I always thought I'd be a grown up when I grew up

Three of my LJ interests about which she wanted to know more:

Chocolate bottoms

One February, David bought me a chocolate heart lollipop from Thorntons. I think they were in the sale. But tourn it upside down, and it was bottom-shaped; the edges were the right angle for the way hips slope up into a narrow waist, and it had well-defined buttocks, too :)

Plus, chocolate & bottoms are both Good Things, so imagine the synergy of combining them!


Insane angels

Inspired by Tilda Swinton as Gabriel in Constantine. For an atheist, I certainly do love the idea of angels & fallen angels and all that. Then there's GNeil's Murder Mysteries, where "insane" might be stretching things a little, but insanity's only really ending up at a different place from everyone else, given the same set of facts, right?

Insanity changes angels from perfect (boring) beings into fascinating, scary, magnetic creatures. More stories should have them.


Themosexuals

From a conversation with nannyo. "He's one of them, you know." "They do all sorts of nasty things." "You can't trust them."

Most of the time, They are people I like. Whether it's family talking about pierced & tattooed alternative types, internet liberals talking about company directors, or old-fashioned people talking about homosexuals bringing about the Fall Of Society by getting married, I tend to like them. I quite often find them a lot more attractive than not-them. Hence being a Themosexual :)


You know what comes next :)

I've spent the last 72 hours in London, for a training course called "Understanding Forex and Derivatives".

It was around 50% successful.

I've probably missed all sorts of excitement; there was free net access at the training premises, but it was painfully slow and we only had about half an hour a day where we could get to it. Point me at what I've missed that I shouldn't have done!

I can just about cope with memes.

madwitch told me to list "Five favourite figures you have developed an attachment to from novels who have then been 'orribly killed off" which is evil, because I first noticed this tendency while watching Babylon 5. ( Spoilers for recent reading matter )

Then faerierhona asked for my top 5 shoe shops. ( Read more... )

I'm going to hurt, maim or kill hardwired for asking for "Top 10...Positive features you have/Good things about yourself!" ( Read more... )

And finally, annwfyn asked for the "Five happiest moments in your life so far!". ( Mush alert! )

Ok; apparently you can now comment with the words "Top Ten" or "Top Five", and I will reply with a subject for which you will generate a top ten (or top five) list. Post the list and these instructions in your own journal. Or not.

strangefrontier told me to list 10 good things beginning with "B". Being Bored and well-Behaved, I'm doing so. Comment if you want a letter all of your own. ( Read more... )

And because I always do what SB tells me. ( Read more... )

mrmmarc: Top five songs you would rather not anyone know you like. A lot.

Harder than it sounds; I'm proud of my abysmal taste in music :p

1. Dolly Parton - Jolene.
2. The Spice Girls - Spice Up Your Life.
3. Westlife - You Raise Me Up.
4. Glenn Campbell - Rhinestone Cowboy.
5. Meatloaf - Bat Out Of Hell.

I could go on. And on, and on...

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When munchkinott eats cheese before bedtime, she gets to dream about nekkid!Jameseses. I get dreams of RAF gliders crashing over Sharpenhoe Clappers, finding the radar module (and several unexplained but essential large glass spikes) in the grass, and bartering with them in a very LotR-style village market for more, better cheese. Thre's self-awareness for you - even in my dreams, I know that my dreams aren't as good as I'd hoped for.

munchkinott: The Top 5 Top 5 Lists.
1. Top Five ways to get nekkid!Jameseses through the Matrix & into my living room.
2. Top Five reasons to give me money.
3. Top Five reaosns people think I'm fab.
4. Top Five reasons to have elective plastic surgery.
5. Top Five ways to achieve my Targets In Life.


professoryaffle: 5 reasons why Richard Hammond isn't sexy, just to counter all the Jeremy Clarkson ones!
Nooooo! Um...
1. He's going to be way skinny in RL if he looks that thin on tv.
2. No degree. Just some substandard qualification from Harrogate Art College...
3. He's married. That puts me off most people.
4. Will apparently present anything for money. No standards.
5. Whine, whine, whine, all the way back from Italy in the Cessna.


snapesbabe: 5 favourite monsters.
1. Vampires - good dress sense, nocturnal, pale & interesting, charismatic...
2. Dragons. I hate The Hobbit because they killed Smaug (the bastards!)/
3. All of the monsters in Where The Wild Things Are. So *sweet*.
4. Werewolves. When done properly (American Werewolf in London) and not weird scrawny thing (Harry Potter).
5. Unicorns (of the horse with cloven hooves & horn variety, not he mediaeval goaty things). I'm still a pony-mad little girl in many ways.

That was *hard*. Picking things that aren't variants on a basic theme (whee only the variant is interesting), that haven't just been made up for AD&D, or that did actually exist but became extinct ages ago *really* cut down the list.


dch4: Corset Vendors
1. brute_force. By miles. Great quality, flattering & comfortable.
2. lescarpolette. I don't own any of hers *yet*, but I'd like to. They're beautiful Edwardian-styled (as opposed to B_F's Victorian ones) and in all sorts of fabrics & colours.
3. Murray & Vern, for their underbust ones. I tried a cupped one once & it was *ridiculous* - they didn't seem to understand that breast tissue continues round the side of the ribcage. If I'd been flat enough to fit the cups, I shouldn't have been wearing an unpadded overbust corset.

Um. I don't know anyone else. Certainly *not* Vollers; they're uncomfortable & overpriced for the quality (the busks don't reach the end of the channels). Heresy are comfortable, but don't have enough curve for me (they're very cyber-style & tubular, with less comparative waist reduction than I like). Axfords are underwear, not tight lacing. I'd like to try one of becky_spence's, when she gets going properly.

neilhist: Five things to be really really good at.
1. Breathing :p
2. A musical intrument (I'd choose something that can be played solo as well as in a group - piano would be ideal, if I had space).
3. A handicraft (I'm pretty good with sewing, and I'm getting there with knitting. I'd like to learn metalwork.)
4. A sport (To County level or equivalent. I'm tempted by Ballroom dancing atm, but I'd like to do something like rock climbing.)
5. Something DIYish or practical. I'm looking for a proper car repair / maintenance course.

Stolen from nearly all the important people (except the ones who haven't done it yet):

You post a topic, list, category, whatever, in my comments section. (examples: "5 Sexiest Things About Ron Weasley" or "Top 5 things to drink"). Then, in a separate post, I'll post the answers to all your Top 5 ideas, according to me. Then you post this offer in your own journal.

I'm going to base this on annwfyn's 4 pillars idea, cos it's handy.
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