Tell me a little something meme

[tari_roo]

As borrowed from kristen999

I know very little about some of the people on my friends list. Some people I know relatively well. But here's a thought: why not take this opportunity to tell me a little something about yourself. Any old thing at all. Just so the next time I see your name I can say: "Ah, there's Parker ...she likes money and cereal." I'd love it if everyone who's friended me did this. (Yes, even you people who I know really well.) Then post this in your own journal [only if you feel inclined]. In return, ask me anything you'd like to know about me and I'll give you an answer*.

*Providing it's answerable/suitable for public posting.

Comments

[claudiapriscus.livejournal.com]

Going for something random here, because I tend to not keep any secrets in all my rl posts, so..um.... oh! If I were going to have any kind of plastic surgery, it'd be a nose job. I inherited my great-grandmother's very patrician profile. There are worse noses, but it's just a little bit too much for the rest of my face. On the other hand, it's mine, and I love food too much to risk losing my sense of smell (and therefore, all the good parts about taste) for a little bit of vanity.

ETA: grr, accidentally hit post before I was ready, don't know how that happened. Hmm. How'd you end up working in HR?

[tari-roo.livejournal.com]

Oooo, random indeed, but very interesting. I hadn't considered the impact of rhinoplasty on your sense of smell, but a real worry to be sure.

A: I ended up in HR quite by accident as it where. My first job out of school was as a receptionist for a recruitment agency. And my next company hired me as an administrator, because I had recruitment background (even if I hadn't done any recruitment) and it snow balled from there. I got a job as hr administrator at the next company, and then got promoted and then promoted again and now I am Evil HR Manager. *shrugs*

[ferrous-wheeler.livejournal.com]

You come up with the most interesting things! While I do like money and cereal, that's a tad unoriginal so... I have a cat whose actual name is Monty but nickname is Monkey (don't ask me why, it just kind of fits him), and I like to cook but am not always very good at it so have inflicted some rather questionable meals on the unwary.

Do you have any pets? And, if not, what type would you have? (I know two questions, I'm greedy ;) )

[tari-roo.livejournal.com]

Questionable meals *fist bump of solidarity*

I wish the money and cereal line was my own, but alas no. Monty is a reasonable jump to monkey ;)

A: We used to have a dog, a mix spaniel and daschund, but when she died a few years ago, we couldn't bring ourselves to buy another. Although I do want a couple of massive type dogs for the yard....

[schneefink.livejournal.com]

Something random: My grandmother taught me silk-painting, but I almost never do it since she died even though we inherited all her supplies. I started knitting once, and I finished two scarves, but I'm working on the third one for about two years now (it's a present for my mother.)

Question: What was the best holiday you've ever had?

[tari-roo.livejournal.com]

No way! I know how to paint silk... I have a couple of pieace from a class I took once. I like it! and my knitting is the same... still knitting a jersey for my since... since last year...

A: So far the best holiday was my trip to Italy. It was awesome as we saw LOADs of places like pompeii and florence and rome and venice, ate LOAS of gelato and walked our butts off. It was awesome.

I hope NZ will be great too!

[aries-taurus.livejournal.com]

I breed showdogs and I have some of the best in the country in my breed (English Springer Spaniels). I LOVE my dogs, me and my husband's life revolves around them: the house we have, the cars... And there are 6 of them in the house, plus 3 cats. We can't ahve kids but we had the dogs before we knew we'd never have kids.

If you could live anywhere in the world, other than where you are, where would you go?

[tari-roo.livejournal.com]

I love English Springer spaniels! They're very cute :)

A: Cool question, but a tough one. I love the countryside, even if I am a city girl at heart so the appeal of the english countryside is huge. I went on a week long hike in Wales once and one of the stops was a place called Pwl Deri. I'd live there... quiet, green, isolated, ocean view. Perfect :)

[auntmo9.livejournal.com]

Well,some of this might not be news, but here you go...

I am Cardinals baseball fan who grew up in a Cubs fan household. I work in social services.I used to play French horn and flute and was a marching band geek. I still love to watch marching bands. I pretty much keep my mouth shut both here and on Facebook on things outside of fandom,daily life and work because although I don't care if someone has a different religion, personal philosophy or political opinion from me, it kills me how most people treat each other when someone is different from them.

Also,many of my employees suck...

Question: You want to come visit and be a temp HR person and help me kick some employee ass?

