Manic Monday

Not played for ages but thought I should! Couldn't see this week's questions (but it is still early in the USA) so here are last weeks!

Do you listen to music regularly? What's your favorite way to listen-- radio, CD, iPod...?
I listen to the radio in the car and sometimes in the office.

When listening to music do you tend to focus more on the lyrics or the melody?
A catchy tune usually gets me hooked then I listen to the lyric.

If you had to pick a theme song to sum up your life right now, what would it be?
Soulmate by Natasha Bedingfield.

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Is it easier for you to forgive or to forget?
Forget. I have a brain like a sieve! I will admit there are people I haven't spoken to for years and some people I have to speak to and rather I didn't. Sometimes I can even remember the reason. But probably connected to the answer below.

Do you believe people can change?
Yes but often not for the better. Although I'm never sure if they were like that all along and just waiting until they had your trust before dumping from a great height

Has life made you more cynical or more hopeful?
After reading my answers I'd have to say cynical.

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For someone that you love deeply would you be willing to move to a foreign country knowing that there would be little chance of seeing your friends and family again?

Only if the language spoken is English as I can't speak anything else! Seriously, Quite probably as with all the methods of communication about it's not as if you'd never speak to them again. I would miss my Mum, but what girl wouldn't. I would have to insist on taking my pets; "love me, love my dog". And I'd prefer if it was warm.



If you could spend a year in perfect happiness but afterward remember nothing of the experience, would you do it?

Doesn't seem to be any point to that! Could I scrapbook it?

My poor blog seems to be feeling a little neglected lately. The ME/CFS has been getting the better of me and I've been to wiped to blog. Had to take time off work because of yet another bout of tonsilitis. Back onto the anti-biotics.

My dog is sick as well. Had to have blood tests and I'm waiting for the vet to phone with the results. He hasn't been eating unless I force feed him, although he is drinking. He has also been down in the dumps. Picked up when the postman came, loads of barking and very animated.

Wordless Wednesday

Love my phone

Manic Monday on Wednesday

What flavor of ice cream best describes your personality?
I only like vanilla but I think Rocky Road or Choc Chip would be good choices.

If your life was a weather vane, which direction would it be pointing right now?
Due South!

What is one field or profession that you have never pursued, but that you think you would most likely have been quite good at?
I started to study law, loved all the logical bits. Other stuff? Zoologist, IT technician, Airline pilot, Ruler of the (not so) free world, Brain surgeon, Marine biologist, Personal shopper...

Friday Feast

Appetizer
Who is your favorite news anchor/reporter? Why?
I like Bill Turnbull. BBC Brreakfast news, because his sense of humour is apparent and because he is not afraid to make a fool of himself. He is happy to have a go at most things including Strickly Come Dancing (Dance with the stars for US)

Soup
Name 3 foods that are currently in your freezer.
Chicken - there is always chicken.
Ice Cream - a big tub
Vegtables - all kinds because they're my nod to healthy eating.

Salad
If you were to have the opportunity to name a new town or city, what would you call it?
I'd really have to think hard, it would depend on where it is. Mountain region, surrounded by countryside. Or I could be totally egotistical and name it after myself :)

Main Course
What will most likely be the next book you read?
There are a few stacking up.
Labyrinth by Kate Mosse
Da Vinci code - yep I still haven't read it
Or course the next Harry Potter
and I want to read King Lear before I go and see it

Dessert
What's the first thing you notice about the opposite gender?
Smell! It's what I notice about everyone. I really can't cope with the unwashed smell.

Thursday Thirteen (Dydd Iau un deg tri)

Thirteen things in Welsh. With pronouciations and translations.
My Welsh isn't brilliant but I thought it would be a fun TT.
Every letter is pronounced - unlike English were there are silent letters. The accent is on the last but one syllable. Today I'm concentrating on things to do with the weather but some other bits as well. Oh! somethimes there are differences between North and South words so I'll use north as that is where my Great Grandmother was from but it really doesn't make a huge difference.

