Toadfish Monastery

1. Do you maintain Christmas traditions and which?

not really. I will be cooking this year for my parents and other family members but will be doing beef not turkey. I have no decorations etc. The two British traditions I keep are getting plastered on Christmas Day and going to the Boxing Day football.

2. Are you planning to kiss someone under the mistletoe?

not planning to but you never know when you might get lucky! 

3. What crazy thing have you always been keen to do, but never had the courage?

Scuba diving. It may not sound terribly crazy but I have wanted to since I was a kid and after a series of operations on collapsed lungs have been told I will not be able to due to the risk of a firther collapse under pressure. So I am not at present courageous enough to but one day I might just do it anyway.

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1) have you ever punched anyone? If so why!

2) what is your greatest talent?

3) hollywood or european cinema (you can chose far eastern, bollywood, south american etc instead if you like)?

1) have you ever punched anyone? If so why!

Oh no. I've never really punched any one at all, though I've been sorely tempted to on a number of occassions.

2) what is your greatest talent?

That would either be cooking, or convincing people I'm right.

3) hollywood or european cinema (you can chose far eastern, bollywood, south american etc instead if you like)?

I don't really watch movies that often, and when I do, it's usually American, though I really like stuff from Canada, and Europe as well.

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1.What would you be doing, ideally, for the holidays?

2. Prefered form of transportation?

3. Are there any artisitc things you induldge in once in a while?

1.What would you be doing, ideally, for the holidays?

Fly to St Lucia. Stay at the most expensive hotel. Indulge in everything on offer.

2. Prefered form of transportation?

Plane. I miss flying. I spend a lot of time watching planes come into land from my bedroom window while doing my dying swan act reclining in bed and I am probably the only person in the UK who loves living on a flight path.

3. Are there any artisitc things you induldge in once in a while?

Writing rubbish on the Internet.

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1. If you could take one well known individual with you to the desert island who would it be?  (no friends/relatives)

2. If you could go forward in time what one thing would you do differently?

3. What item of clothing have you always secretly wanted to wear?

1. If you could take one well known individual with you to the desert island who would it be?  (no friends/relatives)

Terry Pratchett, unless I could bring Douglas Adams back so he could write more.

2. If you could go forward in time what one thing would you do differently?

If I could alter the fabric of time in regards my existence (past) I would not have been born when I was. A couple of years later would have been better. To alter it in the future, what i'd do differently is go forward, memorize several years of Superbowl/World's Cup/Kentucky Derby winners and come back and make some bets...

3. What item of clothing have you always secretly wanted to wear?

Victorian or Antebellum dresses, cut to be belted or worn with a ruffled pinafore. (Very feminine looks.)

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1) Tell us about a sad memory.

2) What, if anything, do you wear to sleep?

3) Do you own a pair of roller skates?

Slight Aside.......

Quote from: Sibling Chatty on December 18, 2006, 06:48:33 AM
1. If you could take one well known individual with you to the desert island who would it be?  (no friends/relatives)

Terry Pratchett

I really wouldn't you know. take him off the written page and that man is one of the dullest people I have ever spent an evening with. You would throw yourself to the sharks in no time!

Quote from: Sibling Chatty1) Tell us about a sad memory.

2) What, if anything, do you wear to sleep?

3) Do you own a pair of roller skates?

1. I'm not really in the mood to talk about sad memories. But I guess the last sad memory is the funeral of my grandfather in August. But I really don't want to talk about it, Christmas is a time for happy thoughts after all, isn't it?

2. Mostly I sleep in my underwear (shorts), but occasionally I sleep in my jeans (and everything else I had on me the evening I went out. It's so difficult to undress when totally wasted).

3. The last roller skates I owned was size 42 (I think it's a 7), which was a long time ago. (I have a size 48 - 13 now).

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1. What time do you usually got to bed?

2. Do you have an original painting?

3. You have to get rid of everything you have, but can keep one item. What would it be? (doesn't apply to pets, you can keep them)

1. What time do you usually got to bed?

Mrs Goat will tell you it is much too late. 1am is pretty normal on a week night. If she is away I will read, play computer games, use the internet till 4 without batting an eyelid!

