Now, I'm not entirely sure of the way this is going to work... so bare (bear?) with me (and yes, there are a lot of exclamation marks, but that's what awards ceremonies are about)...
Thanks team - it's been 400 worth of pleasure!
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Showing posts with label Special Event. Show all posts
Sunday, June 17, 2007
Most likely to make 400 posts
As suggested, and then seconded in a lovely manner, I'd like to present some awards to my loyal readers!
Now, I'm not entirely sure of the way this is going to work... so bare (bear?) with me (and yes, there are a lot of exclamation marks, but that's what awards ceremonies are about)...
Adam wins the take me out for a drinking night award. He gets to take me out drinking for a night so that we can drink lady drinks and make bad jokes and talk too noisy and joke about that time that D'jen and I spied on him from the balcony and it will be awesome because she will be there too - that's the special part of the award!
Amanda wins the most persistent CD sending effort award - though she does also get a very honorable mention for also being the most easy going person that I am yet to meet - she seems to get along with everyone she's met!
Ampersand Duck wins the person I'd most like to be my cool aunty award! She's so engaging and friendly and looks to make awesome meals (with assistance of course!).
Audrey wins the person most likely to deserve a frickin break. She's had a poor run and seems totally lovely in an older sister that would get me drunk kinda way!
Aurelius wins the most intriguing new male award - I only came across him recently (via Mick) and do hope I can continue too - seems he's got a lurker on the loose...
Bevis wins the most creative award - he's like TV in an online brain kinda way (and I do so miss Big Blogger)!
Boysenberry wins the most likely to be accidentally bumped into without knowing it award - he's a local but also not the type to blogmeet, though definitely an interesting guy I'd like to learn more about!
Brooke wins the secret stalker award, as we both 'came out' to each other at the same time!
C & P win the achievable lifestyle award, showing everyone how easy it can be to be happy, healthy vegans with a lovely happy, healthy vegan baby! I'd also love to meet them - they're like my vegan blogger mecca!
Chesty LaRue wins the continual entertainment award, for providing entertainment to me every lunchtime that is always humorous or entertaining (or both)!
ChickyBabe wins the first commenter award, for being the first commenter and perhaps even the last one day (if she is still here)!
Crapping On (Canberra) wins the most likely to be someone I work with award. I dunno, I just have a feeling that's how it's going to turn out one day..!
D'Jen wins the most delightful award (obviously!). She is also the most likely to respond to a an emergency phone call with 'Stay put dear, I'll come and get you'!
Dean wins the NOT the most boring man on the internet award (after I embarrassingly pointed out I'd heard him referred to as) - as part of this he gets to host a Singstar party *fingers crossed*!
Deb wins the vivacity award, with a bonus for the most awesome hair cut and colour!
Desci wins the award for being the first goth chick that I ever met, thus breaking down the barrier that they're all freaky scaries - Goths be pplz too, yo.
Erica wins the award for being the first blogger I ever met in RL! She gets to be stalked by me via email, messenger AND MySpazz!
Fluffy wins the one cool mama award - for being one cool mama!
Jac wins the dark horse award - we've met, but not properly 'met'!
Jane wins the personable courage award, for always replying to every comment personally, blogging in multiple places at once and putting up with a whole lot of crap. And if I can ever work out where on the map the place is that she lives, I'd love to visit it one day!
Krankiboy wins the constant overseas companion award - for being a good overseas buddy!
Lulu wins the kawaii award - she was an awesome host and tour guide and a lovely, lovely girl who will get a Canberra tour on the offchance she visits!
M. wins the hidden talent award, for 'sneaking' into the blogosphere and also being an awesome MySpazz friend!
Mars'n'Dot win the the awesome foursome twosome award. I would LURVE to meet up with mars, as long as she didn't start a fight and expect me to jump in...!
Martie wins the icecream date award - I don't know how we'd work it out because I can only eat So Good and she'd want Cold Rock, but it would be an AWESOME icecream date nontheless!
