House rules Sammy

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If I was the President of the US, I'd spend the whole day working out and implementing a national healthcare system. All people deserve access to healthcare without worrying about going bankrupt to pay for their care. If I was Prime Minister, I'd legalise marijuana, tax it and then I'd update the benefits and tax credits for working people, cause god knows the cost of living has gone up but not people's wages. :P

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Do all fast food chains count? Excepting Subway, which can be healthy enough, I hate fast food. I haven't eaten fast food for 5 years and have no intention of touching it again. Aside from the fact that the food itself makes me feel sick to my stomach after eating (hell it's gotten to the point where just smelling it can make me feel slightly nauseous), it's sooooo unhealthy and I have no desire to put all that processed, sugared-up crap in my body.

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My dad used to take me shopping with him every weekend up till I was about 8 or 9. I'd help him get all the food for the week and he'd usually buy me a small treat and rent me a movie. I never thought about it much when I was younger, but now I'm older and more mature, I realise how much I appreciated just spending this time with my dad.

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I didn't really watch sit-coms when I was a child. I still don't. I watched a lot of cartoons, Looney Tunes, Spongebob Squarepants (when I was older), and Ren & Stimpy. I remember I was banned from watching the Simpsons, but I was allowed to watch Ren & Stimpy, lol.

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This one's a toss up. Haggis I found to be pretty gross, as well as Marmite. I've generally hated those for a while, mostly because I don't like the taste and I'm not fond of the texture of haggis. Though I did have a really gross packet of crisps this afternoon. Walkers are doing new flavours for the World Cup, so I tried the American Cheeseburger flavour. Not nice at all, mostly tasted of ketchup, mustard and pickle. I hate ketchup, mustard and pickles, so yeah, pretty much put me off. To be fair, I've tried the English Roast Beef & Yorkshire and the Japanese Teriyaki Chicken flavours and those both actually tasted ok.

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I tried going vegetarian for a while after I met my boyfriend. I suppose I did it because I didn't want him to think I was unhealthy. I think I also did it to try and make myself like veggies. I only stuck with it around him mostly. I'd say the relationship lasted a lot longer than the vegetarianism did seeing as I'm now married to the man in question, lol.

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Well that word for a start, incentivized gets on my nerves. I can barely pronounce it given my obsessive compulsive need to pronounce things properly, the way they were meant to be. 'Think outside the box' is another one. It's vague and cliche. I prefer to 'use my creativity to come up with new ideas' since that's technically what you're doing when 'thinking outside the box'.

And speaking of my compulsive need to pronounce things correctly, if my mother-in-law tells me one more time about her migraines and pronounces it 'me-graine', I think I may scream. It's a 'mi-graine', there's a reason it's an 'i' and not an 'e'.

Also in the same vein, I can't work out whether David Cameron has been saying 'nuclear' or 'nucular' in the debates, which brings me to another catchphrase - 'War on Terror'. I'm aware of that thanks, now I wish politicians would quit using it as an excuse to pass stupid laws and regulations to do whatever the hell they want.

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I'm not really sure either way, but to borrow a phrase from Calvin & Hobbes'I think the surest sign of intelligent life out there is the fact that none of them have come to visit us yet.' :P What can I say, I'm in a cynical mood today.

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Trance without a doubt, it's all I pretty much listen to anyway. I don't mind other genres like classical and reggae and a bit of rock, but if I had to stick with one it would be trance, I just love the way it makes me feel. :)

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Well given the mess that Bush left him (two wars, a recession and trillions of dollars of debt and mass unemployment among other things) I think he's done pretty well. I hope he's able to push this healthcare bill through. Compared to Britain, the fact that a good many Americans seem to think it's ok to leave millions of their own countrymen uninsured. It was mostly that and his policies on Iran and N Korea that made me vote for him. I'd vote for him again if he runs in 2012 for sure. I may not live in America anymore but it's surprising how who's in the Oval Office makes a difference on the rest of the world. I didn't listen to his State of the Union address though.

Though more urgently I need to figure out who to vote for in Britain's upcoming General Election. All I can say is it's anyone except Labour. I hate them.