6 posts tagged “meme”

Kadeeae has tagged me and below is how to participate once I've tagged YOU...

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    * People who are tagged, write a blog post about their own 8 random things, and post these rules.

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1. When I was a child, I wanted to live in a Hobbit house so much that I completely designed one for when I was older and obviously incredibly rich. It included a main circular hall in the centre of it with a raised skylight that I would be able to sit and watch the stars and storms through. Turns out that KT had a similar desire for a Hobbit home in his life when he was a nipper as well.
2. I tend to carry a notebook, sketchbook and assorted stationary with me at all times. I use them for quick jottings, to make notes of things I hear on the radio, to tear bits out to give to the kids to stave off boredom, to doodle, etc..
3. When I feel really unwell, I crave Marmite and Cheese & Onion crisp sarnies. I'm thinking it's a salt thing.
4. My hair falls out really easily. Each time I brush or comb it, I end up with a fairly hefty sized ball of hair. Each time I was pregnant I got bald patches at my hairline where my fringe is - though I don't think it's related.
5. I get really hot, really easily. When other people are hurrying through what I know is chilly weather and all wrapped up as well, I am the freak wandering about in a t-shirt. I only tend to feel the cold when it's freezing and below or when I am ill.
6. I've very recently discovered a penchant for slow roasted veggies - especially parsnips. I used to loathe parsnips.
7. I'm a nail biter. I've stopped a few times but the first sign of stress will usually start me nibbling again. KT usually knows if I have been talking to my mum or have to call her because there is major nail decimation then.
8. I really, really wanted to be a mermaid when I was younger. I spent hours in the swimming pool, staying underwater for as much of it as I could. I thought I was terribly graceful. I joined three swimming clubs, swam for my school etc. and daydreamed of swimming when I wasn't doing it. At 11 we moved to somewhere that was miles from the nearest local pool and apart from participating the one and only time my school had a swimming gala, I have never been swimming, properly, since.

I tag - anyone who wants to do it - I knwo there are few people who have been slapped with this more than once recently.  

Pinched from LeendaDLL

1. I've come to realise that my butt: is always going to look like two turkeys fighting in a sack when I walk.

2. I've come to realise that when I talk: I add in all kinds of weird and wonderful new words that mean absolutely nothing to anyone outside of my family and close friends.

3. I've come to realise that, if I love someone (not family): I'll love them unconditionally as part of my family until they do something really, really awful - and even then, I'll remember the good stuff first.

4. I've come to realise that I need: to get out and about more. Since SH pushed me off the prom and I hurt my foot and ankle, I've become incredibly lazy because I know I will pay for exercising in anyway with severe pain. It's beautiful out there and I've spent some time over the past two days walking along the prom and feeling better for it as well.

5. I've come to realise that I've lost: all confidence in who I am due to the mental and physical abuse from SH. Who I am is not who I was and I'm working on regaining who I was before him. Although I am less the mouse KT met 6 years ago, I still am to net the peep who ran away.

6. I've come to realise that I hate it when: people appear to ignore me or they don't appreciate that I can have my own views as well as them.

7. I've come to realise that if I'm drunk: it's probably Christmas.

8. I've come to realise that money: is something I will always have to work hard at saving. Credit is not good - saving is better.

9. I've come to realise that: my mother lied to me when she said I would get ankles - I've met my paternal Granny now and I know I never will have beautiful svelte ankles or be able to wear boots. I wonder if I get my stumpy thumb and little fingers from her too...

10. I've come to realise that I'll always be: the kind of friend that is there when people need the best friend ever and discarded when they are back on top.

11. I've come to realise that I have a crush on: chunky guys with sparkly eyes.

12. I've come to realise that the last time I cried was: when I was reminiscing about lost family members.

13. I've come to realise that my cell phone: makes an excellent little torch for a few seconds at a time. It's also my watch, my alarm clock, my entertainment system (yay, Tetris), my communication system to KT when we're not together, my address book, my birthday reminder, my calendar, my appointment diary and my memo holder.

14. I've come to realise that when I wake up in the morning: my body has timed my dream to end exactly two seconds before the alarm goes off.

15. I've come to realise that before I go to sleep at night: I like to read until the book falls from my hand.

16. I've come to realise that right now I am thinking about: how I should get to adding my new photos to disc before I lose them and write up the things I plan to.

