Hello.
I have been nominated for the Versatile Blogger Award!
A huge thank you to
Rosie who nominated me and whose blog is absolutely brilliant (even though she denies it). Please take a look at her blog, you will not regret it and, in all seriousness, you really should have looked at it already (
slackers).
Here are the rules:
1) Thanks the person that gave you the award.
2) Include a link to their blog.
3) Select 15 blogs to nominate for the award (I managed 4).
4) Tell the person who nominated you and your readers 7 things about yourself.
Seven things about myself:
1. I, as you may already know, live in Australia. I live on a few hectares of land just out of my town of under 10,000 people in Victoria. It's quite a nice spot and is only a few hours from Melbourne. I lived in Melbourne for eleven years prior to my family and I moving to the country. I'm probably going to have to go back to Melbourne for university because none of the courses I'm interested in are available at any of the (couple of) universities nearby.
2. My family has a lot of animals: 4 dogs, 4 cats, 2 horses, 4 chickens, 3 budgies, 3 grass parrots and a Cockatiel named Winston. Winston hates me (he really does).
3. I only have two really close friends - Sophie and Alanah (check out Alanah's blog
here). However, I have quite a lot of friends that I talk to on a daily basis (at school, that is). Alanah, Sophie and I have decided (as we are all raging bitches) to affectionately call each other virago, harpy and hellcat respectively - we're classy gals. We also have very strange conversations, particularly Alanah and I. For example, here are two examples of facebook screenshots of conversation between Alanah and I.
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4. I am very honest. I pretty much always tell people the truth (or avoid it) even when they won't like the answer. Some people appreciate it, some don't. Even though I usually tell the truth, when I do lie, I am very good. I once tried to convince someone that I wasn't at school one day because I was bitten by a new, radioactive species of spider and that I had obtained powers (basically, that I was spiderman). They actually believed I was bitten (not that I had powers though). It was awkwardly hilarious.
5. I play the banjo and I love it. I got it for my birthday last year (5th of October) and practice pretty often. It's really fun to play. Seriously, if you've ever thought about playing an instrument that was a little different, try the banjo! I had no real previous experience with an instrument but I could read music (which I learnt because we had to when we learnt the recorder in primary school). However, now that I can play the banjo more easily, I just use TAB. For any banjo players out there, check out
this, the TABs are free and really good.
6. I love the past. The 40s, 50s and 60s for fashion and the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s for music. This probably doesn't surprise anyone because my monthly playlists always have older songs on them (as well as more modern tunes).
7. I really don't like moths. I don't have a phobia of them or anything, I just can't stand the fact that they always (and I mean always) try to fly in my face or land in my tea or something. I mean, I'm not a huge fan of bugs or anything, I just can't stand moths. Also, in Australia we have really big moths (as well as smaller ones). They are, in all seriousness, the size of small birds. We often have bogong moths near us which are pretty big and our cats try to catch them and eat them. It's really unpleasant.
Note: I just googled 'Biggest moth in Australia' and my god, this is terrifying. Apparently the biggest is the Hercules Moth. They're not found in Victoria (luckily) but they're huge! I'm not putting a picture up because they are that frightening. They aren't the biggest in the world (what?!) but they're in the top 10.
