followwww!

I am not sure what is going on, but this last week or so I have been rapidly collecting followers despite doing absolutely nothing to encourage. If only the same thing could happen in real life.

Yes, I am in another one of those moods when I can't decide whether it's better to recede into a cave or face the world with a big smile. But when I saw all those followers building up I decided that I couldn't disappoint. Still, I couldn't think of anything inspiring, or beautiful to finish Zmaga's positive tag off.

But look, look, at all the pro-active steps I am taking!

Today I de-activated my facebook account. This action occured all of one hour ago and since then I have completed a one hour essay. Even if socially stunting, it does seem to have some very productive repercussions.

I went to the gym this lunch for the first time since August. I have been running etc, but I haven't had a proper gym workout since then and I hadn't realised how much I missed it. If I am going to become a social recluse, I can see myself becoming incredibly fit... winning all the real running races even if I have retired from the popularity races and maybe even becoming so very hench that everyone will suddenly come running back to me...

Now THAT is the sort of thought I still need to find a way to put a stop to. Melodramatic, exaggerated, consequentialist and totally depressing. I need to do things because they make me feel better, not for long term aims which may disappoint if they do not occur.

And on that note, maybe I can think of a way to continue one of my tags.

Choose one picture that shows your dreams and aspirations, or that holds a special place on your one hundred things to do before you die list

This is a bubble, and this is how I want to live, unaffected by worries about the future, and that means tomorrow, this weekend, Christmas, Valentines Day, exams in May, university application in September, two years, three years, where I will be in ten years time. No, nothing on that list can stress me out, if my only aim is to be happy now.

bag this tag!

More often than not, tags are a chore. A bore. But this one had me floored.

(see what I did there?)

The wonderful Zmaga has tagged me to

• Choose a picture that makes you cringe like hell
• Choose two pictures that you could stare at all day
• Choose one picture that shows your dreams and aspirations, or that holds a special place on your one hundred things to do before you die list
• Link four bloggers- and tell me why they inspire you.

A fab tag, and if I were you, I'd have it in the bag! In fact, as I don't want to make anyone feel like they have to perform a chore, I am going to give everyone on my blogroll an opportunity to do this tag. If you're on my blogroll, you inspire me, for your regular and hilarious and affirming and stylish and charming creations.

And here are my pictures:

CRINGE
(which I take to mean recoil in disgust and embarrassment rather than fear in this case).
Twilight mania has me sick already*, and I cannot think of anything more boring than endless speculation over the two stars' relationship status. More than anything though, any pictures of couples make me cringe in my state of embittered singledom..

I think I need to give the other three some thought, especially the last one which seems to me pretty deep. I'll post them in installments; another nice challenge to keep my blogging regular.

*Hilariously, and totally unintentionally, I only noticed once I'd finished the tag that Zmaga has a rather parallel Twilight photo as one of her choices

approval

I'm feeling a bit funny at the moment, a result of nerves about all sorts of different things.

Whilst being nervous can be due to all sorts of different things, I reckon you can boil it down to basically one thing: not being sure if you're good enough. Not being sure if you're good enough to have passed the exams you took months ago, not sure if you're good enough for this person, that person, this task, that challenge.

So you can only imagine how good it felt today to get some approval. Not simply some approval, but an official seal of approval. Not just that, but an official seal of approval from Wendy Brandes, who is definitely good enough. I mean, just look at the earring taking centre stage on the seal's design. Proof of Wendy's excellence, and definitely a lovely way to make a nervous girl feel a little bit good enougher.

For now...

I have all these fabulous post ideas, and absolutely no time! I have a total of five fully formulated post ideas just waiting to be written, and never enough time to do so. It's exasperating! OK, I admit, maybe it has a little something to do with Desperate Housewives taking priority over blogging, but you know, same difference...

However it would simply be plain rude not to pass on yesterday's lovely award given to me by blogger Zmaga. So, here it is, a token of fabulousness to all the wonderful bloggers who are much less lazy than I:


The stunning Sally at Already Pretty
The super Sarah at Or False Glitter
The lovely LLG at LibertyLondonGirl
The wonderful Winona at Daddy Likey
The creative Clothes Horse at The Clothes Horse
(I did try to think of a better adjective for the stunning, super, lovely, wonderful writer of The Clothes Horse and even considered using her first name but alas it is the same initial anyway so it doesn't really solve any problems. But all the fabulous bloggers are equally fabulous so...)

a delight

I was just about to resign today to skipping out a day's post. I've been doing that a lot lately, and it makes me feel sort of sad not to see any regularity or neatness in my blog archive. But then I've never been a particularly neat person, and I can never get things quite in line.