17. I've come to realise that babies: are little people that I adore and that even though I still really want another and am young enough to be a first time mother, having a child who is old enough to have his own family means that I should get over wanting another child so badly and wait for the grandchildren. I don't think I will ever come to term with not having lost the babies that I did and I wont ever not want another. 

18. I've come to realise that when I get on Vox: I love to see what I consider my online family have been up to.

19. I've come to realise that today I will: probably not get much done - I am so tired!

20. I've come to realise that tonight I will: want to try and relax as much as possible - I need rest so I can work on number 21.

21. I've come to realise that tomorrow I will: be giving the garden a bit of a spruce if the weather holds up.

22. I've come to realise that I really want to: be content and never want for anything - I'm one of those people who has to wait for everything and sometimes I'd like to get whatever it is just that little bit sooner.

23. I've come to realise that the person who is most likely to repost this is: the person I 'stole' it from.

24. I've come to realise relationships: are mostly worth working at, but that it's okay to realise it's not working and to get away.

25. I've come to realise love: can be unconditional, fragile, beautiful, heart-breaking, sad or warming. 

26. I've come to realise my best guy friend(s): are the big brothers I never had.

27. I've come to realise my best girl friend(s): know I'm fabulous at keeping secrets. How else would I know that...

28. I've come to realise food: is something I don't really enjoy eating as much as I should - I need to work at getting a pattern of regular eating going on.

29. I've come to realise, when I'm a girlfriend: I tend to conform to the needs of my partner, even when it's detrimental to me in some way.

30. I've come to realise girls and boys: no matter how old, all want a hug from their mother sometimes.

31. I've come to realise over the summer: that we don't get as many warm, sunny days as I recall as I child so I should make the most of every one we get.

32. I've come to realise heartbreak: is something I associate with the loss of beloved family members most. I still feel their loss as clearly as when they first died. 

I've been tagged by Scooter, so here it goes...

Five things you don't know about me:
List 5 things previously unknown about yourself, then tag 5 other people!

1. Men who have beards but no moustaches freak me out. There is no rational reasoning for this, but I do very clearly recall the weirdy-beardy who seems to be the origin of this obsession, mania, preoccupation, fixation. He was a doorman or something at a working men's club my mother took me to once when I was three or four - I clearly remember the fug of smoke around his head and how I stared at him.
2. I have no ankles. Okay, so technically, this isn't true, but ever since I was wee I have lusted over the idea of having legs that go down, move into shapely ankles and then purty feet. What I have instead is tree trunks that morph straight into Hobbit feet. My mother promised me when I was five that I would get them when I grew up. Upon meeting my paternal Granny for the first time when I was 24 or so, I realised my mother had callously lied to me.
3. Apart from horrendous bouts of tonsilitis that I got quite regularly every 3-4 weeks, I didn't get any other childhood diseases... until I was 16. All those times that my mother sent me to play with neighbourhood kids when they had the mumps, measles, etc came to naught. My little brother David managed to give me chickenpox in the middle of my GSCE's with no problem at all. I was smothered in blisters - under my eyelids, inside my nose and in various other sensitive places, too.
4. I used to eat my mother's cigarettes. There is a rather attractive photo of me, complete with Nora Batty style woolly tights, with a fag in my mouth - it looks like I was smoking it, but I was giving it a good old munch.
5. I had, as a small child, and still do, the biggest crushes on Bing Crosby, Cary Grant, James Stewart, Harold Lloyd, Johnny Weismuller, Spencer Tracy and Danny Kaye - it took me years to realise most of them were dead!

Ok - I am tagging...

                      KT              Know It All               Bookmole               Wedgeh             TashaTuk    

Theft :: Of My Heart
Storage :: Box
Pick :: A Pocket Or Two
Los Angeles :: Raiders
The one :: I Love
Accent :: Suffolk
Rivalry :: Sibling
Process :: Of Elimination
Streets :: Of London
Museum :: Exhibit

Unconscious Mutterings

Pinched from Laurie:

1. What was the scariest movie you've ever seen?

I don't scare easily, so didn't expect tobe scared whilst watching the adaption of a fave book - Carrie. That bit where Carrie's hand comes out of the ground made me jump.

