tag tag tag

Never in my life have I 
been outside of Europe


The one person who can drive me nuts is
there's more than one person. But usually it's things they do, rather than the person they are.


High school was
a great experience!


When I’m nervous,
I fidget and get physical symptoms of anxiety


The last song I listened to was
All Of the Lights by Kanye West and all those other people, because I wanted to check song and video quality to put it in a blog post.


If I were to get married right now my maid of honour would be
hm. this requires serious thought.


My hair is
annoying


When I was 5 
I used to be good at maths and my best friend was called Lindsey


Last Christmas I 
was at home with ma famille, and it was very cold


I should be 
eating properly


The happiest recent event was 
I'm happy a lot of the time. one of those times when things 'click' a little bit. also, dinner with the boy


By this time next year I will 
be in the same position as I am now! looming exams and not eating or sleeping properly


There’s this girl I know 
who stresses more than I do


I like you when you 
read my blog


The world could do without 
violence of any sort


Most recent thing I’ve bought myself is a 
went to the supermarket earlier, got eggs, cheese, soup, oats, chicken


Most recent thing someone else bought me is 
er, i'm not sure actually. i pay for things myself now mostly. let's just say one time at dinner


My middle name is 
non-existant


The animals I would like to see flying besides birds are 
giraffes


Once, at a bar
I cried with laughter at someone's story. (must go back there)


Last night I was 
completely exhausted, so sat in bed with a book and watched Junior Doctors


There’s this guy I know 
who never asks me how I am when we see each other


Tomorrow I am 
one day older than i am today


Tonight I am 
studying, thinking about having dinner and tidying up


My birthday is
soon!!!!!

shot like a falling star

1. What do you think you can do but can't?
I think I can be quiet.  Not really true.  I have a way of walking, especially when I'm going to hospitals, that makes me noisy.  When I go to the library, I make lots of noise initially when I am getting things out of my bag.... I also have no 'indoor' voice.

2. What's a difficult word for you to pronounce?
"encephalopathy" and "satiated".  Not entirely sure why, as written down, they look like they're easy to say.  Well, not so much for me.

3. What is a favorite TV show from your childhood?
To be honest, I didn't watch that much TV when I was younger.  I remember the Queen's Nose though.  I loved that TV show.  I remember there was a character called Melody, or Melanie, and she was the sister of the main characters.  It was based on a book by Dick King-Smith, whose books I loved when I was much younger.

4. What are your virtues and vices?
I can't believe I have to look up what they mean.  Let's take 'virtue' to mean "something admirable about yourself" (google definitions).  I suppose... I am organised and I remember dates and names quite well.  I motivate myself well and recognise when truly I cannot motivate myself (as opposed to not being bothered to motivate myself in the first place).  I like to talk, and I suppose I always have something to say (not sure if that's admirable or not).
Let's take 'vice' to mean 'bad habit or weakness' (google definitions).  I eat too much cake / chocolate.. I rarely look both ways when I am crossing a quiet-ish road - I rely on my hearing to know if a car / cyclist is coming by.  I have picked up a lot of bad driving habits, which most people do after they pass their test.  I also don't eat properly / much.

5. What's more important: love, fame, power, or money?
It may come as no surprise, but I actually believe that love is the most important of these four.
I have no desire to be famous, I am happy being who I am and doing what I do.  I don't like the way the media portrays famous people, and they pick up on every single detail.  I could never be in the public eye like that.  Fame can have negative connotations, and this is what bothers me when you read the newspapers / online media.
I have no desire for power, because I would hate to be in charge of a state / country / company.  Whatever decision you make, it affects some people, even if just a minority.  I am not one for wanting to have control over everyone and everything, and I believe that there are some people better suited to power, those that think they are suited to power and those that are not suited to power.
Money is not that big of an issue - I can live comfortably within my means, and even though it would always be nice to have extra money, I would feel guilty because people can benefit from a large sum of money better.  For example, we were talking about the Lottery the other day - I have long held strong ideas about what I would do I won a large sum of money.  I would keep some for myself to buy a house and go travelling, and then donate a part of it and give the rest to my parents.
So, in the end, love is most important.  I have a lot of it in my life, from my parents and family, from my friends and from my boyfriend.  It is not something you can physically hold or physically define: it is an emotion that brings people together. I would hate to have no love at all in my life: I would see myself as being lonely and sad.

