mittelschmertz interviews me

[ailbhe]

1. Do any plants hold special significance for you?

   I have a particular fondness for daisies, especially the small ones people keep trying to eradicate from lawns, but other than being particularly fond of them, not really. Oh, and sunflowers always make me bouncy-happy, because they're like daisies turned up 'til the knob falls off.

2. How about animals?

   We have three cats, but I think the animal that has most significance for me is the shrew; our family calls them moley-shrews for some reason, and I like them. They are small and fast and they don't crap in the breakfast cereal, unlike, say, mice.

3. Do you celebrate or otherwise observe any dates that aren't on the "standard" holiday calendar (such as birthdays, anniversaries or any religious holiday)? Something personal?

   I take note of my half-birthday, 01 May. But I don't celebrate dates much; they don't usually mean a great deal to me. I have a feeling of satisfaction when one of my and Rob's anniversaries comes around, or when the anniversary of me moving to the UK happens. My birthday is very special, because it's my mother's birthday too. But I'm not in tune enough with time to feel an association with a date I thought up myself, rather than a Traditional one.

4. Have you ever run away from home?

   Yes. I made my mother very unhappy until I started getting friends to call her. I ran away from home for days, weeks, and eventually forever. When I finally left home, I didn't give my family my address. It was all very traumatic and unpleasant, but it's over now. I don't run away from home anymore.

5. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be? If you aren't there now, what's keeping you from it?

   I would like to live in... Oh, I don't know. I'd like to live on Aran. I'd like to live in Cork. I'd like to live on the north of Gotland. I'd like to live lots of places.

   When we can afford it, we hope to move somewhere with a big house and a big garden, close enough to the countryside and a reasonably sized town that either can be cycled to easily so that we don't have to get a car. I want to have cork tiles and pine ceilings and skylights.

   I'm a lot more focussed on the house than on its location, actually. But it has to be a town with a pedestrian zone and some good bookshops and purple-things shops.

Comments

[radegund.livejournal.com]

I take note of my half-birthday, 01 May

Ah, so you're a Samhain baby, like me! (4 Nov.)

I take a certain nerdy pleasure in celebrating St Radegund's day - largely, I must admit, because it's on 13 August, and it's nice to have a summer bash.

(I also try to mark the Pagan festivals, with mixed success.)

[ailbhe]

I was born on Samhain itself, my mother's birthday.

Oddly, I don't feel any pagan connections. I mark 01 Nov, 01 May, and 01 August because of birthdays.

Apparently Ailbhe is a good craft name.