9 posts tagged “qotd”
What item will someone ALWAYS find in your kitchen pantry?
OLIVE OIL.........
and about 13 different boxes of cereal . . . .
Where, when, and with whom was your very first kiss?
The playing field of my junior school. During break time. Near to York, UK.
Piers Walsh was his name. The first of many kisses. Until we went to Beamish on a coach for a school trip. His mum had wrapped his water bottle in a bread bag and the condensation made all the bread crumbs stick to the outside of the bottle which I found very very gross and that was it - over and done with.
I think I was 8.
You have four unexpected guests showing up for dinner in less than an hour, you haven't been to the store in days, and you want to impress them with a delicious meal. What do you serve them?
Pea and Pesto soup.....tastes better than it sounds. Always have Pesto here and frozen peas, wine (for cooking) and stock.... and have frozen bread dough I would bake for rolls etc.
Linguine with lemon, mushroom and thyme. Usually have linguine in the cupboard and we use loads of mushrooms. Lemon juice/and or fresh lemons in fridge. Usually have thyme - have dried stuff worst case scenario......
Pudding would be meringues. I am quite good at making these and would drizzle melted chocolate over them (we always have choc chips here). They'd have cooled enough for this by the time we'd have eaten the other courses.
Perhaps not the most sophisticated of dinners but all quick, easy and usually successful even for me.
Spill the beans then - what would you be able to rustle up then folks?
What keeps you up at night?
SOOOOO MANY things......
1. Reading a good book.
2. Checking e-mail (cos when I am going to bed, England is waking up....)
3. Trying to get the kids' stuff sorted for school.
4. Generally it is a good time to have peace and quiet in the house... so it often ends up being 'me time.'
5. Watching naff tv ...rare but it happens.
6. Having hot sex...... erm, shouldn't this be far higher up on the list? Oh, forgot...too old for that.....
7. Having a million forbidden thoughts that just have my mind working overdrive.....
What do you absolutely need to get done before the weekend's over?
The kids' uniforms washed and ironed for school.
Pay a bill.
Try and work out (but it's really not crucial)
HOW ABOUT YOU????????????
What's your method for packing a suitcase?
Oh this is good! As hubby and I have very very different ways to do this so travelling together becomes a nightmare...
I first get out everything I am going to take....and normallly if it is a holiday/vacation then I don't want to have to do laundry so I take at least one outfit a day - for me and the kids - that is something Mr laundry-no-idea Hubby doesn't get. I fold everything - put socks in shoes or cosmetics in shoes and pack all them first - pack the major folded things on the middle and have books, cosmetics on the outside.
I admit I over pack. I often have to sit on suitcases to close them. I have never once been charged for excess weight - unlike hubby.......he prefers to take just one big bag where as I will take a few. Also he would rather be shot than have plastic bags used anywhere (did I mention he is a snob). I also rarely use the nice hard cases we have as there is limited ability to stuff more stuff in. Bee (9) also overpacks....she's got it from me. She has already started packing for Mexico (mid March) and here is what she was planning to take for one night in the mountains (where she already has books. toys and other clothes)
When travelling to/from UK I bring back things that I then have to unpack in secret - nothing illegal but just things that drive hubby mad about me even considering to bring here - deodrants, Strepsils, books CDs. I once even brought back a load of Le Creuset pans in my cases......
I always pack for us as a family. Then I know what we are taking and I can hide bit and pieces I know he will scoff at.
Funny story :-
Our honeymoon was a surprise. Well hubby had given me loads of hints that we were going camping in a National Park - he had bought guide books he would read and secretly hide if I came in a room - maps he would put under the sofa - of course I would go there and look as soon as he was gone so I thought it was a camping trip in CA. He told me to pack warm clothes, sensible shoes and some pots and pans and cans of soup. We were apparently going to be on the road a lot - need I say, I was really quite dreading it?
The next day, we woke up in our hotel room and he videoed me opening the envelope with out vacation details in - tickets to Maui and Kauai (Hawaii) - I am there on film going 'But we can't drive there can we? Do we still have to camp?" That's how brainwashed I had been...
He had secretly packed a case for me. Can you imagine your husband packing your case for your honeymoon? He didn't do too bad but i would certainly have taken way more stuff and loads of nicer things if it had been down to me!!
What was the last thing that made you smile?
Submitted by Becca-Pink.
A very sarcastic, innocent sounding comment I made to hubby about an hour ago - that would only really mean something to the two of us.
What is the worst city you've ever been to and why?
Submitted by Soup.
Probably Salzburg, Austria. The city itself seemed quite elitest and it was quite a hard time for me. I was doing a 'semester abroad' and was quite lonely.....I stayed with a family I just didn't gel with at all. They had a little boy I helped look after who was very sweet but they were quite a strange couple otherwise. I ended up leaving early and whilst I am sure Salzburg is perhaps a great place, it just reminds me of quite a desperate time in my life (aged 22).
The seventh season of "American Idol" premieres tonight. Will you be watching, or are you over it?
Yes I watched it....it was light enough to have on whilst I did 2 hrs of ironing.
