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hellison ([personal profile] hellison) wrote2006-05-03 02:48 pm
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letter meme thingy redux

I got tagged again! By the lovely [livejournal.com profile] layonee, and who could say no to her? M this time…



Mud - discworld mud which I should have mentioned under D, but forgot! A place that’s not really just a fun game based on the DW books, it’s a community, and one where I met many many great people and have made some very good friends. In fact the reason I’m on LJ at all was to keep up with people from there, most of my FL are (or in some cases were :/) mudders still.

Meetings - I hate ‘em. So dull. So very, very dull. I have terrible trouble paying attention and my mind wanders off in all sorts of directions. I used to write code or ideas for stuff to look busy, now I either doodle or write haikus. Thanks to [livejournal.com profile] thesme_01 and [livejournal.com profile] _unhurt_ tho, I am almost afraid of what I might come up with next time *shuffles away from Uhura*

Mother – an amazing woman, even if she does drive me up the walls at times. We’re very different people in most ways, but in others too alike -mostly in a pronounced degree of stubbornness. She copes with everything life throws at her and just keeps going. And manages to look all sensible and Nice while actually being quietly very insane and strange. In a good way ;)

Meat – a thing I don’t eat, and haven’t since I was about 3 (according to family report). Not so much for massively ethical/moral reasons, mostly because I just don’t like it – and its been so long not eating it now, it would just make me ill if I tried. And raw meat does make me a bit squeamish.

Men – I was once told, at the tender age of 18, by a male friend that the only thing I needed to know about men is that “All men are bastards, especially them men.”. However, after some years of research, I don’t agree with this at all. I LIKE men. Why, some of my best friends are men! And I don’t like stereotypes :p Besides, some of them are hot…

Mail – I love getting letters. And writing letters! The Letter Writing Project from new year did grind to a bit of a halt there with the postal strike and stuff, but I think I’ve got it going again, and can look forward to the postman’s visit once more!
*pokes various people who OWE ME LETTERS*. Also [livejournal.com profile] malvino, post that dvd!

Movies - I have very simple taste in movies. Things Should Blow Up. I don’t really need much more to make me happy. None of this Gritty Real Life Drama or Philosophical Musings or Exploring Important Social Issues of Our Times. Blow more things up! BOOM!

Money - I have a very easy come/easy go attitude to money, and am generally very lax about how much I have or don’t have. Well until I have Nearly None, then I can manage to budget, but otherwise I like spending. Having a disposable income to spend happily is great – but it’s not everything, it’s just stuff really (except books).

memes yes, I am running out of ‘m’s now thanks. And yes [livejournal.com profile] glassstrider they’re not really memes. But they do help pass the time and they can be fun and/or interesting. Or just annoying sometimes ;p

[livejournal.com profile] mivvvv who has, for many years now, helped keep me (relatively) sane by driving me insane on a daily basis, distracting me from various WOES and going YAY with the JOYES and doing things with photoshop[1] that probably should never be allowed, but are GRATE.
How I will cope when he runs off to run a pub I have no idea. I LOVE YOU MIV
(there, see? NICE! Nice is bloody hard.)

[1] I swear i wrote this part BEFORE I saw his latest masterwork on [livejournal.com profile] _unhurt_'s journal. It's just taken me this long to stop laughing and regain enough control to post.



I am NOT doing another one of these ;p They take too much brane.

[identity profile] mivvvv.livejournal.com 2006-05-03 06:56 am (UTC)(link)
I am all tearful now. I think I shall have to get wireless in the pub just so I can sit downstairs and keep up to date with all of you kids and your wacky internet adventures
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[identity profile] hellison.livejournal.com 2006-05-03 07:12 am (UTC)(link)
ooh do you still log on then? You should give me a poke when you do, mostly I am ambling about KLK (beacuse its the only place i can find my way around these days) ;p

[identity profile] thesme-01.livejournal.com 2006-05-03 07:16 am (UTC)(link)
*stares*
GET OVER AND START WRITING.
*waves*

[identity profile] being-here.livejournal.com 2006-05-03 07:20 am (UTC)(link)
I'll get that letter to you - I promise!

I might wait until I get back from hols though. :)

[identity profile] thesme-01.livejournal.com 2006-05-03 07:21 am (UTC)(link)
OY you - am waiting for your literaray effort as well.

PS when are you offski? Will you have intarweb access in Wales?

[identity profile] being-here.livejournal.com 2006-05-03 07:36 am (UTC)(link)
So's my boss, though that's a slightly different piece of writing he's waiting for. Sorry. Am being crap I know.

No we shan't (I don't think!). I shall have lots to catch up with on the 15th, but am off all day on that MOnday so will remesh with you'se all then.

[identity profile] being-here.livejournal.com 2006-05-03 07:46 am (UTC)(link)
Tomorrow after work. If I can't think of an excuse.

I'm really quite scared about this

[identity profile] thesme-01.livejournal.com 2006-05-03 07:50 am (UTC)(link)
Hm. Is it the retreat or the travelling that's worse?

[identity profile] being-here.livejournal.com 2006-05-03 07:57 am (UTC)(link)
Travelling, but I'm scared because it's so far from a hospital and if anything goes wrong I might die :(

[identity profile] thesme-01.livejournal.com 2006-05-03 08:10 am (UTC)(link)
Why might you die? You will be fine. The coastguards will come and rescue and so will mivv's dog soaky. She's great. She rescues Mivv from fields at night on a regular basis.