1. Celfyddydau (Celfithudow) = Artistic/crafty/creative

2. Sut ydycg chi? (sit uhdich chee) = How are you? (north welsh)

3. rwy'n (rooeen) I am (north welsh)

4. Mae hi'n (mahee heen) It is

5. Y tywydd (uh tuhoo-idd) The weather

6. Oer (Oheer or Ohr) = cold

7. Boeth (boyth) = Hot

8. Bwrw glaw (Booroo glahoo) = raining

9. bwrw eira (booroo eheerah) = snowing

10. heulog (heheelog) = sunny

11. wyntog (oointog) = windy

12. gymylog (gyhmulhog) = cloudy

13. Nos da (nohs da!) Good night

Hope you had a fun time learning Welsh. Maybe I'll do it again. To visit more Thursday Thirteens go to the home page here.

Wordless Wednesday 14 March 2007

Manic Monday 12 March 2007

Imagine you are on a first date and the person you are with has food stuck in his/her teeth. Would you tell him/her? What if he/she had food on their chin, nose or shirt?

Yep, of course otherwise they would be wondering why I've spent the whole time with a silly smirk on my face! Plus it would save them the embarressment of someone else (like the waiter) pointing it out. I'd hope they'd show me the same curtesy.

Not sure how to get food onto the nose though!

What breakfast cereal best describes your personality?
I don't eat cereal and am not sure if UK cereals will translate to USA. But probably Crunch nut cornflakes. I'm nutty and flakey and sweet like honey :D

Who would you most like to have a dream about tonight? What would you like to dream?
I'd just like a full night's sleep! Hahahahaha.

Those who know me well will know who I'd like to dream about and what that dream would entail. Those who don't know can take a wild guess!

Feeling Blurgh

Wow it's a long time since my last post. To be honest I haven't been on the internet a lot at all recently. Not been visiting my favourite forums (listed left). Even Craft Kingdom hasn't been getting the usual attention.

I have been super busy at work. For some reason I am expected to do what they want me to all day! The newsletter has been produced and mostly posted, but the photocopier packed up today and I am waiting for the engineer to call. I have been exhibiting and interviewed by the BBC. I have an excellent face for radio :D The week after next I have 3 days that I will not be at my desk for various reasons and next week I have one day out.

I have been so tired after work that it's been all I can do to watch the baby panda at Atlanta Zoo's website. I've been tired a lot since my car accident, but it seems to be starting to pass. Look out next week I hope to get some dented car pictures up for Wordless Wednesday.

I have added babelfish to the sidebar so that any one who's first language isn't English can get a translation into their own. A pretty nifty peice of software I think. Let me know what you think.

Can anyone recommend a great Thursday Meme now that Thursday Thirteen is no more? I love going around and reading other people's blogs. Something else I've missed in the past week.

What do you feel is the biggest waste of time?
Can I say work :D I'd have much more time to play if it wasn't for work! Actually I think that TV is the biggest waste of time and for those who want to know if I watched XYZ last night; no I didn't. Maybe I was scrapbooking maybe I was chatting to people but I wasn't watching TV.

I do sometimes watch TV but I can only think of 5 or 6 programmes that I love even then if I miss them life doesn't stop.

If I knew then what I know now, I ....
Still don't think I do know :D

I would have bought a house. 20yrs ago I had the chance to buy a house, but I didn't have the funds or earned enough for a morgage. Then houses cost less than £20k now to buy in house where I live you need over £100k. I could have paid a morgage if I really tried. By now it would have been paid off.

How do you feel your life has changed over the past year?
My horse's feet have got worse and I spend a lot of time watching him walk - looking for that day when it's time to make that decision. But considering he can still gallop around his pasture and kick his heels I don't believe it's yet.

