Ooh, this was cute. Lovingly and respectfully ripped from Brandy and Wondy:
Showing posts with label trivia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trivia. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Not Big
I know I'm blogging too much today, that's what working part time does to you, but can I just say, for the record, that I hate hate hate chain letters? And I never send them on. I live with the threat of 2 years of bad luck just because I don't want to inflict the possibility of 2 years worth of bad luck on anyone else. So I say to all out there, don't be so SELFISH! I especially hate the ones that promise great glory/your true love, or ones that trick you into opening them by bearing a subject such as HEY, I GOT THE JOB, I'M MOVING TO JAPAN!!! So you click on it thinking, 'Heidi is moving to Japan?! What did I miss?!?' and then, boom, 2 years of bad luck as punishment for taking a passing interest in a so-called friends life. I don't need to be ambushed with bad luck on myspace, I have that ticking time bomb of karma to contend with.
Don't do it people, just say no! We can cast off this ugly yoke of oppression, together!
Don't do it people, just say no! We can cast off this ugly yoke of oppression, together!
I Wanna Six You Up
I've been tagged by the lovely April! I have to list six random and/or strange facts about myself, then tag 6 others to do the same. Hmmm, I have a feeling I've done very similar meme's before, so apologies for any repetition. Read on for random strangeness.
1. I'm a walking disaster area, for whom even the most basic tasks prove to be too much. I hurt my right arm on the bus yesterday and it's quite painful. It hurts even to type. I've written like, 4 posts since then. My dedication to blogging is so great :P Meh, it hurts when I'm still anyway, I may as well be typing and taking my mind off it! I couldn't sleep last night because of it. It's a handbag injury; I think I twisted my arm the wrong way while picking mine up to get off at my stop.
2. I'm frugal with my lips. I've only kissed 7 boys. I should say men, though some of them were boys when I kissed them. 'Men' would just make that sentence sound less like I was writing this in my diary at the back of a science class, dotting the i's with love hearts. Given my time over, I would only have kissed two of them. One of them is Boyf.
3. I'm still one of the crap kids in the shallow end. I can't really swim. I had a scary experience in a public swimming baths when I was little, but I am not afraid of the water. While holidaying in Toulouse, I swam a little for the first time. I began practising with the aid of a pair of neon pink armbands and a child's Finding Nemo float, which I purchased for myself.
4. I almost passed myself off as intelligentsia (me!) I've stayed at Oxford University twice, once
on an access course (where they let young people from disadvantaged areas get a taste of the good life!), and once while interviewing for a place there. I'm not sorry I didn't get in; I think I would've hated it. Nice deer park at Magdalen though. You have to sign a disclaimer before they let you into the Bod library saying you promise not to set anything on fire. Tee hee.
5. I've replaced hot sex with hot beverages! I really like drinking tea, wild child that I am. Boyf makes the best cup of tea ever. When we are both off work, he gets up first in the morning, makes me some tea, and then wakes me up when it's ready. He also puts the kettle on when I get home from work. We call them love cups of tea :P
6. I'm an evil genius, who spends many hours plotting devious schemes of revenge. I don't get along with Boyf's family, due to a dispute many years ago with his sister, and the fact that his mother is doolally.
Once, also many years ago, we looked after their house while they were away. I only stayed there one night, the atmosphere in that house is just horrible. But I helped some in the big clean up before they came home. I forced Boyf to vacuum downstairs while I brushed up on the landing. I looked around up there and couldn't find a bin to empty the little pile of lint into, so I opened his sister's door and threw it in there (hahahahahahaha!) Small pleasures, people, small pleasures.
Now for the lucky six! I don't think I even know six bloggers?! Do this if you feel like it, unless you are 'Muffin, in which case I demand six facts, since you are still brand new. I'll even let you put down the one about how fast you can shelve a trolley. I'm good like that, see.
1. I'm a walking disaster area, for whom even the most basic tasks prove to be too much. I hurt my right arm on the bus yesterday and it's quite painful. It hurts even to type. I've written like, 4 posts since then. My dedication to blogging is so great :P Meh, it hurts when I'm still anyway, I may as well be typing and taking my mind off it! I couldn't sleep last night because of it. It's a handbag injury; I think I twisted my arm the wrong way while picking mine up to get off at my stop.
2. I'm frugal with my lips. I've only kissed 7 boys. I should say men, though some of them were boys when I kissed them. 'Men' would just make that sentence sound less like I was writing this in my diary at the back of a science class, dotting the i's with love hearts. Given my time over, I would only have kissed two of them. One of them is Boyf.
3. I'm still one of the crap kids in the shallow end. I can't really swim. I had a scary experience in a public swimming baths when I was little, but I am not afraid of the water. While holidaying in Toulouse, I swam a little for the first time. I began practising with the aid of a pair of neon pink armbands and a child's Finding Nemo float, which I purchased for myself.
