A meme

Tagged by terrylbirch and decided that I should do it while I have a few minutes spare and actually *remember* that I was going to do this:

1. Favorite scent: Surprsingly, not freshly brewed coffee (although that comes a close second). Fresh flowers. I don't know why, but I love the smell of certain flowers even though I can only identify them as either pink, purple or white. And oddly, I dislike just about every perfume and particularly the flowery ones. Huh.

2. Favorite way to relax: I'm unsociable beast and value my alone time (mainly because I don't get a huge amount of it), so my favourite relaxation would be an empty house, a really good novel, a comfy armchair and whatever my current snacky item of choice is.

3. Favorite movie you own: Lord of the Rings (we'll ignore the fact that that's three films).

4. Favorite movie you don't already own: Volcano. I'm a sadly demented disaster movie fan.

5. Favorite male movie star(s): Morgan Freeman, Liam Neeson

6. Favorite female movie star(s): Julia Roberts, Hilary Swank, Sandra Bullock (don't look at me like that *pout*)

7. Favorite book genre: Um, fantasy. If that wasn't obvious enough already.

8. Favorite clothing store: None. My favourite tends to vary depending on who is selling stuff that I like and that fits. Not a fan of clothes shopping.

9. Favorite non-clothing store: Waterstones. Or possibly Chapters in Halifax. They're both lethal to my bank account.

10. Favorite cartoon character: Dori (Finding Nemo).

11. Favorite CD you own: Mary Chapin Carpenter, Party Doll.

12. Favorite CD you don't already own: Pass - haven't had the time lately to hunt down new material. Damn.

13. Pass the torch to five of your LJ friends: kylielee1000, mmmchelle, elfinessy, paranoidangel42, alicambs

Back to reality

Look, see, this is a real post with content and no meme! Go me!

Possibly I need food. Or sleep. Or both.

I return with renewed vigor for finding a real job, aided and abetted by the sheer boredom of my temp job. Argh! So I've revised my CV, sent it off to an agency and applied for a graduate position. Tomorrow I may apply for more. I'm also revising the design of my portfolio website because at the moment it's rather 'blah'. Of course, I wrote and designed the thing in less than two days so that may explain it. But I've also been reading the book by the guy behind the CSS Zen Garden, which had lots of really interesting design stuff and many useful CSS tips. Um, yes, that was holiday reading *g* I didn't quite make it through my big stack of books, but I got quite far along.

And I hit Chapters in Halifax. Oops. Came out with a quite a haul:

Hallowed Hunt - Lois McMaster Bujold (because it will never be published here *sigh*)
The Outstretched Shadown - Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory
Princess Bride - William Golden
The Last Light of the Sun - Guy Gavriel Kay
Hammered - matociquala

I only went in there for the Bujold ::hangs head:: But they had this "buy 3 paperbacks, get a fourth free" and I...couldn't resist. Oops. It was something of a struggle to find somewhere to put all my loot in the luggage on the way home. Next time, I am taking a bigger bag because it is impossible for me to resist buying stuff. Like new Gap jeans and cute little tops. And cookies. And chocolates. And gifts.

But at least I didn't buy two new suites ::carefully avoids looking at Father::

I have to say that Da looks rather smashing in his new suites. They fit and everything. He's very tall and lean, so finding suites of the right proportions is a struggle. But these? I swear that Mom was drooling, which is very disturbing to me *g*

And now I'm babbling. Must go eat yummy sticky maple sausages.