Another meme

I love memes! And I'm digging ICLW! And I'm so stealing this from Mrs. Gamgee (cause she rules as well).

1) If you could live in any country but the US, where would you live? Somewhere in the UK/somewhere very green.

2) Why did you title your blog “The Dreamer and The Realist”? I'm a dreamer. I could sit for hours, watching the clouds drift lazily by, soaking up the sun and the dirt and letting the 300-ring circus imagination go where it wants. The other half is a realist. He'd be sitting beside me, holding up an umbrella so I don't get rained on, complaining that the ground is too hard or there's a stick poking him or he's hungry/thirsty/tired. He sees the world as it is - unfair and obnoxious and hard-lines-and-boxes; I see it as I want it to be - fluffy clouds and fair play and rounded corners.

3) How many “in real life” people know about your blog? There's a few. I know I have 16 on-blog followers (not a clue how many in a Reader), and only about half I know personally.

4) Why did you decide to start blogging? On a whim. Just someplace I could come and write and vent. I've kept journals since I was eight (don't have them all, though), so this seemed like a natural transition. I started it when we were trying to have children, and I'm still doing it even though we've decided against the little buggers.

5) What kind of clothes do you wear? As casual as I can. My favorite outfit is my khaki shorts or bootcut jeans, a tie-dyed tee, and either my airwalk sandals or my Doc Marten Mary Janes.

6) What are you having for dinner tonight? Tacos and a musical :)

7) Where do you “blog”? Blogger. O, wait, you meant physically. On my ass, on the bed in the bedroom.

8) Do you like to cook? I love to cook. I hate cleaning up, but it's what I end up doing since Mr Realist is kinda lazy about that.

9) What’s your beverage of choice at night? There is always a bottle or glass of water by my side of the bed.

10) What would you most like to know about your fellow bloggers who read this? I want to know why they started blogging. What was it that made this form of communicating and interacting with others interesting to you? (leaving this from Mrs Gamgee - she's a right smart one!)



Heepwah, and be safe out there.


Ms D

ICLW - Part Two

Hello out there! If you want to know more about me, check out the tabs at the top. If you don't, no worries. But I posted this one a couple of months ago, and figured it would be ok as a fun kind of introduction for me, Ms D.

If you've noticed (reading back posties) that I call my readers "LDs," I'll tell you why. If you like Lady Gaga (which I totally do), you'll know that she calls her fans her "little monsters." Since I am the Dreamer of Dreamer and Realist, you guys are my LDs - my "little dreamers."

On with the incidentals:
if i were a month i’d be october [my fave holiday is in october]
if i were a day i’d be saturday [love sleeping in]
if i were a time of day i’d be 7.18pm [totally an arbitrary time, but it's in the evening]
if i were a font i’d be magik [go HP]
if i were a sea animal i’d be a hammerhead shark [they're pretty bad ass]
if i were a direction i’d be northwest [where I'd like to visit and possibly move]
if i were a piece of furniture i’d be a comfy recliner [I so wish we had one]
if i were a liquid i’d be water [I'm an Aquarius, duh]
if i were a gemstone i’d be moonstone [so pretty]
if i were a tree i’d be a cedar [it's my celtic horoscope tree]
if i were a tool i’d be a hoe [pun intended]
if i were a flower i’d be a daisy [my favorite]
if i were an element of weather i’d be a tidal wave [still water, LDs]
if i were a musical instument i’d be a guitar [I want to learn to play]
if i were a color i’d be white [white is all color]
if i were an emotion i’d be peaceful (at the moment) [it's quiet here for a change]
if i were a fruit i’d be an apple [again, my favorite]
if i were a sound i’d be the water in a creek [um, seeing a pattern here]
if i were an element i’d be a fundamental one :) [for a friend]
if i were a car i’d be a old Chevy truck [have always wanted one]
if i were a food i’d be pizza [it's the ultimate food]
if i were a place i’d be the mountains [in the northwest]
if i were material i’d be canvas [soft yet durable]
if i were a taste i’d be sherry [a little tart, a little sweet]
if i were a scent i’d be clean cotton [one of my favorite scents]
if i were a body part i’d be a hand [to comfort]
if i were a song i’d be 'Human' [B-Flow is fuckin hot]
if i were a bird i’d be a sparrow [freedom]
if i were a gift i’d be love
if i were a city i’d be london [where I want to visit]
if i were a door i’d be a screen door [open yet sheltered]
if i were a pair of shoes i’d be airwalks [what I have on my hobbit feet now]
if i were a poem i’d be one of my own [best kind]

Heepwah, and be safe out there

Ms D

ICLW Introduction

LDs, this month, I'm going to try my hand at the ICLW. It's the International Comment Leaving Week.

Good Lord, I have no idea how to introduce myself. I could do a numbers post a la Mrs Gamgee. But I'm not that good with numbers.

I could randomly spew out words. Course, I normally seem to do that.

I look at the list of ICLW participants, and I noticed something.

I'm not a mother, nor do I want to be. At one point, we did, but I'm too selfish with myself and Mr Realist; he feels the same. And most of the peeps are about being a mom or infertility or loss or TTC. I feel like I've stumbled into an alternate universe, and at some point, someone's going to turn and point and "Shun the non-believer!" I've only run across one...two... a total of nine blogs who's description doesn't say anything about children from start to finish.

That's nine out of one hundred and seventy-four. Six percent, LDs. I feel way out of place. I don't know if I can comment about miscarriages or infertility, pregnancy or loss, since I have experienced none of these things. If you're of the other 94% that come here, please don't take this post the wrong way. I pray for everyone who wants children and can't have them. I pray for those trying to adopt. I pray that pregnancies go well and stay sticky and you have a beautiful baby at the end of all the prayers and tests and drugs and heartbreak.

So, for my first month ICLWing, I'm going to hit the ones that I would feel less like an outsider. Bear with me, LDs. I think I'll do an intro post next. Everyone is welcome.

Heepwah, and be safe out there.

Ms Dreamer