901. Would you rather have a candle scented like blueberries and creme or butterscotch pecan pie? Blueberries and creme.
902. Which ones are fruits and which are vegetables:
Banana Fruit.
Cucumber Technically a fruit.
Tomato Technically a fruit.
AppleFruit.
Carrot Vegetable.
Eggplant Technically a fruit.
Cherry Fruit.
Pumpkin Technically a fruit.
903. Does it annoy you when people talk loudly on their cell phones in public? Sometimes, especially if it’s graphic.
904. Is love a commitment to one person, or can you love more than one person at the same time? I think people are perfectly capable of loving, and being in committed relationships with, more than one person at the same time, but that’s not how I roll.
905. Cover or original:
Smooth Criminal; is it better by Michael Jackson or Alien Ant Farm? MJ.
Blue Monday better by Orgy or New Order Haven’t heard it.
I Want Candy; Is it better by Aaron Carter or Bow Wow Wow? Didn’t someone else do it before Aaron and Bow Wow?
Love Song; Is it better by 311 or The Cure? The Cure.
It’s My Life; Is it better by No Doubt or The Talking Heads? Haven’t heard the Talking Heads version and I’m ok with the No Doubt one.
906. What is the most uncomfortable feeling? The gut-wrenching moments in life. And period pain.
907. Do you like Maroon 5? I quite like their first album.
908. Would you ever go on a blind date TV show? No way.
909. How much of your wardrobe is dry clean only? None of it, really. Some of it is handwash-very-carefully-or-the-sky-will-fall-on-your-head though.
910. Who’s arms would you like to crawl into? My boyfriend, Josh’s. He’s got the best arms in the whole while world.
911. What the hell is your problem? Well today I think it’s anaemia and having Aunt Flo show up in full force. Hey there blood loss and hormones, you rule. Oh, and the fact I’m not filthy rich so I can’t buy my own house and decorate it to a perfectly vintage standard of awesome, and buy lots of dresses.
912. Look around you. What is the most beautiful thing you can see? Photos of the people I care about.
913. What is the most beautiful thing you can’t see? There isn’t really a most beautiful, because there are lots of things I find beautiful. I shall say my cats, though, ’cause they are beautiful and amazing.
914. Take a deep breath. Yawn deeply. Do you appreciate the things most people take for granted, like breathing? I do try to.
915. Do you appreciate breathing more when you have a cold and you’re all congested and can’t breathe right? To be honest, not really. I’m too busy being sick to give a crap.
916. Is congestion a positive thing because it helps you to appreciate breathing? No.
917. How is your life like a work of art? Because sometimes I look like something out of a Picasso painting? And sometimes my life doesn’t make much sense, a bit like a Dali painting. Mostly life’s just beautiful like everything da Vinci did.
918. Do you feel that your life influences and is influenced by many other lives? Of course; people are all entwined whether we like it or not, and thus we cannot help but influence each other even in very minute ways. Freedom from that is unattainable.
919. Has a smile ever made all the difference in the world to you? Yes, most definitely.
920. Have you ever looked at a tree and considered how the roots could be miles long, trailing and entwining with other roots underground, all of them holding the soil together? Yep. Trees are damn cool, really.
921. Do you notice the little things in life? Nowhere near enough as I should.
922. Do you feel, as Jung did, that deep down, underneath our individual personalities we are all the same? Possibly.
923. Do you feel a great oneness with the universe? Nope. Should I? Do I need to?
924. When was the last time you decided to really enjoy yourself? I don’t really decide it, I just do manage to really enjoy myself most of the time.
925. When was the last time you set your self free and acted without caring at all what someone else thought? Hmm, little while ago.
926. Have you ever held someone and appreciated how delicate and fragile all life is and felt that they were even more precious and beautiful because one day they would die..and so will you? Yes.
927. In ten years someone else might own your house and the room you are sitting in now. Someone else might be standing right next to where you are sitting now. So that means you could be standing right next to someone but you can’t see him or her because they are ten years away.

