Well done, America. Indeed it was a very sensible decision that you made.

Meanwhile, here's a bit of a distraction for us all.

Name a fandom and I'll tell you which character I most likely:

1. bake cupcakes for:
2. lend my books to
3. put thumbtacks on the chair thereof:
4. have a crush on:
5. pack up and leave if they moved next door:
6. vote for President:
7. pick as my partner in a buddy movie:
8. pair up:
9. vote off the island and into the volcano:
10. wheedle into fixing my [whatever is currently broken around the house]

Fandoms include Sports Night, The Avengers, Captain America, Supernatural, NCIS: LA, Torchwood, The West Wing, Leverage, Buffy the vampire Slayer, Angel the Series and due South.

I've seen this around and thought it looked like fun.


Pick a number from the list and I'll answer it in the comments.

1 - Your current OTP
2 - A pairing you initially didn’t consider but someone changed your mind
3 - A pairing you have never liked and probably never will
4 - A pairing you wish you liked but just can’t
5 - Have you added anything stupid/cracky/hilarious to your fandom, if so, what
6 - What’s the longest you’ve ever been in a fandom
7 - Do you remember your first OTP, if so who was in it
8 - Do you prefer characters from real action series or anime series
9 - Has the internet caused you to stop liking any fandoms, if so, which and why
10 - Name a fandom you didn’t care/think about until you saw it all over tumblr/LJ/DW
11 - How do you feel about the other people in your current fandom
12 - Your favorite fanartist/author gives you one request, what do you ask for
13 - Your favorite fanart or fanartist
14 - Your favorite fanfiction or fanauthor
15 - Choose a song at random, which OTP does it remind you of
16 - Invent a random AU for any fandom (we always need more ideas)
17 - A ship you’ve abandoned and why
18 - A pairing you ship that you don’t think anyone else ships
19 - Show us an example of your personal headcanon
20 - Do you remember what your first fanwork was?
21 - Self-rec: What's your favorite fanwork you've created?
22 - Are you one of those fans who can’t watch anything without shipping
23 - 5 favorite characters from 5 different fandoms
24 - 3 OTPs from 3 different fandoms
25 - A fandom you’re in but have no ships from
26 - Just ramble about something fan-related, go go go

SIX NAMES YOU GO BY:
1. [real name]
2. Miss Leisel
3. Laylee
4. Olde Woman (don't ask)
5. Lou (my mother)
6. Lessie/Lelley/Essie (the kids)


THREE THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW:
1. Blue t-shirt
2. Blue spotty pyjama pants
3. red hoodie

THREE THINGS YOU WANT VERY BADLY AT THE MOMENT
1. To go back to New York NOW!
2. To lose all the weight I've put on over the last six months
3. To go back to New York RIGHT NOW!

THREE THINGS YOU DID LAST NIGHT
1. Went to Anthony and Oleg's for dinner. Yummy roast lamb and vegies!
2. Watched a great movie about the end of the world called 9
3. Stayed up way too late watching Rage

THREE PEOPLE YOU LAST TALKED TO ON THE PHONE:
1. My sister
2. Oleg
3. Someone from work

THREE THINGS YOU ARE GOING TO DO TOMORROW:
1. Ride my bike to work (provided it doesn't rain)
2. Chair a staff meeting
3. Go to gym

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE DRINKS:
1. Margaritas
2. Shiraz
3. Champagne

THREE THINGS THAT MADE YOU SMILE TODAY:
1. Finding my coat when I thought I'd lost it at Savers
2. My new dress
3. My new bra

Of the \o/

- Had dinner with Best Work Friend and A&O last night. We went to Ladro for pizza and then to the bar formerly known and Yeltza¹ for drinks. Much pizza was eaten and much wine was consumed and all in all it was a wonderful evening.

- When I got home from dinner there was a birthday card from phoebesmum waiting for me in my letter box. It has shoes on it!

- I have a three day weekend, woot!

- I also have banananana muffins baking in the oven, woot!

- My favourite artisan bakery is opening a shop in Station street. Now I don't have to schlep all the way down to Alexandra Parade for the bestest hot cross buns in the world!

