Friendship Tag With Kate-Ann!!

Awww, Kate-Ann, you're that idiot!

Hey everybody, I'm in Tauranga as you have read in yesterday's post, I'm with a friend of mine that I have known since we were babies so I thought we would do the friendship tag! I hope you like this post, welcome back to Smiley Central!

Kate-Ann asks me . . .

What are my two favourite foods?

I think . . .

Egg and sausages.

Actual answer . . .

Egg and biltong.

I ask Kate-Ann . . .

If my house was burning and my family and pets were okay, what would be the one thing I would save?

She thinks . . .

Teddy bear

Actual answer . . .

Teddy bear

Kate-Ann asks me . . .

If I had one wish, what would it be?

I think . . .

To keep all your favourite animals as pets.

Actual answer . . .

To be able to understand and talk to animals.

I ask Kate-Ann . . .

What are my two favourite memories of us?

She thinks . . .

At the beach with the jellyfish, when Kate-Ann's brother was chasing us.

Actual answer . . .

At the beach with the jellyfish and when the ice-cream scooper broke (sorry guys, a bit of an inside joke there).

Kate-Ann asks me . . .

What are my favourite animals in order of first to third?

I think . . .

Wolves/dogs, lions/jaguar, clouded leopards/tigers.

Actual answer . . .

Wolves/dogs, lions/jaguars, foxes/cheetah.

I ask Kate-Ann . . .

What are my six favourite authors?

She thinks . . .

Roald Dahl, The author of The Fault In Our Stars, The author of Candyfloss, Suzanne Collins and some other ones.

Actual answer . . .

Roald Dahl, Suzanne Collins, J K Rowling, Jacqueline Wilson, Cathy Cassidy and John Green.

Kate-Ann asks me . . .

If I could keep five wild animals as pets, what would they be?

I think . . .

A wolf, a lion, a jaguar, a fox and a cheetah.

Actual answer . . .

A wolf, a lion, a jaguar, a fox and a cheetah.

I ask Kate-Ann . . .

What is my favourite ice-cream flavour?

She thinks . . .

Cookies and cream

Actual answer . . .

Licorice all sorts. 

Kate-Ann asks me . . .

What are my two dream jobs?

I think . . .

A vet or a lion tamer.

Actual answer . . .

An animal trainer or zoo-keeper.

I ask Kate-Ann . . .

What's my favourite TV show?

She thinks . . .

The Next Step.

Actual answer . . .

The Next Step.

So that's it guys, I hope you enjoyed this post, trust me, you will be seeing more of her. Come back tonight at 7:00 to check out a new post! 

xxx

Catherine

Sorry and 50 Facts

I'm sorry for not posting at 7:00, I was out having dinner. Expect a post tonight or before 10:30 tomorrow of me doing the friendship tag with Kate-Ann.

Sorry again but I will make it up to you, here is 50 facts so that I don't feel to bad.

