Happy birthday qimissung

[TheFifthElement]

Some presents for you:

Cake, of course
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and a good book
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and your favourite chocolate :)
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Hope you have a wonderful day.

[TurquoiseSunset]

Happy Birthday Qimi!!! Hope you have a lovely day! :D

[cacian]

Many belated happy birthday wishes qimissung I hope you have a wonderful day on your birthday!!:bday_2::party:

[Lokasenna]

Happy birthday Qimi! Hope it's a good one!

[zoolane]

Happy Birthday Hope you have wonder day or evening. xxxxxx

[Charles Darnay]

Happy birthday Qimissung!

[Snowqueen]

Happy birthday Qimi, have lots of fun.

Here is a rose for you.

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[Helga]

Have a very happy birthday Qimi! hope you'll have a great day.

[Maximilianus]

I wish you a very yummy cake and several presents on the occasion, qimi. :)

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[tonywalt]

Happy Birthday

[papayahed]

Happy Birthday Qimi!

[Pensive]

Happy Birthday!
May you have a good day, week, month, year, etc! :D

[Jack of Hearts]

Happy birthday, qi.





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[Madhuri]

Happy Birthday, Qimi :)

[aliengirl]

Happy Birthday Qimi. :) Wish you a wonderful year ahead.

[The Comedian]

all the best!

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Happy birthday fellow Texan


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(John Singer Sargent)

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[JuniperWoolf]

Happy Birthday!

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[qimissung]

Thank you, Fifth, TurquoiseSunset, Cacian, Loakasenna, Zoolane, CharlesDarnay, Snowqueen, Max, Tony, papaya, Pensive, Jack, Madhuri, Aliengirl, Comedian, Gilliatt, Juniper. You guys are the best. :yesnod:

[Monamy]

Happy birthday, dear qimi. May you have it special today.

[MystyrMystyry]

Happy Birthday Qimi!

I wrote for you a poem
Blew it from the beach
Hope it finds your home
Across the ocean reach

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[billl]

I guess this is late, but happy birthday!

[Paulclem]

Happy Birthday - belated. Did you have a nice time?

[Scheherazade]

Happy Birthday, Qimi :)

[qimissung]

Thank you, Monamy, Mystyry, billl, Paul and Scher. It was, in fact, a rather usual day, except for one thing. The good wishes of many dear friends. That made it very special, indeed, and I am still counting my blessings.

[Idril]

:bday_2::banana:This is a little belated but no less genuine: Happy Birthday, Qimi!

[Maximilianus]

It was, in fact, a rather usual day, except for one thing. The good wishes of many dear friends. That made it very special, indeed, and I am still counting my blessings.
That's very nice :)

[Sancho]

Qimi!

Have a Happy, Rootin’ Tootin’ Texas Cowgirl, Birthday!

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[qimissung]

See what I mean? Thank you, Idril, Max, and Sancho (lol, Sancho)! You guys are awesome possums. :)

[Buh4Bee]

Happy Birthday!

[qimissung]

Thank you, Buh4Bee!

[Scheherazade]

An interview with Qimissung:

*Why are we doing this interview thing?*
I’m not sure why. I’m not sure I have anything illuminating to say.

*So, how old are you?*
I’m 58.

*What is the best birthday present you've ever received?*
My music box that plays Fur Elise, when I was five and my Caroline walking doll in the fourth grade. Also anything my sons have given me.

*If you had a personal theme song what would it be?*“Brown-Eyed Girl by Van Morrison. I love that song.

*Are you male or female? *
Female

*If you could build an entire planet from scratch, what would it look, sound and smell like?*
I like this one pretty well, but if I built one it would look more humane, sound less cacophonous, and it would smell like a garden, even if you weren’t in one.

*If you owned the site, what would you change?*
I can’t think of anything. It’s practically perfect in every way.

*What was the inspiration for your LitNet username?*
I found it in a book.

*Which countries have you visited?*
Most of Europe.

*Which languages do you speak?*
English, alas, only English.

*What is the last thing that you have done that you have been really proud of?*
I started a scholarship program. PM me if you would like to donate. :D

*If you could live somewhere different, where would it be and why?*
I could pick any number of places. Venice, or the Ile Saint-Louis in Paris, or Rome or somewhere on the coast of Ireland.

*Do you have any pets?*
Yes, indeedy. Cats.

*What makes you happy?*
Being with the people I love.

*What's your favourite song for singing in the shower?*
I don’t sing in the shower. I do, however, like to sing “Montego Bay” along with the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYYiaZcuEuk


*Which actor should play you in a movie based on your life?*
I think Rebel Wilson, only thir, I mean, twenty years older.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR58nPkZ-jQ&feature=related

*Who is your favourite Beatle?*
Paul

*How do you like your coffee? *
With cream and sugar. Yum. I want some now.

*Given the option, what animal would you choose to be?*
A fox. A fox with little fox paws.

*When you were younger, what did you want to be when you grew up?*
I used to play school, so I guess a teacher. How boring.

*What makes you feel great about yourself?*
That’s a tough one.

*How did you meet your significant other?*
I don’t have one.

*What was the best day of your life?*
The days my children were born.

*What are you naturally good at? (Skills, abilities, gifts etc.)*
I think I’m a pretty good teacher. I’m a pretty good writer. I’m a fairly good listener, and I’m very good at qualifying things.

*What is the one thing you must do before you die?*
Be happy with myself.

*If you had to teach something, what would you teach?*
How to listen.

*What would you regret not fully doing, being or having in your life?*
Not enjoying my family.

