This was in my TopStuff blog, but I'm nuking it, so moving it here.

Just a few of my favourite things :)
This was compiled from stacks of online quizzes, and then sorted into some sort of category order.

Movies
Movie:	At the moment my favourite movie is Peter Pan. My longest running favourite movie would have been Labyrinth, I watched it every week for a year and a half.
Actor:	Jason Isaacs
Actress:	Nicole Kidman
Type Of Movie:	I like all sorts. I do tend to like the big Hollywood blockbuster though.
Action movie:	Terminator 2
Animated movie:	A Bugs Life or Toy Story
Dramatic movie:	The Hunt for Red October
Funny movie:	Flying High
Kids movie:	Peter Pan
Musical:	The Sound of Music
Romantic movie:	When Harry Met Sally
Scary movie:	Don't have one. I don't like scary movies. Actually I take that back. In 1991 at the end of year 12, our maths class went out to see a movie. They chose to see Silence of the Lambs. I didn't want to see it, but eventually was talked into it. The silly thing is I really liked it - I think even more than anyone else that went!
Sci-Fi movie:	Star Trek VI
TV
Cartoon Character:	Tough one. Bugs Bunny perhaps
Cartoon:	Looney Tunes
TV Show:	MacGyver. Probably ER at the moment.
TV Station:	I'd say CBS except we don't get that in Australia :) Probably channel 9
Music
Band:	Queen
Female Artist:	Maybe Madonna or Alanis Morrisette
Male Artist:	David Bowie or Billy Joel
Concert you've been to:	Either Billy Joel, David Bowie or Brian May. All very good.
Music:	80s Rock
CD:	At the moment the Peter Pan soundtrack, or some of the Harry Potter sound tracks. I also have this cd Marc burnt for me which was essentially Star Wars in techno, very cool.
Song:	Probably Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen. It's been my favourite since 1986 basically.
80s song:	Gosh there's so many! You're the Voice by John Farnham was one of my earliest favourites. Don't Worry Be Happy, Electric Blue, It's the End of the World as we Know it, Love Shack, Patience, and many others are all up there
Depressing song:	Probably Spending My Time by Roxette. It came out the week I broke up with my first boyfriend, and it described exactly how I was feeling
Love song:	Possibly All I Want is You by U2
Upbeat song:	Pressure by Billy Joel
Entertainment
Author:	Roald Dahl
Book:	Star Trek VI by JM Dillard
Kid's Book:	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling
Game:	Pictionary
Board game:	Pictionary
Card game:	Cribbage
Computer game:	Spider Solitaire at the moment
Video game:	Mario Kart
Celebrity:	Aside from Jason Isaacs? :) Well aside from an actor or actress, maybe Ray Martin
Comedian:	Billy Crystal
Hobby:	Playing with Lego
Magazine:	I used to collect Smash Hits magazine. Internet.au published a photo of mine every month for three years which was pretty cool
Radio Station:	Triple M
Show:	Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat and the Lion King were both spectacular
Talk show:	The Shebang on TripleM
Thing to do:	Waste time on my computer/the internet
Thing to do during the summer:	Go somewhere air conditioned
Thing to do on a rainy day:	Stay inside and play on my computer
Thing to do on the computer:	Read email, browse the internet, read blogs, look at lego etc etc
Thing to do on the weekends:	Catch up with everything I don't have time to do during the week
Thing to do with friends:	Play games
Food
Food:	Roast pork
Breakfast:	Bacon and eggs
Lunch:	6" pizza sub on italian herb and cheese bread
Dinner:	Roast pork, with crackling and apple sauce, and baked vegetables
Drink:	Orange juice
Alcoholic Drink:	Baileys
Non-Alcoholic Drink:	Orange juice
Cold Drink:	Orange juice
Hot Drink:	Hot chocolate
Juice:	Orange juice
Soda:	Solo/Lift - that's a lemon flavoured softdrink which you cannot actually get in the USA
Cereal:	Kellogs crunchy nut cornflakes
Fruit:	Strawberries
Vegetable:	Potato
Condiment:	Mustard
Dessert:	Lemon cheesecake
Salad Dressing:	Caesar
Cake:	Sponge
Candy:	Jelly beans
Chip:	Cheese
Chocolate Bar:	Flake
Fast food:	Subway
Gum:	Spearmint Extra
Ice Cream:	Choc mint
Junk food:	Chips or chocolate
Midnight Snack:	I don't eat after I brush my teeth at night
Movie snack:	Popcorn
Pie:	Apple
Pizza Topping:	Pepperoni
Snack:	Chips
People
Name:	I always liked Ariel from the Little Mermaid, but I would spell it Arielle, so people didn't pronounce it aerial
Boy Name:	Jareth ;)
Girl Name:	Arielle