1. You breathe on average about 5 million times a year.
2. Months that begin on a Sunday always have a Friday the 13th in them.
3. You are born with 300 bones, by the time you are an adult you will have 206.
4. The average lead pencil will write a line about 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.
5. One fourth of the bones in your body are in your feet.
6. The average person spends 2 weeks of their lifetime waiting for the light to change from red to green.
7. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it.
8. The present population is expected to rise to 15 Billion by the year 2080.
9. The largest recorded snowflake was 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick.
10. The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that the sound it makes is actually a tiny sonic boom.
11. Native Americans used to name their children after the first thing they saw as they left their tepees after their children were born, hence the names Sitting Bull and Running Water.
12. The Matami Tribe of West Africa play their own version of football, instead of a normal football they use a human skull.
13. Coca-Cola would be green if the food colorant wasn't added.
14. During the 17th Century, the Sultan of Turkey ordered his hole harem of women to be drowned and replaced with a new one.
15. Coffins used for cremation are usually made with plastic handles.
16. "Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
17. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
18. Cockroaches can live several weeks with their heads cut off.
19. It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. We dare you, give it a try!
20. A Ten Gallon Hat will only hold 3/4 of a Gallon.
21. Of all the words in the English language, the word "SET" has the most definitions.
22. It is against the law to burp, or sneeze inside a church in Nebraska.
23. In 1386 a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.
24. Earth is the only planet not named after a god.
25. The world's oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9,000 years old!
26. Scientists have tracked butterflies travelling over 3,000 miles.
27. The silkworm consumes 86,000 times its own weight in 56 days.
28. If removed from the stress of the modern world, the average human would sleep about 10 hours a day.
29. To produce a single pound of honey, a single bee would have to visit 2 million flowers.
30. A colony of 500 bats can eat approximately 250,000 insects in an hour.
31. One in Five adults believe that aliens are hiding in our planet disguised as humans.
32. Travelling masseuses in ancient Japan were required by law to be blind.
33. The bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in court.
34. James Fixx, the man who popularized jogging in America died of a heart attack while running.
35. The average American spends about a year and a half of his or her life watching commercials on television. What are you doing?! Get out and spend that year and a half doing something productive!
36. Ancient Greeks practiced a form (ineffective) of birth control that consisted of having a woman hold her breath, making her squat, and sneezing.
37. The FDA permits up to 5 whole insects per 100 grams of apple butter.
38. There are no naturally occurring blue foods, even blueberries are purple!
39. The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present in all the important meetings of the University of London.
40. The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!
41. Just like fingerprints, everyone's tongue is different.
42. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
43. 400 Quarter Pounders can be made from a single cow.
44. Only 38% of Americans eat breakfast every day.
45. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
46. 11% of the World is left handed.
47. A "Jiffy" is the scientific name for 1/100th  of a second.
48. A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brothers' first flight.
49. A broken clock is right two times a day.
50. A duck's quack doesn't echo anywhere, no one knows why.

Cute And Interesting Animal Facts

Hey guys, for today's post I thought I would inform you of some of the cutest animal facts with a few cruel one mixed in. Welcome back to Smiley Central, let's go!

1. Otters sleep holding hands
2. Cows have best friends and can get very stressed if they are separated from each other
3. When a male lion takes over the pride, he executes all of the cubs
4. Octopuses have three hearts
5. Butterflies can taste with their feet
6. Dolphins have names for each other and call specifically to each other
7. Elephants have a specific alarm call that means "human"
8. Animals with smaller bodies and faster metabolism see in slow motion
9. Some species of male penguin propose by giving the female a pebble
10. About 25% of pairs of barn owls "divorce"

PLEASE check out Eggly's Stuff and make sure to follow and leave a comment!

I hope you enjoyed this post and learnt something from it! I will be back tomorrow as soon as possible, happy long weekend! Sorry this post was late, I was busy driving from Rotorua to Tauranga, I'll be on time tomorrow!

xxx

Catherine

Top Three Reasons Why TeamSmiley is AWESOME and Email Address!

Okay here is the post I was talking about at 5:00. It's hard to narrow all the awesomeness into three things but I'll try my best! Welcome back to Smiley Central!

1) YOU GOT ME TO 200 PAGEVIEWS

Well this one is obvious, you got me 200 pageviews within a month of me starting this blog!

2) You check in everyday

I have told you that I post at 7:00 and at that time I see the pageviews going up at that time.

3) You always leave lovely comments

I love reading all the lovely comments you leave, it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

I now have an official email address so TeamSmiley can give me great ideas or suggestions! This email address is:

smileycentral106@gmail.com 

Anyone of you lovelies can email me anything you want (preferably nice things)  and will check it everyday!

Okay, click HERE to enjoy an amazing blog, comment on her latest post saying:

Smiley Central sent me here

To get a shout out in my next post.

I hope you enjoyed this post, come back tomorrow at 7:00 pm for my latest post!

xxx

Catherine

200 PAGEVIEWS!!

Okay guys, I know it's not 7:00 but I thought I should do a quick post to thank you for getting me to 200 pageviews just a day or two after I reached 100!

