Archive for January, 2008
The Simple Pleasures
- A storm rolling in after a stinking hot day
- A ginger beer mixer over ice
- Crunching on the ice cubes, just leaving enough to keep the drink cool
- Having extremely dorky ideas for gfts and having it pull off
- Having a neat and ready-to-go diary at work
- Blocking out the public holidays and other excuses for a long weekend (I have it down to 3 full weeks of ten this school term!
- The cool breeze of a fan on hot summer nights
Out with the old
Mum and I thought that my sister might need a lacy blue garter for her wedding. We’re nice like that! Also spent hours looking for a bag for Mum… Long day so far… I’m also thrown out so much CRAP that was horded in my old room at my parents place, and am sniffling like mad with the cat fur and dust that I stirred up. But it was a good old clean! :)
Some Mutterings:
- Booze :: booze bus
- Counter :: counterstrike
- Action :: busses
- Trial :: by numbers
- Wheelchair :: clinic
- 1-800 :: reverse
- Chop :: sticks
- Relatives :: table settings. argh!
- Bed sheets :: silk
- Funnel :: fennel
So forgot about Muse
The idea of Muse having the top song in the Hottest 100 did not occur to me whatsoever. heh. But if you lok a the list, not much of the top ten was in my area… Like that damn Soko, and Daft Punk getting in wiht a live version of a seven year old song. Ooh that’s it, just re-realease your hits as live versions and it’s like they’re new again!
I did vote for Karnivool’s vesion of Gotye’s The only way. I love it. At least that’s a cover, not the same song by the some band!
Spent the morning yesterday in the car – had a good run, except for being stopped on teh F3 heading out of Sydney for a bit. Crawling. But, it’s just an expected part of a long-weekend drive there. I had estimated I’d get in around 12:15, and I pulled into my parents’ driveway at 12:12pm, according to my clock :p
Spent the afternoon at a friend’s place listening to the countdown and catching up with people. Nice day. Plenty of opinions about what should and shouldn’t be in the Hottest 100 :) and exclamations of “I don’t know this song!”
Had dinner with the family, wiht my sister too. Still some wedding-y stuff to sort out, but it seems ot be pulling together hehe. And she said I can wear the shoes with the silver heel :)
Okay, need to figure out what I’m doing today – I can’t shower yet because there’s a burst pipe in th front yard and the water’s off… I need to catch Rish’s parents at some point – because it’s a nice thing to do, and because they have a monitor for Rish heh. Also give me a chance to get away from my family. i love them, they just drive me crazy…
Happy Hottest 100 Day
aka Australia Day,
aka Invasion Day.
However you spend it, make it a good one. Take care on the roads! I know I’ll have to, as I’m just about to set out from Canberra to Newcastle. At least I’ll be in range of Triple J for the 9am and beyond part of the journey! What are you all up to?
Wll be in Newie for the long weekend, back to Canberra on Monday afternoon… with all the other holiday traffic! Have a bbq (Au day/hottest 100) then dinner with the family… possibly wedding arrangement stuff again.. I’ll see if I can get a say in the table placements! :p Plus I’ll find out what colour I shoud be doing my toesnails (I’m thinking to go with the bouquet/posy?) and whether I’ll need to start thinking accessories or if someone’s figures that out for me!
Leaving you with the question that someone found there was here with yesterday: Is it possible to have sex with a lioness?
Shoes!
Okay, so after about 3 hours wandering aroudn the Canberra Centre and Woden, I’ve come home with two suitable pairs of shoes:
This little pair from Chinese Laundry which I got at David Jones Woden on sale. There’s sparlkies on the ankle there and on the crossover at the toes.
Then there was a pair from Betts at the Canberra Centre. I can’t find a picture online, so I’ll have to talk you through them. The brand is Sandra Miller. They’re also black with a wrap-around annkle strap. simpler crossover (just 2 bands) at the front, with smaller diamontes. Here’s the bit I’m not sure of – the heel is a metallic silver. The shoes are hot, I’ll have have to see if they work with the dress!
SO, I now have two new pairs of shoes. If the ones with the silver heels work with the dress, I’m wearing them – if not they’ll be hitting the Mooseheads dancefloor sometime in the not too distant future ;)
Note to self – when booking waxings, also organise a pedicure. Feet are gross!
