Well, that's me. Thanks for reading this year, folks, it's been a good year. Thanks particularly to all you regular commenters, and also to those who have written book reviews and stuff like that.
I will take a few weeks off to recharge, and then be back towards the end of January. I hope you all have a great Christmas and new year, and I'll look forward to catching up with you again in 2012!
Bye for now, friends.
Thanks everyone for participating in the quiz for another year. It's been fun, and I've learned a lot about you all (which is being compiled and assessed by my team of labcoats). I hope you'll give it one last hurrah with the super quiz, and after that you can go and rest up for a few weeks.
By the way, if you're interested in what you answered for these same questions last year and the year before, here's 2010 and 2009.
1. Favourite album, this year (NOTE- doesn't have to have been made this year, just what your fav. was. Same goes with books, movies etc.)
2. Favourite song, this year
3. Favourite movie, this year
4. Favourite TV show, this year
5. Favourite book, this year
6. A global phenomenon you'd like to see not carried into the next decade
7. Most annoying word/saying of the year
8. Biggest eye-roll inducer of the year
9. Over-exposed celeb of the year
10. Interesting world event
11. Highlight of your year
12. Lowlight of your year
13. Something you're proud of achieving this year
14. A disappointment
15. Something you'd change if you had the chance again
16. Describe your year in a sentence or two, bare bones.
17. A way that you are different now than you were in January
18. A way you'd like to be different by next December
19. A hope for next year
20. A resolution
Hey friends, sorry things have kind of fizzled here. The well ran dry. I think I even lost my bucket.
Anyways, I'll post the end of year super quiz on Monday, and then that'll be me for 2011. I'll have a few weeks off and be back all fresh and spritely for 2012.
Hope you are all going good, and getting festive.
One of my (many!) planned projects for the holidays is to make a second vege patch, about 3m x 2m. At the moment it's just grass along there. I got 50 old pavers that a neighbour was throwing out to make the edges.
It'll have a row of herbs separated along the front there. I can't wait to get stuck into it. I want to get a barrel to put at the back there. Not sure what I'll grow in it.. maybe climbing beans or something.
At the top right you can see the strawberry patch we made a few months back (yes, that's a garden gnome in the middle there), and the passionfruit vine we planted to grow on the fence above it.
I'll post a photo of the finished thing.
1. If you were a mythical creature, which creature would you be?
2. Has the Great Australian Novel been written yet or not? If so, what is it?
3. Feelings on peanut butter ...
4. The best way to rid the kitchen of a cockroach is ...
5. You know I'm (insert your nationality here) by my ...
Good on you Kim!
Busy as heck. Anyone want to be a guest Quizmaster? First person to email me 5 quiz questions gets the ahem.. amazing honour.
bmclaughlin AT sstar DOT com DOT au
Happy first day of Summer!
Anyone else as psyched as me?
Painting: Setting Sun, Beaumaris by Clarice Beckett
Sitting on the train the other day, I glanced over at a lady who was yawning, which, in keeping with that Strange Law of The Universe, triggered a yawn of my very own. The lady then happened to glance at me, in turn sending her straight back in to a follow-up yawn.
At this point I had the wisdom to break eye contact, thus preventing any further repercussions. But it got me thinking. What if we had have maintained eye contact indefinitely? Would this have set in to motion some kind of debilitating, infinite yawn chain that would stretch on to the day we died? Chilling.
Another yawning incident happened recently while I was reading a children's' book to one of my daughters. I don't remember what the book was, but there was an illustration on one of the pages of someone yawning. Seeing this made me yawn.
This led me later to ponder existentially the fact that it had not been a real person, or even a photo of a real person that demanded my yawn, but just a simple, line drawing, just a big O for a mouth and two little arcs for eyes. How strange that just a few simple pen strokes could have such power over me.
And then finally, this morning as I was walking up the hill to work, merely thinking about what I'd write in this post set me off yawning all the way to the office.
Friends, beware this silent predator, this controlling puppet-master that threatens a stranglehold on your life. You may snicker now, but just wait till you are frozen paralysed in an Infinite Yawn Chain, a husk of your former self, just a great big O with two little arcs above it. It could happen.
Well, that's me. Thanks for reading this year, folks, it's been a good year. Thanks particularly to all you regular commenters, and also to those who have written book reviews and stuff like that.
One of my (many!) planned projects for the holidays is to make a second vege patch, about 3m x 2m. At the moment it's just grass along there. I got 50 old pavers that a neighbour was throwing out to make the edges.
1. If you were a mythical creature, which creature would you be?
Happy first day of Summer!
Sitting on the train the other day, I glanced over at a lady who was yawning, which, in keeping with that Strange Law of The Universe, triggered a yawn of my very own. The lady then happened to glance at me, in turn sending her straight back in to a follow-up yawn.