Rambling

[castalie]

I love it when fandom shows me that it's worth so much more than petty wanks and stupid flamewars - I'm referring to fandom_charity here. Not that I think people need any kind of incentive to donate money, in particular when tragedy strikes at such a scale like we saw this past week, but it's a positive side of fandom that really pleases me anyway. It also gives people who really can't give money a way to join in the effort - one will give time to write something and a recipient will give money in return to an organisation - nice joined effort, here, and it works, too *g*

On a different note now, can you imagine that tomorrow is New Year's Eve? Well, I can since some of the preparations started today already. We'll have the Clan coming over so we'll be thirty-ish. I know we'll spend a great and funny NY's Eve, but I'll be honest and say that I wish we just had a quiet night. I'm not used to 'big' celebrations for those festivities. When I was a kid, my dad would always work that night, so it would be just my mom, my sister and I. We did have a special night though, just nothing big: mom would prepare a yummy meal, she would ask us both what dessert we wanted and we would bake our respective favourite dessert together, then we would dress a beautiful table and have our dinner in our little company of three... finally we would watch those cheesy movies they always air at the time. When midnight came we'd watch the fireworks and watch some more movies and that was it. Nothing fancy but I loved it anyway. Another New Year I positively adored is the one I had with babycakesin last year, between just the two of us *g*

Yeah, anyway *g*

I was downloading some scanlations and listening to BBC radio on-line tonight [Murder on the Orient Express --how I love that story-- and The Archers, which I always enjoy no matter how lame I sound btw. And how cute is that that after staying away from The Archers for ages the first episode I listened to tonight had some sweet Ian/Adam moments?] and since I wasn't exactly doing anything at the time, I decided to do the Survey I saw popping up in my flist here and there.

First Memory	Me wearing pink sweats with a little inuit standing next to an igloo on the front, and leaving the hospital - I was 2 years old.
First Aspiration	Going to school with the big kids and learning to read. To be honest, I don't really remember that kind of motivation of mine, but my mom and assorted uncles and aunts like to tell me the tale, so, you know... *g*
First Disillusionment	When I realised my parents could die too, because they were, you know, *people* and not Godlike Daddy and Mommy, and people die.
First Trip	Cassino, Italy. My first introduction to the Italian side of my family - I was three months old. No need to say I have no souvenir of that one lol
First Alcoholic Drink	I'm French so I can safely say it was wine... though it might have been champagne, like a drop on the tongue. Parents usually like to see the grimaces we can come up with as babies. They're evil that way lol
First Love	Ludovic - yes, a boy. We were five. Oh you wanted a serious and deep answer? This is LJ and not RL, guys, you won't get one, sorry lol
First Vehicle	A red and shiny tricyle, of course *g*
First Thing I'd Save from a Fire	My comp? Though I don't see how I could achieve that since it's not a laptop, but whatever, that's the answer we're supposed to answer here, I think lol
First Impression I Give	Serious and distant.
First Thing I do with Time Off	Surf the net.
First Swear Word	Merde, I suppose.
First Time You Had Sex	Never.
First Words Out Of Your Mother In The Morning	Bonjour, ma chérie.
First Celebrity You Met	Met? As in what? Saw? Talked to?
First Thing You Do When You Get Home	Change to my House Uniform, ie comfy clothes.
Favourite TV Show (Present)	Lost - I'm saying Lost to change for once... else I'd say SG.
Favourite Film	Fried Green Tomatoes
Favourite Musical (Stage or Screen)	Don't have one
Favourite Colour	Blue - or silver for jewelry
Favourite Musical Artist	Dunno...I have some artists I like but I don't have favourites per se.
Favourite Musical Act (Bands, etc.)	Let's say the Corrs - I have two CDs of them, which is a LOT in my world because I usually don't have more than one CD of a same artist/band.
Favourite TV Show (Past)	Past? How that? That I watched when I was a kid? That has gone off the air? Cause I could go with Quantum Leap in that case.
Favourite Ice Cream Flavour	Vanilla. Yeah, I love vanilla - laugh, guys, laugh.
Favourite Superhero	Hmm okay so I'll go with Batman. I mean, having superpowers is nice and dandy but saving and protecting people when you *don't* have any kind of superpower is definitely much more difficult, so there. Plus, I love the tortured kind.
Favourite Piece Of Clothing You Own	A pair of worn-out black jeans I bought at the market.
Favourite Song (At The Moment)	Everything by Lifehouse
Favourite Weapon	Silence. Drives people crazy without me breaking a sweat.
Favourite Swear Word	Putain! Which would be Fuck! for you.
Favourite Alcoholic Drink	Don't drink alcoholic drink. Cider is the only pseudo-alcoholic drink I like.
Favourite Time of Day	Night.
CREATE YOUR OWN! - or - GET PAID TO TAKE SURVEYS!

