I got tagged with two memes on Facebook so did them there but figured I might as well re-post them here too.

Also, a quick book update. I'm now one chapter from finishing the first book in Twist of Faith (Avatar book 1) and, as expected, I love it :D
Will continue reading tonight, after I finish re-arranging my bookshelves. I have that re-arrange itch again and I hope to satisfy it with some (for me minor) bookshelf re-arranging instead of going all out and trying to re-arrange all the furniture again. Which I know won't work any other way than it is now unless I really start taking apart pieces of furniture and I'm not that far gone :D So far so good.

Now, on to the memes.

1. The Howling of the Jin

Paul, who tagged me, says he cheated: "OK, here's the meme that everyone seems to be doing tonight. But I'll admit cheating right up front - the first time I did it, only 3 answers were funny. So I did it three more times and took the best answers from each. But the results make it worthwhile, I think...."

so I promptly followed suit and did it three times to pick out the best answers. Cuz, come on, this sorta thing needs to at least give a chuckle here or there, no? I ended up picking mostly the first choices though :D

Instructions:
- Put your iTunes (or whatever) on shuffle.
- For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
- Write that song name down. No cheating.
- Tag some friends – including me!

1. If someone asks: "are you okay?" You answer:
Excuses

2. How would you describe yourself?
Time to Burn

3. What do you like in a guy/girl?
Bleed it Out

4. How do you feel today?
Why

5. What is your life's purpose?
Ripples

6. What's your motto?
Something More

7. What do your friends think of you?
Stap voor Stap (Step by Step)

8. What do you parents think of you?
Move Your Body

9. What do you think about very often?
End of the World

10. What is 2+2?
Savin' Me

11. What do you think of your best friend?
De Speeltuin (The Playground)

12. What is your life story?
Blue Burns Orange

13. What do you want to be when you grow up?
Mr. E's Beautiful Blues

14. What do you think when you see the person you like?
Never Trust a Klingon

15. What will you dance to at your wedding?
Rollercoaster

16. What will they play at your funeral?
Born to Run

17. What is your hobby/interest?
Stan

18. What is your biggest fear?
Hands Clean

19. What is your biggest secret?
Get Over It

20. What do you want right now?
Hollerin' for Haggis

21. What do you think of your friends?
If You had My Love

22. What will you post this as?
The Howling of the Jinn


2.  25 Things

Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things (facts, habits, goals, whatevers) about you.

1. I love cheese dipped in chocolate sauce.

2. I am a major Trekkie, to the core of my being :D

3. I kinda want to be Daniel Jackson (Stargate SG-1) I already have the archaeology BA...

4. In the age old question of whether you would rather go deaf or go blind, I'd go deaf. I cannot live with not being able to read. I know there's braille and audio books but it's not the same.

5. I play the bagpipe, recorder and tin whistle. I still want to learn how to play the piano but need a) a piano and b) the space to put it, first.

6. I'm a grammar geek. I can't help myself but correct people when I see a mistake in something they wrote. Grammar mistakes on the internet (on facebook most notably in those flair apps) annoy the hell out of me. Specifically: its vs. it's and the their/there/theyre thing. Also, then vs. than.

7. I would like to take the TOEFL sometime in the near future, maybe this year, maybe next.

8. I studied in Leicester (UK) for a semester while doing archaeology, it was awesome.

9. I've traveled outside my own country but not nearly enough to my taste. I still want to go to: Australia, New Zealand, Japan, India, Russia, Greece, Italy, Spain, Norway, Iceland, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, USA, Canada and Mexico.

10. I love museums. When we had CKV (cultural education) in school and had to go to a number of cultural things, I chose to go to museums while most of the other kids chose to go those art films and music things. Not that I didn't also do that :D (a film from Tibet and the opera Carmen)

11. I like cooking a lot but sorely miss an oven :(
And just a few hours after I posted the shiny red tabletop oven I'd ordered was delivered :D

12. I talk to myself a lot. I think it's a side effect of having no siblings and a very active imagination.

13. In regards to that imagination, I had lots of invisible friends when I was a kid. Even a whole invisible family. We lived on a horse farm in Southern France, it was much fun :D

14. I have no siblings but a very large extended family seeing as how mom has 3 siblings and dad had 9 and many of these have children and grandchildren of their own.

