Drat!

[siercia]

I meant to do this Thursday night, but ran out of time. Sounded kind of fun, and you know, I won't have enough to do at work tomorrow anyway =)

There's a huge chunk of you out there whose livejournals I read every day -- but in a lot of cases, I don't know how old a lot of you are, or where you live, or basic, normal things.

This can be a problem with livejournal -- we all think we are so close, and while we know about the day-to-day, there's still a lot we don't know about each other. So let's rectify it.

I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. I promise, I will not make fun of you, or say who asked what; I won't divulge any social security numbers and stuff, but I'll try to answer everything, either in my journal or through email.

I then invite you to do the same. Remember, ask basic stupid questions, and don't be embarrassed! You would be really shocked what I don't know about you.

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[asmodel.livejournal.com]

I know the answer to this anyway, but couldn't resist:)

A/S/L ????!!!!!

[mamawrites.livejournal.com]

what are your most and least favorite parts of living where you do?

That's pretty complicated. Maybe because I overthink.

[siercia]

There's two levels I can answer that on - in terms of exactly where we are, and in terms of the greater Boston area.

In the larger sense, I love living near a city - I love the variety of food and experiences, having museums and schools and movie theatres that play movies most of the country doesn't see. There's 7 or 8 *good* yarn shops within a 30 minute drive, nearly that many good bookstores. I can get Dunkins coffee just about anywhere (Laugh, but I realized this weekend that I don't think I could move anywhere there weren't Dunkin Donuts.) And Wiley grew up here, so we have this incredible network of friends that are more like an extended family than anything else. I'd be sad to leave them if we ever moved away.

What I dislike comes from the same things though - the sheer numbers of people are overwhelming. For example, Boston has the "best" First Night in the country. But it's so crowded that you spend more time standing in line or fighting the crowds than you do participating in the activities. I hate the ridiculous housing prices that mean I can't actually live in the city, and that even having moved 25 miles out, I still don't have a choice about not working.

As far as exactly where I live, enh, there's not much to love. It's mostly generic suburbia, which I find boring and lifeless. I don't like that I have to get in my car and drive at least ten minutes to get anywhere interesting, and that most of my friends are at least 30 minutes away; that even the T is a 15 minute drive. I feel cut off from a lot of the things that I enjoy (and I'm not really, it's just how I feel). If I could do the purchasing again, I'd try to either getting closer walking distance to anything, or closer ot the highway (or maybe even both).

I do like that I have space for a garden, a 10 minute commute to work. I like that we were able to buy a place at all - the market's gone up even further since we bought, and now I think we might be priced out of even this area.

[cranapril.livejournal.com]

How has being a mom changed your life? In good ways, bad ways, etc. And how has your relationship with Wiley changed, since Hannah was born?

Yow.

[siercia]

This isn't an easy one either!

Being a mom has changed my life completely and totally, and then at the same time, not that much at all in a functional sense.

It's made me less selfish, but I feel my selfish-ness more acutely, because I'm weighing it against Widget's needs, and not, say, Wiley's. It's made me more relaxed, and a little more go-with-the-flow, because you have to be to survive parenting the way I want to. It's made life infitinely more complicated - co-ordinating child care and family time and balancing that against my needs for my own time. It's made me WAY less invested in my work, it's SO far down on the priority list these days. I miss what I can now see as days of "freedom".

I think Wiley and I are more of a team now - we spend more time together and since there's less time to get everything done we work together to make it happen. We fought a lot more in the beginning, but we're mostly over that. I think it's been a rough adjustment for both of us, we're both so independent and have so many interests and hobbies, many of which aren't conducive to parenting.

[enochs-fable.livejournal.com]

How did you and Wiley meet and get engaged?

[siercia]

We met in our first week of college - the first time was when he and his friend Jesse were walking around the door saying hi to anyone with their door open. I thought Wiley looked like a guy I knew from high school (and thought was hot) and he thought I was crazy. Our paths crossed again at a lame-o party my new friends had dragged me to - we spent the evening watching bad movies, then he walked me back to our dorm. We spent the rest of the night sitting in the lounge talking, and the rest is history =)

We got engaged on Christmas '96 - he proposed in front of my entire family at my grandparent's house on Christmas morning.

[enochs-fable.livejournal.com]

ok, that last sentence requires some expansion. :)

Which?

[siercia]

The engagement part?

I knew he'd bought some kind of super secret present, (and your beloved almost gave the secret away, too) but didn't really know what. He waited until all the other presents had been exchanged, then whipped out a little black box, and everyone just kind of froze. He asked, I accepted, everyone cheered.

My aunt still hasn't forgiven him for not warning someone so they could have a camera at the ready.

Re: Which?

[enochs-fable.livejournal.com]

The almost giving the secret away. :)

[elsterm.livejournal.com]

It's interesting, I've known you for so long that there are a lot of details about you that I'm more likely to know (a lot!) But there are whole chuncks of your life that I know less about. Let's see...

What is your favorite color? (I'm thinking green, but I could be wrong.)

What is your all time favorite book? (When we were in high school you kept loaning me Stephen King books - I blame you for a whole summer with no sleep sophomore year!)

All time least favorite book? (Any required reading from junior year religion class doesn't count. That's all implied.)

Ooooh, good questions

[siercia]

I hate the color question - I can never decide on one, because I'm like that. And working with fiber, I spend a good deal of my down time immersed in color, so it's always on my mind. It depends on what (and who) it's for, and changes depending on my mood and the season, and even my current stitching / knitting / other projects. Right now I'm being drawn to pinks and corals and pink-based oranges. I think all time favorite would probably have to be rich royal purple shades.

Favorite book is hard too, does a short story count? If it does, I have to go with Breakfast at Tiffany's by Capote. I think it may be the only book that I've ever started again as soon as I got to the end. (And the movie makes me cringe, I couldn't watch more than 20 minutes before I made my friend turn it off). Still love the Stephen King, but it's not soul touching, life altering literature =)


Least favorite - I didn't actually finish it, which says something. The Golden Bowl by Henry James. One Hundred Years of Solitude ranks up there pretty highly too, but I at least finished that one.

Re: Ooooh, good questions

[elsterm.livejournal.com]

Okay, two more:

Place you'd most like to travel to that you'll probably get to visit.

Place you'd most like to travel to that you'll probably never get to see.