Dance merry meme. Dance! Dance! *thwick thiwick*

Which of these am I? (from Cat) (no I dunno how to post links effectively... I not very experienced with LJ actually)

leader/follower
quiet/talkative
spontaneous/planned
dominant/submissive
logical/intuitive
social/loner
kinky/vanilla
introvert/extrovert
creative/practical
pessimist/optimist
sweet/sarcastic

one last entry before sleep

I mentioned fearlessness in a couple of different places with different ideas
and honour..

Those who've known me a long time (Hi Thwap!) know I've led kind of a strange life.
I'm not sure -how- strange....
Because of places I've been I have very little fear of anything - except this. I sometimes scare people. I sometimes scare them silly.
Part of the fearlessness I look for is because sometimes -I- can be scary.
Yay I know some of you out there will laugh at that one.

Dinna worry 'bout it.

Oh that and my general fearlessness in a lot of areas will mean I drag people into all -kinds- of strange situations. Bet some of y'all out there know what I mean too *g*. Or am part of a group doing the dragging. I'm not worried. I dinna need to be in charge, just part of the action....

Strangely I suspect Cat will answer this first... I suspect she's led (in her own way) a life as twisted and strange and surreal....

Oh - and honour. Honour means more to me than life. It has kept me alive in situations that some folks have nightmares of -seeing- let alone being part of. I'm not good at describing my code of honour - it's based partly on Arthurian, partly on my own family and partly on street survival honour. I will die before I break honour - and anyone who forces me into it can risk this happening. It almost did this year... I do NOT know what's in my code really - other than what's allowed and forbidden. Some pieces:

• Family first
  
• Friends who are close ARE family. No difference. Well not really. I have a really big family....
  
• To harm a child - forbidden - and if it's someone else - they MUST be punished. Hard to resist this one.
  
• I do NOT declare fealty unless I am truely bound by it. When I swear loyalty, it's for life and it could -mean- a life.
  
• I will always help if I can.
  
• Everyone I value is worth more than I. After all, they are worthy people. I have a blindness to my own worth - probably a good thing.
  
• I -am- a berserker. This is a problem as I -cannot- control it. Direct it to some extent but not control it. I thank all that is sacred that I have never killed when I've been berserk - or even hurt anyone in -years-. That capacity is there and much of my honour protects me and those around from this. I have to live with the fact that inside I'm dangerous. It's my job to make sure that never gets out.
  
• I will not (willingly) lie. I -can- speak/write sarcastically, tongue in cheak or whatever. It will always be obvious though. At least to me... and to those who know me well.
  
• I am well aware that most of the time I do not know what is going on. However I trust my own view of it. Please feel free to tell me information that repairs this!
  
• I cannot forgive someone who twists my trust. That (type of) person has no safety near me and should stay away.
  
• If I (knowingly or probably much more likely unknowingly) break a trust the punishment for myself is severe. Don't ask. don't ever ask.
  
• I -try- to thank anyone who does me a good turn. Somehow...
  
• I stay loyal. And I trust. As long a person remains true to themselves - I will trust what they say. It probably isn't safe to lie to me actually - because I -will- believe it.
  
• Never give up. (giving up is bad)
  
• Always do everything possible to finish a job (failure is bad)
  
• A broken thing should be fixed.
  
• Find the faith in a person. Everyone needs faith in themselves.
  
• Trust your friends. Someone who has trust is likely to live up to it.
  

I am weak on boundaries. That's another thing.... Always keep them clear.

oh where my name (winterlion) came from

one day, many many moons ago, I spent some time living a very ... harsh.. life in Calgary. I didn't exactly take the best care of myself at that time and when I went north for christmas my family described me as looking "feral". Not far from the truth really....

Anyways, I like to go for long walks. One particularily nice day I went for a walk (I think it was a balmy -20, with light snow falling). When I got home and came in from the cold, my mother called me a "lion walking in from the winter". I liked that description and we talked for a bit. The feral thing came up at that point....
Anyways, I liked the name. So I kept it. Used it online often enough to become comfortable with it.