15. I don't watch TV a lot, but when I do it's mostly Discovery Channel and National Geographic and such. I watch TV-series too (mostly sci-fi & fantasy stuff) but prefer to do that on DVD or my computer.

16. I love strawberries.

17. I have a cat, a large black-and-white cuddle monster. Monet was his name at the shelter and I kinda liked that so instead of renaming him Gibbs (after the NCIS character) as I planned, I just added to his name and it became Jethro Venantius Monet :D But I call him Monkey, which is a name that suits him just fine.

18. I once shaved my head nearly bald just because I'd never done it before :D It was fun.

19. I want to get a tattoo in the near future, just need to shape the idea of what I want a bit more.

20. My favourite colours are black, red and purple.

21. I love taking pictures, when I go someplace, nine out of ten times I'll have my camera with me.

22. My favourite books are Dan Simmon's Hyperion and Endymion books as well as Terry Pratchett's Discworld series.

23. I have the most amazing brown thumbs, it's very hard for me to keep plants alive because I constantly forget to water them. The only real plants I have are a cactus and a bamboo stick... The rest are (good-looking) fakes.

24. I can't wear white clothes because I'll invariably spill something on it not five minutes into wearing it.

25.I like to play board games but no-one ever wants to play... So my pile of games goes largely unused :(

I came across another meme I liked so here it is.

f you want to play too, type your answer to each of the questions below into a Flickr search. Using only the first page, choose your favourite image, then copy and paste each of the URL’s into the mosaic maker (3 columns, 4 rows). Leave a comment if you play, so I can have a look.

The questions:

1. What is your first name? (Rianne)
2. What is your favorite food? (chicken)
3. What high school did you attend? (Hogeland College)
4. What is your favorite color? (black)
5. Who is your celebrity crush? (john barrowman)
6. Favorite drink? (iced tea)
7. Dream vacation? (ireland)
8. Favorite dessert? (dame blanche)
9. What do you want to be when you grow up? (writer)
10. What do you love most in life? (family)
11. One word to describe you. (reader)
12. Your Flickr name. (Tse Moana, but that didn't give any results so I went with just Moana)

And the result:

First a few from the Lost Memes Category at The Daily Meme

Cult TV
Untouched means I've never seen it. Italics means I've seen it at least once. Bold means I watched it a lot or watched it religiously. Struck out means I've seen it but didn't like it.

30. Square Pegs
29. Rags to Riches
28. Wonderfalls
27. The Daily Show
26. Firefly
25. Freaks and Geeks
24. Absolutely Fabulous
23. Forever Knight
22. H. R. Pufnstuf
21. Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
20. Twin Peaks
19. Dark Shadows
18. Doctor Who
17. The Avengers
16. My So-Called Life
15. Quantum Leap
14. Beauty and the Beast
13. Babylon 5
12. Family Guy
11. Mystery Science Theater 3000
10. Pee-Wee's Playhouse
9. Xena: Warrior Princess
8. The Twilight Zone
7. The Prisoner
6. The Simpsons
5. Monty Python's Flying Circus
4. Farscape
3. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
2. The X-Files
1. Star Trek


5 Book Meme
1. Take five books off your bookshelf.
2. Book #1: Keith R.A. DeCandido's Articles of the Federation -- first sentence
3. Book #2: Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman's Good Omens -- last sentence on page fifty
4. Book #3: Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns -- second sentence on page one hundred
5. Book #4: Carrie Vaughn's Kitty Goes to Washington -- next to the last sentence on page one hundred fifty
6. Book #5:  The Complete Works of Shakespeare -- final sentence of the book
7. Make the five sentences into a paragraph:

Ele'er sat impatiently on her stool in the learning room. The lengthy compositor's error, if such it may be called, occurs in the Book of Ezekiel, Chapter 48, verse 5. For not granting her what He had granted so many other women. A couple of werewolves, getting ready to rumble. For these dead birds sigh a prayer.

