Can you believe that this is my two hundredth blog post? In celebration here are some questions answered. Hopefully you’ll learn more about me and what makes me tick, expect references to some of the posts I’ve written:
1. Why do you blog?
Blogging for me fulfils my creative urges and is also theraputic. It allows self expression on how I view myself, the world around me and how I experience it. It is also a great way for family and friends to keep up to date with my antics.
2. When do you blog?
I usually blog during the weekday evenings. Occasionally I do have a full day blogging on a weekend. On a weekend day, I can bash out several blog posts and schedule them to publish at a date and time of my choosing in the future. So don’t assume that the date of publish is the time I’ve written them.
3. What do you blog about?
Anything and everything. My blog is abstract really. I tend to blog about my own life experiences, what’s going on in my life and other things that I’m passionate about. My main two passions I’ve noticed I blog about a lot are gay rights (including homophobia) and my religion, paganism.
4. Is there anything you don’t share on your blog?
Although I may appear open and that I share everything on my blog, I actually don’t. I only blog about things I would say to a member of the public (as anyone can access this blog on the World Wide Web). There are many things I consider to be private that I never blog.
5. Where do you live?
I’ve never revealed this on my blog and don’t intend too. I live in an apartment I’ve recently bought. You can see photos on my blog post The Move.
6. Whose important in your life?
My family and friends. You can read more on my blog post People that inspire me.
7. What have you achieved in your life?
A many number of things, like I’m sure you all have. I’ve bought an apartment, completed a HE Diploma in Children’s Nursing, learn’t to drive, a many number of spiritual achievements. I guess it depends what you call an achievement? And anyway, how is an achievement measured?
8. What would you like to achieve in the future?
Well I have a grand plan, you can read more on my blog post A Magickal Grand Plan. It includes things I wish to achieve in all areas of my life, health, family and friends, love, education, creativity, career, paganism and spirituality, experiences, home life, finances and travel.
9. Are you religious?
Yes, I’m a pagan. You can read more about what being a pagan means for me on my paganism page of my website.
10. What is your religion? What does it involve?
My religion is paganism. It involves following the cycle of the year, you can read more on my blog post entitled Pagan Festivals.
11. I’ve noticed your adventures page hasn’t been updated in a while. Do you ever plan on updating it?
Yes, I plan to do some more adventuring in the next year. I hope to travel a bit more next year. I had intended too this year but travel got delayed due to buying my apartment,
12. Are you on any of the popular social networking sites?
I’m on facebook, for friends only. I am also on twitter @antonysimpson. It mainly contains tweets from when I update this blog and replys to other people’s tweets.
13. What’s your websites design? And how did you come up with it?
The idea is that it’s a cork notice board with a piece of paper pinned to it. It was designed by my good friend Sye. I am especially proud and love the cartoon style naviagation icons that change on mouse over at the top of the site that Sye did the art work for.
14. What do you like to do for leisure?
Write blog posts, obiously. Surf the web, read, TV, socialising, meals out, see friends, cinemas and films, allsorts really.
15. I’ve noticed you write a lot about gay rights. Why’s this so important for you?
I think it’s important to me as I know friends who have experienced homophobia. People I love and care about being isolated and mistreated because of their sexuality. I have experienced homophobia, but not to this degree. I also have read up on my history and know what it used to be like for gay people. No role models in society (on the TV, media, etc.), no rights (no recognition of gay relationships by the mainstream hetrosexual world), being mistreated by institutions (police raiding gay pubs, courts prosecuting gay people, homosexuality being treated as a mental health condition, etc.) and I never, ever want it to go back to how it has historically been. Right I’ll get off my soap box.
16. What’s your faviourate film?
Any Disney film. I was brought up on Disney. Probably the reason I’m single though, as I often want the ideal and can’t settle for less. I love rom-coms. The typical love story were boy meets girl, falls in love with girl and ends up with her in the end.
17. What’s your faviourate artist or band?
I’m werid. I like a whole mix of different music from cheesy pop, soft rock, a bit of r n b, opera, indie, everything really. I tend to like songs rather than artists. If that makes sense?