6. If you could live in any era/time period, when would it be and why?
I would absolutely love to live during the Regency Era.  I see it as a very old fashioned glamorous period (for the wealthy).  I know little bits about history, and this period appeals to me greatly.

7. If you had to redo your entire wardrobe with 2 stores, what would they be and why?
My wardrobe consists of many Primark clothes, and various others from many different stores.  I feel like Primark has gone downhill a little bit, the quality of some of their things is not as long lasting.  Hm... so I shall pick... H&M and Topshop: not that expensive and there's always something in there that I want!
Edit: I actually want ASOS in there.  So ASOS + other shop of current fancy.

8. Can you recall what you were doing a year ago on this day?
Hm.  19 March 2010.  Let me consult my blog....  I wrote a post on 20 March 2010.  In all truth, I don't remember exactly what I was doing, but I was probably had lectures, saw friends and watched a film.  The post I have linked explains what I was doing this time last year.

9. Do you have reoccurring dreams? If so, explain? 
I do actually, but I don't really want to write about them here.  I often write about my dreams, if they're interesting, or if I need to gain some sort of closure from them.  My dreams can be very odd, and I feel as though (as silly as it sounds) that they show me something about my life or something from the past or from the future, and it helps me to process what has happened if I write about it.  And sometimes those writings make it to published blog posts.  I have one most often recurring dream; it unsettles me everytime I have it, so I would rather not write about it here.

10. What's your horoscope?
I am a Leo.  I googled what my sign means.  There is a very long description of my zodiac sign on http://www.astrology-online.com/leo.htm.  Whatever you read, it is vaguely and loosely true, but not wholly.  I am also a Dragon in the Chinese Zodiac, which I affiliate with more than the 12 starsign way, probably because of my upbringing.  Again, a lot of the descriptions for Dragons are very similar to the way I am.


11. What does your dream bedroom look like?

Spacious, warm and light.  Not too much clutter but enough room for my things.  Also, calming.

12. What position do you sleep in?
On my back.  It's the most comfortable and it's better for your skin.  I don't understand how other people go to sleep on their sides... or on their front??  I know I'd find it hard to breathe if I kept sleeping on my front.

13. Who is your favorite vampire of all time?
???

14. What are you currently wearing on your feet?
Nothing... I don't wear anything on my feet when I'm in my flat.

15. Do you have neat handwriting? Show us!
Haha, no I don't.  It's passably legible at the best of times.  It depends how fast I need to write.  This was normal speed....

Carol xxx

"Action. What will you do next year that you've been putting off for too long?"

This is the 20SB blog swap post, except mine never got back to me, so here I am, posting this on my own blog.


Next year... I will make the effort to cook more meals that do not involve the current major Carol food groups of: chocolate, bread/toast and pasta.  These things are the go-to foods when I am just too tired to be imaginative and creative with my food choices, or when I feel ill and want some comfort food.  I cook a really nice meal for myself for my birthday and for Chinese New Year, as these are important days, the latter in particular, but other than that, it doesn't get all creative or anything.


I've been living away from home for a few years now, and I still very much look forward to coming home and having food made for me.


I will also keep my table tidy.  I write notes to myself, or important things and leave them on pieces of bright pink paper so that I will see them.. I have pens and papers and all sorts on my work table, and it gets a bit much sometimes.  I will also keep my piece-of-furniture -in-lieu-of-a-vanity tidy (a vanity is something where you put make-up and mirrors and other such things, and mine has magazines and books, a clock, hair things, creams and jewellery all over it in a very disorganised manner.  That is the one thing in my room that requires the most time to tidy up, and it is the one thing I hate to tidy the most.  So I will make more effort to do so.


In terms of really answering the point of this post... I'm not really sure there is anything I have been putting off... more, delaying (and these are things I would do in time).  I don't have any big plans I have been delaying (have I?)... but expect to see reflections upon this in the not too faraway future =)


C x x x


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As a side note, the snow has really messed up the country's transport, and people keep citing Canada as an amazing example of snow-handling.  I accept that they are better equipped to handle snow, but the UK sadly is NOT, and a comparison to Canada isn't helping that much.... I hope that everyone's braving the snow if they need to, and being safe!  A lot of the trains and planes are cancelled / delayed, and I am so thankful that I didn't need to use any form of air transport this holiday.  Handling a train concourse full of irate people was bad enough!!