Hmmm, perhaps I should have picked some more mainstream books :D


And a final Alphabet Meme before I move on to other stuff :)

A - Age: 23
B - Band listening to right now: Enya
C - Career future: I have no idea, which is a immensely free feeling on the one hand and scary as hell on the other hand
D - Dad's name: Hilbrand
E - Easiest person to talk to: Nienke
F - Favorite song: Lughnasadh by Omnia
G - Gummy Bears or Gummy Worms:  Bears
H - Hometown: Wehe-den Hoorn
I - Instruments: Recorder, tinwhistle and bagpipe
J - Job: none
K - Kids: none
L - Longest car ride ever: about 2 hours to visit family, I've gone further in a motor vehicle but those were buses
M - Mom's name: Pieky
N - Number of people you slept with: none
P - Phobia[s]: no real phobias, I'm apprehensive about spiders, really high heights (think skyscraper) and a touch of claustrophobia
Q - Quote:  Don't let yourlimitations be your boundaries.
R - Reason to smile: anything and everything
S - Song you sang last: Orinoco flow
T - Time you wake up:  somewhere between 10 and 11
U - Unknown fact about me: uhm... I love talking with myself
V - Vegetable you hate: kidney beans
W - Worst habit:  I bite my nails
X - X-rays you've had: lots of my left hip
Y - Yummy food: spaghetti, strawberries, cheese
Z - Zodiac sign: libra

 

From Shelly's Book Shelf:

1. Any summer reading plans? A particular book you've been dying to escape into?
Nothing in particular, just grabbing what I can :) I have a number of new books waiting for me, including (but not limited to) Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns, Markus Zusak's The Book Thief, James Morrow's The Witchfinder and the remainder of my Complete Shakespeare (2,5 plays down, the rest to go :) )

2. Summer reading: Different than the rest of the year? Or same old same old?
Nothing different, just generally more than in other times.

3. Reading goals? By the week? Month? Year?
And again, nothing specific, I just try to read what I want and that is generally a lot :)



From Sinister Dan, Make an Album:.

1. Go to this randomizer Wikipedia page; this is the name of your band.

2. Similarly, go to this randomizer Quotations Page and take the last four words of the very last quote; this will be you album title.

3. Finally, go to this link at Flickr and use the third image; this is your album cover.

4. Put it all together in whatever graphics program you can find and post it.


Wikipedia: The Great Lie
Quotation: You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't loose it. (Robin Williams)
Picture: this one, I cropped it only to make it square so it more accurately resembles an album cover.

Result:




From Unconscious Mutterings, a free association list:

1. Referral :: Advertising


2. Indiana :: Jones


3. Foil :: Collectible Cards
   


4. Horizon :: Event


5. Event :: Eventually


6. Sailing :: Rod Stewart
   


7. Footage :: Walking


8. Sunday :: Secrets


9. Breathtaking :: Murder


10. Dude! :: We're brain twins
    

From That's My Answer:

Tell us what the most unusual thing about yourself is.
Ehm... I sometimes pretend someone I know (who doesn't necessarily knows me) is with me and I am talking to them, telling them about me, kinda as if they were visiting for the first time and/or it was an interview kinda thing. Try it, it's fun :)

If you were stuck in traffic, who would you want to be stuck in traffic with?
No one in particular as long as they don't rant about being stuck and all that. Nothing annoys me more than drivers (and passengers) who rant and complain about other drivers, traffic and whatnot.

Would you rather be late to the party, or the first person to arrive?
Late, always late. I hate being early.

Have you ever bought an item and once you got home realized the security tag was still attached? Did you try to remove it yourself?
No.

Be honest, have you ever sung into your hairbrush like it was a microphone?
Yes :)



From Blogthings:

Your Spelling is Perfect

You got 10/10 correct. Your spelling is excellent. You also have a great memory and eye for detail.

You May Be a Bit Schizotypal...

A bit odd and socially isolated. You couldn't care less of what others think. And some of your beliefs are a little weird. Like that time you thought you were Jesus.