Okay. Need to wind down and start settling for bed – a long drive tomorrow!
Don’t ask me (I just work here man)
Oh the Kindergarteners.
We’re awaiting the transfer of about 100 kindergarten kinder kids from our early childhood up to us, the school age team… We’ve been bracing for it since the start of December, when the reviewing and discharing from our own caseloads began in earnest.
We get the lists on Februrary 4th, the first day of school term. At this point we also get to split up one of the SPs caseloads on our team, as she’s been tranferred, without replacement…
I currently have my ‘numbers’ (pont little faceless names at times) at 54. It’s looking like it will be 100 or some come February 4. 50 extra names to get my head around, to make recommendations on, to help settle into ‘big school’.
And they wonder why our waitlist isn’t moving?
But, PINK!!!!!
Okay, Cessy, you truly horrible person, has alerted me to there being a Pink New Gen Ipod Nano… Makes me cry to think about my black 2nd gen…
But, if I HAVE to be honest… my 8gig nano is too small, and I really should hav e gone for a ‘proper’ ipod wiht a million gig of memory. I never have the right song when I want it as it is!
Now, I need to re-find some of my songs so I can play them, I can see entire silverchair albums that are unavaible! I need a playlist for the drive to Newcastle on Saturday morning. I’m thinking Garbage, Dresden Dolls, Love Outside Andromeda and a little Sarah Blasko, and I’ll be there!
10 Things…
I hate the way you talk to me
and the way you cut your hair.
I hate the way you drive my car;
I hate it when you stare.
I hate your big dumb combat boots
and the way you read my mind.
I hate you so much it makes me sick.
It even makes me rhyme.
I hate it — I hate the way you’re always right;
I hate it when you lie.
I hate it when you make me laugh;
even worse when you make me cry.
I hate it when you’re not around
and the fact that you didn’t call.
But mostly I hate the way I don’t hate you –
not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all.
I never saw Brokeback, nor do I remember him from Blackrock (which we lied about our ages to get in a see), but 10 Things I hate About You would probably be one of my mmost watched movies ever… and I just love the song in the stadium and this speech always makes me cry. I loved that cheeky grin…
I hope it wasn’t suicide, wasn’t him mucking around with drugs like all the rest of them, but we’ll see.
But on a lighter note of stars I once was in love with… gotta love the Jerry O’Connell rip off of Tom Cruise‘s Scientology video. Love you, Jerry!
Apparently Not
So, I had thought that my sister was having some sort of hen’s night/more like a bridal shower/girly afternoon with champagne this Saturday, and that that was what I was tavelling up to Newcastle for… however apparently she’s not any more… I’m sure I’ll find out more down the track, but I’m too tired to talk to anyone on the phone right now, so it can wait for tomorrow. It means I’ll probably hit Clint’s Australia Day BBQ / Hottest 100 party sometime through the day, instead!
What do I know about this wedding? I thought I had shoes and no dress up until Jan 5th. But now I have a dress and no shoes (I can’t wear silver shoes with a black dress… some people say I could, not that I’ve tried it on yet though hmm). So I’ll hopefullly find some new heels in the next month. It’s on Feb 23. It’s Jan 22 today. A month.
We have flowers, Mum tells me. Excellent :)
It’s in the Cathedral. If that roof collapses on the day, you should possibly look at me (and my darling Rish) to blame. ;)
Riddle me ree
Fiona says:
I hvre every magazine that came out in the past month.
Lana says:
oh do you have the new idea or whatever it is that says on the cover that bec hewitt has had enough?? tess was talking about that at choir and speculating on what she’d had enough OF. i said it probably wasn’t nearly as exciting as the cover made it sound.
Lana says:
I would have laughed if it was unnatural sex acts orsomething.
Fiona says:
no i dont… I have maddison, marie claire, womens health, womens health and fitness, eve, open road, a motorcycle mag, real living, twenty600 and the top gear mag.
Fiona says:
I think 3 were free and two are rish’s.
Lana says:
now i’m trying to figure out which…
So, who will be the first to solve this mystery?
