So, in the movie of your life

Who would play your family?

My eldest Sparky would be Thomas Sangster when he was younger - who is that? see the clip below from Love Actually



My husband would be Jack Davenport - see clip below. Love the song title ;). Edit: my apologies, the song has some swearing - can tell I wasn't listening when I watched. If that's a problem, turn the sound off)Edit 2: Seeing as how I myself read blogs with my small kids around, I've changed the clip!



I have just asked my husband who would play me (feeling unequal to the task of working out myself). He reckons either Cameron Diaz or Helena Christensen, switches to acting and dyes her hair blonde (OH, ok say I, and also manages to get a shorter frame with a more normal BMI....) Gotta love the husband's eye view!

Here's a picture of both of them pointing out how similar they look

I can't think of anyone for the cute Scout though. That would have to be one seriously cute child actor :D.

So, your mission should you choose to accept it: who would play you and yours?

Name game - a meme for my sadly neglected blog.

Sorry blog readers it's been a week.

Ok, to get back into it, a meme Kris (see sidebar) tagged me with - somewhat modified for privacy.

WITNESS PROTECTION NAME:(mother and fathers middle name) Joy William

NASCAR NAME:(first name of your mother's dad, father's dad) Edward William
Girl version: Julia Joyce

.DETECTIVE NAME:(favorite color, favorite animal) I have several favourite colours - um Blue Cat?

SOAP OPERA NAME:(middle name, town where you were born) Joy Sydney

SUPERHERO NAME: (2nd fav color, fav drink, add "THE" to the beginning)The Green Tea ( a particularly soothing lower caff hero LOL)

YOUR GANGSTA NAME:(first 3 letters of real name plus izzle)Megizzle

I am very taken with my superheo name I have to say :). Consider yourself tagged if you have a funny name come up when you do it....

In my future?

This is the kind of thing Scout will be getting up to in a couple of years...

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Mim (see sidebar) brought this to my notice. It is pride and prejudice done in facebook style.

Progressive poem meme and the plague reaches epic proportions

I was tagged for a progressive poem meme by Nicole - Prue started it. Their contributions are the first 4 lines, I continue with the next 2. (see sidebar for links to Prue and Nicole)

I have a friend, his name is Jack,
He is a hypochondriac.

He spends his days combating germs,
and memorising Latin terms.

with great distress he will disrobe,
He's proud to be a nudophobe.

For those interested in my thinking here, I was getting the idea of Jack as an educated but fussy faddish individual full of odd quirks - going off and finding the proper names for these eccentricities with great glee. I considered going with him as a faddish eater (like Jack Spratt, another famous jack), but couldn't find an appropriate rhyme, so went this way instead - but perhaps a later rhymer will tackle this idea?

I tag maccarthaigh family , who I don't know but expressed an interest in this meme on Nicole's post (Hi! nice to meet you!)

In other news, Owl came down with hand foot and mouth disease, hence still very little blogging!!! He is on the mend now.

Ever thought astrology didn't work?

I've always been very sceptical about astrology - having a twin 5 minutes younger who wasn't very like me kinda does that for you.

I just did an online test as to how much i fitted my star sign - the answer is 40%! (I'm an aries, but never sounded like the description).

So I did another test to see what my star sign REALLy should have been!

Your True Sign Is Pisces

Kind Dreamy Gentle Psychic Idealist Vulnerable Empathetic Introverted

What Sign Woman Are You, Really?

So I should have been born a month earlier - well despite the fact I was already premature!