on the views and the canyon and the everything.
4. Norwood
We went up earlier this year to a filmmakers camp and that area up there is GORGEOUS. It reminded me of all the things I love about Colorado that I don't get enough of in the foothills instead of the mountains.
5. Poudre Canyon
I spent my formative years in Estes Park right off the national forest. We've moved around so much before and after, but I love our mountains. I don't necessarily want to go out into them often, but I LOVED Poudre Canyon.
My family would go up there to picnic and hang out on the river and step on the stones and my sister would gather them sometimes to craft into gorgeous paper weights, and they were my happiest memories out of doors. I think I should have made this number one. I love my memories of this river. I truly do.
I had to look up 3 of those 5 places but omgggg Poudre Canyon looks like Norway. :D
And I would LOVE to go to Yellowstone. There, Monument Valley and the Grand Canyon are the places I'd go to the States for. And then NY, Frisco, Grand Sequoia and the Everglades. OH and New Orleans. But... well, the US is quite far down my list of places to go, to be honest...
I understand that completely. The older I get, the more I appreciate the areas I grew up in. :sighs: I kind of miss going. Me and my sister were planning a road trip and that would be awesome to go back, I think.
Epcot fireworks are NOT to be missed. I've been a bunch of times, but the first time was the best, when I saw them during the Wine & Food Festival that Disney hosts there during half of September and all of October. (We got park hopper passes and spent five days doing all four parks and food food food wine wine wine ride ride ride was a TERRIFIC but exhausting way to celebrate coming through my only major surgery. We just, you know... moved slowly!)
My awesome husband and best friend were both very considerate of the fact that my lower abdomen was held together with (literal) superglue for stitches. :D
I'll pick friendships after deeper thought. There are too many. Now to facts...
1. Our DNA responds to our will when we're in a place of love and joy. I was researching for something else about DNA for a friend and bumped into a study where they had subjects hold a petri dish with DNA in their hands and try to affect it. It worked if they were thinking happy, loving thoughts, didn't really respond to neutral, and started to break up with angry thoughts. LOVE THIS FACT.
2. I'm not sure whether I enjoy telling it, but it is definitely in the top ten I do. Tact means knowing how not to offend. I am objectively tactless. My sister always claimed it, then I looked it up in the dictionary, and told her, "You're right!"
3. A drabble is EXACTLY 100 words.
4. Most meat is actually a 2nd or 3rd grade protein. Carnivores often do not have enough protein or complete enough protein in their diets. Vegetarians are usually so worried about it, they often have too much.
5. Vitamin B5 is a powerful support for dealing with stress.
And this is why I love asking about peoples favourite facts! I didn't know most of these (I knew the drabble thing). All my facts are place/geography related, so these kinds of facts are really interesting. Especially the DNA thing. Who would have guessed?
I basically grew up in a small, private library run by my family. when I finished all the fiction books as a kid, I decided there was no help for it and started in on the health section. I know loads of useless and useful trivia about natural health and sleep cycles and fasting, etc.
I'm having the hardest time nixing all the real ones that showed up in books. Ahem. In no particular order...
1. Meg and Charles Wallace
I love their sibling friendship so, so, so much and it reminds me often of my sister and I. We are close, even when we get under each other's skin.
2. Anne Shirley and Diana Barry
True friends that loved each other dearly and were always there for each other and were just beautiful friends.
3. Anne Shirley and Matthew Cuthbert
I'm thinking the movie here and they were so precious. So precious. I weep over their friendship.
4. The whole group in Secrets of Jin-Shei
Wow, what a book on female friendship and everyone who thinks the cultural/fantasy angle was insufficient can just go stuff it, because this book was gorgeous.
5. Anne Shirley and Philippa Gordon
I love their friendship and how generally unjealous they are and that they are true friends even if they did manage to quarrel or throw harsh truths at each other once in a while.
All the rest of my top, top favorite friendships aren't fictional or are biblical or are in my fiction, so I think I got the right set done.