Michelle wins the nationalised Aussie Battler award - she's had a struggle and it's all starting to come together for her at last.
Mick wins the blogger I'm most likely to meet next award. Just a (totally non stalky) hunch!
Nat wins the dust animal award for being funny as heck, in both BL and RL!
Rosanna wins the fresh newcomer award - I only found her recently (thru d'jen!) but she's just so lovely and a pleasure to read (and hear from)!
Steph wins the coolest person that may not be that scary in real life award. I'm easily intimated but do hope that if I were to meet her that we'd get along - she seems very down to earth!
Somewhat Sober wins the tiny, tiny world award - I found her when I was new to the blogosphere, then she disapeared - only to reappear very close to home (albeit sporadically)!
TokenWoman wins the not updating in the longest time yet still ensuring I check back on the rare offchance she has updated award! She also hooked me up with awesome tupperware keyringage!
TJ wins the amazonian idol award - the first person whose archives I obsessively read and finally got to meet - she was inspiration for me to start this whole shebang.
Now, I'm not entirely sure of the way this is going to work... so bare (bear?) with me (and yes, there are a lot of exclamation marks, but that's what awards ceremonies are about)...
Tuesday, June 05, 2007
Vegannivarsary
I celebrated my one year veganniversary on the 1st of June... to celebrate, I thought I'd copy this 'act' I found on the net here (and posted on the forum I visit, so apologies if you've already read it).
6:30 a.m. Awake to a bright and morally untroubling day. Waft into kitchen to prepare a healthy, animal-free breakfast. See that girlfriend (Jennifer) has cooked cream-of-tomato soup in my saucepan, and has left it in sink. Don't want to start fight. Instead, blend spirulina breakfast shake in blender for entirety of time in shower.
7:30 a.m. Put PETA "I am not a nugget" T-shirt on under work polo. I know I've made a small difference.
8:15 a.m.-8:25 a.m. After leaving questionably sarcastic note for Jennifer, drive to work. Tailgate Durango with "Carnivore" sticker. Feel he noticed: small victory. Arrive at work. Clock in. Intentionally snub butchers' department; give them the finger with hands in pockets.
9:20 a.m. Fellow-cashier (Brandi) asks for price on eggs. "The price is too high," I say. "Too high." She is so moved by my answer, she does not consult me for price checks for rest of day.
10:25 a.m. Get poultry drippings on shirt from raw chicken at checkout. Consider changing into extra work shirt, but decide not to. Fluids will be Pink Badge of Sacrifice. Brandi tells me I have chicken blood on my shirt. "But not on my hands," I say.
11:00 a.m. Overcharge woman buying Jell-O.
11:15 a.m. Lunch break. Eat bagel with peanut butter sprinkled with texturized vegetable protein. Brandi sits nearby, eating turkey sandwich. Stomach turns. She asks if she should eat elsewhere. I say, "No, I just won't breathe through my nose." After meal, go to loading dock and smoke cigarette to clear air of turkey smell.
11:45 a.m. Return from lunch break. Remove Burt's Bees products from display next to register. Manager complains. Tell her I'm sorry, that from now on I will be more accepting of the exploitation of bees. She asks me to work every Saturday for the month. I accept, interested to see how many pork products are bought on Sabbath. Will make great entry in journal.
12:50 p.m. Customer comments on "Go Veg!" sticker, which is on my water bottle under counter. I give short discourse on Marxist view of man-vs.-animal struggle, especially as it pertains to bovine lactation exploitation. I "accidentally" spill his container of feta on floor. He informs me he will no longer shop here. I congratulate his grass-roots activism against the grocery industry.
1:30 p.m. Ask customer if she wants paper or plastic. Add, "Or a coronary," as I cough into hand. Feel energized about standing up for beliefs.
