So day 1 of the 31DBBB (31 Days to Build a Better Blog) Challenge is to do an elevator pitch for our blogs. Basically letting you, the reader know what the blog is about.
Nightwolf’s Layouts – it’s all about me, my life and my scrapbooking. Occasionally I throw in a photo or two, do some enabling and anything else I feel like.
so that’s it in a nutshell. my blog is really just me sharing stuff. hopefully it will interest and maybe inspire.
Now on to day 2
since I blogged. I think I’ve done a grand total of three LOs so far this year. will share them laters. Took part in the Hybrid Designs scrapbooking Survivor challenge. made it to week 5. This week saw the start of Mystical Scrapbooks Amazing Race. Will share the LOs from this after the comp has finished.
Also, I heard a rumour that Roll 2 Create is having a competition soon too.
Anyways just a random blog post today with another Facebook meme (it’s a long one)
Caroline-ology
***********FOODOLOGY***************
What is your salad dressing of choice? Anything Red Kellys. they make the best salad dressing
What is your favourite sit-down restaurant? The Ball & Chain
What food could you eat every day for two weeks and not get sick of? chicken
What are your pizza toppings of choice? cheese, salami, ham, onion
What do you like to put on your toast? butter & jam
***********TECHNOLOGY***************
How many televisions are in your house? 4 but we only use one
What colour cell phone do you have? pink.
***************BIOLOGY******************
Are you right-handed or left-handed? right
What is the last heavy item you lifted? a chair.
Have you ever been knocked unconscious? yeah.
************BULLCRAPOLOGY**************
If it were possible, would you want to know the day you were going to die? Not really.
If you could change your name, what would you change it to? don’t think i would.
Would you drink an entire bottle of hot sauce for $1000? Nope.
************DUMBOLOGY******************
How many pairs of flip flops do you own? none
Last time you had a run-in with the cops? Never
Last person you talked to on the phone? my mum
Last person you hugged? my other half
**************FAVORITOLOGY****************
Season? Summer
Holiday? any lol
Day of the week? Saturday
Month? January
***********CURRENTOLOGY*****************
Missing someone? My cousin
Mood? happy but tired
What are you listening to? Macca on ABC
Watching? my computer monitor :p
Worrying about? not a lot
***************RANDOMOLOGY*****************
First place you went this morning? The loo
What’s the last movie you saw? Gran Torino
Do you smile often? Yes.
Sleeping Alone? No.
***************OTHER-OLOGY*****************
Do you always answer your phone? um no
If you could change your eye color what would it be? green.
What flavor do you add to your drink at Sonic? where?.
Do you own a digital camera? Yep a Sony & a Canon
Have you ever had a pet fish? Yes.
What’s on your wish list for your birthday? some camera stuff, anything scrapbooky
Can you do push ups? no
Can you do a chin up? no
Does the future make you more nervous or excited? both
Do you have any saved texts on your cell? no
Ever been in a car wreck? no
Do you have an accent? i don’t think so.
What is the last song to make you cry? can’t think of one
Plans tonight? chatting
Have you ever felt like you hit rock bottom? yup.
of Facebook & blogs so I thought I’d give it a go. Feel free to give it a go on your blog. I might do the film one soon.
The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.
How do your reading habits stack up?
Instructions:
Look at the list and put an ‘x’ after those you have read once. Enter a number for the number of times you read something. Make sure you delete my x’S!
When you’ve finished, tag 10 people to do it too, and put your total at the bottom.
OK fellow bookworms, let’s fight dirty!
1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen – x
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien – x
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte –
4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling -x well not all of them
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee -x
6 The Bible – x
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte –
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell –
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman –
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens – x
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott – x
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 -x
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks –
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger – x
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 Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams –x (quite a few times)
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh –
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky –
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck –
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll – x
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame – x
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy –
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens –
33 Chronicles of Narnia (all books) – CS Lewis -x
34 Emma – Jane Austen –
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen –
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis – x
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini –
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres –
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden – x I love this book
40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne – x
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell –
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown – x
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez –
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving –
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins –
46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery – x
47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy –
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood –
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding -x
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan –
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel –
52 Dune – Frank Herbert -x
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 Zifon –
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens – x
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 – x
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 – x
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker -x
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett – x
74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson –
75 Ulysses – James Joyce –
76 The Inferno – Dante –
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 -x
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 -x
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom-
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle- x
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton – x
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 -x
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole-
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute- x
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas – x
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare – x
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factoy – Roald Dahl – x
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo – x
Couple of days late but u get that 😉
Just thought I’d share some of the goodies I got 4 my bday on Wednesday.
