Okay, this post is special! copy it and paste it in as a response to this post and; typing your name as the message title. Change all of the answers given and type your own answers.. this way, each of us can have a look at the quiz and get to know one another a little better. personally, i thought the quiz was fairly fun, time consuming, but fun! So here goes nothing!

KERRIE!

1. What is your name:
Kerrie Lyn Flanagan

2. What colour pants are you wearing right now? blue jeans

3. What are u listening to?
buzzing noises the photocopying machine makes all day long 'buuuuzzz'

4. What are the last four digits of your phone number?
5870

5. What was the last thing u ate?
2 pieces of vegemite on toast

6. If u were a crayon, what colour would u want to be?
either orange or red, both bright and easy to see.

7. Where do u plan to go on your honeymoon?
that depends on my husbands choice too, but i know i would die if they suprised me with a honeymoon in Ireland! (and no, thats not a hint! lol)

8. How is the weather right now?
bright & sunny.

9. Last person u talked to on the phone?
Michael's mum

10. What's the first thing you notice about the opposite sex?
language.. the way they speak of others and if they openly show their feelings.

11. Do u like the person that sent u this?
yea - good old harmony

12. How are u today?
Happy I have a great life - an honest and caring boyfriend, friends and family.

13. Your favorite alcoholic drink?
i dont drink that often anymore. I don't mind guinness and vodka though.

14. Your favorite non alcoholic drink?
apple & pear juice

15. How do you eat an Oreo?
the centre out!

16. Favorite sport?
I don't mind soccer and gaelic football occassionally. I used to play t-ball and softball in primary, but didn't love it! i used to love running also. Am pretty unfit at the moment, and am thinking about joining a gym sooner or later.. will see how it goes.

17. What makes you happy?
at the moment? Michael makes me happy. I have everything i need in a friend and a great boyfriend in him. other than that - my family and friends, as they have always been there and are just a phone call away.

18. What's the next CD you're going to get?
umm, i'm thinking about 'Tea Party', but don't know yet.

20. Eye colour?
blue

21. Height?
i dunno.. haven't been measured in a year or so, though don't think i change height regularly lol

22. Do u wear contacts?
no

23. Siblings and their ages?
Bro's are Michael (30) and Shaun (24) and sis Susan (27)

24. Who do u consider your friends?
they all know who they are i'd think

25.What's the best advice given to u?
"Nudists are people who suffer from clothesrophobia" lol
No really.. my favorite piece of advice is "It doesn't matter if you live your life in rags or riches, what matters most is that you make the most of everything you have!"

26. Have u ever won any special awards?
um, not lately. Though i have won a few ribbons from 100 mtr sprints in school here and there (if that counts?!)

27. What are your future goals?
Well, become a budding author (will take a few years, i can assure you now), hopefully find a job that i really enjoy, no matter what it pays and eventually, explore different places overseas. I can't think of living here forever and never knowing what it looks and feels like in another country.

28. Favourite food?
pasta, chicken and pizza

29 Favorite movies/books?
books by Maeve Binchy, charlotte bronte and Louisa May Allcott. Movies: help, magical mystery tour and circle of friends. fav kiddies movie (hehe)is the labirynth

30. Favourite day of the year?
err, 10th of November

31. Favourite month?
March (for obvious reasons lol)

32. Do u like to dance?
yea, i do! despite how un-co i look and how i manage to hit people all over the place lol

33 Are u too shy to ask someone out?
well, yea.. kinda. it depends on the closeness i suppose and how you picture the persons response.

34. What's the stupidest thing u have ever done?
talked about people behind their backs. it is not attractive, not inspiring and certainly a sign that you are not happy with your life.

Good, old Holly Rogers deleted the # 35 question- so talk to her about it if you have any problems! her number is 3818.. haha

36.talkon the phone or in person?
phone is alright, though for personal matters face is much more meaningful and easier to a degree

37. Summer or Winter?
Winter!

38.hugs or kisses?
Hugs if you appreciate someone. Kisses when you want someone to know they are special to you.

39. Do u want your friends to write back?
yea sure, if they can be motivated, that is.

40 Who is least likely to respond?
i don't know that.

41. Who is most likely to respond?
Hollys right! steven cos hes bored

42. Embarrassing moment?
falling down the hill at school and looking up to realise the group of boys we sit with looking at me strangely, so i continued to roll down the hill ON PURPOSE so they thought it wasn't an accident.. to stand up and realise that they didn't really care anyway.. man, Holly STILL won't let me forget it lol.

And,, i guess thats it. Have fun with this one guys!
Kare.xx.