2:55 p.m. Brandi asks if I am mad about the sandwich incident. I say no, but know she knows I'm mad. Continue covert glaring toward her register.
3:10 p.m. Smoke break. Co-worker (Dave) says, "I'm surprised you do that." "Well, being vegan isn't for everyone," I counter. Note he must be jealous of my self-control.
4:00 p.m. Receive call from Jennifer. Asks if I can pick up birth-control prescription. I begin to mention the evils of hormone harvesting from horses, but refrain. Decide to "forget" to go to pharmacy.
4:30 p.m. Clock out. Grab wheat-grass smoothie for drive home. Accidentally let shopping carts roll into butcher's car. Oops.
4:45 p.m.-6:00 p.m. Confrontation with Jennifer over birth control. She says pills are "synthetic" hormones. I say the only thing synthetic are my shoes—no leather here! I refuse to have intercourse until a non-latex-based, nonhormonal birth-control method is established. Jennifer rummages through vegetable crisper, retires to bedroom. I believe she is beginning to see the light.
7:45 p.m. Leaf through PETA catalog (new hemp shoes!), eat tofu stir-fry. Decide not to brush teeth after eating as I usually do to accommodate Jennifer's soy sensitivity. Give her sloppy kiss when she emerges from bedroom. Swear that resulting hives are from a built-up Midwestern resistance to healthful, nonmeat alternatives. She begins to cry. Finally, a breakthrough.
10:20 p.m. Read Vegan Delights cookbook in bed, fall asleep on goose-down pillows Jennifer put on bed. Could go to closet and get fiberfill one, but don't. Will blame Jennifer forever if ideological tenets are damaged by night of fluffy respite. Pledge to record this in journal tomorrow.
Passive-Aggressive Vegan Grocery Cashier:
A Day in the Life.
BY MEREDITH GRAY
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A Day in the Life.
BY MEREDITH GRAY
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6:30 a.m. Awake to a bright and morally untroubling day. Waft into kitchen to prepare a healthy, animal-free breakfast. See that girlfriend (Jennifer) has cooked cream-of-tomato soup in my saucepan, and has left it in sink. Don't want to start fight. Instead, blend spirulina breakfast shake in blender for entirety of time in shower.
7:30 a.m. Put PETA "I am not a nugget" T-shirt on under work polo. I know I've made a small difference.
8:15 a.m.-8:25 a.m. After leaving questionably sarcastic note for Jennifer, drive to work. Tailgate Durango with "Carnivore" sticker. Feel he noticed: small victory. Arrive at work. Clock in. Intentionally snub butchers' department; give them the finger with hands in pockets.
9:20 a.m. Fellow-cashier (Brandi) asks for price on eggs. "The price is too high," I say. "Too high." She is so moved by my answer, she does not consult me for price checks for rest of day.
10:25 a.m. Get poultry drippings on shirt from raw chicken at checkout. Consider changing into extra work shirt, but decide not to. Fluids will be Pink Badge of Sacrifice. Brandi tells me I have chicken blood on my shirt. "But not on my hands," I say.
11:00 a.m. Overcharge woman buying Jell-O.
11:15 a.m. Lunch break. Eat bagel with peanut butter sprinkled with texturized vegetable protein. Brandi sits nearby, eating turkey sandwich. Stomach turns. She asks if she should eat elsewhere. I say, "No, I just won't breathe through my nose." After meal, go to loading dock and smoke cigarette to clear air of turkey smell.
11:45 a.m. Return from lunch break. Remove Burt's Bees products from display next to register. Manager complains. Tell her I'm sorry, that from now on I will be more accepting of the exploitation of bees. She asks me to work every Saturday for the month. I accept, interested to see how many pork products are bought on Sabbath. Will make great entry in journal.
12:50 p.m. Customer comments on "Go Veg!" sticker, which is on my water bottle under counter. I give short discourse on Marxist view of man-vs.-animal struggle, especially as it pertains to bovine lactation exploitation. I "accidentally" spill his container of feta on floor. He informs me he will no longer shop here. I congratulate his grass-roots activism against the grocery industry.
