'cause I'm up and Auction is still on...

1. Do you like bleu cheese?
Ew. No. That's cheese that has gone off.

2. Have you ever been drunk?
Yup! Entirely too often this past week, but that was worth it...

3. Do you own a gun?
No

4. What do you like to do on weekends?
Go to events and sew, go to postrevels and party, stay home and sew, stay home and read

5. Do you get nervous before doctor appointments?
Depends on how much blood I think they will want

6. What do you think of hot dogs?
Generally, ew. Cheddar dogs, though? Magic!

7. Favorite Christmas movie?
Nightmare Before Christmas

8. What do you prefer to drink in the morning?
Ginger Tea, but Diet Coke is more common

9. Can you do push ups?
Yes

10. What's your favorite piece of jewelry?
A silver-and-amber drop is my favorite purchased piece.

11. Favorite hobby?
Fiberarts - pretty much anything that is, could be, or was at some point string

12. Favorite novel?
Probably something by DeLint. It would be hard to say which.

13. What's your favorite shoe?
Combat boots. Or dorktastic Pictish shoes with the silly back-of-the-ankle tongue

14. What is your middle name?
None o' your business

15. Name 3 thoughts at this exact moment?
Yay! WPT Auction!
I wish someone had a cell phone...
I really need to work on my weaving

16. Name 3 drinks you regularly drink.
Diet Coke/Pepsi (No, not picky)
Strongbow cider
Scotch

17. Current worry?
WW planning

18. Current hate right now?
The Today Show and their retarded special on how awful generic drugs are. Thanks. That's going to make my life AWESOME the next few weeks.

20. How did you bring in the New Year?
Lost. But I stole a kiss anyway.

21. Where would you like to go?
Iceland, Scotland, Norway, Italy, in rough order of preference.

22. Name three people who will complete this:
Well, naughtyaelf  already did (hilarious, BTW), maybe splott and newperspectives ?

23. Do you own slippers?
Yup. Slippers and froggie slipper sox

24. What color shirt are you wearing right now?
Black. Shocking.

25. Do you like sleeping on Satin sheets?
Nope. Had some once. Linen is MUCH better. :)

26. Can you whistle?
Well enough

27. Favorite colors?
Black and green or blue

28. Would you be a pirate?
No.

29. What songs do you sing in the shower?
I generally don't

30. Favorite Girl's Names?
Oddny. Elizabeth. Bridei (even if it technically is a boy's name)

31. Favorite boy's names?
John.

32. What's in your pocket right now?
Wallet, Cell phone, Cell phone ear buds, some change, some receipts, some cash I was too lazy to put in my wallet, a little chunk of beeswax, a safety pin, some Salon Pas patches, some vitamin I.

33. Last thing that made you laugh?
naughtyaelf 's post

34. Favorite summer activities?
Reading outside, wandering walks, singing around a campfire.

35. Worst injury you've ever had?
Physically? a broken arm from rollerskating

36. Do you love where you live?
Yup! Madison is teh awesome and how could one not love a neon green kitchen and hardwood floors?

37. Who is your loudest friend?
Heh. Now there's a contest to have. probably ingusmoen for sheer volume, devikat for a perfect storm of volume, speed, and exuberence.

39. How many dogs do you have?
None. Had one, a black lab named Sam, when I was little.

40. Does someone have a crush on you?
No.

41. What is something you are really looking forward to?
As far as immediate gratification goes - Silks, Needles, and More - I'm going with four cool ladies for a weekend of string, how could that be bad? :)

42. What is one thing you do several times a week?
Besides personal care things, no week goes by that I don't pick up a needle to sew or embroider, regardless of where I am.

43. What song do you want sung at your Funeral?
Eeek. Hopefully a drunken chorus coming out of my friends.

44. Name something or someone you love.
Let's go with the most steadfast - books and the knowledge therein.

The "Is my cat plotting to kill me?" quiz!
http://www.heyquiz.com/quiz/cat_kill

...but page 56 of The Anglo-Saxon Way of Death is a full-page illustration of drinking vessels found in graves. :P

Rules:
A) People who have been tagged must write their answers on their blogs & replace any question that they dislike with a new question formulated by themselves.
B) Tag 8 people to do this quiz. These people must state who they were tagged by & cannot tag the person whom they were tagged by. Continue this game by sending it to other people.

01. What is essential for your happiness?
Essential? I've not yet found anything that, when it was taken, turned out to be essential for my happiness... I'd be sorry to live without friends to love, books to read, and cheese to eat. :)

02. What clothes are you wearing at the moment?
My favorite sweater (from high school!), black slacks, black socks, combat boots.

03. What games did you recently finish?
Solitaire.

04. What is your favorite scent?
Woodsmoke and outdoors stuck in my hair after camping.

05. What books are you reading at the moment?
Jebus. Um... A Series of Unfortunate Events - Book 2; The Anglo-Saxon Way of Death; Textile Production at 16-22 Coppergate; Textiles, cordage and raw fibre from 16-22 Coppergate; Why do I love these people?; Someplace to be Flying; Loud and Clear; and Walden. There may be others tucked into my bed partially read too. One never knows...

