It’s not that I don’t have things to write about. It’s just that I don’t have anything that is exactly lighting my fingers on fire here. I have some things brewing in the back of my head, but they just haven’t found their way to the front door yet.
Soooo…Â I am going to go all interactive on you.
If you read my blog regularly (and there are some IP addresses that pop up pretty frequently, so you know who you are and so do I), I want you to ask me one question that you always wanted to ask me, but never found the right moment to ask.
Now is the right moment. I am all ears and typing fingers. Ask me a question and I will blog you the answers. Nothing is particularly off-limits if it within the bounds of decency. If, however, I deem the answer will hurt or embarrass somebody other than myself, I will reserve the right to answer privately. And I am the final arbiter of what that means, since this is, after all, my blog.
If you only lurk, now is the time to delurk, drop a comment or an email, say hi, and keep me in material. Otherwise, I will start chronicling my child’s daily activities in minute and gory detail until all of you are asleep and drooling on your desks. I’m a mom. Trust me, you will wear out before I do.
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No lurking here. But I don’t really have anything that I wouldn’t have just already asked you whenever it occured to me! Sorry!
July 18, 2006 @ 2:12 pmNow why does THAT not shock me? 😉
July 18, 2006 @ 2:15 pmAll right. Why lilies?
July 18, 2006 @ 2:19 pmWhat has kept you from just saying “screw you guys, I’m going home?”
July 18, 2006 @ 2:48 pmIn what context – SCA or work? Either is definitely a whole blog.
July 18, 2006 @ 2:50 pmSCA…work well you gotta get paid.
July 18, 2006 @ 2:50 pmWhere did you get your armour? did you make it? or buy it, If so where? 🙂 Also, how did you choose your device and what does it mean to you. Does this sound like a “What I did on my summer vacation type of thing?”
Oh and one more, How did you get to New Orleans from Arkansas (and I don’t mean car 🙂
I realize that’s more than one, but I’m all about asking questions.
July 18, 2006 @ 3:31 pmSheila
Hmmm…
July 18, 2006 @ 4:38 pmIt’s been 20 years since we met, though I moved away after first five –
So either:
1) What do you think of me? Or
2) What advice would you give me?
*Smile*
Any new projects you’re working on? I will never forget this brilliant red and gold dress you made. Years ago. Tie on sleeves in a brocade that reversed and created just a great look. U’m very interested in your artsy projects.
Sara
July 18, 2006 @ 5:27 pmWhy DO you fight?
July 18, 2006 @ 6:01 pmOh NOOOOOO! Caught by the KNIGHT!
Oooh. That will be a good one. Keep posted. In turn, in turn.
July 18, 2006 @ 6:05 pmBri, I consider you a great friend. I have two questions for you that I’ve wondered for a long time but I’ve been too chicken-poopey to ask you… “Why didn’t you get all the facts before you shot me down in that meeting?” The facts would have changed the outcome drastically I think.
July 18, 2006 @ 9:47 pmand “(completely seperate from #1) What changed your mind about me?”
Hmm…What is your favorite time period for garb for yourself? Husband? And would you lend some of your knowledge to me?
I love my early period clothing. I’m wanting to try Viking, and John actually said he’d wear period garb. I just have to pick the time period and make the clothing. Of course.
July 18, 2006 @ 10:11 pmBambi actually already hit pretty close to the one I had in mind first, so here we go with trying to find something else.
You’ve already stated that you stay in the SCA mostly for the friends (and the fighting, of course). I get that- in many ways, I feel the same. It’s where my family is. BUT- there’s obviously something else driving you. If it were *just* the family and friends and athletics, there’d be no need to work your butt off for the Society like you do. So- what’s that goal you’re working towards, whether it be for you personally, or some vision you see for the SCA that you hope you can help implement?
July 19, 2006 @ 8:16 am[…] Bri didn’t even realize she was starting a meme, but I like the way she phrased the ever so common “ask me anything†post over yonder on her lil’ spot on the web, so in true internet fashion- I’m stealing it. Ok, well, I’m giving credit, so I guess it isn’t TRUE internet fashion, but nonetheless: […]
July 19, 2006 @ 9:14 amOkay, I am answering Glas’s and Charlotte’s comments with comments, mainly because they are fairly personal responses, and not really blawg-kinda things. However, they do not fall into the hurt-person category, and thus deserve a public response. Glas first:
Well, we haven’t seen each other in a LONG time, so I am functioning on old information. I know I am not the person I was 15 years ago, and I warrant you may not be either, but from what I remember, you are at heart a tender-hearted and decent guy, particulary where women are concerned. The only thing you have working against you is that you try too hard – all the way across the board. I know, it’s sound’s weird and it’s hard to explain, but it’s kind of like the way some folks feel it absolutely necessary to fill every pause in conversation with talking. They just aren’t secure enough to let it ride. Sometimes the best thing you can do in anything is to lay back and let it ride. Incidentally, this IS a pot-kettle-black situation. I don’t know what you really wanted as far as advice, but that’s pretty much my take.
