What Kind of Blogger Are You?

I found a quiz called What's Your Blogging Personality? on blogthings.com and couldn't resist taking it! Here's my result:

Your Blogging Type is Confident and Insightful



You've got a ton of brain power, and you leverage it into brilliant blog.
Both creative and logical, you come up with amazing ideas and insights.
A total perfectionist, you find yourself revising and rewriting posts a lot of the time.
You blog for yourself - and you don't care how popular your blog is!

What's Your Blogging Personality?

I love this result. Well, why wouldn't I? I love anyone who tells me I have 'a ton of brainpower' and 'a brilliant blog'!

But seriously, I agree with most of the things it said about me, because:

1. I like to think of myself as both logical (solving problems, etc) and creative (I love making stuff).
2. I'm always trying to come up with fun new ideas for things, especially my blog.
3. I'm definitely a perfectionist - you wouldn't believe how long it takes me to write, revise and re-write a post. This obsessive streak extends to all areas of my life - my motto is, "Do you want it done quickly, or do you want it done well?"
4. I love writing so I do blog for myself (but I also like to entertain people and am grateful to all my readers!)

Why don't you take the quiz then let us all know your blogging personality and whether you're happy with the result!

Super Fofo!

Thanks to Caro for giving me the Super Cute Blog Award!


It's so pretty! I'll add it to my virtual shelf of blog awards, which is actually beginning to creak under the pressure. You guys are too kind!

I can't remember the rules for this award so I'm just going to pass it on to some blogs I think are cute...

1. ChinkyMel's Corner
2. Musings of the Corybantic Painted Nails
3. Confessions of a Twenty Something Year-Old
4. Hazy Pink Thoughts
5. The CattPrez Project

Enjoy your award, guys!

Presents for Everyone!

Today is an exciting day in Nic's world!

As I mentioned in this post, *PinkNic's Planet* recently passed the one-year mark. And to celebrate my first bloggiversary, I'm giving out presents!

The presents are actually prizes for the competition winners, who I'm going to reveal right now!

The prize for Committed Commenter goes to Nashe at Your Cookie Jar for leaving the most comments on my posts since the start of the competition. She also regularly commented before that so I know she wasn't just in it to win it!

The prize for Comedy Commenter goes to ScoMan at A Name in Your Recollection who made me laugh the most with his comments. He's a very funny guy - check out his blog if you don't believe me!

In my original post I also said that two runners-up would receive a card from me - and those lucky people are Ambar (for leaving the second most amount of comments) and Andhari (for her funny comment on my monkey post!)

And I'm giving a bonus gift to Ms Salti because 1. she's sending me a book thong (yes, I said a book thong. Cool, right?) and 2. she has a milestone birthday on the horizon! I'm not telling you her age...let's just say she'll be too old to be a member of Twenty-Something Bloggers. Oops, did I just give it away?

Congratulations to all the winners...I'll be in touch with you asap to get your postal addresses to send your special personalised presents!

Friday Discussion!

Do you believe in Friday the 13th?

By which I mean, do you think this day brings bad luck?

Has anything bad or spooky ever happened to you on this day?

Having a Blonde Moment

I'm really quite an intelligent person, honest! But this question has always bugged me...

If people evolved from monkeys, then why are there still monkeys?

Like, some evolved into humans and some didn't? If so, why?

Is this a reasonable question or am I sounding really stupid right now?

I'm going to moderate comments on this post, but only so you don't see what others have written and I get your honest reaction to this!

When I get at least ten comments I'll publish them all and you can read each others thoughts. Just PLEASE put me out of my misery!!

I Forgot to Remember to Forget

On Sunday 8th November my blog was a whole year old! Go, bloggy!

And...I missed it. Forgot all about it. I didn't even remember to choose the winners of the competition I started last month.

I suck, I know.

But since I haven't blogged much in the past month – and even went for two weeks without blogging at all – I'm going to extend the deadline a bit.

The competition winners will be 1. the person who comments the most on my blog posts (from the date I started the contest until I decide it's over in a few posts' time) and 2. the person who makes me laugh the most in their comments.

So if you want to join in, you've still got time!

And a big happy birthday to *PINKNIC'S PLANET*! I can't believe it's been a year already! Here's to many more!

Rememer, Remember, the Fifth of November

So today in the UK we celebrate Guy Fawkes Day – and it's kind of a big deal over here. Guy Fawkes is the only English criminal ever to have a holiday named after him. Have you ever heard of Sweeney Todd Day or even Jack the Ripper Week? Exactly.

I don't know how much the rest of the world knows about Guy Fawkes so at the risk of insulting your intelligence, here's a brief history:

Guy Fawkes (1570 – 1606) belonged to a group of Catholic restorationists from England who planned the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. Their aim was to displace Protestant rule by blowing up the Houses of Parliament while King James I and the entire Protestant aristocracy and nobility were inside.

Fawkes was put in charge of the Gunpowder Plot's execution on 5 November. He was arrested a few hours before the planned explosion, during a search of the cellars underneath Parliament prompted by the receipt of an anonymous warning letter. He was then tortured until he gave the names of the other plotters and they were all hanged.

Guy Fawkes Night (or Bonfire Night) is a commemoration of the plot during which an effigy of Fawkes is burned on a bonfire, often accompanied by a fireworks display.


That's right, we get fireworks! And sparklers! And bonfires to burn things on! (great for pyromaniacs) And parties! And lots of yummy food and drink!

And it's all thanks to Mr Fawkes and his team. Although I kind of wish they'd succeeded in blowing up Parliament. That probably makes me unpatriotic (and now quite likely to be arrested) but I just think it would've made history a lot more interesting, rather than learning about something that didn't quite happen.

In fact, in 2002 Fawkes was voted #30 in a Greatest Britons poll so I think that means a lot of people agree with me. If we all hated him for what he (almost) did then we wouldn't have put him on that pedestal!

Wow, the English are f*cked up.

Happy Bonfire Night to anyone who's celebrating!