Luckily, the absolutely lovely Zmaga at zmagasupergirl.blogspot.com has awarded me with a beautiful blog award. It has delighted me every time I receive one of these, and so I am looking forward to passing this award on to 5 more delightful bloggers. Maybe the reason these awards are such a delight is because one of the best things about this blog is the insightful and fun comments I get from readers. Every time I get a new reader, who comments and contributes, it's even better. For them to present me with such a fabulous award as this... well, what a delight!


Thanks, Zmaga!

So would you please excuse me if I delay the passing on of this pleasure for a couple more days. It's really late now, because I've been so busy trying to correct the millions of small and imperfect mistakes I have made on my little sister's birthday card. I told you I could never get things quite right.

My totally anonymous blogspot

Super-duper blogger Winona, who writes the hilarious blog Daddy Likey, has invented and tagged me with a brand-new tag. I am ordered to show you my blogspot i.e. where I write my posts. I felt particularly blessed to be tagged by such a great writer and blogger, especially because I feel we have a sort of kindredship born out of our equally silly blognames: pretty face and daddy likey.

However, unlike her, whom you know is not called daddy likey, for all you know my parents did indeed name me pretty face. Except, even they wouldn't be that presumptious or cruel. But the point is that my name at least remains unknown to the readers of this blog, as I have discussed here and here and... you can tell I've put some thought into this issue, right?

I was determined to share with you the sacred place of my blogging, but I wasn't quite sure how to overcome the problem that I have a sticker with my (real) name emblazoned across the front of my PC screen. Or that at the top of my blog screen, you can see my personal e-mail address: first and last names. Or that on the noticeboard behind me is a plethora of paper with much personal information.

But, oh! I was forgetting the wonders of photo-editing software. Strange, that, considering that only a couple of days ago I had been obsessively retouching unflattering photos. So, here you have it, my blogspot, site of the genius creation that is my blog (edited only slightly).

Now, I've been doing a lot of tags lately, so I feel that I've tagged almost everybody on my blog list already. Still, there are a couple of new additions I haven't got round to yet:

T-shirt and Tails
Numbers&Clues to Colours and Hues
Zmaga's

But really, I am generally a nosy person and want to see all your blogspots. So please anyone reading this, count yourself as tagged - that includes those readers who don't have blogs, because you can start one now and then take a photo of your new blogspot!

Fabulous, dahling!

Thanks to the ever so lovely Seeker, who writes the super-stylish blog Searching the Inner Me...

She's has passed on the fabulous 'Your Blog is Fabulous!' award. This is such a lovely, sunny and bright award and it's always the nicest thing to be told you're fabulous, especially if feeling a little unfabulous.

What's even nicer is to have the privilege to pass this award onto at least 10 other bloggers, a fabulously generous award if you ask me. Due to the contagiousness of this award, you've probably all received it already, but in case you haven't, I award the following this badge of fabulousness:

Already Pretty
American Koukla
Big City Bumpkin
Daddy Likey
disneyrollergirl
La Belette Rouge (doesn't the doggy look like Lily, Belette's westie?!?)
La Route du Mimosa
Little Doodles
Or False Glitter
Wendy Brandes Jewelry

AND YOU!

Playing TAG

When I was much younger and everyone suggested a game of tag, I hated it. I wasn't the fastest runner, and I seem to remember an over-riding sense of panic as I ran around the playground more than any sort of exhilirating enjoyment. But now, when I'm tagged to go some sort of fun or tag, it's all funfunfun. Odd, isn't it?

Anyway, the beautiful blogger Sal at Already Pretty has tagged me to reveal 6 random things about myself. Initially, there was that exhilirating enjoyment when someone thinks kindly enough of you to mention you. And then came the panic.

Because really, this blog is a collection of all the random things which I notice about myself and everything around me. And I'm not even that random a person.. in fact, whilst trying to come up with something suitably random I kept on thinking to myself 'have I not already mentioned this?' either in some other post, or in the other random things tag (well actually that was a quirks tag). But I finally managed to come up with a few facts:

1. I was one of the few children on earth who actively detested any form of physical exercise. Yes, a game of tag inspired panic and a trip to the toddler's gymnasium invariably ended with me sitting by the coats, unbuttoning... buttoning... unbuttoning...