1. Madeleine L'Engle's Wrinkle in Time series 2. Anne of Green Gables series by L. M. Montgomery 3. Anne of Green Gables (1985) movie 4. Secrets of Jin-Shei by Alma Alexander 5. Anne of the Island by L. M. Montgomery
My first and truest OTP. Tragic angsty gorgeous. My babies! I love them. So much.
2. Bucky/Natasha
I fell for comicsverse Bucky/Natasha before I started shipping Natasha in MCU 'verse and wow, talk about tragic beautiful and full of making something beautiful in the midst of a pretty horrible backstory.
3. Tris/Four
Is it not obvious what makes them tragically beautiful? Probably that he's unhealthily masochistic without her and she ends up dead. :cries: Yeah.
4. Nikita/Michael
From La Femme Nikita, not the new show. Talk about all the beauty and tragedy and ouch. I love them.
5. Marie/Jason Bourne
My drowned ship that lithiumlaughter sucked me into. I can't believe they drowned her. They were so beautiful.
2. If you don't already read her, I feel that eustacia_vye28 does several lovely versions of Natasha. Right now, I am enchanted by her vampire!Bucky/vampire hunter!Natasha, plus bonus Avengers.
3. I can see how that would work. (The movie made me a little bit sad, because I wanted to LOVE it. And didn't. I enjoyed the books until the third one started in third person and then had two POV narrators. That, to me, was a giveaway of what was going to happen to Tris.)
4. I know nothing of them. I know I've seen the movie. I just don't remember it. *hangs head*
We don't speak of Divergent movies. (Okay, maybe as regards Jeanine's unhealthy obsessions with Andrew's kids and maybe we take the pretty pictures, but we do not like the movies. Nope.)
I'll have to check out that writer, though no vamps for me.
Indeed. There are some VERY pretty pictures. In my head, there are childhood moments from the parental generation where Jeanine was edged out by Mom. So much awfulness must have started somewhere....
I remember her River/Jayne writings from Firefly with extreme love, also, if that's a fandom of which you're fond.
I'm going with a different type of interpretation of memory because reasons.
1. granola
Waking up in the morning to the smell of Mom baking granola holds such warmth in my heart.
2. hot carob
Mom used to make hot carob on cold wintry days and we'd curl up around the fireplace. Some of my best memories.
3. this particular lullaby
Now it's time to go to sleep Time to find you a dream so sweet Just the kind to keep you company Then I'll tuck you in And tell you once again How much you mean to me
I thank the Father above For showing me His perfect love In all His wisdom He knew Just what to give when He gave me you
Mom played it at night for us when we were little and it always made me feel so loved and I still sing it sometimes.
4. hot tea
At prayer meetings, my grandmother always opened up her tea cupboard on break and I loved her collection, especially the Celestial Seasonings teas. It still figures largely in my personal collection for sentimental reasons, even if I could blend my own tea and probably better and more healthy.
5. reading the Anne books with Mom
We all piled together a couple times while she read them aloud. I still have such fond memories of that.
I went in with my expectations on the floor and it resolved my serious gripes with Insurgent (or most of them anyway) while not actually giving me worse continuity/worldbuilding than my home ground fandoms of X-Men, Roswell, and Andromeda, so I went home pleased with the trilogy overall and kind of wondering how to fic my feels about a bunch of drowned ships.
2. Bourne Legacy
I'm not usually fond of different actor follow-ups but this one was really good even when viewed AFTER the original trilogy. Even if I hate what it did to Pam. :growls: But yeah, good, I love it.
3. Save the Last Dance II
Which should not under any circumstances be viewed AFTER movie one. I saw it first because it was free and enjoyed it, even if her whole break up with him in the middle made about no sense, and don't watch more than a couple clips since I went back to watch movie one. They do best if you think of them as completely unrelated.
4. Agents of SHIELD
I thought it would be terrible so when I dipped my toes in tail end of season 1 (tail, tail end) I had low expectations. It was okay. Then season 2 hit and I was totally in love and hooked. (I'm behind on season 3. Coulson made me mad and now I'm worried again and trying to talk myself into watching again. Actually I bumped into wank about May too and so haven't braced myself and just watched yet.)
