Soldier Boy

the muse seems to have awoken from his slumber for a bit. I’m going to save the analyzing for later and just enjoy it; I’ve missed him.

Meet Cute: John Porter

 

1.) What was your first impression of me?

hate to see you leave, but love to watch you go

 

2.) What is your idea of a truly romantic evening with me?

when we start out slow dancing to romantic music, but end with you… being you.

Hey Macarena!

 

3.) Something that you’d like to change in me but don’t have the nerve to tell me

your housekeeping skills

Living Room: done.

 

4.) Which 3 parts of my body are your favorites, and why?

your tummy, because I have a thing for your navel

 

your arms, because I have a thing for your biceps

 

and your gun, just because

 

5.) 3 qualities that attracted you when we first met, or once you got to know me

Helpful

 

Thoughtful

 

Never Give Up

outta my way! The Walking Dead is on!

 

6.) What is our favorite movie to watch together, and our favorite song?

movie: Love Actually because, Mark 

song: Same Old Me and You because, there’s just something about that guy who sings it!

 

7.) Fruit or vegetable I resemble, and why

Eggplant. no reason.

 

8.) Our first date, where did it take place and what did we do?

we were on opposing teams of a Paintball war. I get a little crazed playing wargames. I like to taunt my victims, I mean opponents, before shooting them. you said you liked the wild look in my eyes, it intrigued you. well, first it terrified you, then it intrigued you. we started dating a week later, after you recovered.

red is the color of love

 

9.) If we hadn’t met, where would you be right now?

Farmersonly dot com

 

10.) What was on your mind the last time we were intimate?

I’m a human, not a sandwich

 

11.) What was the first thing we said to one another?

 

big words for someone who was cowering at my feet. so cute!!

 

12.) What do you like the best about me?

how well you take orders

such a good soldier boy

 

It’s In His Kiss

I answer the Meet Cute questions again, this time with John Proctor doing the asking.

 

Meet Cute: John Proctor

 

1.) What was your first impression of me?

quiet nature, hard worker, with an understated splash of pizzazz

and I do a little turn on the catwalk

 

2.) What is your idea of a truly romantic evening with me?

when you “pretend” that you don’t like my cooking but don’t want to hurt my feelings, so you distract me by randomly reenacting scenes from Shakespeare. *whispers* I forget the salt on purpose.

But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?

 

3.) Something that you’d like to change in me but don’t have the nerve to tell me

you’re too competitive when playing Musical Chairs at parties. calm down, honey! seriously.

this is why we never go out anymore

 

4.) Which 3 parts of my body are your favorites, and why?

your beard, because I like to feel it brush against my face when we kiss.  your hands, because I like the way they wander when we kiss. and your lips, because I like the way you kiss. a lot.

shoop, shoop, shoop, shoop

 

5) 3 qualities that attracted you when we first met, or once you got to know me

you’re strong, confident, and very romantic

*swoon*

 

6.) What is our favorite movie to watch together, and our favorite song?

we don’t really have a favorite movie, but we’ve been watching a lot of Worst Cooks in America. you say I’d win that competition, hands down. we do have a favorite song though, it’s Hysteria by Def Leppard.

 

7.) Fruit or vegetable I resemble, and why

an onion, because you’re really good at peeling off layers

note: this gif is broken. it’s going the wrong way.

 

8.) Our first date, where did it take place and what did we do?

my father insisted you have dinner at his house. afterwards you and I stepped outside for some educational stargazing. we ended up in the storage shed instead, which turned out to be educational in it’s own right

me, looking for Orion’s Belt

Father found us and was not happy! he started yelling about hoes and gardens but I wasn’t paying attention…

 

9.) If we hadn’t met, where would you be right now?

in the shadows. watching. always, watching.

 

10.) What was on your mind the last time we were intimate?

garden tools

the long-handled kind

 

11.) What was the first thing we said to one another?

You: your hand looks heavy, let me hold it for you

Me: ohhh

 

 12.) What do you like the best about me?

when you sing in the shower

love in an elevator. livin it up when I’m goin down

 

 

Meet Cute

Around Valentine’s Day I came across a little Q&A that I found kind of cute. it asked questions about your partner but made it seem like they were the one asking, “what was your first impression of me? what do you like the best about me?” I plugged in my own answers in relation to my husband and had a nice walk down memory lane. then I got to thinking about different Richard Armitage characters, imagining the questions coming from them and, well, you know me: a new Challenge is born!

