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Friday Five:
1. You've just won a complete collection of movies starring one actor - what actor would you pick?
Got me there...
2. What was the last movie you saw in a theater?
Lord of the Rings. It was great.
3. What was the last video or DVD that you bought?
The last one I bought was Red Dwarf: Camille. The last one someone bought for me was a DVD of series one of Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) 2000.
4. What movie could you watch over and over again and not get sick of?
Um... Blues Brothers. I love that.
5. How do you plan to spend your weekend?
Working, and then revising (oops, haven't done any and we're back to school on Tuesday).
--01:13 p.m., Friday, January 4, 2002
--10:59 p.m., Thursday, January 3, 2002
Lisa just said (well, about 1/2 an hour ago, but eh) that Eddie Izzard reminds her of me. I'm honoured, but shouldn't it be the other way around?
And now I'm off snobjumping (great game).
--10:39 p.m., Thursday, January 3, 2002
AAAAAArg, I'm so bored I might have to go and revise in a minute to relieve the boredom. Ik. rho=m/v, [delta]EP=mg[delta]h...
--01:40 p.m., Thursday, January 3, 2002
--01:34 p.m., Thursday, January 3, 2002
a petition
oh, and admire the lovely BlogSnob link at the bottom of the page :)
--11:48 p.m., Wednesday, January 2, 2002
"Is this pizza vegetarian?"
"Sure, if you pick off the anchovies."
...yes, mother.
--06:36 p.m., Tuesday, January 1, 2002
Now that was a great New Year's Party. I got ever so slightly drunk (ha) and discovered, that when I'm drunk I fall over a lot and tell people that I'm drunk.
Matthew got a lot drunker than me. He still hasn't managed to scrub the indelible ink off of his forehead.
And Shelley came, I haven't seen her for a while, so that was cool, and Jo came as well. Shelley definitely got along with Tom - he asked her out. Although I don't think she realises how far away he lives, but eh.
And Jo lent me her Blackadder video, and I'm rediscovering how much I love it. Series 3, my favourite :)
--05:33 p.m., Tuesday, January 1, 2002
Partyparty in less than four hours, yay! Big New Year's Party, it's going to be fun. :)
Happy New Year!
And go see Lisa's blog.
--04:10 p.m., Monday, December 31, 2001
To be, or not to slay, -- that is the vampire;
Whether 'tis nobler in the vengeance demon to suffer
The slings and werewolves of satanic fortune,
Or to take blood against a sea of stakes,
And by killing end them. To die, -- to suck, --
No more; and by a suck to say we end
The Xander and the 1394651667839148135489348933123683439413333333320 natural shocks
That flesh is osteopath to,-- 'tis a Willow
mercilessly to be wish'd. To die, --- to suck,--
To suck! perchance to murder! ay, there's the Evil Bald Guy #2;
For in that suck of death what leeches may come
When we have stabbed off this platinum blonde coil,
Must give us Spike....
[Hamlet's Soliloquy, by Katy and Lisa Robinson, Joanna Strangward and William Shakespeare]
--03:17 p.m., Sunday, December 30, 2001
Hi!
Work was fairly slow, I guess everyone's still sleeping off the mince pies...
The family are walking/footballing/shopping with Benny, Margaret, Tom, Joe and Becky, and won't be back for ages :( I'm all alone! AAAAAAAAH! Monsters are everywhere!
--01:30 p.m., Saturday, December 29, 2001
Wow! Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring was fantastic! We (me, the parents, the sibs, Julie and Michael) went to the big UGC in Ipswich, and it was so cool. Except for the whole Boromir/Arwen thing, that was stupid.
And then we went to Ask, and I had spinach and ricotta pasta. Mm.
Oh yeah! There was this lunatic car park attendant, and he had a pigeon in his coat and he was talking to it! He told us it'd told him to give someone a parking ticket. So we ran away.
--10:00 p.m., Friday, December 28, 2001
This week's Friday Five:
1. What was your biggest accomplishment this year?
Um... not failing all my GCSEs! I guess that's a good one.
2. What was your biggest disappointment?
My birthday. It pretty much sucked. But still, nothing overly tragic has happened to me (yet).
3. Will you be making any New Year's resolutions?
Yeah, and I bet I'll keep them for a whole day as well! Er... don't buy so much useless junk, don't eat so much junk, and don't fail my Physics exams, ne?
