Interview from ladymurmur

[treeskin]

THE RULES (in case you've not seen this before):

1 - Leave a comment, saying you want to be interviewed.
2 - I will respond; I'll ask you five questions.
3 - You'll update your journal with my five questions, and your five answers.
4 - You'll include this explanation.
5 - You'll ask other people five questions when they want to be interviewed.



1. What is the biggest positive surprise you can recall from your life thus far?
Hearing By say he loved me. I bawled my eyes out at the time, but it's been uphill from there.

2. What do you plan to do with all these CD art books?
Give most of them away. One of our acquaintances, Pat Lynch, does these wonderful slump-glass pins, and every now and then takes a box aroud and passes them out for fun. I want to do that with the books. I have a few I've made with particular recipients in mind, but the rest will go to whoever likes them. Same with the other books (small, blank, Japanese-bound) I want to do.

3. What is the largest & smallest number of pets you've had at one time, and what were they?
From none, when my family moved to town, I was about 12, to 1 cat (Tuffy) when By & I moved in together, to 6 cats currently, because I have "sucker" tattoed in Cat on my forehead. Or 7, depending on what you're counting as "pets" (add one 22-yr-old blonde boy who's only here occasionally).
Wait....when I was a little kid, counting barn cats and my beagle and dad's hunting dogs, I think we were up to 10 or 12. NOt sure how many of each any more.

4. Oh horticultural one, what are thy favoritest flowering and non flowering plants?
Botanicly speaking, all my favorites are flowering plants; non-flwering plants are mosses and ferns and liverworts. Anyway......Favorite, with showy flowers....ummm....bearded iris. Favorite, without showy flowers, gack. Dunno. Oak trees, I guess. Any species I can get my hands on.

5. You are kidnapped by aliens, and given all the string you could ever want - however, you are allowed to do only one string thing for the rest of whenever - what do you pick? knitting? tatting? something else altogether?
That's cruel. Only one? Tell the aliens to put me back, I'm not going. What, I really have to decide??? Argh!!! Um....much as I enjoy knitting, if I could only do 1, it'd be crochet, because I can to the widest variety of shapes and texures in that medium.

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[ladymurmur.livejournal.com]

Botanicly speaking, all my favorites are flowering plants; non-flwering plants are mosses and ferns and liverworts.

See? This is why you're the expert, and I'm just a hanger-on. At the moment I'm having trouble even keeping my lucky bamboo alive here in my cube. I give it all the water it could ever want, just like the care instructions said, but the stalks keep turning yellow and mushy one by one. That being said, the philedendron and wandering jew are doing famously with little to no attention. I'm all for lazy plants. :-)

Um....much as I enjoy knitting, if I could only do 1, it'd be crochet, because I can to the widest variety of shapes and texures in that medium.

Interesting - not the answer I had anticipated. I love surprises!

I've discovered that interestingly, knitting irritates my hands/wrists less than crochet does - perhaps because the action is more ambidextrous? *shrug* I still prefer crochetted afghans to knit afghans, but a crochetted scarf is just not quite the same as a knit one.

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[treeskin.livejournal.com]

Re the lucky bamboo: you might take the stems out of the pot, and scrub the pot good. Maybe even rinse with bleach. It's supposed to be as "lazy" a plant as philodendron and wandering jew.

Re knitting vs crocheting: there are a lot of things where I prefer a knitted texture to a crocheted one, but I ca do things with crocheted lace I can't do with knitting. (Like speed...) And I know crochet well enough to be comfortable winging it through a whole project, whereas I'm not at that point with knitting.

I'm finding with either, whether or not I develope wrist pain depends on the gague I'm woking on at the time--anything on #10's, or J or K hook, or larger, is something I can only work on for an hour or so at a time. I can do sock weight, knit or crochet, all day. Fine knitted lace is harder on my hands, I think because I'm still getting used to it and tend to tense up, as I do the same weight in croceht without any thought.

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[ladymurmur.livejournal.com]

I'll try your suggestion with the lucky bamboo. If all else fails, I'll scrub out the pot and buy some more stalks from the kiosk at the mall.

and I wanna play, too! Interview me!

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[treeskin.livejournal.com]

*toddles off to think*

Re: Interview questions

[treeskin.livejournal.com]

Let's try these:

1. How'd you end up in the SCA, anyway?
2. And, since I know that's where you met D, how did you meet him?
3. Why Minnesota?
4. Do you plan on staying there?
5. Lastly, because you made me choose just one....if you had uunlimited string to use, but could only do one craft, what would it be, and why?

[c3fyn.livejournal.com]

Interesting...is this an ongoing "interview" project? Hmm?

p.s. You folks enjoying those dvds? Plan to give 'em back? ;)

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[treeskin.livejournal.com]

Just another lemming...wanna follow along too?

And yes, we enjoyed the dvds, and plan to give them back. When are we going to see you to do that?

By's found them for sale on amazon.com, I think...he was makign noises about getting his own copies.

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[c3fyn.livejournal.com]

I may, at at that.

Glad you enjoyed the dvds...pick a day to see me, any day. Okay, not really any day, but weekends tend to be good, and the odd Monday or Wednesday, depending on band practices.

BTW, that company has several selections for fun dvds, if you haven't visited their website, yet...

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[treeskin.livejournal.com]

Perhaps we could drop by Sun or Mon? The HSA meeting is Sun afternoon, and I don't know if we have plans for afterwards. Haven't seen enough of Byron to ask the last couple of days. I will ask him if/when I see him tonight, or if you're going to the show tonight, you might remind him.

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[c3fyn.livejournal.com]

Jah! Sunday visit would be fine. Monday might be band practice, depending on whether we can de-fragment the band.

Just got my Heartland registration thingie...