#hopefulthunderstorms

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Rule 1: Always post the rules. Rule 2: Answer the questions the person who tagged you asked and create 11 new ones. Rule 3: Tag 11 people and link them to the post. Rule 4: Actually tell them you tagged them.

1. What is your earliest memory?

I have an awful memory, but I do remember a time when I first moved to quakertown and I was in our pool with my uncle. I think I was 3 or 4 then. I don't remember much else though. Just bits and bobs.

2. First crush?

Again, a first requires good memory which I don't have. I don't remember being a very big romantic or whatever growing up though. My first kiss was with a girl in my neighborhood when I was in elementary school but I don't know if she was really a crush. Just a girl who I knew.

3. Favorite Olympic sport to watch?

I want to say curling ironically but come on... Anyway, are we talking winter or summer. Summer I'm going to have to say gymnastics cause I am absolutely amazed at what people can do with their body. Winter is probably hockey. Cause hockey is freaking amazing. Close behind is curling.

4. Visited any foreign countries? If not, where do you want to visit?

I've visited Scotland, England, and the Czech republic. I'll soon be visiting Turkey and Greece for sure, maybe croatia and Italy and some other baltic countries.

5. If you were trapped forever on a desert island and could bring 1 toiletry item, 1 random item, and 1 celebrity, what and whom would you bring?

Toiletry item: Probably wet wipes. Enjoy wiping while they last. Cause after that it'll be strictly leaves and that's no fun. 

Random item: A good multi tool, you know, the kind with a good knife and pliers and a nail file and the like. Might as well have something useful. 

Celebrity: I might have to go with Neal Patrick Harris. Apparently the dude is too chill to punk so having someone like that would be nice. Plus he's gay (though happily taken) but if we were alone that could turn out fortuitous. Him or Jennifer Lawrence because I'd be down with spending an eternity with her.

6. What song/artist do you listen to when you’re sad?

I'm not sad often really. I'd probably listen to some of the sadder songs by The Rocket Summer or some other punk band to increase my sadness while somehow justifying it. Or listen to the soundtrack from starbound which naturally calms me. 

7. If you were going into witness protection and had to pick a new name, a new look, and new occupation/hobby/personality traits, describe your new self (I know that’s not how it works, bear with me).

My name would be Roderick Percival Daughtridge. Same personality of course, cause I can't even pretend to be a different person. I'd make myself a bit more handsome, more chiseled jaw and a smaller nose, but otherwise I'm pretty dashing. More muscles, but I'd have to actually work out. And Occupation, I'd be a bartender. I'd work everynight at some happening club and get some patron drunk enough to take me home each night. Though that wouldn't be too hard cause I'd be a dashing man that everyone desire (sorry I was supposed to be someone different wasn't I?)

8. Is there a characteristic (physical or otherwise) that all your crushes thus far have shared?

Crushes or actual people I've dated? Cause other than Sam, the people I've dated have been a bit on the crazy side. My crushes on the other hand have either been tomboyish girls or very androgynous guys. I guess it's just my type. 

9. What show do you keep watching despite how annoyed or aggravated it makes you?

All the TV shows I watch I'm pretty happy with. The series' I watch on YouTube, however, are pretty much all in that category.

10. A genie appears and offers you half a wish. How do you respond?

"What is this!?! A wish for ants?!"

11. Favorite form of procrastination?

TUMBLR! Or youtube. Or both!

My questions:

1. What's your favorite drink?

2. If a genie gave you 3 wishes what would your first one be and why? (assuming no wishing for wishes)

3. What fictional character do you relate with the most?

4. If you have a sandwich with three slices of bread and two fillings is it a double decker or a triple decker?

5. Who is the most famous person you've ever met?

6. What celebrity would you want to have a romantic evening with?

7. What fictional character would you like to have a romantic evening with?

8. What historical figure would you like to have a romantic evening with (all of these romantic evening questions include "why")?

9. If you could take back one thing that you did or said in the past year what would it be?

10. If you could travel back to any time period when would you go?

11. What does the fox say?

These questions go out to Catholicamputee, Hopefulthunderstorms, and necromatador!

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Catholicamputee told me to do all the 3's like a week ago. But I was away from a computer so couldn't do it till now.

3. Do you prefer to be friends with girls or boys?

Well most of my friends are guys. But it's only cause there are more guys around me most of the time. As long as someone has the same interests as me I don't really care what gender they are.

13. Are you good at hiding your feelings?

Um... well I like to think I am because the majority of the time I try to remain emotionally detached from other people. But usually I fail miserably and people can read me like an open book. 

