My Creatively Random Life

The Express Yourself Weekly Meme is hosted  Bouquet Of Books  and  Entertaining Interests .  This week's topic is: What scent (candle, Fragrance, etc) is your favourite during Autumn? I love me some vanilla.  Candles, perfume, bath soap.  There's just something about the scent of vanilla that feels calming and soothing.  I love it. What's your favourite scent?

The Express Yourself Weekly Meme is hosted  Bouquet Of Books  and  Entertaining Interests .  This week's topic is: What is the last text you sent and/or received? Not really anything interesting I am afraid, my fiance sent me "I got the Darth Vader mug.  Of course you can only put dark roast in it."  And I sent back "...", because really what can you say to that?

The Express Yourself Weekly Meme is hosted  Bouquet Of Books  and  Entertaining Interests .  This week's topic is: If you could switch bodies with someone for 24 hours (like in Freaky Friday) who would you switch with and why? If I could switch bodies with anybody for a day it would be my son, he gets bullied a lot at school and is too afraid to stand up for himself. I would like to stand up to his bullies just once. No violence just a little pointing out that how they behave is not cool. Also, I would tell the teacher what's going on because if he did that I wouldn't have to spend so much time on the phone explaining why he doesn't do that.

The Express Yourself Weekly Meme is hosted  Bouquet Of Books  and  Entertaining Interests .  This week's topic is: Share a list of songs from your WIP playlist. Not a writer?  Share some of your fave songs at the moment. My writing playlist is long and varied, I like to listen to a wide variety of music. My top five on my playlist right now are: Rapunzel By Emilie Autumn Nothing Else Matters By Metallica Toxic By Brittany Spears Genie in a Bottle By Christina Aguilera  Hold Each Other By A Great Big World I am slowly catching up on my posts.  I really love some of these topics which is why I am doing them now instead of just moving on.

The Express Yourself Weekly Meme is hosted  Bouquet Of Books  and  Entertaining Interests .  This week's topic is: You have been blindfolded & taken to a secret place, when the blindfold is removed, where are you? When my blindfold was taken off I would be seated in a plush window seat surrounded by super soft, fluffy pillows.  I would have a gorgeous view of the ocean and my laptop so that I could write. Next to me on a tiny table is a well made latte which was served by Ianto, he is hovering nearby in case I should desire more coffee.

The Express Yourself Weekly Meme is hosted  Bouquet Of Books  and  Entertaining Interests .  This week's topic is: You have 30 seconds to change your name, what is it? This is easy, I would change my name to Gabriela Angel Dwyer.

The Express Yourself Weekly Meme is hosted  Bouquet Of Books  and  Entertaining Interests .  This week's topic is: Pick one of your 5 senses you find the most important to you. Okay, so this is actually the topic from the beginning of the month but I am like always behind and I like it so I am posting it now. I think that touch is probably the most important sense to me.  With all the sewing and crocheting and other crafting that I do I always have my hands on some sort of fabric or yarn or something and that tactile sensation is very important to me.  Not to mention all the typing and writing I do.

The Express Yourself Weekly Meme is hosted  Bouquet Of Books  and  Entertaining Interests .  This week's topic is: Name a few things you like to eat while writing. I am ashamed to admit it but I have a major Cheetos addiction. That and chocolate and I could survive locked away writing in a cabin for months. Well and coffee of course.

The Express Yourself Weekly Meme is hosted  Bouquet Of Books  and  Entertaining Interests .  This week's topic is: What quirks does your BFF have that you adore, because it makes them unique? This is a photo of me and my BFF, aren't we adorable?  Like puppies right?  Anyway...back to quirks that I adore, the dictionary defines a quirk as a peculiar behavioral habit.  I can't say that she has any quirks so to speak but I adore her most of the time just the same. This is a blog hop (that I am a week behind on) usually I would post the linky list here but when I went  to grab it said it was expired so when it is back up and running I will come back and update it for you all.

The Express Yourself Weekly Meme is hosted  Bouquet Of Books  and  Entertaining Interests .  This week's topic is: We are 1/3 of the way through the year. Name something you have achieved thus far. My biggest achievement this year is deciding to do a 5k run, which was totally insane. I looked over some of the 5k training apps and decided that I liked  Zombies, Run! 5k .  I figured the most likely cause of me running in real life is going to be a Zombie apocalypse so why not train that way? All joking aside, I really do love this app, the workouts start off nice and easy and it works with the music on my phone.  It even shows me which songs increase my productivity and which ones decrease it when I log in online. This is a blog hop, go on and check out what everyone else is up to, and join in if you want:

The Express Yourself Weekly Meme is hosted  Bouquet Of Books  and  Entertaining Interests .  This week's topic is: Tell us something you haven't tried yet but would like to. ( this is actually from the beginning of the month, I am playing catch up) One thing I have never tried but I would really like to is cross stitch (lame I know) but it's something I have always wanted to have a go at.  Ace even bought me some easy kits for Christmas last year but I just haven't been able to make the time. It's on my project list, you know after finishing those Cosplay's I have going for Fan Expo and moving and all that jazz. This is a blog hop, check out what everyone else had to say here:

The Express Yourself Weekly Meme is hosted  Bouquet Of Books  and  Entertaining Interests .  This week's topic is: Who would narrate your life in a movie? (submitted by Debra @ The White Mage) I love this question so much!  What a fun thing to think about, I would love to have a movie of my life made.  There are a few parts of it that would make for excellent story lines. As for my choice for a narrator, it would have to be Peter Capaldi of course.  I couldn't imagine anyone better.  That accent is to die for. Who would narrate the story of your life? This is a blog hop, check out what everyone else has to say too:

