What is your name? e.
What is your Starsign? Capricorn
Your favourite colour? Red
List your 3 favourite songs: Depends on the day.
List your 3 favourite films: See above.
Do you dream in colour or black and white? Bright, blaring painful color. Ow. No wonder I can be such an insomniac…. Granted, upon waking I’m greeted by a bright red room, so. Hm. Maybe I’m not crazy……
What did you dream last night? Something very disturbing that woke me up at 3 a.m. and had my heart racing. Although it was likely the fact that I had the heater turned up so high even my stuffed animals were sweating.
Who is your favourite male actor? Mmm. British. Tall. Charming. Veeery charming…at least on screen and who gives a fuck if it’s not real… I pay money for something that’s not real. Duh. Yes, I know from experience that in real life the charm turns to annoyance when they can’t seem to get beyond the twittering and flabbergasted blushing. Ugh.
Who is your favourite female actress? I don’t really have any.
What is your favourite ‘Take Away’ food? Oh. Indian. Yummy….but, then again, there’s nothing that can’t be solved with pizza, fries or a good Philly soft pretzel!
Bath or Shower? Oy. Shower. HATE baths. Remind me of when I used to get stuck in the cold bath when I was little and had a fever. Eurgh.
Salted popcorn or sweet? Salted.
What is your natural eye colour? Green.
What is your natural hair colour? Blonde.
When was the last time you cried? I bought an onion the other day. Does that count? Otherwise I’d have to say the first credit card statement post-holidays.
Which is your favourite flavour of crisps? Oooh. Sea salt and vinegar rawks, although plain old salty crunchy badness is goooood.
Name your favourite perfume/aftershave: J’Adore.
What was the last thing you watched on television? I just dragged my lazy ass from in front of Seven Years in Tibet.
What was the last book you read? Baker Towers
What is your biggest fear? Regret.
List your 3 favourite websites: NYTimes.com, Salon.com, HomeStarRunner.com
What is your lucky number? 13
Opera or Pantomime? Ow, god, neither.
Do you believe in fate? Completely, and it pisses me off.
Do you believe in reincarnation? Absolutely – that’s why cats and small dogs love me, I was probably once their mother … or a nice, red fire hydrant.
Who was the last person you kissed? Heh … I don’t kiss and tell.
What was the last thing you ate? Those bloody addictive café twists, the choco chip kind you get at Trader Joe’s. “only 60 calories. Blah blah blah.” Yeah…. Erm, times the whole box!
Do you like Marmite? Oh god no!!!
What magazine/newspaper do you regularly read? Many many many. Hordes. Gaggles. I get them e-mailed to me. I get them mailed to me. In a few years they’ll probably be sent to me via a chip in my neck. It’s obscene. I need to think less…
Would you rather be too hot or too cold? Too cold. Sweaters, socks and nekkid men can always solve that problem!
What do you think are your best and worst qualities? Best=Mildly entertaining, hopeful to the point of being stupid, a closet romantic, smart, can help you move furniture (or bodies…. I’m an all-around kind of chickie), completely and totally honest. Bad=Can be hyper and talk too much, short tempered at times, jump into things too fast sometimes, or not fast enough at others, easily annoyed by stupid people, completely and totally honest.
Who was your first love? First=true totally incompatible just-walk-away better luck next time love I met when I was 18 and said goodbye to for the last time two years ago…
When was the last time you blushed? Oh, I was probably buying underwear or tampons or something.
Roughly how many hours a week do you spend on the internet? 60-80, but that’s just when I’m on a computer and the internet is on… actively, about 8-10
Who is your best friend? Vulcanlouieluau
What was the last website you visited? http://mags25.blogspot.com/, where I cribbed this questionnaire!
Score your personality from 1-10, 10 being the highest: Today it’s about a six…. Yesterday it was more like nine. Some days are better than others, but I’m usually up for a raucous good time!

‘kay, so, my LiveStrong bracelet, which I have been wearing every day for sooooooo many months broke today. It is weak, and it broke.

Now I ask myself, “Self, what does this mean?”

And I ask myself because just yesterday I was speaking with Mark about how I do not know how long I should keep it on, or even contemplate taking it off.

Did it self-destruct over my uncertainty? Did I cause it to question it’s very reason for existence? Or, is it simply a chintzy piece of plastic made by some undernourished, hapless child laborer in China that wasn’t meant to last more than these eight or nine months???

This is shall continue to contemplate as I go ball myself up in flannel on the couch as I watch the snow fall outside…

to be continued….

or not…

I feel like i just lost a family member:

Hunter S. Thompson, the author who pioneered “gonzo” journalism and became an anti-establishment icon with his 1972 book “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” fatally shot himself at his home outside Aspen, Colorado, Sunday night, police said. He was 67.

In a statement released to the Aspen Daily News, Thompson’s son, Juan, confirmed that the writer had taken his own life.”On February 20, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson took his life with a gunshot to the head at his fortified compound in Woody Creek, Colorado.

“Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” — Thompson’s most famous work — detailed the drug-and-alcohol-fueled journey his alter-ego (Raoul Duke) and a Samoan attorney undertook while in Las Vegas to cover a motorcycle race. The book’s biting wit and stream-of-consciousness ramblings — which Thompson would later term “gonzo journalism,” because it was deliberately slanted — made him a counter-culture celebrity in the ’70s, and his style was introduced to another generation of fans in 1998, when “Fear and Loathing” hit the big screen, starring Johnny Depp as Duke. (Bill Murray had tackled Thompson’s life and work 18 years earlier in 1980’s “Where the Buffalo Roam,” based on a collection of the author’s work.)

Thompson’s other works include “Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ’72,” a collection of articles he’d written for Rolling Stone magazine while covering Richard Nixon’s re-election campaign in 1972; and “Hell’s Angels,” his book chronicling the year he spent with the notorious California motorcycle gang.

This is a super cool Belgian restaurant in London — Belgo. Waiters wear these hot little monk-esque outfits, and there’s a big Eddy Mercx poster above, at the bar.

The hills of Lockerbie.

Tundergarth Mains.

They do it much better. 

But, go to another culture, learn something cultural, right? Like curling! (The windows above are the pub!)

I can’t imagine living in something like this
when it was still intact. The details blow you
away — If I were rich I’d take something
like this (structurally sound one, of course)
and fix it up… sooo cool. and keep dogs, and
make them sleep by the fire! he he!

Unfortunately, many decided the solution
was to take off the roofs. Thus, the end
result for many old estates is ruin.