Meet Cute: Francis Dolarhyde

 

1.) What was your first impression of me?

shy, maybe a little creepy, with intensity simmering underneath

I’m sorry I slammed the door & woke you up! overreact much?

 

2.) What is your idea of a truly romantic evening with me?

when we play hide-n-seek at your house!

ready or not, here I come…

 

3.) Something that you’d like to change in me but don’t have the nerve to tell me

your eating habits are atrocious. there, I said it!

can you close your mouth please? the neighbors can hear you chewing

 

4.) Which 3 parts of my body are your favorites, and why?

your overall physique because you’re very fit and it conveys power. your tattoo because you seem to like it so much and it gives you confidence. your fingers because, well, just because.

 

5.) 3 qualities that attracted you when we first met, or once you got to know me

you’re unpredictable, sometimes vulnerable, but also confident. sometimes overly so.

yes, I know you’re super fast honey, that’s why you always win at Hide-n-Seek

 

6.) What is our favorite movie to watch together, and our favorite song?

movie: How to Train Your Dragon, song: Every Breath You Take

 

7.) Fruit or vegetable I resemble, and why

Plum, because it’s sweet & juicy but can kill you if you’re not careful

sugarplum is also my pet name for you, but you already know that ❤

 

8.) Our first date, where did it take place and what did we do?

it was at your house. you cooked me dinner, then we watched an artsy film together

not really my thing but you seemed to be into it

 

next I saw your workout space in the attic, where you showed off a little

 

then we wrapped up the evening with some fun role-play.

Lion Tamer is my favorite!

 

9.) If we hadn’t met, where would you be right now?

at home by myself. well, me and all my cats.

 

10.) What was on your mind the last time we were intimate?

I was thinking it’s time you come up with a new monologue

I love you sweetie but it’s become routine

 

11.) What was the first thing we said to one another?

you asked me how I got into your house. I said with a glass cutter. things progressed from there.

True Love

 

12.) What do you like the best about me?

you make the best shadow puppets I’ve ever seen

you’re so talented, baby!

 

 

 

Survey Says

Last week I participated in a questionnaire for the Liebster Award. I then nominated a few bloggers and provided questions for them to answer. Preoccupied with Armitage and Ancient Armitage have since answered the questions on their own blogs and passed the nominations forward. So now I’m going to answer my own questions. I enjoy doing this because it makes me really stop and think about what I like/don’t like and why, instead of just giving rote answers. okay, here goes:

 

1.) is there a song you like different versions, covers, of? which is your favorite?

I enjoy song covers in general. I find it interesting to see how different artists emphasize certain parts of a song or even change it completely. “Hallelujah” is a song cover that I enjoy various versions of, though I prefer the Rufus Wainwright version. Some think it’s a depressing song but I find beauty in it’s realism. how love can make us lose ourselves in negative ways, yet we keep coming back for more.

She tied you to a kitchen chair
She broke your throne, and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

don’t look at me like that Guy, it’s a metaphor!

Most of the lyrics do center around the bleak retelling of a past relationship, but it includes lyrics like this as well:

 

And remember when I moved in you
The holy dove was moving too
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah

like that one better, do you? (me too)

2.) what is something that you’re afraid of that you’d like to force yourself to face?

my aversion to drinking alcohol. not that I want to force myself to like it but I close myself off to the possibility that I could.  I learned, by trial and error, not to trust what anyone said while drinking. It wasn’t the negative things said that were the problem, it was the positive. It messes with your psyche when people can only give you compliments while under the influence, show you affection while chasing a buzz, share their hidden fears and desires with you while struggling to remain conscious- and then walking right past you without a second glance when they’re sober.

 

3.) what is your favorite footware of Richard’s?

The boots. any and all kinds.

 

4.) what is your favorite photography subject?

paths

 

5.) what is a habit of yours that you’d like to break?

procrastination. I somehow see it as a control issue: you can’t make me do this until I’m good and ready to do so! but then if I”m never really ready and it’s something that I should/have to do, then I’m late or at least down to the very last minute. it’s annoying to me and I’m sure doubly annoying to others.

 

6.) have you ever had a dream about Richard Armitage? share a short summary.

My sister had come for a visit (I don’t actually have a sister), so I was cooking a big dinner for her and our family. We sat down to eat and the adults suddenly started snickering because apparently I was the worst cook ever and could even mess up boiling water. Richard dumped salt, like heaping mounds of it, over everyone’s plates to save them from my horrible cooking. I dejectedly arose from the table and started cleaning up while my sister declared we were having cake & ice cream for dinner, making the kids cheer. Afterwards Richard felt bad, so he invited me out onto the porch with him, where I perched myself on his knee as he kissed my head in apology…the end. 

