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these
are the little thoughts that I have had previously on the home page.
please note that my thoughts of the day are not quotes that I have ripped
off other peoples sites and blogs.
while some of them are coherent, some aren't.
as much as I like the
idea that my little gems of wisdom give a different insight to
different people, i do think that an explanation of some of them is in order. also, I don’t think it will hurt anyone to delve a little into the workings of
my brain.
passionfruit juice flavour
vodka pre-mix is actually nice
Bought me a 6 pack for $18 on Friday. Tastes very much like Passiona. Is 11%
vodka however.
i never appreciated
sunshine till it was gone.
SAD is one of the most horrible things. If you had asked me a year ago if I
preferred sitting in the sun or shade, I'd have thought that you were an
idiot... what kind of person wants to sit in the sun? Yeh, that would
be me.
you don't appreciate
the little things in life until you can't get them anymore...
There are some things
that I just can't get here... A decent meat pie. A good coffee with great
company. A cold dark&stormy on a warm evening. A friendly face in my local
hobby store. A can of proper, bright orange Fanta...
never underestimate
the greatness of purple!
Noticing things now that I know I would never have noticed before. Paris
Metro tickets abandoned outside Victoria station. Nike suede camel-toe
shoes. aniseed lollies amongst the mints in Harrods... purple seems to be a
discovery colour for me of late...
I have lift-fu!
there are two types of people in this world... Those of us with lift-fu, and
those that wait around in foyers glancing at their watches every 10
seconds...
I have been told -
no sharp edges.
The RTA states that I am allowed to modify the body of my light vehicle as
long as there is no danger from protruding sharp edges, or my mods don't
jeopardise the structural integrity of the vehicle... I can live with that!
life is simple when
your future is uncertain.
The nice people at NIDA were quick to impress that my life would never be the
same again if I was to attend their esteemed institution... I couldn't express
enough at how badly I need that right now. Living in the moment is well worth
it. I'm happy.
i'm so happy to be living
in interesting times!
So yeah, off-peak trains are few and far between... but I can sit cross-legged
on the platform and surf the web at broadband speeds!! It's the ultimate poseur
accessory!
new soundcard puts
the music into my head.
plugged my favourite headphones into my puta when boi was sleeping... told
my soundcard that i was using headphones now. puta did some trixxy stuff and
put the music from my ears to inside my head. this is not just sterio kids,
it's all around the place in there!
Life is a breeze when you wield a giant
tuning fork!
I love my logo... I'm using a cropped version in my LJ, and an even more
butchered version on Forums where they have an 80x80 limit. I love the
feedback I get from people. Some people see it, some don't. One thought it
was a faery wielding a tuning fork *sigh*
Auburn Bunnings, closest thing I've seen
to a Tardis!
It's HUGE!!! I've never had so much fun in a hardware store before! - only
wish I had an unlimited budget to spend there.
Is anyone else freaked by
the big red lights?
New irrational fear! - the oversized traffic lights, but only when they are
red. (Parramatta Rd & Northumberland)
I found a home.
finally settling into life here in Marrickville. Calling the cottage home,
and driving here on autopilot after work.
Dorothy is like a marble in Lane Cove.
with the ever-changing lane markings, I feel like I am but a marble in
the rut of reality, following all those other marbles in a jaggardy path all
the way home.
Zimbabwe's national
flower is the Flame Lily.
Gloriosa Rothschildiana. sounds more like a spell from happy potter to me...
why?
why do they ask me questions that they already know the answer to?
sometimes i really love my job.
watching the fourth person of the day walk straight into the glass doors in
my building...
cafe essen now has "the bucket".
there is no such thing as too much coffee. <grin>
i now remember why i
sleep in the daytime.
...because it's impossible to get your ass anywhere in sydney in the
daylight hours!
don't be a fear prisoner!
i got donnie darco dvd for my birthday! yay!
spring!
spring! spring!
wake up, wake up. it's t-shirt weather!
i need a job... i'm
getting excited about passions.