I am not the kind of person who normally takes a handle. If I take on a name, it must be one I can fill to fullness - one that I am part of and it is part of me.

I love the winter. I love walking in snow. I'm not terribly fond of -40 I'll admit though... -20 was fine.
I love the look of horefrost. (and it was neat having it in my beard and hair at the time *g*)
I love rain (it isn't snow). Fort St John's prone to 8 month winters..... It's nice to have a break from that.
I love the excuse to cuddle. Winter is FULL of excuses to cuddle. Unsubtle hint

That is a longer story of where I got my name. I doubt it will get longer *g*. After all, a tale has to have a tuft at the end....

Good morning world!

Well who'd ha thunk it
(quick aside - my 'puter clock is set to GMT. Linux prefers it and windows is confused. Poor foolish stupid windows....)
Anyways. It's somewhere before 10am on a nice sunday morning. Been up for a bit. Noodles and cheese sauce - a special meal for me - is what I had for brekkie. My own recipe actually *g*.
Ever notice how much -dye- they put in cheddar these days? I don't remember my cheese sauce ever turning orange before (unless I added fake-cheese-mix *g*)

Listening to two more of the groups I'm fond of.... Therion (oooh operatic death metal *g*) and Rammstein (verry silly fire-dominated Austrian heavy metal). I definitely have to play some Manowar later....
Oh quick Manowar aside - they're a (British?) heavy metal group from the 80s, fond of singing about Norse gods (and legends of various things). They have a nice rendition of Achilles (Achilles - Agony and Exctasy in 8 parts) for instance. Their "Crown and the Ring" -is- opera. My mother doesn't mind them... (she's not much into opera and tends not to like anything heavy) and once found a fan site in the Netherlands when she did a search on her own name - which had her grinning *g*. Oh, my younger brother's wife's fond of them *g* Anyways...
I -do- like music all over the spectrum....

Oohh rain and sun outside. Wonder where the rainbow is? Except that kinda looks like sleet. Pretty anyways.

Muddling through "The Shadow Matrix" by Marion Zimmer Bradley.... Some of the social stuff she's ascribing to the federation in her books is starting to REALLY resemble US policy for the last few years... I wonder what she's suggesting?
I think I like Darkover for the most part. It reminds me of the better parts of Canada strangely....

Favorite movies: (Yes I watch movies sometimes) These are ones I can pretty much watch repeatedly...
Anything by Hayao Miyazaki - but especially Spirited Away, Laputa and Tonari no Totoro. Okay ESPECIALLY Totoro.
Lawrence of Arabia (lots of reasons. My grandfather was a mercenary in Lawrence's armies....
Fiddler on the Roof. (again more memories. Lots of stuff reminds me of Oma+Opa. Also my grandfather rescued his home town (a mennonite community) in Russia after the revolution in the same time setting... I've not only got what I've been told but a letter from my Great Aunt (who was 10 then).
Labyrinth
Sirens
Don Juan DeMarco (well I find some of Don Juan's language... oddly remote though. Kinda familiar though)
I did say Totoro right? Reminds me of Autumn - she was 3 at the time and she watched that (Japanese with English subtitles) every time she visited... for about 6 months. If that says anything *g*
Kiki's Delivery service. (Hayao Miyazaki). I have a picture on my desk of my niece and nephew - she dressed as Kiki and him as Gigi (a black cat). Autumn ran around with a broom for -weeks- after watching that show. Anything that can get kids -that- enthralled (and -that- happy too) has probably got some good to it...
Secondhand Lions. okay it's a little "hollywood". Reminds me of family all over the place too. Gave a copy to me mom+stepdad and they -love- it.
Girl, Interrupted. umm I canna say much other than reminds me of life.
To Wan Foo, and Thanks for Everything
Tank Girl (and I have a friend who reminds me of the main character - namingly Serena)
Practical Magic (and I want my copy back)

There are others too. Lots of others... Just figured I'd mention these... I just spilled water on my keyboard though so I prolly should shut this thing down....