30 day blog challenge

This looks fun :)  Don't expect it to be every day though !
Carol xoxo


Day 1 – A photo of yourself and a description of how your day was
Day 2 – A photo of something you ate today
Day 3 – Your idea of the perfect first date 
Day 4 – Your favourite photograph of your best friend
Day 5 – A photo of yourself two years ago
Day 6 – A photo of an animal you’d love to keep as a pet
Day 7 – Your dream wedding
Day 8 – A song to match your mood
Day 9 – A photo of the item you last purchased
Day 10 – A photo of your favorite place to eat
Day 11 – What’s in your makeup bag?
Day 12 – 15 Random Facts about you
Day 13 – Your favorite musician and why?
Day 14 – A TV show you’re currently addicted to
Day 15 – Something you don’t leave the house without
Day 16 – Your celebrity crush
Day 17 – 10 Things I Want To Do Before I Die
Day 18 – A photo of you and your family
Day 19 – Another picture of yourself
Day 20 – The meaning behind your blog name
Day 21 – A photo of something that makes you happy
Day 22 – Something you crave a lot
Day 23 – A photo of you as a child
Day 24 – What’s in your purse?
Day 25 – A photo of somewhere you've been to
Day 26 – Your Favourite Colour
Day 27 – A picture of you last year and now and how have you changed since then?
Day 28 – Your favourite movie
Day 29 – Something you could never get tired of doing
Day 30 – A photograph of youself today + three good things that have happened in the past 30 days

BBC book list

Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here. Instructions: Copy this into your NOTES. Bold those books you've read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read an excerpt. Tag other book nerds. Tag me as well so I can see your responses! Yes, it counts if a book was read to you.
  

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling 

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

6 The Bible

7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

20 Middlemarch - George Eliot

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame 

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis


34 Emma -Jane Austen 

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen


36 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis 



37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres

39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

40 Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell

42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving

45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery

47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding 

50 Atonement - Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel

52 Dune - Frank Herbert

53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth

56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 

62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt

64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 

65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac

67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy

68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding 

69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie

70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens 

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson 

75 Ulysses - James Joyce

76 The Inferno - Dante

77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 

78 Germinal - Emile Zola

79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

80 Possession - AS Byatt

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens 

82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker

84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry

87 Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White 

88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton 

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery 

93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks

94 Watership Down - Richard Adams 

95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute

97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas 

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl 

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

you are a trendsetter

Today has been purposefully unproductive.  I've been feeling a bit ill for the best part of the past three weeks.  First of all, there was the temperature + dry cough for a week.  Then I ate something strange or a bit off, and had bad stomach pain for a while (I've only had bad food poisoning once, but I get it often if I don't cook something properly) and this weekend just gone I have been feeling like I am burning up with a fever, then had the shivery and feeling faint stage a couple of days ago.


So I had today as a sort of 'do a little bit of productive stuff but have a rest' day.  I had a random memory of Tia from CGGB assigning me a letter from a post she did AGES ago, from which I had to think of six (or seven? or am I making it up?) things beginning with that letter I liked.


I don't really remember the specifics, but I felt like doing it today.  My letter was 'V' so here we go, with some tenuous links....


1. Vivienne Westwood... so quintessentially quirky. I love her as a designer; her dresses are always a bit crazy and kooky, but I love it.  The shop at World's End has a beautiful design too, and I used to love walking past there, looking wistfully in as I don't go into shops if I can't afford things in them.  But now I want some VV shoes, maybe I can make a special trip there!!

2. Vintage dresses - very tenuous link.  I tried on both these dresses in the 'vintage' section of the flagship Topshop.  That's my link.  I love dresses.  I would wear them allllll the time if it were feasible and I could afford to get more.

both these images are my own!

3. Vanilla smelling things remind me of lazy evenings in, burning candles and waking up in the morning to have the room filled with vanilla-y smell.  It also reminds me of fun shopping trips, and the summer.  I also have a vanilla spray thing I use sometimes instead of perfume which I love.  Although vanilla tasting things.... not so sure.