4. I almost passed myself off as intelligentsia (me!) I've stayed at Oxford University twice, once
on an access course (where they let young people from disadvantaged areas get a taste of the good life!), and once while interviewing for a place there. I'm not sorry I didn't get in; I think I would've hated it. Nice deer park at Magdalen though. You have to sign a disclaimer before they let you into the Bod library saying you promise not to set anything on fire. Tee hee.5. I've replaced hot sex with hot beverages! I really like drinking tea, wild child that I am. Boyf makes the best cup of tea ever. When we are both off work, he gets up first in the morning, makes me some tea, and then wakes me up when it's ready. He also puts the kettle on when I get home from work. We call them love cups of tea :P
6. I'm an evil genius, who spends many hours plotting devious schemes of revenge. I don't get along with Boyf's family, due to a dispute many years ago with his sister, and the fact that his mother is doolally.
Once, also many years ago, we looked after their house while they were away. I only stayed there one night, the atmosphere in that house is just horrible. But I helped some in the big clean up before they came home. I forced Boyf to vacuum downstairs while I brushed up on the landing. I looked around up there and couldn't find a bin to empty the little pile of lint into, so I opened his sister's door and threw it in there (hahahahahahaha!) Small pleasures, people, small pleasures.Now for the lucky six! I don't think I even know six bloggers?! Do this if you feel like it, unless you are 'Muffin, in which case I demand six facts, since you are still brand new. I'll even let you put down the one about how fast you can shelve a trolley. I'm good like that, see.
Thursday, February 08, 2007
High Heels and Low Lifes
Today marks two years since I started blogging, which is crazy, because it seems like yesterday I put together last year's Top 5 Posts. And I'm a bit disappointed that nothing I've written this year would have made that list. But whatevs. This is warts and all blogging. So, here are my best bits since last Feb, curiously perched at a jaunty angle on a witches nose near you.
1. Ode to Paris. A lesson in teenage fug.
2. Oops I Did It Again. Mybug, mybug, mybug, mybug, I love my ginger bug.
3. I'm Not Dead Yet. Chica can fuck up any aspect of her life!
4. The Edge of Reason. Back when Alfie was just "Himself" (before I created a monster.)
5. Closer. The longest post in the world, all about a snog.
It might not be pretty, but it's all true. Another year? Bring it on!
A special thanks to my, um, let's say "exclusive" group of readers and commenters, some of whom have become good friends and a big part of my days. You're ace!
1. Ode to Paris. A lesson in teenage fug.
2. Oops I Did It Again. Mybug, mybug, mybug, mybug, I love my ginger bug.
3. I'm Not Dead Yet. Chica can fuck up any aspect of her life!
4. The Edge of Reason. Back when Alfie was just "Himself" (before I created a monster.)
5. Closer. The longest post in the world, all about a snog.
It might not be pretty, but it's all true. Another year? Bring it on!
A special thanks to my, um, let's say "exclusive" group of readers and commenters, some of whom have become good friends and a big part of my days. You're ace!
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Sitting Duck
I had a bit of a WTF moment while flipping through a magazine at work today: turns out that this boy...
...grew up into this boy. Nicholas Hoult from the excellent About a Boy, in which he played the adorable Marcus, is now some sort of sexpot character on raunchy new teen-angst-with-lots-more-sex-thrown-in vehicle Skins. I say it's raunchy but I haven't actually seen it and don't intend to watch it, but it looks like it wants to be raunchy from the adverts. In fact I'd go as far as to say debaucherous if I thought it was an actual word.
I liked him better when he was singing with his eyes closed and Hugh Grant was buying him cool new trainers.
Thursday, September 21, 2006
Little Red Berghaus Man
Because of my dreamy and dogged pursuit of that extra bit longer in bed in the mornings (my snooze button allows exactly nine minutes), leaving the house for work is always rather a mad dash. Because of this, I invariably forget something (see: cake incident.) Usually it's something superfluous like my mp3 player, my mobile phone, or my trousers. Quite often it's my wrist watch. This poses rather a large problem since my job is quite a physical one and involves a lot of running about from floor to floor, all of which have clocks showing different times. As I work to a timetable and have to switch jobs at the randomly designated time of say, 11:50, or 3:10, this can be a bit of a pest. Luckily this is not a problem when I'm travelling to work as I have rather ingeniously (I think) adopted a coping mechanism which does not involve craning your head out of the window looking for landmarks with clock towers, OR *shudder* asking a fellow bus passenger the time. His name is Berghaus man. Or at least, that's what I call him. I can chart what time I will clock in at work to a fairly accurate degree depending upon which juncture of London Road I sight him. Rain, wind, hail, or shine he's there, strolling along in a red Berghaus and carrying or sipping at a hot beverage. Today I spotted him by the School of Tropical Medicine, which meant that either I was late, or he was early :P
Okay, so it may not be an exact science...