I already had a post planned but this calls for a post with some reasons why TeamSmiley is awesome post, I will see you at 7:00 with that post!

Please click here to discover an amazing blog, comment on her latest post saying 

Smiley Central sent me here 

to get a shout out in my next post! 

Okay see you at 7:00!

xxx

Catherine

Friendship Tag With Melissa

This quote perfectly describes our friendship.

Hello everybody, I'm going to start a series where I do the friendship/best friend tag with a lot of my friends.
The way this works is that we ask each other five questions about ourselves and see how much we know! 
At the end of each question there will be an 'actual answer' line. Welcome back to Smiley Central, let's get 
started!

Melissa asks me . . .

If your friend was deserted on an island, what are the three things she could not live without?

I think . . .

A boat, a friend and her phone.

Actual answer . . .

A boat, a friend and food/water.

I ask Melissa . . .

What are my favourite foods (there are two)?

She thinks . . .

Macaroni and cheese and spaghetti bolognese.

Actual answer . . .

Strawberries and bacon.

Melissa asks me . . .

What are the three items your friend always carries?

I think . . .

Her phone, her clothes and her love.

Actual answer . . .

Her phone, her watch and her clothes.

I ask Melissa . . .

If I got one wish, what would it be?

She thinks . . .

World peace, love and happiness.

Actual answer . . .

Infinite wishes.

Melissa asks me . . .

Does your friend have any strange phobias and what are they?

I think . . .

No, she doesn't have any strange phobias.

Actual answer . . .

Yes she has, the fear of plungers.

I ask Melissa . . .

Who is my second favourite female singer? 

She thinks . . .

Taylor Swift.

Actual answer . . .

Taylor Swift.

Melissa asks me . . .

How did your friend get her scar.

I think . . .

She got it from burning her wrist.

Actual answer . . .

She got burnt from a hot glue gun.

I ask Melissa . . .

What is my favourite thing about myself?

She thinks . . .

My confidence.

Actual answer . . .

My happiness and confidence.

I ask Melissa . . .

What is my favourite movie?

She thinks . . .

The Fault In Ours Stars.

Actual answer . . .

The Fault In Our Stars.

Melissa asks me . . .

What colour are my eyes?

Green.

Actual answer . . .

Green.

I ask Melissa . . .

What is my favourite kind of nut?

She thinks . . .

Cashew.

Actual answer . . .

Brazil nuts.

Thanks for reading this post, click here to enjoy Melissa's amazing blog that she shares with Cassey and Lexie. I will be continuing this series with more of my friends. Come back to my blog at 7:00 pm everyday to read my latest post, you can also check in at anytime to see if I have done a random post. Click here to read my most recent post.

I hope you are having an amazing day and I'll catch you tonight at 7:00 (NZ time).

xxx

Catherine

Sorry!

Sorry to everyone who expected a post at 7:00, like I said, I had gymnastics. The post in about 15 - 30 minutes will be the friendship tag with Melissa (theicecreamhut.blogspot.co.nz). Sorry again!

xxx

Catherine

A Few Blogs For You To Check Out

Hello everybody, click the links to find some AWESOME blogs, don't forget to follow them both.

Melissa's blog 

She posts once or twice a day.

Emily's blog

She posts 2-3 times a day and posts one of those posts is always at 5:00 pm.

Enjoy those blogs and have a lovely day!

xxx

Catherine

100 Pageviews and One Month of Smiles and ANOTHER Announcement

Hello everybody, today I need to thank you for getting me to 100 pageviews, this means a lot to me so thanks. This is also my one month blogging anniversary! Welcome back to Smiley Central!

Thank every single one of you so much, whether you supported me a month ago or stumble across me yesterday by clicking next blog. I know that TeamSmiley are will achieve so much more, 200 pageviews, 1000 even. I would also like to thank my good friend Grace who also has a blog (click here to check it out), she helped me figure out what I was doing.