23. Are you nice to everyone?

Absolutely. It just feels wrong to not treat people the way I would want to be treated. And I would like to be treated nicely. In fact, I'm one of those people that even has trouble being mean to people over the internet. 

30. Does anyone hate you?

I don't believe so. Like I said, I'm nice to everyone so if someone hated me it would be for other reasons.

31. Do you have someone of the opposite sex you can tell everything to?

I pretty much tell hopefulthunderstorms everything. Well maybe not everything cause that would be a bit much, but I do tell her most things

32. Do you like watching scary movies?

Nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope. (I am very easily startled and do not like it)

33. Are you a jealous person?

A little bit yeah. I try not to be but if someone has something I don't or something I get a little jealous. Not too much of course.

34. If you had to delete one year of your life completely, which would it be?

I'm going to have to copy Catholicamputee's answer of "some year when I was really young and don't remember" because every other year would be a waste to delete.

35. Did you have a dream last night?

Yes I did. Oh shit... what happened? Damnit. 

36. Is there anyone you can tell EVERYTHING to?

Well hopefulthunderstorms... and maybe my best friend. 

37. Do you think you’ll be married in 5 years?

There is a distinct possibility. I'm not seeing anyone now, but who knows with how quickly things change. 

38. Do you think someone has feelings for you?

Like romantic ones? Maybe but if they do or did I missed out on the social ques. Fun fact, my mom has started playing the game of "oh look, there is another person that was looking at you like they were interested"

39. Do you think someone is thinking about you right now?

Doubt it. But I don't really know how other people spend there time.

43. If the person you wish to be with were with you, what would you be doing right now?

Ummm... I really don't know. What do people in relationships do with eachother?

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SOMEBODY asked me to respond with banana popsicle for hopefulthunderstorms as well

1 memory I have of you.

The first one I thought of was meeting you for the first time at your house. I remember trying SO hard to get your phone number in order to drive by and meet you in Qtown, so my parents went into a Target to find it in a phonebook, and your little brother answered, who I thought was your sister, and then your mother called me, saying her nickname and then ACTUALLY meeting you and being so relieved you were a short person like me, and how happy you were to see me as opposed to freaked out by the fact that while driving by we decided to call you up. Then seeing your house, your preparation to move out, freaking out that we had the same drawers, seeing your backyard, remembering your mom yelling at your little brothers for playing with an ENORMOUS stick, having your sister come up holding a chicken. Yeah. That was a fun memory. And a long one.

Besides that, there are obviously many, many more. 

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I've been tagged!

Tagged by catholicamputee

Rules:

1. Always post the rules.

2. Answer the questions of the person who tagged you and write 11 new ones.                                                                                                    

3. Tag eleven people and link them                                                      

4. Let them know you tagged them.

1. What’s the coolest/strangest (your choice) dream you’ve ever had? The strangest dream I've probably ever had was where a fictional character chased me up a tree as a tiger (I think I was as my OC at this point), in front of my little brother's house and his grandma was there, and people were chanting for my death, and we had to fight with swords, and went on a huge chase by a river, where an orca was swimming in it at some point, and at the end of it, somebody called that that was enough for the day, and I started balling and fell on my knees, terrified of dying the next day, and this character chasing me frowned, came up to me, hugged me, deeply saddened to see me so sad, and also apologized for the fact that this was happening. I can't remember if this was a dream of fictional characters, or actually me and someone I love dearly, who I can't even remember. It was odd.

2. What do you believe happens when you dies? Oh, this is tough... I believe in reincarnation. I think I still do, yeah... Cause some people have older souls than others, and it is visible on earth in how they behave. The young souls do stupid things, and the old souls have years of wisdom some people five times older than them might not have ever had cross their mind. I say it's tough, because the Judeo-Christian idea of meeting up in heaven and seeing everyone you love again is very comforting... It really is. The MOST important part of this, however, is that I believe that what YOU believe will happen to you. There are too many people who have such strong faith in their beliefs, and I can't imagine them being wrong. I can't. I mean, passionate, true faith. So what they believe happens, will happen. If that means our souls split to accommodate for it, so be it.  Now, the joking side of this: If the Christian idea of hell exists, then I'm going to go party it up with Gandhi, cause the likelihood of me going to hell from the Christian perspective is very high. 

3. What episode of your favorite show could you watch a million times? ... There are many episodes in Lost I could watch a million times. A lot of episodes from Season 3, probably. Probably where Charlie and Hurley hurtle down a hill in the old van to get it started. Everyone's so happy then. 

