Really enjoyed doing this Sunday Stealing. Hope you enjoy reading it.
Your favorite songs
Well, it’s always changing, but right now I’m partial to
these:
From Alison Krauss and Union Station’s album Live: Choctaw Hayride
From Mandolin Orange’s album Blindfaller: Wildfire
From the Lumineer’s album Cleopatra: Ophelia (love the piano riff in this so much)
From The Dave Mathew Band’s album Crash (two step)
Jubal’s Kin eponymous album: Cuckoo Bird
Your favorite
bands
Again, always changing.
Always at the top of the list:
Santana, Dave Matthews Band, U2, Stevie Ray Vaughn. However, for some time I’ve been partial to Bluegrass
and traditional Appalachian music. I’m
listening to Mandolin Orange, Alison Krauss and Union Station, Ola Belle Reed,
Roscoe Holcomb, and Jubal’s Kin among others.
I’m listening to a lot of Smithsonian Folkways recordings (you really
have to check them out, the range of amazing music is extensive). This is my favorite Folkways recording right
now--it will give you chills.....the style is called lined-out hymnody--here's a great article about this style of singing--these hymns are considered the oldest English-language religious music passed down orally in America.
Your favorite actors or actresses
Cate Blanchett in anything.
Tilda Swinton as the angel Gabriel in Constantine. Keanu Reeves in the John Wick movies. Maggie Smith in anything. Brendan Coyle in Downton Abbey. Kenneth Branagh in Much Ado About Nothing and
Henry V.
Your favorite
books
Frank Herbert’s Dune, most of Guy Gavriel Kay’s books, especially
Tigana; Scott Sigler’s GFL series, especially The Rookie. The Expanse series by James S. A. Corey,
especially Leviathan Wakes. Green
Darkness by Anya Seton. The Constant
Princess by Philippa Gregory. The
Historian by Elizabeth Kostova and so very many more.
Your favorite movies
John Wick 1 and 2, The Matrix, The Fifth Element, Dirty
Rotten Scoundrels, Constantine, Black Panther, Thor: Ragnarok, Guardians of the
Galaxy, Pretty Woman, The Martian, The Devil Wears Prada, Much Ado About
Nothing, Hellboy (the Ron Perlman version).
The first three Harry Potter movies.
The Oceans movies (Ocean’s Eight was fabulous).
Your favorite TV
shows
We are in the golden age of television in my opinion. So much good TV out there over the last
several years. Favorites include Mad
Men, Downton Abbey, Victoria, The Expanse, Star Trek: Discovery, The Magicians,
The Umbrella Academy, The Tudors, Person of Interest, Dr. Who, Law and Order and
Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Orphan Black.
Your favorite
foods/drinks
Drinks—good coffee, iced tea, a fountain Coke from McDonalds
for a treat (I don’t know what they do, but they have the BEST fountain Cokes,
hands down)
Foods—green chile stew, carne adovada, a great cheeseburger,
chips and salsa, honeycrisp apples, my hub’s spaghetti and meatballs, salads of
all kinds, seafood gumbo, Lexington style pork BBQ, subs from Jersey Mikes.
Your favorite
animal
Dogs. Our sweet girl
Maddie is amazing.
Our cats can be…challenging. We never set out to have FOUR. It just sort of happened. This is why I could never foster animals…I’d want to keep every one of them. Anyhoo, my favorite of our kitties is Ellie. We call her sleepy-time snuggle bunny. She just curls up next to you and purrs all night. She’s the most “cat-like” of our cat family.
Our cats can be…challenging. We never set out to have FOUR. It just sort of happened. This is why I could never foster animals…I’d want to keep every one of them. Anyhoo, my favorite of our kitties is Ellie. We call her sleepy-time snuggle bunny. She just curls up next to you and purrs all night. She’s the most “cat-like” of our cat family.
Your favorite
scents
Gardenias. We had a
gardenia bush under my window in the house we lived in when we first moved to
Mississippi in 1969. I was 7. When I smell gardenias, it’s like an instant memory
train to that house, that time, and my childhood. Love the smell of rain (water is a blessing
here in the high desert). Our cat
Randall’s fur…he smells like snow. Sandalwood. The smell of the ocean. Bacon cooking.
Your hobbies/ things you do in your free time
Your hobbies/ things you do in your free time
Read. Watch movies. I’m
an indoor girl.
Your pet peeves
- The asshole (and his friends) running the country right now.
- My office (a tiny room I share with 2 other RNs) in a hospital built the year I was born—it is either freezing cold or blazing hot with no in-between.
- Inconsiderate people.
- Lack of manners—this one REALLY gets me. I grew up in the South, and I still Ma’am and Sir people older than me. Please, thank you, excuse me—don’t people learn this stuff anymore?
Things you collect
Books, Pusheen stuff, Funko Pop figures of my favorite
characters, movies.
Things you like to
swap
Don’t do any swapping
Places you've been
British Columbia, Yukon Territory, Alaska, Puerto Rico, and much of the US with the exception of some of the Midwest and Maine (really, really need to get there at some point)
Places you'd like
to visit
Europe. Japan. The aforementioned Maine. New York City and
New Orleans again. San Antonio. Montreal.
Spain.
The songs you
dislike
Metal. Rap. The whole “boobs, beers, and pickups” genre
of modern country music (uggghhh).
The movies you
dislike
Not a fan of classic movies in black and white. Torture porn horror like Saw, Hostel, etc. Not a fan of chick lit type movies.
The TV shows you
dislike
Big Bang Theory—ugghh.
Pretty much anything with a laugh track.
This Is Us type shows. Sci-fi
with crappy production values.
Classes you liked
in school
History, Literature, Anatomy and Physiology, Sociology.
Classes you disliked in school
Statistics. How I
hated Statistics.
Crafts you would
like to learn
I have determined I am the most UN-crafty person on the
planet. I’ve tried, oh I’ve tried, to
learn various crafts, but I rapidly lose interest. Perfectionism seeps in, and when my whatever
doesn’t come out like the picture I’m done.
