Tagged! - 8 Random Things About Lady Smaggle
I know it’s wrong and majorly egotistical of me but I always feel so smug when I get tagged. Like as if one of the coolest kids at school picked me to be on their handball team at recess. In this instance the delicious Selina from Flying Saucer has tagged me to reveal a few things about myself. With 20 minutes left on my lunch break and the opportunity to spend that time writing about myself it’s with enormous amounts of narcissism that I present to you 8 Random things about Lady Smaggle…
8 unimportant obsessions/unspectacular quirks of mine… (I took this one from Fops and Dandies because I couldn’t think of 8 passions!)
1. I’ve performed in over 30 musicals and plays since I was 14. What can I say? I like attention.
2. I love squeezing pimples and I will squeeze anyone’s pimples if they let me.
3. I’m really, really, really flexible. Bendy like a pretzel…
4. I can say the alphabet backwards. A friend’s grandfather once told me that there are some things in life that you shouldn’t do the same way everyone else does. He had a point, so I learnt to say it backwards.
5. I am an habitual eater. I will eat the same thing every breakfast and lunch for two years and then I’ll swap to something else. At the moment it’s a soy protein shake for breakfast and a chickpea or tuna salad for lunch. And I have had that everyday for the past year.
6. My top five freebie list of male actors is Johnny Depp, Peter Sarsgaard, Giovanni Ribisi, Alan Rickman and Dylan Moran. A freebie list means I can shag them and Mr Smaggle can’t get mad.
7. I crack my knuckles and my neck. A lot.
8. I am not subtle at all. Like if someone has a bruise or pimples on their face I’m all ‘What’s wrong with your face?’. It could get me into a lot of trouble but I am cute so I generally get away with it.
8 things I want to do before I die…
1. Live somewhere slightly obscure like The Netherlands or Russia.
2. Get paid to do something I love for a living - writing, acting or designing.
3. Go on a big road trip across America with my man.
4. Build a house near a lake with an art studio and a big porch where I can drink tea, read books and bake cookies for my grandchildren.
5. Buy a Chanel 2.55 chain bag and pair of Louboutins on the same day with my own money.
6. Learn to speak another language fluently.
7. Study gold and silversmithing.
8. Own a pink car.
8 songs/albums I could listen to over and over…(Holy shit you’re all about to find out how incredibly uncool I am)
1. Alanis Morrisette - Jagged Little Pill
2. Whitney Houston’s Greatest Hits Volume 1 - Disco Hits
3. Michael Jackson - Dangerous
4. Madonna - Immaculate Collection
5. Rent The Musical - Broadway version (not the movie - although Rosario Dawson really does rock my world)
6. Phantom of The Opera - Broadway version
7. Les Miserables - Any version. I have them all and I know every single word to every single song and I can sing the parts of Javert and Val Jean at the same time.
8. Every soundtrack to every Disney movie made in the 1990’s.
You’re going to stop reading Smaggle now aren’t you?
8 things that attract me to my best friends…
1. How passionate and interesting they are. All of my friends are such intelligent and provocative people that I seriously wonder why they hang out with me.
2. The fact that they humour me. I say really dumb things sometimes.
3. Longevity. I’ve been mates with my closest friends for around 7 years now. And I have been friends with my very best friend for 14 years. Being my friend is kind of like a jail sentence really…
4. How gorgeous my girlfriends are. I have a few special ones that I’ve collected over the years and they are truly priceless gems. They know who they are - I love you ladies!
5. Shared appreciation of gin.
6. Loyalty. Is anyone else starting to get teary?
7. None of them are dickheads. Well not entirely anyway…
8. The fierce and passionate arguments that erupt so frequently in our group. Usually as a result of No. 5.
8 things that I say way too much…
1. ‘Gay-tron 4000!’ (usually when something lame happens)
2. ‘Yeah… well… shut up.’ (when I am losing an argument)
3. ‘I like dat shit so muuuuch!’
