Cherry Blossom Adventures

After writing a life list at the end of last year I found that having a list like that is good motivation to get out and do stuff which is why when I saw 101 things in 1001 days on a couple of blogs I read, I knew that I wanted to give it ago (Those blogs are here and here). I decided to start this in April because it will be my last full month in Japan and also because it will be almost a year until I get married so I thought having some wedding related things on the list as well as things I want to do in Australia would be a good idea. I have roped my friend Mandy into doing it with me and her little brother Paul is in too! Nay is joining in too!!! So on with the rules and my list!

The Mission:
Complete 101 preset tasks in a period of 1001 days.

The Criteria:
Tasks must be specific (ie. no ambiguity in the wording) with a result that is either measurable or clearly defined. Tasks must also be realistic and stretching (ie. represent some amount of work on my part).

Why 1001 Days?
Many people have created lists in the past - frequently simple goals such as New Year’s resolutions. The key to beating procrastination is to set a deadline that is realistic. 1001 Days (about 2.75 years) is a better period of time than a year, because it allows you several seasons to complete the tasks, which is better for organising and timing some tasks such as overseas trips or outdoor activities.

Start date April 1st, 2008. Finish date December 28th, 2010

Japan/Japanese
1. Pass level 1 of JLPT
2. Read a Japanese newspaper or magazine and understand it
3. Take a Japanese cooking class or classes
4. See Sumo
5. Go to at least two of the following places: Nagasaki, Hakone, Nara or Hokkaido (0/2)
6. Get Japanese drivers license
7. Visit at least five areas I have never been before in Tokyo or surrounding areas (0/5)
8. Complete all of the exercises in `shiken ni deru kanji to goi`
9. Complete all the exercises in `kanzen master` grammar book for level 1 of the JLPT.
10. Find a decent apartment that Shumpei and I are both happy with (once we return to Japan)

Wedding
11. Buy and keep a wedding notebook to keep track of stuff
12. Choose a theme or colour scheme
13. Choose and buy a wedding dress
14. Choose and buy bridesmaids dresses or material
15. Find and book a photographer
16. Write and finalize guest list
17. Choose or make invitations
18. Send all invitations
19. Finalize menus for reception
20. Choose and buy a cake
21. Choose, organize and buy flowers
22. Have a meeting with organizer at wedding and reception venue
23. Make hair and make-up appointments
24. Organize and buy stuff for wedding favors
25. Decide on a honeymoon destination and book
26. Choose and buy wedding rings
27. Get marriage license
28. Get married

Health and Self-improvement
29. Try Pilates or yoga (At least two times)
30. Learn to ski
31. Lose five kilos (0/5)
32. Lose another five kilos (0/5)
33. Maintain the weight loss for at least six months (0/6)
34. Learn how to do self breast exams
35. Do EFT everyday for two weeks
36. Get my teeth whitened
37. Learn 10 new recipes (0/10)
38. Give up coffee for a month
39. Stop biting and picking at my nails
40. Learn how to keep a hoola hoop up for more than 2 minutes
41. Learn how to do at least one cool hoola hoop move!
42. Do a week long detox (No coffee, no alcohol, no meat etc etc)
43. Get back into a proper skin care routine including sunscreen everyday- Keep it up for at least 3 months (0/3)
44. Give up fast food for two consecutive months
45. Try (or learn to like) 5 new fruits or vegetables (0/5)
46. Have another pap smear test

Creativity
47. Knit something other than a scarf successfully
48. Learn to sew (again!)
49. Sew my own handbag
50. Learn how to use Photoshop
51. Learn how to use illustrator
52. Sell something I have made

While in Australia
53. Do some kind of class either in photography, writing, cooking or something completely different.
54. Make at least one trip out into the country with Shun
55. Go to five suburbs I have never visited before (0/5)
56. Visit Melbourne
57. Eat at at least 10 restaurants I have never been to before (0/10)
58. Show Shun what Christmas in Australia is really like
59. Make sure my dad buys a dog
60. Learn something about wine perhaps do a wine tasting
61. Go to a concert
62. Go to a show with Shun
63. Visit a city I have not been to before (maybe Cairns?)
64. Take Shun to at least one major sporting game

Buy
65. A hoola hoop
66. A Polaroid camera
67. A new pair of boots
68. A plane ticket back to Japan
69. A proper DSLR camera!
70. A wireless external hard drive
71. A sewing machine (Or bring my sewing machine in Australia back to Japan)