Flowers from Mum & Dad
My Slice bag
Red Kelly sauces & dressings (yummo)
a shirt
another shirt
A Dymo labler
plus a tatts ticket (so I could b rich – haven’t checked it yet lol) & I have 2 more coming (but there were bought OS apparently)
Well that’s all from me today. I’m off to veg in front of a fan until the Roll 2 Create cyber crop tonight. hope to see u there 🙂
Found this over at Holly’s blog while cleaning up my saved bloglines & just thought I’d share 🙂
The 36 Rules of Life:
1. Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
2. Don’t worry about what people think, they don’t do it very often.
3. Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian anymore than standing in a garage makes you a car.
4. Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
5. If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you’ve never tried before.
6. My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
7. Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious.
8. A person who is nice to you but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.
9. For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program.
10. If you look like your passport picture, you probably need the trip.
11. Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks.
12. A conscience is what hurts when all of your other parts feel so good.
13. Eat well, stay fit, die anyway.
14. Men are from earth. Women are from earth. Deal with it.
15. No man has ever been shot while doing the dishes.
16. A balanced diet is a muffin in each hand.
17. Middle age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.
18. Opportunities always look bigger going than coming.
19. Junk is something you’ve kept for years and throw away three weeks before you need it.
20. There is always one more imbecile than you counted on.
21. Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
22. By the time you can make ends meet, they move the ends.
23. Thou shalt not weigh more than thy refrigerator.
24. Someone who thinks logically provides nice contrast to the real world.
25. It ain’t the jeans that make your butt look fat.
26. If you had to identify in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved its full potential, that word would be ‘meetings.’
27. There is a very fine line between ‘hobby’ and ‘mental illness.’
28. People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.
29. You should not confuse your career with your life.
30. Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance.
31. Never lick a steak knife.
32. The most destructive force in the universe is gossip.
33. You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight savings time.
34. You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests that you think she’s pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment
35. The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status or ethnic background, is that deep down inside we ALL believe we are good drivers.
36. Your friends love you anyway.
Have a great day!
Still waiting for the Windows 7 Beta link to become available. meh the things we do 😉 hopefully it will rock.
Now the moving bit. I’m moving all my posts that are in any way related to Project 365 over to a new blog (yup adding another blog to my list lol).
Back to normal programming tomorrow 😉
The first of our tomatoes is nearly ready (yum)
and our capsicum is doing ok
still sore but I’m glad the gardening is done 🙂
found this over at Lisa’s blog & thought I’d share with u all 🙂
I have bolded those I have done. Comments in italics
1. Started your own blog. um yeah I have four or five
2. Slept under the stars. went camping a few times & ended up sleeping on the beach under the stars
3. Played in a band. played in the school concert band
4. Visited The Great Barrier Reef. loved it & want to go back there now I’m older
5. Stood under the stars in the outback, the real outback – think Uluru.
6. Given more than you can afford to charity.
7. Been to the Gold Coast’s theme parks – anyone, you take your pick. Movie World, DreamWorld & Sea World
8. Climbed a mountain. Have climbed a few different mountains when I used to go bush walking
9. Held a praying mantis.
10. Sung a solo.
11. Bungee jumped, jumped out of plane, been paragliding or hang-gliding, hot air ballooning – you get
the idea, you’ve been hundreds of metres about earth in a seemingly flimsy contraption.
12. Visited Melbourne. Lived (in 1988) and visited numerous times.
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea.