The Express Yourself Weekly Meme is hosted  Bouquet Of Books  and  Entertaining Interests .  This week's topic is: Name a secondary character who you think deserves their own series/stand alone. There are so many secondary characters that I would like to see get their day in the sun that this was a hard choice but one of my very favourites is Chase from Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth books. The tough, always prepared boundary warden is one of my favourite characters (after the Mord Sith) and I would love to see more of him and his family.  Even just a little one off story like Debt of Bones was for Zedd would be fantastic. Who is a secondary character that you think deserves a shot a stardom? This is a blog hop:

So clearly I am a little late with this post but hey, that's just how I roll. The Express Yourself Weekly Meme is hosted  Bouquet Of Books  and  Entertaining Interests .  This week's topic is: What's the most creative way you can come up with to send a thank you note?  (submitted by J. Lenni Dorner) I like to send thank you notes, sadly I am always slow and they usually end up being really late.  Like months late.  But always cute. I am not very original though, I just send plain old thank you notes with cards or postcards.  I just plaster them with stickers like I do everything else that gets mailed out of my house.  Because everything is better with stickers. How do you like to say thank you?

The Express Yourself Weekly Meme is hosted  Bouquet Of Books  and  Entertaining Interests .  This week's topic is: What are some writerly tips you've found helpful? The most helpful writing advice to me is to write every day.  Just write.  Write anything.  A journal entry, a blog, your WIP, a short story, a poem. Whatever floats your boat. When I was my high school creative writing class our teacher would make us spend the first twenty minutes of the class writing in journals.  We could write whatever we wanted.  I still have those journals.  I used them for story outlining, character drafting, name idea listing, poetry, short stories and occasional random thoughts. The other tip that I have found works wonders is just keep writing, don't look back.  You can edit later.  I wish I had learned that one a long time ago.  My writing is getting much stronger now.  (or at least moving forward) What writing tips hav...

The Express Yourself Weekly Meme is hosted  Bouquet Of Books  and  Entertaining Interests .  This week's topic is: what's a musical or play you've viewed? We have gone to see a few musicals and plays over the last few years, from small community productions to bigger shows and truly I love them all.  There is nothing more exciting to me than getting dressed up and going to the theater and I am enjoying the fact that I can now start teaching that love to my kids. My favourite thing that we have gone to see in recent years was a community production of Sweeney Todd.  The cast was brilliant and I was both amused and delighted which is always fantastic. This is a blog hop, check out the other blog below:

The Express Yourself Weekly Meme is hosted  Bouquet Of Books  and  Entertaining Interests .  This week's topic is: what's your favourite family recipe/meal? This was a hard one for me to choose because I love so many things but in the end I went with the first thing that had come to my mind when I read the question and that was lasagna rolls.  I think my mom first got this recipe from one of those mail subscription recipe clubs back in the early nineties, you know, they sent you a box and then recipes every month to fill it up? Does stuff like that still exist or is it all Pinterest and food bloggers?  Anyway, these things are just to die for.  They are probably a million calories but they are quicker than lasagna and they are made with Alfredo sauce so Ace will eat them.  (he won't do red sauce) Blah! Have you ever found that when you have been making something from your head for years that when you try to write it down your memory draws a...

The Express Yourself Weekly Meme is hosted  Bouquet Of Books  and  Entertaining Interests .  This week's topic is: What is a costume you wore for Halloween as a child? Being born in 1981 I wore many awesome Halloween costumes as a kid, I vaguely remember the year of the carebear costume with the mask I could barely breathe out of.  Or the year we were in Montreal for Halloween to visit my Grandfather and my mom dress me up as a Hobo. I think my favourite childhood Halloween costume though was the year I was a bunny, because bunnies are awesome.  Plus I really love face paint.  

The Express Yourself Weekly Meme is hosted  Bouquet Of Books  and  Entertaining Interests .  This week's topic is: Do you have any Halloween plans? As I am sure you can probably imagine Halloween is usually a huge deal around our house, there is usually trick or treating and then the adults go out on the weekend.  This year though it falls on a Friday which throws everything out of whack. There is still the planned trick or treating with the kiddos (princess and Ender-man respectively) but the usual going out with my sister and friends has been put off due to also having a family party to go to on Saturday.  I will still be dressing up though.  (I shall be a kitty for work and a TARDIS for trick or treating) I do however have all sorts of fun activities to participate in with the International Geek Girls Pen Pal Club  for their Halloween Party.  Which should be super fun! What are you doing for Halloween?

The Express Yourself Weekly Meme is hosted  Bouquet Of Books  and  Entertaining Interests .  This week's topic is: what is the scariest movie/book you've watched/read? Arachnophobia is hands down the scariest movie I have ever seen.  All those spiders, just thinking about it now makes me squirm.  I scene full of spiders in any movie will make me turn my head away in any film.  Most other things I can handle but spiders turn me into a big baby.  Well,  spider and centipedes. The scariest book I have read at this point in my reading journey has probably been Pet Cemetery by Stephen King if we are going on pure creepy factor.  If we are going to go with giving one nightmares and not being able to get it out of your head I have to say A Clash of Kings by George R R Martin did it for me. Please join us for this blog hop: