Tag you’re it!!! Let other’s know a little more about yourself by re-posting and tagging your friends. Re post note as your name “ology”
1) What is your salad dressing of choice?
Depends! Raspberry or balsamic vinegarette, and ranch – those are the usuals.
2) What is your favorite sit-down restaurant?
Maximes – mmm mmm good.
3) What food could you eat for 2 weeks straight and not get sick of it?
Does Starbucks count?
4) What are your pizza toppings of choice?
Mushrooms & pepperoni, or spinach, tomato, feta &black olives.
5) What do you like to put on your toast?
Honey! With a side of tea 
6) How many televisions are in your house?
Two.
7) What color cell phone do you have?
Silver.
Are you right-handed or left-handed?
Right.
9) Have you ever had anything removed from your body?
Umm…okay… Sure: A tumour in my foot — 3 times!
10) What is the last heavy item you lifted?
I am not sure.
11) Have you ever been knocked unconscious?
Not that I remember.
12) If it were possible, would you want to know the day you were going to die?
No thanks.
13) If you could change your name, what would you change it to?
If I changed my name I wouldn’t be me!
14) Would you drink an entire bottle of hot sauce for $1000?
Depends on how big the bottle was.
15) How many pairs of flip flops do you own?
At one point, lots. Now I’m down to about 3 or 4 pairs.
16) What’s your goal for the year?
Just survive it.
17) Last person you talked to?
My fiance.
18) Last person you hugged?
Again, my fiance.
19) Favorite Season?
Spring, summer & fall. Winter’s cool too (no pun intended), but not when they’re long like this one has been.
20) Favorite Holiday?
Any one that involves family gettogethers.
21) Favorite day of the week?
Sunday.
22) Favorite Month?
Never really thought about it. Probably June, July, August or September.
23) First place you went this morning?
To the bathroom?
24) What’s the last movie you saw?
The Changeling (Angelina Jolie version).
25) Do you smile often?
I try to.
W E ‘ R E H A L F W A Y T H E R E
26) Do you always answer your phone?
Usually.
27) It’s four in the morning and you get a text message?
And I wouldn’t even know it.
28) If you could change your eye color what would it be?
I like my eye colour.
29) What flavor drink do you get at Sonic?
Never been to one.
30) Have you ever had a pet fish?
Yes. How many? You’d have to ask my Mom… *cough cough*
31) Favorite Christmas song?
It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year – Andy Williams!!
32) What’s on your wish list for your birthday?
Practical things. Things I have been wanting to get myself for a long time, but just haven’t got around to it. I won’t get into details.
33) Can you do push ups?
Sure. Do I? Now that’s the question!
34) Can you do a chin up?
Haven’t tried since high school.
35) Does the future make you more nervous or excited?
Depends on the day & what part of the ‘future’ I’m thinking of.
36) Do you have any saved texts?
One or two.
37) Ever been in a car wreck?
Never a wreck.
38) Do you have an accent?
To some I may. But then those people have accents to me too!
39) What is the last song to make you cry?
Not sure.
40) Plans tonight?
LOST & knitting.
41) Have you ever felt like you hit rock bottom?
No.
42) Name 3 things you bought yesterday.
Coffee & biscuit from Tim Horton’s, and BK for supper. It was a real nutritious day.
43) Have you ever been given roses?
Yes.
44) Current hate right now?
Vince Li and his NCR seeking defence lawyers. Not to mention the Crown’s agreement in to seek the same verdict. Mofos.
45) Met someone who changed your life?
Sure have.
46) How did you bring in the New Year?
Is it bad that I don’t even remember? Honestly I can’t. Can someone remind me?
47) What song represents you?
No clue. There’s probably a few.
48) Name three people who might complete this?
I don’t want to pressure anyone.
49) What were you doing 12 AM last night?
Watching the train wreck that is Jimmy Fallon’s late night talk show.
50) What was the first thing you thought of when you woke up?
“Fuck it’s cold in here.”
March 4, 2009. meme. .