Family Member:	Dunno. Maybe the little brother, although he doesn't care for me much
Sibling:	Well I only have one sibling, my brother :)
Aunt:	Probably Aunty Rhonda
Uncle:	Uncle Colin on Dad's side and Uncle Graham on Mum's side
Cousin:	Don't really have a favourite cousin, I never see them much anyway
Friend:	Luc
Female friend:	George
Male friend:	Luc and James
Ex bf/gf:	Toss up between Hao and Guy. I *liked* both of them, and still do. Even went to both of their weddings heh
Teacher:	I had a few.. Mr Allen, Mr Francis, Mr Jirsa, Mr Pynsent probably best
Person to be with:	Probably Luc and Cynthia. Always have a lot of fun with them
Person to talk to on the phone:	Peter is just about the *only* person I talk to on the phone for more than just "business"
Places
City:	Sydney!
State:	New South Wales
Country:	Australia!
Holiday:	My three trips to the USA were all awesome
Restaurant:	Does Subway count as a restaurant? If not, then how about Golden Corral, although they don't have any of them here :)
Store:	GoLo!
Shopping Centre:	Miranda Fair is pretty cool (and big)
Hang out:	The movies
Place:	My study probably
Fashion
Article Of Clothing:	My black jeans, although they are too big because Jeans West changed their sizes without telling anyone
Clothing brand:	Millers
Clothing color:	Black, although most of my clothing is blue of some shade
Fabric:	Velvet
Outfit:	Jeans and a tshirt - my uniform ;)
Pair of underwear:	That's getting a bit personal isn't it? :)
Pants:	Jeans
Shirt:	A tshirt
Shoe:	My hiking boots
T shirt:	They're all the same mostly, except different colours. I do have a Batman tshirt I got in 1989 that I can't bear to throw out
Hair color:	My hair is blonde. Although I always though Morticia's hair was very cool. And Marc had cobalt blue hair at one stage which looked fantastic
Hair length:	Long
Hair style:	Heh, no preference
Hat:	I don't wear hats
Shampoo:	Sunsilk
Perfume:	Don't wear perfume
Internet
Online buddy:	James is the only person that I have extended conversations with via email all day. They're not long emails, just conversational, and sometimes have fun threads like word association threads
Online phrase:	"heh" or *sigh* - which I actually say in real life :)
Way To Talk To Someone (icq,phone,email-etc.):	ICQ
Website:	Aside from Google and my blog, the sites that I frequent most are our local television guide, and the local 128km weather radar
Time
Day:	Saturday. The only day I can sleep in *and* stay up late, and I can do whatever I like in between
Time Of Day:	Sunset
Month:	December - Christmas and New Years yayy
Year:	1999 was a very good year. 1989 was pretty good too.
Season:	Spring
Age:	Well I was 26 in 1999
Animals
Animal:	Birds
Bird:	Cockatoos and other big parrots
Insect:	Butterfly or cicada
Pet:	My fish! Although if I had the space I'd probably get a dog for the companionship and exercise
Stuffed animal:	Does a pom pom count? I have a woollen toy I made in about 1983 that went all over the world and Australia with me
Wild animal:	Lions are pretty cool. Deer are too
Plants
Flower:	Carnation
Tree:	Liquid amber
Pot Plant:	Ferns
Senses:
Color:	Aqua
Color combination:	Red, Green and White - Christmas!
Feeling:	Feathers, velvet, warm clothes out of a drier, warm paper out of a photocopier, serotonin release, dopamine release
Smell:	Roasting meat
Sound:	Tinkling
Taste:	Bacon
Other Stuff
Car:	1997-1999 WRX
Dream:	That I could fly
Eye color:	Brilliant blue
Grade:	High Distinction :) Only got one of them once - for my Honours Degree
Job:	Out of the three full time jobs I've had since uni, probably my current one is the best
Letter:	K
Memory:	Gosh, that's a hard one. First kisses are always pretty cool. Feeling alcohol go to my head the first time was also pretty memorable.
Number:	Don't really have a favourite number. Maybe 1 or 10.
Obsession:	Lego, or Jason Isaacs :)
Picture:	That changes all the time too. There's a beautiful one of Jareth that I drew once.
Poster:	Well the only one I have up in the study at the moment is a picture of Sydney from space. I'll say it.
Quote:	Live long and prosper
Religion:	Christianity
School Subject:	Maths and Science
Shape:	Star
Sport to play:	Hockey was really the only sport I ever played
Sport to watch:	Lots of Winter Olympic sports are good
Symbol:	: and ) used in combination
Tool:	Philips head screw driver
Toothpaste:	Colgate
Word:	Antidisestablishmentarianism
Thing in the whole world:	Flying

