10 Day You Challenge: 1 Picture of Yourself

There's like a million of these around, but this:

Few years old, from a trip to York. So many loves of my life in this picture.

10 Day You Challenge: 2 Songs

Oh lord. Talk about getting really difficult...

1. Plot To Bomb The Panhandle - A Day To Remember

2. Learn To Be Lonely - Phantom of the Opera

I want this played at my funeral

10 Day You Challenge: 3 Films

1. Phantom of the Opera. I'm a dork, but it's one of my favourites.

2. The Princess Bride. As you wish. ;)

3. Black Beauty.

10 Day You Challenge: 4 Books

 Man, these are getting harder!

1. The Hobbit by J.R.R.Tolkein. I read it in primary school and this book is what got me into fantasy.

2. Animal Ark series by Lucy Daniels. These books were my first real literary addiction, I should probably be ashamed but I'm so not. I'm a dork.

3. Harry Potter by J.K.Rowling. I think a lot of my generation will say this, the Harry Potter series will forever be amazing.

4. Wasted by Marya Hornbacher. Um, yeah.

honourable mentions: The Half Moon Ranch series, Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles and Russel Brand's Booky Wook.

10 Day You Challenge: 5 Foods

1. Vegetables. I do love vegetables, especially peppers, carrots and broccoli. I used to eat just whole bowls of broccoli when I was feeling lazy at uni.

2. Sugar. I have a sweet tooth from hell. Seriously I think I may be a sugar addict.

3. Cheese. I blame my boyfriend! Wensleydale with cranberries and extra mature cheddar are favourites of mine.

4. Melon. Especially watermelon.

5. Barbeque Sauce. Another I blame on the boyfriend.

10 Day You Challenge: 6 Places

1. Canada. I've been to Toronto and Niagra and I'd love to go back there! I especially want to see the Canadian Rockies some day.

2. York. I had one of the best holidays of my life there, and the city is so beautiful.

Our hotel was right near here.

3. Lake Como, Italy. Another of my best holidays ever, such a gorgeous place. Especially the lakeside. I need to go back some day.

4. Yorkshire Dales. My family is from Yorkshire, I've spent a lot of time in the Dales, particularly Bolton Abbey.

5. Amsterdam. I want to visit one day, what can I say?

6. Warrington. I was born and raised here, and despite what I may say I do love it. It's my home and home is where the heart is.

10 Day You Challenge: 7 Wants

I'm going to try staying away from material things for this list as I do weekend wishlists.

1. To marry a billionaire. A job, or some source of income. Being broke and useless is kind of exhausting in an odd way.

2. Willpower. I gained ~4kg recently and I've totally failed at getting rid of it, which is rather upsetting for me. And screwing with the fit of my jeans. If I could just grow some willpower or motivation or something from somewhere I'd be able to lose the weight and keep it off.

3. No more crazy. Self explainitory.

4. To be able to get back into horse riding, I rode for years and it breaks my heart that I can't any more. If that isn't possible then I'll take a fresian of my own ;)

5. My grandparents to stop deteriorating. Watching them getting older is killing me, I have to leave the room when my grandad starts getting really confused.

6. A good night out. With people. I love my boyfriend, but he's the only person in my life any more and weekly pub trips just him and me aren't quite the same as college and uni nights out with a gang.

7.More metal. I want another lip piercing and dermals just under my collarbones. I wouldn't mind pairing up my nostril piercings either. Shame I can't really if I want a job =[

10 Day You Challenge: 8 Fears

1. Bugs and spiders. They just have way too many legs.

2. Change. I don't cope well with change, especially big changes.

3. Getting old. I'm scared of developing memory problems like my grandparents, I'm scared of not being able to do things for myself. Being elderly is a terrifying prospect.

4. Being back to where I was as a teenager. I was originally going to write getting fat again, but it's the associations with being friendless and bullied and stuff that scare me more than any weight gain [though I have a special brand of crazy that contributes to that particular shallow fear]

5. Speaking of which, I'm scared of being crazy for the rest of my life. Multiple years of crazy and therapists and stuff... I'm still crazy. Bah.

6. Pregnancy. Carrying any kind of sproglet = nopenopenope.

7. Never being good enough.

8. Heights. Well, more the falling aspect. Anything that seems even vaguely precarious and I'm terrified. I went up the CN Tower once, my sister thought the glass floor was amazing, I nearly cried. I don't do ladders either, or standing on stools. Horrible wobbly badness.

10 Day You Challenge: 9 Loves

1. Chris. I'll leave it at that, before I get all soppy.

2. Animals, especially horses, cats and reptiles. Oh and octupi, they're pretty badass.

3. Music. I wrote a whole post on it.

4. The colour purple, it's my favourite colour. Runner up is black.

5. Sci-Fi and Fantasy. Mum is a fan and I grew up watching Captain Picard and the Star Wars movies and reading Tolkein and Rowling as a kid. Mum and I still occasionally enjoy the same things, The Hobbit, Doctor Who, the new Star Trek movies...

6. Horror movies. I've seen so many I'm getting desensitised to them.

7. Tea. I am a tea fiend.

8.  Corsets. I have a few and I'd live in them if I could. Damn freaky shaped ribcage screws it up for me and makes it rather more uncomfortable than usual.

9. Makeup. Shockingly ;)

10 Day You Challenge: 10 Secrets

I have enjoyed reading Tales From the Kingdom's posts from this challenge and thought it would be fun and a good way to inject something personal into the blog (and stop the blog dying while my eye is sore).

So first up is ten secrets:

1. I don't like kids. Not much of a secret but oh well. I don't like them, I don't want them and I'd rather not be around them either.
 
2. I used to want a pet dragon as a kid. Yep, I was cool like that ;)

3. I am always late to the bandwagon, seriously. I only just started watching Supernatural. It just takes me a while to get taken in by everyone's excitement. 


4. All my life people have pushed me towards things, certain subjects in school, my degree, everything. Now I have to try and work things out for myself, find out what I really want to do, I'm scared and lost and have no idea what to do.

5. I love the countryside. If it was at all possible I'd move out into the middle of nowhere and just live with nature surrounding me. 

6. I'm a quitter. If I keep screwing up I just give up. It's a miracle I even made it through my A Levels, let alone my degree!

7. I fear for the future of humanity. I swear evolution is going backwards, I mean we have to have "caution: hot" labels on coffee and "warning: may contain nuts" on packets of peanuts... things are not good.

8. I actually like swearing and coming up with creative swearwords. Unladylike and uncouth sure, but fun.

9. I'm a sugar junkie. I practically live off sweet things. This probably explains a lot.

10. I have a pretty dark, sarcastic and dirty sense of humour.