#ciara-jane

If you feel you gotta hide, throw up a bedsheet. One of my profs did that because he doesn’t want his students to see his collection of gundams he has built…

His Madeline was voluntary manslaughter, his Weird is clearly first degree murder

tagged by the lovely @ciara-jane

1. Do you put ketchup on a coney? Yes, but...who calls it a coney? 

2. Choice of soda?  It used to be Diet Pepsi, then they changed the recipe and I didn’t like it as much.  Then I started drinking Diet Coke.  Then they changed Diet Pepsi back and guess what?  I don’t like it as well as I used to.  So.  Diet Coke it is.  I will still happily drink Diet Pepsi.  I just...they f*cked it up for me.

3. Do you own a gun? No.  My husband owns a rifle and a shotgun.  So I guess in that regard, I kind of do?  I don’t own them.  But they’re around. 

4. Can you swim? I can

5. Hot dogs or burger? Let’s be honest.  If we’re at a picnic, I want one of each.

6. Favorite type of food? I think it depends on the day?  I like BBQ a lot.  And home style cooking?  Seafood is amazing but PA isn’t known for it’s great seafood, so....   

7. Do you believe in ghosts? I do, I think.  I’m fascinated by it all, honestly.  I want to know all the things.  Till I have to try to sleep because then I’m thinking about all the things and wondering who/what is gonna show up.

8. What do you drink in the morning?  Iced coffee or diet coke.  >< 

9. Can you do 100 pushups?  My husband has told me I’m “the weakest woman in the world”.  I cannot.

10. Summer, Winter, Spring, or Autumn?  Autumn for me, too.  <3

11. Favorite hobby? Do I have a hobby?  My word of the year, which I stole from a YouTuber that I really like is “Begin”.  Because it’s not as scary as like...”follow through”  I am under no obligation to finish something.  lol  Maybe I should find a hobby?  I don’t know.  I like coloring.  I actually just ordered a new marker set, and I’m kind of excited about getting it. 

12. Tattoos?  I’ve thought about getting one but I don’t have one. 

13. Do you wear glasses?  I do not.  Or contacts.  Just...the natural eye power that I have been gifted with.  I am amused at the term eye power.

14. Do you have a phobia?  I mean, I’m terrified of everything that isn’t every day, routine, and ordinary, but other than that...

15. Do you have nick name? Mandy, Mando, Wifey

16. Three favorite drinks? Diet Coke, Iced Coffee, Milk

17. Biggest downfall? I am afraid of everything.  I am stubborn.  So, even if I’m having a moment of “I should try something to alleviate what I’m feeling”, the stubbornness kicks in because, “By God, if I feel a certain way it’s because that’s exactly how I am SUPPOSED to feel and I’m a weak pathetic fool to think I deserve to feel any differently.  I did something to deserve this depression and trying to weasel out of it is pathetic and cowardly.”  So.  Yeah.  I sit in my rut.  Though, I am regularly taking a medicine for the anxiety, so that’s something.  I can’t believe I am, but I am.

18. Rain or Snow? Well, snow is more romantic, but it kind of depends on if I need to go out and if the roads are being looked after. 

19. Can you change a tire? I know how, but I doubt I’d be strong enough to break the lugs loose.

20. Favorite flower? I love roses, but.  If we’re talking flowers for the house, I have to go with carnations because those suckers last forever.

21. Can you drive a stick? No.  I never learned, which is funny because both Missy as well as Mike (my siblings) can.  I was probably wary and mom was like, “Oh, it’s Mandy, she’ll never want to do this anyway.”  My mom knows me all too well.

22. Ever gone skydiving? God no.  I’ve never even been in a plane.

23. Kids?  :(

24. Favorite color? I don’t have just one.  I love outside colors like greens and browns and blues?  But for clothes I wear a lot of pastels and pinks and purples...and florals. 

25. Employed?  Did someone say Loan Processing Associate 1? 

26. Can you whistle? Not very well.  To quote my mom, “You could probably whistle a lot better if you didn’t hold your lips like an idiot.”  lol  Thanks, mom.

27. Where were you born? Greenville Regional Hospital, Greenville, PA  16125.  I think it’s a part of UPMC now. 

28. Siblings? I am the oldest (40, nearing 41).  Missy is 38, almost 39.  Mike just turned 36. 

29. Surgeries? None

30. Shower or bath? It depends on if I have a lot of time.  Most days I shower but I do like a good bath when I have the time.

31. Last song you listened to? “The World’s On Fire” by Hanson

32. Age? 40.  Will be 41 in April.

33. Broken bones?  I don’t think I’ve ever broken anything, but I’m not positive.  It’s possible I’ve broken a finger and a toe, but.  Even if I did, they healed okay on their own.  I avoid a doctor unless I’m about to die and even then it’s like, “Okay, okay...let’s think this through...”  lol

34. How many tv’s in your house? Just one.  It’s plenty.

35. Worst pain?  Just...the emotional pain from having the miscarriage and trying to cope with what I did wrong, both to lose the poor little thing as well as what I’ve done to piss off the universe because it was honestly the most heart-wrenching, soul-crushing thing.  My husband told me one that “it destroyed you” and...I’m not sure that he’s wrong.

36. Do you like to sing? I do!

37. Are your parents still alive? Yes!

38. Do you like camping?  I love camping!  :D  We go a few times a year!

39. What do you enjoy binge watching?  So, like...  I binge watch stuff but a lot of times I don’t enjoy it, I feel like I need to just get through it?  That being said, crap I could watch all the time involves like... Great British Bake Off, Rick Steeves’ Europe, BBQ University (or like Project Smoke, I like both of Steven Raichlen shows).  I like other shows, I just need something I can put on and not have to really focus on much.  (If it sounds like I get overwhelmed easily, you would be right.  lol) 

40. Pumpkin or Sweet Potato pie?  Yuck.  No. 

Awww goodness, thank you, ciara!!!  I always want hugs, and here, you get one too:

Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. You can send me an ask with any title that interests you and I’ll post a little snippet of it or tell you something about it!

You asked for it. This is me warning you. This will get long. Very very long. And this is only my fanfic.

Received the first card for the @dwfandomcardexchange.  Thanks @ciara-jane (who I can’t seem to tag).