1. What is your name: Holly Heather Rogers

2. What colour pants are you wearing right now? im not wearing any... oops... i mean blue!

3. What are u listening to? the sounds of me tying and i actually just turned the tv on to find xena on. they put **** on this time of morning :S

4. What are the last four digits of your phone number? 0513

5. What was the last thing u ate? one of those flayvor things from red rooster

6. If u were a crayon, what colour would u want to be? aqua... a mixture between my 2 fave colours...blue and green

7. Where do u plan to go on your honeymoon? depends on where simons gonna take me! hahahaha i'd love to see his face right now

8. How is the weather right now? dark and night like

9. Last person u talked to on the phone? simon and kept him up way past his bed time!

10. What's the first thing you notice about the opposite sex? body language... i pick up on that way before anything else.. even from a distance. certain body language repells me.

11. Do u like the person that sent u this? indeed i do!

12. How are u today? kinda depressed and sad cos ive had a lot going on lately but happy at the same time cos despite all the awful stuff theres some pretty damn amazing stuff going on too... and a person that gives me hope for the future

13. Your favorite alcoholic drink? i dont much drink these days but it used to be vodka sunrise...yummy or most things with vodka in it. and orange bacardi breezers. haha go the premixed chick ****!

14. Your favorite non alcoholic drink? umm juice... some juices are heaps yummy. haha chocolate milkshakes i spose.

15. How do you eat an Oreo? i dont...yukkies

16. Favorite sport? im a kick arse karate gal! haha umm...i like swimming and mucking around with friends playing stuff like basketball and footy but im not strongly attached to any sports...except karate...which im told is a thinking sport therefore bringing out my intellectual side while kicking arse, and improving my body and flexibility! haha

17. What makes you happy? many things do. umm... chocolate, having fun with friends, helping people, writing, achieving my dreams, sleeping, i dunno... lots of things haha depends on the mood and the situation, but one thing that makes me happy no matter what lately is simon

18. What's the next CD you're going to get? ****ed if know... i want misfits famous monsters tho. all the afi cds. when you dont have a job you stop thinking how much you want these things :-S

20. Eye colour? umm...i think blue and green in places haha i dunno i cant be bothered looking in the mirror.

21. Height? i dont know...5'5 or something i think

22. Do u wear contacts? nope

23. Siblings and their ages? sis- tanya 31 and bro- jason 29

24. Who do u consider your friends? they all know who they are i'd think

25.What's the best advice given to u? work like you dont need the money, love like youve never been hurt and dance like no ones watching. i dunno... i think my own advice to myself has always been best anyway!

26. Have u ever won any special awards? umm...no heaps but several achedmic things when i was young, a couple of art awards in highschool and my karate gradings would probably count too and and a few ribbons and **** from sporting carnivals when i was little. not alot tho. im not very talented! haha

27. What are your future goals? gonna get my uni degree in psych...get my ph.d ect and be a sucessful abnormal psychologist. gonna get rich and hopefully find true love and have a beautiful family... but mostly just achieve all that i can to make myself happy! lifes too short to waste on being miserable!

28. Favourite food? tacos...chocolate...honey chicken

29 Favorite movies/books? love heaps of both in so many different genres so narrowing it down is a bit much to ask me i think! my fave book right now tho is the one im writing... then one day maybe other people will say that one of my books is their fave!

30. Favourite day of the year? christmas hahaha

31. Favourite month? february cos its summer and its my bday

32. Do u like to dance? sometimes.

33 Are u too shy to ask someone out? no i dont think so but often i prefer to not ask and let the moment just be right for it to happen naturally

34. What's the stupidest thing u have ever done? ive done so many stupid things so remembering just one is impossible lol

oops i think i accidently deleted q. 35 so if anyone knows it let me know what it was and i'll answer it haha

36.talkon the phone or in person? depends on the person i spose. in person is more...personal lol

37. Summer or Winter? summer

38.hugs or kisses? also depends on the situation. hugging is something that you can do almost during everything but kissing isnt exactly great when you should be focusing on something else... but both are amazing with the right person.


hmm this is all a little confusing for most people i think since kerrie and i answered this through email before she posted it here so its sure to confuse everyone else to an extent. but still a cool activity

Holly and Kerrie, you guys are legends. What a marathon. Give me a day or so to get through this and I'll see what I can do. Right now I can tell you my most embarrassing moment was falling off my six inch cork platform heels in the 70's in the middle of Queen Street (main street of Brisbane city) at lunch time wearing a miniskirt. Ouch! Twisted ankle, permanently injured pride and the beginning of an ingrained fear of heights.

Why someone who is 5'8" needs six inch heels in the first place is beyond me, but my mother let me out of the house that way. I'll blame her.

