September 23rd

 

Is there anything you'd like from the Mütter Museum Store?

Much to my surprise, not really. My favorite thing in their store is the Death Mints. Mints in a coffin tin with a skull on the front – I love it! But I’m pretty sure you can get those other places than the Mütter Museum Store. The skull key caps are cute, but I’d never use them. Same thing with the giant microbes – cute, but not something I need to have laying around taking up space in my house.

 

I just noticed that Cocoa Pink has 5 ml Perfume Atomizers. Yay or nay? Scents you would like? Scents you would NOT like?

Wow, that scent list is just overwhelming! Grapefruit sugar, Lime sugar, and Marshmallow sugar sound interesting, as do so very, very many others, especially the foody and vanilla blends. But really, there’s so many things that my brain can’t even process it all.

 

what's your favorite kind of pizza?

Deep dish pepperoni. All a pizza needs is a good crust (deep dish or regular), a little bit of tomato sauce, a lot of cheese, and pepperoni. Nothing else. Really. Absolutely nothing else.

 

who are your style/fashion icons? post pics if you want!

 

Are there any food items you're craving/aren't able to find around your area?

Nut Goodies! Also, I love Fannie May candies, but we don’t have a store around here, so I always have to order from the catalog once or twice a year. My brother and sister-in-law picked up a bunch of chocolate bars for me the last time they were in Chicago, but I asked for mostly plain chocolate, so if you have a Fannie May store near you, I’d love a couple of bars with caramel or crisped rice instead! I also love their dark chocolate lemon creams, dark caramels, and dark chocolate with vanilla cream. I also miss the beavertails I got when in Halifax on vacation, but unfortunately, I don’t think those would travel well.

 

September 24th

 

how do you feel about ethical animal fiber, i.e. wool and the like?

Ethical animal fiber is a lovely idea, but not something I’ve had occasion to seek out. Certainly ethical is better than inhumane!

 

What about little wee creatures for your desk or mantel?

They’re cute, but I think I’m content to just look at them on Etsy. I don’t need to have one sitting around my house.

 

Look down. What are you wearing, right now?

As usual on days I don’t have to go anywhere, sweatpants and a sweatshirt.

 

Kerchiefs?

Not my style.

 

It's the weekend, and you find yourself without a single chore or responsibility for a few hours. Right this very moment, what's the one thing you would do if you could do anything?

Either read one of the library books sitting on my floor waiting to be read, or watch one of the anime DVDs sitting on my tv cabinet waiting to be watched. I’m so far behind on both piles!

 

September 25th

 

Stuff you've been meaning to do:

Work on the cross-stitch for my niece- or nephew-to-be. S/he's due in November, and all I have done so far is Eeyore's nose.

 

Would you be interested in regional jams, jellies, or other preserves?

It’s a lovely thought, but I almost never use jams, jellies, or preserves. Unless it was a mini-size jar, it would probably sit around unfinished for decades (I still have in my refrigerator a nearly full jar of grape jelly that I bought my first year in my house, which was probably about 15 years ago now).

 

Do you have any bedtime rituals? Is there any particular product you have to apply or a certain shirt you wear or an act you perform to get you in the "bedtime" mood?

I’m lucky if I simply make it up to my bed at night rather than falling asleep on the couch watching tv.

 

Are you interested in today's/any recent Tee Fury shirts?

 

Princess Bride? Yay or nay?

I’ve seen it once, and have no urge to see it again.

 

What's your favorite classic fairytale, witches

 

 

September 26th

 

Is there any kind of international candy you love or would like to try?

I love Aero bars. A few local stores now carry them, but they always seem to be stale or worse. The current batch on the shelf at my local Meijers seems to have gotten overheated in transit, because they all seem to be a little squished and deformed (believe me, I checked every bar in the box!). For the most part, though, the stores around here have me pretty much covered.

 

What is something totally random (yes, that thing that just popped into your head) that hasn't been covered by any previous questions?

