30 Day Meme - Your Dream House

Artwork by Edward Farber

I used to romanticise about the old style mansions from the 1800's. They just looked so elegant and beautiful with the tree lined avenue leading from the gate right up to the house. I would love to stay in a place like that, perhaps not to live in it but to at least holiday in one.
I would also hate to think how long it would take to clean up the place. I HATE housework! And to clean a home that big would be a nightmare!!

What is your dream home like?

30 Day Meme - A Recipe

Banana Muffins

2 cups plain flour
1 tbsn baking powder
2 tspn ground cinnamon (or mixed spice)
3/4 cup brown sugar
2 - 3 bananas mashed
1/2 cup margarine or butter melted & cooled
2 eggs
3/4 cup milk

Preheat oven to 180C

Grease a muffin pan (this mix makes 12 muffins) or line the pan with paper muffin cases.

Sift flour, baking powder and cinnamon together into a large bowl. Stir in brown sugar and bananas. Mix until well combined.

In a bowl or jug whisk the eggs, milk and butter until well combined.

Add the milk mixture to the flour mixture. Stir until just combined. Don't over stir or the muffins will have a tough texture once cooked.

Spoon the mixture evenly into the muffin pan.

Bake for approximately 20 minutes or until the muffins are golden and cooked through.

30 Day Meme - A Photo Of You Recently

Taken about half an hour ago ..

30 Day Meme - A Photo You Took

Cats have such a hard life ...

30 Day Meme - A Non-fictional Book

I went to see Tony Attwood talk on Aspergers & Autism a while ago. He was brilliant! All I remember was that as he spoke about Aspergers I kept thinking he was talking about Brodie.
I bought this book after the seminar, they had them on sale & it was a little bit cheaper to get them then & there than to send away for them. I have to admit though I haven't read all of it yet. I guess that's one thing I need to put on my list of things to do.

30 Day Meme - A Fictional Book

This is the book I am currently reading. It's certainly different to the books I normally read. It's not a bad though.

30 Day Meme - 20 Of My Favourite Things

Have you ever tried coming up with 20 of your favourite things? It's not quite as easy as you would think. Here goes .... & they're in no particular order either

1. My Family
   
2. The fur babies! I love my cats!
3. Yarn/Wool
4. Listening to music
5. Spring time! I just love everything to do with it.
6. Carnations
7. Newborn babies
8. Knitting
9. Crochet
10. Reading
11. Stargate
12. Star Trek
13. Books
14. Lovatts Crossword puzzles
    
15. Did I say yarn? (okay now I am beginning to get stuck for ideas)
    
16. Fresh baked bread
17. Rain on a hot day
18. Having dinner cooked for me
19. Cool weather (I hate the heat)
20. Lazy afternoons in the sun
21. I know that I said 20 things but I really do love yarn/wool!
    

30 Day Meme - Something You Are OCD About

Something I'm OCD about .. gosh I had to think about this one. I tend to be very particular about how I hang out my washing. I like it done a certain way to allow the air & sunlight get at things more easily so that they can dry out better. I also like to hang clothes out a certain way so that they don't stretch and get out of shape.
There have been times where Mark or the boys have helped me hang things out on the line & I've come along behind them & hung the clothes out the 'right' way. It's not that I don't appreciate their help its just that I like it done a certain way. I guess that might make me a little bit OCD about it.

Although a few years ago I was WORSE when it came to hanging out the washing. The clothes had to be pegged to the line using the right coloured pegs. You couldn't have colours that clashed. Like green clothes hung with blue pegs, red clothes with green pegs, pink clothes with green pegs, red clothes with pink pegs, that sort of thing. The pegs had to be matching in colour too. No green & blue pegs used together on one item. No mixing & matching colours. They HAD to MATCH or I didn't use them! Now that truly was an OCD thing! Thankfully I am not like that any more. These days I just use whatever pegs I grab out of the bucket just as long as the clothes are hung correctly on the line I don't care what colour is used!

I'm sure there are other things that I might be a little OCD about. Mark could probably name a few. He thinks (as do I) that I have a few Aspie traits of my own.

Is there anything you are OCD about?

30 Day Meme - A Youtube Video

I like this song :)
It's one of my 'new' favourites.

30 Day Meme - A Photo That Makes You Angry/Sad

I took this photo a few days after the Black Saturday bushfire last year. Behind me is the boys Primary School, just a few metres down the road. Thankfully the school was saved. Elvis (fire-fighting helicopter) dumped a whole heap of water on it.
Yep, this photo definitely makes me feel sad. Especially when I think about the fact that the fire was deliberately lit.

