Seven and Seven

Arjie of One of these mornings tagged me in a "answer seven questions, ask seven questions" type deal. As much as I love awards, I'm running out of random facts about myself to tell you all, so this is kind of perfect.


1. If you could give your teenage self one piece of advice what would it be?
Hold onto your dreams. Don't let the ideas or comments of others sway you. But also know that it's never too late, you can do anything.


2. What are you currently obsessed with?
This is a good one! I get epically obsessed with one subject, read all I can on it for a few days before moving onto something else. Recent examples of this include Mexican drug lords, forgotten music of the nineties (on which a blog post is currently pending) and The Vampire Diaries.


3.  Is there any one event you look back on in your life and just cringe with shame?
Most memories have been repressed, but without going into detail, there is one that induces the foetal position.


4. Would you call yourself a feminist?
Yes. And no. I am in the sense that I believe in total equality for women, but it's also nice to have a door held open for you every now and then.


5. What is the one thing that if you don’t do in your life, you will be really angry at yourself for not doing?
I'll be really disappointed if I don't try my bloody hardest to have a novel published. I've banged on about it for years and years, and it is starting to feel like something I could possibly achieve, but I just have stop listening to that naggy, bitchy inner voice who tells me everything I write is crap.


6. Do you get on better with your mum or your dad?
Mum and I have grown closer over the last few years and I'm really grateful for that. I'm going to echo Miz.November's sentiments that my dad and I alike and therefore we clash sometimes, but we also laugh at things that Mum doesn't think are funny. So maybe it's pretty equal.


7. Every music album in the world is to be destroyed and you can only keep one. Which do you keep and why?
Um. Um... Bugger. Last night, I chose Bob Marley and the Wailer's Legend because of all the good memories stirred up when I hear it, but today... I can't choose, don't make me choose. I'd have to make a mix-tape.


So my seven questions to ask are:


1. What are you currently obsessed with? (Shameless question theft from Arjie)
2. If you could live in any era, which would it be? (I'm all about the seventies)
3. What are you really, really good at?
4. When you were seventeen, where did you think you would be in ten year's time?
5. What is your favourite 'guilty pleasure'? (I really hate that term: if you like it, why feel guilty about it?)
6. What is one thing that makes you really, really happy?
7. If you could live in any movie, which would it be? (Sticking with the seventies theme, I'd want to live in Almost Famous.)


and I'm tagging:


Siobhan from Time has told me
Mel from ChinkyGirl Mel
Natasha from she left on a monday
Celia from life according to celia
Morgan from The best kind of buzz 
angelcel from AC's Scrapbook
Alex from Caterpillar Contemplations
Robin from life without want 
(So that's eight. I broke the rules. Umm-maah.)


Now you know you don't have to do anything with this, but I'm really looking forward to reading your answers, so pretend I didn't say you don't have to do anything because you do.


P.S. I have no idea why Blogger is double-spacing any and every line break, but it's really giving me the shits. I've noticed a lot of other people having problems lately with Blogger. Don't make me move to Wordpress because I really can't be bothered.