Five things you may or may not know about me.: seanan

Five things you may or may not know about me.

5. I love country music. Mostly modern country, Christian Kane and Little Big Town and Taylor Swift, but I also love that sappy old dead dogs and pickup trucks country that you find on AM radio at six in the morning. I inherited my love of the genre from my grandmother, who was respectable and stoic and could bellow along with "Fancy" like nobody's business.

4. When I'm having a bad day and want comfort food, I go home and curl up with a big bowl of frozen peas that have been heated in the microwave. All I put on them is a) salt, and b) pepper. This stems from a childhood misinterpretation of what chickpeas were, when the characters in a book I loved ate "fresh hot buttered chickpeas."

3. My family was very, very poor when I was younger. As a consequence, I think that butter tastes horrible, because we always got a brick of government butter in our "please don't starve to death" box. Margarine, on the other hand, is the taste of luxury. I had a bad margarine habit for a while after getting my first job, and bought a tub every time I went to the store.

2. I am very superstitious, and very picky about my superstitions. I count crows, pick up pennies, and occasionally look for auguries in bags of M&Ms. I do not, however, freak out when I see a funeral procession, or insist on touching my collar and asking magpies how their wives are. This helps me strike a good balance. Just never get between me and a street penny.

1. I have a paralyzing phobia of pudding, which extends to all "pudding-type" substances, including custard and overly-warm milkshakes. Suddenly biting into an unexpected cream filling has been known to make me throw up on the spot. Luckily, this does not extend to the unnatural white goo inside Twinkies.

So that's five things you may or may not know about me. What do you think I may or may not know about you?

archangelbeth

December 27 2010, 16:18:37 UTC 6 years ago

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I was taken to see Poltergeist before I was a teenager, and was told it would be "a funny movie." I did not sleep alone in a room with a walk-in closet for years afterwards. Until we moved out of that house, in fact. (Under-the-bed stuff never bugged me much. I knew there was way too much junk under my bed for anything else to fit.) In the next house, I was given a box containing, among other things, a huge dagger that my grandfather'd had, and promptly started sleeping with that under my pillow until... Um, until I was 18 and moved in with a fellow who had a waterbed.

I should never be left in a bookstore or store-that-sells-yarn when without adult supervision. Especially if there is a sale going on. I have some yarnbending plans that I hope to accomplish before Arisia, if I can find some sufficiently orange yarn, because a friend of mine recently gifted a couple of anime voice actors with some knitted scarfs for Yaoicon, and it gave me Ideas.

Um. Would your cats eat something scarf-like made from yarn if you happened to get it from a fan at Arisia this year? (I know you probably don't need a real scarf; I came up with this really cool stitch that makes "scarves" that are mostly air, and now I need ~~victims~~ people to make them for.) And should I assume my own prejudices of "if it can't be thrown in the washing machine and dryer and fend for itself, then it's clearly headed for extinction," or be looking for the Nicer Quality stuff? *wry grin*

Assuming, though, that my spouse lets me into a yarn shop in time... >_>

seanan_mcguire

December 27 2010, 16:23:08 UTC 6 years ago

Thomas isn't inclined to eat fabric. Just earplugs. :(

December 27 2010, 16:25:29 UTC 6 years ago

Oh dear. (Wish me luck in raiding a yarnstore before Arisia?)

brownkitty

December 27 2010, 16:30:31 UTC 6 years ago

Ummm... Are you still looking for victims? If so, ::dons red shirt::

December 27 2010, 16:34:03 UTC 6 years ago

Hop over to my LJ and tell me what you like and if you're going to be somewhere I'm going to be. O:> (Fair warning; if you haven't written books and/or songs I'm fangirling, I'm going to be looking for the cheaper yarns. On the other hand, if they're on sale, one can get some pretty nice-feeling and nice-looking stuff! Lion Brand Homespun, for instance...)