2. What was your favorite Halloween costume as a child?

When I was 14, I pinched an old shirt from my step-dad and buried it for a few days then wore it with my best jeans - which happned to be as holey as heck. Slapped on some face paints hey presto, one zombie. Painted up the sibs and gathered up the rest of the kids in our close and shambled around the village for a few hours - lotsa fun.

3. Given enough money, what would be your fantasy costume?

A pirate wench, complete with bulging cleavage. Would have to use the money on getting my eyes lasered first though - I don't think there were many pirate wenches with spectacles.

4. When was your last time trick-or-treating?

I took the boys out when they were really wee. They weren't impressed so we never did it again. 

5. What's your favorite Halloween candy?

Swizzel Parma Violets - the little ones taste better

6. Tell us about a scary nightmare.

According to my family I have really freaky dreams - I am used to them. There is one recurring dream I still have however which used to scare the bejesus out of me when I was little. A crocodile would chase my Nan, Mum and me through a forest that looked uncannily like the woods in Where The Wilds Things Are. I always used to wake up just as it was chomping down on my ankle.

7. What's your greatest supernatural fear?

Being possessed

8. What's your greatest creepy-crawly fear?

I'd hate to be trapped in a room full of flies. Disgusting. The smell would make me hurl.

9. Tell us a time you saw a ghost or heard something go "bump" in the night.

We lived in a house where there were all kinds of thumps and bumps. It was an old house, so we didn't take much note of it. First October we were there, an old fashioned guy in a stove pipe hat walked across our living room and through the wall. He did that every year. When the kids were still tiny we would sit on my bed and play hand clapping games and the such. There were a few times when they looked out into the hall and got really frightened. They huddled togetther and asked me to make the bad man go away.

10. Would you stay in a haunted house overnight?

Heck yes. I believe most of the places I have lived have had a presence. 

11. Are you a traditional or a creative carver of your jack o'lantern?

We do one of both. Kids do the traditional - I attempt and mess up the creative ones.

12. How much do you decorate your house at Halloween?

It's tradition for us to have a family indoor 'picnic' on Halloween. We've done it ever since AJ's first full day at school (which was on Halloween) and we make decorations to go up with the shop ones. Not overboard, but enough.  

13. What do you want on your tombstone?  

She always said she'd laugh herself to death...

Stolen from this Laurie, who stole it from this Laurie who got it from - I dunno!

1.You can press a button that will make any one person explode. Who would you blow up?
-- My ex husband - he flits in and out of the kids lives and breaks their hearts every single time.

2. You can flip a switch that will wipe any band or musical artist off the earth?
-- Il Divo or G4 - hopefully they'd be sharing a stage and they'd both go POOF! at the same time.

3. Who would you really like to just punch in the face?
-- Erm - no-one? The one person I have ever wanted to exploded in Q1 ;o)

4. What is your favorite cheese?
-- Cathedral City - an extra strong cheddar

5. You can only have one kind of sandwich. Every sandwich ingredient known to humankind is at your immediate disposal.
-- There are two sarnies I absolutely adore, but as there is only one allowed, the one I would realllly like right now is a cheese and Marmite! toasty - nothing much betterer than that for comfort.

6. You have the opportunity to sleep with the movie-celebrity of your choice. Who would it be?
-- Mark Addy - the man is like a human teddy bear - bet he can be ferocious though. Rawr ;o)

7. You have the opportunity to sleep with the music-celebrity of your choice. Same rules as above. Who is it?
-- I'd have to be gay of course, but Baby Daddy is cute... so maybe Pete Bennett, this years winner of BB7 UK, as he is reputed to give a very good time!

8. Now that you've slept with two different people in a row, you seem to be having an excellent day because you just came across a hundred-dollar bill on the sidewalk. Holy shit, a hundred bucks! How are you gonna spend it?
-- I'm buying myself a load of new CD's with that little beauty.

9. You just got a free plane ticket to anywhere. You have to depart right now. Where are you gonna go?
-- Australia to meet up with the long-lost branch of my family I discovered when doing our family tree.

10. Upon arrival to the aforementioned location, you get off the plane and discover another hundred-dollar bill. Shit! Now that you are in the new location, where are you gonna go to spend that?
-- I'm gonna see if the airport has a Subway because the flight made me hungry and I want a steak and cheese sub - grilled herby oat bread with the steak heated, red onions, iceberg lettuce, sweetcorn, tomatoes and barbecue sauce, please!

