Sue Bailey

1. “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness”
2. Friday nights (absolute me time)
3. Birthdays (you should be spoiled unmercifully)
4. My computer (people who snoop deserve to find stuff that upsets them)
5. My laundry basket (I don’t want your dirty socks, and you don’t want mine)
6. My bank account (if you’ve ever heard a woman ask her husband for money to buy him a birthday present, you’ll never have a joint account)
7. Your right to say what you like; my right to say “not on my blog”.
8. New Year’s Eve
9. The ballot box
10. Being told the truth (I’d rather be hurt than lied to, a million times over. No one ever gets this.)

And you?

1. Cufflinks
2. Line-height: 1.6 (1.5 just doesn’t do it for me)
3. People with weird obsessions (I mean newt-fanciers rather than self-harmers, mainly)
4. The inside of girls’ elbows
5. Collar studs
6. Tired eyes (hungover eyes, at a push, on some people)
7. The Shipping Forecast
8. Earlobes
9. The Anglican liturgy (even though I’m an atheist. Must be BCP.)
10. Sarcasm

That is all. But feel free to write your own list.

1. A polecat
2. Philip Pullman
3. A pope (one of the cool medieval ones, not Bareback Benny)
4. Saul of Tarsus (I would take a different road to Damascus and save the world a lot of grief)
5. Alistair Campbell (this one, not this one)
6. Romana
7. Joseph Bazalgette (my hero)
8. J C Loudon (another hero)
9. The Library of Alexandria
10. Margaret Thatcher (yes, really)

What interests me about this list is that the two people I hate most in the world are on it.

Nicked from Whirly.

Nice Ass

1. Pubic hair on models starts looking normal again very quickly.
2. Girls look *at* the pictures. Boys imagine themselves *in* the pictures.
3. You’d think there’d be some kind of universally recognised meta tag to say “keep your kids off my site”. There isn’t. Telling Net Nanny et al that “here be naked chicks” is also more difficult than it should be.
4. Funny is really, really difficult. I doubt my ability to be it.
5. More people than you’d expect have vehement opinions on blow jobs.
6. I could look at naked ladies all day. Some days, I do.
7. It’s so nice when people join in. The day someone leaves a comment saying “first!!”, I’ll know it’s worked.
8. If you’re female and you want your entire male acquaintance to start telling you their thoughts on sex, start a porn blog. (Boys, keep em coming.)
9. Despite my legendary self-doubt, sometimes I think this might work. I want a book deal.
10. There is nothing – but nothing – nicer than having someone who doesn’t know you tell you that you make them laugh.

It’s New Year’s Eve, and I’ve heard that they take your blogging card away if you don’t write some sort of list post. So here’s mine.

1. 2008 was decidedly meh. Let’s never have another year like that.
2. Sitting on your arse waiting for things to get better only means they’re going to get worse.
3. eBay bores me. I’ve been saying this for far too long. Time to really do something very decisive about it.
4. I quit biting my nails. If I can break one life-long habit, I can break the rest of em.
5. I didn’t read nearly enough books. Remedy this next year.
6. For five days in Chicago, I was really happy. Learn from this.
7. I have no maternal instinct. I may have a materteral instinct, and I should find out for definite.
8. I like people more than I think I do (though I still prefer cats).
9. In 2009, I will have a lot more fun. That’s the closest to a new year’s resolution I’m going to get.

Beautiful photo by Stig Nygaard.