Working nights and weekends means that I'm catching alot more daytime TV
than is healthy.
burning the midnight oil never tasted
so good!
found the best double roasted arabica at
the markets. its dark, strong
and no bitterness! yay! its my new best friend...
flatmate's widescreen tv talks to x-box!
it doesn't stretch the image to fit, no fat characters here! - nooo it resizes
so you get more edges in 2 player mode! I love you, x-box!
my car is not a mini
screaming through the back streets of manly in a festiva, it was hard to
remember that I was not in a mini in italy...
good coffee + a day off = happy me!
I found me a great cafe just down the road... It's impossible to only stay for
one cup.
women in power suits can't walk quietly.
watching the workers walk past was amusing... the noisiest male had a box of
tictacs in his pocket.
love
this city!
standing on the edge of the harbour in the sun, breathing in great lung fulls of
it's fresh air, watching the smooth ripples crawl across the green glassy
surface. it's easy to be overwhelmed by the pleasure of living in the greatest
city in the world.
i forgot how much i hate fairfield, pity i
had to drive there to remember.
the only place i've been where it's possible to feel claustrophobic walking down
the street.
page 440 of a 766-page
book, 2 days after it's release
yes i'm sad. harry potter was released on the saturday, i'd finished on the
monday afternoon.
i followed the adventures of the king of gerbils!
lemmywinks!
tea is nice, but coffee is better!
i missed my espresso machine while i was at my dad's place. don't get me
wrong... i like tea, but i liked ripping into my quadruple harris black label
espresso once i got home... mmmm...coffee...
they dont like laptops or mobile phones in hospitals
i expected and am comfortable with the ban on mobile phones... i can hear what
the emps do to my radio... but laptops?... can anyone shed some light on why
they are evil?
i'm not hiding, i'm just broke!
and not having a computer didn't help with the whole
staying in touch thing. gimme a few weeks and i'll be back on track.
nothing looks more like a drowned rat... than a drowned rat.
staying next to a shopping centre atm. my cat found a cache of rats and
mice. most of the ones he brought home were drowned in the recent drenchings
that sydney experienced.
hey! - this looks different!!
merging and sorting my sites was a very strange experience... it was like I was
going through my life, deciding on what was still important.
Gingernuts
and Vanilla Coke - life doesn’t get any better than this…
Biscuits straight outta the oven, a special edition cola... stretching out in
the sunshine, just soaking up the love... I forgot how much I enjoyed sitting in
an open window, just watching the world go by... Mmmm solar bliss.
A whole year gone.
Wasted away like water.
I have no direction, I have no purpose, I have achieved nothing… I am a doer,
not a tourist… where did my life go?
I have a life!!!!!
Got me a new boy, resolved to meet up with my old friends more, started back on
my day job. Given into my vices of sugar, and caffeine again… and I feel so
alive!
Sleep Dep is very scarey
I did a little experiment to see how long I could stay awake before I fell
asleep… The answer is 65 hours before I slipped under. But it got scary after
55 hours. That’s when I started to lose the ability to tell the difference
between the hallucinations and reality.
Can they see me?
Walking through the
mall I am amazed at the level of rudeness that has overtaken the general
populous… They are so overcome by Christmas spirit and self-riotousness that
they forget to be polite.
“I would give a shit if my life wasn’t so fucked up”
- Sonia
Trekking the weekend away is quite relaxing…
Staaaar Trekking,
across the Universe…. On the starship enterprise, under Captain Kiiiiirk!
There were Klingons on the starboard bow, paranoid androids, a batty councilor,
Alien conspiracies, and even Tasha’s sista!!
Foam is FUN!!!!
I had too much fun at a Foam Party
on Sat. If one comes you way… go! It’s great!
Grit your teeth and think of the overtime…
I worked back every night last week…
A little caffeine and ska in the morning will brighten the
rest of your day.
Nothing lifts the
spirits like vigorous music mixed with legal stimulants.
Road trip!!!
I drove to
I want out!
I just got sick of life attached to the internet. But after 3 weeks
exodus, I’m feeling happier… I’ve got a new computer, though he doesn’t have a
name yet. I’m still really precious about him, It seems to be amusing to anyone
who sees it.
No more large coffees
for me… they make me crazy!