Oh, I went out with Sandra today and she gave me my pressies - yay, Christmas isn't over!

Comments

[babycakesin.livejournal.com]

I had a great time at Christmas last year as well - man you were right, this white on white is nasty! Anyway: I picked batman too! woohoo! *g*

So you like the night better, huh? Shocking! *giggles*

Dude - is there any way to change that nasty white on white thingy? *winces*

[castalie.livejournal.com]

It was great - oh yeah.

Dude, if I had any idea as to WHAT happened and WHY it happened and suddenly turned to white on white, I would have changed it right away, believe me! As it is, I have no idea why it did. It picked my default colour, ie the one I'm using for my entries and I can't change that one, because otherwise, the entries would suck, I think...

[babycakesin.livejournal.com]

*thoughtful* Maybe if you changed the font color of your whole LJ to orange...

*ducks to avoid Quid*

[castalie.livejournal.com]

*throws whole collection of quid*

[babycakesin.livejournal.com]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!! *runs away screaming, moving arms very randomly*

[babycakesin.livejournal.com]

huh, yeah, it's ugly in grey (and hard to read) and it doesn't change anything... stupid LJ... I find myself amazing for managing to type in white on white ùgiggles* anything makes me giggle, you should know that by now

[castalie.livejournal.com]

I didn't even touch that colour - I just went to the customisation page to see what had been changed over there and didn't touch anything. Only when I checked, the colour had been turned into to the colour of the links. It has to be a glitch. Glitches are hellish creatures, as everyone knows *sigh*

It's the only time when I really appreciate the preview thingie - it's still black on white over there.

[babycakesin.livejournal.com]

oh yeah, I hadn't thought about that! I'm typing blind - no common sense, that would be me *giggles*

[rhiannon-jehane.livejournal.com]

Vanilla. Yeah, I love vanilla - laugh, guys, laugh.

I've been snickering since I read this. Because really. Vanilla? You?

*giggles*

[castalie.livejournal.com]

I knew I should have lied! I could almost hear the mocking laughters from here lol

[turps33.livejournal.com]

ROTFLMAO

Vanilla!

I'm also strangely amused at your shiny red tricycle and I really don't know why *g*

[castalie.livejournal.com]

The vanilla thing is a riot, I'll admit lol

Hey, sometimes we're amused by the strangest things, right? *g*

[audrarose.livejournal.com]

vanilla made me laught, too.... but what surprised me was "serious and distant", unless you weren't serious... okay, now I don't even know what I've written because of the w/w thing...

[castalie.livejournal.com]

I know, this white on white thing is really annoying. Has to be a glitch, but I'll try to see why it suddenly changed my colour, promise. In the meantime, use the preview thingie, it's normal over there *g*

And no, I wasn't kidding - that's how I come off in RL at first sight *g*

[audrarose.livejournal.com]

use the preview thingie, it's normal over there *g*

oh. didn't think of that. *g*

I got your card! So cool! I'm going to thank you on my lj but I'm trying to maintain radio silence until I finish this story that's due Monday. Obviously I'm failing miserably.

our new shipment of software came in, so G. brought one home for me for you *bg*. I'm going to sent it Monday. (late Christmas prezzie, or early Valentine, you choose :)

Okay, I'm really going away now. Have a wonderful New Year!

[castalie.livejournal.com]

You're welcome *g* I'm always paranoid when I send mail oversea, dunno why lol

A new prezzie, yay!! Thank you so much, Audra - and thank G. too *g*

Have a great New Year yourself *hugs*