I thought I would follow your line Lou and pick one at a time. My most embarrassing moment was in grade 10 when I had a huge 2 year crush on a very yummy boy 2 years above me though of course he never knew I existed. We had a fabulous Science teacher from England who knew all about this crush. Anyway, last week of school, so cute boy was going to be leaving me forever when science teacher spies him sitting on the grass outside our clssroom. So, science teacher writes a little note and gives it to my 'best friend' (ha!). 'Best friend' takes the note outside, gives it to cute boy who reads it then proceeds to crash our science lesson. I, who am currently unaware of all that is going on look up and see cute buy in my classroom. I blush madly and watch in horror as he asks science teacher "Which one's Alyson?". After much pointing and laughing and enjoyment from rest of class he walks down the aisle towards a red faced, speechless, breathless me. My 'best friend' kindly gives up her seat for him and he sits down, takes my hand and introduces himself. The following conversation is lost to me now though I am sure I said not a word. Finally cute boy left amidst a standing ovation from my class.

Oh so embarassing. But just think, I got to hold hands with the man of my grade 10 dreams. Sigh... No wonder I am compelled to write romance.

Here is me...not a romance lover at all..totally enthralled with your most embarressing moment, Alyson. I loved it. I held my breath too...as I was reading it.

deb

Here is me...not a romance lover at all..totally enthralled with your most embarressing moment, Alyson. I loved it. I held my breath too...as I was reading it.

deb

lLison,
Embarassing at the time, but that science teacher sounds like a heaven sent! Lol. What I would have done to have the boy of my year 10 dreams, to come and hold my hands for a few minutes. Lol but instead the boy who i barely looked twice at in years 5, 6 and 7 came back and rescued me (yes, i was in primary school with my boyfriend) and amazingly enough - we do remember one another.. how wierd! But that is my fairytale

Kerrie.

Alyson, no wonder you're writing romance. What a lovely story. I just wanted to turn it into a book straight away (young adult). And then of course, the Science Teacher would need to be matched up with someone wonderful... so many possibilities.

I've got to get my head away from romance! I've got a fantasy trilogy to finish. But it really was so touching. I remember having a desperate, desperate crush on a boy when I was fifteen, but like Kerrie I had no happy ending with it. Yours might have been embarrassing, but it really was a memory to cherish.

Isn't it a great story. I have always been one for mad crushes. At school I much preferred sitting in a corner thinking about whomever I was in love with that week. That was heaven! This one boy I was mad about for two years before out little meeting. He was such a doll. Then the captain of the football team asked me out and I had no idea what to do I was so used to loving them from afar it completely rattled my sense of romance!

I owuld love to write YA romance. Like the old Sweet Dreams books. I have actually started one but haven't found submission guidelines for any YA publishers.

Oh Alison, DO IT! It would be a heaven sent novel, I don't know how to descibe the feeling i used to get while reading Sweet Dreams novels! THey really had a way to whisk you away, didn't they?! I think it would make a lovely story.. one that would have the reader's head in the clouds all day long lol (speaking from experience here). What an idea!

Kerrie

If Sweet Dreams is still published, just email the publishers, Alyson and ask for guidelines. If not, most of the big Aussie publishers do a line in YA novels. Kim is writing the Gina Champion mysteries for Harper Collins and Richard Harland started his YA trilogy with "Ferren and the Angel" for Penguin.

Worth a thought.

Sweet Dreams were the kind of books you could read after a bad nightmare.. and feel totally at peace! By the time you felt sleepy again, you would reach over and switch off the light to find that you couln't even recall what was so 'bad' about the nightmare! Know what i mean?

I found a great site (haven't had much time to look into it just yet) You can find it at:
http://www.smilingpolitely.com.au/

It has some competitions going and one in particular closes in late August. The word limit isn't large and I think I can have a go at writing a short story! If I don't come a place, there isn't anything to worry over as the thought of being in the competition is enough for me.

Take care of you all,
Kerrie

Good idea. I haven't thought about it seriously but I will see if Sweet Dreams are still around. I will soon write my YA romance anyway and shop it around. If anybody sees any about and finds the publisher listed could you let me know. Thanks guys.

Just thought I'd let you guys know that local writing centres (Qld Writer's Centre, NSW Writer's Centre) are a great source of legit writing comps and market information. If you're a member you get a newsletter with info on competitions which are not run by vanity publisher (sharks to avoided at all cost) and markets for everything from short stories and poetry to full length novels.

Of course, you can't go past the Writers & Artists Yearbook for lists of who publishes what

My niece has actually begun reading sweet dreams books...along with stuff like sweet valley high and baby sitters club. Shes only 9 and already a very keen reader. Its good to see at that age!

