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[thrihyrne]

This is terribly self-indulgent, but it made me think. A "Three Things" listing gacked from will_greystoke, who I’ve recently discovered via licia_north. I’m pretty awful with lists, but here we go.


THREE THINGS THAT SCARE ME
- death
- falling (either from a great height, or tripping and smashing my face into something)
- utter despair

THREE THINGS I DON'T UNDERSTAND
- marriage
- philosophy
- terrorism

THREE THINGS I'D LIKE TO LEARN
- Welsh/Irish/Manx/Icelandic
- how to play the bagpipes
- more self-patience

THREE THINGS I AM WEARING RIGHT NOW
- navy pants
- peridot earrings
- one of my nicer bras

THREE THINGS ON MY DESK (I’m at work)
- two Gimli trading cards in a plastic frame
- embroidered hummingbird picture that my grandmother made
- apples & cinnamon instant oatmeal packet

THREE THINGS I WANT TO DO BEFORE I DIE
- go to New Zealand/Ireland/Nova Scotia
- experience an hour (minimum) of true clarity of purpose
- be swept away by passion

THREE WAYS TO DESCRIBE MY PERSONALITY
- nurturing
- quixotic
- loyal

THREE BAD THINGS ABOUT MY PERSONALITY
- overly sentimental
- melodramatic
- prone to fawning in the face of excellence

THREE PARTS OF YOUR HERITAGE
- English
- Cherokee
- Scotch/Irish

THREE THINGS I LIKE ABOUT MY BODY
- back
- long red hair (even if I color it myself)
- long neck

THREE THINGS I DON'T LIKE ABOUT MY BODY
- thighs
- having a plantar wart. UGH!!
- the fact that my teeth are getting crooked again (had braces in my youth)

THREE THINGS MOST PEOPLE DON'T KNOW ABOUT ME
- I am really creeped out by the thought that warts and the like are viruses, and therefore, sortof alive, and the ones I have will exist uniquely within me until I die, then they will too
- I don’t expect to live to be 50
- In 5th grade I convinced some of my friends that my parents and I had come from the planet Neptune by scribbling in pencil on some waxed paper and crumpling it up and telling them I found it hidden in my mom’s dresser drawer

THREE THINGS I SAY THE MOST
- “Really?”
- “…and this story that I’m working on…”
- “Yeah, I’m such a geek…”

THREE PLACES YOU WANT TO GO
- whoops, kinda put that above

THREE NAMES THAT YOU GO BY
- Kristi
- Kristen Jane (only with a couple of close friends)
- "Mommy? I mean Kristi?"

THREE SCREEN NAMES YOU HAVE OR HAD
- Thevina (with or without Finduilas attached)
that’d be it. Only ever had one.

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[edrys.livejournal.com]

This is terribly self-indulgent, but it made me think.

*cough* And since when is thinking self indulgent? ;-) You inspired me to sit down with this list, and I realized a thing or two about myself along the way (ergo my own self-indulgence ;-) will be posted forthwith).

ON MY DESK...two Gimli trading cards in a plastic frame

I started to ask why there's no action figure of our favorite Dwarf, but recalled you're at work - probably a no-no, especially with all those axes he carries. "Very dangerous..." :-D

I'D LIKE TO LEARN...how to play the bagpipes

I have to ask, which kind of pipes are you longing to play? You once said you played the harp, but I don't remember if you said it was a Celtic or concert harp. I know there's a difference in how the two are played (aside form the sheer size of the concert harp)

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[thrihyrne.livejournal.com]

You inspired me to sit down with this list, and I realized a thing or two about myself along the way (ergo my own self-indulgence ;-) will be posted forthwith).

I can't wait! I really did spend quite a while on some of those. It can be an exercise in humility if one is relatively honest…

I'D LIKE TO LEARN...how to play the bagpipes

I have to ask, which kind of pipes are you longing to play? You once said you played the harp, but I don't remember if you said it was a Celtic or concert harp. I know there's a difference in how the two are played (aside form the sheer size of the concert harp)

I actually took a couple of lessons with a chanter only- I wanted to learn how to play the Scottish full-fledged bagpipes. Not Irish, done under the arm. (though there is nothing wrong with that, of course!)

I did play the harp; first on a smaller one where you can only play in one key until you take your tuner and actually tune the strings, then on a full-fledged harp where you use the pedals to shift the sharps and flats. I actually performed a concert in 5th grade that was all me, 2/3 piano and 1/3 harp, on one of the full-sized harps. But then my parents got divorced, we kept moving, and I wasn't as dedicated to the instrument as was deemed worthy to try and find rental harps, and so I moved on to French Horn (9 months) and then segued into just piano and singing.

Y'know, someday I want to sing with you. I suspect that our voices would sound really exquisite together.

[teaforme.livejournal.com]

THREE PARTS OF YOUR HERITAGE
- English
- Cherokee
- Scotch/Irish


Wow, me too! I wonder if we're related. :-)