2. I'm really bad at repeating stories. I find it hard to keep count of who I've told what, which means a lot of 'I used to have... no, wait don't worry. I think I've told you already. Hang on, have I told you about...'. It also means I find it difficult doing this sort of tag.

3. I have a brown freckle in one of my eyes, which are green.

4. I actually have a lot of freckles! Proper brown ones though, not lots of orange pin-pricks on my nose. Sometimes when I'm bored, I play join-the-dots with the freckles to make triangles.

5. I feel incredibly guilty right now because I offered my leather moisturiser (which worked wonders on my jacket) for her to use on her brand new leather jacket and now it looks to be stained... any advise people?

6. I am tagging:

Details of the Fabric
Square Old Soul
yes and yes
American Koukla
Liberty London Girl (yes, she's back! I hyperventilated when I saw too!)
Or False Glitter

Misscellaneous

This is the first time I have accepted one of those cheaty sort of tags which claims that 'anyone who wants to, feel free to tag yourself' because to be completely honest... they can't be bothered to tag people. That includes me! Anyway, so I got this tag from the super-stylish Miss Karen at I'm Not Anti-Social, Just Short-Sighted, a blog which was recently revealed to me by WendyB (VOTE WENDY AS FASHION BLOGGER OF THE YEAR!!) in one of her posts.

The tag specifies that you post this-or-that number in this-or-that file in My Pictures, but because this is my own tag I feel justified in substantially tweeking the rules. Let's focus on the file where most pictures on this blog are stored, but instead of re-posting photos which would actually be a little pointless, we're going to have a look at those photos which have lain in this folder accumulating dust, because I once thought they were quite cool. It's called the Misscellaneous file. Obviously this is so much less pointless.

Anyway, I apologise in advance for the appalling lack of credit which shall follow in posting these images; obviously none of them actually originated in My Pictures Misscellaneous file but I honestly don't remember where they came from. So thanks everso much, to whomever did originally create these images.

Image 1.Right at the beginning of my leading man fixation, Rhett Butler was my major crush. I can't believe I'm admitting this! Although, he may be a fictional character but he's also very charming.

Image 2. I think I've had this image sitting there in that Misscellaneous folder for at least half a decade... ever since I decided it would be fun to create one of those free websites which basically consisted of pilfering other people's funny facts, interesting trivia and amusing images.

Image 3.
One of a sequence of about ten images I took in Battersea Power Station a couple of years ago, which I was planning on using to enter into an art project when I still fancied myself as somebody arty.

Image 4.

I think this is my most recent accumulation, and I actually remember that it comes from the hilarious blogger Emi at her blog letters from the end consumer. HOW COOL?

I happen to find this a pretty fun sort of tag, so I hereby tag every single person who reads this blog!

Best Bits: Bonfires, Braces, Books, Blogs and Burberry

A few days ago, Mettch of of the charming blog La Route du Mimosa tagged me. There were two parts, and I recently did something pretty similar to the first part so I'm going to concentrate on Part 2. What's really fabulous about this tag is that it ties in perfectly into what I was going to write about anyway. Thanks, Mettch!

The rules are that I need to mention 6 unimportant (well, relatively, in comparison to major world news etc) things which make me happy. Exactly what I was going to do! Oddly enough they all seem to fit very niftily under the letter B - so I was able to use the alliteration that I love so much. Another serendipitous little occurence there, no?

1) Let's start off with some pretty fireworks. In England, we make a huge deal out of an aborted terrorist attempt several hundred years ago by setting off a ton of beautiful fireworks. These festivities torment dogs and cats for about a month between October and November but really cultimate on Bonfire Night, or the Saturday after Bonfire Night. Sounds stupid, I know, but I can think of some much sillier festivities which aren't half as pretty.

