1. I have to burn slightly before I tan. I forgot the "slightly" part last week.
2. One of life's unsolved mysteries for me is: "Why do the British have their bathtub sides so damn high? Are they trying to kill off their Old Age Pensioners?" If you know, let me know.
3. I can't wear yellow. I've tried. Failed. Every. Single. Time. Why do I bother? Slow learner.
4. I have a harmonica. I play it. Can I play tunes on it? No. Why do I like to fool around with it? Because harmonicas sound cool. It's keyed in "G." It's a good one too. Hohner.
5. I'm always disappointed if icing on a cake is whipped cream instead of butter creme frosting. I always think "what were you thinking?!" but I'm too polite to say so.
6. I had a year of tap when I was 10. Should have continued, 'cuz I was pretty good! Everybody said. For real. We moved and I had a lot of "Extras" around that time. Scouts, music, swimming, etc. So I never had bothered to sign up after we moved. My loss!
7. If it's a choice of "odds or evens" I always pick odds.
I tag anyone who feels like playing. And I still have another meme to do that I was tagged with back in early April, so no, I haven't forgotten.
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Yellow is my colour many people tell me but I am not that fond of it. I do have a yellow jumper that I use to wear a lot. It is too warn now so maybe I will have to sew myself a new one.
Thanks for the compliment and calling me Marie hee hee. We are both Aussie's but Marie posts at view from the pews.
OK. 7 things about Meeeeeee:
1. I've had glasses since I was 15. Originally they were only supposed to be for reading/screen work etc, but these days I pretty much can't manage without them.
2. I'm not tidy. I am, however, clean. I'll live with a mess, but not with dirt.
3. I despise people who push in front in queues in shops and theatres (and if they do it to *me*, I don't let them get away with it. Ever.)
4. I actually like using public transportation. Most of the time.
5. I have one living grandparent - which, since I'm 35, I think is pretty good going. Unfortunately I also only have one living parent, but you can't have everything.
6. I don't want to be where I am at the moment.
7. I'm a good cook.
Re: frosting, incidentally, the best frosting for chocolate cake - according to my nephew, for whom I made this last week - involves melting Mars bars with a little heavy cream and whisking the resulting gloop until it's smooth.
Therese, yikes!!!! Monday post. Argh. It's a wonder I made it out of bed yesterday. Congrats on being able to wear yellow. It makes most of us look sallow! Many have tried, few succeeded.
Stephen. Ah-ha. See even you couldnt' tell me why the damn bathtubs are so high over there. Have you seen "Green Card?" :-D
I sleep on the side closest the door, and I never eat cream of wheat. On the weekend I flipped on some show that was showing the delights of stuff you are not supposed to have. They did restaurants. One of them was called "Chip shop" in Brooklyn, I think. The guy was from the UK and he did some cool concoction with Mars Bars, and he fried up a mean hostess twinkie in chip batter, then split in half and put on some sort of strawberry topping and powdered sugar. Wow.
Deep-fried Mars Bars. Not something I've ever been moved to try - they're indigenous to chip shops in Scotland. Scotland, not coincidentally, has the highest heart attack rates in Europe. I have seen Nigella Lawson, on TV, deep-fry Bounty (coconut) bars in tempura batter more or less with a straight face, but I don't deep-fry anything.
Re: why our baths are so deep - it makes it so much easier to drown annoying relatives.
Stephen, mystery solved!!! I figured it was something like that.
Tell me about the burn!!
We Brits need our bathsides so high because are backsides are often so huge....well, mine is....i'm plump....when i get in the bath, in order to have at least some of the water covering my body i need high bathsides....when i stand up, there's actually only about 6 inches of water in the bath. Thank godness for high bathsides for we fatties!
Ukok, ;-D
Hello - found your blog when searching for blogs mentioning Therese of Lisieux. :)
7 things about Meeeeee:
1. St. Therese of Lisieux is my patron saint.
2. I'm not sure why British bathtubs' sides are so high. I can remember being there in the 70s and thinking, there must not be a water shortage.
3. I can wear yellow, if it's the right shade and I've had enough sleep.
4. I have a Hohner harmonica, too! It was my dad's.
5. I'm with you on butter creme frosting, but only if it's fresh, please, and with real butter. That said, I adore whipped cream in some cases. I don't suppose you've had one of those sponge cakes with strawberries and whipped cream from the Phoenix bakery in Chinatown, have you? Might change your mind ...
6. I can't dance, but I can sing.
7. I prefer even numbers.
7. I'm in the So Cal area, too - lifelong resident - but it looks like I'll be moving out of state in a year or two.
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