1:30 p.m. Ask customer if she wants paper or plastic. Add, "Or a coronary," as I cough into hand. Feel energized about standing up for beliefs.
2:55 p.m. Brandi asks if I am mad about the sandwich incident. I say no, but know she knows I'm mad. Continue covert glaring toward her register.
3:10 p.m. Smoke break. Co-worker (Dave) says, "I'm surprised you do that." "Well, being vegan isn't for everyone," I counter. Note he must be jealous of my self-control.
4:00 p.m. Receive call from Jennifer. Asks if I can pick up birth-control prescription. I begin to mention the evils of hormone harvesting from horses, but refrain. Decide to "forget" to go to pharmacy.
4:30 p.m. Clock out. Grab wheat-grass smoothie for drive home. Accidentally let shopping carts roll into butcher's car. Oops.
4:45 p.m.-6:00 p.m. Confrontation with Jennifer over birth control. She says pills are "synthetic" hormones. I say the only thing synthetic are my shoes—no leather here! I refuse to have intercourse until a non-latex-based, nonhormonal birth-control method is established. Jennifer rummages through vegetable crisper, retires to bedroom. I believe she is beginning to see the light.
7:45 p.m. Leaf through PETA catalog (new hemp shoes!), eat tofu stir-fry. Decide not to brush teeth after eating as I usually do to accommodate Jennifer's soy sensitivity. Give her sloppy kiss when she emerges from bedroom. Swear that resulting hives are from a built-up Midwestern resistance to healthful, nonmeat alternatives. She begins to cry. Finally, a breakthrough.
10:20 p.m. Read Vegan Delights cookbook in bed, fall asleep on goose-down pillows Jennifer put on bed. Could go to closet and get fiberfill one, but don't. Will blame Jennifer forever if ideological tenets are damaged by night of fluffy respite. Pledge to record this in journal tomorrow.
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Two Year Anniversary - My! How Time Flies...
(You actually got this a lil early as I'm meant to be leaving Canberra in six hours and I'm yet to pack and can't be fuffed with trying to work out how to automatically publish posts....!)
Oh yeah baby - the next installment of this (and quit hogging the celebratory cake!) - What a year! Feel free to comment on any of them coz I have that thing setup where I get emailed your comments (so I PROMISE to reply) and thanks for the good times, peeps :o)
17/04 - The previous wrapup post
19/04 - Shake of fist at birthday gift delay
20/04 - 'Shake of fist' worked!
21/04 - Fired temp says: Attention Wastrels
23/04 - Testing after blog dissapeared
23/04 - Adro and AJ - Biggest Loser mishap
25/04 - BB David is Gay
26/04 - Leaving for Martial Arts camp
02/05 - Martial Arts camp roundup
04/05 - Boring Uni wrapup
06/05 - Sophie Delizio = Movie plot?
07/05 - Middle bro declares his love for the Enny Pen
07/05 - More BB David drooling
09/05 - Pr0n (RL Ppl Free Zone KTHX)
11/05 - Uni whinge
11/05 - More Pr0n
13/05 - When do baby chickens come from?
13/05 - Ross Noble
14/05 - Blogging Comics (still funny!)
16/05 - Dot Points: BB, T'wo, ORLY, Martial Arts Open Day and Work Plants
18/05 - Uni wrapup
18/05 - Dot Points: Eating Disorders in BB, Amused/Bemused and Pr0n
19/05 - HAWT Italian Soccer Team and rules
21/05 - T'wo wrapup
23/05 - Going to Da Vinci Code
25/05 - Went and saw Da Vinci Code
26/05 - Uni group work is a waste of time
27/05 - BB David and Michael Hookup
27/05 - More on 'The (work) Bet'
28/05 - Boys are pikers
29/05 - Pictures of planets in persepctive
01/06 - Boring Uni wrapup
01/06 - I'm vegan!