Thanks be to alterknit for posting this on her blog…
Type in the following (to google) and choose the first choice. Make sure you use parenthesis.
1. Type in “[your name] needs”
Melanie B needs to accept that no one is self-sufficient all the time, and to be gentler with her “childish” emotional needs and wants. (Apparently now I’m a Spice Girl?)
2. Type in “[your name] looks like”
“Melanie” looks like in Japanese:
(Neat!)
3. Type in “[your name] does”
Melanie does the twist. (Sure I do.)
4. Type in “[your name] hates”
Melanie hates Janay because she is pregnant with her fiance’s baby, she is angry and she needs someone to blame and Janay is the scapegoat even though Derwin is just as responsible but she wouldn’t hate him I mean he is her man… (Okay…??? Appears to be some chatter from a CW tv show, lolz.)
5. Type in “[your name] goes to”
Melanie goes to vote. (Don’t even talk to me about the last election. Bastards.)
6. Type in “[your name] loves”
Melanie loves Sage. (As in the herb? Why is it capitalized? WTF is “Buried Alive”?)
7. Type in “[your name] eats”
Melanie eats A CRICKETT!! (And evidently there is video to prove it.)
8. Type in “[your name] has”
Melanie has been awarded two gold albums (and a gold single for “Brand New Key”) and three of her compositions were hits for The New Seekers. (Really? Cool.)
9. Type in “[your name] died”
Melanie died in childbirth, pale and saintly. (Highly unlikely.)
10. Type in “[your name] will”
Melanie will be showcasing her new album “Complicated Sweetheart” at this years Big Sound Conference, Brisbane. (Clearly I was a rock star in a former life.)
Funny, you can tell this little exercise is making it’s way through the blogosphere. I encountered a few other “Melanie” bloggers who did the same searches in the results. By doing this we must be skewing Google’s search data, lolz.
February 28, 2009. meme. .
The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?
Instructions: Copy the list into a Note and put an ‘x‘ after those you have read, count ‘em up, compare tallies. This should be easy. Strutting and preening is optional.
1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings (x times 3)
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling (x times 7)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee (x)
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
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 Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger (I think I read this in High School…)
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger (not yet, but soon!)
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
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 – CS Lewis
34 Emma – Jane Austen
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini (x)
38 Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden (x)
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
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel (x)
52 Dune – Frank Herbert
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 Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon (not yet, but soon!)
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 (x)
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 (x)
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
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
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 (x)
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery (x)
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
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare (x)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl (x)
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
Now I’m not sure where on the interweb that the BBC actually made this generalization, but it was fun to go through the list nonetheless. There’s so many more on this list that I’d like to read someday.
February 26, 2009. meme. .
25 Random Things About Me
RULES: Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note/post with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it’s because I want to know more about you.
1. Learned how to knit in 2005, intending to make my Dad slippers just like his ma used to. And still haven’t succeeded.
2. I don’t give up easily.
3. Can you say “true Gemini”?
4. My doors are always locked.
5. Loooove the show America’s Best Dance Crew, yo!
6. Sometimes I go to see movies just for the popcorn.
7. Bad habit: too much fast food – bleuch! Need to stop being so lazy.
8. I’d like to knit (and finish) a sweater this year.
9. Sewing is the bane of my existence.
10. I like cuddling up with my man on the couch and falling asleep in his arms.
11. Starbucks addict. Bigtime.
12. My native tongue is Sexton-ese. It’s quite a difficult language to learn & understand.
13. Brussel sprouts = yum!
14. I’d love to go back to school and just take random courses for the fun of it.
15. My right thumb is slightly longer than my left because I sucked on it too much when I was a young’un.
16. One day I’d love to live in England or Wales.
17. Every time I drive past Prince Rupert Street I say “Gum tree!”. Most people think I’m nuts…
18. I get tucked in like a baby, every night.
19. Being alone sucks. Biggest fear ever.
20. Still heights freak me right out. But take me on a super high roller coaster – I’m all over that.
21. Used to “manage” the boys high school basketball team – it was all about the boys 
22. For years I could not listen to the song “All By Myself” by Celine Dion without involuntarily bursting into tears because of an e-trip — lol. Thank god that spell is over!