4. Where do you wish you were celebrating?
At my house. Which, coincidentally, is what I am going to do.
5. What do you plan to do for New Year's Eve?
Party at my place! Either hanging around with the small people playing on the PS2 (I think not), having boring conversations with drunk adults (no) or talking to Jo, and possibly Lisa and her friends Melon and Caroline, who are also lovely.
--01:44 p.m., Friday, December 28, 2001
 You're just a girl; you tend to get frustrated easily, you daydream quite a bit, and you try to avoid making trouble, though curiosity always gets the better of you. Even under tight circumstances, however, you put aside (some of) your fear and figure out what's the best thing to do. You want a better understanding of your world. |
--01:30 p.m., Friday, December 28, 2001
Oh yeah, and I found a bunch of stuff that I haven't typed up yet for auspice. Oops.
And, here are another lot of Blogger Insider questions, from the lovely Jo-Ann.
01)What is your earliest memory? Sometimes this can be clouded by recollections by other family members. Think hard and see if you can remember your very first memory.
That'd be the Wizard. My sister was around, but Matthew wasn't born, so I must have been about 4. The Wizard was a character in a bedtime story my dad invented.
He had a dog called Scrimshanks, and they had to save the Kingdom from a dragon. But the Wizard dropped his wand and ran out of magic powder, so Scrimshanks had to save the day by rescuing the wand from the clutched of the dragon. And when they eventually defeated it, he received a never-ending pot of magic powder.
It was a great story :)
02)Is there a McDonald's or a Walmart near you? How do you feel about them over-populating the planet?
No Walmarts, but in the nearest town there are two McDonalds'. I used to eat there whenever I went into town, but now... no. It does seem they're everywhere now, every town has identical shops and it's just boring. Not to mention the unhealthiness and un-greenness.
03)Do you recall the first time you ordered something other than a Happy Meal at McDonald's? What did you order? And did you still crave that little toy?
That would have been a quarter pounder, I think. My mum would never believe that my stomach was bigger than, say, a pea, so I would always be ravenous about 5 minutes after a Happy Meal. I wasn't that bothered about the toys, either - they almost always broke even before we got home (well, what can you expect with Matthew around?)
04)I loved when you wrote about you and your dad imagining new shoe styles. My favorite was the clear heals with the goldfish inside. If you could spend an entire day with your dad, what would you choose to do?
Hm. Well, the things I like to do with my dad are talking, eating, and going to the cinema or the theatre. So, going to a restaurant and then to the theatre would be cool. We have a similar sense of humour, so that kind of suggests what sort of thing we'd see, ne?
05)And if you could spend the entire day with your mom, same question.
Shopping. We both really hate shopping with anyone else, because we need speed-shopping or it's just boring. I really don't understand why people find shopping with their parents embarrasing.
06)Step outside your front door of your house. Tell me what you see.
The most interesting thing I can see is Clarence. Clarence is a big lion made out of stone that lives in our garden, and Dad won him in a competition ages ago. Apparently they used a crane to deliver him, but I wasn't there.
07)What is your favorite home-cooked meal? Do you have a special dish that is created for family gatherings or holidays? What is that dish? Got the recipe for me?
The best meal in the entire universe has got to be kedgerie. I could eat it forever and not get bored of it. The recipe (I have no idea of quantities as I tend to work by the 'how much I'm going to eat' scale of measurement) is quite easy:
Put rice in a saucepan with water and a little salt, and boil it. It if looks cooked, eat bits of it to check. Meanwhile, chop up and fry some onions, hardboil some eggs, and cook some smoked haddock. Drain the rice and put it back in the saucepan, then mix in the eggs (chopped up), fish (chopped up) and onions, heat them for another few minutes and poke them with a spoon. Put it on plates, and eat it.
If you like ketchup (bleh) you can stir in some ketchup.
08)I'm an Army wife and mother of three kids. A son, almost 15, and two daughters aged 5 and 3. I graduated from high school in the year you were born. Tell me how you view the year 1985.
Seeing as I was very teeny for the parts of 1985 in which I actually existed, I don't remember it at all. It was the year I and many other people were born, and also... um... the year Eastenders started, I think... not very eventful. But still, if anyone mentions 1985, I think 'ooh, I was born then'.
09)Where were you when you heard the news about September 11th?
In the hall of my house, having just got off the school bus, with Mum, Lisa and Grandad.