03/05 - Dotpoints: weightloss, photos and albums, chocolate, margheritas and googlesearch
04/06 - "May contain traces of" dilemma
05/06 - Word verification humour
07/06 - Kids love me!
10/06 - Dadsy's graduation
10/06 - World Cup rules for women
12/06 - Going crazy studing economics
13/06 - Defacto/Defecto
14/06 - Interviewing myself
15/06 - Meme: 15 things to 15 ppl
17/06 - Fringe/mole head!
19/06 - Happy roadside roo
20/06 - Tiffany is a mole
21/06 - TTFN Tiff (proddly my favourite post!)
23/06 - Dolphin corruption
24/06 -Meme: Alphabet soup
27/06 - Dolphin corruption answers!
28/06 - World Cup Scandal?
29/06 - Meme: nicknames
29/06 - Vegan redeye
30/06 - Funeral day
02/07 - Pleasant blast from the past
04/07 - Vegan Subway questions
07/07 - Couples and "I love you"
09/07 - End of semester feelings rollercoaster
12/07 - More on "I love you"
14/07 - SUPRISE! DOOCED!
15/07 - Ranting over being dooced
16/07 - Dotpoints: Not quitting the blog, Newspaper eye, Magf engaged, Mrs Batman preggers
18/07 - Back at uni
19/07 - Hits since dooced
19/07 - Meme: Five things
20/07 - Fallout after being dooced
20/07 - Big fat whinge (shuffle down the emo)
21/07 - 250 posts and unforgettable story!
25/07 - Boring uni wrapup
25/07 - Old car/new car and Google idol
28/07 - Wearing my hair out
29/07 - Cleaning out the archives
30/07 - Gettin' old...
01/08 - Uni wrapup - Adam's Equity theory
03/08 - Meme: One word
03/08 - Clipart filmclip
05/08 - Movie Review: Confetti!
06/08 - Meme: One sentence per blogger
13/08 - Dot points: Qld conference, overtime, share house meal, Maid of Honour, RENT etc
13/08 - Hypothetical: Deal Breakers
15/08 - Open letter to ex best friend (because of a dream)
17/08 - Meme: Books
20/08 - Meme: Have you ever
20/08 - Meant to be studying, shopping and nerdy boyfs
22/08 - First kiss, worst kiss, best kiss
27/08 - Meerkat Manour
27/08 - Melbourne wrapup: comedy revue and erica!
28/08 - Canberra blogreader trawling archives
30/08 - Magf and mine friendship
31/08 - Welcome to the Enny-Point/gym experience
01/09 - Gardasil and the circle of life
03/09 - More Meerkat Manour
04/09 - Becoming a real girl
07/09 - Kickboxing cartoon
09/09 - Hormonal
09/09 - Maid of Honour update
10/09 - Switching to Beta
13/09 - Dot points: Big Blogger, weighty TV, selling car, Holly Throsby, TJ, Floriade, Phones
15/09 - Forgiving the ex-bestie from my dream
17/09 - Holly Throsby!
17/09 - Procrastinating uni work
18/09 - Hens day outfit decision vote
23/09 - Freaking out about what to do in next two months
28/09 - Dot points: tofu Lulu, D'jen earrings, Hens Day shoes
02/10 - Taking after my parents and growing up
03/10 - Fluffy tofu arrives!
05/10 - New shinpads
10/10 - Hens day at the races
18/10 - Angsty
20/10 - Martial Arts week wrapup
21/10 - Looking for perspective on an argument
22/10 - Sold my car!
23/10 - Talking about the new car
25/10 - Getting drunk with my boss
26/10 - Post 299 filler
28/10 - Interviewing The Hun for post 300
29/10 - Wolfmother at the ARIAs - yay!
29/10 -Emily Williams at the ARIAs - boo!
