So a new look and a new blog posting... how sympatico I am. At one time, I was a good questioner. And I thought who better to try out some new ones on then my bloggers...
No worries... I always ask nothing I won't answer...
1. Name?
(See, an easy one first: Eve Mercy Cowart... I've always like my first name. It is however very hard to find personalized things though. Darn all the Evelyns in the world... they take that spot on most every personalized ____ rack)
2. What was the last song stuck in your head?
(If I had a Million Dollars by Bare Naked Ladies is tied for this with It smells like Thanksgiving... my children's person was getting a storytime ready. It was sung along as the same tune as Frere Jacque)
3. Favorite Bible Story?
(And no, it is so not the genesis garden of eden story... Because of my name, I was always asked where's Adam. I often told people that it didn't work out or that he ended up being a real snake : ) I have really liked the Esther story. She was an ordinary person who ended up saving an entire people.
4. Best gift you have ever given and to whom?
(A fused glass pendant to P... it really fit her personality and she wore it all the time. I love for the heck of it gifts. That one wasn't but I do like those gifts best of all. Though my secret gifts I like best of all... those would be to people who don't ever know who gave it...
5. A perfect night?
(It would be a chilly and rainy night where I am in my apartment with the lights low and a fire in the fireplace, my cats snuggled up with me in a fuzzy blanket, something lovely and soft playing on the radio, B sitting on the other end of the sofa, reading and talking and laughing.
6. Single Secret Behavior?
(Okay this one I got busted on the other day but I look at it as I must really feel completely comfortable around you dear... I talk in French to my one cat Henri. He isn't French. He just has a French name but somehow I will just break into French occassionally around him.
7. Most horrible nightmare?
(It has been a while but when I was on a mission trip, I dreamed that I was walking the streets in Victorian times and I was viciously attacked and the people all around me knew me but did nothing to stop it. It disturbed me so badly that I woke up screaming and crying. It had such a residual affect that I spent the next day just hanging out with one of the chaperons and not my friends.)
8. Newest skill?
(I have recently learned how to crochet. It was mainly due to a program that we have been hosting here at the library called Warm Up America. I have finished one square and am working on my next.)
9. A book that changed you?
(Feed by M.T. Anderson... it is an amazing book. It is a story set in the future and it talks about the lives of these teens who now have implants in their heads. They do everything virtually... go to school, talk, even get high. There are two main characters and the girl gets a virus that basically is killing her and killing the implant. She then wants to experience real life firsthand but the boy is having trouble with that. His whole life is in the virtual. It was one of the books that if I ever go back to school for a doctorate or another master that I will write on. I have a couple of topics in my head saved for that very purpose.)
10. Personal mantra?
(This was another easy one for me. I am afraid. I am afraid of heights. I am afraid of driving the interstate. I am afraid of meeting new people and making an idiot of myself. But my personal mantra is " Never let fear stop you from doing what you truly want." It has helped in so many different situations. I figure it is akin to "seize the day"ish kind of attitude. I don't want to die knowing I never truly lived.
Okay kiddies... time for me to head back to work. I had to do this in two sessions in order to get it all fini.
Good day and what could we accomplish if we could not fail...
4 comments:
I'll work on it and get back to you.
1) Pooks ;)
2) Popsicle Toes
3) I'm an Esther fan, too
4) Lego Mindstorm to D
5) Thunderstorm at the beach, watching the lightning
6) Don't think I'm going to share this one... :)
7) My worst ones are where I am trapped in a haunted house (think Stephen Kings "rose Red")
8) PHP programming... sort of
9) Every book, really
10) Better safe than sorry
1. Name?
EFB aka Rannald(SCA)
2. What was the last song stuck in your head?
A$$hole by Denis Leary - It reminds me of just how much of a jerk I really am. At least one of your previous posts have also reminded and confirmed for me what the truth about myself really is.
There are others that get stuck... "They're coming to take me away"(this is kind of permanetly stuck) and Skullcrusher Mountain by Jonathan Coulton (he has a large number of great songs!)
3. Favorite Bible Story?
I've never read it. In fact, I live in a cave so far away from civilization (figuratively speaking of course) and I am so undereducated that I really only know portions of stories.
4. Best gift you have ever given and to whom?
I am a cheap and uncarring person. My gifts are usually thoughtless purchases that just allow me to feel like I've put a great deal of thought into things.
5. A perfect night?
Snowing outside, Warm inside... a night that I actually sleep.
6. Single Secret Behavior?
Being depressed because I am not the 'provider' I hoped I would always be (aren't you glad?).
7. Most horrible nightmare?
Me... alone... in a situation I have no control over, usually involving chaos that makes no sense
8. Newest skill?
Licking my eyebrows and breathing through my ears...? I think that's a skill, if not... Stalking.
9. A book that changed you?
The Seven Happits of Highly Effective People... but since I never got through the whole book I guess I failed at habit number two "Begin with the End in Mind"
Other books I reccomend:
Parenting a Bipolar Child: What to Do and Why
The Kama Sutra
10. Personal mantra?
It's a tie between "It could always be worse!" and "No problem".
I like to look on the sunny side, things could be worse than they are right now, you never know exactly how but they could be. No Problem refers to my attitude concerning helping people. I cannot say "No" unless it is followed by problem.
1) CSBII aka Pangos
2) Hard to say since I have Sirius Radio right now (Ch 35...Spiritual High by Moodswings feat. Neneh Cherry)
3) I'm not a Christian and don't read the Bible (in general. See Question 9 below.). So instead, I'll share a link to the Heart Sutra: http://prospero.journalspace.com/?cmd=forward&entryid=51. This also happens to be an old Blog of mine.
4) Best present. Hmmmm. I don't honestly recall what the best present I've ever given is.
5)I suppose wrapped up in a blanket watching a fantastic movie with a fantastic and loving friend.
6)If I told, it wouldn't be a secrete any more, would it?
7) I think I was about 5 years old. I had a dream that my family lived in a cave on a tiny rocky island surrounded by misty water. Cacti were standing in the water and would topple over if your boat (to where? I never saw other land) passed too closely to them. Anyway, my entire family lived there, but they wouldn't acknowledge me or talk to me. The sensation of alienation was so intense I woke up screaming and crying. Obviously this dream was so intense that it is forever burned into my memory.
Perhaps no man is an island, but it is definitely possible to feel like one.
8) I don't think I'll use it very much, but my girlfriend taught me how to knit this weekend. I wouldn't call myself an expert, but I can knit and purl now.
9) Book of Job from the Bible. In high school I suffered from a very severe depression. My AP English class read the Book of Job and to see the pain and suffering wrought upon one man made me feel that if he could withstand it, then I could too.
10) I used to use the mantra from Dune (The Bene Gesserit Littainy against Fear):
I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.
Now I use the Mantra of the Amitabha Buddha: OM AMI DEWA HRI
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