My main reason for updating today is I received a blog baton from my friend Becky over at If all the world were apple pie a while ago, and it’s now time to pass it along.   The idea is simple. You receive five questions from someone’s blog. You answer the questions, then send five more on to other people’s blogs.  My questions from the lovely Bex are…

1. You can only eat one meal for the rest of your life – what is it and why?

Curry chips! Man, oh man! I have been DYING for a proper curry chip for about two years now.  Alright, Americans, you may not have a clue what I’m talking about.  A curry chip is french fries, covered in curry sauce.

However, now your slim-jim excuse for french fries, proper, thick-cut french fries, with REAL curry sauce.  Ugh.  I’m drooling over here.  It’s my favourite food, ever and, as soon as I got off a plane at home, I practically camped outside a chip shop til it opened so I could have one for breakfast!

2. Tell me about the last film you watched. Did you like it? Why/why not?

Col and I went to see The Hunger Games a while back.  I did like it, I didn’t LOVE it.  I liked it because it stuck close enough to the book to be enjoyable, the actors were well chosen, the production itself was pretty good and, just like the book, it sucked me in.

I *didn’t* like it, because it left important parts out of the book.  In the beginning, the back story about the red headed girl (who later in the story appears as an Avox), the relationship between Gale and Catniss, there wasn’t enough Gale to make the Gale/Peta ‘inner struggle’ believable enough, the Peta/Catniss dymanic wasn’t, well, dynamic enough, the relationship with Catniss and Rue was rushed, the bread that Rue’s district sends to Catniss in the arena etc etc etc.

I’m really sick of this, excellent books turned into mediocre at best, ‘blockbuster hits’. I’d rather ‘the biz’ took each book and made two films a piece, just to incorporate all of the important stuff.

There’s a reason we take more than two and a half hours to read the damn book!!

3. What’s your favourite book of all time? Why do you like it?

Flowers in the Attic series by V.C Andrews.  I can’t really explain why I like it, I read these books while I was growing up, I’ve read them a number of times, and it’s just a story that sucked me right in.  They were creative and descriptive and, although tragic fairy tale, they’ve got a special place in my heart!

4. What do you value most in a person? Is there something that makes you think less of people regardless of other good characteristics?

I value honesty, can’t be surrounding myself with people who’d tell me I look a million bucks, when I’ve got lumps and bumps showing now, can I? 😉  I also value loyalty, it can be someone’s greatest assest, and, in the same breath, disloyalty can be someone’s biggest downfall.

5. You win a very large amount of money, enough that you’d never need to work again, but not so much you could buy the planet! What do you do with it?

I’d start at home, I’d clear our debt and mortgage, buy some property, and buy Col a ‘better’ car (he gave me the good one 😉 lol!) I’d buy my parents, brother and sister a house each and reliable cars and I’d make sure both Col’s family and mine would be comfortable for as long as I could.

I’d put enough in savings to pay for any future kids schooling.  I’d donate to charity, I’d travel…man, I suck at this…it’s just as well I don’t have enough money to buy the planet, I wouldn’t know what to do with it.

I guess it’s cliched, but it’s also true that I wouldn’t want more money than I need (if that makes sense).  I’d like to be out of debt, comfortable, own our own house outright and have our families comfortable, that’s it.  Anything beyond that is icing on the cake, you always get ‘used’ to whatever your standard of living is, if you become a bit more affluent, you get ‘used’ to that, but I’m not sure if it’s ever enough, I think you’d always want more.

Though, now I think of it, I could own my own pro-hockey team…

Now for my questions…pretty well-used and boring, but they’re all I got and I always find the answers interesting!

1. If you could have dinner with any famous person (alive or dead), who would it be and why?

2. If you were an animal, what would you be, and why?

3. When you were little, who was your favorite super hero and why?

4.  If they made a movie of your life, what would it be about and which actor would you want to play you? (and why?)

5. If you could visit any place in the world, where would you choose to go and why?

And who I’m ‘tagging’…(maybe a few more than five!)

Calliefornia over at Second on the Lips
Meghan over at Infertile Myrtle
Johnny over at Feed the piglet
Sera over at Sera’s Slimspiration
Hanna-Lou over at The H Duct
Jenni over at Another Fat Chick Blog
Danielle over at Journalitico