Continuing the discussion from Fun Friday (Part 2) - #502 by Feathertip.
Previous discussions:
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Did you ride a bike when you were a kid? If so, what did you name it?
Yes - I rode my trusty bike everywhere. It’actually had “Rapide” printed on it, so that’s what I called it. Being a pony-mad pre-teen and teen, it was, naturally, a wild horse and very badly behaved, frequently rearing up on it’s hind legs/wheel, with whinnying sound effects added by yours truly.
What’s your most prized possession and why?
This is rather tough - I try not to get too attached to “stuff”. I do have a lovely Gaia figurine that I love though, and a lovely obsidian raven.
How do you enjoy spending your “me” time?
I enjoy being in nature, if the weather allows (which means not so much in summer) - sitting on the patio and listening to the birds always relaxes me. Other than that, I enjoy listening to audio books (my eye sight gets strained if I try to read too much) and I like to get the paints out every now and then.
What animal best represents serenity to you?
The first thing that came to mind here was a swan. I don’t see many/any around here, but love to see them on the Thames when I go back home to the UK. They just seem so serene and graceful as the float along.
What’s your favorite kind of rice?
Whole grain/wild rice is supposed to be better for you, but honestly I’ll take rice however it comes.
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Oh look - thanks, System, for the new thread! 
(Image created by Night Cafe)
Welcome to Part 3, everyone!
I’ll re-post this week’s list here:
Did you ride a bike when you were a kid? If so, what did you name it?
What’s your most prized possession and why?
How do you enjoy spending your “me” time?
What animal best represents serenity to you?
What’s your favorite kind of rice?
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This is awesome - I don’t think too many of us little girls didn’t dream of having a pony! 
Agreed - it’s the best mindset to cultivate if we can. Even though we’re encouraged to buy stuff! 
I’m with you - just the opposite this time of year! I’m hiding indoors from the cold most of the time. At least the polar vortex part of the winter is behind us!
I only saw a few - most of the swans I saw were in the gardens around Buckingham. 
So lovely.
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Did you ride a bike when you were a kid? If so, what did you name it?
I rode a couple. One was a used on that I was expected to crash… and did. Then, I got a correct sized one… and crashed it - So… let’s name both of them “Pain”. -
What’s your most prized possession and why?
I don’t think I have one unless we include skills. I spent my second career as a computer geek. I still dig it. -
How do you enjoy spending your “me” time?
Reference the previous question! And reference the question before that. When I was young and frivolous I rode across states, mountain ranges, deserts (crossed the US one Summer). Now I only ride an exercise bike. But I put a lot of hours on it. -
What animal best represents serenity to you?
Gotta go with a dog. Love them. -
What’s your favorite kind of rice? Long grain Jasmine. I also love Thai rice but can’t get it here.
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I love this visual! We lived in a very isolated area and the bike was more of a tool for me. However, I kept at it when I grew older.
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Thanks for that! I was looking for these!
I did! I pink bike with a daisy seat! I have no memory if I called it anything or not. Probably so, but what I can’t remember. Unless it was something original like Pinky.
Wow. That’s hard to pick, just one. It would be either my statue of Brigid I have, or my family portrait. The one with a ten-year-old me in a plaid dress and both my parents in it.
Reading!
Wow. This is a tough one for me, but for some reason, I keep getting the mental image of a crane, despite the fact that I know very little about them.
Mushroom rice, followed by chicken broccoli cheese rice! I’ve been wanting some mushroom rice lately. I’ll have to make some.
That must have been an awesome adventure! And you were able to do it when you’re young! Good job to you for doing it!
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If you haven’t seen an eight year old English girl doing a wheelie on her bike and whinnying - you haven’t lived. LOL
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Dorothy was a horrid shade between grass and evergreen with a white banana seat. I’d ride around the block so often I’d have time to stop at a neighbor’s house for a bottle of 7Up. Sometimes I’d tell Mom I’d go around 20 times but I only went once or twice, just so I wouldn’t get in trouble for bothering people. I’d talk to Dorothy as though she were my best friend, since there were no humans my age in my neighborhood. When I could no longer ride her, a distant uncle gave me another, larger bike, just a shade lighter. The tires wouldn’t stay inflated, and I had trouble learning handlebar breaks, so I gave up. They say you cannot forget how to ride a bike, but I sure did!
Albus is nesting! I give him cotton balls, torn in threes, put the pieces on the gym atop the cage so he can collect them and put them wherever he wants to snuggle. At the moment, he is using his green grit cup in the white cage.
A bird is not a possession. No living creature should be reduced to object status.
Yeah, I’ll stick with that. Final answer… at least until I find something else.
Define “me time”? Oh. What I’m doing when I’m not working. I’m on disability, so all my time is supposedly “me time.” Yeah, right. We still have more expectations than time to fulfill them, more threats than strength; and it seems like the older I get, the more there are.
