The Versatile Blogging Award - I Feel Famous :)

This overexcitably-written post is dedicated to the guys at Teens Can Write Too! for tagging my blog (albeit under the name of Spook's Scribblings) and putting it under the Versatile Blogging Award! Thank you, you are awesome!

I feel so famous now *grins*

Ze Rules!
Thou shalt leave a muchly-thankful and grovelling link to thine tagger.
Thou shalt then post 5-7 miscelleaneous bits of info about thine self and thine randomness.
Thou shalt tag others as thou wouldst be tagged by.

Anyway, the gist of this is that I now have to write 5-7 random facts about myself, then tag other authors to pass on the epicosity.

Right, here are my random facts!

1- Yesterday was the first time I pronounced "epitome" correctly.
2- I am a sesquipedontist - a person who uses long words.
3- Moths scare the heebie jeebies out of me. Especially when they fly for my face.
4- I am the proud owner of a small red plushie dragon. He lives in my bed, and his name is Llewellyn.
5- I have a fascination with duct tape
6- Anyone who tries to touch my feet will be kicked in the face. You have been warned.
7- I like to play the banjo with the rubber bands in my braces. It doesn't really work, but by heck it's entertaining.

And now to select my victims ...

Elorithryn over at Diary of a Working, Writing Mother

Kirsty over at 'Tis the Way I Tell 'Em

Miriam Joy over at A Farewell to Sanity

And, last but not least, my buddy sazmontgummiebear over at Randomness

Of Birthdays and Breaking Browsers ...

Hey all.
Guess what?

IT'S MY BIRTHDAAAAAAAY!!!

Yup, that's right, I have survived yet another year in the world! And now, as a sixteen year old, I am legal to ride mopeds, buy and sell scrap metal, go to the gym and do irresponsible things in the boudoir. What's more, this day finally marks an end to the days when (as the youngest member of my peer group) I will be teased relentlessly as "cute widduw innocent baby". Words cannot express how thankful I am for this newest development. One more pinched cheek may have resulted in the outbreak of World War Three ...

Oh, and of course, I could not possibly present this occasion without mentioning some of my (ostensibly more famous) birthday buddies through the ages. So, a very happy birthday to:

• Maximilian Robespierre - One of the leaders of the French Revolution
• Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany - Ruler of Germany during WW1 and relative of the English royal family.
• Sigmund Freud - World-famous philosopher
• John Bond - Cricket Umpire (not that he's massively famous, he just has an epic last name)

And, last and (in the eyes of most Britons) least ...

• Tony Blair - Ex-Prime Minister and general all-round numbskull

So, anyway, that's today's exciting news.
On another, probably far more amusing note, I have, by some means beyond my comprehension, managed to crash yet another internet browser. I broke Google Chrome a couple of months back, and now whenever I try and open it it crashes the moment it sees my ugly mug. I went back to Internet Explorer for a while, but then decided to try out Safari. Now, despite the fact that it was designed for Mac computers, I got on rather well with it. It took a bit of getting used to, but I worked it out and, for several months, I was happy.
Until this morning.
Now, whenever I open up the page, it insists something is wrong with my browser settings and will not do anything. I've wiped the settings and restarted the browser mutliple times, removed all the cookies and downloads and countless other widgety bits, but still it will not comply with me.

Can you get into trouble for breaking the internet?

Anyway ... looks like it's back to good old Internet Explorer for me. I'll consier it a reunion with an old friend rather than an undignified retreat ...

- Spook