1. Your first childhood pet2. A book you're reading
3. What did you do the year after high school?
4. Your middle name
5. A movie you wanted to walk out of
6. Most daring thing you've done
7. How are your cooking skills?
8. Something you're saving for
9. The last time you went to the beach
10. Secretly I wish...
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1. Your first childhood pet
2. A book you're reading
3. What did you do the year after high school?
4. Your middle name
5. A movie you wanted to walk out of
6. Most daring thing you've done
7. How are your cooking skills?
8. Something you're saving for
9. The last time you went to the beach
10. Secretly I wish...
1. The first one that was soley mine was a kitten I curiously named Tina. A present from my sister.
2. Elric (Micheal Moorcock)
3. First year of design degree. Lived at home.
4. James
5. The Corpse Bride, Goodnight and Good Luck, Coraline
6. I am not daring at all. I went on one small rollercoaster (The Rat Trap?) and nearly had a conniption.
7. Pretty good
8. A house
9. Too long ago. Before Ivy was born.
10. I was famous
1. A budgie called Joe
2. Evangellyfish
3. 1st year BA at UQ (music and maths)
4. This is a super secret one. You'll have to beg...
5. barnyard
6. I have a very strong self-preservation instinct so don't do daring.
7. probably not as good as yours. but they could be if I wanted it.
8. new house...
9. Artificial beach last week, real beach, August.
10. I could have my cake and eat it too.
Well, you sometimes sign stuff 'SAR', so it starts with A.. Hmm. Agnus? Aravinda? Adriana? Abalone?
Go on.
1. Side Show & Alley 3 goldfish (who were replaced at various intervals
2. King's Shield by Sherwood Smith
3. Recovered, worked part time in a video store
4. Louise
5. the previews in Kill Bill
6. going on holiday with a friend in primary school who's dad was scary
7. I survive, others survived eating it
8. visiting family in England next year
9. Feb for family holiday
10. Venting solved something
re. middle name.
Avis. I quite like it. I was named after my aunt who died just before I was born. But this name was the source of much primary school teasing. Rent-a-car...
@Simone - I like it. It's different. But yes, the rent-a-car thing is crappy.
1. Umm, Shaggy? He was a poodle-cross.
2. My family and other animals (no ferrets in it so far!)
3. Moved cities to live at college and go to uni
4. It's a herb
5. There was an awful movie I saw that I did walk out of ... something to do with a buck's party where they accidentally kill a prostitute.
6. See http://to-live-is-christ.blogspot.com/2009/09/new-zealand-day-3.html
7. Ok. I can cook - but not like the Masterchefs.
8. My deposit!
9. 2 weeks ago? I live 2k from the beach.
10. Secretly I wish Jesus would return now so I could go home.
1. A goldfish, I think I named it Mark in honour of a preschool friend left behind in Sydney.
2. Remote Control by Andy McNab. It's pretty dumb. I just finished a book called Salt. It was brilliant.
3. Started a double degree in Journalism and Law at the Queensland University of Technology.
4. Macleay.
5. I don't get the "walk out" thing - when I don't like a movie I stay to the end so I can be a better educated critic.
6. Aerobatic flight in a plane the pilot admitted was balsa wood held together by gaffa tape.
7. I would class myself as good, but not masterchef good.
8. Reentering the life of student poverty.
9. Ten days ago.
10. That I'd come up with the Monday quiz so more people would comment on my blog.
1. A siamese cat called Pat (Pat the cat ... get it?). By the end he had only three legs and was blind.
2. "1984" by George Orwell
3. Moved to Brisbane to study architecture at UQ
4. Karl
5. "Casino" ... boring
6. nothing comes to mind ... how disappointing
7. Good
8. House
9. Last week
10. That I lived near the beach.
Just a post to get the follow up comments.
1. Golden Retriever
2. Mistborn
3. Moved to Brisbane for Uni
4. Iain
5. The bank job (Statham version)
6. Either facing down 4 drunk guys wanting to trash my dad's car or asking my now wife to "go out with me"
7. Pretty good
8. Saving?
9. Can't remember
10. I could play piano, guitar, tenor sax, drums, & bass ( not at the same time) without having to put in the practice to get there.
1. Had to grow up and buy a house before I was allowed a pet. So now I have Jas and Ella the GIANT puppies.
2. Currently reading all the Sherlock Holmes novels, Barack Obama's biography and about to read the new Terry Pratchett (yay!).
