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Just a drop in the ocean

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Ever had a feeling of deja vu? Well, maybe you’ll get this feeling if you decide to continue reading.  Below is the final version (not the Draft I inadvertently sent out last week!)

It is with excitement that I graciously accept the Awesome Blog Content (ABC) blogger award, kindly bestowed upon me by Crubin from The Write Transition.  As per the rules, I need to describe myself using every letter in the alphabet, then pass on the award onto at least another 6 bloggers.

  1. A – Angelic
  2. B – Beautiful
  3. C – Caring
  4. D – Don’t believe all that you read, especially the above
  5. E – Engineer – mechanical discipline
  6. F – Fascinated with all things scientific, weird and unusual
  7. G – Grateful to receive this award
  8. H – Half cup full – most of the time
  9. I – Industrial design degree. Prior to getting my engineering degree, I got one in Industrial design. I think this is why people see me as a frustrated engineer – always trying to address form (and colour) prior to function.
  10. JJust outside the box in my cartooning, as in, not too far outside
  11. K – Klever (hey, I’m en engineer, I can’t spell)
  12. L – Like receiving lots of ‘likes’ on my blog and Facebook page. Thanks for your support!
  13. M – Mum of 2 kids
  14. N – Never give up
  15. O – Over 30, just 😉
  16. P – Pink, my favourite colour at the moment
  17. Q – Quite difficult to think of anything else to say, but here goes
  18. R – Really good at not giving up and persevering not matter what
  19. S – Snails. As a child my sister caught me ‘eating’ a garden snail. In my defence, I still protest to this day that her evidence is purely circumstantial. Yes, I was sitting amongst cluster of garden snails. Yes, I had one in my hand. Yes, there was a slight slobbery gleam drooling from my mouth. But No, no one saw a snail in my mouth.
  20. T – Terrible singer
  21. U – Urban city slicker
  22. V – Very grateful that there are only 4 more letters left in the alphabet
  23. W – Walking the dogs with the kids is one of the great enjoyments in my life
  24. X – X-rayed twice as a child for fractured bones
  25. Y – Yellow makes me look sickly
  26. Z – Zumba. I love taking Zumba classes and dancing around like a girlie.

And as part of the tradition, I now bestow upon the following 6 bloggers the ABC blogger award.

  1. The Blog of Funny names where unusual names are celebrated for their uniqueness
  2. Wrong Hands, a delightful one panel cartoon blog
  3. GD Konstantine’s blog capturing thoughts, photos, reviews and links
  4. CJDelling a German Comedian with a cartoon blog. You would think this an oxymoron, but I saw her last Sunday perform live and she was great
  5. Therapy Tales is a cartoon blog about ‘avoiding eye contact’. You’ll get the tagline, when you see the pictures.
  6. The Owl and the Pussy Cat is a cartoon series about the beloved animals from the famous Edward Lear poem. Unlike the poem, they are 21st century and get up to all sorts of modern-day antics

Sunday roast!

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I love mashed potatoes and now I can feel better about it knowing I’m not being cruel to vegetables. As a child I used to think they were ‘smashed’ potatoes, not ‘mashed’. But that’s just semantics, isn’t it?  The end result is the same.

Ever had a day, when enough is enough?

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And for 3 time related quotes:

  • The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. British author, CS Lewis
  • The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. French Poet, Paul Valery
  • For disappearing acts, it’s hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work. My favourite American cartoonist, Doug Larson

 

Hipatitus

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I received this definition from a friend’s website newsletter, Talking About.  It listed the results from the Washington Post’s 1998 Mensa Invitational competition, which involved the creation of new words, by playing with combinations of other words.  To see the original list, click here (it also explains the interesting history behind this). If you like playing with words, the website also has an annual competition to create new words. You can view their 2010, 2011 results as well as entering for 2012.

Ring, ring. Anyone home?

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And a few facts about Mr Alexander Graham Bell you may not be familiar with:

  • Alexander Bell was born Scotland 1847. At the age of ten he asked his father to give him a middle name (like his brothers). On his 11th birthday he had a birthday ceremony and was given the middle name of Graham (chosen in honour of a family friend called Alexander Graham).
  • He was a founding member of the National Geographic Society
  • Before inventing the telephone, his career was following his father’s footsteps as a teacher of the deaf
  • Ironically, Bell never had a telephone in his study
  • Bell died in 1922 and at the end of his funeral service, all the telephones in North America were silenced in remembrance of the great man.