December meme - 29/30/31

Oh look, it's a threefer!

Favourite local restaurant?

Right now, Burgers and Brew. Not the best restaurant accessibilitywise, and not great for vegetarians (they do have a few options but I have no idea how good they are), but nom.

Though if my dad is taking me somewhere, we tend to end up at Seasons. The food is slightly on the cusp of being too frou-frou for my tastes but can also be amazing; it's more expensive than I generally go for, but not badly so; and they have a really good variety of cocktails.

favorite piece of music at the moment

According to my iTunes play count, Indigo Girls' Galileo. Because I never get into moods of obsessively listening to it on repeat.

Instrumental, Mussorgsky's Pieces at an Exhibition.

Choral, toss-up between Mozart Requiem (which we are doing next quarter in chorus eeeyay) and Carmina Burana.

Talk about one of your favourite tropes/kinks to read.

*looks around, a bit embarrassed* ...Soulbonds. I have no idea why; it just resonates with me in a kind of guilty-pleasure sort of way. It's not realistic at all, and yet it just sort of works. Especially between people that I already want to ship.

Also, "Aliens made them do it gave them an excuse to do it": the (common) subset of AMTDI / sex pollen that has the characters acting on unfulfilled desires. As opposed to unwanted AMTDI.

Year in review

briefly...

fic: wrote 4 stories -- two technically the year before but revealed in January, and two for fic_corner. Fairy tales, XMFC, Narnia, and Watership Down / Velveteen Rabbit. Signed up for kink bingo (default), trope bingo twice (both default), fic corner, yuletide (default).

craft: finished shawl of doom, beaded fingerless gloves, purple sparkly shawl, grey shawl for my mom, gingerbread house of awesome. started blue lagoon shawl (hibernating), peacock shawl (hibernating), and mini cthulhu (temporarily suspended as I search for appropriate eyes)

physical: arm flareup for ~6mos, no permanent loss of function. knee flareup for ~3mos, still ongoing. depression issues fluctuating throughout the year.

fannish stuff found: elementary, pacific rim, haven, sleepy hollow

pets: lost a suri (still hurts wah), gained a complete and utter purr factory (adorable), maintained a yahtzee (still cute as ever, and smart)

Looking to 2014

I'm not making any new years resolutions because reasons (go read that link, I'll wait), but I am choosing Love as my ... I don't even know what to call it. Intention? Maybe.

Love of myself; love for my friends; doing things I love, like continuing with Duolinguo (133 day streak for Spanish, though I hope to continue even if the streak breaks); loving things I do. Loving even the sense of fear that keeps me from getting stuff done, because it's really just there to protect me.

Because love is one of the sorts of things that, the more you "use", the more you have; it is not finite in any way.

And because whatever else happens with me, love is still a thing I can always give.