06. What do you drink the most?
Diet Pepsi.

07. Do you trust easily?
I used to.

08. Who was your first big crush?
Yikes. Brian Bobinski. Except on days he was being horrible, then his best friend Josh.

09. What did you want to be when you grew up?
Librarian. I sort of dodged that, but I still enjoy book searches, reference questions, and cataloging books more than any normal person ought to.

10. Do you have a good body-image?
It is more that I am comfortable with who I am. My body is just sort of there. If it is not misbehaving terribly, I could care less.

11. Do you have a LJ crush?
Not currently. (MySpace crush, maybe, but that's a different question. ;P)

12. What websites do you visit daily?
In usual chonological order: google, clinical pharmacology, drugstore.com, wisc.edu, library.wisc.edu, mail.yahoo.com, gmail.com, bbc.co.uk, livejournal.com, facebook.com, myspace.com, librarything.com, northshield.com.

13. random pet peeve?
Basic grammatical errors, such as not knowing the difference between there, their, and they're... or using 's to form a plural. ARGH!

14. What kind of person do you think the person who tagged you is?
Intelligent and kind.

15. What's the last song that got stuck in your head?
A Faroese song about a selkie.

16. What's your favorite item of clothing?
Combat boots, ideally well broken in but freshly shined.

17. What's better: to give or to receive?
Giving.

18. What turns you on in your preferred gender(s)?
Intelligence, energy, brilliance, exceptional devotion to or talent for an activity, geekiness.
Physically, tall sturdy men with dark, long hair are scrumptious, but that is immaterial if at least most of the above are not also present.

19. Is there anything you want so bad right now?
Yes.

20. What should you be doing right now?
Sewing. Or, really, cleaning the sewing room so I can sew. :P

21. Whats the meaning behind your LJ username/name/nicknames you go by?
Eithni is my SCA name

I tag: whoever feels like it... these things tend to go around like a bad case of the flu and hit all my friends sooner or later anyway. :P

Instructions: Go over to Wikipedia and enter the day you were born and then pick 3 events, 2 births and 1 holiday that occurred on your birthday.

98 - Trajan becomes Roman Emperor after the death of Nerva.
1606 - Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins, and ending in their execution on January 31.
1951 - Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on the Frenchman Flats.

1708 - Anna Petrovna of Russia (d. 1728)
1756 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (d. 1791)

UN — International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Catching up on the local memes...

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Your result for The hardcore SCA Test ...

King's Advisor

You scored 92% hardcore SCA!

Your result for Which Chess Piece are You Test? ...

The Knight's Blacksmith

Congrats! Only 10-12% of the population score this!

1) Touched the Rosetta Stone at the British Museum (while some nice little Japanese tourists distracted the guard).

2) Gotten a private tour of the National Museums of Scotland's off-site store where they let me photograph and touch all sorts of Pictish artifacts. *swoon*

3) Lived in the haunted tower of a Castle, the "Hogwarts" castle, nonetheless.

4) Stitched up a friend who sliced her leg open on a trip to the Boundary waters.

5) Been yelled at by a guard at Lenin's tomb for helping a little old lady down the stairs. :P

Sadly, most of the really interesting Moscow things are off-limits since whymc was there. :P Luckily, I have had a lot of weird adventures on my own.

This is an interesting little experiment - go comment on my Johari window!

Results here.

Yay! A meme I really am curious about!


1. Think of the first word that comes to mind when you think of me.

2. Go to Google Images and search for that word.

3. Reply to this post with one of the pictures on the first page of results (don't tell me the word).

4. Put this in your own journal so that I can do the same.

Oddly enough, I'd just been thinking along Shakespearean lines when I saw this meme start to go around. And while we're on the subject, I forgot to mention it at the time (a few weeks ago), but the Bard just celebrated his 444th birthday!

Link: The Which Shakespeare Play Are You? Test written by macbee on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test View My Profile(macbee)

Click here. *evil grin*

(I saw this one go around before, but I think that was before Sile had an LJ.)

You are breakfasty, like a pile of pancakes on a Sunday morning that have just the right amount of syrup, so every bite is sweet perfection and not a soppy mess. You are a glass of orange juice that's cool, refreshing, and not overly pulpy. You are the time of day that's just right for turning the pages of a newspaper, flipping through channels, or clicking around online to get a sense of how the world changed during the night. You don't want to stumble sleepily through life, so you make a real effort to wake your brain up and get it thinking. You feel inspired to accomplish things (whether it's checking something off your to-do list or changing the world), but there's plenty of time for making things happen later in the day. First, pancakes.

For such a night owl, I was really expecting midnight. ;) I suppose since this is all about organization and lists, it does fit though...