18. What’s your faviourate colour?
Yellow. The colour of the sun (am sooo a sun worshiper!), colour of intelect and creativity.
19. Who are you idols? Who inspires you?
My family and friends inspire me, you can read more on my blog post People that inspire me. But if your talking in the famous world you can find out on my blog posts Inspirational Icons and Inspired by Stephen Fry.
20. Is it true you have diabetes?
Yes. Type 1. Insulin dependant.
21. What’s your diabetes diagnosis story?
That’s a blog post that’s already written. It’s scheduled to publish January 2010 which will mark 3 years since my diagnosis of diabetes.
22. How’s the elearning going? (see Back to University)
I’m ok on one of the modules and the other one I’m slightly behind. I intend to play catch up this weekend. I couldn’t find the resources I needed to do the work. I’m still new to this style of learning and it’s taking some getting use too. But I have bought some new uni books.
23. You seem to post a lot about comedy. Why is comedy so important to you?
I think as Dame Edna would say “we all need to laugh, especially in this world…more than ever”. Comedy enables you to see things from a different perspective and not take things too seriously. I think we need that with all the negativity we are peddled by the media.
24. You seem to love books, what are you currently reading?
Several university text books.
Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend by Jenny Colgan
Wannabe a Writer? by Jane Wenham-jones
How to Create a Magical Home by Marie Bruce
Book by Whoopi Goldberg
So yeah a quite diverse selection of literature.
25.What star sign are you?
I’m a taurus (a bull). You can read more on my blog post As a Taurus….
Take care,
Antony
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congratulations on the big 100, Im sure it wont be long when you celebrate your four digit number!
200 darling! Are you suggesting I blog too much? I’ve been thinking of cutting down, orignally I intended it to be one a week. It’s getting close to one a day and I’m worried it might be dilooting the content.
A x
I don’t think so, there are periods when I dont blog for a month, and others when I blog twice in an evening (I space it out of course, before and after tea, that sort of thing ;))
If its important to you, then its relevant, and thats what the blog is for, right? I dunno about you (well, I kinda think I do) but I write my blog for me, not anyone else, so how could it possibly be right/wrong?
By the way, my phone is dead atm but im free for a bit this evening, give my house phone a ring!
Yeah your right. But I think I will devote some of my time I spend blogging to doing some other form of creative writing, perhaps? Just an idea I’m toying with.
Would have phoned you but I was out with my mum watching Pink at the MEN. She was fantastic – look out for a blog post with pics.
Hugs,
A x x
Congratulations on your 200th post. I hope whatever else you do you keep posting! Your post in an interesting one. I tend to post EVERYTHING; or as much as I think readers may stomach! I may steal your meme btw 🙂
Thank you for the complement. Posting about everything is good as it makes your blog eclectic however for people to then find it searching for particular topics it makes it difficult to establish new readers.
You may steal my meme? What’s that?
Hugs,
A x
Hi… just wanted to say thanks for your support of my work
and I hope you are enjoying my books. Look out for my column in
Spirit&Destiny magazine, and my debut album Moon Chants
which is out now and I am very excited at the warm reception it has
received so far! great to see that you are respectful of copyright
laws and have the link to amazon – so many bloggers use authors
work without permission which is quite trying to one’s patience.
Keep standing up for tolerance – a small act makes a big
difference. BB Marie Bruce x
Hi Marie,
Thank you very much for your comments. Yes I know copyright can be a major issue these days, especially with everyone having the Internet. I believe if somebody’s spent their time and energy to create something they should be paid for it. I can understand your fustration with this in the blog sphere!
I loved your magical home book. I used the dream home book to attract my apartment (that I bought and is everything I wanted) and used many of your tips to ensure my whole house feels magickal and like a warm, loving witchy home. I think I will re-read in full and publish a book review, if that’s ok with you?
I didn’t know you wrote in Spirit and Desinty will have to pick a copy up. Do you have a website or Facebook so I can keep up to date with what your up to?
Oh and is Moon Chants going to be available on iTunes?
Hope to hear from you soon,
Antony x