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beanbeans posted that fun question meme, so I just had to do it again. I find it fun to see what interesting questions people will come up with. What they are curious about when it comes to me. :-) (Considering I am an open book...)

So. Here is the meme:

• Leave me a comment saying "Resistance is Futile."



• I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can satisfy my curiosity.



• Update your journal with the answers to the questions.



• Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions.

And here are the questions, with answers, that beanbeans asked me:

1) What traditional dish have you cooked that one of your family member taught you how to make?

My mom was the one that taught me how to cook, so I guess she is the one that was my first teacher. :-) Second teacher would be peting73, since he really rocks in the kitchen. ;-)

Anyway, traditional swedish food... Well. She did teach me how to make swedish meatballs with mashed potatoes, of course and swedish pancakes (homemade jam, I know how to do that to, although it is bloody boring). Quite simple stuff. I also got thought, partly by my father and my mother, how do take care off half a pig.

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Yes. You read that right. *laugh* My father grew up on a farm and also helped his brother (who inherited the farm) to take care off it. As a thank you we always got free milk and meat from said farm during my years growing up. Including half a pig each winter. The whole family worked together to take care off it. And although I think the smell is disgusting (it makes me feel ill), I do know how to take care off it. How to make minced meat, special swedish Christmas sausage, and how to make a swedish Christmas ham from scratch (thanx mom).

Mom also thought me a kickass recipe how to make apple puré (to use instead of jam). It all boils down to her mother, my grandmother and also her sister that thought my mom all these things and my fathers mother and father who thought him.

If I got the right equipment, I could probably do that stuff again. :-) Havn't done it since I moved away from home (mom got the right equipment). Not something you do in an afternoon, though. It takes a day or more. :-P

2) How did you discover the Xena fandom?

Well, there I blame the americans. *laugh* I did live in the US for a year, between March 1996 to March 1997 in Londonderry, New Hampshire. In an awesome, awesome family. Father, Captain in the army, mother working in health-care, and three INSANE kids! I had my hands full that year. They were a lot of fun though, geeks to the bone. :-) And once a week the whole family gathered around to watch both Hercules the Legendary Journeys and Xena WarriorPrincess. They invited me to join them once, when I was not out and about with other aupairs, and I did. And got hooked on Xena on the spot. When I got home, I bought the whole thing on video-tapes. This year, I have replaced them with a DVD-box containing the entire series.

Sadly, I lost contact with this awesome family. I wonder what they do now? If they are still geeks all off them? *ponders*

3) What will you get for your next tattoo, and why would you choose it?

I do have an idea for a tattoo, yes. It is a secret though. Sorry! It will be revealed when the time is right, promise!. ;-)

Other tattoos I'd like to do, is to add more Disney tattoos to my back, since I have been a Disney freak since a little girl. I have a subscription to the swedish Donald Duck magazine. I got that subscription when I was 6 years old... I have Uncle Scrooge McDuck on my shoulder/back as a young gold-digger, and I'd like to have more characters from the stories of his young days there, like the forefathers of the Beagle Boys or Glittering Goldie O'Gilt or Flintheart Glomgold. I am a huge, huge fan off the works of Don Rosa, and especially his epic work The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck. Nothing like it.

I'd also like, one day, to give one of the bigger tattoo-artists around here free reign on a part of my body. That would be awesome. Maybe to make a memorial tattoo for my father, and a tattoo symbolizing my mother? That has been on my mind to... We'll see... There is plenty of skin left!

Next body-mood I'll do will be one more piercing in my left ear (making them 5 there, and three in my right) and a piercing in my lip, left corner. Probably sometime this Christmas. My mom will have a fit.

4) What is your favorite character to play in the rpgs that you play most?

Oh, my gawd. There are so, so many characters that I have played during the years as a LARPer and as a roleplayer. And online to, on LJ. It all depends on the game, really.

I started out in a Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 game where I played an unstoppable gnome warrior that acted much like a terrier... Tiny but with an attitude bigger then a castle. She was tough to, and could take on a ton of enemies despite being so small. Her traveling companions didn't really like her much, since she wasn't very smart.... But as soon as trouble arose, they all hid behind her. She was fun. :-)

Now, when it comes to pen paper games, I must mention Talutha Nita, since the setting for that game, Deadlands, is so different. :-) She is quite awesome though. A woman sioux warrior that stands both bigger and taller then most men. And is a constant drunk. She can't function without alcohol. And she can't speak english very well, making it difficult to talk to some off her traveling companions. Despite this, she is nice to those that she trusts, but piss her off (or steal her liquor) and she'll be extremely bloodthirsty...

In the LARP, I must point out three characters that I have had the most fun with.
One, Lili von Carlost, the stone cold Ventrue vampire that was just as ruthless in a fight on the streets as she was in financial business... She was awesome. :-) So much action and drama with her (she had a lover to!). I played her for two years straight.
Then there was Sarah Everett, a servant to a vampire. Well, plenty vampires really. Her Masters had a tendency to die off or sell her to the highest bidder. She had a tough time. She was a mechanic specializing in extreme costume worked cars. And she was a street-racer almost impossible to beat. Really cocky, but always, always submissive to her Master (whichever one in order it might have been...). She was a lot of fun to play. I think I played her for... 1 year or so?
And then there is my current character Rose Valentine. Partly based on Drusilla from Buffy. Although, I must say, sometimes Rose is worse then Dru. She really puts the monster in Monster... And now she is involved in a love story with another... very quirky character named Bielke. It can only go downhill from here... *laugh*

When I play online, on LJ. I must say, Xander. Xander Harris. :-) So much fun I have had with this character in various games, I can't even start. In one-on-ones with various other... female characters... Or he has ended up with two other characters after him... *cough* Or, as the thing is with Xander, being the only sorta normal human being in a setting. But thats why I like him so much. He is just a regular guy. A geek. Bullied in school. And still, he stands up for himself, he dares to do the things he really fears. And he never ever gives up. :-)

5) Who was your favorite teacher when you were in school- any age- and why?

Hmm.... Two teachers that has left there mark on me.
My first teacher that I had between 7-9 years old. So, so gentle but firm. She (and my mother) gave me my love for books. Alway fair and always kind. She still recognizes me when I see her in my home town. She still gets a hug. :-)
And then the teacher I had between 13-15 years old. Also a woman, I first was a afraid off her, I remember. She was younger then most of the other teachers at that school and quite firm. A gym-teacher as well, and I hated gym, being big and clumsy. She was awesome though, encouraging us who wasn't that good at gym. And she always gave grades on how much you tried, not how good you were. That I think is fair. :-) So, after my first fear off her, we got along fine those years and she was a great support for me since I was badly bullied during those years.