5. Nashville
I started it because Hayden Panettiere (been a fan since Remember the Titans came out) and some great music videos. Then mainlined the entire three seasons existing at the time in less than three weeks. In love. Completely and totally in love.
AOS Season 3 is actually very, very good! Go watch! Although there are a couple of very violent scenes (one involving Hunter) that I could have done without, so you may get it on iTunes and fast-forward through those.
Ahh, we'll have to agree to disagree on Allegiant, I fear. XD
I still have to watch most of the original trilogy; I watched the first Bourne when it came out because of Frank Potente, and I have the others sitting here on DVD, but. XD
Haven't watched the second movie, and saw the first one waaaaaaaaaaay back, so I've got no horse in that race.
Yeah, AOS is a bit of a rollercoaster for me, up and down again and again, but I like it more than I thought too.
Nashville is pure crack, but man, is it entertaining crack.
I'm not even sure we disagree that deeply on Allegiant. Had I gone in blind and with high expectations, I suspect I would have hated it, but I went in thoroughly spoilered and braced for the worst, so the bad bits didn't really live down to the worst and the whole experience was better for me because of it. Though I still think Roth can't write Four's POV with Tris in the picture for the life of her. Okay, she can every once in a while, but the two stories of his I like were before he met her, go figure.
I loved the Bourne movies more than I expected, and I do recommend them. I got dragged in by a friend's love, of course.
I'm always surprised to meet anyone who does have a horse in that race, to be honest.
And yes, yes, yes about Nashville. That sums it up beautifully. Plus, gorgeous music. Hmm... Somehow my two must-see shows fall into the category of soap opera. I never thought I was that kind of person before. Oops.
Yeah I knew very little, having been braced for things might've taken out the sting in some ways. Ah well. Too late now. XD And yeah, that shifting POV wasn't the best idea she ever had. I still have to read the prequel stories, I'll judge them when I did. XD
Still on my rewatch list, those. /nod
Ahaha, nothing wrong with soapy stuff, if it's well done it can be very engaging. XD
TOP FIVE SONGS: I could never pick. I love too many and am too eclectic. That said, we'll pick a few of the categories I listen to and give a top. (there are more categories)
favorite Christmas carols: Carol of the Bells and What Child is This
favorite Celtic: Fly by Steve Macdonald
favorite Messianic: Come, Spirit of God by Sar Shalom
favorite mainstream/pop: I cannot pick. This rotates, but my current listen on repeat is Fight Song or Lone Ranger by Rachel Platten
TOP FIVE FOODS: granola, tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches, pecans, nachos, my grandmother's new blueberry scones
TOP FIVE FANDOMS YOU'D LIKE TO GET IN/WRITE FICS FOR BUT HAVEN'T YET: I've usually written at least 1 fic, but I'd love to really write Jane the Virgin, Agents of SHIELD, Razor Sharp, Rose is Rose, and The People and haven't really spent the time on it I expected for various reasons.
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Date: 2015-10-21 08:49 pm (UTC)I JUST LIKE TOP FIVE LISTS OKAY? :P
Top five places you have been
Date: 2015-10-21 09:04 pm (UTC)I've been totally spoiled for fireworks since btw. Plus it was a road trip from CO to FL and full of fun, like driving through beautiful Mississipi with all the autumn colors (my favorite colors) and driving through endless, endless Texas (and stalling out on the trip back to spend a freezing night under emergency blankets, ugh), and then Florida itself. I LOVED Epcot. We went in 2000 and they had all these special exhibits and celebration stuff and the fireworks... I have literally been bored by all other fireworks since. They don't compare.
2. South Dakota
We did Mount Rushmore, which was all fogged up :sniffs:, and a bunch of other sites I can't name you today, but it was fun, and the whole family was there and I enjoyed myself thoroughly.
