Another round of "ask me questions"

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I must have done this meme at least twice now, but what the hey. Snagged from dawnofme on this go-round.

The problem with LJ: we all think we are so close, but really, we know nothing about each other. So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Ask away. Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don't know about you!

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[beloved-77.livejournal.com]

What's the most embarrassing thing that ever happened to you?

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Hmm... well, I know there have been some moments, but I guess it's a good thing that I can't really remember anything that would qualify as "most embarrassing." Uh... I did ask a guy on a date once, with his girlfriend standing right there, so that was a heaping load of awkward. Actually, I usually tend to humiliate myself in front of cute guys, which may be why I'm still single.

[scarlett2u.livejournal.com]

1) What holiday gift makes you cringe?

2) What holiday gift makes you squee?

3) What's your favorite candy bar?

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1. Something I don't want or don't need. In high school, I had a boyfriend who would buy me expensive, useless knickknacks that made me cringe. I tried to tell him nicely that he was just wasting money on stuff that would sit and collect dust, but he didn't seem to care, despite not really being able to afford it.

2. Clothes - I can never have enough clothes, especially when it's my aunt doing the buying. She has great fashion sense, but it's wasted on her boys, so I get to be the daughter she never had.

3. Mmmmm, how can I choose? Toss up between Snickers and Reese's.

[brunettepet.livejournal.com]

What was your favorite family vacation?

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Haha, I usually think the most recent one is my favorite, although my mom and I agreed that Ireland was not our best trip (mainly due to the non-family we took with us). But lately we've been traveling in twos, either my parents by themselves or just me and my mom.

So I guess I'd say the best family vacation was the last one my mom and dad and I all went on together. The summer before my sophomore year of college, we went to Florida. We swam with dolphins at Discovery Cove, drove race cars at the Richard Petty Driving School, and then went to the beach on the Gulf Coast. We stayed in a beautiful condo (where my mom walked into a sliding glass door three times), and we found a stretch of beach that was practically empty, so it was like our own private beach.

[larabeckinsale.livejournal.com]

I have some questions?

1.What's your favorit flower, color and smell?
2.What's your favorite fictional couple? And why?
3.What inspires you to write?
4.Do you have a hero? I mean a person that you really admire and take as role model?
5.What's your favorite holiday?

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1. Flower - rose, color - blue, smell - baking cookies

2. Probably Spike and Buffy, since they're the only ones I've ever been inspired to write about. And I like them because they're both such complex characters, and have such a complicated relationship, that the story possibilities are endless.

3. Er, Spike and Buffy? lol... Really, I don't know what inspires me - if I did, I'd try to do it all the time, so that I was always writing. A good story idea can inspire me, I guess, although that's only part of it.

4. Not really. I always had trouble with the "who's your role model?" essays in school. I mean, if I think about it, I can point out people whose careers I'd like to have, but I don't actively think, "I want to be like this person."

5. Christmas, there's so much good stuff that goes with it.

[silverusagi]

What's the scariest thing that's ever happened to you?

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Hmm, I almost hate to give this the title of "scariest thing ever" because it pisses me off so much, but probably when my high school boyfriend and I broke up. One of his jackass friends decided to fuck with me by sending me anonymous IMs about how he was going to kill me. It was all typical horror-movie "I'm watching you, wait till you're alone" shit, so I kind of didn't want to take it seriously, but this was after my ex had verbally threatened to kill me and any guy I dated, and tried to pick a fight with one of my guy friends over me, so it still freaked me out.

I ended up telling my parents, who made me report it to the school police officer, which got my ex in trouble (I didn't know it was his friend doing it at the time). He retaliated by having his mother write a letter to the principal complaining that I was spreading rumors he had a small penis (which I wasn't). And... you know what? Forget what I said to IB - that conversation with the principal was the most embarrassing thing I've ever experienced.