Getting To Know You

Let's be friends. Even better, let's be brothers and sisters. I want to get to know you. I propose we use this thread as a way to do that. A way to ask and answer and tell the minutia that makes us such wonderfully individual individuals.

Do you prefer red grapes, or green?

I like red because they tend to be sweeter and also the skin doesn't seem as thick. Seedless, obviously

Out of the freezer? Ew, you can have my life time share I'm super sensitive to temperatures and don't really like cold or hot foods much. I like a nice cool, lukewarm, or room temperature meal lol.

Ice creams.... Hmm, depends on my mood, but my favorite of the options is probably vanilla. I like how it's simply perfect and perfectly simple. I do, of course, let it melt a bit before I eat it so it's more cool than cold.

Spring time for me. Same as with food temperature, I'm not great with air temperatures outside of a pretty narrow range. Spring and Fall are best temperature-wise, but Spring has the added benefit of greenness and new life and fresh beginnings. And also doesn't have leaf mold, which in allergic too, lol. Plus.... springing sounds funner than falling

So, do y'all have any pets? Tell us about them!

I have a pure bred border collie. Her name is Zoe and she's three and a half years old. She's disturbingly brilliant. She can open doors with doorknobs and says "I want out" in English. She definitely needs to be kept using her brain (lots of training and such) to be happy. I feel bad on days when I just sleep or am too hurting or fatigued to do much with her, but she's brilliant and just naps a lot on those days.



My wife has a cat and my husband has a cat. The cats live upstairs though, and Zoe and I stay pretty down stairs, so I don't interact with Ryssa and Tyberius much. Ryssa is a very bitchy Siamese and Ty is a very skittish flame point.

We're moving sometime in the next six months or so; buying a house. First improvement on the new place will be fencing in the yard if it's not already. Then Zoe gets a doggie pal; probably a Corgi. So on my off days, they can entertain each other.

I also desperately want an African pygmy hedgehog, but that'll be a ways down the road.

Also in our house lives an invisible green gorilla called Galileo. He's more a friend than a pet, though, and is just as intelligent and verbal as any human. Lately he spends a lot of time with his family in the Congo, but he does come around sometimes still.

All pets, or just dander? Cause I'm just sayin', a pair of hermit crabs would be pretty awesome! (Contrary to whatever naming trope was used when hermit crabs were named, it turns out they are critters that suffer when alone and do much better with a friend or two!)