23. I’m so glad I didn’t move to Calgary in the late 90s like I was going to (had an apartment and everything!). Wouldn’t be wearing this ring of happiness on my left hand… <3
24. Cats. I want to live in a house filled with kitties someday.
25. I am a pessimistic optimist. (See? Total Gemini.)
January 26, 2009. meme. .
Rules: It’s harder than it looks! Copy to your own note/post, erase my answers, enter yours, and tag 10 people. Use the first letter of your name to answer each of the following questions. They have to be real. . .nothing made up! If the person before you had the same first initial, you must use different answers. You cannot use any word twice and you can’t use your name for the boy/girl name question.
Have Fun!!
1. What is your name: Melanie
2. A four Letter Word: mail
3. A boy’s Name: Melvin
4. A girl’s Name: Melinda
5. An occupation: mailman
6. A color: mauve
7. Something you wear: moccasins
8. A food: meatballs (whoops, thanks ND!!)
9. Something found in the bathroom: mould (ew! but some people do…)
10. A place: Melbourne
11. A reason for being late: missed the bus
12. Something you shout: Mazal tov!
13. A movie title: Monsters Inc
14. Something you drink: milk
15. A musical group: Moist
16. An animal: monkey
17. A street name: Marion
18. A type of car: Malibu
19. A song title: Mouthwash (by Kate Nash)
20. A verb: motivate
January 26, 2009. meme. .
A list of knitting techniques; you are supposed to bold the ones you have tried, italicise the ones you want to try and leave the rest in plain text. (Stolen from this blog – thanks!)
Garter stitch
Stockinette stitch
Moebius band knitting
Drop stitch patterns
Slip stitch patterns
Domino knitting
Twisted stitch patterns
Two end knitting
Charity knitting
Graffiti knitting
Knitting with circular needles
Knitting socks (or other small tubular items) on one or two circulars
Knitting two socks on two circulars simultaneously
Knitting with dpns
Continental knitting
American/English knitting
Designing knitted garments
Cable stitch patterns
Lace patterns
Knitting smocking
Buttonholes
Fair Isle knitting
Norwegian knitting
Intarsia
Dying yarn
Dying with plant colors
Steeks
Knitting art
Darning
Jewellery
Knitting on a loom
Thrummed knitting
Felting
Textured knitting
Kitchener stitch
Knitting with beads
Swatching
Long Tail CO
Entrelac
Knitting backwards
Machine knitting
Tubular CO
Free-form knitting
Short rows
Knitting with metal wire
Knitting with silk
Knitting with camel yarn
Knitting with soy yarn
Knitting with banana fiber yarn
Knitting with recycled/secondhand yarn
Knitting with dog/cat hair
Knitting with cotton
Knitting with bamboo yarn
Knitting with wool
Knitting with linen
Knitting with alpaca
Knitting with synthetic yarn
Knitting with cashmere
Knitting with your own hand-spun yarn
Knitting with someone else’s hand-spun yarn
Knitting with self patterning/self striping/variegated yarn
Sweater
Cardigan
Toy/doll clothing
Baby items
Afghan
Scarf
I-cord
Shawl
Socks: top-down
Socks: toe-up
Mittens: Cuff-up
Mittens: Tip-down
Hat
Knitting items for a wedding
Household items
Slippers
Holiday related knitting
Bobbles
Knitted flowers
Purses/bags
Cuffs/fingerless mits/arm-warmers
Pillows
Rug
Stuffed Toys
Gloves
Shrug/bolero/poncho
Hair accessories
Knitting for preemies
Publishing a knitting book
Participating in a KAL
Participate in an exchange
Teaching a child/teenager to knit
Knitting to make money
Teaching a male how to knit
Knitting for a living
Writing a pattern
Knitting a pattern from an on-line knitting magazine
Knitting a gift
Knitting for pets
Knitting in public
Olympic knitting
November 29, 2008. meme. .
