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[minxy]

I'm on my second lunch and have apparently talked some friends who wanted to watch a movie with me tonight into watching my reel_sg1 film! SCORE! Also, I've been tagged!

I guess this means it's time to meme, yes? Tagged by abyssinia4077, last seen in thassalia's LJ:

1. List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
2. Tag seven people to do the same.
3. Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag "whoever wants to do it."

1. I enjoy laughter, jokes, teasing, occasionally raunchy humor (that's blue humour, if you're British) and consider myself fairly sex-positive. If I know you well, I'll probably tell you how my chest (I'm curvy) is a shelf and catches all kinds of things, occasionally launching the odd dropped kernel of corn waaaay out into space. I do not care for crude language or behavior, though, so it will probably be a while before I start joking like that, no matter what the standard MO for the crowd is, until I know that you also know the difference between dirty/funny and crude. My boating team in general is pretty crude; some of them have figured out that I can totally tell a dirty joke, but others think I don't even know how to have a dirty thought.

They are so, so wrong.

2. I look young, I'm told (repeatedly, often) and so when I started this new job I decided to dress a little more professionally than anyone in California would expect me to. Thus, I traded in my jeans for slacks and skirts. I didn't buy new clogs and instead have some flats, a pair of marvelous deep red sketchers and a pair of green mules. These are paired most often with layered solid t-shirts.

I'm surrounded by people in shorts and flip-flops, but at least people stopped assuming I was an undergrad and started assuming I was a master's student.

3. I was a blonde, blonde little one. I'm back in the sun now and my normally pretty mahogany brown hair is getting distinctly golden right around my crown. I'm serious--these aren't light brown highlights, they're *blonde*. I'm going to look two-toned. In addition to looking like an alien with my light eyes and dark skin.

4. I had to tell a man on Monday that he was pushing too hard and I needed him to back off a little. I felt a little bad about it, but he bounced right back. So now I'm resorting to creating a deliberate schedule for a while to make sure I don't see him more than once a week. He's like a puppy. A big, 6'4" puppy, and I'm worried that he likes me so damn much, because it makes me feel like I'm not keeping up and we're doomed as a couple. It can't be a good sign that I have him on rations.

5. I think I'm going to be the Mata Hari for Halloween this year. I'm in the market for a good, supportive coin bra or bikini top with sequins to build the dress on. Hook me up with links if you see something great. I have most of the jewelry already, but I'm still looking for a headband too--problem is that I need one that looks a little bit vintage and while jewelry from Afghanistan is perfect for the wrists and neck, the headbands seem to be all for modern dancers and too clean looking. I need character.
This is the Mata Hari:

6. I have a chihuahua living in my house. She is cute and quiet and surprisingly adorable, but I want a real dog. A big fluffy dog with eyebrows and more than one expression whom you can hug without breaking.

7. I am starting to think really seriously about laser eye surgery. It would just be so *nice* to wear sunglasses regardless of whether I was too lazy to put my contacts in this morning. Or have to track down my glasses after I took out my contacts only to belatedly realize the glasses aren't where I usually put them. Or to be able to see the clock when I wake up blearily wondering what time it is.

Thinking about it, anyway.

I tag thingers: delphia2000, amnellwyvern, sidlj, or_mabinogi, wraith816 and sgflutegirl.

Comments

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

A big, 6'4" puppy, and I'm worried that he likes me so damn much, because it makes me feel like I'm not keeping up and we're doomed as a couple. It can't be a good sign that I have him on rations.

It's a good way to find out if you want to see more of him. And if not, then you'll know.

5. I think I'm going to be the Mata Hari for Halloween this year. I'm in the market for a good, supportive coin bra or bikini top with sequins to build the dress on. Hook me up with links if you see something great. I have most of the jewelry already, but I'm still looking for a headband too--problem is that I need one that looks a little bit vintage and while jewelry from Afghanistan is perfect for the wrists and neck, the headbands seem to be all for modern dancers and too clean looking.

Any Tribal Belly Dance site/shop/vendor will have exactly what you're looking for! I can recommend some places in LA or some sites if you'd like.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_minxy_/]

I may be taking a friend from LA home for the party, so hook me up with stores and I'll see if I can get there. In the meantime, sites would be great! LINKS ARE LOVE.

