My headcanons for you: for some reason I think you live somewhere in the northeast (is that right?). So in winter months, you stay inside and watch TV while knitting or quilting. I imagine you're one of those peoples who has a million mugs but always buys more. And you seem like a candle person. You also seem like someone who plays an instrument? Like maybe piano and something else. And when the weather's nice, you take long walks and contemplate nature. And you're the mom of your friend group!
Oh man, this is such a lovely set of things to think about me! I am in California, actually -- not the sunny-year-’round southern part, but Northern California, about an hour and a half out from San Francisco. So our winters are wet and cold (though @theladyragnell, who does live in the northeast, is inclined to laugh at me when I call our temperatures cold) (that’s okay, because I giggle at her right back when she complains about melting in her 80-degree summers while I sit in the middle of a 115-degree heatwave) but pretty mild compared to most!
I definitely do a lot of knitting in front of the TV! In all sorts of weather, though not lately, on account of my shoulders. I haven’t yet figured out how to quilt and watch TV at the same time, which is unfortunate. I am falling behind on all my TV shows!
I am absolutely that sort of a mug person. Mugs are awesome. You can never have too many mugs! I am particular about mine, though. Too many awesome mugs out there run at about a 12 oz capacity, and I really like 16 ounces or better. I already go through a 16-20oz mug of tea too quick as it is. Any smaller and it just makes me intensely frustrated because I spend more time waiting for tea to brew than actually drinking it.
I played clarinet in elementary school, actually! Then abandoned it when I went to middle school because the middle school music teacher was an asshole. (And then two years later when I was moving to another school I had to get a friend to play lookout while I went on a Stealth Mission into the music room to retrieve said clarinet from where I had left it when I quit the class, it was all very exciting.) I played it a little in 8th grade at my new school, but not a lot, and never really ended up getting back to it after that. I never learned piano, though I would very much like to! There are just not enough hours in the day to do all the hobbies and study all the things I would like...
Most of my friend group is online, so the dynamics don’t really lend themselves to mom-ing the same way, but I’d say that I do have that tendency IRL.
Thank you so much for doing this, it was so much fun, and definitely helped distract me from my rotten morning! <3