3. Went to uni because I'm boring.
4. Jane.
5. Black Hawk Down I spent facing the back wall of the cinema, because my husband wanted to stay.
6. Got married?
7. Pretty good, if you like pasta.
8. Renovations. Big crafty markets at the end of the month.
9. About 4 months ago.
10. I didn't care what anyone else thought of me...
1. Two cats we adopted Licity and Zoe.
2. Seamus Heaney - Finders Keepers: selected prose 1971 - 2001
3. Started uni, became a Christian.
4. first middle name: Louise. Second: Farquharson. Yup. I lucked out. Took me till highschool to work out how to spell it!
5. Can't remember
6. Asking Julia Gillard to re-do a pre-election interview after I forgot to press record...!
7. Average
8. Next electricity bill and car rego/insurance
9. About a month ago - Coogee for a walk
10. I could pull off a trendy haircut!
Simone- That's not bad. It has a bit of a medieval vibe.
Milika- Good fish names, I like 'em. I'm curious about what you mean by 'recovered', but you don't have to say if you don't want to.
Georgina- I read that book a couple of months back. It was funny. I'm fairly sure there was no ferret action though. By the way, I hope it's 'Rosemary' and not 'Basil'.
Nath- Just do your own quiz and call it something different. No one will notice. Except me, who may or may not seethe with resentment.
Maso- Heh. Pat the Cat. Are you liking 1984? That's one I've always intended to read. I listened to an abridged talking book of it read by Vincent Price, which was pretty cool.
Mark- What's this Mistborn thing? Is it a bit of a new fad thing? I've heard it mentioned a fair bit lately. And yeah, asking girls out is massively daring. My stomach gets all knotty remembering that prospect.
Amy- I have only read one Terry Pratchett book. All I remember was some strange thing about the world being a giant turtle or something. And yeah, I have that secret wish too. Life would be so much less stressy.
Sophg- No offense, but omigosh. Farquharson. That is kind of awesome in an unusual way. Where did that come from? Nice form with Julia. You gotta not let these polly's get too big for their boots.
Went and found Mistborn in the library after the recommendations of last week.
1. Some guinea pigs whose names I don't remember
2. Scar by China Mieville (don't bother)
3. First year BA
4. Ruth
5. Pulp Fiction. Ew.
6. I used to do a lot of walk-up evangelism, which i now think was amazingly daring!
7. They span the spectrum from excellent to disastrous, often in the same meal.
8. A rainy day.
9. A couple of weeks ago.
10. I was one of those naturally sporty people.
1. a fish named Goldie
2. Revelation of God by Peter Jensen (have been reading it for ages though)
3. did a media degree
4. Sophia (my first name is Ming Huey)
5. the remake of Fame
6. I'm boring. Can't think of anything
7. Good. I cook without recipes and without measuring.
8. That's for me to know....
9. Last summer at Port Macquarie
10. I was super fit.
What an awesome fish he must have been soph!!!!
1. Apart from the family dog, called puppy which lived to 15, I had a mouse and my brother had a mouse. They were both males and quite amazing because we got baby mice from them.
2. The Harp in the South
3. 1st year music production degree at Qld Con of Music
4. Kathryn
5. None
6. Rock climbing the Kangaroo Point cliffs in Brisbane. I hated it. Never gone rock climbing since.
7. I'd never get on Master Chef, but I cook well enough to not kill anyone, and sometimes I think I'm quite awesome.
8. Well I was saving hard for a mortgage, but realised there is no way I can afford it, so I think it's time to take the money and run.
9. April
10. Not really a secret, but I wish jesus would return so i can enjoy not having chronic fatigue and not being on my own without a family of my own.
Joanna- Walk-up evangelism is nearly as scary as asking a girl out. Anything done in the face of rejection is brave in my books. Sad you didn't like Pulp Fiction. There are ew bits, but I reckon it's pretty awesome too. Horses for courses.
Soph- Props to you. I'm a no measurements no recipe kinda guy too. See, that's daring right there. I'd forgotten your first name wasn't Sophia. I like your real first name.
Goldy- I didn't realise you had chronic fatigue. I hear it's a pretty awful and debilitating thing. At the risk of sounding trite, I will keep that, and the other stuff too, in my prayers.
And more power to you for getting two manmice to breed. Quite a feat.
1. a labrador called Gundi
2. i have Antony Beevor's 'Stalingrad' ready for holidays.
3. 1st year Ag Science degree in Brisbane
4. Owen (my dads middle name)
5. Happy Feet (too preachy about saving the planet)
6. a 2m trail bike jump having never done one before
7. lets just say I do a mean breakfast and wash up
8. a deck
9. hmmm. february
10. I was a violin virtuoso
1. Your first childhood pet - a chinchilla persian cat named Star
2. A book you're reading - which one? How about "Accounting for Business - An Introduction" my textbook for TAFE
3. What did you do the year after high school? - Made lots of friends playing cards in the refec...and also failed enough subjects to add a year to my degree.