Do you play any musical instruments or do anything creative outside of fandom?

[tari-roo.livejournal.com]

I did not know about the French horn and marching band!! Cool!

I would happily come over and help you with all HR related issues... any time!! I'll bring my baseball bat too

A: I play the piano :) And I love to paint, scrap book, bead, cross stitch, and silk paint. I tend to pick up various activities as the mood strikes me and then switch to something else. :)

[auntmo9.livejournal.com]

I should keep a baseball bat in my office!

I tend to pick up various activities as the mood strikes me and then switch to something else.

That is a very Jane Bennet way of saying something. I will have to remember it. Much better than my Lydia way of saying "Whatever! That's totes like watching paint dry and ooh look at this shiny new thing over here, bitches!"

[tari-roo.livejournal.com]

Oh, shiny!! Random side note - my sister bought me a necklace for christmas, a nice piece of costume jewellery with a deep purple crystal in the centre. For hours on christmas day we went back and forth saying 'sparkly! oh its a sparkly! can I have the sparkly?'

*snort*

[auntmo9.livejournal.com]

Ooh...pretty sparkly necklace sounds awesome!

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

I think this is a fun meme and I might post it as well! However, the only thing I could come up with to answer yours is something we already have talked about... I'll put it in here nonetheless! (and I want to point it out that I don't do it ALL of the time. Just in special cases)

I sometimes read books not in the right order. When there is an A plot and an B plot but my hero is in much danger in the A plot then I don't care what the other people in the B plot do and only read all the scenes with the hero first ;) And after I have finished I go back to the beginning and read the rest to see how it all fits together. Now that I know that my hero is save I am more relaxed.

Also, when my friend lent me her John Barrowman biography, I thought it might be boring to start right at the beginning, you know, with the "I was born and raised" part, so I just flipped it open at any page and jumped into it right in the middle. Only then I figured out that his biography jumps around from story to story anyway, and is not in a linear order ;)

[tari-roo.livejournal.com]

*shakes head* that still amuses me no end, as I am s stickler for reading beginning to end, no jumping ahead, no spoilers. but I do understand the impetus to find out what happens to the hero, just in case ;)

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't do it all of the time of course. But some of the recent Stargate novels were so awful, I was not interested in the scenes without SG-1 at all. And I probably did not miss much.

I usually don't go looking for spoilers in my TV shows, that's true. Sometimes people talk about stuff and you just happen to stumble about it, though. So when reading all the Arrow boards some people already guessed that JB might be Tommy's Dad, and it wasn't such a huge surprise anymore.

Well, another fun fact I could have said would have been "John Barrowman once talked about me in an American TV show" but one, I don't remember if you already were around at the time and know the story, and two, it would be really bragging ;)

[tari-roo.livejournal.com]

Oh ... you can't leave it like that!!?? You have to tell me now! Come on, please? :)

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

Sure! But beware, lots of links coming your way. You need to read them all in this order to get the full story.

First you need to read this:

http://dieastra.livejournal.com/38504.html

And then this:

https://twitter.com/BarrowmanCrime/status/172047699405844480

and the second part of the story:

http://dieastra.livejournal.com/39004.html

And Carole's second tweet:

https://twitter.com/BarrowmanCrime/status/177107186349125632

So of course I had to make an action figure of Carole:

http://dieastra.livejournal.com/41677.html

And at the convention in Peterborough I showed them to John Barrowman and also gave him a photoalbum with the picture story, he was amazed:

http://dieastra.livejournal.com/42788.html

And finally here are all the details about the TV show, with video link:

http://dieastra.livejournal.com/44542.html

[tari-roo.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's a pretty amazing story. Its great that your hard work and effort was appreciated so much! And got shown on tv :) *shakes your hand* Pretty damn impressive!

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

I guess that was more than only 15 minutes of fame LOL
And I wasn't even at home when it happened. I was visiting a friend and of course we had better things to do than browsing the internet. I got an SMS by another friend who told me my figures had been in the TV. I kinda wish I had watched it unspoiled, I wonder how loud my squee would have been then! But there was no chance, so many people who know me wrote to me and congratulated me.

So what do you think - shall I fly to London in a few weeks, for the book signings of the sequel of Hollow Earth, and surprise Carole with her figure? Or do you think it will be too much? It's been a year after all.

Have I actually pulled you towards the Torchwood fandom already? Heh *g*