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[lizziethereader]

ooooh awesome! that frenzy phase at the beginning is always super fun!

Weekly Bookish Question #384 (April 7th - April 13th 2024)

How much does reading intersect with your other hobbies? (e.g. Do you read about them? Are they somewhat related? Do you talk about books with people you share other hobbies with?…)

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Fifteen Questions for Fifteen Friends

Tagged by @thatgirlnevershutsup

are you named after anyone? Nope! My parents specifically went out of their way to avoid giving either child a family name (though in Nick's case that was only managed via creative spelling). They did wind up making some classical mythology references, but I think that was accidental rather than a deliberate theme. I am also not named after a celebrity despite what A LOT OF PEOPLE assumed when I was a child. (*)

when was the last time you cried? I dunno. I don't tend to cry dramatically, but a handful of tears at an emotional moment isn't surprising.

do you have kids? Nope.

what sports do you play/have played? I played soccer in high school (badly). I also took years of swimming and gymnastics lessons, though I never competed in either activity. I was bad at gymnastics, but I probably could have done pretty well on a swim team. (I talked my swim coaches into letting me be an assistant teacher for pre-schoolers instead of swimming competitively, which I think was much better for my mental health.)

do you use sarcasm? When it feels appropriate.

what is the first thing you notice about people? ...Probably their height, if we meet in person? Or vocal pitch/timbre. Typing style if we meet online.

what's your eye colour? Brown :)

scary movies or happy endings? This is a false dichotomy and I refuse to engage with it.

any talents? I used to be a good singer and a good enough oboist that I took private lessons for a couple years, but I am woefully out of practice. I think I write pretty well too, but I haven't been doing that much for a few years either.

where were you born? New Jersey. You wanna make something of it?

what are your hobbies? Reading, writing, miscellaneous art stuff (lately cross-stitch and paint-by-numbers projects). I keep a bunch of houseplants, and occasionally dabble in outdoor container gardening. Currently I'm into the NY Times crossword and their Spelling Bee game, as well as virtual mahjong solitaire, but which particular puzzles/games I am into varies with time.

do you have any pets? Tragically, no, but someday I will have a dog! ...Or perhaps a cat, if I can get some allergy shots and buy one from a less allergenic breed. Or maybe some fish, or a snake, or... look, I enjoy animals. I just don't currently have enough free time to adequately meet the physical and emotional needs of a dog, and other pets would require more prep work.

Houseplants require much less investment.

how tall are you? 5'3"

favourite subject in school? Y'know, I actually liked all of my classes? At least when the teachers weren't complete wastes of space, and even in those cases I generally still enjoyed the subject. I like learning things. The world is absolutely fascinating -- who doesn't want to know more about it?

I think if you'd asked me around age 16-22, I would have said chemistry, but it's harder to keep up with chemistry when you're not actively in the field so my most enduring interest is probably history. (If you'd asked me at age 6-15 I am pretty certain I would have said math. I still do love math, but again, harder to keep up with when you're not actively in the field.)

dream job? I'm pretty happy with my current job(s), but if they paid twice as much I sure wouldn't say no!

I tag: @wordsforrain, @longroadstonowhere, @ickaimp,@violsva, @asukaskerian, @curlicuecal, @branch-and-root, and anyone else who wants to participate. (*)This will be less confusing if you remember that Elizabeth is my middle name, not my legal first name.

[lacroixbabe]

Get to know me better tag game

Thanks for the tag @piratefalls!

Favorite color - Red!

Last song - To Good To Be True by Kacey Musgraves

Currently reading - The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green / Komarr by Lois McMaster Bujold

Currently watching - Grey's Anatomy / Masterchef / The Bear

Currently craving - A raspberry/basil yogurt pop! I ate the last one yesterday, so I need to make more.

Spicy/sweet/savoury - All of them!

Coffee or tea - Out of those two options, herbal tea, for sure. But my preferred warm drink is a scoop of white miso in hot water.

Hobby to try - I highly recommend spending some time working with goats! Definitely my favorite hobby I've tried out. In the future I'm hoping to learn how to do fancy book binding.

Current obsession - These videos of a Southern lady unpacking her groceries from Aldi and talking about each product.

Relationship status - Single, but swiping on Hinge. Mayyyyybe open to a whirlwind romance this fall?? Tagging: @wordsforrain @valleyradionerd

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#I don’t actually bc my parents say i gained and lost words regularly for a period of months before i started remembering them and using them #consistently. however my sister had a real first word and I sometimes think my parents just cared less by the time i came around and #didn’t pay as much attention ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (via @wordsforrain)

They were paying attention! You legit didn't have a proper "first word" -- your babbling kind of asymptotically approached English over several months and it really was impossible to say when you properly "had" a word.

I think you had the concept of SPEECH down more than the concept of WORDS, so there was like. A sort of grammar to the sounds you strung together? Which often got your general intent across? But when that shifted from gibberish with occasional probably-a-word sounds to mostly words with occasional gibberish? Heck if I know.

Source: me. I was your babble-to-English translator for a few months there.

Do you know what your first word was?

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@wordsforrain

Idk what to call this but ain’t it pretty?

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@wordsforrain

Found in the Internet Archive by AnitaNH

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@wordsforrain

i dropped by my favourite secondhand bookstore and found what is possibly the most incredible knitting book iver ever seen. that teaches you how to knit little gardens and sew them into a massive quilt 3d. the photos i took are atrocious and do NOT do this book justice

thats a PRIORY GARDEN WITH MONKS

IT EVEN TEACHES YOU HOW TO MAKE ALL THE TOOLS ABD BASKETS AND POTS AND PLANTS

LOOK AT THE SOME OF THE FOLIAGE

i have never been more upset to not have $30 ready to buy this. its incredible. i have to find it online somewhere. i knew the moment i saw this i had to share it with EVERYONE

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#i want these as my kitchen backsplash

(tags via @wordsforrain)

Katrin Moye

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@wordsforrain

shout out to green. somehow an underrated color despite being everywhere in nature. not enough real green appreciators out there. what can’t she do honestly. mint green sage green sea foam green forest green lime green!!! never have i ever met a green i did not like. true green enjoyers understand.

[lizziethereader]

I’ve heard of this one (and can’t believe  haven’t picked it up yet, considering how much I like trees...)

Weekly Bookish Question #318 ( January 1st - January 7th) 

typical first question of the year: What’s the first book you’re picking/have picked up in 2023? 

[elodieunderglass]

Hat tip @wordsforrain !

the most incredible creature

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@wordsforrain

trout sweater

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#for some reason my brain REALLY thinks publicly should be spelled publically and i will continue to make this error until the day i die (via @wordsforrain)

Oh god same. I misspell that word every bleeping time.

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#This would be a pretty cross stitch pattern (via @wordsforrain)

Resting by the Cabin Window (2021)

[tamiveldura]

@wordsforrain !!

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#i'm a unitarian and even i know this one (via @wordsforrain)

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