Blog & Writing
72. Get paid to write something
73. Meet at least five other bloggers in real life (0/5)
74. Add a new section to my blog
75. Introduce some kind of ad system on my blog
76. Do Nabloplomo- Now I can choose any month I wish to do this!
77. Keep my journal going for at least the year (the year will be up this August…but If I stop I will have to start again and complete another full year before the 1001 days are up)
78. Do a monthly update for each month that I do 101 things in 1001 days on my blog. (0/33)
79. Keep track of my blog stats and referrers by checking at least once a week
80. Reach 400 posts on my blog

Personal & Random
81. Sponsor a child
82. Perfect one piano piece
83. Save enough money in Australia to return to Japan and start up life again here
84. Visit with my grandmother
85. Read 100 books in 1 year
86. Be able to skip for at least fifteen minutes
87. Organize my itunes, delete double ups and make at least three new play lists
88. Back-up my computer
89. Organize my photos and put all my photos onto cd`s as a back-up
90. Read the last Harry Potter Book
91. Finish the 888 book challenge
92. Watch the rest of Heroes with Shun
93. Go to the cinema 20 times (0/20)
94. Wake up at 6am everyday for a week
95. Get a credit card
96. Go camping with Shun (hopefully in Australia)
97. Get a new address book and add everyone I know too it (will be good for when it comes time to send out wedding invitations)
98. Clean out my closet and donate or throw away all clothes that no longer fit me or are ratty and old!
99. List 101 things that make me happy
100. Make a budget and stick to it for six months (0/6)
101. Donate 10 dollars to charity for each uncompleted task after 1001 days

Now I have done the easy part, putting it up here on my blog…..Now it is time for the hard part…Actually getting everything done before December 28th 2010!

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L is for Life list…

I wrote a life list at the end of last year and posted it up on my blog at the beginning of the new year. I haven`t crossed as many things off as I would of liked but I have done some, and after all it is a life list and I have the rest of my life to complete it! I thought it was about time for an update though…..seeing as though even though I have done some of the things on the list I have not always written about them here. Will also show the ones that are in progress…

You can see the complete list here

8. Keep a decent journal for at least a year -In progress

I started journaling again while in China last year so that is since August…So if I make it to August this year then I will be able to cross it off. I write in it on average 4-5 times a week! Sometimes blog post ideas, sometimes I just stick in cool stuff or postcards I have lying around and other times I will go to coffee shops and write about what is happening in my life. I enjoy it, and I hope to keep it up. I used to keep journals when I was in primary and high school and also last time I lived in Japan and while I started again last year in Feb or March I soon gave it away. I always come back to it, even if I have a break!

39. Do all night karaoke with friends at least once a year- Completed for 2008

On my birthday…..well after my birthday party! I don`t have photos unfortunately because I forgot my camera but anybody that has me as a friend on facebook can see photos that friends tagged me in!

41. Learn how to play Mahjong- Completed

Shumpei finally taught me this passed weekend. And I beat him three games in a row! I rock! I don`t understand all the yaku (point system??) yet but I really enjoyed it!

47. Keep a reading journal and read 100 books in one year -In progress

I wasn`t specific enough with this perhaps but I record the books I read each month in my journal…sometimes I write mini comments. I have read over 30 books so far this year so am on target to complete the 100 in one year goal!

55. Get in contact with at least 5 old friends who I am no longer in touch with -Completed

Thanks to facebook I would have to say this one is done! Hope to catch up with a lot of people too when I am back in Australia for a longer period of time this time around!

63. Tell someone I love them everyday- In Progress

This one will obviously never end. But I do it everyday! I think I tell Shun I love him more than once everyday! He would probably say that I say it 10000 times a day though! I tell my kids at school I love them also!

67. Buy new flowers for apartment as often as possible- In Progress

I try to do this each week! And will continue to do it until we have to leave the apartment at the end of April! Then I will cross it off (When I return to Japan I will start again!)

83. Print photos from China and Europe- Completed

Finally! I went to Europe in January 2006! And this is how long it took me! I did China at the same time and have them in photo albums….Might take the China one back to Australia to show mum!

92. Start eating at least three more vegetables- Completed

I ate no vegetables as a child….and gradually as i have gotten older I have added more and more vegetables into the mix of what I eat. The three vegetables that I can now eat are gobou (In English it is call Burdock although I have never hear of it), Green beans and pumpkin! I have also started eating daikon sometimes which is HUGE for me because I used to hate it! I am also starting to eat more cooked carrot instead of picking it out of my food…

109. Revamp blog or start a new one!- Completed

Did this when I moved my blog to wordpress!

