Basics

1. What’s your porn star name? (your first pets name, and your mothers maiden name) Vanilla Hinton
2. What’s your soap star name? (your middle name, and your street name) Brennan Primrose (or Brennan Roble)
3. What’s your current screenname. Tell me the story of how it was chosen: onsede, from a french song, the chorus of which is "On se deteste, on se deshire, on se detruit, on se desire"
4. In what year were you born? 1984
5. Were you a planned pregnancy? Yup...my parents had heard that 3 years was the optimum age difference for siblings, I think I was concieved the first month they were trying, my mom ate all the right foods and did all the right things, and had me with absolutely no painkillers whatsoever (she says I don't have to try to repeat that). I would say I was very, very planned.
6. How did you celebrate your last birthday? A few days before had a party at my grandparents', the day itself had a beer at midnight with Pablo, and my daddy came down to take me out. We took the ferry across to Coronado, had champaign at the Hotel Del Coronado, walked back across the island, talked, called my mom at 7:30 because that's when I was actually born, got back on the ferry, was very very cold, went to the Raintree, where I had the best steak of my life and my dad tried to teach me to appreciate red wine. Had really good chocolate cake, which surprised me because cake is one of those foods that restaurants don't usually do super well...and then I think I went home after that. Oh, and lots of phone calls in there too. I think Julie gets the closest to midnight award, but I'm not positive.
7. How are you going to celebrate your next birthday? no idea, though there's a good chance there'll be another party at my grandparents
8. Who will you spend it with? probably my roommates, unless it's a weekend and then with my grandparents and extended family
9. What kind of town/city/village do you live in? a commuter town, for the most part...though I think it has more of it's own identity than some places at least.
10. Is it a famous place that attracts plenty of tourism? unless you count fast food customers
11. Any famous landmarks and etc? not really famous...there's a plaque where the 21 mile house used to be, I think maybe the biggest state park in California, and Anderson Dam when it overflows is worth coming to see.
12. Are your parents married or divorced? married 27 or 28 years I think
13. Who do you share your house with? mom, brother, and dad...though we're all so busy I can't remember the last time we were all here at once
14. Are you considered as tall or rather short? tall or really tall, depending who you ask
15. How many email addresses do you have? just 2, and only one that I check more than once a month

Food and Cookery

16. When it comes to diet and eating, how healthy are you? I do some healthy things, like eating breakfast every day, almost never eating fast food, and never eating so much that i feel sick afterwards. on the other hand, I have a bag of Dark Chocolate Chips I've been working my way though the last couple of days, and am pretty much always game ice cream, chocolate, or something else yummy.
17. What is your favourite food? lately steak
18. What do you eat when you’re bored? cereal
19. Favourite junk food? hostess donuts, or cheetos
20. Happy food? ice cream, or one of those blended creme things from Starbucks
21. Favourite restaurant? i like little local diners and BJ's, and if I'm ever feeling really rich I might go to the Raintree again.
22. Favourite take away? Super Taq
23. Favourite sandwich fillings? turkey, avocado, and sprouts
24. How well can you cook? I want to get better
25. If you were to appear on the show ‘can’t cook, won’t cook’ which cook would you be (can’t or won’t): can't, but i've never heard of this show
26. What do you cook most often? I go through phases depending on what I have
27. Any specialties? I might make the best pancakes in my family
28. Do you cook for family or friends, boyfriends/girlfriends? I like the idea of cooking for Ryan, but in the real world he's so much better than I am...
29. Favourite fruits? I go through phases...bananas lately.
30. Favourite veggies? asparagus
31. Do you eat meat or are you a vegetarian? meat just seems healthy to me.
32. What foods make you want to vomit/can’t you stand? I have a strange predjudice against quiche, and pretty much avoid anything I suspect might be spicy. Nothing makes me vomit though.
33. Favourite juices? I'm not a huge juice fan
34. Favourite fizzy stuff? Fanta, but even that I'm just luke warm towards.
35. Favourite alcohol? Beer...though I haven't warmed up to the dark ones yet
36. Do you prefer tea or coffee, or don’t you drink them altogether? sleepy time tea is the only one i've ever really liked
37. Are you a fussy eater? somewhat, but I try not to get in the way of people going to restaurants they want to go to
39. Are you a fan of microwave dinners? sometimes they sound like a great idea
40. What do you eat for Christmas dinners? this last christmas my family went to a bed and breakfast up in the mountains, so we went to a restaurant. i forget what i had.
41. Do you have cake on your birthdays (what kind)? any excuse to bake a cake
42. Favourite chocolates? belgian dark chocolate, chocolate chip cookies, chocolate ice cream, fudge, chocolate oranges, chocolate milk with non dutched cocoa in it, chocolate cake, Minonky Bars...this could become a frighteningly long list.
43. Favourite ice cream flavors? chocolate if i want chocolate, strawberry if i wanna feel old fashioned, and mint if i want the ice cream to taste really cold
44. Do you like seafood? generally yes, invertabrates more than vertebrates...except i'm always disappointed when shrimp are cold. crab stuffed mushrooms are the greatest thing ever
45. Diet coke or regular: coke and pepsi are both desperation drinks for me
46. What holiday is most memorable to you and why? I think it changes every year..this one New Years was pretty good, and I was pretty happy with the way my birthday turned out, last year Thanksgiving turned out really great...which was strange because I've never cared that much about it before, maybe I was just hungry. And then the year before I think I have to vote for the 4th of July. It's all about circumstances.
47. Worst holiday? this year....maybe the 4th of July, considering I was in London. But then, we did get to go on a quest for McDonald's apple pie with Nick and Nikki from Sacramento in an attempt to do something Americanish, so that was fun.
48. Favourite holiday? eh
49. Ever traveled out of the country - Mexico, Canada, Czech Republic, Austria, and Great Britain (woo, finally that list actually has some stuff on it)
50. Favourite cities to visit? San Francisco, San Jose, San Diego, London and Prague. There's some more I think I might like, but I'll have to try them out and get back to you.
51. Go on day trips often – where? when you rely on public transportation, everywhere more than a couple miles from home is a daytrip. When I have a free day, I try to go to my grandparents, the beach, or the zoo.
52. Been with family and friends? Weird question...I think the answer is that Ryan was with me in London, my family in Canada and Mexico, and I was all by my lonesome in Prague
53. Furthest you’ve traveled alone? Prague
54. Do you want to travel the world? not obsessively, but it's a nice thing to try to fit into your life here and there I think
55. Where do you want to go? Quebec, the East Coast, the South, I'd like to see more of Eastern and Central Europe, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, South America maybe someday, Africa kind of intrigues me, Southeast Asia maybe, I really want to camp in Siberia at somepoint. So really I could get enthusiastic about just about anyplace.
57. Can you drive? I can drive a stickshift, but I don't have a license...working on that one

