Meme with me?

[fullupwithfire]

I'm in the middle of work stuff for the day, so I will hopefully post properly later, but this looks like fun, so via journalmemes:

Leave a word, any word, in the comments below, and I will tell you a fact about myself relating to that word.

Comments

[alexseanchai]

clock

[fullupwithfire]

So here's a thing that just doesn't have much reason to come up online: I get weirdly nervous when I have no way at hand of telling the time. If it's available I don't need to check it constantly or anything, but if there isn't any option, it makes me kinda twitchy.

[ldybastet]

Sunshine

[fullupwithfire]

Iiii am having trouble thinking of anything directly related that is not me hating on Florida. XD

However, from a sideways perspective! We have blackout curtains over both our bedroom and office windows upstairs. This is about 90% because of my partner's eyes, which do not like light a lot of the time, but as somebody who worked nights for two years and had to sleep in the brightest room of the house and now still ends up regularly nocturnal, I have developed a strong appreciation for them.

[ldybastet]

I love blackout curtains so I understand! Sweden is damn bright during the summer months, with maybe 2 hours of relative darkness at its worst, where I live. And it's so difficult to sleep when the room isn't dark! (On the other hand, we get maybe a couple of hours of daylight (usually just greyness) during winter.)

[silveradept]

Autonomy.

[fullupwithfire]

I am having a lot of trouble on this one, and nothing is coming to mind. Sorry. ♥

[silveradept]

That's okay.

[finch]

Trouble.

[fullupwithfire]

I... am having trouble thinking of one.

I guess this is sorta related: We started homeschooling when I was 8 (little brother #1 was a couple months old at the time) because I was having bullying issues after changing schools. It was supposed to be temporary while we tried to get me in at my old school, but it actually worked out pretty well, to the point that both the boys have been/are being homeschooled too.

[cosmolinguist]

Comfort.

[fullupwithfire]

Things that I carry around with me as comfort items -- I don't generally have ALL of them, but I try to have at least one or two, just in case:
- A necklace with a dragon curled around a blue ball, which rolls, which is one of the most low-key but soothing things to fiddle with
- A bracelet with large, round, clear beads
- A chainmail hackey sack. I have no idea how to play hackey sack properly, but I love my little ball, it's so good to play with.
- A tiny squishy Sam Wilson tsum tsum my partner got me. He has wings! I can stick my fingertips under the wings and make him fly! ...Weird things comfort me sometimes. (My partner has a tiny squishy Natasha that they occasionally pull out for me when I am stressing too hard to remember to grab something for myself. It is also great.)
- A Stimtastic tangle.

[cosmolinguist]

What a lovely thoughtful reply. Thank you. <3

[bookblather]

Excel!

[fullupwithfire]

So it's tangential, but I hate Microsoft Word. I really do. I can deal with it, but something about the setup of it just clashes my brain horribly. I use OpenOffice or LibreOffice or hell, I have used WordPad for ages because I had no other program but I could not STAND Word.

I'm not sure why I feel this strongly, I just really hate it. XD

[dreamerinsilico]

orange peel :)

[fullupwithfire]

I have this AWFUL habit of playing with orange peels after I finish eating, breaking them into teeny tiny pieces. It actually kind of hurts, cause I end up getting the citrus under my fingernails, but there is something weirdly soothing about them breaking apart. I can zone out and do that for just way, way longer than I should.

[dreamerinsilico]

Can definitely see that starting to hurt, but at least it smells very nice!

[alatefeline]

Coffee.

[fullupwithfire]

As a kid, my grandmother used to get these hard licorice-flavored cookies (anisette toast, they're called apparently) and let me have some of them dipped in her coffee. It was one of my favorite snacks.

[itsamellama]

Cleaning!

[fullupwithfire]

I am awful at it. XD

Okay, hmm, actual facts. So this apartment, and the last one we had, have a washer/dryer in house, and I do not know how I survived without this for so long. (My family's mostly lived in complexes with laundry rooms for a while now.) It makes life so much easier.

On the other hand, I do miss belting at the top of my lungs in laundry rooms because they were separate enough and I generally went late enough that I was alone so.... Get something, lose something. XD