Q&A.....and the WINNER!

you, under close inspection

PS had this little meme in her blog. 25 questions but only one word to answer each of them. Why don't you give it a go? Here's my version:



1. Your cell phone? Abandoned.
2. Your significant other? Who?
3. Your hair? Luscious.
4. Your mother? Artistic.
5. Your father? Funny.
6. Your favorite thing? Many.
7. Your dream last night? Forgotten.
8. The room you're in? Bedroom.
9. Your fear? Boredom. (oh my God, have you noticed bedroom and boredom are anagrams?! :shock:)
10. What you're not? Loud.
11. The last thing you did before logging on? Dinned.
12. Where did you grow up? Portugal.
13. Favourite drink? Tea.
14. What are you wearing? Clothes.
15. Your TV? Off.
16. Your pet? Sky.
17. Your computer ? Stylish.
18. Favourite place? Cloud9.
19. Your mood right now? Amused.
20. Missing someone? Mayyybe.
21. Something you're not wearing? Jewelry
22. Love someone? Snoopy!
23. Your favorite color? Violet.
24. Kids? Nah.
25. Your life? In-progress.

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And the winner (as generated by a computer draw) of my original photo is....Shadow!! Congratulations. Thank you to everyone who participated. If you didn't win, well maybe next time?

Don't bee ridiculous!

This weekend I was in my balcony combing my hair after washing it. It was about 27 C so the hair was almost dry after a couple of minutes. I was enjoying the particular smell of hair when it's dried by the sun when I felt a tap on my knee. I looked and it was a bee. The tap sounded funny so I wondered if the bee had stung me, but then I realized I felt no pain, so...probably not.

I breathed in and out a couple of times, tried to shake my leg a little but the bee wouldn't move. To be more exact, the bee moved, it was moving the little paws and wings in a very frantic way that scared me. Something about my trousers was particularly exciting.

I shook my leg again but nothing. I started panicking. I don't like bees, my friends. In fact, I fear them. I run away from wasps like a 100m runner. I tapped on the window trying to get my mother to pay attention. I got up, trying not to move my leg - you can imagine I looked like a crippled woman. My mother started opening the shades slowly. But then the bee started crawling over my leg, very fast, it was in the middle of my thigh, crawling, crawling up....My mother looked at me. I gestured hysterically to my leg. "What's the matter with you?" "I have a bee!! It's in my leg! It's crawling up! HAA!"

My mother raised her foot to try to get the bee out. I screamed: "No, don't do that!! It will sting me! HA!!! Help me!"

She suggested I approached some flowers we had in pots so that the bee may fly to them. But it didn't work. The bee was already on my hip, dangerously nearby the end of the trousers and my actual flesh. My mother then grabbed a towel while I yelped in terror and the bee got into the towel and then disappeared while I ran inside the house in relief.

Women. The ones that go through child birth, period cramps, all kinds of needles and pains. But no bees.

king's day humour (belated)

by Nik from LaNacion.com

Q - Man, weren't the Wise Men (Kings) only three?
A - Yes, but this year there is another king.
4th King - Why don't you shut up??

hehehe

devil mood's secrets for surviving winter

(Keep in mind that I'm referring to portuguese Winter here; don't come to me for advice concerning snow and freezing temperatures, okay? I know nothing about that!)

1. Leg warmers!! Think Flashdance and Irene Cara. Essentials!!

2. Exercise every day for at least half an hour - the only way to have my feet warm without artificial means...

3. Make sure you exercise listening to songs that remind you of Summer - see Buena Vista Social Club, anything salsa or samba or, my favourite, the Baywatch theme song!

4. Drink big cups of boiling drinks - honestly, it helps you feel warmer for a second, or two...

5. Whenever it is sunny, insert yourself in a balcony or window and imagine you're lying in a beach somewhere in the Caribbean.

6. Do lots of online shopping, as it keeps you busy and contented, and if you don't go out, you might actually forget it's Winter after all!

7. Forget how unaesthetic frizzy hair is, as you'll never get rid of all those flying hairs with this kind of humidity! Just take your mane as it is...

8. Eat chocolate, chips, cookies...you need the extra fat!

9. How about some so-called reverse psychology? Think about that Summer day when it was so hot, you couldn't move, you couldn't think, you couldn't breathe, everything was glued together, the air was asphyxiating...Yes, I thought this would do the trick!

10. Think positive: in June, you'll be able to wear t-shirts again (if you're lucky)!

(Note: This is supposed to make you laugh, so do me a favour ;)

Let's get dizzy-cal, dizzy-cal!

This is so cool!

I saw this on a blog and I had to put it here. It's from the australian newspaper Herald Sun.

If the girl isn't spinning, click on the picture.
And then observe: is she circling clockwise or counter-clockwise? Or does she spin both ways?

If you see her moving like the clock, the right-side of your brain is dominant over the other. If you see her counter-clockwise, it's the other way around. The left brain is more into logic, language and science. The right side is more into feeling, symbols and imagination. To read more about this, you can read the original article here.

Good stuff

Last week my eyes were glued to the screen watching The Tudors - you know how I love a good historical story, even if the facts have been changed to make a better adaptation to television.

At first I thought this was a mini-series, as there have been a few about Kings and Queens in the past, but at that point I had watched 5 episodes and King Henry VIII still hadn't divorced his FIRST wife. lol Then I realized it was a series, with seasons; season two is coming up but Henry has not been able to marry Anne Boleyn yet.

Portuguese television was kind to present us with all eleven episodes in four days, sometimes up to the three hours watching this...I was beginning to talk like anyone in the Court, your Grace, my Lady, my Lord ;)

Even though the plot is a little slow to develop, I enjoyed it very much. If I had to choose a word to describe the show, it would be: sexy haha.

Twins

Do you see the magnificent resemblance? ;)

Above: Slash

Below: Me [Edit: I'm wearing a wig, FYI!]