Consider Yerself Tagged!

My Green Eyed Momster all her awesomeness (love you to bits!) tagged me for this tag post. Her's were much more interesting than mine.  Here they are!

10 Things you desire:

1.  Calorie Free Chocolate
2.  A pair of Iron Fist heels
3.  For hubby to find a job (he has to go through a forced resignation yesterday)
4.  Long passionate kisses
5.  To find a well-paying position
6. Warm home-made apple pie and ice-cream
7.  My children to calm the fuck down.
8.  To win the lottery
9.  A self-cleaning kitchen
10. To laugh everyday

Musicians/bands you love:

1. AC/DC
2. One Republic
3. U2
4. India Arie
5. Creed
6. Black Eyed Peas
7. Nickelback
8. KT Tunstall
9. Jason Mraz

Things you do everyday:


1. Drink tea
2. Go to work (weekdays)
3. Blog
4. Kiss my hubby
5. Spend time with my kids
6. Email
7. Facebook
8. Smile

Things you enjoy:

1. Making people laugh
2. A good party
3. Dancing
4. Loud music
5. Google Reader list of blogs
6. Wearing heels
7. Listening

Things that will always win your heart:

1. My Boerewors
2. My Girls
3. My Friends
4. Respect
5. Trust
6. Random acts of kindness

Favourites:

1. Movie: Sense and Sensibility (I'm a closet romantic)
2. Song:  Brown Skin by India Arie
3. Book: Marianne Keyes
4. Band: I don't have one favourite.  My taste in music depends on my mood.
5. Colour: ORANGE

Smells you enjoy:

1. Coffee (but don't make me drink it- blah!)
2. Euphoria by Calvin Klein
3. Vanilla and Honey
4. Fresh Bread


Places you want to go:

1. Itlay
2. Scotland
3. Austrialia


Animals you love:

1. Puppy Breath
2. Paris Hilton


Person you’d marry on the spot:

Well, I already chose my partner and I wouldn't marry again.


This is a fun award! I give this award to:

A Nut in a Nutshell
Wannabe Star
Blase
Soccer Mom



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1-2-3 Blog Myself

Christie tagged me with this awesome Page 123 game.  I needed to chose 3 favourite books I have read, I go to page 123 and move down 5 sentences and write out 5 sentences! (more or less).  I enjoyed doing this one.


Patrick Süskind's first novel, Perfume (Das Parfum) tells the horrific story of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, an orphan born in Paris in 1738. When Grenouille's abandoned body is found in the garbage, he is taken to an orphanage, where everyone who comes into contact with him finds something about him to be revulsive. What they are unaware of is that Grenouille's body does not have any aroma, a distinction which is so subtle that nobody can place their finger on it, but which colors Grenouille's entire life. Grenouille's strange relationship to odors is further highlighted by his own extremely sharp sense of smell, caused, perhaps, by the lack of necessity to sense past his own smell.


Pg 123 Reads:

Even by the light of day, the region was so dismal and dreary that the poorest shepherd in this poverty-stricken province would not have drive his animals here.  And by night, by the bleaching of the moon, it was such a god-forsaken wilderness.  It seemed not of this world.  Even Lebrun, the bandit of the avergne, thought pursued from all sides, had preferred to fight his way through to the Cevennes and there be captured, drawn and quartered rather than to hide out on the Plomb du Chantal, where certainly no one would have sought or found him.


Bill Bryson's The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America is a book by travel writer Bill Bryson, chronicling his 13,978 mile trip around the United States in the autumn of 1987 and spring 1988.  He begins his journey, made almost entirely by car, in his childhood hometown of Des Moines, Iowa, heading from there towards the Mississippi River, often reminiscing about his childhood in Iowa. The journey was made after his father's death, and so is in part a collection of memories of his father in Des Moines while he was growing up.


Pg 123 Reads:

No one knows why they might have done this, but fifty years later when European explorers arrived in Tennessee, the Cherokee Indians told them that there was group of pale people living in the hills already.  People who wore clothes and had long beards.  These people, according to a contemporary account, "had a bell which they rang before they ate their meals and had a strange habit of bowing their heads and saying something in a low voice before they ate".  No one ever found this mysterious community.  But in a remote and neglected corner of the Applalachians, high up in the clinch Mountains about the town of Sneedville in north-eastern Tennessee, there still live some curious people called Melungeons who have been there for as long as anyone can remember.


Isabel Allende's The House of Spirits chronicles the lives of three generations of the Trueba family of Chile.

The story starts, however, with the del Valle family, focusing on Clara and Rosa, mainly. The youngest daughter, Clara del Valle, has paranormal powers and keeps a detailed diary of her life. Using her powers, Clara predicts a death in the family. Shortly after this, Clara's green-haired sister, Rosa the Beautiful, is accidentally poisoned and dies as a result. Clara accidentally watches her sister's autopsy and afterwards, terrified, stops speaking, believing her words caused her sister's death.

Pg 123 Reads:

Dr Cuevas, whom Clara no longer feared, calculated that the birth would be some time around the middle of October.  It was already the beginning of November and Clara was still swinging her enormous belly around, in a state of semi-somnambulance, ever more distracted, more exhausted, and more asthmatic, indifferent to everyone around her, even her husband.  From time to time, she didn't even recognise him and would ask "May I help you?"  when she noticed him stand by her side.  Once the doctor had ruled out the possibiltiy of a miscalculation in the date and it was evident to all that Clara had not the slightest intention of giving birth the normal way, he proceeded to open her belly and extract little Blanca, who proved to be an uglier, hairier child than usual.

I now need to tag five other book lovers to do the same.  Here are my choices:
 
1.  Brian Miller
2.  Otin
3.  TechnoBabe
4.  Jeanette
5.  G-Man aka Mr KnowitAll
 
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Blog Challenge

This Blog Challenge is a little different! What you need to do is answer the questions below (which I took from Angel) and then you need to tag 4 people to do the same challenge. 
1. If you could give the world one piece of advice, what would it be?
When it finally reveals itself, the future, is never as it seems.


2. If you could have a room full of any one thing, what would it be?
Friends wearing their good moods and party hats.


3. What do you value most in other people? 
Integrity - willing to stand up for their beliefs and not scared to voice it.


4. If you could only see black and white except for one color, what color would it be?
Orange.  Its not quite as bold and in-yer-face red and not as puny and putrid as yellow.  Its happy, bright and vivid.


5. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
My quick and explosive temper.  Some people would say I'm fiesty, some people would say I'm a bitch.


6. If you could choose one of your personality traits to pass on to your children, what would it be?
My determination.


7. What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
I would quit my office job and earn money blogging and as social networking expert.


8. Would you rather teach a young child to read or have to learn again for yourself?
I would rather teach.  Its like passing a little part of yourself on to someone.


9. What is the best advice you’ve ever given and received?
Received : Step away from the Chocolate!
Given : Back away slowly!


10. How would you like to die?
Either gettin' the long ol' donkie or happy in my sleep.

I'm taggin' :


Wizard of Otin


Brian at Waystationone


Erin O'Brien's Owners Manuel to Human Beings


Just Lettice  




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