This one was tagged by @jchb32273. Thank you, m’dear.
Sometimes. I’ll usually at least straighten the duvet and quilts to make it look neat.
2. What’s your favorite number?
7, probably because there’s a song I like called “Seven”.
Retired old lady and cranky person.
4. If you could, would you go back to school?
Yeppers. I’d love to study costume and textile history and get formal training in textile conservation.
5. Can you parallel park?
6. A job you had which would surprise people?
I co-owned a antique furniture restoration business back in the late 1980s. I used to do a mean French polish.
7. Do you think aliens are real?
Absolutely, and I, for one, can’t wait to welcome our new alien overlords. (They can’t be any worse than our current overlords, amirite?)
8. Can you drive a manual car?
I learned on a stick and it’s the only thing I can drive... when I do try to drive a standard transmission, very bad things happen because I forget not to clutch. (Stupid muscle memory!)
9. What’s your guilty pleasure?
Daniel Day-Lewis’ The Last of the Mohicans. It is really an astonishingly terrible awful horrible very bad movie, but I could happily watch it a thousand times. Oh, and Smartfood White Cheddar Pop Corn, which is somehow both thoroughly disgusting and absolutely delicious at the same time.
Yes, though not by choice. (I have guide tattoos for radiation treatments on my back and chest.)
The aesthetic movement palette of ‘saddened’ tertiary colours: peacock blue, sage and olive green, russet, ashes-of-rose, and terra cotta. And black.
12. Things people do that drive you crazy?
Act like assholes on the internet. Seriously... anonymity is not a license to shit on other people.
Heights, public speaking, and making phone calls.
14. Favorite childhood sport?
Croquet. (Blame it on Lewis Carroll.)
15. Do you talk to yourself?
I don’t think so. Do I? I don’t know.
16. What movie do you adore?
Christine Edzard’s Little Dorrit; Sense and Sensibility (the Emma Thompson film); Miller’s Crossing (I love the Coens in general, but that one is my fave); The Piano; and Impromptu. And OMG A Room with a View!
17. Do you like doing puzzles?
I do, and nothing disappoints me more than a video game that doesn’t randomize the solutions to puzzles for replay value. (Lookin’ at you, every Bioware game I’ve ever played...)
18. Favorite kind of music?
Pretty much anything (apart from Romantic classical music, rap, anything with overly pitch corrected/autotuned vocals, death metal, and contemporary country music). I’m kind of partial to power pop and progressive rock, but I’m just as likely to be listening to Motown or Mersey beat or 70s glam or Brit folk or drone or numbers station recordings or electronica.
Tea, though I’m not allowed the real stuff anymore. (No caffeine for you, bad girl!)
20. The first thing you remember you wanted to be when you grew up?
A lady astronaut. (It was the 1960s. I think every kid wanted to be an astronaut back then.) When I came to my senses and realized that space is really high up (see: that fear of heights thing mentioned above) I decided I would instead be a writer. (Go ahead, laugh...)
I don’t like to bother anyone by tagging them (because at this point I’m so infrequently on Tumblr that they’ll probably have forgotten who I am) but if anyone who still follows me wants to answer questions, consider yer lovely self tagged: “You’re it!”
