FQ1: What music puts you in the mood for romance? FQ2: Where is the perfect place for romancing someone? FQ3: What kind of foods get you feeling romantic? Look at this FridayQ.. what the? I can't do this. can you? Help me out here - leave a comment with your answers. FQ LOVER: How would somebody go about winning your heart? By being intelligent, charming, goofy and um.. god I don't know. Drawing hearts [for me] on a post-it'd do it. But that makes me sound easy and I have a funny feeling I'm not. I'm about as romantic as a .. thing that's not very romantic. Bloody blogging - who invented this *anyway*

FQ1: What's an ideal day for you when it's sunny and blue skies? We're lucky here in New Zealand for lots of reasons, not the least of which is we are never far from water. I don't think there's anything nicer than being near a large body of it on such a large blue sunny day. Here in Auckland, we have the Manukau Harbour (via Tamaki River in my case) and there are very few days in a year that people aren't out on it. Clusters of tiny little classed yachts; larger matching yachts all racing to a bouy and back again. Kite surfers, wind surfers, kyakers. When it's fine and sunny and warm in Auckland, it's waterways are alive with activity and craft. The sandy edges of the water teeming with families and colourful swimsuits and towels, shade huts and rash shirts. For all I complain about Auckland not having *real* beaches, we're bloody lucky to have what we have available in such numbers and close proximity that we can just potter on down there whenever we feel like it. Spoilt, that's what you are Michelle: spoilt! FQ2: What's an ideal day for you when it's overcast and rainy? My favourite kind of day is when the overcast skies rain themselves down on a Sunday. Especially if my house is tidy and all my chores are done. The gas heating and wearing socks on my feet makes the house feel snug and comforting and a perfect day for reading and daydreaming which is, afterall, what life is all about. FQ3: What's an ideal day for you when it's cold and snowy? I live in Auckland - we don't *do* cold AND snowy. You need to find someone from Christchurch or further South for that answer. I've only been in the snow a couple of times in my life and only once when it was *actually* snowing. That was when i was in Holland and I was lucky enough to have it snow while I was there. Never experienced it before then. Before then it was only when I went up Mt Ruapehu for what people laughingly call "skiing" weekends but ended up being "losing-chairlift-passes, falling-over and crying-a-lot" weekends for me. God I hated it. *hated* it. I wonder how I'd find it now? Now I'm older and more able to dress warmly? I'd probably hate it. FQ FORECAST: What's the weather forecast for your area this coming weekend? What will you be doing out there in it?

FQ1: Your favorite sweet food? When did you last have it? PAVLOVA.. *mouth watering at the very thought* mmm pavlova. the only thing white marshmellows come second to. I like my white sugar dissolved in eggwhite; light and fluffy with fresh softly whipped cream (but not too much - just the perzact pav=>cream ratio). I can't remember the last time I had pavlova. When I say Pavlova I am not talking about that Cowells store-bought stuff either, I'm talking about homemade pav with a crusty top and gooey light centre that every wicked kiwi housewife can make. It's a bit like watermelon to my tastebuds - and greed - I can't just have one slice. Oh no.. I keep at it til it's all gone and well.. seeing as a normal Pavlova has 2.5 cups of castor sugar one's waistline could do without THAT. *mouth still watering* so i live in quiet lust for the dessert most often made for Christmas (because i love licking the bowl too) (is really very tragic in some areas of my life) FQ2: Your favorite salty food? When did you last have it? I don't really like salt. I don't use it for anymore than seasoning when cooking, and don't put a shaker on the dinner table. I suppose the closest I would get to a salty food are olives. But, are they salty? See people say some things are salty and I don't find them so. Natural body salts are quite nice *mind wandering off down pathways YOU do not need to hear about* and it's been far too long since.. mm licked and mmm...tasted and mm.. *drifts* FQ3: Your favorite sour food? When did you last have it? First thing that springs to mind are sour snakes.. but they're not a food. Sweet and sour asian stirfry is nice sometimes - particularly fish when made with fish (worries about this sentence but leaves it be as still weak from thinking about body salts from previous paragraph). I think though, my most favourite sour food'd have to be lemons. I used to eat them as a kid like most people eat oranges. I haven't eaten lemon since I ran out of gin last month. FQ EDIBLE A: What's the best thing you've ever tasted? A pinot noir. I read the label but have never been able to recall the name or find it's like. But the things that wine did to the insides of my mouth, the way it smoothed across my tongue and warmed my heart and head will stay with me for years. FQ EDIBLE B: The most horrible thing you've ever tasted? Liver.. always liver. and kidney..arg.. the texture of cooked kidney *gag* hate hate HATE it. actually anything from that part of an animal.. offal and animal arseholes go against my "never put anything in your mouth that isn't delicious" Life Rule. *breaking the rule and eating it lately cos it's good for me* *grimace* oh.. the other thing that tastes FOUL is that horrible flushing stuff they make you drink before a colonoscopy. I can't even describe how hard you have to concentrate to get THAT down your throat only to have it explode out your other end with firey violence 30 minutes later. Like when Apu cleans out all the grease from the hotdog cooker and so Homer "can taste is the hog anus". okay i'm going to stop typing now because there was a line that was crossed and I'm not even scolling back to find it. Friday Q