4. Vodka... need I say more, really

5. Vampires - tenuous link to TVD and Twilight (and possibly True Blood when I get round to watching  it)

6. Vacations - I love going away, or seeing my family or having real down time.  Sometimes I wish I could just escape my life for a weekend and fly away.

7. Velvet cake... just look at these and get virtual diabetes.  Or at the very least, tiny hunger pangs.

8. Vogue.  Again, need I say more really.  If I'm feeling sad or low or ill, one of my favourite things to do when I am on my own is to read magazines in bed and eat huge bars of chocolate... it's one of my guilty pleasures.

9. Velvet ... I'm usually not a person who likes texture-y things but I like velvet and satin-y feeling things.  But then other times...

All images from google images, except the two of me, which are my own.

Carol
xo xo

sense of style is eternal

So this sweet girl commented on my blog, and I found this tag thingy.  There's loads of those youtube "what's in your purse" bag, which I like watching sometimes, as I'm nosy.  I'll do one..... soon!


So I guess this is "things I have done"?

01. Bought everyone in the bar a drink
02. Swam with dolphins    [really want to]
03. Climbed a mountain
04. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
05. Been inside the Great Pyramid
06. Held a tarantula
07. Taken a candlelit bath with someone   [i love candles]
08. Said "I love you" and meant it   [yeah, i didn't mean it for my first serious boyfriend]
09. Hugged a tree
10. Bungee jumped
11. Visited Paris    [love it!  I LOVE the French culture]
12. Watched a lightning storm at sea
13. Stayed up all night long and saw the sun rise
14. Seen the Northern Lights

15. Gone to a huge sports game   [Chelsea v Arsenal]
16. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa
17. Grown and eaten your own vegetables
18. Touched an iceberg
19. Slept under the stars
20. Changed a baby's diaper
21. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
22. Watched a meteor shower
23. Gotten drunk on champagne   [yeah, it's just one of those drinks]
24. Given more than you can afford to charity
25. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope
26. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment
27. Had a food fight
28. Bet on a winning horse
29. Asked out a stranger
30. Had a snowball fight

31. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can
32. Held a lamb
33. Seen a total eclipse
34. Ridden a roller coaster
35. Hit a home run
36. Danced like a fool and didn't care who was looking
38. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment
39. Had two hard drives for your computer
40. Visited all 50 states
41. Taken care of someone who was drunk
42. Had amazing friends
43. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country     [if by foreign country, you mean Camden?  I did once, in Camden]
44. Watched whales
45. Stolen a sign

46. Backpacked in Europe
47. Taken a road-trip
48. Gone rock climbing
49. Taken a midnight walk on the beach
50. Gone sky diving
51. Visited Ireland
52. Been heartbroken longer than you were actually in love
53. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger's table and had a meal with them
54. Visited Japan
55. Milked a cow
56. Alphabetized your CDs
57. Pretended to be a superhero
59. Lounged around in bed all day
60. Played touch football
61. Gone scuba diving
62. Kissed in the rain

63. Played in the mud
64. Played in the rain
65. Gone to a drive-in theatre
66. Visited the Great Wall of China
67. Started a business
68. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken
69. Toured ancient sites
70. Taken a martial arts class

71. Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight
72. Gotten married
73. Been in a movie
74. Crashed a party
75. Gotten divorced
76. Gone without food for 5 days
77. Made cookies from scratch 
78. Won first prize in a costume contest
79. Ridden a gondola in Venice
80. Gotten a tattoo
81. Rafted the Snake River
82. Been on a television news program as an "expert"
83. Gotten flowers for no reason
84. Performed on stage
85. Been to Las Vegas
86. Recorded music
87. Eaten shark
88. Kissed on the first date    [never really had a first date]
89. Gone to Thailand
90. Bought a house
91. Been in a combat zone
92. Buried one/both of your parents
93. Been on a cruise ship
94. Spoken more than one language fluently
95. Performed in Rocky Horror
96. Raised children
97. Followed your favorite band/singer on tour
98. Passed out cold    [embarrassing story.....]
99. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country
100. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over
101. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge
102. Sang loudly in the car, and didn't stop when you knew someone was looking
103. Had plastic surgery
104. Survived an accident that you shouldn't have survived
105. Wrote articles for a large publication
106. Lost over 100 pounds
107. Held someone while they were having a flashback
108. Piloted an airplane
109. Touched a stingray
110. Broken someone's heart
111. Helped an animal give birth
112. Won money on a TV game show
113. Broken a bone
114. Gone on an African photo safari
115. Had a facial part pierced other than your ears
116. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol
117. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild
118. Ridden a horse
119. Had major surgery
120. Had a snake as a pet
121. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
122. Slept for 30 hours in a 48 hour period
123. Visited more foreign countries than U.S. States
124. Visited all 7 continents
125. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
126. Eaten kangaroo meat
127. Eaten sushi
128. Had your picture in the newspaper
129. Changed someone's mind about something you care deeply about
130. Gone back to school
131. Parasailed
132. Touched a cockroach
133. Eaten fried green tomatoes
134. Read The Iliad and The Odyssey
135. Selected one "important" author who you missed in school, and read
136. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
137. Skipped all your school reunions
138. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language
139. Been elected to public office
140. Written your own computer language
141. Thought to yourself that you're living your dream
142. Had to put someone you love into hospice care
143. Built your own PC from parts
144. Sold your own artwork to someone who didn't know you
145. Had a booth at a street fair
146. Dyed your hair
147. Been a DJ
148. Shaved your head
149. Caused a car accident
150. Saved someone's life

make-up tag

What's your favourite make up look?
Neutral looks


Do you have a beauty vice?
I spend many pennies on skincare


What part of your body do you love?
Erm... My feet


Who is your beauty icon?
Coco Chanel


What beauty product makes you feel instantly sexy?
I wouldn't say products made me feel sexy... more clothes, or perfume


How do you look after your skin?
Very well.  I drink lots of water, I moisturise, I use intense moisturiser on top of that, I try to eat balanced and well.

What is your signature scent?
this vanilla thing I have


What are your hair care secrets?
Shampoo it.  Properly.

How do you pamper yourself?
Have a duvet day, where I sit on the sofa or in bed and read or watch DVDs or films and eat chocolate and just do nothing stressful


What is your beauty pet peeve?
People who wear too much make up, for no reason

What would your desert island must haves be?
electricity, computer+internet, a library, some blankets, a filter bag


Finally, do you have a beauty philosophy?
Beauty comes from within!

question tag

1. What time did you get up this morning? 7.15am


2.How do you like you like your steak? I've only ever had it once.  It was slightly pink in the middle but was soft.


3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema? Alice in Wonderland 3D


4. What is your favorite TV show? Don't really watch any TV programme with any regularity


5. If you could live anywhere in the world where would it be? Milan


6. What did you have for breakfast? two slices of toast and Flora butter


7. What is your favorite cuisine? Asian fusion


8. What foods do you dislike? brussel sprouts, most red meat


9. Favorite place to eat? Chez Patrick


10. Favorite dressing? none


11. What kind of vehicle do you drive? A black Ford Ka


12. What are your favorite clothes? dresses so I can feel girly, otherwise design tshirts


13. Where would you visit if you had the chance? Rome, Venice, New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong, America, specifically Hawaii


14. Cup 1/2 empty or 1/2 full? 1/2 fullllllll


15. Where would you want to retire? on a country farmhouse, where there is sun, where I can have my bunnies, kittens, puppies, elephants, kangaroos, squirrels, hedgehogs, giraffes, polar bears, husky dogs, ob/ob mice and a big Alsatian (back story: I want all these animals, although it's probably not possible to have them all in one non-zoo place)


16. Favorite time of day? morning


17. Where were you born? Bury


18. What is your favorite sport to watch?gymnastics, swimming, iceskating


19. Who do you think will not tag you back? /


20. Person you expect to tag you back first?/


21. Who are you most curious about their responses to this? /


22. Bird watcher?nah, not for me


23. Are you a morning person or a night person? depends what mood I am in and how sleepy I feel


24. Do you have any pets? Nope


25. Any new and exciting news you'd like to share? nope....


26. What did you want to be when you were little? a writer


27. What is your best childhood memory? I have many, but none specific.


28. Are you a cat or dog person?cat


29. Are you married?no


30. Always wear your seat belt? in theory, yes


31. Been in a car accident? yes, I have been in a car that hit another car, and I have been run over by a car


32. Any pet peeves? ugh, yes


33. Favorite Pizza Toppings? hawaiian


34. Favorite Flower?orchids


35. Favorite ice cream? ben and jerry's phish food


36. Favorite fast food restaurant? none


37. How many times did you fail your driver's test? 0 :D


38. From whom did you get your last email? Kurt Geiger


39. Which store would you choose to max out your credit card? Whole Foods Market


40. Do anything spontaneous lately? not really no


41. Like your job?i'm a student


42. Broccoli?yup, it's a superfood


43. What was your favorite vacation? Milan 2009


44. Last person you went out to dinner with? P


45. What are you listening to right now? traffic outside (it's 11.08 at night but it's still busy)


46. What is your favorite color?pink...


47. How many tattoos do you have?NONE


48. How many are you tagging for this quiz? /


49. What time did you finish this quiz? 11.08
50. Coffee drinker? not really, no thanks

last year I...

1. Did something you said you would never do.
2. Paid for someone who said they would pay you back but never did. [this happens a lot, but doesn't really bother me that much]
3. Lied about where you were.
4. Discovered a new musician. [yes!  Lenka; "sheselle" on youtube]

5. Made something for a friend. [probably some origami type thing]

6. Got a new phone. [yush, my sony ericsson w995]
7. Got a new iPod/Zune/Mp3 player.
8. Watched three or more episodes of Saturday Night Live.

9. Made fun of someone. [happens a lot, tbh]

10. Created a tumblr.
11. Flew on a plane for the first time.

12. Spoke in front of 15 people or more. [hospital, poster presentation, grand round... eh, it happens a lot]

13. Met someone in real life that you originally met online.
14. Done something illegal.
15. Did your siblings chores for money.

16. Stayed up all night thinking about the worst thing that could possibly happen to later find out that you worried for nothing. [this happens often too!]

17. Hurt somebody you didn’t mean to hurt.
18. Hugged your mom or dad.

19. Baked a cake.

20. Made a new friend.
21. Lost an old friend.
22. Changed your views on society.
23. Laughed at something that wasn’t funny. [but i am easily amused]

24. Got upset over something that wasn’t a big deal.

25. Had a horrible birthday. (the actual day)
26. Got a facebook.
27. Deleted your myspace.
28. Cried because you missed old times.

29. Cleaned your room. [gotta do it often, yo]
30. Have a new found appreciation for someone you never expected to.
31. Told someone you love them.

32. Told someone you hate them.

33. Screwed something up but didn’t mean to.
34. Received a gift.
35. Gave a gift.
36. Read a book that wasn’t for school. [yup, but it was pretty thin on the ground... still don't have that much time to read for myself]]

37. Ate a lollipop.
38. Threw away something by accident.
39. Smoked a cigarette.
40. Ran a mile.
41. Switched schools.

42. Aced a test. [online webct... #1... yes :D was kinda funny, cos I was like, hey that's the top score... hey, that's the same as what I got.  It didn't occur to me that I had the top score for at least a minute... yeah, I'm slow]

43. Wished you were in the past.

44. Got scared about the future.

45. Got yelled at by your parents.
46. Lost a family member.

47. Saw an old friend.

48. Went to church/synagogue.

49. Hugged a stuffed animal.

50. Said you’re going to make next year better.

tag: stolen from tabz

Don't tell me lies, so where's your boy/girl?
In Ireland

Who was the last person you had a conversation with on the phone?
Daddy, to say I was coming home after going out today.

Has anyone said they love you in the last week?
P :)

Have you faced any of your fears lately?
Err.... I... conquered my fear of flying in aeroplanes!

Which friend are you most similar to?
No one... no one is as blonde as I am or as ditzy.  Or quite the same kind of weird.

Camping with a ton of friends or hotel with a few friends?
I strongly suspect I would hate camping and there would be arguments in the bigger group of friends.  So the latter it is then.

Who can make you feel better in a difficult situation?
My friends, my mother. the boyfriend... er... sleep...

What did your 7th last text say?
Gotta find my phone!!!
"Skype has turned gay again.  Gah .. It is lovely to see you but let's stick to the phone from now on.  Still love?"
I'm not going to explain the couple-y language, but Karmic Linux has some bugs to fix.
 
Has anyone told you they don't ever wanna lose you?
Er.... ??