 

Is there any cheesy/non-cheesy Canadian stuff you'd be interested in?

Canada’s less than an hour away, so I think I’m good on the Canadian stuff front. The stuff I want from Canada is stuff that isn’t available – I wish they’d put out DVDs of Made In Canada past the first season, and I’d dearly love to get DVDs of Adderly, but they don’t seem to be available anymore. If any Canadian tv station is still showing reruns, despite the show being over 20 years old, and someone has a DVD recorder and could record the episodes for me, I’d be ecstatic, but unfortunately I think that’s just a wild dream.

 

If you were to go here and create your very own chocolate bar, what might it have in it?

Maybe milk chocolate with hazelnuts, roasted organic peanuts, toffee, and butterscotch, with gold flakes just for fun. Or milk chocolate with cinnamon, cardamom, and gold flakes. Or milk chocolate with white chocolate chips, butterscotch, toffee, and gold flakes. Or milk chocolate with white chocolate chips and sprinkles. I can’t decide!

 

Is there anything you're wanting from LPMP?

I don’t know what LPMP is, so I guess not!

 

say you stumbled into Camp Half Blood (or whatever the Roman camp ends up being named <bounces in anticipation>), which god claims you?

I have no idea what this is about, but since we’re talking about Roman gods, I’d think that Minerva would be completely justified in claiming me. When I was in elementary school Athena/Minerva was my favorite goddess, and I felt more committed to her than I ever did to the god of the Catholic religion I was raised in. Turns out that I don’t really have it in me to truly worship any gods or goddesses, but if I did, Athena would probably be one of my top 5. For the purposes of this question, I’d say that she’s the god with the strongest claim on me solely for the way I felt about her when I was younger.

 

 

September 27th

 

What is something people are always surprised to learn about you?

Maybe that I’m older than I look? Either that or they’re just being polite when they claim to be surprised by how old I actually am!

 

So who else watched Babylon 5?

No. I tend to prefer my scifi more funny or quirky, so more Red Dwarf or MST3K or Lexx rather than Star Trek or BSG or Babylon 5.

 

If you had to decide what your stripper name was, what would it be?

I hope I never have to pick a stripper name!

 

Sooooo Witchees, have you ever taken that particular personality test? If so, are you an Analytical, a Driver, an Expressive or an Amiable?

I'm apparently an Analytical.

 

Is anyone else afraid of or creeped out by dummies/puppets/Muppets/etc? Other things you're squicked/freaked by that's best left by the wayside?

No, but other than Tom Servo, Crow, and Gypsy, I don’t have any particular interest in puppets or the like. I don’t like a lot of insects, but I’m not freaked out by most of them. Earwigs do freak me out, but not enough that I can’t scoop them up in a cup and take them outside, far away from my house, when I find them inside. I don’t use bug spray around my house, so I get a fair amount of bugs inside, and I live alone, so I have to deal with them myself, and I’ve gotten pretty decent at doing so.

 

Your favorite restaurant or type of food to eat out. Would you use a restaurant.com voucher? Groupon?

Japanese. I don’t use restaurant.com or Groupon, although if Izakaya Sanpei offered one I would probably have to jump on it.

 

Are there any local museums/attractions you keep never getting around to going to?

The Detroit Institute of Arts, the Detroit Zoo, and a bunch of museums in Ann Arbor. I get to most of them every few years or so, but I wish I went more often. The first couple of years I was living in Ann Arbor I went to museums a lot of weekends.

 

September 28th

 

JONES SODA CO has LE soda packs for The Guild, Buffy, D&D, So Cute, etc. Would you be interested in these, Witchee?

No, thank you.

 

It's Banned Books Week! Are there any books on the list you'd be interested in checking out?

I keep meaning to read “Nickel and Dimed,” but just never get around to it. Maybe someday…. I’ll have to see if one of the local libraries has “And Tango Makes Three” – it sounds cute.