2) The next thing is something I briefly mentioned quite a few months ago: my braces. It's been a long journey, beginning when I was still in Primary School with some 'train-tracks' to fix a couple of bite alignment issues. It's continued for several years through Secondary Education as we battled to to get free braces under the new, stricter rules. Many humiliating months passed once the procedure had begun and I received my Ugly Betty-esque headgear, which thankfully was restricted to the realms of my bedroom. In the days leading up to finally getting my braces, I experienced several panic attacks in which I desperately weeped that boys don't like girls with braces. And for almost a year photos of me suffered from a bizarre mouth-twisting smile which satisfactorily covered the evidence. You might almost call it a pout.

And yesterday I reached the day which would unveil my brand new set of teeth. I still couldn't smile properly, psychologically unconvinced that the braces were actually gone - but they were. The journey's not over yet (and it will continue for a long while...) because I still have to wear retainers for 12 hours a day, but I'm still feeling extraordinarily happy.

At the top are beautifully displayed my modelesque teeth. Inset is one of the only pieces of photographic evidence of my braces - I was taken unawares. And at the bottom, the photo which was my screensaver for several months reminding me why I was putting myself through this torture.

3) This next point is going to make me sound unbelievably geeky, but I already decided a while ago that geek is the best type of chic, so what the hell - lots of books make me happy. Last week I finished the monumentous novel that is Anna Karenina, one which took up all my reading time for a whole month. I loved this book very much and it taught me a great deal. Nevertheless, by the time I'd finished it, I felt immensely liberated. Right now, my bedroom is literally littered with books; as I sit here typing I can see seven different things which I am reading currently reading simultaneously: including: two poetry books, a collection of detective stories, The Great Gatsby and How Proust Can Change Your Life. I am not reading any of these books particularly successfully, but I am still having a great time dipping in and out of them as my mood takes me.

4) To most, the 250 words I was asked to write by the theatre itself (so no publication then) and the sub-standard seats I received, are not particularly impressive. But yesterday, when I made my critical debut at a press night for a big play I felt particularly joyful. I just love getting free stuff!

5) Perhaps even more exciting that the event itself was the opportunity to get all dressed up. Well, actually, I think I was the most dressed up person there (and I was especially over-dressed beforehand sipping tea in Costa) but still, wearing my posh frocks always makes me feel happy. This was my attempt at dressing down a silk Burberry dress:

I thought the sparkly and pink backrop befitted this ensemble more than the usual mess

6) Last, but certainly not least it's all the fantastic blogs which I just love to read. There is such a wealth of wonderful writing and hilarious content which makes me think and laugh - and it's probably the people reading it right now who write it! So thank you, and now I'm going to tag some of you to share 6 little things making you happy. Really, it's the funnest time you'll ever have doing a tag (and don't worry, it doesn't have to be as protracted as mine).

WendyB
La Belette Rouge
Already Pretty
Good For Travelling

And anyone else who fancies it, please do!!

Perfecto

So... this post didn't go exactly as planned yesterday. Hopefully it will fare better today...

Today I was tagged by enc, the wonderful writer of brilliant blog observationmode to do the 'Four thingy' tag as she called it. I'm not sure what the exact name for this particular tag is, but I do know that I'm of course very happy to do it because, after all, all bloggers love to talk about themselves. The tag also had perfect timing, because I wasn't planning on posting today with a lack of inspiration and time to do a proper post. Perfecto! So-

1. Four places that I go to over and over:
-My school
-My local Tube stop
-Oxford Street
-The library

2. Four people who e-mail me regularly:
-The Facebook Team
-Gwyneth Paltrow
-My father
-My cousin

As you may have gathered, my e-mail account is a little dusty.

3. Four places I would rather be right now:

-New York
-Venice
-Paris
-More realistically perhaps: shopping in Selfridges.

4. Four of my favorite places to eat:

-Polish cafe in super posh Primrose Hill
-Wagamamas
-EAT.
-Leon's

5. Four people I'm tagging:

-The Clothes Horse
-Disneyrollergirl
-Square Old Soul
-Big City Bumpkin

6. Four TV shows I watch over and over:

-CSI
-House
-Jane Eyre, the BBC adaptation. <3
-The Book Group

SMILE!

Whoever invented the smile, deserves some sort of amazing prize. If they were a blogger, they would definitely deserve this lovely blogging award, which the beautiful Mettch of beautiful blog La Route du Mimosa passed on to me.