110. Complete the two reading challenges I am doing at the moment (Japanese lit and 888 challenge)- In progress

I completed Japanese lit earlier in the year….and wrote about it on my blog somewhere. Still working on 888 challenge but I have til December to finish it off!

168. Find my old journals and read them- Completed

I did this while I was in Australia earlier in the year. They were in a box at my dad`s house….They were funny to read but I couldn`t find the one I kept in my first year of high-school….Only the ones I kept when I was 15-17 and the one from when I was in Japan the first time! When re-reading them it didn`t seem like very long ago that some of that stuff happened yet some of it was more than 8 years ago!

A lot of the things on my life list are to do with traveling and while I wish I could fly off and go to all those places now I can`t!! Hopefully one day I will be able to though! Look forward to crossing more things off!!! It is nice to have some goals. I am a huge list maker also, lists make me happy! I LOVE getting a pen and crossing things off, no scribbling, no ticking or marking with an x, nope just a straight line through each task as it gets done (I write down what we will eat everyday for dinner every sunday night and sometimes put it on the fridge so Shun can know too!)…I also have packing lists, weekly to do lists, monthly lists, lists of stuff to buy, lists of people to email etc etc et…..They go on and on. Anyone else out there a list maker? L is for LISTS too you know!

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• I always resort to dots when I have a lot of stuff to say but not much time to say it! Or a lot of random stuff that doesn`t really warrant its own posts!
• I am starting the 101 things in 1001 days challenge on April 1st…with Mandy and Paul I think it will help get wedding plan stuff done as well as a fair bit of stuff I have on my life list! I first read about this on the blogs here and here and have loved reading about their progress! Does anybody else want to join in????
• I am almost halfway through my encyclopedia of me meme and was wondering if anybody had any ideas of things they would want to see me write about for m onwards (I have L done!)
• I have booked a flight back to Australia and my tickets have arrived…It is a one way flight leaving Japan May 13th and arriving in Brisbane early morning on May 14th…..The ticket was pretty cheap….only 60,000yen including tax (That is about 650 dollars I think?) and thank god it was cheap because I have no money! I took a lot of sick days in the last couple of months meaning my last pay check was significantly less than usual!
• I finish work on April 11th so will have two weeks to pack up the apartment (We need to be out by end of April) and then another two weeks to relax in Chiba at Shumpei`s parents place until I leave to go home. And best of all I also have a weeks holiday next week…My second last week of work will be spent having a paid holiday. I like that! I am not sure how much relaxing I will be able to do at the in-laws place….I am not usually even allowed to put my own bread in the toaster…Shumpei`s mum insists on doing it for me. Let alone allowed to wash my own plates. This is something that really bothers me because I feel like I am taking advantage even though i offer EVERY TIME. I lived at Shumpei`s parents place for two months when I was first back in Japan…
• Shumpei taught me to play Mahjong and I really liked it. It is a Chinese game that Shumpei sometimes plays with his friends at a place especially for Mahjong…Not many people know how to play it I think so chances are I will forget how to play it before I get another chance!
• I read The Kite Runner the other day and it was awesome. Everyone should read it!
• Oh by the way the two quotes that nobody got on my movie quote meme…..One was from The Blues Brothers and the other was from Moulin Rouge!!!
• Oh I almost forgot!!! I got some more blog bling from the delightful Guera!!
• I really liked this award because I love reading blogs from around the world and have been doing more of it recently. I was so happy when she passed this on to me. So I have decided to pass it onto some other ex-pats bloggers I read similar to like what Guera did!
  (I am not sure if they all read my blog or not though!) There are heaps of others I would love to pass it onto also but I am not sure how may I can pass it onto! Also I am not sure where this award originated but it is great!
  • Mandy
  • Eurotrippen
  • Illahee
  • Amy
• My next post will be L is for…..

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In an effort to improve on my writing I have decided to sign up for Encyclopedia of me which started over at Bella Dia (and which I found out about by reading Laura`s blog here...) I am now almost half way through at K and while today`s entry is not so much about me, it has been very difficult to come up with a K something to do with me….so I present K is for Kokyo!