 

I have just been enlightened to THESE. Are these flavors relevant to your interests?

Clove Cigarette and Cherry Bourbon sound very worth checking out! And, knowing the way I shop, if I ordered those two, Salted Caramel and Smoked Salt would probably also fall into my basket before I hit checkout.

 

 

September 29th

 

I have a question- What kind of purse do you prefer? Leather, cloth? over the shoulder or crossbody, or something that can do either? Do you like bold bright prints with fun things, or monochrome, solid colours?

I'm not big on purses. I have one large black one in leather that desperately needs to be replaced, but I haven't found one that suits me anywhere near as well. I want a specific configuration of pockets and zippers and such, and until I find that, I'll keep carrying my crappy looking purse most places. I have a smaller black purse that I use when I'm going to a concert or something where I don't want to carry a bunch of stuff, and the strap is long enough that I can wear it over my shoulder or across my body for more security in a crowd. I wouldn't mind finding an even more streamlined one that will hold my phone, my GPS unit (don't like to leave it in the car), and maybe a few other small items like a lipstick and such. And I have a lovely little purse that Lucyboo gifted me with in another swap, and I get so many compliments on it! It would actually be perfect for concerts, except that I worry that the little gemstones will get pulled off if I'm in the middle of the crowd and people are constantly being squished up against me.

 

What kind of bear is best?

Teddy bears!

 

I have a not-so-secret love for The Broship of the Rings. Are there any prints from her store you'd like?

No, thank you.

 

Do you drink wine?

Yes! But I don't drink it as fast as I buy it, so I have over a dozen bottles stockpiled in my basement right now. There are so many wineries in my state!

 

I recently saw candy corn in non-candy corn flavors like CHOCOLATE and CARAMEL APPLE. It's not a fancy brand, I just saw it in the drugstore, but who here would like something like that?

I'm pretty sure I already declared my love for the completely addictive Milk Maid caramel apple candy corn in my questionnaire or in an answer to one of the previous questions.

 

Hershey's Pumpkin Spice kisses?

No, thank you. I like my Hershey’s kisses to be just plain milk chocolate. The only thing I want dressing them up is pretty colored foils.

 

Who here likes Stephanie Pui-Min Law's artwork?

It's pretty! I like the Tarot deck.

 

New Question: Witches, did you lament NOT getting one of the condom case/imp cases that got released with the courtesan series???

Nope. They didn’t really catch my eye.

 

Any thoughts on the new Villainess update?

I was surprised to find nothing I was really interested in. Which I guess is good, because it means more money left for tomorrow’s Haunt shopping!

 

julep maven monthly boxes:

No, thanks. I’d rather just pick up the nail polish I want when I want it instead of getting monthly mystery boxes.

 

Like commercial socks?

Sure! And as I mentioned before, I’m always looking for bamboo crew socks in black (or any other dark colors, really – purple, red, brown, etc.), so if you managed to find a source of them for me, I’d love you forever!

 

Is anyone interested in reading The Night Circus?

Maybe, but it’s not at the top of my list. I’ll keep it in mind, though, and if I see it at the library sometime I’ll probably pick it up.

 

Is it just me who is nervous at revealing herself to her witchee, and finding out who her witch is?!

I’ve very nervous about revealing! I don’t want to disappoint my witchee! I don’t want to disappoint my witch, either! I worry when I’m answering some of the questions that my witch will think I’m too weird, or too greedy, or too boring, or that I support things/causes that s/he disagrees with (like when I mentioned wanting a handgun – I hope my witch doesn’t think I’m some sort of rabid gun nut or something! I just enjoy going to the shooting range with my dad; I would never hunt anything! Plus I live alone, and I’d feel better having something around for protection if needed). I hope my witch reveals, because s/he seems really cool and I’d like to know who s/he is, even if just so I can wave in passing when I see her (or him?) around the forum sometimes.