4. Your middle name - Delma (after an aunt) Kathryn (because Dad liked it) - thinking of introducing myself as Kate the next time I move to a new place and have to meet lots of new people. P.s. nice spelling Goldy.
5. A movie you wanted to walk out of - I'm with Nathan on this one...but there are movies where I close my eyes in some scenes
6. Most daring thing you've done - Hmm, not sure if I can pick a "most", how about asking a friend to go to a course introducing Christianity?
7. How are your cooking skills? - not as good as my husband's
8. Something you're saving for - a house but not in the town where I currently live as it's unaffordable (Goldy - I often thought of blowing it on travel when the goal seemed too far out there)
9. The last time you went to the beach - don't remember but I live in a beach town so probably not more than a couple of months
10. Secretly I wish...I was bolder in my interactions with people (e.g. not worrying about what so-n-so thinks; would xxx have said yes if I'd asked him out; walking out the office door at 5pm even if my boss has asked for something "urgent" the day before my RDO...)
1. gerbils - all died within a year
2. Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs - a friend recommended it and surprisingly I'm not all that into it
3. 1st year of college - changed majors many times
4. Ann
5. Pearl Harbor and a few kids movies i've taken the boys to
6. Rappelling, white water rafting, para-sailing - all these things terrified me, I'd rather keep my feet planted firmly on the ground
7. good - I like to cook and bake
8. Christmas
9. Lake beaches in MI - this summer, Atlantic Ocean - last summer
10. I could perform in a play/show/movie
hey Ben, can't take credit for Side Show Alley - that genius is all my sister. But I revel in her reflected glow most of the time anyway.
Recovered - had my first staggering bout of Chronic Fatigue in yr 12. spent the next year sleeping and chatting to people in my suburb (whilst working at a video store, plus watching lots of free movies.
Laetitia - I've often become a Melissa on the phone and am seriously considering at my next job using my middle name forever.
Milika - Apart from people not being able to pronounce my name correctly or spell it, I've had callers call me "Pat" because they think I've said "Patricia". I'm left thinking, "Even if my name were Patricia, what would give you the right to shorten it?"
Of course, I have a business website and blog all using "laetitia" in some form so I'm not sure it will work to use "Kate" without careful explanation.
Yes, I guess two names would be confusing.
Plus I think my parents who be sad if changed it - they did work hard to choose it.
1. A toy poodle named Candy
2. The Witchling
3. Worked
4. Ann
5. The Blair Witch Project...I did
6. Some things cannot be posted.
7. Awesome!! I get many requests for my lasagna.
8. My friend coming home.
9. Just a couple of weeks ago.
10. I was a famous chef
Sorry for the tardiness, friends. I'm in holiday mode.
Chris L- I'm glad to hear you say that about Happy Feet. To be honest, I haven't seen it, but I remember being so turned off by the previews, the cutsiness and the hype. I now feel vindicated.
Laetitia- I don't get the thing of changing yr name when you start out in a new circle. Surely you and your name are so intertwined, it would be weird to suddenly be called something else. I've known friends who have done it, and it annoys me when they expects me to suddenly change what I call them. And why choose a common name when you have an interesting one already? Laetitia is a good name. Same with you, Milika.
Lu- Yeah, Pearl Harbour was a bit of a steaming pile. I didn't make it through on dvd. We don't have gerbils here.. though maybe thay are the same as what we call guinea pigs? I'd google it if I wasn't so lazy.
Milika- Thanks for explaining:)
Beth- I secretly wish I was a famous chef too! I really liked Blair Witch, but I can understand you walking out. Either you like that kind of thing or you don't..
Hi Ben,
I do like my name, which is why I get annoyed when people butcher the spelling or pronunciation of it (it's really bad when family members or long standing friends can't get it right). It's really tedious and annoying having to spell it all the time for every new person you meet, not to mention having to correct people when they mispronounce it before they introduce you to someone else with the wrong pronunciation!
Mine is La-T-sha if you're wondering; our pastor's wife's cousin is La-tish-a (same spelling) which makesit difficult for Nola when she goes back to visit family after being near me for a while.
Using something like "Kate" is also easier than "Laetitia" in shops where they like to give you personalised service rather than calling out "Number 52, your meal is ready". Trying to get people to understand "Laetitia" when there's a lot of noise in the background is rather difficult.
I figure that since I need to use a business card for people to get the spelling of my URL right anyway, telling people that if they have trouble with Laetitia, they can call me Kate instead may still work.
I don't expect people who already know me as Laetitia to suddenly change what they call me though. When I was a teenager I would get people to call me Phoenix if they couldn't get Laetitia right. I happily answered to either.
I think I left you hanging there...
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