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Today Shumpei and I went to the Tokyo Imperial Palace, also known as kokyo…although we only went into the gardens! We were going to have a picnic but by the time we got up and left the house it was almost 2pm so we stopped and had Chinese food on the way! Spring is definitely in the air and it was nice to be out in the sunshine especially since the rain is meant to start again tomorrow (It rained from Wednesday afternoon to Friday last week!)

Some of the sakura were already blooming and it was nice to walk around, take photos and just take in the atmosphere. I have only been to the gardens once before, several years ago, with my mum while she was in Japan….I would love to go on the emperors birthday when they open up not just the gardens but the most of the palace…

I took heaps of photos and you can see them all here but these are a couple of my favourites! I suppose this is where the encyclopedia of me part comes in even though I am not in any of the photos….but I did take them all! I have always liked to take photos but have gotten a lot more interested in the last couple of years…

Sakura season is just starting here but I think next weekend or the weekend later will be the best weekends for hanami (flower viewing!)……this is by far my favourite time of the  year in Japan! I will miss it next year since I will still be back in Australia!

It was nice to have the day out with Shumpei too!!!!

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Last weekend on Saturday it was a beautiful beautiful day. I would say it was probably over 20 degrees also which was nice for a change…I went to Shinjuku Gyoen, took off my shoes and hooped for a couple of hours with Deanne and Leila in the perfect Tokyo sunshine!!!

It was my first time hooping (well since I was like 5) and I had so much fun. I was terrible at it, but it didn`t matter because I enjoyed it so much!!! My stomach muscles ached for days after…..but I can not wait to do it again. Thinking of buying myself a hoop once I am back in Australia!!! Both Deanne and Leila are super good at it and it was great to watch them do their moves….I hope one day to just be able to keep the hoop up and spinning for more than a minute! I think when we do hanami in a couple of weeks that I will have another chance to give hooping ago if Deanne can bring some extra hoops! Yay, I can`t wait….and here are some photos from the day! Please don`t laugh at me!

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Today I received my first ever blog bling…..The `You cheer me up award` from leechbabe! She has cheered me up immensely today by giving me my first ever blog bling!

The original award comes from A Nice Place in the Sun!!

The creator of the You Cheer Me Up award had three things in mind for the recipients:
* bloggers who make me laugh until my face hurts
* bloggers whose writing voice comforts me when I’m feeling lost
* bloggers who inspire me when I’m feeling blue.

The award instructions are as follows…

If you are a recipient of the You Cheer Me Up Award, please find the blogs that cheer you up, copy the code to post on your sidebar and pass Ethel and Lucy across the blogosphere. You can use what cheers you up in your post, or copy this one, but please send your award recipients back to the original post on A Nice Place In The Sun to get a copy of the award code, post the image and read the instructions. I want to try to maintain a page of original and ongoing award recipients, so feel free to let me know if you’ve received an award when you pick up the image code.

Now to pass this award on…I have never done this before but I have decided to limit it to five people (even though I would love to give it to everyone) and I have decided to give it to people who I don`t think have ever gotten blog bling before….So that I can hopefully cheer them up in the same way leechbabe did for me!

So here goes, in no particular order!

Nay: It goes to Nay because her and I are in very similar stages in our lives and I love and look foward to her blog posts. We also keep in contact separately to our blogs and it is great to have made another friend who I know will be in Japan for awhile!!! Can`t wait to meet you babe!

Sara: Similar to Nay we are in similar stages in our lives, both engaged or married to a Japanese guy and I am always happy to see when she has posted again. I am so glad we are bloggy friends and can`t wait to meet her in real life! Both hers and Nays posts, and their thoughts, often mirror my own so it is great to have that comfort out there. We mail back in forth on facebook quite often and it is always a pleasure to hear from her!

Sushi: Sushi aka deanne, always makes me laugh. And after our hooping adventures on Saturday I can`t wait to meet up with her for hanami again a couple of weeks to get our groove on again! The funny youtube videos she finds always make me laugh! Plus she is teaching me to hoop,  and hooping is exercise and exercise releases endorphins and endorphins make people happy!

Jen: Jen is one of the first blogs outside of Japan that I started reading regularly! She writes just what she is thinking and her energy rubs off on others! She is such a nice girl and is always there to cheer me, or someone else up if they need it. Can`t wait to go out for coffee again soon! Or Haloumi!

