From here.

Opening… 

Do you get regular massages? Nope. Actually never been for one. Except for the home DIY type ones from TheHusband.
Do you have an answering machine? Nope. Don't even have a home telephone. The closest thing would be voicemail I guess. Though I'm not a diligent user of it. Messages go there to die.

What cuss word do you use the most? The F-bomb. Trying to curb my usage though...

Are you underweight or overweight? Technically I'm in the normal weight range for my height, but I definitely have a belly that can do with some diminishing.

Can you see your veins? Only the ones on the undersides of my wrists. And a little bit on my hands (if you look very closely). And yes, they're blue. :-)

Favourite…

Have You Ever…

Do You…

Like your nose? Yes. It's the smallest in my immediate family, so I guess I scored in one area at least!

What Is…

Your most macho trait? I'm not a big fan of the telephone. Or small-talk. That counts as macho (or at least non-feminine, right?). I also find it pretty hard to talk about my feelings, and will only open up to the one or two people that are really close to me.

This/That…

Finish…

My greatest weakness is…procrastinating. And hoarding. And being quite messy in general.

Firsts…

Lasts…

Last thing you used a credit card for? Bought some credits on mp3va.com

• I jumped back on the blogging bandwagon - somewhat on this blog and much more so on my cooking blog - The Creative Pot. I also have a fan page for my cooking blog on facebook - come check me out!
• All the cooking made me a little rounder than I'd like to be - which is why my aim this year is to get trim & fit. Slow and steady wins the race, right? 
• We celebrated our 2nd wedding anniversary in February. Love you bug! As they say, time flies when you're having fun...
• We attended KKNK in April (me for the 2nd time, TheHusband for the 1st time) and had a roaring good time.
  
• I started tweeting - come and have a look here (private tweets) and here (cooking/eating related tweets).
• We went to Casper's new show's opening night in the Artscape for my birthday in July and I met the man in person backstage. He is supershort!
  
• We made a big decision (more on that in a future post though). Yes I'm going to keep you hanging here. :-)
• We finally achieved some order in what used to be the hellhole/spareroom (or more affectionately known as the Nerdroom)
  
• For the first time ever I experienced job insecurity, as a result of having to work short-time in October. Which was actually good in hindsight as it forced us to take a good, hard (long overdue) look at our finances. 
  
• TheHusband and I became (superproud) godparents in October and couldn't stop smiling about it. Which of course lead to a whole slew of Godfather quotes...  
• We embarked on our property investing venture in all seriousness this time. And are currently busy applying for bonds. Here's holding thumbs (and big toes) for being approved with favourable rates.
  
• In December we attended the wedding of two friends who we'd introduced to each other back in 2006. Holla for the matchmakers!
  

I've been reading (voraciously!) a lot of blogs from all over the intertubes (yes I've been struck by the LOLcat flu) and this meme grabbed my eye, so here goes:

• How long have you been together?
  

On the 24th of August it'll be 5 1/2 years. Married for 2 1/2 of them. Feels so short but on the other hand it feels like we've been together forever. Of course, I was only 21 when I met The(future)Husband, so I guess it would feel that way. I'd been single pretty much my whole life before that though. I was what you would call a heeee-yooooo-mongous dork at school.

• How long did you date?
  

We dated for exactly three years until we got married. 8 months of which we were engaged.

• How old is he?
  

• Who eats more?
  

Hmmmmmm... TheHusband does, but I'm not far behind. I've got quite a large appetite for a laydee. ("But I'm a laydeeee" - Little Britain). Luckily we both have fairly fast metabolisms, otherwise we would've been approximating the Michelin Man by now.

• Who said 'I love you' first?
  

TheHusband. I was a commitmentphobe before I met him and it was also my first relationship to have lasted that long (3 months at the time). He had a lot more experience in relationships, so it makes sense that he said it first. Of course, I said it right back!

• Who is taller?
  

TheHusband, by a little bit.

• Who is smarter?
  

We're pretty equal, although I was the freak who got straight A's at school. TheHusband had a life back then unlike moi.

• Who does the laundry?
  

It's usually me who throws the clothes into the washing machine, but we both hang it up and take it down. Actually more often him who takes it down. I'll happily let it hang on the drying rack for about a week. Ha.

• Who does the dishes?
  

Neither, that's why we have a cleaning service. To be honest, TheHusband is a cleaner & neater person than I am. I'll pretty much only do dishes when we've literally ran out of stuff to eat out of. Which takes quite a while, since we have a lot of plates and bowls. Oink oink.