- There were two cute schoolboys busking in Station street this morning. I now have the theme from 'Spiderman' as played on the trumpet and euphonium stuck in my head *g*

- I found a copy of The Cutting Edge in Cash Converters for three dollars today. Toe pick, woot!

However, of the /o\

- I was seriously hung over when I got up this morning and have been walking around in a bit of a daze all day.

- I was going to see The Blow Waves with BWF tonight, but she cancelled on me at the last minute and no one else I know is going so I ended up staying home.

- It's supposed to rain tomorrow and I have all this laundry...

- I also have a blister on my foot :~(

I shall thus leave you with some ( girly wisdom )



¹It changed it's name since I last went there, but I can't for the life of me remember what it's now called.

You're on my friends list! I wanna know you. I want to know 33 things about you. I don't care if we never talk, talk every day or already know everything about each other. Short and sweet is fine. I just want to know you. Copy this and post it with your answers in the comments.

1. Can you cook?
2. What was your dream growing up?
3. What talent do you wish you had?
4. Favourite place?
5. Favourite vegetable?
6. What was the last book you read?
7. What zodiac sign are you ?
8. Any Tattoos and/or Piercings?
9. Worst Habit?
10. Do we know each other outside of lj?
11. What is your favourite sport?
12. Negative or Optimistic attitude?
13. What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?
14. Worst thing to ever happen to you?
15. Tell me one weird fact about you:
16. Do you have any pets?
17. Do you know how to do the macarena?
18. What time is it where you are now?
19. Do you think clowns are cute or scary?
20. If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?
21. Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?
22. What colour eyes do you have?
23. Ever been arrested?
24. Bottle or Draft?
25. If you won $10,000 dollars today, what would you do with it?
26. What kind of bubble gum do you prefer to chew?
27. What 's your favourite bar to hang at?
28. Do you believe in ghosts?
29. Favourite thing to do in your spare time?
30. Do you swear a lot?
31. Biggest pet peeve?
32. In one word, how would you describe yourself?
33. Will you repost this so I can fill it out and do the same for you?


( Here's my answers )

The Australian meme gakked from around. I never realised just how Aussie I really am!