Enny : Enny, well what can I say. Whenever I need a laugh I go read her pigeon post! It is the funniest thing ever! And I love hopping on to her blog and seeing her big smiley yellow face! hehehehe. She is a funny girl and I was super lucky to meet her a few months back when she was in Japan!

So girls I pass this on to you and now it is your turn to pass it on to those that cheer you up!!!

Off to put my bling in my sidebar! Yippee!

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J is for Japanese…

I have a love hate relationship with language learning….technically Japanese is the only language I have actually tried to learn (apart from some basic phrases while going through Europe and a couple of Maori words). I have talked a lot before on this blog about why and how I came about studying Japanese but hey, who wants to hear it again?

Like most people when they finish high school I really had no idea what I wanted to do…but I had decided that doing a course in Business/Creative Industries at QUT was what I wanted to study….but I didn`t get in…..In fact I didn`t get into my next four choices either. I got into my last choice, which I had put as a safety net (lucky huh?) and it was a straight up arts degree from Griffith University. I just want to say I have nothing against Arts Degrees (In fact I am so happy I did it because if I hadn`t I wouldn`t have ended up in Japan)

I was more than a little upset about it but by the time I started I figured that I better make the most of it and I had also discovered that I could do a PR major or Journalism major through the arts degree at Griffith which was something I had thought about studying if I had gotten into business! In my senior year at school I had also met Kanako a Japanese exchange student and had admired the fact that she learnt to speak English so well in her year in Australia. So I enrolled in elementary Japanese classes as well for my first semester as well as some psych courses and simple journalism/media courses. I had no intention of staying in the arts degree, I still had dreams of transferring out, that was until about three months later…

Uni wasn`t my first time studying Japanese….technically we did some basic Japanese at school in primary school (With good old Mrs Shield!) and also at my high school studying Japanese and German once a week was compulsory in year eight! But studying Japanese at uni, five hours on campus a week, plus home study was completely different! I loved it…and I was actually ok at it!

I applied to go on exchange mid year and left the following year for a year abroad at Seikei University in Tokyo….I hadn`t realized how hard it would be….Seikei didn`t really offer courses for beginners and that pretty much still what I was…( It didn`t help that I had not studied from Nov-Mar while I was on summer break waiting to go to Japan)I had one on one tutoring for the first couple of months because I wasn`t up to the same level that others on exchange were….Most of the friends i made in the first couple of months always spoke a little bit of English meaning I didn`t have to use my Japanese…..and my foreign friends all spoke English and Japanese really well so they could translate for me. I was gradually improving but not nearly as fast as I would of liked.

I loved Japan, I love the culture and the people and I was gradually getting a hang of the language and making friends that only spoke Japanese forcing me to speak more and more and then one day it all seemed to fall into place over the summer….and I could hold conversations and communicate and order in restaurants and read the menus and ask for help at the train station if I needed it. I think anyone that is learning another language gets to that point…where everything just clicks…

I am still a long way off from being fluent…and I still have a love hate relationship with Japanese study…..sometimes I love it, get right into it will study for a couple of hours a day and then it goes away again. I hit a brick wall and just give up on it for awhile……I always go back to it…..and I hope one day to pass level 1 of the Japanese proficiency test!!! Obviously the fact that Shun and I talk to each other in Japanese 95% of the time helps my Japanese except he knows the Japanese I know and talks in a way that is easy for me to understand!

My dream is to become fluent enough to read the newspaper and pass level one of JLPT….the problem is if I achieve that once I might just give up, and from what I have heard, If you don`t continue to study then it all just goes out the window!

The only way, for me anyway, to really learn a language is to immerse yourself in a country that speaks that language….so to all those language learners out there…..go spend six months in Spain or South America if you are learning Spanish, or a year in China if you are learning Chinese….It will make the world of difference to you language study…Not to mention it will be an experience you will never forget!

I am a little stuck with K is for….I haven`t decided what I will be doing yet! I can not believe I am almost half way though this writing exercise already!

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I originally say this at Enny`s blog but have seen it doing the rounds on a lot of blogs I read in the last couple of weeks and it sounds and looks like fun so here goes!

Here are the rules:
~Pick fifteen of your favourite movies.
~Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
~Post them here for everyone to guess.
~Strike it out when someone guesses correctly in the comments, and put who guessed it and the movie.
~NO Googling or using IMDb search functions.

