Food Quiz
While Scanning blogs, I came across this foos quiz. Thought it was interesting so I have posted it here with my anwers.
I will now start a food quiz tag - easier than the "20 things about you" as all you have to do is answer the questions below.
I Tag
Harrangueman and
Technohorror.
The 20 Question food Quiz.
1.What's your favourite food of all time?
Roast Pork
2.What's your favourite comfort food?
Chocolate
3.What's the most you've ever spent on a dinner per person?
I think about $100 – we’re cheap
4.What's your favourite gourmet food?
Eggplant
5.What's your favourite non-alcoholic beverage?
Lemon Squash
6.What, if any, foods are you allergic to?
Onions
7.What food do you hate the most?
Not really a fan of seafood- besides fish
8.Do you eat meat?
Sure do, see question 1.
9.What is the earliest food you remember eating?
I remember eating takeaway fish and chips and choking on a fish bone. I would have been about 2½ . As a result I tend to eat fish painstakingly slow just to be sure I don’t get a bone. See question 7.
10.What is the last thing you ate?
A chocolate Donut
11.What's the last thing you ate that made you vomit?
Carrot- funnily enough. I was pregnant at the time, and developed an intolerance to both carrots and tomato.
12.What's your favourite kind of pie?
Poon-tang pie! – just joking. I love apple pie.
13.What's the last thing you cooked?
Tomato soup and toast for lunch.
14.What is the weirdest thing you have eaten?
Bogon moth. I was at an Aboriginal expo during high school and they were cooking moths. They taste like peanut butter.
15.Have you ever had food poisoning?
I don’t think so, though I have had upset stomach from eating some things- especially onions.
16.Favourite cheese?
Red Leicester (or the Australian equivalent- Rubicon Red)
17.How do you like your eggs?
Soft poached
18.What cuisine do you crave RIGHT NOW?
Pizza
19.How far have you travelled just to get a certain food?
40 Minute drive
20.If you were to be eaten, how would you like to be served?
Covered in Maple syrup and ice cream
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Through the Eyes of a child
I have heard it said that adults get a new lease of life when they have children. Kids see the world in a whole different way than we do. They see it in all its glory with no prejudice (until we give it to them).
So I have noticed that J. my daughter has been taking more notice of her surroundings lately, interracting with it more. I noticed this first when she started to take notice of the pictures on her wall. when I changed her nappy, she would arch her head back and look at the painting that
Cass gave her. She would start to make all sorts of gooing noises and smile at it. I have begun to sing about the 'tiggr' picture when she notices it. The lyrics are pretty simple- just about how a Tiggr goes 'grrrrr'.
So anyway I thought I would share with you all J's view of the Tiggr. Thanks Cass! she loves it.
Anime Girl!!!
So I was out looking for quizzes. I found what lookedlike a cool one on Hiraethin's journal, but I could not get to it via the link. Then I found this one!.
Your anime girl has purple hair and purple eyes.You
are mistreated because of your demon side.
What does your anime girl look like?(girls only) brought to you by QuizillaCool huh??? Rather simple quiz, but I like the results.
Tagged!
So most of my Blogging friends have already been tagged, so I guess it would come around to me. Tagged by The Husband -
Technohorror.Well, 20 things about me hun? Here goes.....
- When I was a teenager my favourite music was WHAM! Sting, Icehouse and Crowded House. Yes my musical tastes then were as varied as they are now. I don’t like Midnight Oil, but listen to it because my husband does.
- I love reality Television. I admit to my (not so secret) shame. I tape ‘the biggest loser’ and watch Australian Idol. I compulsorily watch Big Brother. I have never got into survivor however.
- I am mildly interested in sport. My family are big sporting fans. I can take it or leave it, and by preference will not watch it. But if visiting family during a sporting interlude (Bathurst 1000, Tennis, Cricket tests etc) can enjoy watching it. I think it mostly has to do with how entertaining my family can be while watching it. The only sporting even I regularly watch is the League State of Origin, the Olympics/Commonwealth Games and wrestling. Yep WWE style World Wrestling Entertainment. Yes I know its ‘sports entertainment’ and scripted, but the people who do it really are athletes. It takes a lot of training to do what they do- I know this for sure now, because one of my friends is in the local wrestling league. I was asked by his son if I would join as well, but I am too much of a ‘delicate flower’ (and have the tattoo to prove it) to subject my body to that much punishment. I have, however considered getting involved in the local scene by being a ‘manager’. http://www.wwe.com http://www.cpwact.com/
- I have two tattoos, a Dragon on my left shoulder blade. My husband has the same tattoo in the same place. We got them together. I went first ‘cause I knew if I went second I would chicken out (see pervious point about being a delicate flower). The other one is a tribal style with a red rose at the base of my spine- my Husband lovingly refers to it as my ‘bumper sticker’. When my daughter is old enough to ask I will be brutally honest with her about how much pain they caused, and if she asks,will offer to take her to get the one of her choice when she turns 18 to make sure she goes to a reputable and clean establishment.