 

he was a jerkface & I was pathetic; good times!

whot? hand over the salt!

7.) what was the first professional play you saw and how did it affect you?

Peter Pan, when I was 17 years old. I was fascinated to see how the story was brought to life. It was a smaller production so although Peter did fly, some of the sets where just tricks of light and shadows instead of elaborate sets, which I found very inventive.

 

8.) what has been your least favorite pet that you owned and why?

my pet mouse, Pat. he was mean and put me in embarrassing situations.

 

9.) if you could insert yourself into a RA film as an original character, which would it be and how would you effect the outcome of the story?

Since I can only share one example, though I have several (active daydreamer, remember!) I’m going to go with the Into the Storm version where I’m Kaitlyn’s single mother who teams up with Gary to find our missing children. we get together in the end, which may prove awkward for Donnie.

Trey: did you hear the good news? Dad bought Kaitlyn’s mom a ring! Donnie: FML.

10.) what is your favorite movie about classical mythology?

up until a few years ago I would have quickly answered “Clash of the Titans” because there wasn’t really much else to choose from. We have several more movies that could fit into this category now, but I tend to get them all mixed up. Which one cooked people alive inside that big metal cow? I’ll go with that one…

 

11.) share a random Richard Armitage related confession

Thorin has become one of my favorite RA characters, and that was a development I did not anticipate. I liked him instantly in The Hobbit: an unexpected journey but he was pretentious, had long hair, and I knew his story ended with him succumbing to the gold sickness and acting like a spoiled brat; kind of killed the swoon factor. But now he’s really grown on me and I respect him immensely (collecting all of the fan quotes for The Thorin Project greatly aided in this). When I saw the recent conclusion to his story, I didn’t look at him as being a spoiled brat but someone who had very human faults that he tried to fight and overcome. I have very warm feelings towards Thorin now, and when you factor in that it’s because of him that I was drawn into my Richard Armitage Admiration to begin with, he holds a special place in my heart that even Harry can’t touch.

he’s a snazzy dresser as well

 

Danke

So, supersonicsonja from the Off to NewZealand blog nominated me, amongst others, for the Liebster blogging award. that’s German for favorite or beloved. aww, I feel all warm and fuzzy now!

I said warm and fuzzy, not stuffed and itchy

This award is intended to spread the blogging love and promote other blogs by linking to the person who nominated you, nominating 5 or more blogs yourself, answering a set of questions that were posed to you and then coming up with your own questions for those you nominate. I love answering questions! (as my list of many “challenges” clearly shows!) and so I’ve spent a happy morning completing this fun task, instead of the terrifying task I had planned of cleaning my 10 year old daughter’s room

just don’t look, it’s safer that way

so let’s get down to business, because you know I”m not going to give one word answers to these things, it might take awhile… The rules are as follows:

 

1. Thank the person who nominated you and link their blog into your post.

2. Answer 11 questions which you have been asked by the nominating blogger.

3. Nominate 5 to 11 other bloggers who have less than 1.000 followers.

4. Add a new list of 11 questions for the nominated bloggers.

5. Paste these rules into your post.

6. Make sure your nominees know about your post and their nomination.

on to the list of questions that were asked of me, with my answers. these ones are all music based.

1.) What are you listening to right now?

Hozier’s “Take Me to Church”

I really like both the sound and the lyrics to this song, it’s a little depressing but comforting at the same time. I prefer the upfront romantic view of the song instead of the vast world issues angle, but particularly the way he uses the word church to illustrate his feelings of adoration and struggle in regards to the relationship. I watched the video to this song once and it was not what I expected it to be (as seems to be the case more and more these days), it was about a relationship that wasn’t the social norm but focused more on the reactions of society: two gay men who were hunted down by their bigoted neighbors and made to pay a horrible price for their relationship. very sad and upsetting.

 

2.) Song that gives you the creeps? Why?

The Cost of Freedom by Crosby, Stills, and Nash & Young

The lyrics to this one always scared me as a child, “Mother Earth will swallow you, lay your body down”. I always pictured a black hole type effect of everything in my house being sucked down into a bottomless pit or something *Eeek!*

 

3.) What’s your favorite country and who would feature in a soundtrack for that country?