I have a little announcement to make, I will be doing 'Post Marathons'. This means that I will be posting every hour on the hour 11 - 14 times, IN ONE DAY. I'll post every hour one the hour (I apologize if a miss an hour, I do have a life). I will do these randomly on any day that I am free (which will probably be in the weekend), I will tell you that I'm doing a 'Post Marathon" in the first post of the day.

Have a smiley day!

xxx

Catherine

Gymnasticsgirl Blog Review

Hello everybody, a good friend of mine has a blog, in my previous post I talked about it and linked the blog but today I thought I would thoroughly review her blog. I'm going to try and convince you to check out her blog, she is almost at 100 pageviews! Please check her blog out, apart from that, welcome back to Smiley Central!

Her blog is called Gymnasticsgirl and as you have guessed from the name of her blog, she writes about gymnastics but she also posts about her life so there's something for everybody.

Gymnasticsgirl everyday at 5:00 pm posts everyday so to check out her blog (which I would strongly recommend that you do) click here.

I hope you all enjoyed this post and that you are having a day as amazing as her blog.

 xxx
Catherine

Shower Thoughts and A Little Announcement

Hello everybody, today I thought I would write a bit about thoughts in the shower, because we all have them. I also have a little announcement. Other than that welcome back to Smiley Central!

I plan these posts in the shower and I know that most youtubers come up with their video ideas in the shower, I also think/question the quality of life and sing my heart out in the shower, like most people. If I don't acheive a few of those things I feel that that shower has not been a successful one.

You know that voice in the back of your head that tells you there are monsters outside when you close your eyes in the shower? Or that feeling you get when you are sure that a bug is going to crawl out from the drain any second? It give me the creeps.

Okay, time for the announcement, I will be posting everyday at 7:00! Except for the days I don't have WiFi, but don't worry because you will still get all the posts I missed on the next day that I have WiFi.

Copy and paste this link: gymnasticsgirl2003.blogspot.co.nz to enjoy an amazing blog by my good friend.

Other than that I hoped you enjoyed this post and I will catch you tomorrow at 7:00 pm.

xxx

Catherine

3 Reasons Why I'm Weird

Hello everybody, today I thought I would give you more reasons to believe I'm weird/insane. I hope you enjoy this post and all the weirdness that comes along with it and welcome back to Smiley Central.

1) Socks

As you would have gathered if you read my previous post, I have a sock chart, if that wasn't weird enough for you, I wore my daily socks under my normal socks. As the weather is getting more winter-like, I feel bad if I don't wear them to bed. Now would be a good time to tell you all about my sister's fear of feet, she ALWAYS wears socks because she hates seeing feet, she says toes look like gross aliens, she also dislikes ears and makes sure that her's aren't visible.

2) Guinea Pigs
I'm OBSESSED with guinea pigs and this can come across a bit insane to people who don't know me very well. In chats (on gmail) I can spaz out and just type guinea pigs, I later have to apologize and explain. In hard materials at school I'm making a guinea pig hutch, people find this a bit weird as there is a world of possibilities yet I want to make a guinea pig hutch. (I do have guinea pigs so I'm not completely insane, imagine spending all the time and effort making a hutch to look at, I'm not judging but ummmm ...)

3) Fake Children
Okay, I know what you're thinking, but I'm not a psychopath. I love tiny people and when I was at primary I would look after the little five-year-old kids, but now I can't do that because there are none so I use my friends. I can't wait to have kids but I'm going to wait until I have a steady job.

So that's it for now but if you want me to continue this series then let me know in the comments below, I hope you enjoyed this post.

One more thing, it's pink shirt day (this basically means bully-free day)! This international awareness day was triggered when a boy in Canada wore a pink shirt to school and got teased. The next day all his friends wore pink shirts to school to stand up for him.

I hope you are having a smiley day and I'll be back very soon with another post.

xxx

Catherine

Me and My Socks

Hey guys, I thought I would do a cheeky little update with a random subject so welcome back to Smiley Central!