Ever look at life like that? Sometimes.
928. When was the last time you:
Soaked in a bubble bath MONTHS ago.
Read a good book outside Friday.
Held someone’s hand This morning I held my niece’s.
Felt truly joyful Yesterday.
929. What do you bring to this world that no one else can? Myself.
930. Do you feel that you are part of every living thing in this world and that all those things are part of you? Yes, when you considering atoms and how they are always around.
931. Are you more afraid of death or not completely living? Not completely living. If I feel like I have really lived my life, death will not scare me.
932. What was the last thing you wanted to do but didn’t or couldn’t do? Go see my guy.
933. Why don’t you try and do that thing now? Because I do not have my driver licence so therefore I cannot go to his house.
934. What is the most wonderful thing happening right now in the world? Somewhere a much adored and wanted baby was just born.
935. Name 7 things going on around you that you normally wouldn’t notice:
1. There is a bug crawling in the corner of my room.
2. Plane overhead.
3. Traffic noise.
4. Chickens are finally quiet.
5. Tiny bug on my window.
6. Can’t see
7. anything else
936. Name three things you hate
1. Excessive rain.
2. Feeling exhausted.
3. Not having my driver licence and a car.
937. Name one GOOD thing about each of those 3 things you hate.
The ground and plants get watered, the water tank filled; I might actually sleep tonight; I can’t crash and die in my own car.
938. What do you tend to see in black and white, rather than in shades of gray? Not much, except for everything when I’m angry. Actually no, here’s some things: racism is always awful and NEVER justified, and the same goes for any sort of abuse.
939. Admit three things you do that you are ashamed of but shouldn’t be. I am not ashamed of anything I do.
940. What qualities make a person “good” in your eyes? I guess just being generally kind, considerate and appreciative of others.
941. Do you have any of these qualities? All of them, the extent to which I have any or all can vary.
942. Are you willing to do what it takes to achieve what you want to? Yes, I think so, once I know what it takes and what I need to do.
943. Name one bad quality about someone you love. No thank you.
944. Name one good quality about someone you hate. I don’t actually hate anyone.
945. Are you pro life or pro choice and why? Pro choice. Because I believe every woman should have the right to choose whether she wants to have a child and she should have legal access to safe medical treatment and counselling should she opt for an abortion.
946. If you are pro life write a reason someone might be pro choice. If you are pro choice write a reason someone might be pro life. Someone might be pro life because they consider abortions to be murder and that murder is wrong.
947. Can you see the beauty in?
A bumble bee:
A man skating:
A woman combing her hair:
A box of tissues:
Yourself naked:
Light: Yes to all.
948. What are you most afraid of? Not reaching my goals.
949. Whose life would you REALLY NOT want to ever have? A high profile celebrity’s
Why? No privacy.
950. Can you come up with a reason why you might want their life? Money.

From a few days ago.

It’s been a ridiculously long time since I’ve updated my list of 101 Things in 1001 Days, in fact I hadn’t even so much as glanced at the list since about May! Very slack of me but my excuse is that I’ve been very busy doing important things. Anyway, now I’m less busy doing important things, I thought I’d take a look at said list and to my surprise I’ve actually completed a few new things and some other things are in progress and some others require a general update. Hence the purpose of this post, obviously!

Develop more self-confidence – Completed
Ok, while technically this is the sort of thing that is continually in progress throughout life, for the purpose of this exercise I’m going to say I’ve completed it because, in comparison with this time last year, I have bucket loads more self-confidence. Hurrah!
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I babysat my niece today and before nap time (hers, not mine ) I grabbed my camera to take a few shots while we played. I’m slowly becoming more comfortable with the various manual settings on my camera, though by no means am I anything but amateur! Still fun to play though.

