Friday Favourites: Favourite Summer Activities

The weather is finally hot, and summer is finally here! These are my favourite all-time summer activities.

1. Swimming
2. Hiking
3. Blowing bubbles
4. Barbecues
5. Watching fireworks
6. Attending small-town festivals
7. Looking for fireflies
8. Picking wildflowers
9. Eating ice cream
10. Reading in a park

Not that many of these can't be done during other seasons, but there is something extra-special about them in the summer.

What are your favourite summer activities?

Movies or Music Mondays

Okay, another theme to keep me posting regularly (hopefully). Each Monday, I'll post a list related to either movies or music...name makes sense now doesn't it?

Today: MY favourite romantic comedies of all time. Not "the best" or "the highest grossing", but favourite.

1. Sweet Home Alabama
2. Notting Hill
3. 10 Things I Hate About You
4. Serendipity
5. Benny & Joon
6. The Wedding Singer
7. Pretty Woman
8. Splash
9. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
10. The American President
11. Pretty in Pink
12. Groundhog Day
13. Love Actually
14. 16 Candles
15. Clueless

Am I forgetting a movie that you feel should absolutely be on this list? Which rom coms make your favourites list?

Fruity Deliciousness

Rhonda, your list of fruits is delicious sounding, so here's mine:

1 Peaches
2 Raspberries
3 Pineapple
4 Watermelon
5 Blackberries
6 Strawberries
7 Granny Smith Apples
8 Pink Grapefruit

mmmm, we're finally starting to see decent fruit showing up at our farmer's markets. stupid weather throwing off the growing seasons.

Friday Favourites: Favourite Fruits

As summer approaches (in date, not in temperature since it is mighty cold still in Ontario), I am day dreaming about fresh fruits and vegetables from farmer's markets. As such, here is a list of my favourite fruits:

1. Watermelon
2. Mango
3. Strawberries
4. Blueberries
5. Bananas
6. Pineapple
7. Fuji Apples

Yum, yum, yum. What are your favourite fruits?

Friday Favourites: Bands with "the" in their name

Okay, a musically-themed list for today. These are my favourite bands with the word "the" in their band name.

1. The Roots
2. The Pogues
3. The Donnas
4. The Cranberries
5. The Tragically Hip
6. The Pretenders
7. The Arcade Fire
8. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
9. The New Pornographers
10. The Flaming Lips
11. The Ramones
12. The Raconteurs
13. The Shins
14. The Philosopher Kings
15. The Cardigans

So, what bands with "the" in their name do you love?

Taking my cues from Rhonda

So, after reading Rhonda's list, I put my own together.

1. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll (my all time favourite book ever)
2. Parenthesis - Julian Barnes
3. The Harry Potter Series - The Half Blood Prince is the best of the bunch
4. Son of a Witch - Gregory Maguire
5. Monkey Beach - Eden Robinson
6. The Giver - Lois Lowry
7. Some Girls Bite - Chloe Neill
8. Persuassion - Jane Austen (So that this one doesn't sound like the pretentious english major choice, I feel the need to mention that I hate almost everything else by Jane Austen)
9. Written on the Body - Jeanette Winterson
10. The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. LeGuin

There are so many others, but if this is "probably" the top ten.
The Twilight Series is a super guilty pleasure that is totally escapist reading, but I don't think I can include it in the list of favourites.