Owls and Orchids

Phalaenopsis and Cattleya orchids

Here is a snapshot of one of my passions – orchids. Definitely not a couch potato in here. 🙂

 Here is the Merriam-Webster definition of a couch potato (first used in 1982).

COUCH POTATO:  a lazy and inactive person; especially:  one who spends a great deal of time watching television

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What is your favourite couch potato activity: readings, watching movies, watching sports, napping, anything on TV, computer games, play cards, or other?

I’m not really a ‘couch potato’ unless you want to include reading. I can do that almost any time of the day or night. I use the computer as a means to communicate and keep in touch, particularly since I’ve been derailed in my ‘outside’ activities to a large degree.

If I’m watching TV it will be a movie in the evening with my husband. I have a very eclectic mix of DVD’s and films I am drawn to so there’s no telling what’s on the menu at any given time. They range from comedy, feel good, light comedy romance, horror, science fiction, and science fantasy, war, western, historical and autobiographies and documentaries.  We watched “Elysium” with Matt Damon the other day – thought provoking and sad also.

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What is your favourite topping on pizza?

We rarely eat pizza, too many difficulties in the diet and with medication at present.  On occasion we will make our own with prawns, crab and a seafood sauce. It’s a once in a blue moon kind of thing. We do completely  peel the prawns though.

Small bookcase (The smallest one)

What is your favourite genre of movie or book?

Again that’s a wide open field depending on what I feel drawn to. I enjoyed reading the books by Kathy Reich’s since I love to solve them before we’re told the ending. Having said that I’m finishing re reading The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan, but before that I was reading “Cross Stitch “by Diana Gabaldon and “Using your brain for a change” by Richard Bandler.

Movies – ‘Afterlife’, ‘Eat Pray Love’, ‘Dances with Wolves’, ‘Avatar’, ‘Dog Soldiers,’ ‘Gladiator’, and ‘Da Vinci Code’,’Lord of the Rings’, ‘Twilight’ series , ‘American Gothic’, ‘Last of the Mohicans’ and  ‘Fringe” series. As I said – eclectic.

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Do you prefer eating the frosting of the cake first?

The cake, unless it is a fruit cake with marzipan and royal icing – then I might have to eat the marzipan first.  The only other ‘fetish’ is leaving the cherries until last…. I love glace cherries.

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Feed them cake…. or in my case cherries 🙂

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So now you know a couple of my weaknesses – or vices… who cares, I love them .

Blessings,  Susan x

© Susan Jamieson  2014