851. Have you ever seen the musical Annie? In movie form, yes.
852. Sheets: silk or satin? Cotton please. Silk and satin are ridiculously hot.
853. Bath: soap or bubbles? Bubbles.
854. Your best color: blue or red? My favourite of the two is blue, and I think I can wear both fairly well.
855. What’s your favorite candy? Gumi bears, black jelly beans, Fruit Bursts
856. Can you sing? Not really.
857. It’s the end of the world, as we know it. How do you feel? I feel fine.
858. You take your little sister (she’s 12) shopping for school clothes. Mom gave you the money to hold. She picks out a skimpy top emblazoned “Hottie” and hip-hugging pants that leave at least two inches of skin north and south of her navel exposed to the wind. She insists: If she doesn’t have these clothes, she’ll look awful, the other kids will tease her, and she’ll feel like a nerd.
Do you think she should or should not wear these clothes? Hell no, she’ll have plenty of time to look like a cheap hooker when she’s an adult!
Do you buy them for her? Nooooo! I will try and find her something trendy but appropriate for her age.
859. What do you think is the most annoying cliché? I can’t think of one right now.
860. What band is underground right now but will one day get really popular? I don’t really listen to that much underground music.
861. Of the following which word best describes you:
versatile (flexible): This one?
wonderful:
x-tra special:
your own best friend:
zany:
862. What does BYOB stand for? Bring Your Own Booze?
863. Who is sexiest:
Marilyn Monroe
James Dean He really was.
Elvis
Jim Morrison
Madonna
Cyndi Lauper
864. Do you always do what’s expected of you? No. I actually like avoiding it, providing the expected isn’t what I actually what for myself.
865. Do you believe everything you hear on the news? No way.
866. Would you prefer a $100.00 gift certificate to Hot Topic or Abercrombie & Fitch (assuming neither store gives change, so you’ll have to spend the whole thing)? I guess Hot Topic? We have neither store here, so I’m hoping the gift certificate also comes with an all-expenses-paid trip to the U.S.
867. Have you ever won a competition? Yar.
868. Who looks sloppier when they are over weight, guys or girls? Both can look sloppy, overweight or not!
869. At what age do you become all grown up? It’s different for everyone. I think it’s when you become fully independent, financially and emotionally.
870. Have you ever written graffiti on anything? Nope.
871. Can you remember what you wrote? n/a
872. Are you a force of nature? Of course.
873. What do you think of blue eye shadow? Depends how it’s done. It can look amazing when done right, or really….bad.
How about gold eye shadow? See above.
874. Would you ever wear any of the following Halloween costumes:
Flapper? Yes!
Hippie? Yes.
Disco dancer? Maybe. If I’m desperate.
875. Should birth control be taught in high school? Yes! Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yyyyeeeesssssss!!!!!! Yes.
How about in jr. high or elementary school? Based on the way things are going in Western societies, beginning in primary school might not be such a bad idea…
876. Would you consider yourself a genius? No, I wouldn’t.
877. What did you think of the movie Solaris? Haven’t seen it.
878. Which is usually better movies or books? Books.
879. Do you think The Hobbit will be made into a movie? I thought it was being made into one? Either way, I don’t actually care.
880. Do you research which brands use sweatshops to make their clothing before you shop?Not as much as I should.
881. What gives you a magical feeling? Decorating for Christmas, mushy-gushy lovie moments, when I see a wonderful piece of art, random moments when I’m amongst nature.
882. Have you ever pulled apart a Christmas cracker? Of course!
883. Would you rather watch basketball or play basketball? Watch.
884. Do you think that everyone makes his or her own problems? I think to a degree, yes. We certainly often contribute to them, though there are obviously times where other people do things that affect us, which we can’t control.
885. Do you often consider how your actions will affect other people? Yes.
886. Are J-Lo and Ben Afleck interesting to you at all? Nope.
887. Do you use poor grammar or hate poor grammar? I’m definitely not a grammar genius, but I do hate the obviously really poor grammar.
888. Make up a tabloid headline: No.
889. Do you like to learn new things? Yes.
890. What’s more important, fame or personal accomplishment? Personal accomplishment.
891. Sweet dreams are made of this….
What are they made of? Rainbows and kitties and fairies and candy floss and fluffy clouds and GLITTER.
892. Two trailer park girls go round the outside…
Round the outside of what? Eminem’s trailer?
893. Are you wearing a piece of jewelry that means a lot to you right now? Yes, two pieces actually.
894. If someone was going to inscribe a message on a ring and give it to you what would you want it to say? I have no idea.
895. Guys who are losing their hair:
Should they shave their heads? Shave or trim to very short.
Get implants? If they really want to.
Or let it go? I don’t care, as long as they don’t do the comb-over.
896. Do rock stars work hard or lead the easy life? That kind of creativity doesn’t come easy, and neither does recording and album, promoting it and playing it live. There is often much travel involved and consequently relationships with people at home can suffer. I don’t think they have it easy at all. Maybe they have lots of money, but that doesn’t mean life is instantly amazing.
897. How much water do you drink every day? Not as much as I should.
898. Are you driven or kinda apathetic? Becoming more driven.
899. Who do you turn to when you are down? My mum and friends.
900. Would you ever wear seran-wrap? Possibly.

“Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body, the atoms that construct the molecules, are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded their chemically rich guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So that we are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically. That’s kinda cool! That makes me smile and I actually feel quite large at the end of that. It’s not that we are better than the universe, we are part of the universe. We are in the universe and the universe is in us.”
— Neil deGrasse Tyson

A friend posted this quote in their LiveJournal and it resonated with me so I figured I’d pass it along.
Happy Friday, lovelies!

No, I’m not dead (sorry to disappoint anyone?), I just spent the last week with my boyfriend and, well, who wants to write blog posts when you can do stuff with your boyfriend instead? And by ‘stuff’ I mean movies, cooking, walking and swimming. I bet you thought I was being rude… Shame on you…

Now he’s gone home however, so I shall pay attention to blogging again.

Don’t you hate people like that, though? You know the ones: they’re involved with their friends, family, and activities until they get a boy- or girlfriend, and then they pretty much disappear off the face of the planet. You don’t hear from them again until a) their significant other goes away, b) they have a fight with their significant other, or c) they break up with/get dumped by their significant other. Doesn’t it make you want to pull their hair out and yell at them, or something?

I will not be one of those annoying people who abandons everything for her boyfriend. I promise! Just this last week was the exception because I was also bombarded with an awful Women’s Issue in which I felt as though my uterus was going to climb out of my abdomen and eat the nearest person (which consequently would have been my boyfriend). Not exactly conducive to writing, I tell you.