Holly, if you could grab one a Sweet Dreams and get the publishers address for me that would be great. I think Sweet Velley High were all written by Francine Pascal (how on earth that little snippet of info remained in my head all these years I have no idea!!!!)

although you guys are going on about embarrasing moments( i have a few but can't remeber right now) i think i'll do the quiz....
1. What is your name:
cassie (or cassandra) nicholson

2. What colour pants are you wearing right now?
blue jeans

3. What are u listening to?
annoying little brats next to me ... I am at the public library ... this one boy won't shut up!!!

4. What are the last four digits of your phone number?
4646

5. What was the last thing u ate?
chese toast
6. If u were a crayon, what colour would u want to be?
dark pink ... favourite colour!

7. Where do u plan to go on your honeymoon?
i don't have a boy friend but if i did i think if i could manage it i go to a castle ...

8. How is the weather right now?
over cast, windy, freezing (welcome to canberra)

9. Last person u talked to on the phone?
my good friend elise who i love waking up at 11 am and she complains ( i think shes nocternal)

10. What's the first thing you notice about the opposite sex?
when i was 10 years old i declaired to my mum and her firends that i hated boys!!! i changed but i hated them for a long while

11. Do u like the person that sent u this?
i dont know who sent this (sorry)

12. How are u today?
tierd ... i drink heaps of coffie before bed then i can't sleep, plus it is school holidays. other than that i guess im ok.

13. Your favorite alcoholic drink?
not 18 so i am not allowed to have one... although i have tried lemmon ruskies they are nice.
14. Your favorite non alcoholic drink?
thats hard i like lots of stuff... soft drink the most!

15. How do you eat an Oreo?
never tried one

16. Favorite sport?
AHHHHH! sport! stay away.... im not the sporty type but i like roller blading.

17. What makes you happy?
my book! I love to think about it and write it!!!!

18. What's the next CD you're going to get?
when i get money (i will be waiting a while) i want to get life house... i have newly dicovered them and theyre great!!!
20. Eye colour?
.... well half of my eye is blue the other half is green (strange huh!) this is for both eyes. at a distance they look grey.

21. Height?
ummm i last checked(bout a month or two) im 164cm

22. Do u wear contacts?
no prescription contacts cost to much! i wear glasses though

23. Siblings and their ages?
big brother lucious is 21, little brother arawn 5( and at the but why stage!).... i have another little brother and sister that i haven't met yet ... live with my dad ... boy is four not sure how young the girls is ...maybe 2 or 3

24. Who do u consider your friends?
uh well ... my friend really know when theyre my firends ...best ansew i can give
25.What's the best advice given to u?
uhhhh ... well when i was emailing a guy about a competion he was running and that i can't write short storys and complaing about it ... he told me good luck with you novelle .... i hope you manny rejections because it happens to all good writters ...and when you do bad or get rejections it helps!!!! another was (can't remeber where i heard it) ... dreams can come true .... dammn strait they can and will!!!!!

26. Have u ever won any special awards?
no

27. What are your future goals?
i want to be a rich and famous writer! like rowling but if i cant have that i would like rich and famous actor:) i cant help being atracted to fame and fortune!

28. Favourite food?
every thing that is probably bad for you

29 Favorite movies/books?
harry potter harry potter harry potter .... i reserve the right to believe harry potter was not created just for kids

30. Favourite day of the year?
7th november

Alyson - i'll see what i can do about checking out the details on one of those sweet dreams books. i might get over to my sisters house tomorrow because i do karate with my niece but if i dont get over then im not sure how soon i'll be able to get the info for you.

And about those sweet valley books... i've got one sitting right here and you're right...they are by Francine Pacal. i pulled it out to give to my niece the other day.

Thanks Holly that would be fab! No rush but that would be lovely of you.

Cassie, what an interesting life you have. This was a good idea for getting to know everyone.

1. What is your name:
Alyson

2. What colour pants are you wearing right now?
Baby pink checked flannelette Pjs

3. What are u listening to?
Oh, Brother Where Art Thou? on DVD in background. Plus my hubby Mark and his brother Paul arguing about Bocconcini

4. What are the last four digits of your phone number?
2461

5. What was the last thing u ate?
Cheezles

6. If u were a crayon, what colour would u want to be?
Pink!!!

7. Where do u plan to go on your honeymoon?
Married in Las Vegas so honeymooned around USA. Drove around 16 states - went to LA, San Fran, New Orleans, Savannah, Las Vegas, week in New York was the most wonderful part.

8. How is the weather right now?
chilly outside, warm and snuggly inside (the joys of central heating in Melbourne)

9. Last person u talked to on the phone?
Customer at work

10. What's the first thing you notice about the opposite sex?
Everything. Whole package. Feeling in pit of stomach at first glance. (Hence my tendancy to develop mad crushes all through my life!!!)

