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I found these “Have you ever?” questions on Laura’s blog and yes – once again I am totally stealing it from her. I love that type of stuff! I love wasting my time that way! Give me more of it!
So here we go…
Have you ever…
1. gone on a blind date?
No, I have not.
2. skipped school?
Ummm… yes. More than once.
3. watched someone die?
No
4. been on a plane?
Yes, several times.
5. been on the opposite side of your country?
Umm… meaning have I been to the southern tip, considering that I am from the north originally? Or meaning have I been to the western tip, as I happen to go to university in the eastern part of the country? Well…. whatever… I have been all over the place anyway!
6. swam in the ocean?
North Sea, Baltic Sea, Mediterreanean, Pacific Ocean…. yes, I have.
7. had your booze taken away by the cops?
Nope.
8. lettered in high school sport?
Uumm… no idea what this question means…
9. cried yourself to sleep?
No
10. played cops and robbers?
Sure have!
11. sung karaoke?
At a Karaoke Club? With lots of booze involved? Oh hell, yes, I have! And there are videos to prove it!
12. paid for a meal with coins only?
No… don’t think so.
13. done something you told yourself you wouldn’t?
Probably have, but I can’t think of anything in particular right now. But… there was most probably booze involved.
14. cheated on an exam?
No
15. made prank phone calls?
Hahaha. Um. Yes.
16. laughed until some sort of beverage came out of your nose?
To my utter humiliation this would be a yes.
17. caught a snowflake on your tongue?
Oh come on, who hasn’t?
18. watched the sunrise with someone you care about?
No
19. been kissed under the misteltoe?
Actually, no. This obviously needs remedying.
20. ever been arrested?
No.
21. gone ice skating?
Yes
23. been skinny dipping outdoors?
Yes – and I loved it! 
24. had a nickname?
NO! NO! And again: NO!
25. been on TV?
Umm… yes.
OK guys, your turn now!!
I know Nina has already mentioned this in her blog, but OMGDIDYOUKNOWEDWESTWICKAKACHUCKBASSISTHELEADSINGEROFABAND??
*drool*
Things I do when I should actually be doing something else are almost always in some way creative… and this time my inspiration was Russia.
I wanna go baaaaack! Goddammit.
Honestly, what better way is there to start a day but to wake up and find out that it’s not only a sunny but also a warm, or better, HOT day (it’s September!!); have a nice long shower using your favourite shower gel; go downstairs to have breakfast and discover that your mom just made your favourite apple pie (the smell of which has already filled the whole house) and prepared breakfast with all the things you love for breakfast in the back garden AND has also got you your favourite gossip magazines?
Yes, I’m on holidays and yes, I’m at home! Oh and yes, thanks, mom!
As I just mentioned… it’s SUMMER!
Ok ok.. summer’s almost over, I give you that. But – I am still on holidays and I have still got time for some procrastination. And I don’t even need to feel bad about it, yay! So here’s something I found on my friend Laura’s page:
So, here goes:
1) Bold those you have read.
2) Put an asterisk next to those you LOVE
3) Cross out those you didn’t like
4) Italicize those you intend to read (or have started and intend to finish)
5) Reprint this list in your own blog
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1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling *
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte *
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott *
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger*
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky*
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
34 Emma – Jane Austen
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell*
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery*
47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52 Dune – Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon*
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding*
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett*
74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses – James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal – Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession – AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle*
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94 Watership Down – Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl*
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
Ummm… I should read more. Definitely. I blame YOU for me not reading as much as I used to anymore! Yes, YOU! You know who I mean and who you are!
… since I last posted something here.
OK. It’s been almost two months to be precise.
Well… I could now write a very detailed report about my fabulous life that would make you all turn green with jealousy. I could so do that. Or… I could be the nice person that I am (sometimes), spare you the juicy details and sum it up with just one word:
SUMMER!
I especially like the following line:
…when we didn’t have no internet…
Think about that.