Visiting her blog last night, I saw that the award had been waiting for me for a couple of days, but I was immensely grateful that I'd only seen it then, when I needed a reason for a smile. :)

I think most of the bloggers I visit have already received this lovely, lovely award so I'm going to cheat and give it right back to everyone on my daily reading blog list. I am not exclusive about my blog list, it's merely for my own convenience so that I don't need to remember the URLs of the blogs I visit, but that does mean that I love every single one of the blogs on there.

Also, I promise to award this award to whover invented the smile, as soon as they set up a blog.

Update: as a thanks for the lovely award and smile to Mettch, I thought I'd post a pic I took a couple of weeks ago of one of the dresses I was debating wearing to the theatre (I chickened out and wore a skirt; they all look so dressed up!).

Qué noticias brillantes!

I've had a lovely day today! Gorgeous friends, scrumptious food, delectable movies and exciting plans for my birthday weekend! So what noticias brillantes (brilliant news in Italian, according to freetranslation) to log onto my blog and recieve the delightful news that enc at Observation Mode has deemed me a Brillante Weblog Premio-2008! I love you, enc! Have any of you noticed yet that my exclamation mark use goes into overdrive when I'm a teensy bit excited?!

The rules stipulate that in order to bestow upon others the same happiness that you have just experienced (well, I'm assuming that's the reason) you must choose seven other bloggers to receive this award. There are other little rules too but they're a little dull and obvious. But if you're, like, some huge rule lover, check out Observation Mode's helpful post. Now for the fun part: spreading the love!

Disney Roller Girl: for her genius words of the day.

Mettch: for being super cool.

Pamcasso: because I love her blog, comments , etsy finds and general Pamness.

WendyB: who scares me with her scary combination of beauty, talent, stylishness and mass of in-depth knowledge about inspirational people. Whilst being funny.

Francis Girard: my favourite vintage looks can be found on this beautiful blogger.

Jennine: has an adorable accent, super shop and professional posts of pulchritude on The Coveted.

Times of Glory: whilst boasting a ridiculously enviable wardrobe, she also looks like a super fun lady!

If any of you have already been tagged as brillante weblogs, well that's just a testament to your brillanteity!

Tag Time - 123

Ooooh, I've been tagged again by ENC, writer of fantastic blog observationmode. This should be an easy one:

1. Pick up the nearest book.

2. Open to page 123

3. Find the fifth sentence.

4. Post the next three sentences.

5. Tag five people, and acknowledge who tagged you.

But it gets more complicated. Because upon reaching for 'the nearest book' I realised... there are three books I could choose, each exactly equidistant from my position on my chair, typing on this keyboard. The choices are:

-An Oxford Paperback FRENCH dictionary
-The Mitfords, Letters Between Six Sisters
-Pride and Prejudice

I've managed to rule the dictionary out because there are no sentences, only definitions. So I'll give you the Mitfords and P&P too, because I'm nice like that.

The Mitfords (this was actually a bit tricky too; my books are so stubborn. So I'm just typing out the first 4 sentences of the second letter on the page)

(from Diana to Deborah)
Darling Debo,
Last night the Fuhrer was talking about which of us was going to the Parteitag, and he says he specially wants you to go. Isn't it wonderful. I told what a marvellous ride you are and he thinks you are so beautfiul and wants you to see the Parteitag while you are young.

Wasn't that interesting? I've gone far enough to pass all the Hitler fever amongst Diana and Unity, now it's all about the Queen, Lucien Freud and Lanvin.

Pride and Prejudice

'I confess,' said he, 'that I should not have been at all surprised by her Ladyship's asking us on Sunday to drink tea and spend the evening at Rosings. I rather expected, from my knowledge of her affability that it would happen. But who could have foreseen such an attention as this? Who could have imagined that we should receive an invitation to dine there (an invitation moreover including the whole party) so immediately after your arrival!'

I haven't read this yet, but I'm looking forward to it. I especially love Jane Austen's dialogue and this is a fantastic example. And it fits so neatly into the rules!

And now, for the tags. Feel free to do them or not do them or you know... half do them. Whatever.

Ambika @ (Into) the Fray
WendyB @ Wendy Brandes Jewelry

And my blog reading list is relatively short, I didn't want to retag some and some are just too huge so I'm going to cheat (again) and leave it at two. Isn't this the hardest part of the tag? I think so..

PS yes I am posting in the future, I don't know why but I think it's cool.