11. Do u like the person that sent u this?
Of Course!!!!

12. How are u today?
Wonderful as always! A bit sniffly but feeling happy as ever.

13. Your favorite alcoholic drink?
Don't drink often but I love Champagne. Asti Ricadonna. Anything sweet.

14. Your favorite non alcoholic drink?
Mmmmm - that's a hard one. Couldn't get by without OJ. Do love coffee, iced coffee, coffee with icecream or cream and choccie sprinkles...there's a pattern emerging.

15. How do you eat an Oreo?
Break it open, scrape off icing with my bottom teeth then eat the biscuits.

16. Favorite sport?
Loooooove dancing - learnt ballet, physical culture, Highland Dancing, gymnastics...Enjoy watching most every sport. Collingwood member. Go Pies!

17. What makes you happy?
Trillions of things. I am a very happy person.

18. What's the next CD you're going to get?
??? Last one bought was Robbie Williams "Swing While You're Winning"

20. Eye colour?
Light brown

21. Height?
174cm

22. Do u wear contacts?
Yep. Short sighted

23. Siblings and their ages?
One sister in Brisbane - Susan 22

24. Who do u consider your friends?
A few very close friends - some from school, a couple since, living all over the place but always in contact.

25.What's the best advice given to u?
Don't worry be happy. It really works.

26. Have u ever won any special awards?
Goodness - duxed Drama at school, won retailer of the year at work this year, won dancing comps, ummmmm...

27. What are your future goals?
Live well, be happy, travel, experience, smile and laugh everyday

28. Favourite food?
Chocolate - no doubt

29 Favorite movies/books?
Book: Catch 22, Movie: Godfather, The Little Mermaid, Aliens, Pride and Prejudice, When Harry Met Sally, Funny Girl, I could go on and on and on...

30. Favourite day of the year?
Undoutedly Christmas. I adore everything about it. I love giving pressies and eating tonnes of heavenly food, and wearing tinsel in my hair. Perfect day.

31. Favourite month?
September

32. Do u like to dance?
You betcha!

33. Are u too shy to ask someone out?
I don't think my hubby would like that very much. But back in the good old days of singledom, I was shy. But for some reason not with my hubby. I asked him out heaps before I even realised that's what I was doing. Hmmm...

34. What's the stupidest thing u have ever done?
I am terribly accident prone. No sense of direcion of space. Constantly walking into doorways and walls and tripping over my own feet. I'm just your average clutz!

36.talkon the phone or in person?
In person

37. Summer or Winter?
Winter!

38.hugs or kisses?
Both if at all possible!


That was fun! It took me a while to get in the mood to talk about me!

I couldn't finish the quiz cause I got kicked off ... it fun ti fill out though so I will ansew the last few questions.
31. Favourite month?
november ... my birthday of course!

32. Do u like to dance?
I love to ... I was in rockestedford challnge twice and I loved it.

33 Are u too shy to ask someone out?
yes!!! I have never really gotten close enough to someone though to consider asking them out anyway

34. What's the stupidest thing u have ever done?
uhh there is a long list ....... i can tell you that one time in drama the teacher was talking and being the easily bored person that i am ... i started day dreaming then I heard the word 'knight' I said 'what about a knight?' then the teacher said something about a knight on a beach ... the class laughed at me a friend called me a dag. I have plenty of such moments as the above.

Good, old Holly Rogers deleted the # 35 question- so talk to her about it if you have any problems! her number is 3818.. haha

36.talkon the phone or in person?
I love talking on the phone cause im in my own sapce and im comfortable so I can be as out going as I want but in person at first i am really shy
37. Summer or Winter?
Winter!!!!!!!!!!!!!

38.hugs or kisses?
Hugs if you appreciate someone. Kisses when you want someone to know they are special to you.

39. Do u want your friends to write back?
yes!!! I love hearing from people.

40 Who is least likely to respond?
i don't know that.

41. Who is most likely to respond?
dont have a clue...

42. Embarrassing moment?
ummmm................to many .. i think i get embarrased easily. one thing that comes to mind was in highschool... i loved a joke so i offered a friend to sit down she did and i pulled the chair out from underneath her(i know i am mean:( well she was really angry and kinda hit me a few times ouch! then the science teacher who had seen it all asked if i pulled out the chair dumb question i said no and i suprisingly never got in trouble... but i was preety embarrased, i guess my old friend was to.

