I had a lovely evening round at a friend's house last night, nothing much occured that was blog-worthy, we just had a takeaway and watched the "Dark Knight" on DVD, with many a vodka & lime being knocked back ... which means I'm feeling a teensy bit frayed around the edges this morning and far too muddled to write anything complicated. So my dissertation on "The Evolution & Migratory Habits of the Lesser-Spotted, Bearded Pea-Coot of Papua New Guinea" will have to wait for another day ... try to contain your disappointment.
Instead I'll write something a bit random and fluffy, in keeping with my current state of mind. (If this post were a colour, it would be candy floss pink.)
I was tagged by the lovely PrincessImp over at PrincessImp's Pedestal ... and frankly, it couldn't have come at a better time. Yet again you have been saved from the post on the "Top 10 Fun Things to do with String" ... you should head on over and thank PrincessImp ... NOT NOW! Once you're done reading this post! Sheesh!
Are you sitting comfortably? Good! Then I shall begin ...
What is your current obsession?
Writing is always my first obsession, but I'm having a real thing for jelly beans at the moment too!
What is your weirdest obsession?
Probably serial killers (don't be scared)
What are you wearing today?
Maybe I should put some clothes on before I answer this Q ...
What's for dinner today?
Well I had Chinese takeaway last night and I've been summonsed to the Swiss Family Manson's for a family meal tomorrow, which means a gargantuan roast dinner ... so just probably something light, soup or good old toast
Why is today special?
Carol Ann Duffy has been named as the UK Poet Laureate and made history for being the first woman to be awarded the title, the first Scot and the first openly gay Poet Laureate. I think that's kinda cool, plus I really like her style of poetry:
Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy
Not a red rose or a satin heart.
I give you an onion.
It is a moon wrapped in brown paper.
It promises light
like the careful undressing of love.
Here.
It will blind you with tears
like a lover.
It will make your reflection
a wobbling photo of grief.
I am trying to be truthful.
Not a cute card or a kissogram.
I give you an onion.
Its fierce kiss will stay on your lips,
possessive and faithful
as we are,
for as long as we are.
Take it.
Its platinum loops shrink to a wedding-ring,
if you like.
Lethal.
Its scent will cling to your fingers,
cling to your knife.
What would you like to learn to do?
Brain surgery would be awesome! Also snowboarding, which is something I've wanted to have a go at for years.
What languages can you speak?
Some English and the very barest, basics of French
What are you listening to right now?
Debussy's "Clair de Lune" ... it was either that or listen to the Duracell boinkers upstairs. Plus, I prefer to listen to classical musical when I'm writing, I can't concentrate if there are lyrics distracting me.
What is your favourite weather?
I like autumnal weather, not freezing cold, but enough to make you wrap up when you go out and then scurry home, where everything seems extra cosy as you listen to the wind blowing in the trees outside.
What is your most challenging goal right now?
Getting a job (anybody need an administrator/secretary?)
What do you think about the person who tagged you?
I think she's great, she seems to have a real sense of fun, is warm, intelligent and very stylish.
If you could have a house totally paid for, fully furnished, anywhere in the world, where would you like it be?
The Scilly Isles (once described as 2000 alcoholics clinging to a rock)
What would you like to have in your hands right now?
*giggles* :P
What would you like to get rid of?
The spider in my living room :(
If you could go anywhere in the world for the next hour, where would you go?
Hmm ... an hour isn't very long, so I wouldn't bother going to Liverpool ... I'd probably go to Lake Como in Italy for a walk in the sun
Which language do you want to learn?
I'd love to learn French properly, but it's a tie with Italian, both are so sexy. Someone could be reading the phone book in either of those languages and it would sound totally hot!
What do you look for in a friend?
A love of buying expensive gifts for their friends for no reason whatsoever ... oh, and honesty, humour and loyalty
Who do you want to meet in person?
All of my blog-chums who follow and comment regularly ... I'm fascinated by them and their lovely, hilarious comments.
What's your favourite type of music?
Indie, probably. Although I do love to dance to RnB.
What's the favourite piece of clothing in your own closet?