• Who sleeps on the right side of the bed?
  

TheHusband. No reason, just worked out that way.

• Who pays the bills?
  

He pays some, I pay others. But we don't really think of it as "my money" or "your money". It's all our money, just sitting in different accounts. If we could get a joint account, we would, but it seems our law doesn't allow it anymore.

• Who mows the lawn?
  

Aahhh the perks of living in a flat. :-) I have a feeling that this one will go the same route as the dishes though when we manage to get a house one day.

• Who cooks dinner?
  

Usually me. Not because it's the woman's job, but because I love cooking. TheHusband makes a mean omelette though. **Drool**

• Who is more stubborn?
  

ME!!!! Hands down. TheHusband is patient, puts up with my moods, always says sorry first (something I need to work on, I know) and is just generally a great guy. I take a while to cool down after an argument, while he can say sorry (and mean it) and go on as if nothing happened. He obviously follows Dr Phil's advice when he asks "Do you want to be right or do you want to be happy?". Say what you will about the Dr, but he does have some pearls of wisdom.

• Who kissed who first?
  

Well, technically, I kissed him first, but it was just a little peck to say thank you for the rose he brought me for Valentine's day (3 days after we'd met). Later that night, he kissed me properly though... It was the best Valentine's I'd had at that stage. :-)

• Who asked who out?
  

TheHusband again. About 2 weeks after we met. On a Tuesday evening, after we came back from watching a movie at the cinema. On a bench in the garden of my (then) dorm.

• Who proposed?
  

I'm really sounding like someone straight out of the Victorian Era, right? TheHusband proposed... On the 22nd of June 2006, on the same spot as the one where he first asked me out more than 2 years prior. 'Cause he's romantic like that. :-)

• Who is more sensitive?
  

Probably me. I tend to take things more personally. Although I think TheHusband talks about his feelings much more easily than I do. Told you he's a great guy...

• Who has more friends?
  

It's about equal. Both of us have just a few friends. We also have a couple of mutual friends.We're not part of that group who has a whole bunch of friends. And that's fine. We prefer it that way.

Eggs, eggs, eggs! I just had a bacon & egg toasted sandwich for breakfast and it was gooooooood. I just feel like eating eggs these days. Weird. Anyway, stepping off from that completely random topic, we went to go watch Ice Age 3 (in 3-D!) last night at the cinema. And I have to say WOW. Seriously.

My first experience with 3-D was in those dinosaur magazines my parents used to buy us as kids. You know, the ones that were all educational and came packaged with glow in the dark build-your-own dinosaur skeletons and 3-D glasses to "see the dinosaurs come to life!" Well, they stood out from the page a little, but they didn't "come to life". Of course, at that stage I thought it was the coolest thing out, and my brother and I used to take turns peering through those red and green lenses and marvelling over the magic of 3-D. But 3-D in a movie? That was unheard of.

Until recently.

Everyone's been talking about the new Ice Age movie in 3D and I was a little bit curious, but to be honest, in the back of my mind I thought it wasn't going to be such a big deal. Boy was I wrong! The experience is something unlike anything else I've ever seen. To be fair, it's a bit disorientating at first and you tend to recoil a bit when something leaps out of the screen and (seemingly) flies straight at you. It's like the characters are living in some unknown-until-now space between the screen and yourself, the movie-goer. I really felt immerged in the movie; I imagine this is similar to how TheHusband feels about surround-sound. (As for me, I just don't get it. Yeah I know, I know...)

Of course, we felt a bit like dorks in those Buddy Holly-esque glasses they hand you at the entrance. But dorks are the new black, so we're going with it. Besides, we're going to be saving them for our future mini-me's who will one day, no doubt, think they are very funny and hideously old-fashioned.

But then, 60 is the new 40, so I'm sure we won't mind too much at that (wrinkly) stage.

Okay I've been watching too much How I Met Your Mother. But I thought the phrase was very appropriate for what I'm about to announce. Yes, dear friends, I am DEBT-FREE!!! Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-ha! Also I'm 2 weeks shy from turning 27 and that marks some significant changes that will be taking place... but more on that later. At the moment I feel terrific, due in part to the new exercise regime we (that is TheHusband and I) have embarked on. Although, I guess one always feels good at the start of something like this. It's the keeping-it-up part that's usually the clincher... But I'm confident that this time we won't be giving it up. Getting started in winter is probably the most difficult time, so if we can make it through, it will be plain sailing come summer time and it's longer sunshine-y days.

I iz gymbunneh... Well, maybe not quite!