*If you were to be stuck at a particular time in your life, which one would you choose and why?*
In my early thirties.

*Do you get tired living life?*
No.

*What one thing would you NEED to have on a deserted island if you didn't have to worry over food and water? *
Books and movies.

*If you were a king/queen for a day, what would you do?*
Eat chocolate and decree that it could not make you fat/ter

*What’s the stupidest forum argument you’ve ever had?*
I don’t have arguments here. Only because they take to long to type out. And reading them I’m always like “Really? You really thought it was a good idea to say that?”

*What song is in your head at the moment?*
My mind is a tabula rasa at the moment. Some people would say it’s for longer than a moment.

*Which book are you reading at the moment?*
I’m reading two. I have only about thirty more pages left of “Lolita,” although it still feels interminable, and I’ve started “The Chocolate War.”

*What is your favourite quote?*
I have a plethora of favorite quotes. Here is one I encountered recently and I like it very much:
“The past has flown away. The coming month and year do not exist. Ours only is the present’s tiny point.”
Mahmud Shabistari

*Which comedians or cabaret artists do you like?*
Lewis Black is funny. I like when he gets mad.

*Favorite avatar on the Forum?*
Aliengirl has a pretty one.

*Favorite threads?*
Anything in General Chat or General Literature.

*What's your favorite sandwich?*
Tuna fish, if I’d bother to make it.

*What is your answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything?*
Don’t worry, be happy.

*Who were some of the nicest people you met on LitNet?*
TheFifthElement, PrinceMyshkin, TurquoiseSunset, Scher, TheComedian, LadyLuck, Helga, Haunted, JuniperWoolf, Papayahed, Gilleat Gurgle, Max, Pensive; really, I like everybody.

*What are you wearing at the moment?*
A pink blouse, shorts, sandals

* Favorite poem?*
Edna St. Vincent Millay:

Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain;
Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink
And rise and sink and rise and sink again;
Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath,
Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;
Yet many a man is making friends with death
Even as I speak, for lack of love alone.
It well may be that in a difficult hour,
Pinned down by pain and moaning for release,
Or nagged by want past resolution's power,
I might be driven to sell your love for peace,
Or trade the memory of this night for food.
It well may be. I do not think I would.

And Western Wind:

Western wind, when will thou blow,
The small rain down can rain?
Christ! If my love were in my arms,
And I in my bed again!

*First novel you remember reading on your own?*
“The Boxcar Children”

*What era do you find most of the books you read are from?*
Probably the current one.

*Favorite TV shows?*
The Good Wife, The Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother, The Mentalist. I used to like Dexter, but now it just makes me anxious to watch it.

*Which Forum members would you like to meet in person?*
TheFifthElement and PrinceMyshkin. I’d be glad to meet anybody, actually, even knowing there’s going to be an awkward period, because knowing people in reality is different than knowing them virtually.

*Are you a winter or summer?*
I’m a winter.

*Last words you said out loud?*
Good night, son.

*Last person you hugged/kissed?*
My son.

*What do you do (for a living) to be able to keep your LitNet addiction going? And are you happy with your chosen profession?*
I’m a teacher, for the time being anyway.

*What would you like to be if you could change your profession?*
Maybe a writer or a painter, if I had the talent, of course.

*Which one of the seven dwarves are you and why?*
Bashful.

*What is your most outstanding feature?*
That’s assuming I have one.

*If you could change one thing about the way you look, what would that be?*
My eyes, just a bit. My sister’s eyes are prettier.

*Which book do you wish you had written?*
Pride and Prejudice

*What book would you recommend to others of all types and ages as a must read?*
Night by Elie Wiesel. It’s a good book, but I think each person needs to find their own book that they think everyone should read.

*What should you be doing at the moment instead of answering these questions?*
Nothing at all! It’s evening, I can do what I want to.

*Describe your ideal day, please.*
I would get up and I’d go on a hike and then have a picnic with my family and friends and then we’d cook out for dinner and watch a movie late at night.

*Favorite movie?*
A Little Princess; Pride and Prejudice, both the movie (yes, I said it), and the mini-series.

*Last movie you watched?
“A Separation.” It was sad.

*How are you going to pick just one favourite painting?*
I can’t pick just one. I helplessly like them all.

*Favorite painting?*
A favorite painting is Ophelia by Sir John Millais

*Are you gellin'?*
*hunh* No.

*Wonderful Superman or depressing Batman?*
Batman

*Something you want to forget but you never can?*
I remember seeing the face of a young man found dead. It was in a booklet filled with pictures of missing people. It was rather horrifying to me at the time. I was young, and he died alone, in the elements, and no one knew who he was.

*What is the wisest thing that has been said to you?*
“And in any event, you shouldn't be apologetic about your life - these are things you have to deal with, yes, but they do not make you a bad or inferior person. In many ways you are stronger for your experiences…” TheFifthElement

*If you could relive one moment in your life whenever you wanted to, what would it be?*
A Fourth of July many years ago.

*What is the best thing that happened to you since your last birthday?*
I got a beautiful watch for Christmas, and meeting friends for dinner.

*If you could send one thing to the Room 101, one would that be?*
deception

*Are you mostly happy with life or are you still in pursuit?*
Still in pursuit

*Tell us something scandalous about yourself.*
I’ll pass on that one.

*How long did it take you to answer all of these questions?*
Longer than I thought it would

*One final word of wisdom for LitNet users?*
Love you guys-so, be careful out there.

*What question would you like to ask to the person to be interview after you?*
What’s your favorite word?