Only problem is, I'm having trouble getting around to taking the actual classes, so I'm loathe to spend much money on a costume I may well wear the one time only. I may have to suck it up, though.

re: point #1. yeah. I am dreading the work if the former, and the ouch if the latter.

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

There are plenty of options that don't involve buying a whole costume, but your odds of getting coin bra with support is... minimal. Lots of coin bras that go over real bras though. Plus lots of tribal jewelry/headbands.

[katie-m.livejournal.com]

It can't be a good sign that I have him on rations.

I have a friend who had to do this to her boyfriend, and they're now happily married. So, you know, maybe it's that you actually don't like him that much or maybe it's just that you need some time to catch up.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_minxy_/]

Really? That makes me feel a bit better, actually. I hated having the conversation, though, so I don't know if I'm up to policing his enthusiasm in general for things. One time only? That's okay.

[jenlev.livejournal.com]

You are really wonderful you know. *smooch*

And ixnay on guilt for telling the guy to back off.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_minxy_/]

Thanks! You think? I do try to be interesting.

Now I've been around LJ for a while, though, I feel like I've told you guys the big and slightly random stuff about me already, so it was funny just writing in a stream of consciousness way. Hee!

I don't feel too guilty. He's just such a puppy, and I'm worried that there actually isn't that much attraction on my part, and it's a recipe for a much more serious conversation than the one that sent me into a two day bad mood.

[jenlev.livejournal.com]

You are indeed. :::said in Teal'c voice::: Er, which in real life I couldn't do, but it is fun to try in typing. ;)

I hope that if there's that conversation that it goes well. And yes, I do go from zero to over-protective in a nano-second. Take good care of you.

[delphia2000.livejournal.com]

Can't promise I'll meme, but I'll think about it.

Making man back off is not something to feel guilty about. Go at your own pace. He doesn't like it, he can go find someone else to pounce on. Be true to yourself. If it feels like he's crowding you, then he's not THE ONE.

Here's my fav ebay store which has great belly dance stuff. I used to get things for my UK cyberpal when she was dancing.
http://stores.ebay.com/Uniquessentials_W0QQssPageNameZstrkQ3amefsQ3amesstQQtZkm

[http://users.livejournal.com/_minxy_/]

Oooh, they have some hair clips that could compliment the simpler headpiece I found and make it more flambouyant....

Thanks for the link!

[abyssinia4077.livejournal.com]

I am so with you on #1!!!

As for #7 - my mom got it about 7 years ago and has never regretted it. About the second night, the hotel alarm clock went off, having been set for something like 2:30 and while my dad struggled to find it and shut it off, she just exclaimed how amazing it was she could wake up and SEE.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_minxy_/]

I'm like that about alcohol too--I enjoy it, I can and do drink a fair amount of it, but not in the company of people I distrust. So my youthful/fratboy team hasn't seen me tipsy too often.

Yeah about the laser surgery. I'm about there, but I'm going to have to save up a bit.

[thegrrrl2002.livejournal.com]

I second the recommendation to look for sites that sell tribal costumes. Aliah's Closet has a coin bra on sale, actually:

http://www.aliahscloset.com/rcProdmain.asp?id=129

It's a pretty good price! You might also want to check out ShimmyShimmy:

http://www.shimmyshimmy.com/

Good luck! And I hope things go well with your great big puppy. *g*

[http://users.livejournal.com/_minxy_/]

Oh, ShimmyShimmy has some *great* stuff.

The coin bra's (even the covers) perplex me: they expect me to *dance* with that little support??? How does it even stay on? This will take some more research, I think. I may have to go to an actual store and try some on to make sure everything fits. And, you know, is practical.

[thegrrrl2002.livejournal.com]

*g* I'm pretty sure the coin bras go over a real bra--or else they'd be really, really uncomfortable, from the ones I've seen. And they usually hook around the back, like a bra, and probably at your neck, like a halter top.

Most of the time I've seen them worn for dancing under turkish-style vests, the ones with the open front.

[feather-autant.livejournal.com]

I had RK done about 13 years ago, before laser surgery came into vogue-- the kind where they used a scalpel to make cuts! Two days after surgery, I was reading a newspaper propped up on my legs, and suddenly it hit me, that I could *see*. It is, by far, the best money I've ever spent on myself. :D

[http://users.livejournal.com/_minxy_/]

Yeah, you know, I'm about there. I'll just need to save up the money.