Survey time

[serene]

I'm in task-avoidance mode. When I'm in task-avoidance mode, as many wombats will tell you, I like to write surveys. Here you go. Standard rules apply -- that is, only answer the ones you want to, and if the question is worded so that there's no answer you like, feel free to re-write the question:

1. Tell about a really important piece of advice you received in the past.

2. Given all the money, happiness, and time you need, what would your typical day look like?

3. Tell about a book that you keep returning to. What is so special about it?

4. If you could have a conversation with one person tomorrow, and convince that one person of one thing, who/what would it be?

5. Is there a spot on your body that's not normally considered an erogenous zone, but it drives you crazy? What is it?

6. _______________ was the best $5.00 I ever spent. (Or, if you're not in the US, use an amount that's equivalent-ish -- there's a currency converter at http://www.xe.com/ucc/ )

7. Imagine you have to go to work every day, in an office, with people you like. What work are you likely to be doing? (I'm looking to avoid answers like "Staying home with my family," or "Finishing my novel while I websurf," etc.)

8. Name a fictional character whose life seems like one you'd love. What is it about that life that attracts you?

9. Name three things that help pull you out of a funk.

10. Name four people who have seen you at your worst and still stuck by you. (If you don't feel like naming names, don't. Use pseudonyms or, hell, skip it if you want. :-)

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[flisleshnitz.livejournal.com]

1. Tell about a really important piece of advice you received in the past.
The most important piece I can think of right now, was from a past therapist. He told me (and this sounds so corny) to look at pictures of myself as a child and think back on all the things I didn't receive that all children are due. Then FORGIVE the people that didn't do the giving, and comfort my inner child, trapped inside me. Hug that poor girl, that is me, but somehow isn't and give us both the space to grieve.

2. Given all the money, happiness, and time you need, what would your typical day look like?
Probably puttering in my garden or greenhouse, sewing and reading to my hearts content. And happily watching my family play with their toys (adult and children ie: welding, leathercrafting, and kid toys)

3. Tell about a book that you keep returning to. What is so special about it?
Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series. Yeah yeah, so it's supposed to be romance. It is and isn't, I just don't find that many books I'm sucked into again and again. Charles De Lints Moonheart and Clive Barkers Imajica are some others.

4. If you could have a conversation with one person tomorrow, and convince that one person of one thing, who/what would it be?
I'd talk to my Dad, I'd convice him to get therapy, to excersise, to go on a diet. To take his meds that he needs, to kick the ones that he doesn't. To in otherwords, TAKE CARE of himself.

5. Is there a spot on your body that's not normally considered an erogenous zone, but it drives you crazy? What is it?
My waist. I just love the feeling of a hand running firmly over my upper hip to my ribcage. I'm highly ticklish, so it has to be firm.

6. _______________ was the best $5.00 I ever spent. (Or, if you're not in the US, use an amount that's equivalent-ish -- there's a currency converter at http://www.xe.com/ucc/ )
boooooooooooookssssssssssssss

7. Imagine you have to go to work every day, in an office, with people you like. What work are you likely to be doing? (I'm looking to avoid answers like "Staying home with my family," or "Finishing my novel while I websurf," etc.)
I'd be either a tattooist, or a midwife.

8. Name a fictional character whose life seems like one you'd love. What is it about that life that attracts you?
Anita Blake, but I'd loose the wussy 'I CAN'T love more than one person at a time outlook' Her life kicks ass, but the author needs to be introduced to polyamoury.

9. Name three things that help pull you out of a funk.
Books, properly doctored coffee (read coffee ice cream, mocha's, caramel flavouring, and cream)

10. Name four people who have seen you at your worst and still stuck by you. (If you don't feel like naming names, don't. Use pseudonyms or, hell, skip it if you want. :-)
My husband Ethan
and that's about it. I don't let many people in that close.