I often get to drive through the areas around our town there were burnt and think how lucky we were that day. You can still see where the fire had been. Some of the trees still look black but the majority of them have lots of new growth. Come to think of it even some of the ones with the new growth still have black trunks. It will be a very long time before I can forget about that day.

30 Day Meme - A Photo That Makes You Happy

I love this photo of Mum.

30 Day Meme - Favourite Book

I couldn't choose my most favourite book, at least not a novel anyway but this would have to be my most favourite children's book!

30 Day Meme - Your Favorite Quote

This was actually one of my Mum's favourite quotes but I love it too. I have no idea where Mum got it from ...

"Every little bit helps," said the little old lady as she widdled into the ocean.

30 Day Meme - A Photo Taken Over 10 Years Ago Of You

As promised I did NOT take any NEW photos of me but here is one from September 1994. I was stunning back then! I don't know what happened to that gorgeous woman! If only I had stayed that thin ... buy hey I still have those rosy red cheeks, sparkly eyes & that smile :D

30 Day Meme - A Song That Makes You Cry

This song makes me cry, without fail, every time I hear it.
Pass the tissues please ...

30 Day Meme - Favourite Song

My current favourite Top 40 song.
I like it mainly for the beat & the chorus and certainly not for the film clip. I hadn't seen the clip until today. The contestants on X-factor did a pretty version of this on the show the other night.

Day 30 - 30 Day Meme

Day 30 – A photograph of yourself today + three good things that have happened in the past 30 days


Gosh another photo of me! I HATE having my picture taken! I look old & red & fat! That's why I only do head shots :P Please take note that this may be the LAST picture taken of me for quite some time!

I had such a hard time trying to work out three good things that have happened in the past 30 days. I always feel like I am put on the spot when I need to think of something like this. It almost makes me feel like a rabbit blinded by a spotlight.

Okay ... three good things that happened ....

• The kids went on school holidays & we could sleep in!!!
• We had a couple of really good family days together during the school hols
• I was able to go on a DATE with Angus to the movies.

Gosh I can't believe that the past thirty days has gone by so quickly! I must admit though it was fun (for the most part) to complete these daily tasks. Although I have my next meme list lined up already I am not sure about completing them on a daily basis. Mainly because they are very similar to this challenge that I just completed. Who knows .. we'll see if I get stuck for posts ...

Day 29 - 30 Day Meme

Day 29 – Something you could never get tired of doing.

I think the blinkies pretty much speak for themselves. I never get tired of creating something. Mostly through fibre crafts such as knitting or crochet. Just call me a happy hooker or a knifty knitter!!

A New 30 Day Meme

I was thinking GOSH what am I going to do for posts once my 30 day meme finishes in a couple of days! Especially if I have a brain freeze and am unable to think of anything. Thankfully I came across another great meme. This one is also from the same blog as my current one. Its from Tina at Tina Gray {dot} me
A lot of it is repetition from the one I am about to finish so I'll just pick & choose some of the ones I haven't done.

If you wish to see Tina's list you can find it HERE

Day 1 – your favorite song
Day 2 – your favorite movie
Day 3 – your favorite television program
Day 4 – your favorite book
Day 5 – your favorite quote
Day 6 – 20 of my favorite things
Day 7 – a photo that makes you happy
Day 8 – a photo that makes you angry/sad
Day 9 – a photo you took
Day 10 – a photo taken over 10 years ago of you
Day 11 – a photo of you recently
Day 12 – something you are OCD about
Day 13 – a fictional book
Day 14 – a non-fictional book
Day 15 – your dream house
Day 16 – a song that makes you cry (or nearly)
Day 17 – an art piece (drawing, sculpture, painting, etc)
Day 18 – your wedding/future wedding/past wedding
Day 19 – a talent of yours
Day 20 – a hobby of yours
Day 21 – a recipe
Day 22 – a website
Day 23 – a youtube video
Day 24 – where I live
Day 25 – your day, in great detail
Day 26 – your week, in great detail
Day 27 – my worst habit
Day 28 – what’s in my handbag/purse
Day 29 – hopes,dreams, plans for the next 365 days
Day 30 – a dream for the future beyond the next year

Day 28 - 30 Day Meme

Day 28 – Your favourite movie.

Gosh I don't have just ONE favourite movie. I have several!