11. An angel appears out of Heaven and offers you a lifetime supply of the alcoholic beverage of your choice. "Be brand-specific" it says. Man! What are you gonna say about that? Even if you don't drink booze there's something you can figure out... so what's it gonna be?
-- I don't drink alcohol often, but I quite like Bailey's Irish Cream, yum!

12. Rufus appears out of nowhere with a time-traveling phone booth. You can go anytime in the PAST. What time are you traveling to and what are you going to do when you get there?
-- I'm going back to 1979, and I'm taking the then address of my best friend with me. I'm going to spend more of the little time we had left with my Nan, and I am going to stand up for myself when my new step-dad beats me and tries it on.

13. You discover a beautiful island upon which you may build your own society. You make the rules. What is the first rule you put into place?
-- No-one is allowed to put anyone else down for their views -it's a fun place!

14. You have been given the opportunity to create the half-hour TV show of your own design. What is it called and what's the premise?
-- Play The Game - half an hour of watching a family of 4-6 trying to play a new board game without fighting or cheating. They'll never do it!

15. What is your favorite expletive?
-- Fuck - not so much a favourite as what tends to get said (Oh for fucks sake, fucking hell! for fuck's sake... etc)

16. One night you wake up because you heard a noise. You turn on the light to find that you are surrounded by MUMMIES. The mummies aren't really doing anything, they're just standing around your bed. What do you do?
-- Ask 'where's Elvis, Bubbah?'

17. Your house is on fire, holy shit! You have just enough time to run in there and grab ONE inanimate object. Don't worry, your loved ones and pets have already made it out safely. So what's the one thing you're going to save from that blazing inferno?
-- my folder with 1000's of photos, sketches etc all on CD.

18. The Angel Of Death has descended upon you. Fortunately, the Angel Of Death is pretty cool and in a good mood, and it offers you a half-hour to do whatever you want before you bite it. Whatcha gonna do in that half-hour?
-- I'd spend it down the beach with KT and the kids, starting with playing on the beach and then a big hug for each of them so they would know how much I will miss them.

19. You accidentally eat some radioactive vegetables. They were good, and what's even cooler is that they endow you with the super-power of your choice! What's it gonna be?
-- I'd be able to teleport myself and anyone linked to me in the blink of an eye, so we could visit family and friends we've left behind more than we can.

20. You can re-live any point of time in your life. The time-span can only be a half-hour, though. What half-hour of your past would you like to experience again?
-- Sitting at the View Point with KT at midnight a few months back, watching the waves roll in diagonally and playing word association whilst thinking what gorgeous eyes he has. 

21. You can erase any horrible experience from your past. What will it be?
-- An incident at a scout camp when I was almost 9

22. You got kicked out of the country for being a time-traveling heathen who sleeps with celebrities and has super-powers. But check out this cool shit... you can move to anywhere else in the world!
-- Hawaii - it just looks like a really cool place to visit.

23. This question still counts, even for those of you who are under age. Check it out. You have been eternally banned from every single bar in the world except for ONE. Which one is it gonna be?
-- I rarely go out, so don't know any - but I'll turn this about and say Cadbury's Fruit n Nut ;o)

24. Hopefully you didn't mention this in the super-powers question.... If you did, then we'll just expand on that. Check it out... Suddenly, you have gained the ability to FLOAT!!! Whose house are you going to float to first, and be like "Dude, check it out, I can fucking FLOAT!!"
-- My sister's, to make her kids giggle.

25. The constant absorption of magical moonbeams mixed with the radioactive vegetables you consumed earlier have given you the ability to resurrect the dead famous-person of your choice. So which late celebrity will you bring back to life?
-- River Phoenix - I think he had a lot of potential.

26. The Celestial Gates Of Beyond have opened, much to your surprise because you didn't think such a thing existed. Death appears. As it turns out, Death is actually a pretty cool entity, and happens to be in a fantastic mood. Death offers to return the friend/family-member/person/etc. of your choice to the living world. Who will you bring back?
-- My Nan (maternal grandmother). She was the one person I could always count on and died at a time when things were quite bad. I miss her.