2. Do you have an original painting?

severalof my own, a few of my brothers and a couple of sketchbooks by friends

3. You have to get rid of everything you have, but can keep one item. What would it be? (doesn't apply to pets, you can keep them)

If I were sensible I would say my house (or possibly a pair of trousers!!) but in reality I would keep a box filled with letters from people and sentimental nick nacks (If I can count that as one item)


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1. To be, or not to be?

2. Where are the Snowdens of our yesteryear?

3. Are you lonesome tonight?

1. To be, or not to be?

Stopped doing and started being a few years ago. It's a better way of life. So yes, to be.

2. Where are the Snowdens of our yesteryear?

Qu'a ce reffrain ne vous remaine:

That made me smile out loud. It's a phrase that entered my common language early in life. I utter it often and people look at me oddly.

Others are Yesterday I went to the dentist
and no soap, radio and of course through a glass darkly

As to Snowdon last time I went up it I couldn't, it was fogbound as usual. And "Lord" knows what happened to the photos.

3. Are you lonesome tonight?

No, I have a migraine fighting to stay with me. And I just got some blue leather shoes, (the suede ones heels were too high).

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1. What is your most vivid memory when you were ten years old?

2. How do you make decisions?

3. What, if any, superstitions do you abide by?

1. What is your most vivid memory when you were ten years old?

My grandmother died, any my mother chose to shut heself away from the world for months.

2. How do you make decisions?

On the whim of the moment? Depends on the decision. If I neehd to consider all the salient points and decide, i'm like an accountant, adding up every little detail to make sure the balance sheet supports my decision. If it's a matter of taste, an intangible, whatever, it's what strikes me as right at that moment.

Instinct, I think...

3. What, if any, superstitions do you abide by?

NEVER eat anything bigger than your head. (And the theatre ones, esperially the Scottish play one.)

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1) What will you have for Christmas dinner?

2) What are your plans for New Year's Eve?

3) Do you miss the FLUFFYSNAKIES OF DOOOOM!!!!??

Quote from: Sibling Chatty1) What will you have for Christmas dinner?

2) What are your plans for New Year's Eve?

3) Do you miss the FLUFFYSNAKIES OF DOOOOM!!!!??

1. The traditional Czech Christmas dinner: Carp and potato salad.

2. I'm not planning anything yet. Usually  I end up celebrating it on the streets with several friends. Let's see what this year brings, but one thing is for sure, I'll get totally wasted like the last several years.

3. No, but I miss the FLUFFYBUNNIES ON A PLANE!!!

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1. What is your favourite number and why?

2. Bottled water or tap water?

3. Which dead celebrity do you miss the most?

1. What is your favourite number and why?

Avagadros number (6.08 x 10²³) I just think it cool.

2. Bottled water or tap water?

Tap water - in Melbourne there's not muh difference, actually Melbourne's tap water is probably more pure than many bottled waters.  Of course that does not stop the sale of a gazillion (unnecessary) water filters here...

3. Which dead celebrity do you miss the most?

Eva Cassidy.  Such a voice.  Such versatility.  Lost to cancer at such a young age.

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1. Do you dream in colour?

2. Can you fly in your dreams (and I don't mean in an aeroplane)?

3. Do you sleep walk or talk?

1. Do you dream in colour?

Yes, always have.  I am a lucid dreamer - that is, I am able to recognize I'm dreaming, alter the path of the story or even "reset" the story and go down a different path.

I often modify the physics of dreams as well - reduce or increase gravity, for example.  All at a whim.

My dreams are like movies to me- where I'm also the director, and am able to make world-changes mid-show.

2. Can you fly in your dreams (and I don't mean in an aeroplane)?

Often, frequently, and no, rarely in airplanes.

Sometimes, I can fly, but landing seems to be the problem.  Sometimes, it's the takeoff that is the problem.

But, once up in the air, dream-flying is sooo cool.