There's no way I could narrow it down to one piece!!! I love my combats (they're super-comfy and give my bottom an almost magical pertness) and my Hello Kitty PJ's but I also have several pairs of shoes that I hardly ever wear but couldn't live without and also an Anthropologie dress that a friend brought back for me from a trip to the US last year (I effin LOVE my friends ... sometimes)
What is your dream job?
Author and illustrator of children's books
Any favourite models?
The Airfix "Waterloo Battle" gift set is a winner ... oh, I see ... er, Freddie Ljungberg and Kate Moss
If you had £100 now, what would you spend it on?
Probably save it and start a "Crackberry" fund (I desperately want one)
Favourite designer?
I change my opinion on this regularly, but at the moment I quite like Marc Jacobs and Anna Sui
Fashion pet peeve?
Skinny leg jeans ... BLEH!!!! Especially on men!
Do you admire anyone's style?
I think Kate Winslet always looks very elegant, she knows exactly which colours and styles suit her.
Describe your personal style:
I don't think I have any one style, I love variety in everything, including what I wear.
So there you have it, 27 things you didn't give a monkey's about know about me.
I'm not going to tag anyone, although I'd love to see your answers if you fancy having a go at it ... yes, I'm THAT nosey.
Now go comment ... but please don't shout, I'm still feeling a bit delicate.
Happy Lazy Day!
53 comments:
GI no crackberry? How do you survive, I couldn't! Hope your not eating the black jelly beans they taste funny.
Mr C ... Frankly, I don't know how I survive! :(
Fancy buying me one? :P
I do eat the black ones, they're pretty mediocre as jelly beans go, but I don't mind them ... and there doesn't appear to be many in this packet anyway
Ok but I REALLY hope you don't enjoy eating circus peanuts (not sure if you have them there). They are the absolute worst! We should all pitch in to get You a blackberry, ill put half at least.
Er ... no, I don't think we do have circus peanuts!! I wouldn't eat them on principle anyway, I loathe the circus
Awww :D thanks Mr C! What a good idea!
Anybody else want to be my friend ...?
Hahaha
Circus peanuts are revolting. They are pretty much like a hard marshmallow in the shape of a giant orange peanut. Glad to see you like foreign languages, I speak and write many of them. You like childrens books? One of my favs as a little kid was 'the giving tree' until the picture of the author on the back freaked me out.
They sound vile!
You're very cool, Mr C ... do you speak French and Italian?
Hahaha ... yes, Shel Silverstein was a bit odd (scary) looking. I know the book, it's lovely ... it seems you have excellent taste
You have great taste as well, and seems like most of your blog friends do too. Yes I speak french and italian enough to converse well.
I also write arabic and greek fluently, and about 400 chinese characters. I love foreign language and alphabets.
Have you written a kids book?
Wow! Impressive! I have a friend who is living in Japan and teaching English over there, she was telling me about how they have multiple alphabets etc, fascinating stuff!
No, I haven't written a book, I have a few plotlines that I've thought of and kept over the years and I've written several short stories. But that's all.
I feel as if I'm intruding upon a date between you and Mr. there but here I am anyway!
I had a crackberry - hated it. I could never hear it ring.
I feel so terrible for you, GI - the spider. There is nothing worse than seeing one, except for not knowing where it's at. Eeek.
I was tagged by zelzee so maybe I can incorporate that and the one you did into the same post!
Happy Sunday, pretty girl!
P.S. My word verification was - schmingl.
It sounds like the jewish word for penis.
Hey P Mama! :) ... always a pleasure to see you (I think Mr C has a girlfriend, so you're not whizzing on anybody's bonfire :P)
That sounds like a great idea for a post! I look forward to reading it.
Hahaha @ schmingl!!! I'm going to use that from now on:
Drunken oik: "ello darlin, fancy a shag?"
Me: "Oy! What a schmingl!"
ça va, je vois que t'aimes la langue Française, so excuse my French, j'ai alors decidée de faire un commentaire, mais pas dans la langue Anglaise...
alors, on y va :
Si tu veux, je t'envoie mon chat Jelly Beans parce que j'ai bien comprise que tu es amoureuse de lui.
UPS est bientôt sur ton chemin.
Moi, j'adore l'automne aussi ; la nature nous donne ses couleurs les plus vive dans cette saison.