- I cut my sandwiches into triangles- ‘cause they taste better that way!, I always cut my apples into slices to eat them- even before I saw that episode of Firefly, but not for the same reasons.
- When I was younger I had a list of things I wanted to achieve before I turned 30. I did not complete all of them. Funnily enough this did not distress me as much as I thought it would, and most of them seem kinda trivial now. One of the things on the list that I still really want to do is ride a camel.
- I was a smoker from age 16-18. I tried marijuana once but did not inhale-bull I did - but I only has one puff. It was in the beer garden of the pub at uni.
- I am Catholic, a fact that has (and may still) surprised some of my friends. When I left home I became a ‘holiday catholic’ only attending church at Christmas. Recently I have started going every week again.
- I took my gay best friend as my date to my year 12 formal. My mother thought he was sweet on me, and I did not tell her he was gay. I still have not told her.
- I had my first kiss with my husband at that same year 12 formal. We dated for 8 years before we married, and have been married for 7 years.
- My two favourite grandparents died when I was in my early teens. I was angry at God for taking them because I loved them better than the ones that were left. Since then I have got to know my surviving grandmother better, and love her dearly. I have not grown to love my grandfather as much- even though he lives in the same city I live in. I find him a very self-centered person, and find it hard to rise above that and form a relationship. I wonder if I will regret this when he is no longer here.
- I turn down the corners on pages of books I own, and bend the spine back. I don’t care if the covers get worn. I believe a worn, folded book looks well loved. Of course my husband is exactly the opposite, so sometimes we come to grief when I don’t take as good care of our communal books as he would. I treat borrowed books very carefully.
- I love the beach, but not the water. My ideal beach trip involves lying on the sand under an umbrella, reading a book. I love the sound of waves crashing, especially at night. I lived on the coast for 6 months when I was 10, and would be lulled to sleep by the crashing waves at night.
- My first real pet (i.e. not fish) was a sparrow that was kicked out of the nest by its mother. It was so tiny it looked dwarfed in a box that was 15x20cm. We called it Bfer (as in ‘B” for Bird). My dad found it in the back yard when he was about to mow the lawn, and brought it inside to my brothers and I took look after (he thought it would die by the end of the day it was so small and malnourished). The next morning it woke me at dawn chirping. We rang a vet who said to feed it weetbix. I fed it by putting the mashed weetbix on my finger and chirping at it until it opened its mouth, then put the food in its mouth. Bfer stayed with us for several months, and then flew away. I did not have another pet until I moved out of home. Now I have to Cats.
- I have never been a very fit person, even though I played representative netball for my state when I was in high school. I have always been a bit overweight. I was teased about my weight as far back as year 5. I have been on many diets, but have to admit, my love affair with chocolate usually beats anything I try. It used to bother me heaps- commercial body image promotes skeletal women. However as I grew older and met my current group of friends, I discovered that not all men like their women as waifs. This made me more confident in my own self image, and made me appreciate one of my better assets (I have BIG boobs- bigger now that I am breastfeeding). While I still want to lose some weight for health reasons (I have family issues of heart attack), I am happy with who I am and how I look, and know that some people find it really sexy.
- I have been on TV once. It was on 60 minutes for a story on the sex industry in Canberra. My work were on a tour called ‘The Love Bus’ run by the Eros Foundation to educate people about the sex industry. It just so happened that a reporter from 60 Minutes was on our tour that night doing a story. They filmed me putting money into the garter of a stripper at a club. Thank goodness the most embarrassing thing I did that night was not caught on camera.
- I do my best thinking in the shower. It is just about the only time of day that I get to be by myself and just think. I actually prefer a shower over a bath.
- I prefer chocolate over vanilla ice-cream, and anything with caramel or butterscotch over both. My favourite colour is purple, and my favourite number is seven.
- The hardest, best and most rewarding thing I have done is give birth to my daughter.
- I believe that there is a skinny girl inside every woman just waiting to come out, but she can usually be placated with chocolate.