I spend a lot morer time blogging than I used to. And Craft Kingdom forum started up. It'll be a year old on 1st April. It was started by my friend Mandy (aka Elphaba) and is a great little forum. We'd love more members though. We only have a few regulars.

Friday Feast 23 Feb 07

Appetizer
Where on your body do you have a scar, and what caused it?
Where do I start? I am covered in scars. Lots are horse induced! My best on is on my top lip, where I got kicked in the face by a rearing horse. My boy's big half sister. Same Dad, she got her Mum's temper.

Soup
What is something that has happened to you that you would consider a miracle?
One time - before mobile (cell) phones were common but were just becoming reasonibly priced. My car broke down on a lonely country road. I was at least 3 miles from the nearest civilisation and the road is not that busy. About 5 mins later car came by and stopped.

There's me a 25yr old woman on my own having a major panic attack because 1. Do I get out and start walking? 2. No one is looking for me until at least 10pm and this was about 6pm 3. A car has just stopped - I have no idea who the people in it are!

The people in the car were a lovely elderly couple who took my Mum's and my brother's phone numbers. Drove to the nearest village and phoned them for me. They refused my offer of money for the phone call and said if they couldn't get through they'd come back and let me know. With in half an hour I had my Mum and a breakdown truck with me. I am sure that kind elderly couple were angels. in the whole time I was stuck I didn't have another vehicle go by.

Salad
Name a television personality who really gets on your nerves.
This will probably not translate into US for apologies for it but Anysley Harriott really really really... He's a TV chef, unfortunately it's hard to get away from him because although it's possible to avoid the programmes he's on he is also in the adverts.

Main Course
What was a funny word you said as a child (such as "pasketti" for "spaghetti")?
I have never been told of any I said but there are some daft family words

Cutter grass - Lawn Mower, curtesy of my big brother Wolvers - wolves from two of my nephews Wellow - yellow from my youngest nephew Just remembered that I could never say soldier and always said shoulder. So my brother was a shoulder.

Dessert
Fill in the blank: I have always thought ______ was ______.

LOL see above - my brother was a shoulder!

Can I have I have always thought God was great?

War was/is not the answer

Friday Feast 16th Feb

Appetizer
What sound, other than the normal ringing, would you like your telephone to make?
Hmmmm my mobile (Cell) phone plays the theme from the Black Beauty TV series. Called Galloping home. My work phone ribbits like a frog!

Soup
Describe your usual disposition in meteorological terms (partly cloudy, sunny, stormy, etc.).
Overcast with sunny spells? Today I am anyway. But being a Brit I am very like our weather and am changable :D

Salad
What specific subject do you feel you know better than any other subjects?
How to look busy without doing any actual work!

Main Course
Imagine you were given the ability to remember everything you read for one entire day. Which books/magazines/newspapers would you choose to read?
Anything and everything that isn't trashy.

Dessert
If a popular candy maker contacted you to create their next confection, what would it be like and what would you name it?
It would have to have chocolate and nuts and something a little chewy like nougat, what about a little mintyness in there as well? Name would need to contain Celfyddydau, obviously. Gelf's minty nut suprise?

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Thursday 13 on Thursday 15th.

No theme, just whatever's in my head.

1. OUCH!!! from both my car and me. A guy in a 4 wheel drive backed into me last night. I was stationary. My car has a dent and I ache. Watch out insurance claim.

2. We had snow last week. Not a lot but enough to make life interesting for a couple of days.

3. My brother visited at the weekend.

4. edited to protect the innocent.

5. My dog has a wart on his face, Bazooka Gel is getting rid of it.

6. We rearranged the offices at work. I ended up moving the entire contents of one department on my own! I had the next 2 days off with backache and I had to see the osteopath. Thank goodness I have insurance for things like that.

7. another edit :D.

8. My horse is such a baby, he wears a blanket but the other night he was shivering anyway and had to have 2 on.

9. My dog has decided that it's time to get up when it's light! He used to decide it was time to jump on the bad and suggle.

