Its later than you think

I did start doing this last week then deleted it by accident half way thro ;p The time since has been occupied by birthday shenannigans and feeling v. groggy and rough which (after a week) turned out to be more due to yet again landing head first off the horse than the b'day shenannigans. Still, nothing vital damaged ;p

Anyway, more b'day funtimes details later, first, MEME, cos it is ages since I did one...


Rules?
1. People who have been tagged should write their answers in their blogs and replace any questions they dislike with a new, original questions of their own.

2. Tag eight people. Don't refuse to do that. Don't tag who tagged you. (is there ANYONE left who hasn't been tagged by this?)

( meeeeeeemeeeeeee )

forgoing tagging as i haven't a clue anymore who has/hasn't done it already. Feel free to MEME if it takes your fancy!

I had planned to do a long and exciting post about my weekend, but since the most exciting things that happened this weekend were... buying a new hoover (it is a dyson!) and finding my driving license while cleaning out under the sofa, I figured a meme might be better.

So, nabbed from failing_angel



No. 5 is entirely true. I haven't really tested most of the others, tho 7 seems unlikely...

Tonight, I have a thesme_01 coming to stay, which will be Great ;)

For a friday afternoon, tagged by lazy_hoor, 5 random things...


Terry Pratchett
One of my favourite authors for many many years. I love the discworld books, and the whole world he has created within them, especially the characters. Also, through Good Omens, he led to my discovery of Neil Gaiman.

However he has affected my life very strongly indirectly, through discworld mud, an online textbased game based on the books, wherein I have met many very good friends (including most of Flist here), leading to many adventures (often involving cider, oddly) in such diverse places as Reading, llantwit Major, F*ing Feltham, Hereford, Creewood and Sydney, to name but a few.

The fact that such a sharp mind with his cunning and often hilarious way with words is slowly being destroyed by disease is heartbreaking.

Horses
Yay horsies! I love horses. Have since I was a tiny little Hellison, galloping round the back garden and setting up show-jumping courses for the dog. My first horse was a mental rocking horse on springs called Gunson. It was great. Every birthday and Christmas I used to hope there'd be a horse in the garden waiting for me. There never was, which is possibly just as well, because I wouldn't have have had the faintest idea what to DO with one then.
These days, I have Ziggy, not owned by me, but I get to play with her and look after her and brush her and hug her and yell GETOFFMYFOOTYOUGREATBIGLUMPOFDOGFOOD and all the other fun things that go with horses. It goes a long way towards keeping me (relatively) sane.

Phobias
VERMIN. Mice and most especially rats. HATEHATEHATE. Used to also include dentists, but I'm mostly better about that now. Still hate going. The cats have done their best to help, by using dead, almost dead and zombie mice to try and acclimaties me to them, but still. HATEHATEAHTE the beady eyes and the scuttling and the teeth and the TAILS and eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee I have to stop now.

Food

ahahahaahaha. This could be an entry all of it's own. I am Not Good With Food (not that you'd think it to look at me). Especially new, strange, foreign or slithery foods.
I am a terrible terrible person to cook for because people try so hard to think up lovely things that any normal person would enjoy and to almost all of them I go 'sorry, no' and then I feel awful. Especially when they are used to making tasty vegetarian food and are sure they are on to a winner but there will still be cheese or aubergines or sweetcorn or eggs or pasta or something EVIL involved. So mostly I avoid being cooked for where at all possible, it is easier on everyone! Just make some popcorn. And/or toast ;)

Snowmen
Very random! It's years since we've had enough snow here to actually make a snowman. I don't think I've made once since I was at school! I wonder if I have a photo of that one anywhere, I am sure I do!
Also now I have that bloody walking in the air song in my head.


And it is time to flee homewards and horsewards. Hurrah!

memememe nicked from thipe. May also have nicked several answers from him ;p

( 44 questions )

Tagging... whoever the hell feels like it.

Technically this should have been yesterday, but all that happened yesterday was I got up, went to work, went half blind, wnet OWOW, went home and went back to bed.

So, not much happiness there ;p

Today however!
Ziggy is back! And i got to ride! AND the migraine is GONE! yay ;)

Much rejoincing all round.

Forgot again yesterday evening to do this!

So for Sat
Thing That Made Me Happy - seeing the twilight trailer with added stoned RPattz intro on during the X-Factor. It looks so SO bad. Cannot wait to see it. _unhurt_ is so excited she even has a Special T-Shirt to wear. Maybe I should wear my Team Horror one...

Sunday -
Watching my niece and nephew play on their bikes
Also, have upgraded tv package to Moar Channels, so now have various discovery channels, sky 1, scifi and ukstyle, so now can watch lots of fun/interesting/cool tv and Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. Tho when I say watch, I usually mean have on as background noise/lights while stabbing things on teh mud. Which is working again! yay!


ION WTF Strictly?!? Is it just me or was the whole semi-final a set up? They had originally planned to have 3 in the final before John Sargent pulled out (WOE!), so I suspect they just stuck with that plan. No austin in sleeveless shirts tho :/

Cos it's friday, and I'm bored. Via fragglechick

5 things in my bag
1. Filofax
2. Lush lip balm (lip squeak)
3. Purse
4. keys
5. Gloves

(not very exciting really)

5 things in my room
which room? I have lots? I'll go with where I am now, which is work...
1. Co-workers (more than 5 of them, but we'll make them 1 Thing)
2. Christmas tree
3. Many Many Files
4. A flint scraper from Ballygalley
5. Wood cut of Louis Le Brocqya's Brown Bull of Cooly
- this

5 things I’ve always wanted to do
1. Live By the sea (or, in cornwall, but don't want to steal ALL frag's ideas ;p)
2. Write a book
3. Speak another language fluently
4. Be a top show-jumper (unlikely now ;p)
5. Learn to ... drive? pilot? sail (is it sailing if the boat doenst have sails?) a boat.


5 things that make me very happy
1. Stormy seas
2. My niece & nephews
3. Quality Time with friends (maybe not the best way to phrase it - but not just Hanging Out In Groups, fun as that is, but quieter times to sit and talk with just one or two friends).
4. Cider
5. Snailmail from friends

5 best friends (In no particular order. This one is Hard!)
1. thesme_01
2. Lisa M.
3. Julie-Ann
4. Paul l.
5. being_here

Gnah, why do i have to stop at 5? there are several others I want to add there! Which, on balance, is a very good thing I guess ;)


5 impressions of the person who I stole this from: Fragglechick
1. Wonderful
2. Scottish (Looove the accent ;p)
3. Twisted
4. Sincere
5. Intellegent

I tag... Anyone who fancies trying it, really...

Will post more about the weekend later. But in general, I feel SO much better for it. So yay!
In the meantime, photomeme, nicked from bluebrocade, and others ;)

01. Answer each of the questions below the cut using the [Flickr] search engine.
02. Choose a photo from the first three pages.
03. Copy the URL of your favorite photos [here].
04. Then share with the world.

( mosaic meme )

Because I haven't had time yet to do the post I had planned ...

Stolen from kelemvor, malvino and thesme ;p

"If you saw ME in a police car, what would you think I got arrested for? Post this in your own journal after replying and see what crimes are you accused of."

Yanked from doccy

Take a picture of yourself right now. Don’t change your clothes. Don’t fix your hair. Just take a picture. Post that picture with no editing. (Except maybe to get the image size down to something reasonable. Don’t go posting an eight megapixel image.) Include these instructions.



There you go, me, just home from a hard day writing werelobster nonsense defending the built heritage!

and now, tea.