Cassie, that was ouchworthy. Honest of you to 'fess up to it here, though. So all is forgiven. It's hard sometimes when you're young to work out what's funny and what's not. I wasn't the practical joke type myself, but I had a few played on me and didn't enjoy them. Must have needed more work on my sense of humour I just never 'got it'.

well i have learnt that laughter at othetr peoples expence isnt always the best way to go about things but i crack jokes with my friends and they laugh i tend to make an idiot of my self rather than other people cause i do know what its like to be the one being laughed at for the rong reasons

well yes... i lnow now what is and isn't funny... better sooner than later! my mum said to me cause i can laugh at my self and popular culture that i sould be a comedian...yeah right! never!!! the worse thing in life is when you crack a joke cause you think its halarious and no one else laughs! but you. that has happened to me one to many times

Being able to laugh at yourself is such a gift, Cassie. I know I'm way too serious and sensitive, so while I'm happy to laugh along with people and make jokes, if the joke turns on me I can become quite flustered. I'm learning though. Just the other day I ran into a gutter, which should have mortified me because I'm such a good driver, but instead I burst out laughing.

Maybe it's all about being happy with yourself and cutting yourself some slack.

I am completely accident prone! Constantly bangning into things. I think I have no spatial sense. I must think I'm thinner than I am. I have no sense of direction. I walk into a shop and when I walk out, without fail I will turn back the way I came.

Talking of shops I have discovered a shop at Chadstone called The Fairy Shop. Went looking for tiaras and this place is gorgeous! All the staff wear princess dresses and garlands in their hair. They sell fairies everything magical and pretty. They have a back room where kids can have parties hosted by fairies. It's sooooo wonderful!

Alyson, for once I wish I lived in Melbourne (or was visiting at least). I'm having no luck whatsoever finding a suitable tiara. I think there's a fairy shop in the Myer Centre in Brisbane. I might try there.

i have really bad ancles ... they roll and before i know it ove trippend and am on the ground completely embarresed... so if people are around i laugh at my self by standing up and saying 'im ok' i think its hallarious and my friend laugh at me for what i say not what i do. ... its better to be laughed at because you want to be not because you dont!!!!
tiars ...i love princess things!!!! if i could id were a crown to college every day once i wore a crown of twigs a friend made my whole groupo did it was good fun!!! i actually have a clear pin on name tag and i put in cassie nicholson ... queen of the world ... royalty deparment and well yes i do get some strange looks!!!

Good for you Cassie. I think writers need a healthy dose of 'delusions of grandeur'. What we're trying to do is hugely arrogant (expecting other people to pay money to read what we have to say) so egos are in order.

And I am the girl who thought she was a kidnapped Russian princess...

1. What is your name:
Mick

2. What colour pants are you wearing right now?
Crazy, but I'm not wearing any.

3. What are u listening to?
The Smiths

4. What are the last four digits of your phone number?
1070

5. What was the last thing u ate?
Chinese takeaway. Chicken satay with veg

6. If u were a crayon, what colour would u want to be?
black

7. Where do u plan to go on your honeymoon?
Went to Sydney

8. How is the weather right now?
Not a cloud in the sky, but a little chilly

9. Last person u talked to on the phone?
An avon lady trying to sell my facial cream.

10. What's the first thing you notice about the opposite sex?
I could get in trouble if I answer this.

11. Do u like the person that sent u this?
Never met, so can't really say.

12. How are u today?
Exhausted

13. Your favorite alcoholic drink?
I never touch the stuff.

14. Your favorite non alcoholic drink?
Red eye in the red bottle. Gives a good little kick.

15. How do you eat an Oreo?
I open my mouth, pop one in, chew 32 times, swallow.

16. Favorite sport?
AFL. I don't mind soccer either.

17. What makes you happy?
Spending a whole day writing

18. What's the next CD you're going to get?
Tenacious D's album, followed by Tori Amos's new one in October

20. Eye colour?
Bloodshot... nah, Hazel

21. Height?
a little over 5'11"

22. Do u wear contacts?
No

23. Siblings and their ages?
Dave (23)

24. Who do u consider your friends?
Anyone who doesn't call me a *****

25.What's the best advice given to u?
"Every time you take a risk in your writing, it pays off. So do it more often." My Year 11 English teacher told me that

26. Have u ever won any special awards?
Third place in a story contest about 8 years ago. Nothing since because I haven't really entered anything.

27. What are your future goals?
Get published and be able to quit Kmart.

28. Favourite food?
Chocolate Croissants from Baker's Delight

29 Favorite movies/books?
High Fidelity, Spiderman and Akira for movies. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Australian Writer's Marketplace and my handy-dandy thesaurus for books

30. Favourite day of the year?
Tomorrow. I never know what's going to be there.

31. Favourite month?
November

32. Do u like to dance?
No. Not my thing.

33 Are u too shy to ask someone out?
Yep, but I still managed to get married.

34. What's the stupidest thing u have ever done?
Dropped out of Uni. I've been kicking myself ever since.

36.talkon the phone or in person?
I prefer the phone. I love making faces when customers are ringing me up to complain about something.

