This was on my Tumblr dash, but I remember (not too long ago) these things going round LJ. So when I saw this set of questions, as posted by the lovely Molegirl, I thought it was time for a revival of sorts. So, pick a handful of numbers and I'll answer.

( 1-50 )
And I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving, if celebrated. All the tweets I saw from US-based friends made me feel very industrious and hardworking, with yesterday & today being ordinary working days in the UK.

( My not-exciting visit to a very not-favourite supermarket )
Tumblr news is that I have 181 followers, as opposed to 152 blogs I am following. Lots of Oregon pics recently, I find the place looks so magical and enchanted. All the Oregon posts here, the rest of my Tumblr here.

Were you aware that Tumblr only gives you monthly post totals up until the point when your overall total reaches 3000? I found that out earlier this week, when I passed 3000. I can see an overall total but I liked having the monthly totals. Now they're all gone.

In trying to see if I could rescue or recalculate this information, thanks to the direction of a friend I found my Tumblr Messages Inbox. I didn't know I had one. I've replied to the two major messages (one from a friend looking for copies of artwork originally lost when a computer died, one from a community inviting me to be a contributor - hope I'm not too late for that one). Problem is, there are no dates on the messages so I don't know how long they've been sitting in the inbox for - all I can guess at is they were there before Christmas.

Karaokegal - the short answer to the question you'd left in my inbox is I don't know. What you said about the Queen creating lordships (or whatever the correct term is) sounds technically correct, but with the reformation of the House of Lords I'm a bit hazy on what the current situation is. These days, I just marvel at the fact that Floella Benjamin is in the House of Lords (even tho she's officially a Lib Dem), a situation which would have seemed quite odd not so long ago.

Hopefully I will remember how to access messages in the future, now I know they exist. In trying to explore the mysteries of Tumblr further, I managed to log out of Tumblr but thankfully I got back in quickly enough. Maybe a miracle will happen and Tumblr will become as easy to manage as it is to post to, with lots of attractive layouts built for screen resolutions over 800x600 to choose from. We can only dream.

A few words about hot cross buns available from popular retailers, based on my samplings in recent weeks:

1. Sainsburys are the nicest, plenty of variety of dried fruit within. Makes the buns full of flavour, very moreish.
2. Greggs are OK, light in texture and almost like bread, probably needs toasting to bring out its flavours because it's a bit bland untoasted.
3. Tescos - not bad, third of the three but I wouldn't turn them down, it's just that they're nothing special.

Am currently tootling round San Francisco on Google Earth & Google Street View. It all looks so amazing and beautiful. Check out my Tumblr for pics.

Zumba on Wednesday night was really good, no new stuff, just the Merengue-ish routine I've done only once before, which I don't like because it's clearly designed for people with flatter chests than I have, but at least it's over quickly. My hamstrings were sore yesterday (one still isn't 100% today) cos I was trying to show off how I know all the routines and I'm really good at them to the newbies. Apart from the aches and the out-of-breathiness moments, I seriously totally love Zumba.

One week until Space Shuttle Endeavour launches for the final time. I can't believe it's come round so quickly, I know Atlantis will have a final mission in early summer but it really feels like the finale is upon us. And I know we'll find out soon enough, but I just can't imagine what it will feel like when the space shuttle program is completed.

I re-tumbled this a couple of days ago. I love it because it's so true, from both perspectives.



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