I got given a large
mocca-latte at work… I was amazingly jittery all day. Nothing puts a bounce
into your life like too much caffeine!
Maths makes my brain
sad.
They gave me 10 inches of paperwork full of numbers and made me sort the mess
out… It's all over now, but it was really hurting there for awhile.
You can always resort to
Bonds.
Bonds are now making really great underwear for chicks… it's soooo good. I just
got me like $100s worth for my birthday!
Do I look like a pyro?
For some reason I
given me a lot of candles and other readily combustible material for my
birthday… Hmm…
My dreams are now all
Tricky!
Am I addicted to
XBox? - Hellyah! Did I play too much Tricky on the weekend? - No, because I
still crash, even when I dream Tricky.
I love spring!
Wake up Wake up! -
It's T-shirt Weather!
I love being outside in the warm, just breathing in the new spring.
Part time = daytime TV!
Finishing at one
lets me get back to serious television watching. I can watch Oprah again. And I
found that I can still follow Passions more or less, even though I haven't
watched it since I left PRIME. I have also discovered a bizarre little Japanese
language program on SBS too!
What happened to my
weekend?
Gee, maybe I should
change that to "What happened to September?" I can't believe it's the
16th already!
I hate Fisher-Price!
I unpacked 4
pallets of toys today. 3 of them were Fisher-Price crap. And 2 1/2 of those
were excess stock, and had to be repacked and sent back. These are the kinds of
toys that have 'try me!' buttons on them, and they buzz and whirr, and sing and
are insanely annoying. I was just about ready to put a whirlin' twirlin' garden
through a wall when I was glad to discover that it was time to pack up and go
home. (yay)
A little skin and a lot
of alcohol make for a great night out!
Went to the local
underage hangout on Fri night. Drank far too much, then sobered up fairly
quickly, and danced far to extrovertly for a person who doesn't want a
relationship right now… And I'm also happy about out-skinning most femmes in a
suburb that is known for girls wearing their shirts 2 sizes too small!
"My nostril hairs
are vibrating faster than the springs on a Spaniard's honeymoon bed!"
I have rediscovered
the joy that watching Red Dwarf brings me… And also the sheer variety of
strange looks I get from people when I slip the Dwarfisms into my everyday
speech!
Being miserable makes me
happy.
Aahhhh! - The
friendly and all familiar rut of pessimism. I feel lost without it.
I don't suck at
XBOX!!!!! (well, there
are at least 2 games that I am vaguely competent at)
Had a friend come
and stay on the weekend. He bought an XBOX while he was here. Now, I'm usually
astonishingly pathetic at any game that requires me to remember what more then
2 buttons do…I spend the entire time looking at the ceiling or the floor,
walking around in little circles. I find it funny, but other people seem to get
so frustrated that I can't get it together... but for some insane reason, I'm not suckfull at some of these.
Much time spent very early in the morning killing aliens!! (Mind you, I really
sucked at the skating game… so the world is not all amiss.)
Loneliness isn't a state
of mind, it's a lifestyle!
That wasn't
supposed to sound so dramatic… I meant it in that I am glad to have time to
myself. As well as being free of the hassle of having to answer to someone
else.
Being tired is painful!
When I get tired a
few things happen. First thing is I lose my ability to concentrate. And
considering the fantastic state of that skill when I'm at my best…well, you can
imagine. Next thing is that my vision goes. And shortly following is my speech.
So I end up being this incoherent, flighty ditz, that keeps bashing into things.
Yesterday I sliced open my wrist on a shelf, stuck a letter spike through my
hand and into bone, bashed my thumb on the door when I was cleaning the glass,
and I have a nasty looking
bruise on my left knee and I have no idea
how I got that one! So… being tired is painful, don’t you agree?
New Rule: Don't get
drunk, and then try to dye your hair.
Yeah, it was a mess.
Ended up dying the whole thing blonde all over.
GW is opening a store in
Hornsby next month.
For some reason the
GW staff at Miranda wave at me when I walk past their store… I've been in there
less than 10 times, and they are treating me like I'm a good customer. It
scares me. So yes, on Friday I actually walked in to say hello, and they
telling me that the Hornsby store is opening soon, and this means a no brainer
commute for the guy there who lives in Hornsby.
Oreos now come with
chocolate cream centres. Yum.
I have a confession
to make… I just ate a whole packet of oreos for dinner.
The Bank shuts at 4pm
Lauren!
No matter how many
times they tell me, I somehow manage to think that the bank shuts at 4.30pm,
not 4pm. One of these days I will remember, and surprise everyone! Mind you…
one of these days I am going to have a problem-free morning, and be able to get
the banking done before Lunchtime, like I want to.
I can chew without
pain!!!
After both the
pieces of gauze that they stitched into the cavities in my mouth 'Fell Out'* I
find that I can chew now without pain.
*For the definition of
'fall out' that involves a large mirror, a pair of nail scissors and tweezers.
I love lazy Sundays.
I got up this
morning at 2pm. Helped my Mum tidy the apartment for about half an hour, and
then headed down to the pool for 2 1/2 hours. Came back up at abouts a quarter
past 5ish, had a snack, and bundled myself off to sit in front of my computer
for a while, still in my swimmers… I wonder what the rest of the world is doing
today?
Storms are cool, but Sun
is so much nicer to bathe in.
There is a wall of
windows along one side of the pool here. They face east. So in the morning, it
is possible to sit lazily in the spa and relax in the sunshine. Today though, a
big storm blew in, and although it was really cool to watch the lightening from
within the warm comfort of the spa, I still think that bathing in sunshine is
better.
Arnica is my friend.
ACTIVE INGREDIENTS:
Each gram of product contains Arnica montana liquid extract equivalent to dry
flower 60mg. Melaleuca Oil (Tea Tree Oil) 10mg. Almond Oil 548mg.
INDICATIONS: For temporary relief of contusions, bruises, muscular aches and
sprains. Sports Injuries.
DIRECTIONS: Do not apply to broken skin. Apply 1.25g (1/4 to 1/2 metric
teaspoon) to affected areas 1-2 times daily.
NON-ACTIVES: 3mg/g methyl, ethyl and propyl hydroxybenzoate.
I love confrontation!
I was invited into
a chatroom yesterday, only to find a room of newbe-hating regs handing out shit
sandwiches to anyone who wasn’t a part of their crowd. I pride myself at being
able to fit into any situation, but this was borderline insane. So I started a
little slinging myself, fully expecting to get kicked… And didn't. Not because
I didn't deserve it, (I assure you I did) but because the room isn't moderated.
So now I'm sort of tolerated in there. That makes me happy - I think.
Hospital is REALLY
boring
It's 4am, and your
cellmate wants to sleep… I am so glad that the commonwealth games are running 24/7!
Never work with animals,
especially cats and chickens.
My cat likes
chicken, I like chicken, but not the skin. And so because I'm the one with the
IQ and the thumb, I get to decide that he only eats skin. Unfortunately he
disagrees, and gave Christian a look of absolute shock when he was caught up on
the table.
After seeing an ad at
the cinema for tinned gourmet tongues, I am disturbed that there is a market
for that sort of thing.
Yes, before MIIB
there was an ad for tinned gourmet tongues. I am appalled. What is the world
coming to?
They have changed the
rules on how you can change your name.
You used to have to
be known by the name you want to change to for a period of time. Now you can
change it instantly, for a fee of $70. But you can't change it again for 12
months.
The coriolis effect is
the description for how water turns opposite ways in either hemisphere.
I can't remember
what we were talking about, it probably doesn't matter, and it almost certainly
wouldn't have been relevant… But
Christian threw this in there, and I was a
little 'What the' for awhile there.
After 5 months exactly,
I am no longer unemployed.
I got a Job!!! I
got a job!!! I got a Job!!!
Painkillers are bad -
but I miss them so much!
I broke and
dislocated my finger, and the first few days were drug-induced bliss, then I
ran out… : (
It costs $15.10 to send
a 1.5KG package through post to Canberra overnight
I sent some stuff
down to Tim. Not going to overnight again, it's just too damn expensive.
The Weekly World News
makes an excellent, inexpensive roleplaying reference
It's
brain-breakingly good. Planning to use in my MIB game at CanCon.
If you must feed the
pigeons, make them work for it!!
Accucio pigeon! If
pigeons want chips… pigeons must be airborne. Amused a lot of people too.
I love No!
No! is TMBG's
latest album. (Be your own Broom!)
Today is NOT Monday
Don't you just love
that Post Public Holiday confusion?
I love living over the road to Bakers Delight!
Mmmm… Fresh Bread….
The boys that yell
things at you out of cars are getting really young.
I thought that
skirt was a tad too short, now I realise that it's just the shire boys…
Shopping for beautiful
clothes makes life's problems go away for a few hours.
Nothing boosts the
self esteem like trying on outfits that you are going to have to stow several
pay packets for, and then doing the twirl and saying… 'Damn I look hot in
this…' Need… To… Buy… Corset!!!
When in doubt, always
pick door number 2.
I can't remember
what this is about. It was obviously devastatingly alluring and important…
My cat used to love me.
It has since discovered the gas heater
Dibbler used to
live underneath my Jumper. Now he doesn't. He even abandons the bed every
morning when the heater is turned on… I'm not impressed!
When I grow up, I wanna be
Mace Windu!!!
Why purple? –
Because it’s as bad-ass as you can get. Episode 2 had me in puddles of cool at
several points. But it’s Mace Windu that made it for me.
There is no situation in
the world that can't be improved by Wizz Fizz.
Sugar is my friend.
I feel that my life is
complete, now I know how to play 12 bar blues.
Took up guitar
lessons. Learnt what 7th cords are, and how to work them out. Greg
also taught me the 12 bar blues. Base, fourths and fifths, really simple stuff,
and a lot of fun to play.
Green Tea is good for
the soul.
I rediscovered how
much I like green tea when I opened my eyes and realised that most places have
it in their tea selection now. Tis good to sit in a café, drinking the
afternoon away.
Next time you are bored,
try scanning the top of your head using a flatbed scanner - it looks really
cool!
I didn’t have a
camera, and my pic was really out of date, so I
scanned my head. Lot’s of fun.
Sometimes bad pickup
lines are good!
I bought a deck of
cards with a bad pickup line on each one. I had a mad time hanging around Civic
with Dibbler talking to a nice bunch of people. They were fascinated by the bad
pickup lines.
Pigeons can't fart.
Pigeons can't burp. So it's not a good idea to feed them carbonated substances.
This one was
inspired when we saw a pigeon drinking coke.
Cracked wheat can be
used in most recipes instead of rice.
Mmm – giant
zucchini. Didn’t pay much attention to the ‘healthy’ section of Coles till we
had to track down some cracked wheat for a stuffed zucchini recipe. The packet
had a list of ‘handy facts’ on the back. This was one of them.
There is a cyclone in
Queensland, Anset is no longer, and the GG is still in trouble, and I don't
care.
This was the end of
a great week for the news. Lots of massive news items at the beginning of the
week, and then nothing. So they flogged these horsies to within an inch of
their death, then interviewed the crowd that had gathered to watch. Urgh.
Hitting the kill switch
on someone's motorbike can sometimes be very funny.
Hehe – My arms are
long.
No TMBG album titles
share their name with a song, except Mink Car. Why the sudden change of heart?
Yeah – and now No!.
I don’t understand. Are they out of obscure ‘in’ references, or is the change
of record label forcing the change...
Being unemployed isn't
anywhere near as fun as I thought it would be.
Welcome to the
world of esteem-draining boredom. Nothing prepares you for this till you have
got up a 8am on a Saturday (something that I never do when I’m employed) to
scour the paper for suitable openings, to be faced with page after page of
useless crap.
The computers…They all
HATE me!
Why is it that
people insist that machines don’t have a soul. They spent the entire day
taunting me. Stupid error after stupid error, which would miraculously vanish
as soon as I called anyone else over. Grrrr.
I think I'm beginning to
like Canberra.
Strange. I felt as
if I was a Sydneysider in exile right up to the point where I decided to return
there. Now I’m confused. I’m starting to make great friends here, and Sydney
has changed so much since I left, I feel like a stranger there.
Rat Race is even better
the second time. Go see it!!
