If you die, will I get word that you're gone?

[lizblackdog]

I keep thinking I should post to let everyone know I didn't die.

Winter Thing was good; low-key for once, since the addition of Small Child to the family means my sister has less to spend all round, and everyone was so busy spending money on small child presents that the adult present budget went right down. This suits me fine; my poor relation status may be self-inflicted but that doesn't make it any more comfortable. But I felt it less keenly this year than I have in a very long time.

As for New Year, I'll quote danasaur: Goodbye, 2007, you were nothing but a number, and I'll bet tomorrow will feel no different from today. Iranian New Year is in March, but I always think New Year should be in autumn; that's always when I feel that sense of renewal and awakening and the urge to turn over new leaves. That said, may you all have an immeasurably better year than your last one.

There's a fierce, cold wind blowing outside, and the crows and gulls are playing in it; flinging themselves upwards like fancy shuffled cards, zipping and twirling in a three-dimensional free-form line dance of pure joy in flight. I watched them till my eyes burned from staring into the sky.

I am in love with a song and cannot stop playing it. I cannot remember where I got it; it might have been montymark or it might have been anyone - anyway, here it is:

Dispatch - Elias. Listen Download

I think I'd better make a doctor's appointment. Once a month is annoying enough; once a week is beyond a joke. Grrr.


huntingdon memed me, and now I am obliged to meme everyone back. So I shall need some volunteers from the audience. Ask me, and I shall:
1. Tell you why I friended you.
2. Associate you with something - fandom, a song, a color, a photo, a word etc.
3. Tell you something I like about you.
4. Tell you a memory I have of you.
5. Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.
6. Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.
7. In return, you must post this in your LJ.

Since I have caught the gulls' windswept playfulness, I will add that if I can't immediately come up with the perfect question, memory or association I will invent one. Take me with a pinch of salt, as always. I love you.

Comments

[toft-froggy.livejournal.com]

Thankyou for the music!

[montymark.livejournal.com]

Well, you didn't get it from me, but it is nice, and I'll download it.

[silverblaidd.livejournal.com]

Wow. I think I really like that song. I say I think because I'm still sort of mulling it over as I replay it. Again. Somemore.

I'd suck at this meme, because my answers would probably be boring. D:

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

It has a way of creeping up on you. I've had it on my playlist for months and months, under the radar - then I started to wake up singing it, and now I've been playing it on repeat half the day.

I shall meme you anyway. If the answers are boring, make them up XD

[mcsassypants.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking about you lately and wondering where you had gone!

[kyra-neko-rei.livejournal.com]

Yeah, us knowing you're still alive is a good thing.

[ghost07.livejournal.com]

There's a fierce, cold wind blowing outside, and the crows and gulls are playing in it; flinging themselves upwards like fancy shuffled cards, zipping and twirling in a three-dimensional free-form line dance of pure joy in flight. I watched them till my eyes burned from staring into the sky.

I'm glad you're alive...this passage is so poetic...I love it...didn't hear the music, it won't play for me...which only says I've done SOMEthing wrong...*shrugs*...doesn't really matter.

I baked chocolate chip cookies...want some?

[slave2tehtink.livejournal.com]

OO pick me for the meme, pick me!

And then win the lottery
And then come buy the house across teh street from me.

OMG LIZZUMS I CLOSE IN 2 HOURS OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

1. Why I friended you.
Well, I could just say I saw you around the dog communities and thought you sounded cool and intelligent and had pretty dogs, but that would be dull. The truth is that I added you because a phantom graffiti artist left messages from here to Borneo that you'd posted the secret recipe for KFC in a friendslocked entry. So I added you because of the eleven herbs and spices; only you must have deleted the entry by the time I met you. But hey, you taste better than chicken so I kept you.

2. Associate you with something - fandom, a song, a color, a photo, a word etc. Firefly, Discworld, yarn and that Lily Allen song you sent me. It's still on my playlist, I still laugh and remember you every time I hear it.

3. Tell you something I like about you. Your particular brand of hardass softness, and your accent.

4. Tell you a memory I have of you. I'll give you a true one: you called me on the phone and although I recall almost nothing of what we actually talked about, it's a lovely warm memory of lying on the couch, lapped in dogs and giggling with a friend. I don't experience that nearly often enough.

5. Ask something I've always wanted to know about you. I hate this one. I want to find out everything about people I care about, but I never like asking them. I enjoy finding out in the normal course of interacting with them. So I pull something random out of my arse instead: Do you have a totem animal, and if so, what is it?

6. Tell you my favorite user pic of yours. "You don't fix faith, faith fixes you"

[slave2tehtink.livejournal.com]

I think Tink is my totem animal...can I do that? I mean, I know usually totem animals are majestic nifty spirit creatures and all, but I'm pretty sure Tink is mine. If it's not Tink, then I have NO CLUE.

Also, I had to take down the 11 herbs and spices. I was getting death threats.

[yesididit.livejournal.com]

i always thought new years should be in spring, winter feels so dead to me, and things finally start coming alive again in spring. i do love all the colors of autumn tho.

[mwenyekischaa.livejournal.com]

I was getting a bit worried, so I'm glad you posted. I realized last night I hadn't read anything from you in a while. (g) Yay!

[danasaur.livejournal.com]

Hey, I got quoted :O

I'd do the meme thing if I thought the people I wouldn't want to fill that out for on my friends list wouldn't respond. I don't think I'll be all too interesting in the answering, either.

[james-the-evil1.livejournal.com]

Happy holidays
good to know you live :)

[santaman.livejournal.com]

Happy new year Liz. :)

And yeah very glad to know that you're still alive. :) *hugs*