Not a terribly imaginative title, you can blame Stu for that - I asked him for a title for this entry and that's what he came up with :)

So today began at 4:20 when I woke from a disturbing dream that Robin had gone skiing with Jim and John earlier in the year. I woke up thinking it could actually have been true and lost all enthusiasm to go to work early heh

So after a little bit of a sleepin, I wandered into work to cut up images for the frontpage of our website. The thing was, we decided to cmpletely redo the graphics on the front page of the site - on thursday last week. Final mockups were obtained at 4pm yesterday! So this morning it was a frantic rush to redesign the layout of the page and finalise a design we liked - a few executive decisions were made by us hackers on the final look, and while others stood around me desk we finished it.

So next I called comms as going live involved a dns change. So they did that at 1pm and suddenly six months of work came to life. It was all actually pretty exciting. Then a little over an hour later Stu's new website went live too, which I thought was pretty darned cool.

The afternoon was spent on general fixing things up and sorting out redirects and the like.

And then (after dinner with George) I got on a plane and flew a thousand kilometres to be with my boy :):). Terribly excited :) Being a night flight it was useless for photos, but I did record a several minute long movie of the lights of the Eastern Suburbs which just looked magical. Have I ever mentioned I *love* flying? The other nice part of the flight was the moon over the water near Brisbane and the actual landing with the Brisbane lights.

I brought up some plant from my tanks for Stu's new tank, which makes his tank look a whole lot nicer. We're going to go shopping for other bits and pieces while I'm here and maybe even some fish :)

But now it's tomorrow and finally time to sleep.

<posted from the BlackBerry>

I felt strangely at peace today. Of course a solid 8.5 hours of sleep helped immensely. But unusually I wasn't stressed about being late for work or adding 15 minutes to my trip by crossing to the other side of the road to get petrol (a trip which involves crossing the highway twice and three sets of traffic lights), or crazy people on the roads, or the impending deadline for our new website (which Peter is much more stressed over than anyone else). I felt vaguely like there is much more to life than day-to-day trivialities. That Stu is probably the only thing of any real importance in my life at the moment, the only thing worth worrying/caring about. I had all these ideas about some sort of profound blog entry about it all, but two sentences was about as good as I could get it, heh.

I did get moderately stressed out when I spent most of the day trying to get one thing done that should have taken an hour or two, but blew out to four or five after interruption after interruption after interruption. I was getting ready to disconnect my phone and shut down icq just to get some peace.

Spent the evening catching up on blogs, chatting to Arian and half watching reruns of CSI and will wander off in the general direction of bed shortly.

.. oh I forgot.. I also spent a couple of hours after work today flying up and down the coast on Google Earth, marking out points where I took photos out of the plane. And only did about half of them too :)

I was tagged by Fiona ten days ago with this, and have only just now gotten around to doing it! (sorry!)

Name 5 things you miss about your childhood:

1. Big family holidays. We did quite a few cool holidays when I was a kid. The four best were the "flying" holidays - America in 1983, Western Australia in 1984, Central Australia in 1985, Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands in 1987
2. Good vision. When I was 12 I could read the smallest counter on the VCR from way across the other side of the room. My eyesight started deteriorating after that.
3. Ability to sleep anywhere. I had no trouble sleeping on the plane to America in 1983. No such luck these days.
4. Nicky Vasek. My best friend in year 7. Haven't seen her since 1986. She's sent me some emails after reading this blog, but has disappeared into obscurity again when I asked if we could meet up :(
5. Bluey. My budgie for three years. The only one we had that actually talked.