4. Anyone’s name followed by either ‘face’ or ‘head’ depending on which goes better. Like ‘Hey Steph-Head!’ or ‘Hello Dave-Face!’. It works with food as well like Yogurt-Head or Crumpet-Face.
5. Noosh, manoosh, panoonie, shmanoonie, noonikin etc… usually aimed at Kenny the cat, Mr Smaggle and anything small and fluffy.
6. ‘Oh shit yes!’
7. ‘Yoo hoo! Helloooo’ (This is said in a high pitched yodel-like call and I say this every time I come home from work.)
8. ‘I’m only little!’ (when I am trying to get out of trouble) and ‘Come on… all the cool kids are doing it’ (when I am trying to make people do something they don’t want to do - try it! Peer pressure really works a treat!)
Now I think every blogger in the world has done this by now so instead of tagging it on I am turning it over to my readers! I like to call this activity the mini-tag. You have to tell me the following three things…
1. A weird quirk about yourself
2. Your favourite catchphrase
3. A secret goal you hope to achieve
Love Lady Smaggle
xxx
Well here goes:
1. A weird quirk about yourself
Hmm total mind blank.. i can touch my heels to the top of my head.. so i guess you could say im also part of the pretzel clan hehe
2. Your favourite catchphrase
I <3 shaun of the dead and my catchphrase from it is R-rated n most ppl hate it.. its “can i get any of you C**ts a drink” tho i replace drink with, some chips or whatever(dont use this one too much tho).. I also love to say cutie little snuggle bum in reference to mini-cupcake.. and TRUCK!! FLIP!!! or SHISH!! instead of other words mini-cupcake shouldnt hear..
3. A secret goal you hope you achieve
when i get around to making things again..
There r two:
i) to have my own store/stall and sell things i make
ii) To become a registered wildlife carer.. tho this might have to wait until i own a house (or bakery..seeing as were a cupcake, mini cupcake and muffin! hehe)
Well thats it hehe..
i loved learning all those lil snippets about you.. 
very awesome!
OH I LOVE LOVE LOVE your dream home.. it seems absolutely awesome.. my variation would have chickens and a kick ass vegie garden (much like jamie olivers *drool*) and wow 30 plays! thats quite an achievement!!
xo Cupcake =]
Hahaha I love your music collection. Don’t worry, we all have at least ONE album we’re embarrassed to share (like Spice Girls self titled album…)
Okey dokey, ma mini-tag;
1. I have to have everything symmetrical. I think I’m bordering on OCD, but everything must be even! I once took out my ear piercings in my left ear but because I got my right nipple pierced and had to have the same amount of piercings on either side of my body - yeah, I know..
2. I just realised all my phrases involve profanity lol. I like “boo-ya, mother f****r” (lol) and “you rock the kazbar”. It’s funny, we do the “face” and “head” thing too!! I also like to put “icious” on the end of ppl’s names. Smaggle-icious.
3. I secretly want to live in an upper-class apartment in the city, and have dinner parties whilst sipping martinis. Swank.
This was such a fun post, it fulfuls the nosey part of myself. You rock the kazbar, Smaggle-icious! xx
*gasp*! We have a lot of similar weird quirks, for example, I am also extremely bendy and like to pop pimples too!! Thank God I’m not alone!
Um but I’ll be original and think of one of my weird quirks…
Oh, maybe it’s not so weird but I don’t drink pop, or soda, or whatever you want to call it, and if I sleep I need some kind of white noise like a fan going otherwise it isn’t going to happen.
My favorite thing to say is any word or name with the word ‘pants’ on the end. I think it sounds great. Smagglepants! I also really enjoy saying “Sweet titties” unexpectedly. It gets shocked looks and big laughter.
I would love to write a novel, and at least sell a few copies and get some good reviews. That would be amazing!
And no, don’t worry about the music. I love love love the Monkees! Hahaha now how embarrassing is that?!
haha, i love what you wrote! It’s funny how these tags make you learn so much about people.
you prolly know most of these but anyhoo. Navel gazing is one of my favourite time-suckers.
