Ten Random Things About Me

[clex_monkie89]

Because Julia tagged me about a month ago and I forgot to do it.

1. I bite the back of my left hand when I'm thinking about a fic. It's always the part between the finger and thumb and just far enough away from the tendon not to sting. I don't bite it hard, just hard enough to leave a very weird shaped, reddish/pinkish/purplish indent.

2. Someone I used to know has scars on the backs of their hands and the insides of their elbows from me and a sister biting him and clawing at him with our nails. It was his fault, he should've known us well enough by then to know "That doesn't hurt" is only a challenge.

3. I have once, in a very Sam moment, played lookout while someone else (Who I wont mention by name), in a very Dean moment, blew her boyfriend against the abandoned construction trailer next to the street of our apartment complex.

4. I eat, on average, about once a day. It's usually not very much, a sandwich or two or a bowl of cereal. And no, I am not anorexic or bulimic. I have no eating disorder at all.

5. I almost always leave any papers due for class or fics due for a challenge until the very last possible moment. Still Water was written abut twelve hours before the spn_50states deadline.

6. My puppy is cuter than your puppy could ever dream to be. He is also a Louisiana Catahoula Leopard Dog.

7. My default tense for fic writing is present. As in "Stop it, Sam." Dean's voice is steady and sure but Sam can see the way his leg is shaking, can hear the jittery pinging noise his ring makes as Dean taps the steering wheel. I noticed this just now as I realized I had to fix four paragraphs of my Big Bang to change it to past tense.

8. I am incredibly ADD. If I'm not doing a ton of things I can't really do anything. It's hard for me to write my Big Bang lately because Mikhale is an evil bastard and by the time I get home I'm so tired in the brain that I don't even wanna think about writing.

9. I have tons of little scars along my upper arms/shoulders from scratching and digging in to them hard enough to bleed during panic attacks.

10. I cannot listen to anything by The Doors or Greatful Dead. Nothing. It makes me physically sick to hear their music and I think that part of why during that scene in that bar when Sam had Jo tied up and The Doors were playing in the background it freaked me out as much as it did.

Comments

[alazysod.livejournal.com]

This is going to sound a little weird, but I love it when you do these memes. You're such a damn cool person.

[clex_monkie89.livejournal.com]

:D Thank you! These memes are so fun to do I actually think I might start doing them like once a week or so.

[alazysod.livejournal.com]

You should! I love reading these little snippets.

[clex_monkie89.livejournal.com]

I totally think I will!

[crackedbuthappy.livejournal.com]

I definitely only eat once a day too. Something around supper, never breakfast, and possibly lunch if I'm feeling hungry. My roommates think I have an eating disorder. It's rather annoying lol.

[clex_monkie89.livejournal.com]

Dinner's always my thing too, I eat around dinner or late at night, that's about it.

[r-a-l-i-g-h.livejournal.com]

I had a Catahoula Leopard Dog once!!

We named him Gumbo.

He was the most adorable, speckled, big-footed puppy, but he grew up into an insane rebel.

[r-a-l-i-g-h.livejournal.com]

Okay, that's not really fair to leave like that.

It wasn't really his fault. He was a rebound puppy, who became available in the recent aftermath of our beloved 9-yr-old Golden getting killed by a car.

We took him in too quickly, didn't properly research the Catahoula breed and so didn't work to correct some of the ... more dominant aspects of their nature.

We lived on land, but it was near a highway, so he had to live in the one fenced-in area... until he learned to climb the fence. (Seriously, this dog could break out of anywhere - vehicles, buildings, etc. We later decided "Houdini" would have been a more appropriate name.)

Anyway, my mom had a baby and a toddler to take care of and so the primary training fell to me (12) and my brother (9). We did okay with the housebreaking, and early sit/come lessons.

But somehow it kinda got set aside,(we were kids, playing and running around the fields with our dog, you know?) and suddenly by the time midsummer rolled around we had a half-grown dog who didn't know how to walk (or stand) on a leash.

We moved back to Oklahoma City within a year, but not before finding him a home with a friend who loved hunting and lived WAY out in the country on 40 wooded acres, with a pond and two Labs. Gumbo got a pack, freedom, and a job he learned quickly and loved. It was what was best.

(Lesson here - work with your little one WHILE he is still little. They're a very strong, dominant breed. Can't just be left on their own and shoehorned into a little "housedog" or "yard dog" box.)

But he WAS cool looking, though.

[clex_monkie89.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, my Dad and brother are total Best Masters, all animals love them without reason. Luckily because of this they both know how to train dogs and get them to do pretty much whatever they're supposed to do.

[clex_monkie89.livejournal.com]

Aw! Aren't they just the cutest things ever? We got Freckles (PUPPY!) a few weeks before he was supposed to be taken from his Mom and as a result he's just so attached to his Mommy (My brother) that he CRIES when Yussie goes to the bathroom and wont let him in.

[hansbekhart.livejournal.com]

1. Coolest thing that ever happened to me as a writer was making someone bleed that way. They bite their thumb when they're really involved in a story, and they were so absorbed with something of mine that they made themselves bleed.

6. What a COOL DOG.

[clex_monkie89.livejournal.com]

1. That is SO AWESOME!

6. He's just the bestest puppy ever and he's SO cute!

[elsmoka.livejournal.com]

Beautiful dog!!

[clex_monkie89.livejournal.com]

I'm totally gonna upload pictures of him soon, I swear it!

[elsmoka.livejournal.com]

I would absolutely love that! :)

[clex_monkie89.livejournal.com]

Yay!