801. How often do you change your mood in a day? If I’m PMSing then about 500, but otherwise it just depends on the sort of day I’m having, I guess. Sometimes it’s relatively stable throughout and other times it’s not.
802. When you ask people how they are doing you actually care about their answer or is it just polite? Maybe I don’t care as much if it’s someone I don’t know well and I just ask it in passing or whatever, but with friends and family and most people I do actually care.
803. Would you consider yourself to be very polite? I’m pretty polite for the most part. Certainly I feel I’m a lot more polite than many people my age!
804. Do you like movies and books that involve nuclear holocaust? Not particularly.
805. Have you ever had a lucid dream (a dream in which you knew you were dreaming and had complete control over what happened in the dream)? Yes, many.
806. Have you ever had a flying dream? No, not that I can recall.
807. Have you ever had a lucid flying dream? Lol, no.
808. What’s the oddest law you ever heard of? I think there is one in the U.S., where in some state you can’t ride a horse backwards if you’re drunk or something to that effect.
809. What is the ultimate way to connect with another person? I don’t think there is one ultimate way. It depends on the person and how you gel together, what works with one person isn’t necessarily going work with another.
810. Can you be intimate with someone without touching him or her? Of course! Emotional intimacy (i.e. verbally expressing emotions and opening up your mind/heart/soul/whatever to someone) is arguably much riskier and makes one more vulnerable than any kind of physical intimacy. And of course you can experience both at the same time.
811. Can men and women ever really be ‘just friends’ with no interest in anything more? I think so, though generally I tend to fail at it at some point. Then I get over it and go back to being friends. But I do tend to flirt with male friends, whether I’m interested or not, but that’s just ’cause I’m a flirt.
813. Are you addicted to this survey like drugs? No.
814. If your signifigant other wanted to wait for marriage could you hold out or would you leave them (or would you cheat)? Considering the fact I don’t place much importance on marriage, it wouldn’t matter a jot if they didn’t want to.
815. What’s the longest sentence you can make using only words that start with the same letter as your first name? No, it’s ok, I’ll pass.
816. If you had a theme song what would it be? I do have a theme song and it’s ‘Molly’s Chambers’ by Kings of Leon. I just really love than song so have adopted as ‘mine’.
817. Are you cranky? Generally, no.
818. Which group generally annoys you more, people older than you, or people younger than you? Younger. Sorry younger boyfriend (you are not annoying though)!
819. Do you refer to older people as old farts? Nope.
820. Do you refer to younger people as the kids? Yes.
821. Which is better: Poems that everyone can relate to or poems that are intensely personal to the author? I don’t really care.
822. Is it worse to be too hot or too cold? Too hot!
823. Are you so flexible that you can put your feet behind your head? I don’t know. I doubt it.
824. Would you enjoy reading fairy tales written about robots? Yes, probably!
825. Is smoking a turn on or gross? Gross.
826. What is the one way you wouldn’t want to die? Burning. Ew!
827. Which would look sillier on you: A cowboy hat or a Rasta hat? Cowboy, I reckon.
828. Would you rather have a job doing something indoors or outdoors? Probably indoors.
829. Would you rather learn more about human nutrition or meteorology? Human nutrition.
830. Have you ever taken honors courses? No.
831. What do you think of crop circles? They’re pretty. I don’t know if aliens did some of them, though. I think maybe creative people did.
832. Where do they come from? See above.
833. When was the last time you screwed up big time? Not for awhile. I must be due.
834. You have a choice. What do you eat:
A veggie burger This.
A turkey dog
A cheese sandwich
835. Do you get a lot of random instant messages? Nope.
836. Do you have a paper journal also? I do, but I’ve not written in it for about four months.
837. VHS or DVD? DVD.
838. Vinyl, cassette tape, or CD? Vinyl and CD.
839. Have you ever seen the video/heard the song Days Go By, performed by Dirty Vegas? Yes, I think so.
840. MTV: should it play more videos or more shows? Don’t watch MTV.
841. Name a band: The Mars Volta.
Do fans of that band tend to share any characteristics with each other? Yes, often they do. Hardcore fans tend to be rather creative, I think, or at least have very good imaginations.
842. What does the expression ‘touch and go’ mean? Dangerous or uncertain, I think.
843. Caffeine or alcohol? Alcohol.
844. Betty or Veronica? And they are? I choose Veronica because of the name.
Archie or Reggie or Jughead? Again, who?
845. What book are you reading right now? The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons and The History of Sexuality Vol. I by Michel Foucault.
846. Is the news too depressing? At times it is.
847. Would you rather have a stuffed lion, elephant, pig or duck? What, a real one, but stuffed? In that case, none of them. If you mean toy, I could do with an elephant.
848. Are you late for a very important date? Nah, so quit chasing me, Alice.
849. Ever use star 69? What’s that do?
850. Is everyone as smart as you? No, unfortunately we are not all equal. Though I don’t think that should be a reason for disadvantaging people and groups of people.

My four-month long holiday from university began last Wednesday (5:30pm, to be exact) and so far my time has been filled with grocery shopping, a novelty I had not experienced in some time (seriously—and I missed it); seeing family; a Guy Fawkes BBQ on Saturday; spending time with my new boyfriend (yup, he’s pretty great, so I should probably tell my mother about him); cleaning; and shopping. Next up is finding a job and organising Christmas presents, as well as numerous summery adventures I have planned.

In other news, I am beginning to throw around some ideas for a new site design, and expect another instalment of the 5000 Question Survey and a post about the Books & Bubbles evening with Paullina Simons that I went to!

I shall leave you with a few photos of my most recent purchases:

Dress from Peachy Keen Vintage. The shop only got this in on the day I went and the owner was going to take it home for his wife. Alas, I snapped it up first! All I need is a petticoat to poof the skirt out a bit.

I want one of every colour they have, please.

Stockings and garter belt from Farmers; faux pearl earrings from Cotton on.