Adventures Up North

I'm so excited because I got nominated by the amazing Benita J. Prins .  I love her blog, it's a lot about LOtR, which is reason enough for you to follow her. =)  Go check out her blog, everyone, and thanks, Benita, for this tag!! The rules: –Thank the person who nominated you in a blog post and link back to their blog. –Answer the 11 questions sent by the person who nominated you. –Nominate 11 new blogs to receive the award and write them 11 new questions. –List the rules and display the Sunshine Blogger Award logo in your post and/or on your blog. Benita asked me these questions: 1. Who is your favourite actor/actress and why?   Oh, my...I can't choose just one.  Sean Astin, Natalie Portman, Orlando Bloom, Scarlett Johansson, Billie Piper, and David Tennant are a few of my favorites. 2. How many languages do you speak well enough to hold a conversation?   Just one, and that's English.  I do know a bit of Latin, but really, who am I going to...

Hi guys, happy Saturday! :D So I was having a pretty rotten Wednesday earlier this week, and then I got this Twitter notification from the awesome Katelyn Buxton , saying she tagged me in this Q&A Tag I've been seeing around.  Yay!  Thanks, Katelyn, for saving my Wednesday.  Katelyn has become one of my new favorite Tweeps over the last week, and her blog is incredible as well.  Check her out, right away.  Don't make me use a Jedi mind trick. Alright, so this is the Q&A Tag!  Rules: -Tag the Blogger(s) who have nominated you -Answer the questions you were given -Nominate 10 bloggers -Write out your 10 questions -Let them know they’ve been tagged So let's get started! :) 1.  Coffee or tea? Tea.  Coffee is fine, some of the time, but tea is just more likely to suit my mood more often.  Especially vanilla chai tea, or iced tea. :) 2.  If you could only listen to one album of music for the rest of your life, what wou...

The 21st Century is amazing in a lot of ways.  We have medicine and other medical technologies that help us remain healthy.  We have electronics that help us stay closer connected.  We've made our own culture, the likes of which the world has never seen before.  And we have Twitter.  Twitter is definitely the best part of the 21st Century. While many aspects of life now are much better, one of the hardest things about living in the modern age is the difficulty to connect to the past.  Even 100 years ago, culture was far closer to the ancient cultures of Rome and England, China and Egypt, to name a few.  In other words, our culture is so different from those we learn about in History class that it becomes hard to relate to them and envision them. This is especially difficult for writers because unlike  commoners  non-writers, many of us write historically-based works.  Some of us write about specific moments in history, like durin...