Sometimes the physics of the flight is balloon-like, in that I drift with the winds.  Othertimes, I may direct my path, much like superman.  Still other times, I'm flying, but steering and turning is VERY HARD, so I often fly through trees and branches at speed (and suffer for that  ).

Sometimes, I'm dreaming of driving cross-country, and at some point, I'm no longer in a car, but running or wizzing along just above the roadway at 60 mph ... at the point I realize, I'm not in a car, I sometimes think -- "why am I staying so close to the ground" and wizz up into the air ...

3. Do you sleep walk or talk? As far as I know, no.  I do not believe I have ever sleepwalked in my life - unless I returned to bed after

I may or may not talk in my sleep - this is likely, I suppose.  I think sleeptalking may be a function of lucid dreaming, at least for me.

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1. Have you ever been able to control your dreams?

2. Do you like driving cross country, or on long trips, just for the trip itself?  To 'get away'?

3. If you could "snap your fingers" and travel from place to place instantly, instead of walking, driving, bus-ing or whatever, would you?  Would you every time, or just sometimes?

1. Have you ever been able to control your dreams?

Sometimes, when I realize I'm dreaming and don't wake up (which usually happens).  I can change the dream, alter events, make things appear....  it's just rare to get control. If I realize I'm dreaming, I have to sneak up on the dream, and then tickle it into doing what I want.  Any tips on training lucid dreams (besides chloroquine, which sharpens 'em up something fierce)?

2. Do you like driving cross country, or on long trips, just for the trip itself?  To 'get away'?

Yes!  But not so much in Alberta, where I do most of it (for work).  It's too flat. In BC, I sometimes went for 'fun drives'.  Not too environmentally unfriendly then, either...  I had a 1.0 L engine in the car I was driving.  A few hours alone in the car with some good CDs in the player can be blissful.

3. If you could "snap your fingers" and travel from place to place instantly, instead of walking, driving, bus-ing or whatever, would you?  Would you every time, or just sometimes?

Yep.  I'd always replace driving (around town and long-distance commutes) and flying (too $$$!).  I would walk a lot more, but strictly for pleasure...  get the errands done by snapping and then bugger off into the hills somewhere for a hike.
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1) Rate your preferred method of communication (with friends) in order:  Snail Mail, Electronic Text, Phone/Voice, Face-to-Face, Other (specify):

2) Where in the world have you felt the most 'at peace'/'whole'/'centred'?

3) Do you prefer rain (+5^oC) or snow (-5^o C)?

1) Rate your preferred method of communication (with friends) in order:  Snail Mail, Electronic Text, Phone/Voice, Face-to-Face, Other (specify):

*Snail mail: 3--It's nice sometimes, but usually, no.
*Phone: 3
*Electronic Text: 10--I use it ALL the time, on dA, email, etc.
*Face to Face: 10

2) Where in the world have you felt the most 'at peace'/'whole'/'centred'?
In the mountains. Any mountains.

3) Do you prefer rain (+5oC) or snow (-5o C)?
Rain please. It doesn't kill my plants the way snow does. :S
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1) Hillary or Condi?
2) Pears or apples?
3) Favorite city/town?

   

Quote from: Agujjim on December 19, 2006, 04:14:20 PM
1. Have you ever been able to control your dreams?
...  Any tips on training lucid dreams (besides chloroquine, which sharpens 'em up something fierce)?

Only what I've read.  Constant, and frequent daydreams seems to help a great deal.

As a child, I had serious difficulty going to sleep, and I would day-dream for literally hours until I'd day-dream myself to sleep.

To this day, I still do that - sometimes I "write" whole novels and stories.  (But none are worth publishing - I once wrote some down, and when I was more alert, I saw they pretty poor prose.)

So, daydreaming seems to help. 

I've read keeping a dream journal can help too - I've never tried that, though.
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There is a negative side-effect of being a lucid dreamer:  you never get to finish nightmares.   I always wake up as soon as the nightmare reaches anything serious.  The negative aspect, is that now I'm awake, and I have a vivid memory of a nasty dream fresh in my mind.  *yeach*  I always have to get out a book to "cover" the "taste" of nightmares, in order to get back to sleep.