10)Describe yourself and your life at the age of 35.
I probably won't have blue hair - although it's pretty much stopped being blue already. No, I plan to start being a mad old lady by the time I'm 30. Sit in the garden in a rocking chair and knit at people. Have two weathervanes and make them point in opposite directions. Oh, and having lots of money would be good too <g>
11)Do you have a favorite Christmas ornament on your tree this year? Describe it and why it's your favorite.
I love the entire tree - the maximalist, mismatched look. But my favourite is the lametta - long thin strips of silver or red foil to make it all sparkly, without the heaviness of tinsel.
12)If you could orchestrate your next birthday from the time you wake til the time you go to sleep, how would it be?
My next birthday will (I think) be on a schoolday, so definitely 'not go to school' is top of the wishlist. First of all, presents from my family, and breakfast. I always have toast for breakfast, so that. And then, I want to go shopping, by myself, the best way for a loner such as me :) for buying random junk, and books. And in the afternoon, for my schoolfriends to come over for lunch and partying - pizza, I think. Mm. And then dinner (how much does my life centre around my food? <h>) with my family, which has to be kedgerie, followed by going to the cinema with my out-of-school friends. And then going to sleep really, really late.
13)Is there a subject in school that you've been forced to take that you think is totally useless? What is that subject? When would it ever benefit you?
General Studies, it's so boring, most universities don't count it amoung your tariff points (for university) and I really, really hate it. I'd much rather had an extra hour's free each week and only four A levels. When would it benefit me? Well... if I ever need to talk about Einstein, the Big Band or mergers, I'm set.
14)Do you follow American football? Got a favorite team?
Well, living in England would make that hard, ne? I don't really follow any sport, but my parents and brother support Ipswich Town who are a Premier League football team (I think).
15)What was the reason you decided to be involved in Blogger Insider?
Basically, so I have something more interesting to write that 'wow, how dull was today?' <g>
There you go! The questions I asked Jo-Ann were:
1)Can you remember your first day of high school? What was it like?
2)What is your favourite movie of alltime? Why?
3)How do you celebrate Christmas?
4)Do you play a sport? Are you any good? :)
5)Would you rather live in a village, a town or a city? Why?
6)If you met yourself as you were 5 years ago, would the two of you get along?
7)Is there something you've always wanted to do but never have?
8)Would you rather be too hot or too cold?
9)Describe one of the best days of your life.
10)Describe your kids in one sentence each.
11)If you could be any character from any book, which would you be?
12)How would your perfect day go?
and you can find her answers here.
--09:14 p.m., Thursday, December 27, 2001
Lisa tells me a lot of my entries are showing up twice. Sorry, sorry... can't see anything wrong with the source code, could be just impatient-double-click syndrome. I'll try and fix it!
On another note, everyone was too ill or too not at home for rollerskating :( but - tomorrow I'm going to see Lord of the Rings! And then, I really must start revising.
--09:09 p.m., Thursday, December 27, 2001
Which Rocky character are you?
And did you all have a good Decemberfest? I did, personally... I got two CDs (The Best of Ian Dury and The Blockheads - a joke of Dad's - and Beltaine) two books (Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami and 5 Steps to Being a Witch by... someone, from my brother.) deelyboppers, bunny ears, pink fluffy dice from Lisa, blue gloves, money, chocolate, Pog the Wooden Bloke, er... a jumper... anyway, stuff. And also a DVD of the first series of Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) 2000. Matthew got Shrek and Lisa got Miss Congeniality.
--11:07 a.m., Thursday, December 27, 2001
coolness
(No more entries this side of Boxing Day)
--11:32 a.m., Monday, December 24, 2001
Mum and Lisa have gone to Christingle. You know, with the oranges with candles on top.
I'm always convinced they're going to burn the church down.
Did any Brit-landers see Night of a Thousand Faces? I watched bits of it - Chris Barrie was on it for a whole milliseconds, and then I switched channels to Harry Hill. I love Harry Hill.
--02:53 p.m., Sunday, December 23, 2001
--03:26 p.m., Saturday, December 22, 2001
HAPPY YULE!
Got a Christmas Card from Julie Graham and Gareth, with multiple money in it, so only owe Lisa £2.50. Lalala. (I've been reading Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason so have lost the ability to write proper sentences.)
--02:49 p.m., Friday, December 21, 2001
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