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?

fayanora

December 28 2010, 13:45:17 UTC 6 years ago

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I looooove pudding. Except tapioca. I used to love it, then Grandma called it "fish eye pudding" and I haven't had any since.

Ugh. "Country music" is neither country nor music.

My family used to get margarine all the time. When I got older, I tried real butter. I love butter.

I love canned spinach with salt. That's my favorite veggie.

seanan_mcguire

December 29 2010, 20:44:45 UTC 6 years ago

Country music is something I am fond of. It is definitely music. Whether it is to your tastes or not is a matter for a different day.

December 30 2010, 01:10:56 UTC 6 years ago

Well, okay, yeah. I was just sore because one of the people I share a brain with, the 7 year old Molly Elizabeth, is the only one in my collective who loves country music, and she drives us crazy with it.

March 15 2011, 19:28:37 UTC 6 years ago

...ouch.

March 16 2011, 01:22:31 UTC 6 years ago

Truth be told, she drives us crazy with a lot of things. She can turn the most inoffensive thing into a crazy-maker. It's not entirely her fault, either. I think the brain does that stuff on its own anyway, Molly just isn't bothered by it like the rest of us are.

Like today, a song I haven't heard in months or longer (the old 80's song "Too Shy") just randomly popped up into our consciousness and started putting itself on continuous loop. No apparent trigger, it's like the song just said, "Hello there, I got lost wandering through your subconscious and ended up here somehow, so I'll just sit down and play myself over and over again until you want to gouge your eyeballs out with a rusty spoon, or until I figure out how to get home."

It eventually stopped, thank Gods, but now that it happened, it could come back to visit at any time. So I'm trying hard not to think about it.

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