Morning meme

[winter]

From applegnat:


1. What time did you get up this morning?
6 AM. Usually I just hit snooze and get another 10 to 30 minutes, but I tripped over the cat today.

2. Diamonds or pearls?
Both. And sapphires and garnets and topazes and opals, too.

3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema?
Brokeback Mountain, as an intro to a marathon of Oscar nominees I'm planning to watch.

4. What is your favourite TV show?
Either Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, or TV Kultura's opera cycle. For some reason we usually have the latter running in the kitchen as background music.

5. What do you usually have for breakfast?
Right now, a Herbalife nutrition shake with either bran or a small grated apple, and Herbalife tea. When I'm not on a diet, it's cinnamon cornflakes and tea.

6. Favourite cuisine?
Either Italian or American done by a European chef. I'm also quite fond of Japanese, Spanish and Vietnamese.

7. What is your middle name?
Catherine, both officially and online.

8. There is no #8.
Boo-hoo.

9. What is your favourite CD at the moment?
Still Tanz der Vampire highlights. Damn you, Steve Barton.

10. What kind of car do you drive?
I don't.

11. Favourite sandwich?
Currently, dark bread with green pesto, Gouda cheese, sauerkraut and ketchup.

12. What characteristic do you despise?
Narrow-mindedness.

13. Favourite item(s) of clothing?
A black pirate-style blouse I have. Elegantly strange, forgiving and OMG comfortable.

14. If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation?
Thailand, and visit that tiger temple.

15. What colour is your bathroom?
Sort of sand-coloured, with seashells.

16. Favourite brand of clothing?
H&M and Marks & Spencer's. C'mon, there aren't many places that stock pants my length!

17. Where would you retire to?
A sprawling manor just outside a big city.

18. What was your most memorable birthday?
Dunno, really. I hate birthdays.

19. Favourite sport to watch?
Men's figure skating.

20. Furthest place you are sending this?
Australia, I guess.

21. Who do you least expect to send this back toyou?
There are some people who don't do memes in general :)

22. Person you expect to send it back first?
Far it to be for me to point fingers at the meme addicts...

23. Favourite saying?
Good girls go to heaven - bad girls go everywhere.

24. When is your birthday?
Seventh of July.

25. Are you a morning person or a night person?
Night person, definitely.

26. What is your shoe size?
41 European. Argh.

27. Pets:
Antonio Panteras and Lestat de Panthercourt. Currently busy pushing each other off the wardrobe. Silly kitties.

28. There is no #28.
Haven't we done this before?

29. What did you want to be when you were little?
An intergalactical law enforcement agent.

30. How are you today?
Sleepy. Fairly happy.

31. What is your favourite candy?
Chocolate truffles, the bitter kind.

32. What is your favourite flower?
Roses, prosaically. And cornflowers, but they don't keep.

33. What is a day on the calendar you are looking forward to?
Fat Thursday's nice, unless you're on a diet.

34. What is your favourite colour?
Black. Failing that, twilight blue and dark red.

Comments

[azarias.livejournal.com]

Curiosity: what's considered American cuisine in Europe?

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Hamburgers, fried chicken, caesar salad, chips, brownies, chocolate-chip cookies, coleslaw, corn on a cob, etc, etc. Both of my favourite malls feature American restaurants (one with a Midwest theme, one Lousianian), and they serve quite decent not-too-processed food. I rather like it - there are times when fancy dishes are not what I'm after.

[smtfhw.livejournal.com]

what's considered American cuisine in Europe?

In the main, we don't consider American cooking to be cuisine...

[winter]

Aw c'mon. Louisiana food's pretty decent, at least :P

[smtfhw.livejournal.com]

OK, I'll give you that...

[azarias.livejournal.com]

Ouch ^_^

She did say there's a Louisianian restaurant -- that, at least, is real food. (Even if I've yet to find a gumbo north of I-10 that I'd trust.)

[muzivitch.livejournal.com]

And neither do we =D I'm in the US, and the American cuisines that I can think of tend to be fusions - Pacific Rim fusion, Southwest fusion.

Fried chicken, brownies, hamburgers, etc., on the other hand, is just food. Good food, but all the same.

[applegnat.livejournal.com]

Antonio Panteras. :D :D :D

[winter]

In memory of the Right Hon. Lady Panther, of course :) Also, he makes the exact same faces as Antonio Banderas - all big eyes and "I'm cute, am I not?"

[smtfhw.livejournal.com]

14. If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation?
Thailand, and visit that tiger temple.

Yes, it looks utterly amazing...

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I caught a special about it on Animal Planet around Christmas. This giant tiger sucking on a monk's thumb like a baby kitten - I just melted :D

[sukeban.livejournal.com]

Just curiosity #2: what are your favourite Spanish dishes? :3

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I can't name any right now - it's more a question of being able to go to a Spanish restaurant and order blindly, knowing that I'll probably like it. Alas, I don't get the opportunity to indulge often. My longest exposure was Ixart's cooking in Ireland - what that guy could do with a prosaic omelette was unbelievable.