37. Summer or Winter?
In between

38.hugs or kisses?
Hugs

39. Do u want your friends to write back?


40 Who is least likely to respond?


41. Who is most likely to respond?


42. Embarrassing moment?
I was doing a speech in front of 120 people at high school. I choked at the start and just rambled through the whole thing. I still get grief about it today (8 years later)

1. What is your name:
Katherine-Maree Lucy Comber-Chappell

2. What colour pants are you wearing right now?
blue and white flannel pooh pj pants

3. What are u listening to?
friend's net radio

4. What are the last four digits of your phone number?
4439

5. What was the last thing u ate?
fruitloops with red cordial

6. If u were a crayon, what colour would u want to be?
green

7. Where do u plan to go on your honeymoon?
no idea, Ireland!

8. How is the weather right now?
COLD

9. Last person u talked to on the phone?
my grandma

10. What's the first thing you notice about the opposite sex?
eyes

11. Do u like the person that sent u this?
so far

12. How are u today?
sick, got flu

13. Your favorite alcoholic drink?
b33r

14. Your favorite non alcoholic drink?
red cordial

15. How do you eat an Oreo?
lick the centres

16. Favorite sport?
baseball forever!

17. What makes you happy?
spending time with friends

18. What's the next CD you're going to get?
anne of green gables celtic music

20. Eye colour?
grey

21. Height?
167.5cm

22. Do u wear contacts?
no

23. Siblings and their ages?
Sharon (23), Brendan & Paul (20)

24. Who do u consider your friends?
my best mates Gavin and Greg

25.What's the best advice given to u?
smile, for tomorrow is a new day

26. Have u ever won any special awards?
not recently

27. What are your future goals?
get a job involving writing in some form and to get something published

28. Favourite food?
peas, vegemite

29 Favorite movies/books?
classic books like dickens, Star Wars movies or anything with Katharine Hepburn

30. Favourite day of the year?
24th april!

31. Favourite month?
april!

32. Do u like to dance?
no way in hell

33 Are u too shy to ask someone out?
very much so

34. What's the stupidest thing u have ever done?
moved out of home

36.talkon the phone or in person?
in person

37. Summer or Winter?
Winterrrrr

38.hugs or kisses?
hugs

39. Do u want your friends to write back?
whatever they want!

40 Who is least likely to respond?
no idea

41. Who is most likely to respond?
someone

42. Embarrassing moment?
pulling my pants down at the year 6 boys in kindy

louise: something i relised only recently in writing is that you do need alot of confidence! it comes out in your writing i think ...

Cassie, thank you so much for saying that. Some days I feel super confident and like a 'real writer' and other days...I don't. My experience is that even having a book on the shelf with your name on the cover doesn't change that. It's something that comes from the inside, not the outside, and no amount of lovely fan emails really count as much as when I read back over something I've just written and think, "Wow, that's good."

Don't wait for someone else to tell you you're good, do it yourself.

And I just love the responses to this thread - thanks for setting it up Kerrie. You guys are all so different. I must get my A into G and do it myself. Although the question of the crayon makes me squeamish. My initial reaction would be to say pink, but I remember vividly when my girlfriend rang up in a panic after she'd just changed her toddler's nappy filled with pink poo. I raced over because she'd thought he was bleeding internally or something, then we discovered the slobbered end of a pink crayon under his pillow. Eeeew.

i hate the days that its hard to write on expecially if there are perfect sercumstances to write in!!!but thats life... i wish i could stay home and write every day it is my dream! i definatly want my book done buy the end of 2003 and hey i found out in drama the producer wants me to have the lead, an ex best friend of mine is jellous and i dont know if i will take it in fear for not remebering all the lines!

Take the part Cassie - do not even think of not taking it. The only the you regret in life should be the tings you do not do! If you don't take it you will be sorry.

From an old drama pro - learning lines is a cinch. Just say them over and over and over again until you are saying them in your sleep! Highlight your part and practice alone and with the group. Practice walking around and acting the lines so that the movements and ebbs and flows of the lines become natural and instinctive.

See easy!!! What's the part?

I had the lead in our senior play which was the Bertolt Brecht play "The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui" a take on the rise and fall of Hitler but set in 1920s Chicago! We had way more girls than boys in the class with way more male parts so we did a turnaround play. Girls played male parts etc. So I played Hitler with a an American accent in my senior play. How hilarious!

Ali,
I did an assessment on Bertolt Brecht in year 11. It was on a play (can't remember the name) with a character called Grucia in it.. something about a baby taken away from it's mother?

