Another Question Meme

[qos]

Snitched from the intriguing lordandrei

Ask me a question about each of the following:


Friends

Sex

Music

ETA: Movies (I took "drugs" off the list, and my musical interests aren't particularly revealing. "Movies" is a much more fruitful topic.)

Love

LiveJournal

Other (open ended)


Go for broke :)

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Answers, pt. 2

[qos.livejournal.com]

Music:
What kind of music do you like?
I grew up in the 1970’s and ‘80’s and it left it’s mark. I like seventies and eighties pop, show tunes, orchestral movie soundtracks (Williams, Hamlisch, Doyle, etc.), and – ever since I was pregnant – country.

Name 10 of your favorite songs.
In no particular order: Defying Gravity (from Wicked), Standing Outside the Fire (Garth Brooks), Let the River Run (Michael Ball), Tonight is What It Means to Be Young (from Streets of Fire), The Best of Times (Styx), Elephant Love Medley (from Moulin Rouge, Joan of Arc (Jennifer Warnes), Ordinary Miracles (Barbra Streisand), Stars (from Les Miserables), The Last Saskatchewan Pirate (Captain Tractor). This leaves out all the instrumental tracks. . .

Do you make music?
Not the way I used to. I grew up singing in church choirs, playing handbells, clarinet and tenor saxophone. But I haven’t made music regularly since my first semester of college. Which is sad. I ended up being a theater major as an undergrad: directing and stage management.

Love: Whom do you love?
My 10 year-old daughter, my parents and sister, some very good friends.

Did you ever fall in love online?
I’ll get back to you on that one.

Live Journal: How much time do you spend on LJ?
Too much! Usually least an hour day, some days more, depending on what kinds of entries my friends are making and what’s going on in my own life that I feel like posting about. Some days everyone just has routine events, silly quiz results, and random comments. Other days there are serious, meaty topics to engage with – for my friends or myself.

What do you get out of being a paid member?
100 userpics!
I have 80-some active right now.
Anyone who wants to get to know me very quickly should go to my User Info page, click on my icon, and view my userpic gallery.

Are you in other online communities?
No.

How did you get the name qos and where?
QoS stands for “Queen of Swords” – the tarot card archetype with which I strongly identify. I could have used Queen of Swords as my username, but didn’t want to have to type all those letters all the time. I slightly regret that now because qos is so ambiguous, and in many fonts the “q” gets mistaken for “g” so I become “gos” to some people.

Other: To whom do you pray?
The One. The Almighty Creator.
When I feel the need to connect using a name, it’s usually Christ, or the Goddess.
I do not identify as Christian, because I choose to stand outside of any organized religion, but my roots are Christian, and they go very deep. I first came to know God through the Christian lens, and through a relationship with Christ, and that has stuck with me, even though I no longer define myself that way or limit my spiritual path to Christian doctrine or practice.

What groups do you worship with?
I don’t do group worship much anymore. This past Christmas I worshipped with the Swedenborgian Church, the closest thing I have to a “church home,” and went to an evening prayer service with thomryng and jaynefury at their Catholic church.
I am ordained as a priestess in the Ordo Arcanorum Gradalis, a Christo-Pagan Fellowship of the Grail Quest. Unfortunately, the group is very small and scattered, so it does not provide much community.

Did you ever fix your bathtub?
LOL!
No – and my daughter reminded me strongly the other day that I’ve never bought a new plug. I need to take care of that this weekend.