The travelling - will you be in a nice car or is it pubic transport?

[identity profile] being-here.livejournal.com 2006-05-03 08:12 am (UTC)(link)
My panic attacks are always about health... I might have a stroke or a heart attack, and it's miles from the coast so no coastguards.

I'll be in the car with my lovely davey

[identity profile] thesme-01.livejournal.com 2006-05-03 08:22 am (UTC)(link)
Car=good. Bring many treats in the car. slash for example. that will be nice and distracting.

Panic attacks are often about health. They (according to the fella) are all about the amygdala man, this part of the brain deals with some of our most deep-roote and preconscious emotions to do with survival - fear and anger mainly. AppArently what happens is unprocessed emotions get 'stuck' there. Working through the 'shtuff' can relocate the memories and emotions in the cerebrum where one's higher cortical functions can deal with them. Eye-movement desensitisation and reprocessing or Thought-field therapy works on these principles. But I have never been to either of them so I haven't a cloo how they work. Em. Sorry.

http://www.emdr.com/briefdes.htm
yeah. totally useless info for you.

[identity profile] being-here.livejournal.com 2006-05-03 08:25 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks.

I have a TFT session booked for tonight. At this point I'm not even panicing. I'm just worried I'm going to panic, so I'm bringing this on myself, and I'm trying to reframe my thoughts so they're more positive.

[identity profile] thesme-01.livejournal.com 2006-05-03 08:42 am (UTC)(link)
ooh TFT ooh cool! em. Tap?
It will be great. It will be welsh. There will be Welsh badgers and ducks. Take photos and show us all. And have a FAB time. Hugs from me. Pure hugs of course. Not corrupt ones.

[identity profile] being-here.livejournal.com 2006-05-03 08:56 am (UTC)(link)
Yep. I shall be tap tap tapping. I'll take lots of photos, especially if I see mivv frolicking with Yaks

[identity profile] thesme-01.livejournal.com 2006-05-03 09:01 am (UTC)(link)
OH YES PLS. in the meantime we shall have a completed Star Trek adventure for you to come back to :)

[identity profile] being-here.livejournal.com 2006-05-03 09:07 am (UTC)(link)
That's cool. There's a danger I will become pure and clean living because of this retreat you know ;-)

Nah. I don't think I'm in much danger of that

[identity profile] thesme-01.livejournal.com 2006-05-03 09:08 am (UTC)(link)
*quiver*
please, no!

Anyway we'll soon have ya back to perversion upon your return.

[identity profile] being-here.livejournal.com 2006-05-03 09:12 am (UTC)(link)
Mwahaha. I can't imagine being pure to be honest, and tantric Buddhism isn't going to help me at all really if I did fancy purity

[identity profile] thesme-01.livejournal.com 2006-05-03 09:15 am (UTC)(link)
phoarr tantric phoarr hmmm *inspiration for next instalment of Star Trek, I wonder?*

[identity profile] being-here.livejournal.com 2006-05-03 09:16 am (UTC)(link)
Like youse need inspiration! You're a font of creativity all by yourself.

[identity profile] thesme-01.livejournal.com 2006-05-03 09:20 am (UTC)(link)
aw thank you *shy*

[identity profile] being-here.livejournal.com 2006-05-03 09:17 am (UTC)(link)
Also: not tantric like that. Which is a shame

[identity profile] thesme-01.livejournal.com 2006-05-03 09:20 am (UTC)(link)
Bum.

Will there be tantric wine, at all?

[identity profile] being-here.livejournal.com 2006-05-03 09:29 am (UTC)(link)
Yes. So that should be good.

[identity profile] mivvvv.livejournal.com 2006-05-03 01:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Once! ONCE she rescued me from a field. Once.

[identity profile] thesme-01.livejournal.com 2006-05-04 01:36 am (UTC)(link)
And the other times you lost her so she couldn't find you to rescue you nyer

[identity profile] mivvvv.livejournal.com 2006-05-03 07:57 am (UTC)(link)
If it all goes wrong I will mount a rescue mission. I fancy battling yaks.

[identity profile] being-here.livejournal.com 2006-05-03 08:10 am (UTC)(link)
I can just picture that somehow!

[identity profile] hellison.livejournal.com 2006-05-03 08:29 am (UTC)(link)
Me too! And it's a very scary picture ;p

hmm AAAAART PAAAAAD

[identity profile] being-here.livejournal.com 2006-05-03 08:41 am (UTC)(link)
Such a shame artpad is deaded

[identity profile] hellison.livejournal.com 2006-05-03 08:43 am (UTC)(link)
Hmm. If i get a chance at home later, perhaps Paint might do? I will try, then you could take it with you to ward off any thoughts of panic with the notion that if you DO panic, you'll get miv. And yaks!

[identity profile] being-here.livejournal.com 2006-05-03 08:55 am (UTC)(link)
But that might be fun!

[identity profile] thesme-01.livejournal.com 2006-05-03 09:03 am (UTC)(link)
Mivv recommended a new drawing programme on my LJ a few days back. Will get linkie hold on