10. I started Pilates and my stomach is already flatter.

11. I need to see the osteopath again after the car accident but can't get in until next Thursday.

12. I did 7 layouts at the crop last week! I was sooooooo tired after. (for those who don't know. It's scrapbooking - making photo albums)

13. I haven't struggled with this TT as much as I thought I would. I better keep the other things in a list for another time.

Flow It, Show It- Hair, Hair, Hair!

Do you enjoy having your hair cut/styled?
It really depends on my mood, but generally I love to have my hair brushed etc.

How often do you have your hair cut?
When it is annoying me! It's getting very close now. Last cut was just before Christmas

Are you particular about what shampoo/conditioner/other hair products you use? What are your favorites?
I can only use baby shampoo or else my scalp itches and feels like it's on fire.

Do you think a man should accept his baldness or do the comb over/ toupee/Hair Club for men route?
Accept it, all the other answers look stoopid!

What steps would you take if you started to lose your hair?
I think I would probably cry, then shave it all off. I could get wigs in different colours and styles so I could have a new look everyday and in the summer loads of sun lotion. Just think of not having to wash your hair everyday.

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Thursday Thirteen on the 25th

Thirteen things I've seen people do dispite the snow on the ground.

1. Walking about in a tee-shirt
2. Overtaking into oncoming traffic
3. Pull out of side street into oncoming traffic
4. Constantly tooting horn while in a line of traffic at the lights
5. Walking on the road in the direction of the traffic
6. Speeding
7. Letting small children run on icy pavements near traffic
8. Driving with no lights in bad visability
9. Not dipping headlights when traffic is coming towards them
10. Only clearing a small porthole in the windscreen
11. Talking on a handheld phone while driving
12. Turning round to tell off children in back seat of car
13. Throwing snowballs at moving traffic

Yep they are almost all traffic related and some are not just stupid but also illegal! It's bad enough that people do these things in good weather but we have snow and ice. And for some crazy reason the roads weren't gritted last night.

The guy tooting the horn was driving one of those big lorries and there was absoluting no reason for it. He kept up the tooting even after the traffic moved off and was still going at it when he took the other turning to me.

Manic Monday 22nd Jan. The real one

Here's today's questions. At least I'm all caught up.


Have you ever made snowballs and preserved them in the freezer?
Nope, but that's a great idea. Then I could throw them in summer, Thanks!

Have you ever had a cooking disaster?
One time I was following a receipe for coconut cakes, it said toss in coconut. so I threw the coconut into the bowl with all the other ingredients. What it meant was to toss handfuls of the cake mix in coconut to coat them.

Hey how was I to know? I was only 6 and the fact that I could follow a receipe is amazing to me.

Have you ever sent or received a piece of fan mail?
Mmwwhahahahahahahahahaha.

Manic Monday 22nd Jan

Have you ever refused to tip a waiter or waitress?
No but then in the UK it's not an expected thing. If I've had great service I say thanks and leave a tip.

Have you ever been on a hayride?
Yep. Again not a UK thing so not a hayride in the US sense where you all climb onto nice neat bales and go off for a picnic. But working in a stables/farm sitting on the back of a laden trailer to go and feed.

Also done the other side where you get to ride on the back of a muck laden trailer to chuck it all off at the other end!

Have you ever driven a vehicle faster than 100 mph?
Nooooooooo my car has a panic attach if you ask it to go faster than 100kph. It'd never make it to 100mph.

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Manic Monday Meme

This and That

Do you wear a watch every day? If so, describe it.
Not everyday but I have one that has a fushia pink wide leather strap and the face is surrounded by bling

Do you wear cologne or perfume?
Yes and this is probably going to be the topic for Thrusday Thirteen this week

What's under your bed?
I have a bed with built in draws so nothing other than dust can get under it. The drawers have clothes in.

What do you keep on your nightstand?
A bottle of water, a glowy light cube that changes colour romote controls and tissues.

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