Bold the ones you've done and add one of your own on the end

1. Heard a kookaburra in person [There was one living in the peppercorn tree outside my flat for a while]
2. Slept under the stars
3. Seen a koala
4. Visited Melbourne [I live in Melbourne!]
5. Watched a summer thunderstorm.
6. Worn a pair of thongs
7. Been to Uluru
8. Visited Cape York
9. Held a snake
10. Sang along with Khe Sahn
11. Drank VB
12. Visited Sydney
13. Have seen a shark
14. Have used Aussie slang naturally in a conversation
15. Had an actual conversation with an indigenous Australian (Aboriginal person)
16. Eaten hot chips from the bag at the beach
17. Walked/climbed over the Sydney Harbour Bridge
18. Used an outside dunny, and checked under the seat before sitting down
19. Seen Chloe in Young & Jackson's.
20. Slept on an overnight train or bus
21. Been to Sydney's Mardi Gras
22. Have gone bush-bashing
23. Taken a sickie
24. Been to see a game of Aussie Rules football
25. Have seen wild camels
26. Gone skinny dipping.
27. Had a Tim Tam Slam.
28. Ridden in a tram in Melbourne
29. Been at an ANZAC day Dawn Service.
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Held a wombat
32. Been on a roadtrip of 800km or more
33. Seen the Great Australian Bight in person
34. Had a really bad sunburn
35. Visited an Aboriginal community
36. Seen a redback spider [Redbacks aren't common in the area where I grew up, thank god.]
37. Have watched Paul Hogan
38. Seen Blue Poles in person And contemplated it.
39. Wandered barefoot in the bush/outback
40. Eaten Vegemite and hated it [Actually, I love Vegemite and I had Vegemite toast for brekky this morning!]
41. Thrown a boomerang [Badly, but I was only eight!]
42. Seen the Kimberlies
43. Given a hitch-hiker a lift
44. Been to Perth
45. Have tried Lemon, Lime and Bitters
46. Tried playing a didgeridoo
47. Seen dinosaur footprints
48. Eaten Tim Tams [Oh YES!]
49. Been to Darwin
50. Touched a kangaroo [I had them eating out of my hands at the wildlife park on Saturday!]
51. Visted the Great Barrier Reef
52. Listened to Kevin Bloody Wilson
53. Killed a Cane Toad
54. Gone to a drive-in theatre [There were two in the old home town when I was growing up and I saw Star Wars for the very first time at the one near my house!]
55. Have read and own books by Australian authors
56. Visited Adelaide
57. Know the story behind "Eternity"
58. Been camping
59. Visited Brisbane
60. Been in an outback pub
61. Know what the term "Waltzing Matilda" actually means
62. Gone whale watching
63. Listened to Slim Dusty
64. Own five or more Australian movies or TV series. {I don't think I own even one!]
65. Sang along to Down Under
66. Have stopped specifically to look at an historic marker by the side of the road.
67. Eaten a 4'n'20 pie
68. Surfed at Bondi
69. Watched the cricket on Boxing Day
70. Visited Hobart
71. Eaten kangaroo
72. Seen a quokka
73. Visited Canberra
74. Visited rainforests
75. Used a Victa lawnmower
76. Travelled on a tram in Adelaide
78. Used a Hills hoist
79. Visited the Olgas
80. Used native Australian plants in cooking
81. Visited the snow [You may think it's odd visiting the snow, but you've got to remember that where I come from the average winter temperature is 10-12C, which means there's not much snow outside the alpine regions.)
82. Chosen a side in Holden VS Ford
83. Visited the desert
84. Been water skiing
85. Read The Phantom
86. Visited Parliament House
87. Gone spotlighting or pig-shooting
88. Crossed the Nullarbor
89. Avoided swimming in areas because of crocodiles
90. Listened to AC/DC.
91. Called someone a dag
92. Voted in a Federal Election
93. Have been swimming and stayed between the flags
94. Had a possum in your roof
95. Visited the outback [I was born in the Mallee. Does that count?]
96. Travelled over corrugated roads
97. Hit a kangaroo while driving
98. Been well outside any mobile phone coverage [Happens all the tme on my way to the old home town]
99. Seen an emu.
100. Have woken to the smell of bushfires
101. Said that you were bludging or called someone a bludger
102. Habitually shortened friends' names. [Yes, although I hate it when they do it to me!]

And mine is...

103. Eaten a snag at a backyard barbie on a Saturday arvo.

Gakked from lordessrenegade

01. Think of the first word that comes to mind when you think of me.
02. Go to Google Images and search for that word.
03. Reply to this post with one of the pictures on the first page of results.
04. Put this in your own journal so that I can do the same.

Go on, picsam me, people!!

Gakked from just about everywhere:

When you see this, post another Supernatural quote in your LJ. Let's see how long this can go on.

Dean: You know what, there's a ton of lore on unicorns too. In fact, I hear that they ride on silver moonbeams, and that they shoot rainbows out of their ass!
Sam: Wait, there's no such thing as unicorns?

Meme time, gakked from katikat

Name a CD you own that you think no-one else on your friendslist does:
Poseidon by The Mavis's. It was their first EP and hasn't been commercially available since 1993. I bought while we were all still living in the old home town and I should have gotten them to sign it before they broke up, but I always thought they'd be around forever :~(

Name a book you own that you think no-one else on your friendslist does:
Blahnik by Boman: Shoes, Photographs, Conversation. Why yes, I am a shoe queen. Why do you ask? *g*

Name a movie you own on DVD/VHS/whatever that you think no-one else on your friendslist does:
It's not exactly a movie, but I'm not sure how many of my flist would own Lillie, a miniseries about the life of Lillie Langtry starring Francesca Annis.

Name a place that you have visited that you think no-one else on your friendslist has:
I'd say the old home town, but I know for a fact that at least two of you have been there, so I'm nominating Manangatang in the Victorian Mallee region.

Name a piece of technology or any sort of tool you own that you think no-one else on your friendslist has:
My book measure that tells me if a book is a folio, elephant or giant folio. It was given to me by the rare books cataloger at work and I just love it.