Okay, so it may not be an exact science...
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
In my dreams
Take the quiz: "What Sex and the City girl are you?"
Carrie
You Are Carrie!!
I stole this from Wondy :) I got 7 Carrie points, 3 Charlotte, and 1 Samantha,0 for Miranda! Shocked! However, the sobering words of the actor who plays the hilariously bitchy Anthony are as a mantra in my head: (dripping with derision) "You're not fucking Carrie!"
You Are Carrie!!
I stole this from Wondy :) I got 7 Carrie points, 3 Charlotte, and 1 Samantha,0 for Miranda! Shocked! However, the sobering words of the actor who plays the hilariously bitchy Anthony are as a mantra in my head: (dripping with derision) "You're not fucking Carrie!"
Friday, May 20, 2005
Monday, May 16, 2005
No Time to Lose
... and yet! My friend David sent me this with his answers so it got me thinking about mine. Here they are, ready or not:
Ten random things about me:
10 - I type with one hand
9 - I talk to my dog in baby language and make up silly names for him (he looks on in contempt, but wags anyway :))
8 - I often daydream about a different life
7 - I hate wooden kitchen utensils... think nails scratching across a chalkboard *shudder*
6 - I can't swim but I love the sea
5 - Shopping makes me happy - no! never! I hear you cry
4 - I hate calling people and, boyfy excluded, only do so if absolutely necessary/a friend is upset/I will go to gaol if I don't
3 - Bizarre but true: when I'm angry/upset, I sing in the shower (sorry neighbours)
2 - I'm very proud to be my grandfather's granddaughter :) even though I used to stamp on his foot when I was little and think it was hilarious
1 - I know all the words to the theme tune of The Fresh Prince of Bel Air... who doesn't?
Nine ways to win my heart:
9 - Be my friend
8 - Buy me something pretty, hehe
7 - Share my enthusiasm for Big Brother... ahem
6 - Sing to me whether you can sing or not, or leave musical voicemails on my phone :)
5 - Make me feel safe
4 - Be addicted to texting
3 - Love to travel, and take me with you :) (I'm talking road trips, not Barbados)
2 - Be spontaneous and love life (I once willed someone to turn back in his car, drive to uni and kiss me in the library stacks :P)
1 - Avoid slobbery kissing! Eeeew.
Eight things I carry/wear every day:
8 - Make Poverty History wristband - buy it now!
7 - A smile :)
6 - The ring my boyf bought me for passing my A' levels
5 - Cute pictures of my nieces in my purse
4 - Inevitably, old cinema tickets... they're everywhere!
3 - Blusher. Sometimes I overdo it and look like Aunt Sally, but I don't care!
2 - Mobile phone - handy for texting and snapping pics of, for example, celebs you may spot wandering around town. If only they'd been invented when I saw Tim Vincent in Pizza Hut! He does a Specsavers ad now :P
1 - In winter, a scarf, in summer, funky sunglasses which I always break!
Seven things that annoy me:
7 - Prejudice
6 - SpongeBob SquarePants... why?
5 - Being treated like a doormat by people who I cared about
4 - People who are rude to waitresses/waiters, and general rudeness or people on power trips... seven isn't enough :P
3 - Bitchy shop assistants. There are shops I avoid cos the girls are snotty and ones I go to cos I like the people.
2 - Kids. I hate 'em. Grow up and get a job already :P
1 - Smoking
Six places I've visited or intend to:
HAVE VISITED:
6 - Greece
5 - Portugal, where I lost my boyfriend to Superbock beer :P
4 - France France France
3 - Menorca - Son Bou Beach!
2 - Berlin
1 - Buckingham Palace, picnic on Liz's lawn no less :)
INTEND TO/DREAM OF:
6 - New York. Massive Surprise
5 - European Cities: Rome, Copenhagen, Prague
4 - New Orleans
3 - Canada
2 - Japan
1 - Maldives/Mauritius/Hawaii
Five things I want to do before I die:
5 - Visit all the places mentioned above, and then some
4 - Adopt a child (I figure I won't hate my own)
3 - Win an Oscar, or at least go to the ceremony looking glam :)
2 - Live in a gorgeous house by the sea
1 - Have a job that I love
Four things I'm afraid of:
4 - Flying :( A major spanner in the works
3 - Rejection, despite mucho experience :P Actually, I think I'm more scared of spiders...
