This week the topic is ‘Guilty Pleasures’ for Ten on Tuesday, which I thought was an interesting one. Here are my top 10 guilty pleasures…

1. Chocolate – this has to be my Number One weakness, and definitely a huge guilty pleasure! Everyone knows chocolate isn’t very good for you – but it can be very hard to resist a chilled bar of Dairy Milk! On a side note, have you tried the new Nibbles? They’re like chocolate buttons with a slither of caramel in – yum! Although, since someone said they look like nipples I can’t help but think Nibbles is a slightly unfortunate name choice!
2. Curling up in front of the TV, snuggled in a blanket - an especially guilty pleasure if there is housework to be done (and there is always something that needs doing)!
3. Reading an entire book in a day – I love reading, absolutely adore it. There is nothing more absorbing than getting settled in bed or on the sofa, and losing myself in a book for hours. I quite often read new books by my favourite authors in one sitting, including the last 3 Harry Potter books. A few weeks ago, I read 8 books (the Bridgerton series by Julia Quinn) in a week & a half – which included 3 books over the weekend!
4. Indulging in fantasies about the future - including, but not limited to: winning the lottery, buying a house, going self employed with my web design, somehow miraculously ‘growing out’ of my headache conditions, etc… you get the idea.
5. Ridiculously long lie ins on Sundays – I love lying in bed with my husband & talking (and we do a lot of laughing too), reading while he zonks back to sleep for a few more hours, cuddling Homily, and of course just having that one extra hour of shut-eye!
6. Buying bits & pieces for crafting – usually on eBay. We don’t have a lot of money at the moment as we’re skimping quite a bit to pay off student debts, save up, etc.. so it’s a real guilty pleasure when I spend a bit of money shopping on eBay for things to add to my growing jewellery making/sewing/crocheting collection!
7. ‘So bad they’re good’ TV programmes - my current favourite are America’s Next Top Model, Grey’s Anatomy, Dating in the Dark, and the Hasselhoff thing on Living. All wonderfully crap but oh so entertaining! This concept applies to films too – the really cheesy ones like High School Musical & Bruce Almighty.
8. Eating out/Chinese takeaways – about once a month James & I try to treat ourselves either to a nice meal out (on a budget – we love the Sizzler chain or our fav all you can eat chinese restaurant Lychee Garden), or a chinese takeaway from one of our locals. Mmm!
9. Playing games/doing puzzles – whether it’s on the Wii, iMac, DS lite or my iPhone, I love playing games, especially puzzle games. Things like the Professor Layton games get my mind some much needed exercise!
10. New Technology – lusting over it, reading about it, buying it, playing with it – I love our computers and iPhones, DSes, Wii, etc. I make no secret of the fact I love Apple hardware & software, and am a complete geek!

What is your main guilty pleasure?

In an attempt to overcome a bit of writer’s block I’ve experienced lately, I’ve decided to join in with the blogging world’s fascination of memes, writing prompts, etc – hopefully these will ‘inspire’ some interesting blog posts from me! I’d hate for my website to become a mundane list of what I’ve been doing, with no real insight into my life & who I am.

10 on Tuesday is a simple concept, each Tuesday they give you a title, and you list 10 things. But maybe (fingers crossed!) this will kick me into action and I will end up elaborating on the topics when the answers are interesting enough.

This weeks title is ‘10 Least Liked Foods‘

1. Spaghetti Bolognese¹
2. Fish
3. Tinned hot dog sausages²
4. Grapefruit
5. Anything overly spicy
6. Olives
7. Almonds³
8. Curry
9. Cherries⁴
10. Tomato soup

This was actually really hard.. it turns out when I think about it there isn’t much I won’t eat & enjoy. I have trouble sometimes picking things to eat in restuarants, but I think that is down to the fact I tend to read the menu & pick something I fancy.. what I want to eat depends entirely on my mood & not as much on my dislikes. I’m quite an easy house guest – with the exception of the above, pretty much anything you put in front of me will get eaten!

1. I think this is almost entirely psychological, I used to adore a good spag bog when I was a child. However, when I was about 13, I went away on a GVC (Girls Venture Corps Air Cadets) camp & ate a large portion of spaghetti bolognese. This soon turned out to be a very bad idea as I had a terrible reaction to it – within hours I was hunched over a bowl letting it all out again. Since that fateful day I haven’t been able to look at a plate of spag bog without feeling a little bit ill! [↩]
2. I actually love normal sausages – these are a crime against them in my opinion. They should be banished from the shelves of every supermarket. Asap. [↩]
3. Especially the sugared kind they give you at weddings. When I was young and didn’t realise what was inside it was a bit of a let down. [↩]
4. With the exception of ‘cherry drops’ which are heavenly and deadly addictive. [↩]