Sometimes I envy the sloth. No one tells a sloth to hurry up or else.
Rice A Roni or seaweed crackers.
They are friendly, but LOUD! Their rattle can be heard further than the eye can see when they are migrating. My driver and her grandson have walked right up to wild cranes and touched them. It would be a magical experience!
I haven’t lived. Sounds fun.
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I lived on my bike as a kid! If not my bike, then my roller skates! I was always outside! Kids nowadays do not know what they are missing! My bike was pink and purple and had a white banana seat with huge floppy pink and purple flowers. Really hippy looking and all about flower power! Even had a white wicker basket lol. My favorite picture of me and my bike was taken outside my childhood home and I’m wearing a blue long-sleeved turtleneck and blue corduroy bell bottoms my mom made me lol. I have my hand on my hip and I’m throwing attitude. I never named my bikes. I saved that sort of thing for cars when I got older.
My most prized possession is my treasure box. I have a box full of little trinkets and knick-knacks from my childhood to adulthood. I told my daughter it is her inheritance when I die. Of course, we’ve gone through it many times because she loves to hear stories about my life.
I love “me” time. I read, color, draw, put together jigsaw puzzles on my computer, watch true crime on You Tube, cuddle with my pets, meditate, drink tea and listen to music, journal…. you name it, I may do it lol.
Wolves equal serenity to me. They are my spirit animal and have called to me from a very young age. I think I was raised by a pack in another life. My favorite memory is of visiting a real domesticated wolf with my dad when I was young. My dad was friends with a guy who owned a beautiful blue gray wolf named Blue. He was huge and had the most amazing eyes. I felt like he looked right to the very core of me. I knew then that wolves were very special creatures.
I love basmati or jasmine brown rice. I eat it quite a lot. With vegetables and some type of protein almost every day.
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Oh! oh! I think I looked through this question. What kind of rice dish, maybe?
In that case, I gotta say Paella. Or Northern Thai fried rice. I fell in love with Paella in Spain when the SO and I were there and I had fried rice a LOT. Cucumber, a protein (never ask what the meat was), perfect rice, and a fried egg on top. Hot peppers, and whatever could be found for veggies… and a cold Singha.
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Hi-de-Hi fellow Mystics! I hope everyone is doing okay and enjoying the weekend! I somehow missed a week - don’t ask - let’s get into it!
* Do you celebrate Valentine’s Day? How?
No, I’m not a huge fan of themed holidays - like most of them (mother’s, fathers, etc.), I think valentine’s day should be every day, not a once a year thing. And I detest those people who publicly post the awesome things they’ve done for their partner for one day, when the other 364 days they act like Satan’s cousin. You don’t see lions or rabbits grabbing a bouquet of flowers which will last considerably shorter than the sentiment it represents… and for the record, I am in a very happy relationship hahahaha!
* What’s your favorite sleeping position?
Aww, how adorable that this is a thing lol… I really do not care, whichever position is conducive to getting K to sleep!
* What animal best represents inspiration to you?
Errrrrrrrrrrm… probably a unicorn, I always wanted She-Ra’s steed, she was a beauty 
* Do you like avocados? Plain, or in guacamole?
I’m sorry not sorry - ewwwwww. I have never and will never understand the obsession with avocado. My family is from Jamaica, and anytime we or anyone else went back home, they’d always carry avocados (plus other things of course 
) and we kids hated them. Literally my entire childhood my mother tried to get us to eat it bless her, how she thought she could make green mush attractive to us is beyond me 
* Has a Friday the 13th ever been unlucky for you?
Only one, and that was last year, I vividly remember sitting here writing the Fun Friday questions and getting a knock at the door, revealing our block had been flooded by my neighbour. Then 2 weeks later almost to the hour, my toilet flooded. Other than that, Friday the 13th is just another date to me, no more or less lucky than any of the others.
I did ride a bike, and I’ve never named a bike in my life, didn’t know that was a thing lol! I have a very vivid memory of learning to ride the bike in our basement, then us calling Dad downstairs and revealing that I’d learned to ride it, his face was priceless!
I don’t really do prized possessions, I’ve had to up and leave my possessions a few times so I learned not to get too attached to stuff.
Meditating. Me time is rare, and at the very least I can meditate for a few minutes. If I could, I would sleep!
Serenity as an animal… First thing I thought of was a swan too, or maybe a peacock.
I love all kinds of rice, as long as it isnt dry… special fried rice or tuna rice is kinda comforting, so probably one of those.
Fabulous to see Fun Friday still on a roll 
x Blessed Be x
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Wow. So not serene, eh? Oops. I guess I have this picture of like a zen painting with a march and a crane just standing there, quietly hunting.
Maybe I should change my answer to a tortoise. They seem pretty chill.
