Dandelyon's Worlds

Five random questions from a Dreamwidth group called TheFridayFive.  I'm not going to try to link it in this post, since Dreamwidth is giving me 504 and 503 errors whenever I try to use the search function or follow the link a friend gave when they posted their answers to today's questions.

Here's hoping this posts! 

1. What scent is your shampoo?

I've found a shampoo and conditioner that I really like that comes in several different scents. The ones I like best are the "Lavender Meadow" and the "Peppermint Vitality". The Lavender is used from when gardening season ends to when mosquito season starts, except for Christmastime, when peppermint feels appropriate. This is because the mosquitoes like the lavender scent and I don't like mosquito bites.  (If the mosquitos re bad, I go in and take some of the eucalyptus Dr. Bronners soap and smear my arms and legs--they like eucalyptus even less than they like peppermint.)

2. What’s something interesting that you’ve carried on your shoulders or back?

Musical instruments.  Autoharp, guitar, bass guitar, cittern, drums, etc.  Gig bags make it much easier to cart around more than one!

I've also carried lots of interesting (and a few not-so-interesting) books in backpacks over the years; I was the science fiction lending library to my circle of friends in high school.

3. What’s your favorite dance step or move?

I love dancing with a large scarf or sarong, when space permits, whirling it around me to the music.  I have no idea what technical term is applied to doing that, though there is doubtless at least one.

I also remember that in my heart, Kendo was a dance form, not a martial art.  The sensei was confused about me, I think, because it always inspired me to do better when he was laughing for the joy of what he was doing, and it didn't inspire me when he made angry or challenging sounds.  (I'm sure it would still be the same, if I had a place and people to do kendo with these days.)

For watching, I love ice skating (ice skating more than ice dancing, though both are lovely), women's gymnastics, Cirque du Soleil, and Riverdance come to mind.  Pole-dancing is cool too.

4. Who do you spend the most time with?

In person, my partner.  The Covid has made my pool of in-person contacts shrink a lot both in number and in frequency.  Online, it varies.  On zoom, other filkers.  On slack, other writers.  On discord and elsewhere, there's a good selection of creative people and fans to chat with in real time or asynchronously.

5. Is there anything in your daily life that you need to stand on tiptoe or get a stool to reach?

There are things in the house that need extra height to reach, but I don't have stuff I use every day stored that high.  Probably the thing I have up high that I use most often is the bin on top of the fridge where I keep chips, but I don't eat chips every day.  We have some wall decorations up high (framed art or unframed art pieces) but there's no need to reach them often.  They can be admired from afar!