Je me suis assise pour lire et apprécier la poême de Carol Ann Duffy et je dois dire ; je l'adore !!
Elle a le talent d'utiliser des mots d'une manière magnifique ...
Voilà, c'est tout - ça fait déjâ longtemps que j'ai utiliser la langue Française d'une telle façon, je crois que ça fait une bonne exercice pour moi ...
à bientôt, bisous et à la prochaine !!
Dominica XXXX
OMG, I love the poem too. I actually could taste the sweet pungent onion on my tongue when I was reading it, and I loved that description for love/lovers.
Dominica ... merci! I actually understood most of that! I impressed myself! :P And if it gave you the opportunity to exercise your French then I'm glad :) Sadly, my French is not good enough to allow me to reply at length, without showing myself up for the ignoramus I am lol
Diane ... isn't it beautiful! :) I'm so glad she's finally been recognised, she should have got it last time, it was only because the Government were squeamish about her sexuality that she didn't.
:P I'll be your friend...
Ugh wine hangover & gym don't mix.
"Some English". :P
I got nothing today, so I'm going to use this meme. I probably won't treat it with very much respect, though...more abuse than use.
Thanks Eric :P No, I don't suppose they do lol, you should've stayed in bed ;)
Words ... hehe :P ... well as long as it's entertaining, who cares? Abuse that meme and make us laugh!
Nice to hear "didn't give a monkey's about" used on another blog. I used it the other day and some of the Americans didn't understand it!
I used to be obsessed with jelly beans. I'd like to re-kindle the obsession.
lol Mo ... I love that our American chums think the way we talk is so quaint and funny, obviously we just take it for granted and don't appreciate the richness and quirkiness of our language.
:O Mo!!! Are you forsaking the Creme Eggs????
Do you guys make fun of our american accents? What does it sound like to you anyways?
My weirdest obsession is similar to yours. I love true crime stories. I recently read a book on Jack the Ripper and it was really interesting. My favorite author of that type of novel is Ann Rule (NOT Rice). I don't do vampires.
And I can't believe you haven't found someone to take care of that spider for you yet. ; )
An illustrator hud? Why don't you post some of your art?
Mr C ... of course we don't! We're far too polite for that!
Hard to say what it sounds like to us, I've never really considered it, it's just how it is.
I must admit, I do love Southern accents ... I think it stems from my liking of Gone With Wind, I imagine all the ladies swanning around saying "why, fiddle-de-dee!". And I like the way the men say "Darlin'" ... makes me a bit weak at the knees.
J.J ... I think the whole genre is fascinating, but there's some really good books about saucy Jack. One of the most interesting cases I read about was Ed Gein, he's been the inspiration for some of the best horror novels/films ... most notably, Robert Bloch's Psycho. When the police finally raided his squalid home they found things like lampshades made out of human skin and human skulls being used as soup bowls!
The bloody thing has to die sometime.
Dr Z ... because it's not very good :P My enthusiasm far outweighs my ability
That's funny mt friend mentioned ed gein yesterday I told him about the lampshade, I believe he also had made a sport coat out of skin as well.
Yep ... and upholstered chairs.
You have to give the guy credit for being resourceful, if nothing else
Schmingl is our new penile word. Yes indeedy.
We can also use it as an insult. I believe I will use it as such, often!
Haha .... me too!
Let's campaign and try to get everyone using it! Maybe we can get it included in the next edition of the dictionary! :P
GI, was that just a pun I heard?
-ps send me a photo of an illustration, I won't criticize.
lol Oooh so it was! Totally unintentional though, Eric :P
Hmmm ... it took me 28 years to find enough courage to let anybody read my written work, let alone my sad little daubings :/
I'd like to visit the Silly Isles too, he said, quickly stashing the skinny legged jeans under the bed.
Hahaha ... aw Lost! Not the skinny legged jeans! :P
*sigh*, ok then, genius cannot be rushed or presented to the world prematurely (says the idiot who is soon to post a piss take on a trumpet solo).
lol @ genius
Can't wait to hear this trumpet solo!
I love the word "Trumpet"
how do you pronounce scilly and why is it so great?