3. Yellowstone
Old Faithful geysers, a bison walking down the middle of the hotel parking lot, mud pots, a prettier geyser than Old Faithful, and me just about wearing out my camera's panorama setting on the views and the canyon and the everything.
4. Norwood
We went up earlier this year to a filmmakers camp and that area up there is GORGEOUS. It reminded me of all the things I love about Colorado that I don't get enough of in the foothills instead of the mountains.
5. Poudre Canyon
I spent my formative years in Estes Park right off the national forest. We've moved around so much before and after, but I love our mountains. I don't necessarily want to go out into them often, but I LOVED Poudre Canyon.
My family would go up there to picnic and hang out on the river and step on the stones and my sister would gather them sometimes to craft into gorgeous paper weights, and they were my happiest memories out of doors. I think I should have made this number one. I love my memories of this river. I truly do.
Re: Top five places you have been
Date: 2015-10-21 09:11 pm (UTC)And I would LOVE to go to Yellowstone. There, Monument Valley and the Grand Canyon are the places I'd go to the States for. And then NY, Frisco, Grand Sequoia and the Everglades. OH and New Orleans. But... well, the US is quite far down my list of places to go, to be honest...
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Date: 2015-10-22 05:19 pm (UTC)Re: Top five places you have been
Date: 2015-10-21 10:18 pm (UTC)Re: Top five places you have been
Date: 2015-10-22 05:20 pm (UTC)Re: Top five places you have been
Date: 2015-10-23 02:01 am (UTC)Top five random facts you enjoy telling people.
Date: 2015-10-21 09:09 pm (UTC)1. Our DNA responds to our will when we're in a place of love and joy. I was researching for something else about DNA for a friend and bumped into a study where they had subjects hold a petri dish with DNA in their hands and try to affect it. It worked if they were thinking happy, loving thoughts, didn't really respond to neutral, and started to break up with angry thoughts. LOVE THIS FACT.
2. I'm not sure whether I enjoy telling it, but it is definitely in the top ten I do. Tact means knowing how not to offend. I am objectively tactless. My sister always claimed it, then I looked it up in the dictionary, and told her, "You're right!"
3. A drabble is EXACTLY 100 words.
4. Most meat is actually a 2nd or 3rd grade protein. Carnivores often do not have enough protein or complete enough protein in their diets. Vegetarians are usually so worried about it, they often have too much.
5. Vitamin B5 is a powerful support for dealing with stress.
Re: Top five random facts you enjoy telling people.
Date: 2015-10-21 09:14 pm (UTC)Re: Top five random facts you enjoy telling people.
Date: 2015-10-22 05:21 pm (UTC)The drabble thing is, of course, very important.
Re: Top five random facts you enjoy telling people.
Date: 2015-10-24 10:29 am (UTC)Re: Top five random facts you enjoy telling people.
Date: 2015-10-22 12:36 am (UTC)#3 makes you my hero. *g*
Re: Top five random facts you enjoy telling people.
Date: 2015-10-22 05:22 pm (UTC)Drabbles are the best.
Top five fictional friendships.
Date: 2015-10-22 05:28 pm (UTC)1. Meg and Charles Wallace
I love their sibling friendship so, so, so much and it reminds me often of my sister and I. We are close, even when we get under each other's skin.
2. Anne Shirley and Diana Barry
True friends that loved each other dearly and were always there for each other and were just beautiful friends.
3. Anne Shirley and Matthew Cuthbert
I'm thinking the movie here and they were so precious. So precious. I weep over their friendship.
4. The whole group in Secrets of Jin-Shei
Wow, what a book on female friendship and everyone who thinks the cultural/fantasy angle was insufficient can just go stuff it, because this book was gorgeous.
5. Anne Shirley and Philippa Gordon
I love their friendship and how generally unjealous they are and that they are true friends even if they did manage to quarrel or throw harsh truths at each other once in a while.
All the rest of my top, top favorite friendships aren't fictional or are biblical or are in my fiction, so I think I got the right set done.
Re: Top five fictional friendships.
Date: 2015-10-24 10:33 am (UTC)Re: Top five fictional friendships.
