Grannymar got me at last, but then if you can’t pick on your family, who can you pick on?

It’s a nice simple meme, you use three set links to generate the name of the band, name of the album and the CD cover. It’s really all down to the luck of the draw…

This random article title is the name of your band.

The last four words of the very last quote is the name of your album.

The third picture on this page is your cover.

I lucked out and got a cool black and white picture, and I think it looks OK - whaddya reckon?

I’m tagging Nelly since I don’t think she’s had a chance to participate in this one yet!

Darnit, I’ve been tagged by Grandad, so I now need to do some thinking. Eight things that you didn’t know about me:

1. I’ve played in two ‘men-only’ rugby matches when I lived in France. First time was for the local town team second string, they had 14 players for a match and the opponents had 15, so instead of canceling they asked the opponents if I could play (I was their First Aider) and the opponents agreed (let me just say that I did have rugby experience). They were kind enough to make me captain (really just to ensure that I understood what the ref was saying) and went light on their tackles. I can’t remember if we won or not, but I strongly recollect our team being clapped off the field and me getting multiple ‘cheek kisses’ from our opponents - as they commented, they were not going to get a chance to kiss one of their opponents again soon!
2. In one year my hair was red, green, blond & brown. This was also the year I lived in France.
3. I believe that i was strangled in a previous life, I have a total phobia about people touching the front of my neck. A friend once grabbed me there when joking around and she ended up halfway across the room, it was a totally instinctual reaction!
4. I don’t drink coffee ever (can’t stand the taste) and I rarely drink tea - usually only when eating shortbread in winter. I hate it when people always offer me tea or coffee, especially when they’ve been repeatedly told for years that I don’t like it. My favourite drink is ice-cold water.
5. Party Trick 1: Most people can cross both their eyes in towards the centre, but ever since I had surgery on my eye muscles as a teenager to correct my squint, I’ve been able to control just my right eye. It really freaks people out when I swing just my right eye in towards the centre. It also nearly earned me a spot on Podge & Rodge last year, but the guy who can drink and then cry milk was deemed to be even weirder!
6. Party Trick 2: This one dates form my university days… I’m a ‘well endowed’ girl, so I can hold and drink from a beer bottle without using my hands… I’ll leave this one to your imagination!
7. Party Trick 3: The newest party trick is one I learned this year when on a trip to Arizona. The wonderful Phylis from the Philippines was also visiting and we had a few drinks in the bar. She asked the barman for some maraschino cherries and proceeded to try and tie the stem in a knot in her mouth. I just had to have a go, and managed it - three times in a row. The men at the bar decided my husband was a very lucky man…

The wonderful K8 the GR8 over at cackaloo.com sent me this meme over a month ago now, but I’ve been so busy that I’ve let it slip until now… Sorry K8!

1. What period of history would you most like to have lived in and why?

It’s a hard choice, maybe the sixties for the sex, drugs & rock ‘n’ roll and those groovy fashions; or hanging with the American beatnik poets of the 50’s while watching the growth of the civil rights movement…

But I’d have to be really sad and say that I’m such a geek at heart that I wish I was a true generation X-er. To have been a child of the late 60’s/early 70’s, seen the economic boom and technological development of the 80’s and had the chance to be part of the early stages of the internet. Born in 1978, I straddle Generations X & Y and identify with both of them. I love all the new technologies around the place and couldn’t live without the internet, but I wasn’t born when Star Wars first came out and didn’t use early computers, unlike most of the people I’m friends with…

2. If you were abducted by aliens who had never experienced ‘earth’ music
before, what one song would you play for them to demonstrate what music is
all about?

I think it would have to be one of the songs from the greatest ever live set, yet another thing I was too young to appreciate at the time… Queen playing at Live Aid in 1984. It’s a close call between ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ or ‘We Will Rock You’ or ‘We Are The Champions’ but I think I’ll go with ‘Radio Ga Ga’ in the end for the pure crowd participation!

3. If you were to be re-incarnated as an animal, which would you choose to
be?

I’m allergic to cats in this lifetime, but I’d love to be re-incarnated as one - to stretch and sun yourself all day while humans fetched you food on demand…

4. If you had to be stranded on a desert island with any person from the
past, present or future for a whole year, who would you choose?

I think that the only person that I’d be able to stand for a whole year would be my new hubbie - but since I only got married two days ago, I’m kinda obliged on this one! But seriously, I love him to bits and he’s the only one that can deal with me longterm!

5. What was your most embarassing moment?

It’s a while back now, but I was involved in church youth groups and choirs when I was younger. In my teenage years we were asked to perform as the singing group on RTE’s Sunday morning service. On the day one of the two lead singers was sick and I was thrown in at the last moment. Those who know me are aware that my singing ranges from very good to very bad… At the very end of the service as they were fading into credits the sound guy really caught me out as he dropped all the microphone volumes at the end with the exception of mine, just as I hit a really bum note! This was the final sound from the service just as the credits rolled and was really noticeable - and I got slagged about it for years after!

So now I need to pass this meme along, I hereby call out:

Grannymar
The Hubbie
Conor O’Neill
Keith