Holiday Pats on Holiday Backs

[rinue]

I've been heavy on the memes lately, and it's getting out of hand. Nevertheless, via Smeg:

Comment to this post, and I will:

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, I would like it if you would post this in your LJ.

Comments

[rinue.livejournal.com]

1. Tell you why I friended you.

XX all the way. So credit goes to Dee, who brought me in to that.

2. Associate you with something - fandom, a song, a color, a photo, a word etc.

Twincest, obviously. But also air matresses, light purply-blue-gray, and long blond braids (even though you haven't had one in ages).

3. Tell you something I like about you.

You're forthright. You hold your ground without being confrontational. It's impressive. You figure out what you think, and then you do what you want until you're tired of it, and then you do something else. And you have a bunch of chickens. I liked you before the chickens, of course, but now I like you AND YOU HAVE CHICKENS.

4. Tell you a memory I have of you.

Sleeping, mainly. And claiming that we were very old, without bothering to mention the ages of maturity for elves.

5. Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.

I have no idea how you met Ari, or how that relationship came to be.

6. Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.

Sleepy. You look so happy. But all your pics are confident and enthusiastic.

[ksmeg.livejournal.com]

1. Mmmm, XX. To this day when I play Harry he's influenced as much by yours as by JKRs.

2. You're probably one of the only people on-line that knew me in the braid days. I also tend to picture you at the botanical gardens, that day I got kinda sick.

3. Chickens! Just wait till I get my llama!

4. Sleep is a good thing.

5. Ahaha funny story.

Really, it's all Khirsah's fault. She started this HP game and, although I hadn't RPed in years, she managed to get me into it, how I don't quite remember. I was to play Fred (big surprise there), although a very different Fred than I'd played before, he lost George in a rather horrific incident (long story short, he forced to torture and kill him).

Ari came in playing Cedric. (Was a game set in the future, but dead people kept coming back to life). This was right around the time that GoF came out in theaters. Khir made a comment in her journal about how if you watched the twins during the funeral, it was unusual because they had two different reactions, one crying, the other stoic and comforting. She postulated that this was because one of the twins was dating Cedric. And thus a beautiful RP relationship was born.

So that is how we met. Much time passes, and Ari was showing a quilt at a quilt show in Chicago. As I was still doing my Cart Tart job at the time, so I said I'd hop a plane and and we'd make a weekend off it. We connected at an amazing level and I moved out a few months later. Even to this day we're still finding just random ways we match up well. That was an amazing trying period, when I was still working in Atlanta but essentially living in Spokane for the rest of the month.

A year later we are happily planning for a baby (TTC right now), a marriage (as soon as the laws allow), and a farm/B&B (as soon as finances allow, somewhere in the 1-2 year range). I just wish I had known during that stressful time that life would be so good so soon.

6. You know... I am not sure where I got that pic, only that it was on my computer when I first made my LJ six odd years ago. Oh, wait! I do know. It was from my trip after HS graduation to the mountains with my friends. Good times. :)