Tizrak

Apparently I am a quiet sort here (which is very different from how I am in real life)!  But the lovely and talented tagged me with this journal meme.  I don't tend to send them on to people who might not like them, but ...  turnaround is fair play, here are 10 xxx 9 things about her.  

1.  Tell you something I learned about you by looking at your page for 10 seconds.

You're about as likely to do a new journal entry as I am!

2.  Tell you a color you remind me of.

Brownish-red, probably because of your hair.

3.  Tell you what element I believe you belong to (water, fire, air, etc.).

Fire, definitely!  

4.  Tell you what OC(s) of yours is/are my favorite(s).

A lot of your work is commissions or fan-art rather than original characters, but my favorite illustration that you have up right now is Jenalil.  I know she's not your character, but she is an OC you did on a commission, which is pretty close.  

5.  Ask you a question, and you must answer.

What is there about your home area of Italy that is dearest to you?

6.  Tell you something I like about you.

That we can be busy for ages, and when we get to chatting again it's like no time passed at all.  *hugs*

7.  Give you a nickname.

Moonstone.  

8.  Tell you what am I doing right now.

Ignoring cats who are trying to tell me it is 45 minutes past their feeding time.  How did they get so accurate about time anyway?  Little fuzzy alarm clocks ...  But I will feed them soon.

9.  Tell you what food/flavor/smell you remind me of.

Chocolate.

Anyone who wants to can consider themselves tagged.  

I was tagged by .  Not a problem!  Charrrrrrrgggggge!

Rules:
1. Post these rules (Yes... rules of DOOM!!1!11!!!)
2. Post 10 things about yourself within your journal
3. At the end, tag 10 people to share in your misery
4. Go to their pages to alert them of this evil deed
5. Threaten them with a herring if they try to tag back
6. Hide behind a shrubbery, if they give you a mean look
7. Demand a getaway horse and lots of gold for its ransom
8. Laugh maniacally as you make your daring, groovy escape
9. Shake fist at exploding, flying FLEAS blocking your path
10. Get safely home just in time to have a lovely cup of tea

(Pro Tip: The fleas are susceptible to political promises)

1. Favourite colour: Blue, it's good for almost everything; my backup would be black, is that a color?
2. Hair colour: Brown, beginning to get the occasional white ...  darn you, Chronos, lord of time!
3. Favorite food:  Just about anything not containing onions.  Onions are vile.
4. I own my own house!  Now if only it didn't have this pesky mortgage attached to it ...
5. I've been to Iceland, France, England, and Canada.
6. Not an artist, just an art appreciator.  Which means I actually hire commissions, but only one at a time - I don't commission the next one until the previous one is done.  This keeps the costs down to something reasonable.  
7. Favourite animal: Cats, with chipmunks a close second.  The two are sadly not compatible (see #9).
8. Type of temperament: Humorous to a fault
9. Not sure what the original question was.  Presumably about animals you had as pets, at which point it would be cats.  My sister had fish, which the cats ate, and a hamster, which ... well, you can probably figure that out for yourself.
10. I love every sort of weather except hot.  Apparently I must have Viking genes or something because I like it cold.

I was tagged by .  I won't pass it on by tagging people who might not want to be tagged (I always feel rather awkward about such things), but any readers who *want* to be tagged can certainly count themselves as having been.  

1. Post these rules.
2. You must post 10 things about yourself in your journal.
3. At the end, you have to choose and tag 10 people and post their icons in the same journal.
4. Go to their pages and send a message saying you tagged them.
5. No tag-backs.

1.  I am a pretty good cook - I rarely use preprepared foods, preferring to experiment with new combinations of various fresh ingredients.  Here, try this and tell me what you think.
2.  I have a *serious* crush on Sigourney Weaver.  Wheeeee-whoooooo!  But Tina Turner would get jealous, right?
3.  I do not own a cell phone, have never owned a cell phone, and hope to never own a cell phone.  I made myself a deal five years ago that if I ever actually needed one, I would get one the next day.  Not happened yet.  If I could, I would smash them all with hammers.
4.  When I was twenty-two, some friends of mine in their late forties decided to induct me into the Old Curmudgeon Society, Youth Auxiliary, after watching me lecture for ten minutes some litterers who threw trash into the surf *when there was a trash can right next to them*.  *low growl and starts growing hair all over, along with fangs and claws*
5.  I teach chemistry, and love it!  My job is my dream job, and I hope to have it to the day I die.
6.  I'd prefer to die suddenly, of a heart attack, during summer vacation.  That way I won't inconvenience any students by not showing up to class due to being dead, and the college would have time to replace me before the next semester started.  If I can manage to do it in the meat section of the local supermarket, bonus points!  
7.  I have a truly warped sense of humor.  Puns are about the best of it, and from there it only gets scarier.
8.  I've pretty much given up on the whole dating/marriage/living in sin/passionate encounters/whathaveyou scene.  It never ends well.  I'm much happier without all that drama making a mess all over the place - ever tried to get sturm and drang out of sofa cushions?  It's worse than blood.  Not, er, that I have much experience with getting blood out of sofa cushions, that's just what I *heard*.  Got it?  Right.
9. I like people, but I don't need people to be happy.  I can enjoy a day out with a bunch of friends just as much as a day in by myself ... and vice versa, tautologically.
10.  I am basically the same person now that I was 20 years ago, and I expect to be the same person in another 20 years.  Same personality, also same appearance - I could use a photo from 20 years ago as my current photo for a passport with no problems.  Apparently I got stuck in time, but I'm happy with when I'm at, so why kick about it?

Not a bad April Fool's joke, all in all, but really it was not the right season to be giving people lots of llamas.  That should be saved, of course, for Llamastide (August 1st).  

Hello all,

Just a quick update for anyone who is interested ...  Life is good, life is very good!  No major changes, but it has remained unremittingly pleasant for about a year and a half now, which is a pretty durable good streak.  (Sorry, don't mean to gloat - I paid for this good streak in advance, as some of you may recall.   )  No major changes, but ...

I got a new cat about three weeks ago.  My old cat (the one who went insane a while back and had to spend some time on prozac) had gotten on a sufficiently even keel that I felt it was worth the risk.  I really did think he was lonely, and maybe another cat would help.  The new cat, Gnome, is very cute, and they got to be friends amazingly fast for cats.  I got her on a Thursday, and by Tuesday when I went to put her away in a closed room before going to work, I didn't have the heart - they had fallen asleep next to each other on the couch!  And it's being good for him, he's a lot less stressed, getting more exercise, and he isn't meowing me awake in the mornings anymore.

And just yesterday I got a new computer.  I should have gotten one ages ago - the previous one was from 2002 or so - but I'm a cheap bastard, so as long as they old one was fine I put up with its increasingly obsolete nature.  But a few months ago the screen started wavering, which made my eyes water if I used it too much ... and since I like looking at y'all's art, this was something I couldn't put up with for long!  So I saved up and bought it on Black Friday, taking advantage of the sales.  I spent the last day getting it all fitted up and moving everything over, and I did a pretty good job of it if I do say so myself.  Given my usual incompetence with computers, this was a major accomplishment for me.  

Not too much else going on.  Still liking (no, make that loving) my job, still enjoying being single again, still gaming and reading books and making the occasional art commission.  Life is good!  I hope it's being just as good for all of you!