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[Aurora Borealis]

I don't mind diet soda, but I don't like any sugar in my tea. :-/

[Bella]

Both me and Katarina hate any soft drink.

Me either :/

I'm more of a non-sugared juice/lemonade/iced tea/iced or hot coffee person. Though there are SOME sodas I like and will drink on occasion (gingerale, birchbeer, cranberry dry, raspberry lime, pomegranate, cream soda).

Anyway, I need your answer, OSC:

Does anyone here have an animal totem/spirit animal? If you were an animal, what would you be? Does anyone you know here strike you as "having" a certain animal?

Mine is the black swan.

Awhile back Nej and Stew suggested Lion cub (cute, ferocious-acting but harmless) and Cat (no explanation given) respectively.

[Krizonar]

I'm more of a chocolate milk, juice and water person.


I love our dates at resturaunts though, she orders water with a lemon and then I enthuse I would like water WITHOUT lemon.


Being 25% Native American, I do have a spirit animal, while technically you're not really supposed to talk to people about what their animal guides are unless you have permission from your guide in question (which I do), mine is the Hawk.

[Nichi]

I like sweet tea, but the problem is finding one that's made just right aside from making it myself; one with a perfect balance of a strong brew and just enough sugar, with a little lemon juice being optional, to make an all-around awesome cup of tea. Unfortunately, most places around here serve a substance that is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea; it's brewed too weak and has way too much sugar in it, which has lead to me drinking unsweetened when I have to go to one of those places.

Anyway, I tried to get some pics of me wearing that Windows 2000 shirt I mentioned, but the picture came out too blurry; I'll try again later.

@Bella: I remember being told many, many years ago that my spirit animal is a rat

[Krizonar]

@Bella: I remember being told many, many years ago that my spirit animal is a rat

No one can tell you what your real spirit animal is but you

[Nichi]

Well, I have no idea how to check for myself; even though I'm some small percentage Native American (I can't remember how much, though)

[Krizonar]

All you need to do is think for a second about what animal has often caught your eye in life, which stories of an animal you remember the best and then, once you find out who that is, you 'ask' if they will be your spirit animal.

[Bella]

I've considered rat for myself before... didn't quite work though...

The black swan thing comes from being referred to as a living "black swan event" (since my mom wasn't supposed to have any more kids... but then I came along...), and it just sort of stuck. The paradoxical nature of swans seems to fit me well - they are graceful in their element, awkward when not; have a peaceful exterior covering a combative interior; are pair-bonding, loving and loyal, yet become berserkers when provoked. Add in their connotations of transformation (I was an ugly duckling as a kid), empathy and intuitiveness... and several powerful dreams I've had involving swans... it just works. ^^

[Nichi]

If that's the case, mine might be a cat. More time to analyze the data is necessary...

[Chocofreak13]

if i was to be an animal, i'd likely be a cat (or maybe a stray dog, and if so, an akita). i take that to mean my spirit animal is a cat.

my sign is pisces, so it could also be fish......and my eastern zodiac sign is monkey, which would make me a sea monkey. :\

to be honest, i have more of a guardian planet than a guardian animal.... :\

[Bella]

if i was to be an animal, i'd likely be a cat (or maybe a stray dog, and if so, an akita). i take that to mean my spirit animal is a cat.

I was kinda expecting you to say cat. ^^'

Red-kun also said if he were an animal, he'd be a cat. d:

[NejinOniwa]

Whatever means I use, any spirit guardian of mine would be a ferocious chimaeral hydra. The composition would likely be of Moose, Dragon, Magpie and Dryad.

Lately it's been drifting towards dryad quite heavily, though, much thanks to the shrine...

In other news: cousin (not clone, part of Clan though) graduated today. Much partying ensued, along with fine speeches at the dinner table. The Clan being the Clan, of course, a lot of shenanigans also ensued. Dinner was had at a quite amazing spanish restaurant, with a cool guy playing spanish classics on guitar and singing. Food was tasty (very much so).

In the end, feelsquitegoodman. Despite shit going hayward on other fronts.

[Nichi]

The past few days at work have been very, very dull; they haven't had many patients, which means very little for me to do. When I was only working 4 hours a day, this wasn't too bad...but since I now work 7 hours in the same position, it's a bit boring; wondering around aimlessly in hopes something turns up for me to do while counting down the minutes until I can get off.

[Chocofreak13]

the weather here today has been insane. i woke up at 8am (i usually wake around 10:30) to great booms in the distance. realizing that a thunderstorm had come early, i tried to go back to sleep at it started raining. i heard my mum calling the cats, and went to the door to check; it was pouring and hailing. both cats made it inside, but it was weird. i went upstairs, thinking that was the worst of it.
i was wrong. springfield, a city about 2 hours from here, was hit by a tornado. there is now a tornado watch in effect for the entire state of mass, and some parts of NH (including my county, i think).

i'm kinda scared, guys. ;^;

[Nichi]

@Choco: To be completely honest, I didn't even know that tornadoes could occur that far north; I mainly hear about them occurring in the southern states.