ABC meme

A - Age: 36 and a half
B - Bed size: futon
C - Chore you hate: hoovering
D - Dog's name: Valiant 
E - Essential start of the day item: coffee
F - Favorite color: orange or purple, depending on mood. Or both.
G - Gold or Silver: silver
H - Height: 5'11"
I - Instruments you play: None so far but I'm still young
J - Job: Mom
K - Kids: one perfect little girl
L - Living arrangements: a dark, cold hole I jokingly refer to as my flat
M - Music you love: Gorillaz
N - Nicknames: Jade, Kris, Cat, Elf
O - Overnight hospital stay at hospital: a few times
P - Pet Peeve: dumb people who think they're the smartest
Q - Quote from a movie: Oh, I'm a panther. I shall slip unnoticed through the darkness... like a dark, unnoticeable slippy thing. (Mirrormask)
R - Right handed or left: Ambi
S - Siblings: one sister
T - Time you wake up: anywhere between 5 and 11 a.m.
U - Underwear: comfortable
V - Vegetable you dislike: cabbage
W - Workout Style: callanetics
X - X-rays you've had: chest, wrist
Y - Yummy food you make: muffins
Z - The best place to visit: gardens or libraries. Just make it quiet and give me access to a book.

An unfortunate blog entry

I saw this meme on another blogs and decided to give it a go. The basic idea is to write your first name in the Google search box preceded by the word "unfortunately" and then laugh at the results. Unfortunately, my nickname gives countless mentions of the late Jade Goody and a bunch of online games that have Jade in them - Jade Empire, jade warrior, and so on - or the gem jade, so I cannot post it all, I will just share the ones that are definitely about a person and also exclude most of Jade Goody's stories or 8 out of 10 lines would be about cancer. Ready? Here goes:


Unfortunately, Jade is all too real.

Unfortunately, Jade went on a vacation to Montana

Unfortunately Jade was enjoying playing pirate a little too much

Unfortunately, Jade's case is not unusual.

Unfortunately, Jade has to pass the last stone

Unfortunately, Jade could not hide his junk properly

Unfortunately, Jade did not beat the hell out of Danielle.

Unfortunately Jade cancelled her plan to attend the function.

Unfortunately, Jade is unable to survive the electromagnetic energy surges and dies.

Unfortunately, Jade’s zeal to keep the kittens fed was unfortunately too much for one of the kittens, who was crushed by the 80-pound dog.

Unfortunately, Jade got me and Guy, too.

Tee-hee, I got recognition!

Sally from the Stitchyangel's Treasures blog nominated me for the Brilliante Weblog Award!
Since I have just resumed my blogging after a rather long absence, it really feels good to be recognised. Thank you so much!
Of course, this comes with a couple of obligations, which are:

1. Put the logo on your blog;
2. Add a link to the person who awarded you
3. Nominate at least 7 other blogs;
4. Add links to those blogs on yours;
5. Leave a message for your nominees on their blogs.

So I will now name a few blogs in no particular order. Disclaimer: there are quite a few blogs that I wanted to nominate but other fellow bloggers were quicker! I have tried to check every blog before I nominated them to make sure they don't have this award already. My apologies if I happened to overlook something.

• Erica's Places
• Garden of Stitches
• A Cup of Tea with Friends
• Cozy Egg
• Incoherent Scriblings
• Smokey from the Netherlands
• AngelSan

I also wanna thank this award for my record company, all the fans who voted for me... uhh, sorry, wrong speach.

5 things meme

I have been tagged by hortenzita for a 5 things meme.

5 Things I wish to do before I die:

1. Speak and write Japanese
2. Have a son
3. Design cross stitch charts
4. Learn yoga
5. Have a garden

5 Things I can do:

1. Design clothes
2. Be a good mother
3. Make our home cosy
4. Braid hair
5. Find anything

5 things I cannot do:

1. Cook
2. Keep my big mouth shut
3. Wake up early
4. Run for long
5. Deny anything from my daughter

5 things that attract me to the Opposite Sex:

1. Honest smile
2. Unique style
3. Proud posture
4. Clean skin
5. Fragrance

I nominate the following five bloggers I would love to see do this meme:

Meari

Judith

Sue

Vikki

Joanne