the line is drawn and forward I go

28Jun09

I just want to say thank you for everything. Your thoughts, emails, offers of hugs, help and words of support – all of it. It always amazes me how much people care and take time out of their busy lives to read and respond.

Regardless of if you read that post or not, you all had a part in reaching out, pulling me back up to standing position, brushing me off, straightening my shoulders and knocking my chin back up. So thank you.

I’m closing the comments and pulling the plug on that post now. I’m sorry if you weren’t able to read it, I’m just ready to continue on now.

I am okay. We’re okay. The line is drawn through the day and forward I go.

Now for some fun to get me back in the groove.

1. What is your current obsession?

Tony Robbins motivational stuff and everything that branches off from there. I’ve been watching a lot of youtube videos of not just Tony, but of various motivational speakers and theorists about life, choices, happiness, emotional muscle, etc.

I’d like to buy his stuff and do the program one day, but for now I’m absorbing as much as I can for free.

2. What is your weirdest obsession?

Hmmm. I’ll come back to that one if I can figure it out.

3. Recall a fond childhood memory?

Racing down the stairs with my brother, on our bums, in sleepers.

4. What’s for dinner?

Well, last night we had some friends over for a BBQ and did strip sirloins and salad. It was so good that we might do it again, but this time add baked potatoes and Caesar salad.

5. What would you eat for your last meal?

I’d just want to sit at my favourite restaurant and order a bite of everything I love.

6. What’s the last thing you bought?

Two grande Americanos at Starbucks this morning.

7. What are you listening to right now?

Nothing in this very moment. In general though, I’m still listening to a lot of Explosions in the Sky – it’s the kind of music you’re glad to be alive to hear. No lyrics, just beautiful and moving.

8. What do you think of the person who tagged you?

No one tagged me, but I’ve seen this meme on so many blogs lately. I actually followed one chain of this meme for an hour yesterday and visited blogs I’ve never heard of because I love reading the answers so much.

That said, I finally decided to do the meme when I read it on Laura’s blog this morning – and she’s a cool chick.

9. If you could have a house totally paid for, fully furnished, anywhere in the world, where would it be?

Whistler, BC

10. If you could go anywhere in the world for the next hour, where would you go?

The spa for a massage.

11. Which language do you want to learn?

Italian

12. What’s your favourite quote (for now)?

“Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.”

13. What is your favourite colour?

Yellow

14. What is your favourite piece of clothing in your own wardrobe?

Currently, it’s what Colin brought me home from LaSenza yesterday, but it’s always something from there that is my fave piece of clothing – if lingerie and cute sleepwear count.

15. What is your dream job?

Creating photo and video portfolios for young athletes in winter sports like skiing and snowboarding.

16. What’s your favourite magazine?

I don’t read magazines unless I’m in a waiting room – total waste of money to me.

17. If you had $100 now, what would you spend it on?
Sunglasses. More likely though (because I don’t think I could spend $100 on myself): a babysitter, dinner and a movie out for Colin and I. To start the date, we could try on cheap shades at Wal-Mart or something

18. Describe your personal style?

Soft, light, casual, fitted.

19. What are you going to do after this?

Start laundry.

20. What are your favourite films?

The Devil Wears Prada; The Notebook; Pursuit of Happiness; Entrapment; Thomas Crown Affair; Twilight; Crash; The Wedding Singer; 50 First Dates; Casino; The Usual Suspects

I don’t know, I’m not really a movie person – those are just a few I’d watch again or have watched numerous times.

21. What’s your favourite fruit?

All kinds of berries.

22. What inspires you?

The silence of early morning, mountains, the sky, music.

23. Your favourite books?

Again, books. Yeah, I read a lot of them, but meh. No faves – I don’t think I could read a book twice. Let’s see, I love Marian Keyes; Sophia Kinsella; Maeve Binchy. I like books with non-North American settings. I also adore quick, paperback police/lawyer thrillers.

24. Do you collect anything?

Snowbabies

25. Any advice that’s come from bitter experience?

From one of my last posts:

Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it’s the only way to live life completely.

and

Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

26. What makes you follow a blog?

Depth, truth, passion.

I do read a few family type/mommy blogs and photography/niche blogs, but I prefer personal blogs with lots of realness and heart. Cakes n’ pies n’ rainbows, income-earning blogs with hundreds upon thousands of readers, blogs that try too hard, bitch too much, too dark, dripping with sarcasm – I avoid. They’re not bad things, but, too much of anything turns me off.

A mash-up is always a good thing and is what catches my attention.

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