YOU - Social, hobbies, adventures

58. Favourite places to go: pretty places, places with birds, places with people I like.
59. Do you like museums and art galleries? it really depends, and I'm not sure on what
60. Do you eat out regularly? pretty often lately
61. Where did you last eat out and who with? super taq with Ryan, Pasha, Holly, and Ntahan
62. When you’re bored, do you prefer to listen to music, play on computers, or watch TV? TV or putz around the internet. Computer games have never really done it for me
63. Can you play an instrument? nope, I figure I can't try to do everything
64. If not, were there many opportunities in school to play instruments? I could have joined band, but I took French instead
65. Are you a bookworm? I can be
66. Are you outgoing? I don't think it's a natural part of my personality, but I try to be sometimes
67. Do you drink a lot of alcohol? I think I was averaging a beer a day in Prague, and more in London, but since then it's been more sporadic...less opportunity mostly.
68. Do you like dancing? I'm fickle about it
69. How often do you exercise? I don't have jazzercize tapes or anything, but I don't have a car either.
70. What do you do on the internet – research, chat, etc? look up random stuff...I won't go so far as to call it research, try to keep up with my friends, talk to Ryan a lot
71. Which friends do you love spending time with? Isn't that the definition of friend?
72. What do you do together? Yeah I give up on trying to list it all. I think this question is designed for people who have poker night or something.
73. Do you like to take photos? Sort of, mostly I just like the idea of having pictures that are somehow going to show people what an interesting and fun person I am...and then of course nobody ever actually looks at them.
74. How would you describe yourself as a person in four words? Analytical, earnest, confident (except in some social situations), and Ryan says sardonic
75. Can you be stereotyped? not in any high school cliche i don't think, but I am a type kind of
76. Do you hang around with groups of people who dress the same as you? Not so much now that nobody's wearing as many show shirts anymore...but me and Laura's sense of fashion tends to overlap sometimes, and I stole Julie's tank tops look, and I do hang out a lot with my mom...
77. What kind of people wouldn’t you waste your time getting to know? people I don't feel any particular magnetism to...I figure I'm not such a gift to the world that I have to be friends with everyone
78. Do you often have deep, intense, intellectual conversations? sometimes, but I prefer them to be lightened up by a wry comment now and then and I get a little self concious when I get the feeling that I'm just trying to impress people with how smart I can sound
79. Have you inherited your intelligence from your parents? it seems like the most rational explanation
80. Do you know what your IQ is? in a word, no.
81. Are you academically smart or just smart? Academics are my playground and I'm not clueless in the real world
82. How often do you meet pig ignorance? if this means really dumb people, not often
83. How do you dress? skirts, when I don't have to go to work or do anything that requires not wearing a skirt....otherwise jeans. sandals, under the same conditions. lots of tank tops, and if not tank tops tee shirts...I never feel like blousier tops fit me right, but I'd like to find some that did.
84. What kind of shoes do you wear? flip flops
85. What kind of jewellery do you wear? puzzle ring from daddy, claddaugh ring from ryan, and lately some glass necklaces and bracelets I got in the Czech Republic.
86. What kind of hair do you have? not quite straight not quite blond, it's shoulder length now because I haven't cut it since last summer, except that I cut my own bangs when they start to get in my eyes
87. What’s your eye colour? greyish blue
88. Are there people out there you are keen to avoid? I feel a little pathetic about it, but yes

Love and relationships – if you’re single, skip this section.