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch. Scrapbooking, drawing, cross stitch
15. Had a child. Raised a child. Worked with children.
16. Had food poisoning.
17. Been to the Snowy Mountains.
18. Grown your own vegetables.
19. Visited the Brett Whitely studio in Surry Hills, Sydney.
20. Slept on an overnight train or bus.
21. Had a pillow fight.
22. Been backpacking.
23. Taken a mental health day.
24. Been buried in sand with just your head and toes sticking out.
25. Held a possum, kangaroo or koala – or any other native Australian animal.
26. Gone skinny dipping. & then got sunburnt all over (ouch) but ended up with a wicked full body tan
27. Been in a fun run.
28. Been on the Blue Mountains cableway.
29. Seen a total eclipse.
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset. Actually managed to see both in the same day one
31. Played, or watched, summer cricket.
32. Sailed, kayaked or canoed our beautiful waterways.
33. Seen the Daintree.
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors.
35. Visited an Aboriginal settlement or mission.
36. Learned a new language.
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied.
38. Toured the Sydney Opera House.
39. Tried rock climbing (indoor or outdoor), abseiling or just simple bush walking. I’ve abseiled & been bush walking
40. Visit Queensland’s Gallery of Modern Art.
41. Been to the Tamworth Country Music Festival.
42. Sunbaked at Bondi. been to Bondi but it was cloudy
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant.
44. Visited Broome.
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight. no but I might have to talk hubby into this 😉
46. Been transported in an ambulance.
47. Had your portrait painted.
48. Gone fishing.
49. Seen Tasmania’s old growth forests. Would u believe no
50. Been to the top of Q1, on the Gold Coast.
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkelling.
52. Kissed in the rain.
53. Played in the mud.
54. Gone to a drive-in theatre. when I was younger
55. Been in a movie.
56. Driven the Great Ocean Road. yeah but I slept most of the way.
57. Started a business. Yup, I’ve stared two & they’re both still going.
58. Taken a martial arts class.
59. Visited Norfolk Island.
60. Served at a soup kitchen.
61. Sold Girl Guide biscuits.
62. Gone whale watching.
63. Got flowers for no reason.
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma.
65. Gone jet boating.
66. Visited Port Arthur.
67. Bounced a cheque.
68. Flown in a helicopter.
69. Saved a favourite childhood toy.
70. Visited the Australian War Memorial.
71. Eaten Caviar.
72. Pieced a quilt.
73. Stood in Federation Square.
74. Been on the Murray River.
75. Been fired from a job. yeah but it was cause the business closed
76. Travelled, or climbed, over the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
77. Broken a bone.
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle.
79. Seen the Three Sisters at Echo Point, Katoomba.
80. Published a book.
81. Visited St Mary’s Cathedral, in Sydney.
82. Bought a brand new car.
83. Been to Hermannsburg.
84. Had your picture in the newspaper.
85. Read the entire Bible.
86. Visited Parliament House. yup both old & new
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating.
88. Had chickenpox.
89. Saved someone’s life.
90. Sat on a jury.
91. Met someone famous. Adam Brand, Paul McDermott, Miss Vanessa Wagner
92. Joined a book club.
93. Lost a loved one.
94. Saved a pet.
95. Been to the site of the Eureka Stockade.
96. Swum in The Whitsundays.
97. Been involved in a lawsuit.
98. Owned a mobile phone.
99. Been stung by a bee.
100. Read an entire book in one day.
yup I’m a little sunburnt. fortunately just on the arms. spent the day gardening today. the front yard is starting to look really good. put in two of the new plants we got for Christmas from the in-laws. Removed a tree or two & added a new garden bed for the roses I’ve got in pots. Gotta remember I don’t need to plant everything in pots now – we’re not moving. 🙂
So here’s my pics for today – getting the last of the tree root out
and what it looks like after planting some new plants
Still no scrapping yet. Might try & do some 2morrow.
Okies off to do something relaxing. might play the sims 2 for a bit & then get an early night.
I’ve been reading Ali Edwards blog for ages now & love the idea she has of One Little Word. ‘The idea behind the one little word concept is to give yourself something to focus on throughout the year.’
So my word for 2009 is Create.
I want to be more creative. I want to create more. I want to create more scrapbook pages (& maybe complete an album or two). I want to create more cards.
Speaking of creating. I made some orange cupcakes today.