Gosh, that was harder than I thought it would be. I realised there's not a whole lot from my childhood that I actually miss. Being extremelly shy and introverted I had few friends. There was no internet. I wasn't good at anything in particular, especially not anything that required coordination. I was good at school work, but nobody appreciated that except my parents (and my teachers I guess)

This meme was a tag your friends meme, but as I said in a previous post, I don't *do* that ;)

1. I’m waiting:: patience
2. Speak:: now
3. Roger...:: Roger (Flying High)
4. Knock knock:: who's there?
5. Hybrid:: plant
6. Can’t believe my eyes:: blink
7. Hooked:: addicted
8. Pontificate:: pope
9. Slime:: ball
10. Unwelcome:: visitor

So while looking up who Matt Tyler was, I found this awesome page on A Country Practice. Have been sitting here reading all the character bios, it's certainly bringing back memories.

Almost cried at this part regarding Molly Jones:

She died at home in May 1985 while Brendan and Chloe were flying a kite -- she was lying on a couch in the yard watching them when death claimed her and the last thing you saw and heard was Brendan running toward her and yelling before the picture faded to black

Even though it was something like twenty years ago and I was only 12 or so at the time, I remember that scene *vividly* :(

Watching Airport 75 tonight (part of the Airport Terminal Pack). The beginning was cool - filmed at Dulles airport in DC (been there!! :) ). The whole first half of the movie I'm thinking "gee that's a lot like Flying High! (Airplane! in the US release).. the nuns singing on the guitar with the girl needing a transplant.. and since when did nuns travel so much, and then in first class ???? And then to have a hole ripped out of the cockpit and but a mere breeze blowing through it?? I went sky-diving once, and at probably half the speed the wind was unbelievable. The conditions in the cockpit should be similarly unbearable. But the technical specifics of actually flying a 747 are pretty cool. And there is some cool footage of a 747 flying through the Rocky Mountains. I've yet to come to the really silly part of transferring a person into the plane tho.. :)

Been having my fair-share of dopamine-releasing chemicals tonight.. with pizza in the toaster oven heating up for dinner.. yumm.. :)

FQ1: What's something you find humorous, but probably shouldn't?
There are some movies that I laughed the entire way through but I'm sure they weren't meant to be that funny .. like the Poseidon Adventure, and Emma

FQ2: What's something that others find funny, but you don't?
There's Something About Mary would have to be the stupidest movie I have ever seen in my life. Everyone I went with were laughing like mad the whole way through it, but I was only mildly amused about twice in the entire thing.

FQ3: What actor/comedian/personality always makes you laugh? What movie? What book?
I remember seeing a travel doco by Clive James once, and I found his sense of humour rather appealed to me for some reason. I haven't seen anything of his since though. Movie? Probably Flying High (Airplane) is my favourite movie comedy. Book? I rarely laugh out loud when reading books.

FQ Stand-Up: Tell us a joke or funny story.
According to some study, the funniest joke in the world is:

A couple of New Jersey hunters are out in the woods when one of them falls to the ground. He doesn't seem to be breathing, his eyes are rolled back in his head. The other guy whips out his cell phone and calls the emergency services. He gasps to the operator: "My friend is dead! What can I do?" The operator, in a calm soothing voice, says: "Just take it easy. I can help. First, let's make sure he's dead." There is a silence, then a shot is heard. The guy's voice comes back on the line. He says: "OK, now what?"

Although I don't find it hugely funny. I remember reading something of Heinlein's once (I think it might have been Stranger in a Strange Land), and he made a rather interesting point about comedy that I've rarely found exception to - he essentially said that in order for something to be funny, someone (or I guess something) has to get hurt. When you think about it, that's very true. It's rare to laugh at something without someone/something else getting hurt in the process.

100 things about Kazza the Blank One. Bren has had one of these for ages, and I've been thinking I should probably put one together. Just recently Dave and Dennis put theirs up, so I thought I would too. Some of my ideas were stolen shamelessly from them :)

I knew within a microsecond of the Theme Thursday topic coming out what photo I'd use for it, but it means plugging in the external hard drive and it's too late at night when I haven't washed up from dinner, so I'll put it up tomorrow.

Ok so it's not quite tomorrow, it's actually Sunday night. I actually chose a few more than just the photo I was thinking of, and could have in fact uploaded a stack more. But I restricted it to four. The first is the one I was originally thinking of, and I threw the others in for good measure.