89. Are you bi, straight or gay? Straight
90. Do you have a significant other? very significant
91. What is their name? Ryan
92. How old are they? 22
93. What attracted you to them first? feeling comfortable with someone at a party where i was kind of feeling overwhelmed, and then admiring them for being able handle a difficult situation with more consideration and maturity than i had learned to expect from pretty much anybody.
94. Are you in love with them? ryan said my first answer was too mushy, so I'm just going with yes.
95. Where do they live? south san jose
96. What do they do for a living? student, marine biology
97. Their personality features: intelligent, funny, supportive, understanding, nice blend of practical and idealistic, sardonic = )
98. Do they make you go weak at the knees – why? hmm, weak in the knees isn't a phrase i feel much of a connection with. I did lose my wallet on a bus once because I was so excited about meeting him at the airport, I love bragging about him when I get the chance, my mood almost automatically improves any time I hear his voice on the phone, and the one time my knee did give out on me he was there to help...but that was more painful and weird than a symptom of being madly in love.
99. What do they look like? (Include a picture): yeah, there will be no pictures, and you've all seen him. the only thing that i'll add because maybe not everyone notices is he's got very nice green eyes
100. Have you ever had sex? yes
101. Have you ever had oral sex? yes
102. If yes to the two above, when was the last time? Tuesday?
103. Your most recent kiss? yesterday
104. Are you two romantic? in a way that suits our personalities
105. Do you hold hands in public? not as much as some
106. Are you affectionate in public as well as private? yeah
107. What turns you on about them? wow, turns out there are questions too personal for me to post the answers on the internt
108. Most memorable moment with them? there's a lot that are worth remembering, not all of which i'm willing to share
109. Most romantic moment with them? oddly enough, it might be a time that I was crying, and he just came and sat by me...I'm not one of those girls who defines romance by drama, but whatever

Future

110. What is your long term plan (job etc)? at least a masters, maybe a PhD, maybe a teaching job, maybe something else if I find it and love it, marriage, house, kids, dogs...probably staying in California
111. Do you intend on marrying? yes, I really think it adds a huge amount to life
112. If so – to who? I don't intend to marry anyone in particular at the moment
113. When would you prefer to marry? Not until I have my bachelors, and when I have somebody who's ready to start a life together, doing things like saving up for a house, planning for children, etc...and hopefully that happens before I'm 30
114. Do you want children? yes
115. How many? 2
116. What will you name them? Anita and Owen are my first picks right now, with Rosemary as a middle name for a girl maybe. I kind of like the name Sam too though. I dunno...I'll probably change my mind a dozen times before it becomes an actual issue
117. What kind of house would you want to live in? A small one, nothing like the ones they're building nowadays, with a yard that's big enough to do stuff in, though it doesn't necessarily have to be as big as the one I have now. I might want to have chickens though.
118. What pets do you want? a shaggy dog, maybe two dogs. i like having bunnies. i could probably stand to have a cat at some point, though I'm not sure i could handle it killing birds.

Miscellaneous

119. What were you afraid of then you were little? my brother's bunny running in circles around me and men i didn't know
120. Did you believe in fairies, goblins, ghosts and monsters? not really, but when I stand behind women in the super market that are over a foot shorter than I am I don't find it so incredible that there're stories about dwarves and giants in ancient times
121. Do you wear nail polish? very sporadically, but i'm too lazy to take it off so when I do it lasts
122. What calendar do you have this year? mozilla sunbird on my computer
123. Do you have a downstairs bathroom? live in a one story house...though i do believe there's on in my two story apartment for next year
124. Worst names you can possibly think of? coco is pretty bad....
125. Strawberry or raspberry jam? raspberry, unless i want strawberry
126. Explain your house arrangement: umm...i think this question is boring
127. Ever ridden a horse? i took lessons in fifth grade. lately i've been thinking it'd be fun to go rent horses and ride them sometimes
128. Do you have any pets? bonnie and bunny
129. Do you get along well with them? bonnie and i are bonding more, bunny likes sniffing me but not being petted by me, and would rather i didn't enter the room suddenly
130. Who can you trust? people who are together enough to know what the right thing is and do it
131. Who can’t you trust? people who aren't
132. Favourite swearwords? I'm a pretty big fan of the four letter sex related ones, I don't use racial epithets or anything else that seems to reek of hatred
133. What are you wearing now? complete hippy get-up...floor length sky blue skirt, pink flowery top, and barefoot...and all the appropriate underwear, including a second skirt under the blue one because otherwise it's transparent

Finally

134. Like the survey? well enough, but there's some things i'll share in conversation that i feel a little wird about posting on the internet
135. Time now: 4:19 PM