5 questions meme

[laurajv]

cereta asked me 5 questions! If you want me to ask you 5 questions, let me know in comments.


1. Toddlers: threat or menace? Alternately, how do you get your kid to go the fuck to sleep?

I obviously have some kind of problem where I think toddlers are basically small bouncy balls of fun. If I had to choose, I would say "menace"!

I'm lucky enough to have a kid who mostly sleeps, and can put himself to sleep pretty readily. I am not stupid enough to ascribe this to fantastic parenting on my part. I do think that "The No Cry Sleep Solution" helped us a LOT.

2. What is your #1 name choice for a girl?

I cannot answer this one, for my husband and I have an agreement not to discuss name selections outside the marriage when there is an active pregnancy. Ask me again after this kid is born: if she's a she, she'll be wearing the name; if he's a he, I'll cough up what he would've been if he were a she.

3. Why should I consider belly dancing?

Core strength and a generally body-positive environment. Also, it's fun, and helps develop a sense of rhythm if you don't have one (yes, that's a learnable skill).

4. What story of your own do you most often re-read?

I'm not really sure. Over the past decade, probably either Metempsychosis (Highlander) or Inclination (Sentinel x Star Trek). Recently, The House That Was (Sherlock).

5. What kid's book does the small one make you read over and over and over?

I am a defective reader, according to him. I am not NEARLY up to Dad's standards, and sometimes when Dad is on a business trip, he will go without a story rather than put up with my reading. His most common requests, therefore, are books with minimal actual reading: Jez Alborough's "HUG", or books with pictures of different animals/trucks/kinds of trains etc.

He makes his father re-read books like "Oh, The Places You'll Go" and "Earth to Clunk" endlessly, though. He loves long stories...just not when I'm reading them.

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[laurajv]

5 questions for you (sorry this took so long):

1. What, for you, is/was the most rewarding thing about the Stuffy Guard? (Is it still active? The website looks outdated and I don't remember you talking about it recently.)

2. I know you like quotes & you're a very spiritual person. What is your favorite (or most true-feeling, or most bedrock, or whatever definition of "favorite" you want to use) quote about spirituality or religion?

3. What's your favorite piece of your own fanfic, and why?

4. When you are reading fanfic, what elements are most likely to land a story on your favorites list?

5. Design your perfect side table. What is it like?

[ariestess]

FINALLY answered these over here...