Yeah. I hate to sound old, but back in the day, kids were pretty much shoved outside as soon as it got light, and we weren’t expected home until sunset. Now, you can barely get the kids out to go to the car. Sheesh.
Well, that may be on me. I can’t tell the difference between long and medium rice. The only way I can tell it’s wild rice is because of the color. Is Minute Rice even rice at all?
Oooh! Swift Wind was gorgeous! I watched that cartoon mostly to see the horse.
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That is me, too. Naming things is strange to me. I think it is because I treat things as tools. I know people who name everything - it just doesn’t occur to me.
BTW: I still think of you when we are doing these fun posts.
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THAT’S her name, thank you! So glad someone else loved that beauty too!
Word. And I hate to sound older, but they really were the good old days
I remember when I got my first car and people kept asking what’s her name and I’m like she doesn’t have a name, she’s my baby… some of my friends started calling her Brandy, apparently because she was the colour of Brandywine. She was purple.. go figure.
aww thanks bro, that means a lot. Xxx
x Blessed Be x
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1)Yes, I had a bike when I was a kid. I grew up in a very rural area, just a few kilometers from the hungarian border. Bicycles were means of transportations and I rode it to school, for meeting up with friends, for grocery shopping and to the post office, which was 3 kilometers (roughly 2 miles) away.
2)My most prized possession would be this gold coin, which is more than 500 years old. I found it together with my mom, when I still was a teenager. We were going for a walk with our dog and next to the pathway was a field that was getting ploughed. And as the clod of earth broke open, we noticed something shining for a moment. I picked it up and once we had wiped the dirt from it, we noticed that it is a coin.
Later I did some research and found out that this is a “Matthias Corvinus” coin - who was King of Hungary from 1458 to 1490 (I looked up the dates right now). My mom had it framed (is that how you would say that?) and bought a nice golden necklace for it.
For me it´s not the monetary value, but more the memory connected to it. It also feels like a time travel sometimes when I touch it and imagine, how the coin found it´s way through the earth into my hand…500 years later. It feel magical to me.
3)“Me”-time…I love creating art, working in my Book of Shadows, I like reading crime novels and crocheting…I´m not a very outdoorsy person, but mostly because of people 
4)This would be the huge galpagos tortoises. They can live 100 to 150 years. They have a strong shell for protection and once they are adults, they literally have no enemies who could harm them.
5)My favorite kind of rice is the one with salmon on top! 
Nom nom nom!
This is how a novel should start…for real. I love this sentence.
How sweet! 
Oh, how precious!!
It was fun reading through all your answers!
Have a nice day or night wherever you are!
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Oh no! You were one of those adventurous but maybe accident-prone kids?
Love jasmine rice! It goes so well with everything! 
Those were very popular when I was a kid. So much fun! I had a plain blue bike - maybe that’s why I know I didn’t bother naming it.
This makes sense, though - they’re so quiet and still, standing in the water. Very serene settings. Even when they fly overhead, they stay silent and focused on where they’re headed. I love them too! 
Ooo, yummy! 
Kitchen time ahead!
I like the name Dorothy for a bike - a good friendship! Plus another white banana seat, I see.
I agree with this completely. I wonder if Albus might think you’re his favorite possession. 
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And here’s another white banana seat! On a cool pink hippie flower power bike!! I love your description, I bet it was a blast to ride everywhere. 
Oh, this sounds so sweet! I’m sure each piece is full of wonderful memories. And your daughter will love having it, too. 
It all sounds like special me-time. Just letting yourself do whatever you like at the moment!
Blue sounds amazing. What a special animal to spend time with!
Oh yeah, now you’re talking!
Nikki!! Getting right to the heart of what’s silly about V-Day - gotta love it!
Okay, that’s kind of freaky. 
My brother named two of his over the years, and I figured it was mainly a guy-thing. But girls name them too!
Oh, both of these sound tasty! I had egg fried rice a few days ago, my favorite fried rice.
Hugs and smooches back atcha, lovely!
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I think this is fabulous. In my youth we lived in the suburbs, and our bikes mostly got us around the subdivision or to and from each other’s houses. I was never close enough to a store that wasn’t on top of a busy road with cars rushing by and no bike lanes existed.
This is beautiful - how amazing! I would think of it in a magical way, too - the connection to those who came before us. What did they buy with that coin?
How precious it is! 
I understand that perfectly.
Ooo - this almost sounds like sushi! Delicious!
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I kinda looked it up. But I remember loving that horse! I wanted one so badly!
It led to us GenXers and those of us around that time to be self-dependent. Now, if something goes wrong, people whine to their bosses or parents. Even when they are adults.
Wow. That coin was meant to be yours. It almost jumped into your hand! It’s beautiful. And hey, you didn’t turn into a skeleton in moonlight so it shouldn’t be cursed!
I’ve got it planned to make some mushroom risotto with garlic mushroom chicken. That’ll be YUM!
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