Other than that, I did my senior production on _A Midsummer Night's Dream_ by Shakespear. It was a great two nights of production! We had out stage outdoors and shows started at 6pm.. the est production the school has had yet!

I played Theseus, the king and cobweb, the faerie (you can ask anyone and they'll tell you that I was the best faerie!!) Lol.

Cassie- from experience.. take the part and don't look back! If you enjoy acting then never hold back. I was with the Australia Acting Academy for 6 months before I left (my parents struck a bad time with money so i quit to save them the money it was worth). If you don't do it, you'll look back in years to come and say "hey.. i didn't take that part because so-&-so was jealous and i was scared... though i wish i had now, cos i haven't seen her in years!" trust me- after this year you won't see her as much again.. take the plunge and DO IT.

Kerrie

the play is called 'dags' when i found out i thought that will fit me in nicely ...lol well its not official who gets the parts but i know from the director she is strongly considering me .... i dont know that i want the part because you have to kiss someone on stage. you can say no big deal but i havnt had a first kiss yet and i will not let it be some crapy fake one that meant nothing! .... i told the director she thinks maybe it can be worked around but as i said before it is not definate that in will play the main character! ... we have only 2 guys to act and 4 male roles ... our drama teacher wont let guys play girls becasue she played a guy when she was in high school and hated it! oh well looks like they will work hard!

Cassie, I've never done any acting, but I can imagine it would be hugely useful experience for a writer. Even just the angst of learning and doing. Any experience where your emotions are aroused is great because you can remember how it felt later, whether your blood was pounding, your mouth dry, an empty feeling - where? Stomach, chest? You can use all this stuff in stories when a character is apprehensive. Plus, when you're going over your work editing it, you read it aloud to make sure the dialogue works. How much better would that be if you'd trained as an actor?

Think of it as part of your writing practise and go for it!

P.S. I don't think a stage kiss would be like a real kiss, and who knows, the boy they pick for the lead could be scrummy

Oooh, yeah! It cold be one of those great romances where the lead actor and actress fall mad in love in time for their first performance kiss. Or is that meant to be the lead and the understudy? Ooh, so many choices!

Don't worry about it until (or if) it happens, Cassie. Wait to see who gets the parts and you will all become comfy with each other and it would be a supportive experience.

i got the part!!!!! but im not kissing anyone! sorry to all the romance writers out there. well i chose acting becasue i needed more confidence this is my first year of acting and its great! it helps in class speeches as well and this is all counting toward my career!

Cassie
I"m sorry i never got on here sooner to congratulate you! that is great- you're going to have a blast with this! take it from all of us here who have been actors in previous years :D
You have to kep us informed and tell us ALL about it! How are your lines coming along?

Kerrie

well we have been doing read throughs (practacing) and it was soooooooo embarasing yesterday!!!!!!!! instead of kissing him i have to lie on top of him and pretend whilst every one said no this way or no this way i couldnt help but be embarased!!! i think of it as another sacrafice towards my writing career as i have made many sacrafices already! but its soooooooo embarasing!!!!!! you know what the guy said to me? 'you chose the part' i said 'no i didnt! i was cast it!' hes not as bad though as i ave made him sound, but hes far to enthusiastic about the whole production and all in all hes really scary. you guys are all probably having a great laugh after reading this which okdoke with me. something they were going on about in drama was weird the director and him were arguing about telling me somthing ...i dont know what it is!!! somethimes people can be really anoying!

Cassie,
sounds like fun hehe.. okay, okay- i had a chuckle! but only because you sound so innocent- its very cute! don't worry.. you can ask anyone i went to school with but i would be dating boys in school and still not hold their hand in public too often as all the girls and boys would look and say "i didn't know they were together.. look at the way they do this/that" i hated it!! hence i suppose why i loved meeting my 'ideal' boyfriend once leaving school. it was amazing! no one looks at us strangely if we forget to kiss one another goodbye (lol i'm not only clumsy but very forgetful!) i mean.. the stereotypical school relationship may as well be classed as "boy and girl hold hand and people gossip" its just silly! the reason i had a chuckle at your post is because i suppose i know where you are coming from with this! if i were asked to kiss someone, let alone lie on him like you have to- i'd be very embarassed.. thats why you have to be strong throughout this. acting doesn't only allow you to experience the stagelife but it allows you to transform into someone else.. get into the character cassie and become that lead role! you can do it- we all have faith in you!

Kerrie

thax kerrie....im glad you had a laugh an im not being sarcastic! well its still embarasing. we were doing a run through and we got up to that scene (yesterday) and i gave my director a look of pleading and she said we didnt have to do it today i sighed with reliefe he said 'oh? its my favourite scene' i said'definatly not mine!' i cant help acting like a little kid