Friday, September 14, 2012

Thanks Jules!

So, I actually wrote most of this a while back, but I forgot to post it, so that's why you haven't gotten to see it before now. Apologies.

The lovely Jules over at My Mom's A Whackjob was so kind to award me with... wait for it; an award!
Even though I've been out of the blogging world for a couple of months she still thought I deserved it - thank you so much, Jules!!

THE RULES:
1. Thank and link back to the awarding blog. Pff, how is this even a rule? People should do this per auto! I seem to be a little pms'ing bitchy today, please bear with me.
2. Answer seven questions.
3. Provide 10 random factoids about yourself.
4. Hand the award on to 7 deserving others.

7 Questions:

#1. What is your favorite song?
This is a straight up impossible Q to answer! I mean, I can't even tell which band or singer is my favorite. I am too much of a music fan to answer that. It changes a couple of times (1-100) a week. Right now (last 3 days) I've heard Christina Aguilera's Hurt a lot. That woman has an incredible voice. And so pretty to. Damn girl! In The Dark of The Night from the cartoon Anastasia is kinda clinging to me, too. The bridge is awesome. Rasputin is kinda hilarious. What can I do? And then Glee's I Feel Pretty/Unpretty and their cover of Shake It Out is amazing. Loving that too.
None of these song are my ultimate favorite, but merely songs that I hear a lot this week.

#2. What's your favorite desert?
I'm a sucker for ice cream. Adding fresh (preferably sunny, Danish) strawberries doesn't hurt! And blackberries! And most things chocolate are great as well. But ultimately I guess it's ice cream.

#3. What do you do when you are upset?
When I'm really upset and feel powerless I often start crying and I HATE it! It just makes everything worse, but somehow I simply can't help it. It sucks.
The upset stage before that is often laughing. I tend to laugh when I feel stupid or bad at something. And it's not because I find it funny. Believe me.

#4. Which is your favorite pet?
Dunno. I think we've had rabbits at my parents' since I was five, so I have a soft spot for those lil' cuties with their moving noses and flappy ears. Aww.

#5. Which do you prefer, White or Whole Wheat?
Whole wheat for sure. White bread sucks goat balls. It's like eating paper only with much, much more calories. What a waste. I'm no fan of white bread.

#6. What is your your biggest fear?
I don't really know. Probably some cliché like losing all my loved ones and ending up old, wrinkly, weak and alone or hurting someone I care about or whatnot. I'm not going to go there...

#7. What is your attitude mostly?  
I'm positive most of the time. Negative people piss me the fuck off. They're pretty good at getting me down and angry. Oh, and I'm rarely positive in the morning either. I tend to be a little grumpy when I wake up. Sleeping is nice.
Randoms:

#1: I'm a pretty good cook. At both food, bread and desserts. I kinda kick ass at those.

#2: I hate cleaning with a passion. This feeling extends to the kitchen. It's my numero uno showstopper when I'm cooking or planning to. I hate the cleaning afterwards.

#3: During last autumn I starting liking nail polish all of a sudden. Bought quite a few colours, which I like using. Unfortunately I've got really small and flaky nails, so it doesn't look as awesome as it should I would like it to look.

#4: I got really introvert after being bullied when I started school. I'm turning that around now, even though it's not easy. Don't bully, and don't accept anyone doing it. Raise your children to be aware of it, and not doing it. Kids can be way too mean.

#5: I don't watch a lot of tv, but I watch many tv shows on the internet. Woops.

#6: I have a broad musical taste, but how Danish "musicians" get played so much on our radio stations beats me. A little too much national pride, I guess...

#7: I'm currently in the middle of a life/career crisis. It's just too hard to decide what to do after summer. I'm being pulled in too many directions. It's constantly on my mind, which feels like pressure. Not awesome.

#8: The Lonely Island is my jam. So many of my friends play it at parties, and I listen to it when I'm alone as well. I know too many of their lyrics. It's borderline embarrasing.

#9: If only I remembered study-related stuff as well as lyrics, I think I'd do better with less bother. Mmmh. Lovely thought!
#10: I'm a little bit of a rebel sometimes. Not in the "I'm a stupid, destructive monkey with mommy/daddy issues. Look at me. Please?"-way. Just in the "wait what? Are you serious, well... This would be smarter. Boom!"-way. Elegantly put, I know, haha. Stupid rules are meant to be broken.


Deserving others? I hope it doesn't have to be people who necessarily see this, because stalking rarely goes both ways, you know. Just kidding. Though not really. But really.
Anywho, a couple of peeps...

Kage's blog is awesome. Her life is so different from mine in so many ways, and I like how she writes about it :)

Swatch and Learn - the blog I go to for my nailpolish obsession. Though I in no way have as many polishes or am as commited as Mary, I like checking out her swatches. Because they're really good, and she's a very nice person who answers everybody who comments.

Hyperbole and a Half - Doesn't get updated a lot anymore, I think she got a gig with writing a book instead. But the old posts are still up and hilarious.

Sunday, September 2, 2012

Save Siccar Point!

For once I feel a need to be serious, and raise awareness for a case that I recently discovered.
I just found out that a company called Drysdales is planning to put up some kind of a factory for processing vegetables very near a world famous geological site called Siccar Point in Scotland where Hutton's Uncomformity can be seen.

Hutton's Unconformity, pic from http://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/

An unconformity is a geological phenomenon where a hiatus can be seen. That means, that for a period of time no deposition was being made, or erosion took place, so the strata contains no informations for a shorter or longer period of time (in geology that's mainly measured in millions of years).

Hutton's Unconformity (an angular unconformity), notice the geohammer for scale.
See how there are two different kinds of "directions" of the rock - the lower part is vertical and the higher part is closer to being horizontal? The change is close to the shaft of the hammer, which is also where the unconformity is.

So now you may, rightly, be saying something along the lines of "vegetables? That's not so bad, is it?" And at first I agree with you. The problem is that they're leading their agricultural waste directly into the ocean, and also that they will dig a trench across the area which they will fill up with concrete. From what I understand that is the plan for now, but who's to say that they won't expand and perhaps build a factory later on?

My point is, I think it would suck majorly to ruin a beautiful piece of nature by sticking ugly, noisy, polluting industry in the middle of it.

If you want to read more and perhaps take some kind of action or just raise awareness of this case like I do, you can read a lot more on the site http://www.savesiccarpoint.co.uk/#help

Thanks a bunch, guys.
- Charlotte.