Date: 2015-10-25 04:57 pm (UTC)2. Anne of Green Gables series by L. M. Montgomery
3. Anne of Green Gables (1985) movie
4. Secrets of Jin-Shei by Alma Alexander
5. Anne of the Island by L. M. Montgomery
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Date: 2015-10-21 10:15 pm (UTC)Tragically Beautiful Pairings
Date: 2015-10-22 05:32 pm (UTC)My first and truest OTP. Tragic angsty gorgeous. My babies! I love them. So much.
2. Bucky/Natasha
I fell for comicsverse Bucky/Natasha before I started shipping Natasha in MCU 'verse and wow, talk about tragic beautiful and full of making something beautiful in the midst of a pretty horrible backstory.
3. Tris/Four
Is it not obvious what makes them tragically beautiful? Probably that he's unhealthily masochistic without her and she ends up dead. :cries: Yeah.
4. Nikita/Michael
From La Femme Nikita, not the new show. Talk about all the beauty and tragedy and ouch. I love them.
5. Marie/Jason Bourne
My drowned ship that lithiumlaughter sucked me into. I can't believe they drowned her. They were so beautiful.
Re: Tragically Beautiful Pairings
Date: 2015-10-23 02:09 am (UTC)2. If you don't already read her, I feel that
3. I can see how that would work. (The movie made me a little bit sad, because I wanted to LOVE it. And didn't. I enjoyed the books until the third one started in third person and then had two POV narrators. That, to me, was a giveaway of what was going to happen to Tris.)
4. I know nothing of them. I know I've seen the movie. I just don't remember it. *hangs head*
5. Yes. They were badwrong for drowning her.
Re: Tragically Beautiful Pairings
Date: 2015-10-23 02:32 pm (UTC)I'll have to check out that writer, though no vamps for me.
https://www.amazon.com/Nikita/dp/B004OQPVH8/ref=sr_1_1/ref=sr_1_1?_encoding=UTF8&keywords=La%20Femme%20Nikita%20tv&qid=1445610701&s=movies-tv&sr=1-1
Re: Tragically Beautiful Pairings
Date: 2015-10-24 03:25 am (UTC)I remember her River/Jayne writings from Firefly with extreme love, also, if that's a fandom of which you're fond.
Thanks!
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Date: 2015-10-21 11:35 pm (UTC)top five memories from your childhood
top five places you would like to go
Date: 2015-10-22 05:34 pm (UTC)I can't believe I missed it. I've wanted to go my whole life and Mom went right before I was born. The family hasn't been back since. Hmph.
2. Prince Edward Island
Major Anne fan and it's gorgeous and I want to go see it and look at everything and yes.
3. Hope, BC
Mostly because my grandmother says it was the prettiest place she'd been in Canada, so I'd like to go.
Um... That's it. I'll have to stop at 3.
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Date: 2015-10-22 05:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-10-25 05:03 pm (UTC)1. granola
Waking up in the morning to the smell of Mom baking granola holds such warmth in my heart.
2. hot carob
Mom used to make hot carob on cold wintry days and we'd curl up around the fireplace. Some of my best memories.
3. this particular lullaby
Now it's time to go to sleep
Time to find you a dream so sweet
Just the kind to keep you company
Then I'll tuck you in
And tell you once again
How much you mean to me
I thank the Father above
For showing me His perfect love
In all His wisdom He knew
Just what to give when He gave me you
Mom played it at night for us when we were little and it always made me feel so loved and I still sing it sometimes.
4. hot tea
At prayer meetings, my grandmother always opened up her tea cupboard on break and I loved her collection, especially the Celestial Seasonings teas. It still figures largely in my personal collection for sentimental reasons, even if I could blend my own tea and probably better and more healthy.
5. reading the Anne books with Mom
We all piled together a couple times while she read them aloud. I still have such fond memories of that.