Tagged: seven songs shaping my spring

Thank you so much to Pamcasso at SquareOldSoul for my tag (it's always nicer to be properly tagged than to have to 'request') to:

List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they’re not any good, but they must be songs you’re really enjoying now, shaping your spring. Post these instructions in your blog along with your 7 songs. Then tag 7 other people to see what they’re listening to.”

Until fairly late I was not very much into music. All my friends would know the lyrics to all the current songs and I'd just stand there commenting 'ooh that's nice, who is it?' and receive incredulous looks from those who could hardly believe that I didn't recognise Destiny's Child's latest hit.

In fact, I still don't watch the music channels and rarely remember to turn on the radio. So it's completely down to my beloved i-Pod that I have finally begun to discover my love of music and the magic properties it holds which calm, excite and inspire. Anyway, here are my current favourite songs that I'm loving listening to, I hope they're not dreadfully uncool (my grasp of song popularity is limited - I don't think I've ever been able to read a copy of NME without falling asleep). The titles are linked to videos of the songs on youtube.

The Magic Position - Patrick Wolf. Maybe I'm more in love with the musician than the music, but it is a wonderfully happy song.

Heart of Glass - Nouvelle Vague cover of Blondie. Of course, I do love the original but currently I'm prefering the Nouvelle Vague version which is a little more fresh right now.

Les Champs Elysees - Joe Dassin. I was given a compilation of French songs, of which this catchy tune was the surprise hit. A little embarrassing to admit but to quality is not one of the rules. Plus, I can understand the easy lyrics which is always a bonus. Au soleil, sous la pluie, a midi ou a minuit...

That Time - Regina Spektor. From my favourite album, Begin to Hope. Slightly less poppy and catchy than the other songs. I have always loved Regina since seeing her perform in September: for her fantastic name and that tunelessly singing to her songs is the only thing which completely distracts me from tortuous tummy aches.

Everyday is Like Sunday - Morrissey. I absolutely love the tune. A bit late (read: very) on the Morrissey bandwagon but I am particularly enjoying his songs right now.

Crown of Love - Arcade Fire. I am in love with this band's music, especially the theme of this song. I am desperate to go see them!

Go Tell The Women - Grinderman. I would never voluntarily go and get some Nick Cave but I heard this song through my dad, who's obsessed with Cave. I don't think I should be admitting to that at all, but go listen to the song and then try to tell me that the lyrics aren't genius. No video though, because Nick Cave live performances never sound anything like the actual song.

Now, tag time... I don't think any of these peeps are tagged yet. Just ignore if you are:

I Hate Generic
Mud On My Teadress
Peachy Hollow

Ok I'm cheating now, I can't think of any other bloggers who haven't done this and haven't been tagged to do it. So I'll do that horrible thing and say that if you want to be tagged, put your hand up and I might choose you.

My First Tag: Six Quirks

I have been tagged by the lovely enc at Observation Mode! I was very excited, since it was my first ever tag, and for that reason I have been bugging people all day, asking them what they thought my quirks were. I'm not sure I'm very quirky at all, judging by their responses, but here's what I could come up with...

1. I don't have a middle name. Perhaps not so quirky in itself, but I have a huge problem with this fact and is in fact a great source of animosity between me and my parents. My whole life I have been trying to think of a suitable middle name to give myself, although so far nothing seems right.

2. As much as possible, I always the same film twice in a row. In the case of Atonement, I actually did watch the film through once, and then went right back to the beginning, but mostly I give it a couple of days.

3. I used to be a hugely fussy eater. Not so much now, but I still hate butter, and most sandwich sauces. Not very interesting I know...

4. I have alphabetised every single book in my house. I've also categorised them.

5. If I could only bring one thing with me to a desert island, it would have to be Vaseline or some form of lip moisturiser.

6. I have never shaved in my life. But don't worry, I'm not some hairy freak - I use other methods. OK, too much information... what can I say, I'm out of quirks?

Right I think I have sufficiently demonstrated exactly how boring I am... that took me forever. I bet I'll think of something incredibly interesting as soon as I click 'publish post'.

I've always wondered who starts off tags... I have some cool ideas for 'tags' but I'm not sure if some higher being is supposed to start them off or what. It's like God and the universe I suppose, only on a smaller scale.

Anyway, I think I'm supposed to tag three people but I have no idea who hasn't been tagged yet, so if you want to be tagged, just let me know and I'll tag you! Sorry if that's cheating.