My favorite country(besides my own) would be Scotland and the song that would have to be on the soundtrack is Toad the Wet Sprocket’s “Windmills”. When I took my trip to Scotland this past summer I had an excellent view from the air of all the big white windmills, as the plane circled to land. as fate would have it, this song was playing on my mp3 player. So now I always associate this song with Scotland.

 

4.) Which song do you put on when you have to do a chore (like tidying up)?

Beastie Boys “Brass Monkey” ! Beastie Boys are fun and impossible to sit still to. I don’t dance per se, but I do jerk my head and arms around to the beat while dramatically reciting the dialogue parts of the song. it’s always embarrassing when someone witnesses it, for both them and me.

 

5.) Up-tempo or slow?

Generally I prefer slow but I do like to listen to dance music occasionally too. I don’t like things that are too noisy though (my younger Punk Rock loving self is rolling her eyes at that statement)

 

6.) If you could be part of a band (past and present) which one would you choose?

“Spice Girls” because I wanted to be each of them, at one time or another

 

7.) Vinyl or Digital? Why?

Digital because the sound quality is better and it’s more convenient. I do have a deep appreciation for Vinyl though. When I was young one of my favorite pasttimes was listening to my collection of 45rpms that my aunts handed down to me. there was everything in there: Carly Simon, Don McLean, The Kinks, Elvis, The Jackson Five and random goofy songs like “The Purple People Eater” and “Yackety-Yak”. good times!

 

8.) Think of your favorite non-music artist/hero/person from history- which song reminds you of him/her?

My favorite person from history would have to be Abraham Lincoln. Aside from his accomplishments as President during the Civil War, he was also a very witty guy who was full of comforting wisdom. The song I’d pick to associate with him would be The Beatles “Let it Be”.

 

9.) Favorite genre of music?

I really like the softer acoustic stuff, this generally falls within the Rock genre for me.

 

10.) The first ever concert you went to?

Def Leppard, the “Hysteria” tour. I was greatly impressed with the laser light show. my favorite song came from an earlier album though, “Photograph”. those lyrics still seem relevant to my life…

 

11.) Your top 10 playlist *ever*?

way to throw in an easy question there at the end. Holy Cannoli! I’m not sure I can do that question justice without a whole heck of a long time to think first, so just off the top of my head I’ll go with these ones:

Wild Boys by Duran Duran

The Wind by Cat Stevens

She’s the One by World Party

Shaking the Tree by Peter Gabriel

Into the Mystic by Van Morrison

All You Need is Love by The Beatles

Haunted by Shane MacGowan & Sinead O’Connor

Won’t Go Home Without You by Maroon 5

Changes by David Bowie

Call and Answer by BareNaked Ladies

 

Okay, now the next part:

who I’m nominating and the set of questions that I’m asking them. now you may have noticed that this is a Richard Armitage inspired blog. so I pretty much stay within the RA fandom circle because my Internet time is too lengthy as it is. I don’t have time to venture out into other worlds much and when I do, well, I get easily distRActed.

So while some of the people I’m nominating blog about things other than Richard Armitage, their blogs all include him as well. I’m nominating:

 

FunkyBlueDandelion

RichardTreeHouse

Obsessive Behavior

Preoccupied with Armitage

Ancient Armitage

I’ve tried to tailor at least some of my 11 questions to each of their interests, besides Richard Armitage, but I’ve included some about him too- along with a few random ones. Please don’t feel like you have to participate if coming up with the answers is stressful or time consuming for you, this is just supposed to be something fun. (I’ll be answering these questions myself in another post, because I’m me and I can’t pass up a questionnaire, even if I made it myself!

 

1.) Is there a song that you like different versions, i.e.covers of?  which is your favorite?

2.) What is something you’re afraid of that you’d like to force yourself to face?

3.)  What is your favorite footware of Richard’s?

4.) What is your favorite photography subject to view? (flowers, buildings, etc. not RA)

5.) What is a habit of yours that you’d like to break?

6.) Have you ever had a dream about Richard Armitage? share a short summary

7.) What was the first professional play/musical that you saw and how did it affect you?

8.) What has been your least favorite pet that you’ve owned and why?

9.) If you could insert yourself into a RA film as an original character, which would it be and how would you effect the outcome of the story?

10.) What is your favorite movie about classical mythology?

11.) share a random Richard Armitage related confession

Okay, I’m done.

*I just noticed that FunkyBlueDandelion was nominated from the same person I was. very cool since the questions were all music based but not so cool that I repeated the nomination. see what I mean: distRActed…