My motto is “life is uncertain; Eat desert first!”
So ther you have it. I suppose I have to tag someone now, so I nominate
Hiraethin and
Faeriefyre. C'mon lads lets see what you've got in the closet.
In Canberra...
We went Geocashing with The Husband yesterday (see his post
here.) I took the opportunity to take these pictures while we were there, as it was a place in the city I had not been and I thought that it looked very beautiful.
Down by the lake
Tree Bark
Out and About
Yesterday, we got out and about the city looking for Geocache's. Basically you take your GPS and find the coordinates of hidden boxes with log books in them. This was at our first cache stop- the Frog Rivett Cache.
We had to follow a number of clues to get here, (and I won't say where so I don't spoil it for anyone) but it was well worth it. It was a wonderful spot for a picnic lunch. Mummy and Daddy enjoyed their lunch - Jessica enjoyed her nap.
Intelligent by Design?
I was first made aware of the theory of Intelligent Design when The Husband showed me a post from
Harrangueman on
The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. This site was an a satirical commentary on the
Theory of Intelligent Design and the fact that some American Schools were teaching it alongside evolution in science class. Flying Spaghetti Monster proposes that the universe indeed was created by a Flying Spaghetti Monster (see Below).
Last night on
Catalyst The Husband got rather rabid when they covered whether intelligent Design should be taught in Australian schools. Now I can see both sides of the argument, and funnily enough after the show The Husband and I continued to discuss the matter, and I cam round to his point of view. Intelligent Design does not belong in the science classroom - perhaps it is more suited to a philosophy or religion class.
This is what the viewing public thought:
Past Catalyst Polls
You had your say on whether you think Intelligent Design should be taught in science classrooms.
Yes 34%
No 66%
9308 votes counted
This poll was taken from the Intelligent Design story.
Read the story.
Apparently the "Design Institute" in America is one of the original bodies behind Intelligent Design. In the late 1990's they produced what has been called 'the wedge document'. The aim of this document was:
"Our strategy is intended to function as a "wedge" that, while relatively small, can split the trunk when applied at its weakest points. Design theory promises to reverse the stifling dominance of the materialist worldview, and to replace it with a science consonant with Christian and theistic convictions."
Read the Wedge Document
Here.Australian Scientists are fighting back, and have produced an open letter refuting Intelligent Design. In an open letter to major newspapers, the unprecedented collaboration says the idea - suggesting life is too complex to have come about without a guiding intelligence - fails to be science "on every level".
See a story on this in
The Age.
So what do y'all think?
Back to the Cat
Many people have asked how our cats are dealing with the new addition to our family. Well the answer is, one is dealing quite well, and the other is still a little skittish (those who know will be able to guess which is which).
So here is some evidence as to how well our cat is taking the intrusion into his house.....
This is my bed.....
...I am quite conmfortable thanks for asking....
....You can't move me.
Lemon
Last I spent quite a bit of time enjoying the parkland and open spaces this city has to offer. This experience was only marred by the amount of garbage that spoilt the parklands.
On Saturday we went with our extended family to Floriade. The flowers were beautiful (you can see them
here on Bimberi's blog, and hopefully soon on
Technohorror's blog).
However, this is what greeted us at one end of the park. I would have thought with such a big tourist attraction as
Floriade that more attention would be paid to clenliness.
So on the theme of rubbish marring the beautiful countryside, here is my contribution. (Note, I did not put the lemon on the shore of the lake, I just captured it with the camera)
Coming soon to a Technohorror blog near you: More photos of rubish where it should not be....shopping trolleys in the lake!
By The Lakeside
Last week, our nephews came to visit for school holidays. They spent 1/2 a week at Grandma & Grandad's place. To give Grandma & Grandad a bit of a break from entertaining them, we all went down to the lake for a picnic lunch and a play at the park.
ABOVE: Ben and Leif diggingSwings were a hit with Leif and the sand pit was a hit with Ben before lunch.
After lunch however, the boys went down to the lake edge and played in the sand digging holes.
LEFT: Ben
LEFT: Leif
LEFT: Uncle looks on
Hired Help
We have not had much time for house or garden work recently, since having our baby 6 weeks ago (though The Husband is out in the yard at the moment relaying the pavers in our pergola).
Last week however we had some help in the garden- totally off the cuff, our visiting nephew asked for garden tools and got to work. Here are some pictures.
Above
: Left raking leavesBelow: Leif sweeping the concrete outside the shed
