There is a Album meme going around. I had to cheat a bit because I needed to find a Flickr image that wasn’t space-balled.

Head over to “Wikipedia.” hit Random and the first article you get is the name of your band. Then go to Random Quotations and the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album. Then, go to Flickr and click on Explore the Last Seven Days and the third picture, across will be your album cover.

Put it together. Be free to cheat. It’s more fun.

So… this is “It’s hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head” by Father’s Doing Fine.

1. Made you laugh
Paris Je’Teme

2. Made you cry
Bridge to Terrabithia

3. You loved when you were a kid
The March of the Wooden Soldiers

4. You’ve seen more than once
Garden State

5. You loved but were embarrassed to admit it
In Her Shoes

6. You hated
Bridget Jones Diary

7. Scared you
Fight Club

8. Bored you
Hoodwinked

9. Made you happy
Science of Sleep

10. Made you miserable
House of Sand and Fog

11. You weren’t brave enough to see
Horror anything, I’ll say Shutter even though it’s not out

12. One character you’ve fallen in love with
Jo March from Little Women

13. The last movie you saw
Be Kind Rewind

14. The next movie you hope to see
The Pained Veil OR Ms. Pettigrew Lives for a Day

Tagging:
Geoff, Anna, Ana, Makeesha, Jess
ignore me if you like.

I have been Meme’d and I think I’ll do it, because pulling a few sentences from a Terry Pratchett has got to be amusing (Or will just sound so incredibly sci-fi you’ll never go near one).

Rules:

1. Pick up the nearest book of 123 pages or more.
2. Find page 123
3. Find the first 5 sentences
4. Post the next 3 sentences
5. Tag 5 people

The book: The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett

Sentences:

In his right hand he carried the magical black sword Kring, which was forged from a thunderbolt and has a soul but suffers no scabbard. Hrun had stolen it only three days before from the impregnable palace of the Archmandrite of B’Ituni, and he was already regretting it. It was beginning to get on his nerves.

Hehe, Terry Pratchett comes through with something good!

And I’m going to defy the final rule because I might’ve been bad already and gone and gotten my Terry Pratchett and put it closer to me.

If you want to do the meme. Do. If you don’t, don’t.

1. Write down five things that you’re thankful for.
2. Tag five friends who you’d like to see participate in this meme.
3. (Optional) Include a link to this post and encourage others to place a link to their completed meme in the comments section of this post so we can keep track of the thankfulness running around the blogosphere.

I’m thankful for
1. Matt stepping in to take Geoff and I through pre-marriage counselling (Prepare)
2. The crazy weather allowing me to wear skirts and shorts and feel warm (although this morning it seems to have gone cold again)
3. Holidays and the  fact that I can sleep in because I’ve needed it
4. Geoff and the fact that I get to marry my best friend in 40 something days
5. All the ways that God has orchestrated this wedding planning crap and all amazing offers from those we know and great prices and ways that it’s worked out.

I’m going to tag:

Sam, Paul, Rodney, Matt, Anna

apologies in advance to the meme haters.

and this reminds me, pumpkin pie must be on the agenda in the next few days.

Christina has tagged me about ‘obsessions’. As I’ve grumbled about before, memes seem to very much be a social network cliche, so what better a place to start!

Obessions

1) I dislike cliches – quite a lot. I use them usually only if I am extremely tired, purposefully being annoying to others or if it’s too embarrassing/inappropriate a situation to make up my own.

2) No longer an issue, but I used to ‘have to’ turn off the hot-tap on the shower last. In that, the hot might go off first, but the final turn would have to be that certain tap.

3) A mirror of one of Christina’s obsessions, it drives me a little crazy when people don’t take their teabag out before they put milk in, my theory is the same as hers besides, it makes the teabag look disgusting.

4) Spelling, Grammar, Punctuation. I write some fairly flawed posts/other however if it is a professionally used document/menu etc, spelling MUST on all accounts be correct, along with grammar and PUNCTUATION. A particular loathing is the boganised ‘You’ – Youse/Youze. It drives me mental.

5) I just about cry if I see people using Comic Sans/Curlz MT Fonts on anything.

Rather than tagging anyone specific, what are your obsessions?

Simply, it’s one giant game of tag amongst Bloggers. Last night I got tagged by Christina.

Six Weird Things About Me

1. I am a non-identical, youngest twin. Laura has 2 minutes on me. I have 2 inches on her. As a general rule I rebel against most things twinish. Before you ask, the answer to, “Do you have ESP” is, “No”.
2. Growing up I collected everything from: Dogs, Cats, Books, Fonts, Coins, Stamps, Horses/Horse Books, Stickers, Teddy Bears, Pass It On Cards, Bookmarks… I must have grown out of it because the only things I collect now are blog links and the odd coffee mug/latte cup.
3. I can fold my tongue over like this (that isn’t me)
4. I grew up in the Solomon Islands and I can speak Solomon Islands Pijin although not very well any more. While I’m on the subject, Meme means ‘mushy fruit’ in Pijin.
5. The thing that most scares me is Karaoke.
6. Tell tale signs for me being stressed out: I won’t have read a fictional book in a while, my room will be a much more of a mess than usual. NB: Sometimes things are this way totally separate from what is going on.

(and if I had to have a 7th, it’d be that I find it incredibly difficult if not impossible to properly scream)

and I shall tag the following six people:

Samantha
Louise
Paul
Burkie
Laura
Hannah