I’m sorry, it’s
just very rare that I actually find a comedy that I like.
…Yeah and maybe Seth Green had something to do with it too… But you can’t dis a
cast list like that… Seth (yum) Green, Whoopi, Rowan Atkinson, Cuba Gooding Jr,
John Cleese…
TMBG Film clips are way
cool!
I got copies of the
Ana Ng, Istanbul, and 2 Tiny Toons clips. Way cool. The music, the surreal
imagery, the little dances! OVERLOAD!!!!! My brain hurts. Spent far too much
time and bandwidth downloading more from tmbg.com
Cats are stronger than
Gaffa Tape.
No I am not cruel and
evil. My cats were constantly getting onto the kitchen windowsill and knocking
my herbs down. So I acquired some Gaffa Tape, and taped the curtain to the
wall. It took them 2 days to get the tape off. A feat that the fire was unable
to repeat. After the fire all that was left of my curtains was the skerriks
that were between the gloops of tape and the wall.
Don't take a newly
repaired Kombi too far from home unless you have someone to help you push
start.
I thought that he just had a flat battery, but no, she was totally cactus. So
after jump starting the darling, putting a gerrycan of petrol in the tank, we
set off around Canberra to have a bit of a cruise. 4 push starts later, and I
decided to get a new battery.
Merrimbula is not
Goulburn. No matter what The Weatherman says.
When the weather
program started using Merrimbula’s data instead of Goulburn, it took us a few
days to work it out. I feel sorry for the poor residents of Goulburn who
believed us over the ABC.
Hey! - Yous ARE reading
my site!
Brief experiment
with a page counter. Yeah it was a freebe, and I took it off after 2 days
because it caused scripting errors on any computer that wasn’t mine.
The M5 tunnel opens
tomorrow.
(1 set of lights between Canberra and General Holmes Drive)
Yeah, this probably
sounds like a who cares, but it cuts 30 min off the trip into the city from
Canberra to the city. Handy too that it opened 2 weeks before I had to drive up
to the TMBG concert with severe time restrictions.
AAAAAhhhhhh!!!!!…
They are inspecting my flat on Thursday!!!
Don’t you love it
when they give you 3 days notice on things like this. I am just lucky that I
don’t have to clean the grill, cos I don’t know how to use it.
If I ever lose something
in my flat… it's always down the back of the couch!
It’s a well known
fact, but still surprising when you consider that my lounge is a futon.
You can fire porcelain
as many times as you want.
Took up ceramics,
because I needed a hobby to give my right brain a bit of a run. Ceramics can
only be fired 2 or 3 times before the risk of breakage (to the piece, and the
kiln) becomes too great. Porcelain, although it’s fired to a higher temp, can
be fired as many times as you want, even though it is thinner.
For some strange reason,
chocolate being silly is funny.
I don’t know… I am
used to my hyperactive exploits being misunderstood by the masses. I was
unprepared for the effect that Chocolate Art has on people. Different people
find different pictures funny… but I’ve yet to meet a person that hasn’t got a
favourite.
I haven’t done anymore since I left Canberra, because it wouldn’t be the same
without Naomi.
Rollerblading after a
really windy day is really stupid, and somewhat painful
Rollerblades are
temperamental things at the best of times, they seem to attract the smallest of
obstacles, which jam under the wheels, and stop the skate dead. Most of the
time I happen to be still moving with some momentum, which brings into effect a
wonderful maneuver called a kersplat fall. So… don’t rollerblade after the wind
has blown a lot of little gumtree branches to the ground.
Too much Peroxide is
ALWAYS better than too little
To save myself a
large hairdressing bill, I dye my own hair. To save on the dye, I buy it in
bulk from Price Attack, and mix the 2 parts myself. I unfortunately
underestimated my amounts, and ran out of peroxide part the way through. The
second batch bleached my hair a different colour to the first. Lucky for me, multicoloured
hair is in at the moment.
Draino is made in Greece
I discovered this
little gem when I was stuck on the loo with nothing to read. Consequently I
read everything in sight. I don’t know why this fact stuck with me, I guess I
was just not expecting Draino to be made in Greece.