So a few days ago I bought some socks (I know, cool story Catherine) and there just happened to seven pairs, so with my having OCD, alarm bells went off in my head, there are seven days, this gave me an idea of wearing the same colour pair of socks for each day, so now I have a "sock chart", although you probably don't care, here it is:

Monday : Black

Tuesday : White

Wednesday : Pink

Thursday : Blue

Friday : Hot Pink

Saturday : Fluro Pink

Sunday : Yellow

It's Monday today so I wore my black socks under my school socks, I love new socks, they're great for pirouetting, I couldn't resist!

  Okay, short update with the development of this blog, I will try to post at least once a week but please don't get upset if I don't, I might just be busy. Well I'm going to go now, sorry about how short this post is but I thought I should write a little post while I watch the finale of The X Factor NZ (GO BEAU).

xxx

Catherine

OCD - My Experience

Welcome back to Smiley Central, as I said in my first post, I have OCD. This is not only very annoying but is also stressful and time-consuming. In this post I will try to explain OCD to those that live without it and bust the commonly believed OCD myths, there are a lot so I'll try my best!

First let me try and explain OCD as short as possible. Google will tell you that OCD is:
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a disorder of the brain and behavior. OCD causes severe anxiety in those affected. OCD involves both obsessions and compulsions that take a lot of time and get in the way of important activities the person values.
Which is a pretty good explanation except from describing the feeling as "severe anxiety", feelings are hard to describe but I will try to explain to you what OCD is like. 
When I was younger I would stay up hours past my bed time worrying that my dying wouldn't be even to my first and hoping that I wouldn't turn over in the night and not turn back over.

Some people that don't understand OCD don't know that there are many different types. When you have had OCD for a while, you will start to categorize these people. So for those of you that don't have OCD, here are some categories.

1) OCD is being a clean freak
This is the type of OCD in which the sufferer can't bear to have any germs on them and will freak if they have dirt under their finger nails. My Nana knew someone like this and then thought that was all OCD was, she was wrong. Maybe the person she knew either didn't know much about other types of OCD or, understandably, didn't want to talk about it. People with this type of OCD are very vulnerable to bulling, they generally wash their hands every two minutes and blurt out facts like it takes the average hand dryer 45 second to remove 97.5% of the moisture from your hands (yes, that's true) and it can be easy to make fun of them but please don't, their OCD is hard enough to deal with already, the don't need all the teasing.

2) OCD is being organised
When a teacher found out that I have OCD she said that she wished her husband had the condition, I immediately knew that she though OCD is just organizing. Some people think that obsessive organizing is something that you do and be done with, but it isn't. When obsessive organizers organised, they don't stop or do things by measures, it takes up a lot of their time and energy, disabling them from doing what they want to do, this can also effect their ability to complete work.

3) OCD is checking things over and over
Some people with OCD check things frequently even though they know they turned off the oven, some people that suffer severely with that kind of OCD count all the tiles in their house before leaving. These OCD horror stories are usually the ones that capture headlines, this cause people to believe that only that is OCD because the magazines usually leave out the rest of the information or it gets cut. 

4) OCD is repeating
Some people repeat actions until it feels right or safe. Other people know about this and, for the millionth time, think this is all OCD is, you know the drill, it is so much more and don't make fun of them.

In order to not bore you to death I will just tell some types of OCD:

• Checking
• Repeating
• Organizing
• Cleaning
• Hoarding
• A need for symmetry

For more types and information on OCD, copy and paste or click the links:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/living-ocd/201107/the-many-flavors-ocd

https://www.dosomething.org/facts/11-facts-about-obsessive-compulsive-disorders-ocd

Here is a screening test to check if you have OCD:

http://psychcentral.com/quizzes/ocdquiz.htm

Thanks for reading this looong post, I hope I haven't taken to much of your time and I'm sorry for not posting in about two weeks.

Have a fantabulous day,

xxx

Catherine