1. “I better have my lawyer take a look at these. I’m just a simple country boy. There’s all kinds of big words in here I can’t even pronounce. Hell, you might be takin’ me to the cleaners for all I know.” Nat got it with Sweet Home Alabama, Jake is such a cutie in this film!
2. “No I mean, do you really know where Harvard is? It’s another planet man- another universe. Totally unlike the one we know. Filled with big blond guys who eat ivy and row boats. What I’m trying to say is, you and Corey just aren’t made for each other. She’s different from you.” Amanda is correct with Empire Records, my favourite movie of all time with out a doubt!
3. “marriage is like a tense, unfunny version of Everybody Loves Raymond, only it doesn’t last 22 minutes. It lasts forever.” Jen got it with Knocked Up, a movie I saw when I was in Australia over Christmas!
4. ” Crème brûlée can never be Jell-O. YOU could never be Jell-O.” Jo was correct, it was My Best Friends Wedding starring Julia Robert!
5. “: You know, if we fix up this car, it could be make-out city, you know that.” Amanda again with Grease!
6. “This is smores stuff. First you take the graham. You stick the chocolate on the graham. Then, you roast the mallow. When the mallows flaming, you stick it on the chocolate and cover it with the other end. Then, you scarf.”Natalie got it with The Sandalot Kids, my favourite childhood movie and one of my fathers favourites still!!!
7. “Dolphins, yeah! They think they’re so cute. Oh, look at me, I’m a flippy little dolphin, let me flip for you. Ain’t I something?” I had thought it would be someone with kids that got this! Finding Nemo, thanks Illahee
8. “You were outside, I was inside. You were supposed to keep in touch with the band. I kept asking you if we were gonna play again.”
9. “This is a sin, it’s a wicked indulgence. Didn’t they have any butter pecan?” Illahee again!
10. “That’s a tough one. I would have to say April 25th. Because it’s not too hot, not too cold, all you need is a light jacket.” Natalie got this one too!!! It is Miss Congeniality!
11. “Besides, that whole see-through blouse, colored-bra thing… reads a little, you know, desperate, older gal, trying to hard. Don’t you think? Yeah, you want to make him work for it.”Jo agin with Maid in Manhattan!
12. “You know Graham, I just broke up with someone and considering you just showed up and you’re insanely good-looking and probably won’t remember me anyway… I’m thinking we should have sex… If you want.” Tokenwoman got this with The Holiday, I am surprised it didn`t go sooner. When I saw this film last year I loved it, I thought it was one of the best romantic comedies to come out in awhile!
13. “Do you know the most surprising thing about divorce? It doesn’t actually kill you. Like a bullet to the heart or a head-on car wreck. It should. When someone you’ve promised to cherish till death do you part says “I never loved you,” it should kill you instantly. You shouldn’t have to wake up day after day after that, trying to understand how in the world you didn’t know. The light just never went on, you know. I must have known, of course, but I was too scared to see the truth. Then fear just makes you so stupid.” Madison got it with Under The Tuscan Sun, I am a huge fan of this movie because I would love to just pack up and move to Tuscany! Off to check out Madisons blog since she is new here! Thanks for participating Madison!
14. “Christ! what are you? 15? My God man! You gotta be gettin’ that young stuff! The young stuff is the best stuff in the world. Your jail bait, their jail bait. You turn sixteen and your looking at three to five. Jac got this, It is Little Miss Sunshine, one of the best movies I watched last year!
15. The difference between you and I is that you can leave anytime you choose. But this is my home.

If you know, have a guess! Try not to guess more than two at a time right away so that others can have a chance to play!!!

I promise to do a real post tomorrow! I have one in my drafts for J is for… but haven`t finished it yet!

ps: Well so far eight have gone, any suggestions on the others? Anyone can have a go!! If you have already had a guess, then have another! Thanks to those who have played so far!

Update: Only three left! Lets see who can get the last three. Some hints. No 8 was from a pretty old movie, I think it come out early 80`s and it features some awesome music and musician appearances! No. 12 is from a really new movie that I only saw last year and it stars some pretty famous actors! And no.15, well, a hint, Nicole Kidman is in it!

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I was following link after link today on some of the blogs I read and came across this site which links to some of the top Aussie female bloggers!

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I think it has been about six months since I felt an earthquake….and then on this past weekend I felt two. One on Saturday (I think) and the other early Sunday morning about 6am…It actually woke me up because the window shook and some of my books fell from their shelves to the floor! Apparently where we were it wasn`t actually very big, only about a 2…

I do wonder if this is a sign the big one is coming….

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