getting up in the morning
having a boss

Two best things about summer

My skin feels healthier with a little sun.
School holidays so there is less traffic on the road at rush hour.

Tell me two things that you miss from your past.

The "old fashioned" Halloween parties (yes, including bobbing for apples!)
Holiday visits with relatives back home (going to join in this year though!)

Tell me 2 things you love about your city.

The way the towers of Melbourne cbd look at night, Victoria markets, a must if anyone ever visits Melbourne.

Two things you love about Xmas?

Hot Chocolate and Snow Falling

Two songs you'd listen to on repeat for the rest of your life?

No One by Alicia Keys
Couldn't Have Said It Better Myself by Meat Loaf and Patti Russo

Tell me two things that have made you smile today.

Tasselhoff Burrfoot (big gray cat)
Fluffernutter Fraidycat October (long haired black and white cat)

What are two places would you like to vacation?

Lake Louise - Canada and Alaska

Tell me two reasons you joined Goodreads

Inspiration (I am always looking for new books to read)
To make friends with fellow book lovers

Tell me your two favourite photographers.

Oohh I am afraid I do not have a favorite photographer. Ansel Adams work is quite good...I sort of was amazed thought by National Geographic photographer(s) recently looking at posters at allposters.com. Their posters (photos) are somewhat expensive but are the clearest I think I have ever seen!

Tell me two desserts you enjoy & look forward to especially at this time of year.

Well for me

1) pavolva - aussie summer xmas
2) And my brother in law's mother makes the most amazing angel cake again aussie xmas.

two books that affected the way to think???

Journey of the Awakening, by Ram Dass

Peace is Every Step, by Thich Nhat Hanh

two books that you read when you were younger, that you would experience differently if you read them now?

The Lord of the Rings J R R Tolkien
The Handmaiden's Tale Margaret Atwood

I did read them when I was young and reread them as an adult.


two special traditions that you celebrate this time of year.

Inviting someone to accompany me to any celebrations, can be a friend or a new acquaintance (the more the merrier & certainly appreciated)

Playing Christmas songs while doing my tasks...and also sending EVERYONE a Christmas card, early whenever possible! Hand delivered 8 today!

Also watching every year National Lampoon's Christmas

Tell me 2 things about back home that make it so special.

Just living in a rainforest is special, I suppose being able to see the Caribbean sea (through the trees) is pretty special too.

Tell me two nationalities you would have liked to have been if you hadn't been whatever you are.

Canadian (They seem to have fun!)
Puerto Rican (Great food & stories)

Tell me 2 stories of any of your most favorite Christmas baking memories...

6 years old and watching my mother bake a pavolva (amazing marange desert down under) she makes one every year, and she is amazing to watch. I use to think it was magic. Turning eggs into white fluff of heaven :).

Second trying my brother in law's mother's, angel cake for the first time Xmas day. Oh my god I was about 14 constantly on a diet but I couldn't resist the custard. There was a party in my mouth and everyone was invited. She will never give out the recipe, I keep telling my darling niece to try and steal it but she wont.

Oh yeah, tell me two movies you associate with the festive season?

Muppets Christmas Carol and Mary Poppins (it's always on TV at Christmas time!)

Tell me two of your facourite makes of car.

Lamboghinis and Porsches
Tell me two things abou yourself you wish you could change?

Lexus and Subaru

Tell me two of your favorite Christmas/holiday songs.

Yas wrote: "
Tell me two things abou yourself you wish you could change?"

Be a more likeable person and be better at math.

Tell me 2 things you wish you could do if money were no limit...

Go around in a balloon in 80 days, and bring back Jane Austen back from the dead, I think she would be a fantastic conversationalist.

If you could have dinner with anyone dead or alive who would they be?

I don't have enough work to do and end up staring at the computer screen too much.

I don't have enough light.

Two things you hate (like candy or whatever) eating the Christmas season.

Lindz: Stephen Fry and Bill Bailey
Annie: Mince pies and Christmas pudding

Tell me two of the worst films you have ever seen

Hi Lauren,
Stephen Fry lives less than a mile away from me, he does a heck of a lot of local charity work. To top it all they film a TV series,[Kingdom:] written by and staring Stephen around here.
It causes total chaos with all the holiday makers, most of them are lost anyway. On the Tele it seems as though the sea is 'just up the road' try 45 miles up the road!!
Have a meal with Stephen and you would come away a lot wiser, he is one of the cleverest people I know, he is openly gay, but still one hell of a nice bloke.
All the best, Paul Rix [oldgeezer:]

Lauren -

28 Days Later and The Chronicles of Riddick (and neither was my idea!)

Tell me two songs that get stuck in your head most often.

Don't Worry Baby by the Beach Boys
At Last by Etta James

Name two sounds that make your skin crawl

a screeching toddler and nails down a black board

two of the first movies you remember seeing?

Hi Paul :) I'm not surprised to hear about all the charity work. He seems such a nice man.

Lindz wrote: "two of the first movies you remember seeing?"

Pocahontas and A Little Princess. Both of which made me cry.

Tell me two people who put a smile on your face just thinking of them.

Both my children...tell me two of your favourite names.

Natalie and Charlie

Tell me two people who make you laugh out loud.

Tough one! Many comedians, but I'm going to say Sean Lock and Paul Merton.

Tell me two books you really should read but have never got round to.

The Phantom of the Opera
Wicked

Tell me two books you wish you never read.

House of Sand and Fog and My Labotomy

What are your least favorite chores?

Spinxx

Twink

Tell me t things that annoy you most this time of year.

Tacky Christmas decorations on the outsides of people's houses (never fails!) and cold hands...

Tell me 2 things that you're ashamed of having done

i'm ashamed of only walking my dog for a half a mile last night because it was only 6 degrees outside. i'm ashamed of eating all that icecream

tell me 2 things your partner did for you that let you know he/she was in love with you...

He accepted my 6 cats.

He drove 3 hours to meet me at my cousin's wedding after his son's piano recital.

Name 2 things you did as a kid that you wish you could get away with as an adult.

Eating lots and lots of ice cream, and being able to dance around without looking like an idiot.

Two things you are frightened of?

snakes and losing my job

Name two things that you do on Snow Days.

make a complicated breakfast
read a lot

name two things about yourself that make you feel really smart

Hi,
Paul Rix here My best black shirt and white tie which I wear at book signings.
name your two favourite birds

Uh... toucan and puffin.

Tell me 2 things you did today that you're proud of.

1. Cleaned the entire downstairs (by myself!)
2. read some more of The Face by Dean Koontz

Tell me two celebrities that you would love to meet.

Barbra Streisand
Anastacia

Tell me two things that you have to do today that you'd rather not.

Had that ice cream after dinner, and rammed my knee into a moving trolly. The bruise will be huge!!!!!

Two books that have made you laugh out loud.

- Jane Eyre, strangely enough. It was a sort of happy laugh, at Jane and Rochester's conversations.
- I can't actually think of another. I find a lot of things funny in books but they never actually make me physically laugh.

Tell me two people you'd bring back to life for ten minutes

-Jane Austen
-Queen Victoria

Tell me two things you NEVER want to do

kill someone accidently (cos of the guilt)&& i never want to be in a position where i'm begging for something/one i love not to go.

tell me two things.. you think about doing but know you'll never actually take action.