How do you feel about girls smoking?
I hate people who smoke.  If you're reading this, don't ever smoke.  And if you do, don't ever tell me.  I HATE it.

 
Do you want someone dead?
NO!

What would be the first thing you would do with 100,000 dollars?
Wonder how I got American currency all of a sudden.  And then probably bank it, or give it to my parents.

Is your crush banging someone else?
He better fecking not be.

Have you ever kissed someone while drunk?
Not that I shouldn't have
 
Who were you with today?
family

You have to get a piercing, what do you get?
none. no more.  one ear piercing per ear is quite enough for me

What are you wearing?
jeans and 5 layers of clothing

Do you like the ocean?
it's okay?

Would you rather sleep with someone else, or alone?
Making no allusions to my relationship, I'd rather share the bed.  If only so I don't fall out all the time....

Who is the last person you were in a car with?
sister and mum

What was your dream about last night?
can't remember... dreams have been calm of late

Do you fall for people easily?
no

Everything happens for a reason?
yes, they do.

Has someone put their arms around you in the past five days?
No?

You're trapped in a room for 3 days with your worst enemy, what do you do?
I'm not sure I have a worst enemy?

Do you want to see the movie Paranormal Activity?
no, doesn't sound so good

Would you rather sleep for 3 days, or stay awake for 3 days?
be awake?  sleeping for 3 days = very lazy and fat carol

How many kids do you want when you get older?
two. painlessly but sectionlessly and damage-lessly

How old do you want to be when you have kids?
before 30

Do you regret doing anything this week?
er.. probably shoulda revised more

When did you last consume alcohol?
I drink very little, so I can remember everytime I have.  It was R's birthday party, in early April, although his birthday is towards the end of March.  We went to this lovely restaurant near Covent Garden then onto Yates' in Leicester Square.  I had a shot and one mixer.








(I quite weirdly like these tags.  T - hope it's okay I stole this from you!)

20 questions

1.Thing you cannot leave the house without
Depends actually.  I often go out without my phone if it's just to the supermarket or if I just don't want it near me.  I leave money at home if I don't want to spend anything while I am out.  I guess... keys.  Yes, otherwise I would never be able to get back in...


2.Favorite brand of makeup
Don't use make up that much.  I buy Bourjois make up when I do though.. it's made by the same people as Chanel apparently.  Or is an "in house brand".


3.Favorite Flowers
Roses :)  Or tulips.  No, wait.  Orchids!


4.Fav clothing stores
Pimkie, a European clothing store whose clothes fit me better than English stores' clothes.  Topshop is good though, for everything, even though I hate venturing into the one on Oxford Street - it's too big and the clothes aren't really ordered.


5.Fav perfume
Lancome Hypnose


6.Heels or flats
Flats - I have bad balance, and can't wear big heels :(


7.Do you make good grades?
Er.. yeah I guess so


8.Fav colors
Pink, purple, pastelly colors


9.Do you drink energy drinks?
No, they're full of caffeine aren't they! Bad for the heart and skin and all that.


10.Do you drink juice?
Yes, if it's all natural.  I don't like drinking it if it's fortified with loads of processed sugars.


11.Do you like swimming?
 Yes, I used to be really good at swimming and I could swim 25m front crawl in 12 seconds... we used to have timed swimming every term to see who was the fastest and the teacher would write it down in her register book thing.  But now I'm not so good anymore


12.Do you eat fries with a fork?
Yes, I don't like getting my hands dirty and/or greasy


13.Whats your fav moisturizer?
Ponds moisturiser


14.Do you want to get married later on in life?
Yes, eventually.  I think most people aspire to, but whether it works out or not is up to them


15.Do you get mad easily?
I'd like to think I have a fairly un-mad temperament.  Things make me mad but it passes quickly.


16.Are you into ghost hunting?
No?


17.Any phobias?
the dark.. according to thephobialist.com, that's called "lygophobia": fear of being in a dark place. Check it out.. there are some very extraordinary things you can be scared of.


18.Do you bite your nails?
Yes, but not so much anymore


19.Have you ever had a near death experience?
My sister driving badly... but other than that, no


20.Do you drink coffee
I can drink it, I mean, it's not wholly unpalatable to me, but I don't make it a regular thing.


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I like these tag things.  Maybe you guys get to know more about me.  Thoughts?  Or any more tag games you'd like me to do?