1. Quirk: Though I’m able to drink truly staggering amounts of gin/whisky/beer/shiraz/pretty mucH ANYTHING and not fall over, two glasses of champagne will make me hurl.
2. Favourite thing to say: well it’s obvious, innit. Douchebag.
3. Secret goal: again, not so secret. Marry Clive Owen and have lots of sex and beautiful dark-haired babies and write ace novels and own a first edition of A Handful of Dust and an original Odilon Redon etching. and never give up smoking.
Cupcake - Wow your heels? Bending backwards or forwards?
Ivy - Ha ha that’s taking OCD to entirely different level! And I do the licious thing too! My cat is Kenny-licious!
Nicole - You don’t drink soft drink? I wouldn’t survive without Diet Coke! And this is really weird but my friend says ‘pants’. She calls me ‘Lady-pants!’
Skyla - Where are your answers? Come on I’m always curious about my readers!
Na - I didn’t know about the champagne one! Obviously I’m familiar with your over-use of douchebag. And Clive Owen? I always assumed it would be someone younger and prettier with puppy dog eyes and long hair.
Great inspights into you
I can’t believe you crack knuckles, I hate to do that! Your music is totally adorable, I have the Phantom too (got to see it in the 90’s!!) Also love cds 1,3 and 4.
Quirk: ummm I can roll my tounge in 3 loops.
Catchphrase: Unfortunately ‘”I don’t get it’
Secret Goal: to one day be a blonde!
Ahh hahaha hah, your favourite music is SO uncool but you totally pull it off!
Okay mini-tag:
1. I’m synaesthetic - I see words and numbers, months, days and years as colours and patterns. For example “Smaggle” is a dusky pink.
2. I over-use Awesome and Duuuuuude. terrible I know.
3. I want to meet Mark Oliver Everett from the band Eels and have his children, it’s a mild obsession, I don’t even want children in “real” life!
Teehee, my man is a habitual eater too, mostly I find it endearing but I can imagine one day snapping “Can’t you eat some fucking toast for once!?” Haha.
QUIRK = In keeping with the habitual eating theme, I get fixated on vegetables. So in the last few years it’s been brocolli, then it was mushrooms and now it’s eggplant. If it’s on the menu I order it without question! Pretty soon my man will snap, “Can’t you just eat some fucking carrots for once!?”
CATCHPHRASE = Damn I can never remember the things I say too much, which infuriates me when it comes to these things. Um, I’ve been saying ‘toolburger’ a fair bit, like “Oh man, I felt like such a toolburger walking into the guys toilets.” Also, I say ‘Nuh!’ really obnoxiously and like a bogan as often as possible. It’s funnier when people have only said two words and you interrupt them, like “Hey can-” “Nah!” I’ve been told I can ‘pull this off’ because I’m not actually a bogan.
SECRET (read: unrealistic) goal = to have one of my screenplays produced with either just Thom Yorke or Radiohead on the soundtrack. I would DIE. (A happy death.)
Hailey - he he we are music twins! I love that threr tongue roll thing! I read somewhere that only 1 in 8 people can do that.
Sophie - Mr Smaggle is synaesthetic too! Except his is with music not numbers. You totally made my day by saying Smaggle is dusty pink. It’s pretty close to being my favourite colour ever!
Niki - Your goal is totally not unrealisic. They are such a weird moralistic band that you could convince them to do it for free and donate money to charity at the same. It’s a great goal. Really specific and really niche. Go for it girl! I’m sure I’ll see your name in lights one day!
OK, maybe this is a stale post, but I’m really bored today so here ya go:
Quirk about yourself:
Can touch my nose with my tongue. Actually not that unusal, I’ve learned.
Your favourite catchphrase:
I tend to preface conclusive statements with the word “Clearly.” As in “Clearly, we need another drink.”
A secret goal you hope to achieve:
To someday have enough money that everything I own will be beautiful, no matter how mundane.