Fall Dresses

The weather has been pretty miserable and changeable for the past few weeks, switching from bright sunny to black clouds and pelting rain and back again. The weekend was spent with Violet and was glorious. Since then...not so much. Anyway, the blogs and photography make me dream of a crisp autumn with bright foliage and orange sunny days so here are my Modcloth dream dresses for fall:-

Because Seven Is A Good Number

I found this on Amore and Chocolate's very lovely blog and gave it some thought.

• Seven Things That Scare You:

1. spiders
2. lifts/elevators
3. social interaction
4. blood and gore (am very squemish)
5. talking to people on the phone
6. getting sick again
7. bugs

• Seven Things You Like The Most:

1. being with my friends, especially Violet
2. watching my favourite tv shows
3. curling up and reading
4. sunshine/the summer/the beach
5. weekends with my family
6. walks in the park
7. seeing new movies

• Seven Important Things In Your Room:

1. computer
2. sewing machine
3. my books and notebooks
4. dvd collection
5. polaroids of friends and family
6. scrapbook from summer abroad
7. bed - it's creaky and old but I love my sleep!

• Seven Random Facts About You:

1. I like noticing actors in random roles and enjoy seeing their careers progress.
2. I think this ^^^^ is a fun useless thing to do but useless unless I become a casting agent.
3. I think I should have been born in America, I worked there for two summers and felt more at home than this country.
4. I went on a really good night out at a rock club on thursday with two of my best mates .
5. When I get nervous I speak (unconciously) with an American accent.
6. I'm a big big doctor who fan, also criminal minds, supernatural, freaks and geeks, carnivale, and many more.
   
7. I hate driving on motorways.

• Seven Things You Plan To Do Before You Die:

1. become more accomplished at dressmaking
2. go on a road trip around America
3. read all the books I can
4. have a really pretty and productive garden
5. have an outlet for my wish to dance
6. go to Paris with Violet
7. live up to Emerson's definition of sucess

• Seven Things That Attract You To Someone:

(not sure if this means attract as a crush or attracts as a 'ooh that person seems nice I want to go and talk to him/her' so I'm going with the latter!)

1. geekiness - if you are enthusiastic about something I'm curious
2. reading or more broadly the whole shared interest thing
3. kindness and consideration for others
   
4. nice hips, not a requirement but some men just have great hips!
5. a self-awareness and acceptance with a wish to challenge themselves
6. an interesting laugh, it's the first thing I noticed about Miss V
7. an open mind

• Seven Attractive Celebrities:

1. Matthew Gray Gubler
2. Zooey Deschanel
3. Tim Roth
4. Kat Dennings
5. Bryan Dick
6. Joe Anderson
7. Lee Pace

Something that makes me smile

I started my new job about a month ago and I have periods of downtime which allow me to do certain things, like keep updated with the blogs I follow or drool over pretty things but my favorite thing to do is to read MLIA otherwise known as My Life Is Average, and to send the ones I like the best to make my friend Violet smile, she has significantly less downtime! The website consists of submitted very short stories detailing occurances, however often these seem to be not very average. Things like teachers rewarding the non-academic creativity of their students and the surprise of stereotypes being broken are regular themes and while some are very cheesy and some just plain unfunny there are some that connect in a small way...also this is where ninjas beat pirates and yahoo cowers in the corner having been mercilessly beaten by google. Here are some recent examples:-

On the last page of my science textbook is the periodic table. Today I saw that someone had drawn a new square for the element of surprise. MLIA

Today, I was sitting in a booth in a restaurant. When I looked to my side there was a little kid looking at me at the exact same time I was looking at him. This happen about 5 times until the 6th time I looked at him and he said to me, "Stranger, i am your reflection", in a darth vader voice. I have never laughed so hard in my life. Thank you mystery reflection boy. MLIA

Today, I learned that my dad has special striped "snow socks." Not because they are warm, but because if he gets buried under a snowdrift, he can stick his foot out like the Wicked Witch Of The East and be rescued faster. I love my dad. MLIA

Today, I was teaching a Daddy-and-me class, where fathers can bond with their baby children. During one exercise, they were to ask their child what an animal says, and see if the child can answer. Most asked what a pig or a cow says, but one man asked his little girl, "What does Mr. T say? What does Mr. T say?" She then said,"Ah piddy da foo!" Perfect. MLIA

Today, my sister was complaining about my baby niece's recent strange behavior. I spent all of Thanksgiving break teaching her that tackling people with a "RAWR!" is an acceptable form of showing affection. My nephew has begun calling her his dinosaur sister. I'm so proud of those two. MLIA

Today, some of the school computers were broken. Most said "could not log on" but one said "Possessed. Mouse ran away." MLIA

Today, some Jehovah's Witnesses came to my door. My three year old son, dressed in all red ran out of the door started kicking and hitting them. without missing a beat, my wife called from inside the house, "Lucifer! What did Mummy tell you? You work inside their minds, not by kicking them!" The men all stared wide-eyed at my son and said good-bye. MLIA

Today, I tested the good ole Google versus Yahoo war by typing in 'dinosaurs were'. Yahoo told me "dinosaurs were exctinct". Google told me "dinosaurs were invented by the cia to discourage time travel." Oh hey google- you win again. MLIA

Today, I was walking down the street when I felt several small bits of snow sting the back of my head. I looked up and saw a squirrel next to a pile of snow. I believe I am the first person ever to have had a squirrel throw snowballs at them. MLIA.