4. What did you ask for every year at Christmas (or other holiday) and never get? World peace. No, I shit you not, on my Christmas list for the last decade, I have put down happiness for the entire world. I WILL KEEP ASKING FOR IT DAMNIT.

5. What’s your catchphrase? (If other people tried to imitate you, how would they do it?) This depends on what time in life. I used to say "Right?" frequently when I was a teenager. Sam's brother pointed that out and would make fun of me for it. As for now, I dunno, really. I know I have a few. But I can't think of them. Help? Anyone? What catchphrase have I used frequently?

6. Do you ever go to class in your pajamas? Fuzzy? Footy? Details! Nope. I once tried to leave my house in pajamas, and my parents yelled at me, unless it was pajama day. They were fuzzy, really, but that's it. If anything, I go to the munchie in my pajamas. Plaid, usually.This usually involves throwing on a hoodie cause I don't wear a bra.

7. Pick 3 objects within your reach and describe why they’re important to you. Well then, the computer on which I am typing. It is my life. It has many of my stories, and all of my work on it, really, and I am a packrat. I like to see my old ideas and read old things, and see my old artwork. Plus, it is a great creative outlet. The second thing(s) are the necklaces I am wearing. One is from fifth grade, and it is rare when I take it off. Usually only for the sake of changing it out for a fancier necklace. It has a frog charm (my mom calls me "Żaba" in Polish, which is like our dear/deer, except frog is what that means), a dragon charm, which my aunt bought me in Gdynia the first time I was in Poland alone, and the Big Apple, which has the Empire State Building, the Statue of Liberty, and... The Twin Towers. I got it when I went to New York City for the first time. I HATE the city, but... The world changed in so many ways then, and it's a way to pay tribute to all the lives lost since because of that tragedy, as well as a tribute to my travels, and the fact that I was with my mom, who bought it for me as a memory of my first trip there. Plus my cousins live there, so yeah... The second necklace is half of a pokeball, the other half is held by Sam. Mine is currently broken, and I need to find a chain, but I put it on every day in honor of our friendship. Finally. The third object is... You see, I have my tablet, my phone, and my little hip bracelet as my next choice, but the hip bracelet is most important. I mean, I'd also have a panic attack if I lost either my phone or my tablet, but... the hip bracelet, as cheap as it is, is something that really represents me and something I want to bring awareness too. My hips have affected and altered my entire life, so... Yeah. The hip bracelet represents them.

8. What would be the theme song in a movie about your life? I honestly know. Something by Lifehouse, Vitamin C, or Coldplay, probably. Or the Fray. If you're up for it, look at their music. 

9. You just won the lottery. What’s the first thing you do? Pay off my parents' house, no question asked.

10. What’s your earliest memory? My first memory is scary, actually. I remember waking up, remembering nothing. I was in my room, and I woke up, panicked. I had NO idea where I was, I was confused why I was there, what day it was, what year, all of it. I remembered nothing. Really, amnesia, I guess. I just remembered my name and my birthday, and my parents, really, but besides that, I was confused. I ended up being fine, but it was a scary way to wake up. I think I was three or four. I know I had to go to pre-school that day.

11. If you could rename yourself, what name would you choose?

I wouldn't. I love my name. 

Shit. Now I gotta make questions. Well, here ya go:

Where is one place you could stay forever? 

What is your favorite memory?

What is your dream vacation? 

Who was your childhood idol? 

What is your favorite smell in the entire world, and what does it remind you of?

What do you want to be remembered for? 

If money and degrees (meaning, having to take certain courses you may dislike, i.e. chemistry) were absolutely of no concern, what would your dream career be? 

You get a chance to put one law into effect, no questions asked. What is it?

If you founded a scholarship fund, who or what would you name it after?

Aliens come to Earth and ask you to explain the weirdest thing about "human" (i.e. your) culture. What is it? 

And finally... what is your favorite dinosaur?

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Teaching my aunt and uncle that Mormons have not practiced polygamy for years, unless they are a part of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints, and that in fact, they are rather typical people for today's societal expectations, with a few exceptions. 

Yaaaay having a Mormon roomie and being a fangirl! 

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How is this woman psychic?

She always emails me on some pretty bad days. And it always makes me put a smile on my face, after its been wiped off by hopelessness and despair. 

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This country needs better education.

Desperately.

I want people to be able to analyze everything thoroughly. I want people to understand what words mean. I want people to understand how their words can be interpreted, and to actually mean what they say, instead of assuming you know what they mean to say.

Dear world. America needs some desperate help in the education department.

I mean.

Really badly.

Help. 

Help help help.

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