1. My Hubby. He is just the sweetest, most loyal, funny as hell only when he doesn’t try man. He brings the sunshine with him and we, together are a formidable team. And that, makes me happy.
2. Stormy afternoons that refresh the air and provide a visual display to excite the senses
3. Mango Cheesecake home made by hubby, lovingly served
4. My family; in general and each of them separately. They are such fun and are all so funny in their own way it would be virtually impossible not to be happy around them
5. Cruising the highway with music that I know the words to cranked up and me singing, sometimes with the window down, loudly and badly for all to hear
6. Cooking up a storm when there is absolutely no need to cook. You see cooking make’s me happy, having to cook does not
7. Shoes. It’s sad and more than a little stereotyped. But true. I love them. The look, the feel, the smell (while new, of course) and the finding of the perfect pair you haven’t seen anywhere else
8. Taking and editing photos . And do you know what, I had forgotten just how happy it made me. 
9. Watching movies. I just love the escape that is movies. Cheesey, Cheap, Silly, Funny, Harsh, Full on, Confronting, Uplifting, Thought provoking… You know, all that. Plus I love popcorn. Popcorn makes me happy.
10. My blogs, I just smile whenever I think about what a great opportunity it is to be alive and kicking in the technology age (are we still in it? probably not, maybe this is the information age…? hmmm) is that you have access to the entire world in your living room. And I love a good forum for my stuff. A public one is a byproduct. 

1. I used to read a lot of chic lit type novels. I read them fast and with an insatiable need to keep reading. And there was never, not once, ever a surprise ending/middle/plot turn in any one of those books but Marian Keyes. Gosh I love that woman. 
2. Even I think that maybe I was too young to get married. Don’t get me wrong Hubby and I are solid as a rock. We have a great time together and I don’t want to fathom a life without him in it. But do I think we got married too young. Yes probably. And the thing is we were 22 so we were hardly babies.
3. I never really had a favourite colour. I love them all. If asked I will randomly select one but I never mean it. I just love colour almost as much as I love a good black and white colour palette.
4. Hubby and I are trying for a baby. And I say trying because in September we were pregnant and had a first trimester miscarriage. Now how did they say it at the start of My Sisters Keeper (the movie)… Something about only people who have difficulty having children ever try for them. The rest are accidents or similar. I would love to write more about this process but fear my little happy place may end up consumed by the effort. The highs and the lows. So just watch for the occasional post here and there. 
5. I love gardens and flowers and nature. But I hate the work it takes. It must mean I am lazy. Like really lazy or something. I am just not willing, at all, to put in the effort I know it will take to reap the reward I want. Funny isn’t it. Funny strange I mean, not funny ha ha.
6. My Christmas tree is still up and I have absolutely no inclination to take it down anytime soon. I love it and all its festive glory. I say it stays. Protest lodged.
7. I have been so jammed for time in the past fortnight. You knew that, but what you didn’t know is that some days I barely ate a single thing from daylight to dark. And I lost weight. In the whole stress of it all. Now I know it’s not healthy, or good for me, or something that will achieve a long term result, but part of me is happy to take the weight off. No matter what it takes. And it’s that part that scares me a little.
8. I watch the tennis. If anyone asks me I’d say it was deathly boring and I’m not that interested really. That it is background noise and that is all. But it’s not. I watch and I compete and sometimes, I even yell. I love it. I love the Australian Open with it’s bright blue court and hot pink ball boys/girls. It feels like summer to me.
9. I could live on watermelon, mango, olives and coke zero if I had to for the rest of my life. But I’d give either or all of them up for a million dollars. So if there are any offers. I’m in. And as a bonus, I’ll blog about it. Win/Win I say.
10. I have a small insecurity that everything I have done in my life, all the skills I have acquired, are self taught via books, the internet or simply giving it a go and not taught to me in any official degree like package. Sometimes I feel like a fraud. Sometimes, when I am ruling the world, I think… pffft who cares. But there it is. I’m intimidated by a degree or fifty.

Being that I am new to blogging (relatively) you would think this would have been easier… But phew, that was an effort. And now to the fun bit. Handing out the awards.