Charlotte in the next comment, I am running out of space…
July 19, 2006 @ 10:02 amCharlotte:
Okay – I have seriously SHITTY short term memory issues, so I may not remember the particulars of any given meeting. AND, as I am in a LOT of polling orders, they start to run together over time. AND, I am kind of a stickler on confidentiality issues. BUT, if we are referring to that particularly evil Meridian service polling order, I can give you some insight:
First is something that has always perplexed me – somewhere over the last few years, even before I got the Pel, people started giving my words a WHOLE lot more weight than I think they justifiably deserve. I am one person with one opinion, and I REALLY, TRULY, mean everything I say to be taken with exactly that weight. The second problem is that people have a very hard time recognizing that I am one of those people who, when in these kinds of situations, separates the person you are from what you do. In other words, I can love you as a person, and still be critical if I think you dropped the ball on something. And I have a rather minority take on the holding of offices, but that is fodder for another conversation. Don’t take my word for it – ask Lyzianor. I love the woman to death, but NOBODY nags her like I do. Or, ask my associates – I am a tough-love kinda Peer. Few of them have escaped unscathed. Luckily, it’s over quickly and generally behind us almost as fast.
If I remember the timing correctly, there was a certain level of frustration over the Topaz office and trying to communicate over scroll issues. I will admit – I am not a phone person, and that is where I can be criticized (and I did mention that) – but I assure you that my comments were confined to what you did IN THAT CAPACITY. I usually am pretty good about getting second opinions (ask Gabby, she will testify to my many annoying phone calls to her), but I think anything that was added to it in the repetition was just that – read between the lines. I actually dislike fewer people than I am given blame for. I am just a Yankee – abrupt and unfortunately, sometimes too blunt. On the other hand, no matter what side of a political situation we were on, I have always defended yours and Reys right to express and support your own views without being castigated.
So – why did I change my mind? In short, I actually probably didn’t. I have never had a bad opinion of you as a person – just frustration with how you handled one office (and only the last bit of that). However, I will admit that my respect for both you and Rey took a quantum leap upward by the support you have given and shown the new Kingdom despite your opinions on our readiness. That takes real class of a truly noble nature, and you seriously have my admiration for it. I also really admire what you are doing with archery, since that had been a pet project of mine, and you managed in Gleann Abhann what I could only attempt for Meridies. That’s very cool.
So – I hope that cleared it up. I really consider you and Rey friends, and I am glad I got the opportunity to air that out. Thanks, I really mean it.
July 19, 2006 @ 10:23 amHey, that’s not true. LOTS of people nag me!!! At least you nag me with love!
July 19, 2006 @ 11:37 amI just nag Amy-Renee because it is comical….;)
Okay I stole this too
July 19, 2006 @ 11:48 amWell Bri, the first question I wanted to ask was so incredibly inappropriate that no matter which way I ran it thru my filter (Sarah) it still wouldn’t pass. And the second question would have wound up pissing someone off… not you, but someone. The third question I kept trying to type and I could never really word it right so it looked like a coherent question that actually had an answer. So you get the fourth effort, it really is one question, I promise… ignore the multiple question marks.
As someone who has sat on the Thrones thru 2 Gulf Wars – What do you think about Opening Ceremonies? Wouldn’t it be great if we put more effort into them? Enough effort that people would want to show up? And to start down the path to improvement do you think we should remove the horses that hinder us so much from the equation? (we can always give them their own parade…)
July 20, 2006 @ 9:45 amYou would be shocked at the degree of things I will consider without deeming it inappropriate. If any of the previous three are burning questions that you really want to discuss email me privately. You might be surprised.
And – for the record, because I can be a tiny, tiny bit vain – It was three GW’s. Queen Meridies – Princess Gleann Abhann – Queen Gleann Abhann. And I will indeed blog you an answer. It’s in the pipe. As a short form – I agree.
July 20, 2006 @ 9:54 amLike, you know, maybe having opening ceremonies lead right into the first war point battle? Wouldn’t that be sooooo cool? And also maybe accidentally make sense?
Ahem. Don’t mind me. It’s just one of those things that would make so much more sense to my tiny lil’ brain.
July 20, 2006 @ 10:54 amHey — as someone thrown into the task of executing the end part of that cockamamie three different times, I want to hear it, too.
Pardon the language, but it’s really pissed me off as a herald to be thrown to the fire — pretty much being told as I’m heading out to show people the route that I’m not a guide — I’m suddenly the Meridian herald (now, it’s Gleann Abhann herald) and I have to come up with something to say — while leading the march — and usually while heralding something else.
I would absolutely relish the opportunity for a little prep time! Imagine how I might be able to embellish and verbally spar with other heralds of the known world, if I came with a full pack of tools rather than a single nail and hammer!
And it’s not just for opening ceremonies. I’d love to know I’m heralding a court before I actually show up on site for once! At least before the day of… and… sorry, ranting here. Wrong place. Sorry again.
July 20, 2006 @ 1:15 pmHey. Blame Carlwyn and Erik. They brought your name up.  Besides, Moose and I just need a lead-in, and we can usually roll from there. Shit, I wrote our first opening ceremony speech the NIGHT BEFORE because Odo screwed up, over-recruited and we had to change sides completely. Talk about monkey wrenches. Try being Host Crown sometime. It’s a cluster… well, you get the picture.
July 20, 2006 @ 1:18 pmAw, didn’t start with you. Started with Ilissa — and I don’t think it was her fault, either. I think it’s a tradition thing. I’d just relish a chance to show what I can really do with a little preparation.
And somehow, those names just keep popping up. Okay — they volunteered me for a lot of stuff. Sometimes I wonder what I’ll be volunteered for next.
Sorry for the rant. As Sarah will tell you, it’s a pissy ranting sort of day. Blame Gannett.
July 20, 2006 @ 2:11 pmShort and sweet:
Question – Why did you decide to accept a squires belt from Artos?
July 21, 2006 @ 11:46 am