2 - Getting old
1 - Death... but that's a given? The C word
Three things I do every day:
3 - Say "I love you" to someone I love
2 - Write
1 - Be late for something
Two things I'm trying not to do now:
2 - Procrastinate... going soooooooo well
1 - Worry
One person I want to see now:
1 - My lovely boyf :)
Ten random things about me:
10 - I type with one hand
9 - I talk to my dog in baby language and make up silly names for him (he looks on in contempt, but wags anyway :))
8 - I often daydream about a different life
7 - I hate wooden kitchen utensils... think nails scratching across a chalkboard *shudder*
6 - I can't swim but I love the sea
5 - Shopping makes me happy - no! never! I hear you cry
4 - I hate calling people and, boyfy excluded, only do so if absolutely necessary/a friend is upset/I will go to gaol if I don't
3 - Bizarre but true: when I'm angry/upset, I sing in the shower (sorry neighbours)
2 - I'm very proud to be my grandfather's granddaughter :) even though I used to stamp on his foot when I was little and think it was hilarious
1 - I know all the words to the theme tune of The Fresh Prince of Bel Air... who doesn't?
Nine ways to win my heart:
9 - Be my friend
8 - Buy me something pretty, hehe
7 - Share my enthusiasm for Big Brother... ahem
6 - Sing to me whether you can sing or not, or leave musical voicemails on my phone :)
5 - Make me feel safe
4 - Be addicted to texting
3 - Love to travel, and take me with you :) (I'm talking road trips, not Barbados)
2 - Be spontaneous and love life (I once willed someone to turn back in his car, drive to uni and kiss me in the library stacks :P)
1 - Avoid slobbery kissing! Eeeew.
Eight things I carry/wear every day:
8 - Make Poverty History wristband - buy it now!
7 - A smile :)
6 - The ring my boyf bought me for passing my A' levels
5 - Cute pictures of my nieces in my purse
4 - Inevitably, old cinema tickets... they're everywhere!
3 - Blusher. Sometimes I overdo it and look like Aunt Sally, but I don't care!
2 - Mobile phone - handy for texting and snapping pics of, for example, celebs you may spot wandering around town. If only they'd been invented when I saw Tim Vincent in Pizza Hut! He does a Specsavers ad now :P
1 - In winter, a scarf, in summer, funky sunglasses which I always break!
Seven things that annoy me:
7 - Prejudice
6 - SpongeBob SquarePants... why?
5 - Being treated like a doormat by people who I cared about
4 - People who are rude to waitresses/waiters, and general rudeness or people on power trips... seven isn't enough :P
3 - Bitchy shop assistants. There are shops I avoid cos the girls are snotty and ones I go to cos I like the people.
2 - Kids. I hate 'em. Grow up and get a job already :P
1 - Smoking
Six places I've visited or intend to:
HAVE VISITED:
6 - Greece
5 - Portugal, where I lost my boyfriend to Superbock beer :P
4 - France France France
3 - Menorca - Son Bou Beach!
2 - Berlin
1 - Buckingham Palace, picnic on Liz's lawn no less :)
INTEND TO/DREAM OF:
6 - New York. Massive Surprise
5 - European Cities: Rome, Copenhagen, Prague
4 - New Orleans
3 - Canada
2 - Japan
1 - Maldives/Mauritius/Hawaii
Five things I want to do before I die:
5 - Visit all the places mentioned above, and then some
4 - Adopt a child (I figure I won't hate my own)
3 - Win an Oscar, or at least go to the ceremony looking glam :)
2 - Live in a gorgeous house by the sea
1 - Have a job that I love
Four things I'm afraid of:
4 - Flying :( A major spanner in the works
3 - Rejection, despite mucho experience :P Actually, I think I'm more scared of spiders...
2 - Getting old
1 - Death... but that's a given? The C word
Three things I do every day:
3 - Say "I love you" to someone I love
2 - Write
1 - Be late for something
Two things I'm trying not to do now:
2 - Procrastinate... going soooooooo well
1 - Worry
One person I want to see now:
1 - My lovely boyf :)
Sunday, May 15, 2005
Spelling Bee Dumb
I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid: aoccdrnig to rseearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas thought slpeling was ipmorantt.
Yeah, I'm totally thieving from other people's blogs. You love it!
Word of the Day: Pilfer :)
Yeah, I'm totally thieving from other people's blogs. You love it!
Word of the Day: Pilfer :)
Thursday, February 10, 2005
Self Improvement
Woo hoo! I'm on a New Years resolution role. Three days is the longest any of them lasted I think! Except the one I made about learning to drive, I actually followed that one through - yey me! I didn't quite squeeze it into the same year I made the resolution though, I passed my test in like the first or second week of the following January! My next big resolution is going to be to learn to swim, not this year though, far too busy! My main form of exercise this year is going to be dance; a couple of years ago I zoned in on yoga but it bored the crap outta me. That and I couldn't stop singing Geri Halliwell songs *shudder* Shudder for my singing voice, not for Geri, honest!
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