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Date: 2015-10-25 05:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-10-22 07:17 pm (UTC)Top 5 (fannish) things you enjoyed more than expected
Date: 2015-10-22 07:32 pm (UTC)1. Allegiant by Veronica Roth
I went in with my expectations on the floor and it resolved my serious gripes with Insurgent (or most of them anyway) while not actually giving me worse continuity/worldbuilding than my home ground fandoms of X-Men, Roswell, and Andromeda, so I went home pleased with the trilogy overall and kind of wondering how to fic my feels about a bunch of drowned ships.
2. Bourne Legacy
I'm not usually fond of different actor follow-ups but this one was really good even when viewed AFTER the original trilogy. Even if I hate what it did to Pam. :growls: But yeah, good, I love it.
3. Save the Last Dance II
Which should not under any circumstances be viewed AFTER movie one. I saw it first because it was free and enjoyed it, even if her whole break up with him in the middle made about no sense, and don't watch more than a couple clips since I went back to watch movie one. They do best if you think of them as completely unrelated.
4. Agents of SHIELD
I thought it would be terrible so when I dipped my toes in tail end of season 1 (tail, tail end) I had low expectations. It was okay. Then season 2 hit and I was totally in love and hooked. (I'm behind on season 3. Coulson made me mad and now I'm worried again and trying to talk myself into watching again. Actually I bumped into wank about May too and so haven't braced myself and just watched yet.)
5. Nashville
I started it because Hayden Panettiere (been a fan since Remember the Titans came out) and some great music videos. Then mainlined the entire three seasons existing at the time in less than three weeks. In love. Completely and totally in love.
Re: Top 5 (fannish) things you enjoyed more than expected
Date: 2015-10-25 05:22 pm (UTC)Re: Top 5 (fannish) things you enjoyed more than expected
Date: 2015-11-22 03:52 pm (UTC)I still have to watch most of the original trilogy; I watched the first Bourne when it came out because of Frank Potente, and I have the others sitting here on DVD, but. XD
Haven't watched the second movie, and saw the first one waaaaaaaaaaay back, so I've got no horse in that race.
Yeah, AOS is a bit of a rollercoaster for me, up and down again and again, but I like it more than I thought too.
Nashville is pure crack, but man, is it entertaining crack.
Re: Top 5 (fannish) things you enjoyed more than expected
Date: 2015-11-22 06:13 pm (UTC)I loved the Bourne movies more than I expected, and I do recommend them. I got dragged in by a friend's love, of course.
I'm always surprised to meet anyone who does have a horse in that race, to be honest.
And yes, yes, yes about Nashville. That sums it up beautifully. Plus, gorgeous music. Hmm... Somehow my two must-see shows fall into the category of soap opera. I never thought I was that kind of person before. Oops.
Re: Top 5 (fannish) things you enjoyed more than expected
Date: 2016-01-02 02:40 pm (UTC)Still on my rewatch list, those. /nod
Ahaha, nothing wrong with soapy stuff, if it's well done it can be very engaging. XD
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Date: 2015-10-26 02:31 am (UTC)TOP FIVE SONGS
TOP FIVE FOODS
TOP FIVE FANDOMS YOU'D LIKE TO GET IN/WRITE FICS FOR BUT HAVEN'T YET (for any number of reasons: lack of time, too-small fandom, etc.)
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Date: 2015-11-01 11:23 am (UTC)favorite Christmas carols: Carol of the Bells and What Child is This
favorite Celtic: Fly by Steve Macdonald
favorite Messianic: Come, Spirit of God by Sar Shalom
favorite mainstream/pop: I cannot pick. This rotates, but my current listen on repeat is Fight Song or Lone Ranger by Rachel Platten
TOP FIVE FOODS: granola, tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches, pecans, nachos, my grandmother's new blueberry scones
TOP FIVE FANDOMS YOU'D LIKE TO GET IN/WRITE FICS FOR BUT HAVEN'T YET: I've usually written at least 1 fic, but I'd love to really write Jane the Virgin, Agents of SHIELD, Razor Sharp, Rose is Rose, and The People and haven't really spent the time on it I expected for various reasons.