It's pronounced "Silly"
It's small, intimate, has beautiful beaches and views, it has a number of islands that you can travel to in little boats, the views and sunsets are breathtaking, it's wonderful for walking, has lots of wildlife, is very romantic, there are very few cars, you get a sense of great peace and seclusion, because it gets warm currents direct from the Atlantic the weather is better there than anywhere in the UK and it has some of the most amazing pubs and restaurants in the British Isles.
It's wonderful.
Sounds awsome [sic]
lol it is ... and well remembered!
Girl Interrupted, now why would you laugh about the use of the word genius in describing your work?
Because, Eric ... I have seen my drawings and you have not :P There is nothing even approaching genius about them
Ok, good, it's not because you thought I [sic]'d it.
I understand completely then. I have put together a description of the credit crisis and Lehman collapse through a series of interpretive dance moves that I'll show no one. :)
Ha! Eric ... you really shouldn't give us information like that! Just look what happened when you mentioned the trumpet thing ...
I feel like you could be my English counterpart.
I also hate the skinny jean. Because, just why?
LOVE Kate Winslet. Serial killers? Check. Autumn...amazing. And I'll stop by telling you that TWO spiders have been seen repelling from my living room ceiling in the past week. Awful.
Also, I tend to hate these meme things but yours was fun to read.
Wow, a girl who sits in her underwear obsessing about serial killers. Finally someone I can be myself around!
Oh, and I was just kidding. About the spider thing. They taste pretty gross, it turns out. I'm never doing that again!
PS I spent last night with a friend watching batman begins. How weird.
hey GI, I don't know much about poetry at all, but I know I like the 'Three L Llama' one and the "I like eels because of the way they feels" poems, I can't remember who wrote that, do you or anyone here know?
My bottom doesn't look pert in my combats?
Maybe because of all the heavy rubbish I keep in the pockets, and also because I'm a bloke and don't have a pert lady-bum.
Kristine ... Thanks for stopping by and commenting :) Two spiders? Yikes! I think I'd have to move out for a while. I'm not a massive fan of memes, but when I do see one that interests me I can't resist it :P
JP ... Maybe some kind of delicate sauce to go with the spider? And how odd! Maybe we're assimilating.
Jules ... See, men just don't understand fashion and the concept of pockets! Pockets are there to enhance the design NOT to be stuffed full of old tat! No wonder your bottom doesn't look perky!
Mr C ... It was the excellent Ogden Nash.
The Eel ... I don't mind eels, except as meals, and the way they feels
The Lama ... The one l lama, he's a priest; The two l llama, he's a beast, and I will bet a silk pyjama, there isn't any three l lllama
I love his work, another good one is
Reflection on the Fallibility of Nemesis:
He who is ridden by conscience, worries about a lot of nonscience; He without benefit of scruples, his fun and income soon quadruples
Thought you might relate to that one ;) haha
I love Ogden Nash too. My personal favourite is:
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
In fact, unless the billboards fall
I'll never see a tree at all.
lol yep, that's a good one too, Mr S
No skinny jeans on men? So I guess you don't dig the style of the Jonas Brothers, eh?
Man...between this post and the post MLS put up (today? yesterday?), I am learning a lot about G.I....and as I told Eric, developing a girl crush on my new BFF!!!
Heh heh!!
lol Lopez ... Jonas Brothers? I think I might have just vomited in my mouth a little ...
Woohoohooo ... well if I've scored a girl-crush at least it's with a hottie ;) (the guys will probably love this! haha)
*hugs*
*squealing with glee*
My dream job is to write and illustrate children's books too! Wheeeeee!!
Have you started one? I've written a couple, but can never commit to which style of illustrations I want to use. The indecision is KILLING me. I might just submit them as is and let someone less wishy-washy (and more artistically inclined *ahem*) do the illustrations, because, please, I've been stalling waaaayyyyyy too long.
Like a year and a half.
*blush*
Aw Cora! You should totally submit them! I think we're probably our own harshest critics. But you never know, somebody might love them :)
Which illustration styles do you like?
I've written a few short stories and roughly illustrated (little more than doodles really) them, and I have two or three ideas/plotlines for full-blown books. My preferred illustration style is pen and ink outlined cartoons, similar to Quentin Blake, with watercolours added afterwards to highlight. But I do sometimes go for more detailed pictures, it depends on my mood and how creative I'm feeling :P
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