02/11 - Reflections on studying
04/11 - Summer planning
07/11 - Gardasil and Pap tests
08/11 - Planning a Qld blogger meetup
11/11 - More Qld blogger meetup planning
11/11 - Meme: iTunes story
13/11 - Hypotheticals: Not the only love
17/11 - Meme: 50 questions
19/11 - Dot points: wedding, haircut, dress, shoes, Nutrimetics, Futurama, Talkman etc
23/11 - 30yo acting like 3yo
24/11 - Uni marks are in
25/11 - Cleaning for a house inspection (with pics)
27/11 - Guess handbag and puzzle
01/12 - Roadtrip planning
03/12 - Roadtrip wrapup
05/12 - Morning After Pill ethics
10/12 - Christmas shopping
12/12 - First try of baked beans (haven't had them since!)
13/12 - Nonsensical Kanye video rant
14/12 - Planning my Qld trip
17/12 - Qld blogmeet wrapup
20/12 - Qld blogmeet photo
23/12 - Weighty issue - middle bro, cuz and me
26/12 - Christmas wrapup
29/12 - Liver damage info
01/01 - Food poisoning NYE!
03/01 - Eating healthy (again?!) and Weeds
06/01 - Mini detox and vegan market shopping
09/01- LG15!
10/01 - Magical Mystery Pube
12/01 - Totally Not Vegan - first comic appearance
13/01 - Delurking week!
18/01 - Bridesmaid fitting and living in sin
21/01 - Convertable bra comic
21/01 - Fame from my living in sin post!
23/01 - Big Day Out preparation
27/01 - Big Day Out wrapup
29/01 - Hottest 100
31/01 - Obligation Baby Shower
02/02 - Meme:five ten useless things about me (and the funniest forward in existence)
07/02 - Martial Arts camp and birthday freakout
11/02 - Martial Arts camp wrapup and Buddhist quote
14/02 - Valentines Day and CD mailout
16/02 - Gomez "How we operate" lyrics and vid
18/02 - Dotpoins: CDS, Holiday, Fyshwick, meeting Desci and Bob and foot warts
20/02 - Wart removal wrapup
22/02 - Wart pictures (perhaps should be "Warty to the Enny-Pen?!")
25/02 - Getting ready for Thailand - passports, safety and two types of baggage
27/02 - Work Allergy?
28/02 - Another ho is engaged - meet the Meatrix!
03/03 - Augie March - Cold Acre... solved!
04/03 - Magf's Hens night wrapup
05/03 - Emovisible (mad at dad)
10/03 - Dopoints: Haircut, Passport, Ross Noble, Curdled Soy, Handbag, Holiday
12/03 - Meeting Canberra bloggers
13/03 - Hot Cross Bunny
13/03 - Wasting time at home, work. the bank, Myer, Uni and DMB
17/03 - Relationship extraction difficulties
20/03 - Toothpaste for dinner says "update your blog"
21/03 - Fun veggie pics
23/03 - Rory McLeod - SQUEE!!!
24/03 - Totally Not Vegan - second comic appearance
26/03 - Almost my birthday (25 years and my life is still...)
28/03 - Birthday wrapup
01/04 - Magf's wedding
01/04 - Toothpase for dinner says "you're vegan"
03/04 - Bra talk
04/04 - Promotion
06/04 - Holiday details
08/04 - Bloggers in an Age article
09/04 - Easter and sick again!
11/04 - SMH Chicken farming article
14/04 - STOP -Hammer Time!
15/04 - "The Landlord" vid
Hooray!!!
Oh yeah baby - the next installment of this (and quit hogging the celebratory cake!) - What a year! Feel free to comment on any of them coz I have that thing setup where I get emailed your comments (so I PROMISE to reply) and thanks for the good times, peeps :o)
17/04 - The previous wrapup post
19/04 - Shake of fist at birthday gift delay
20/04 - 'Shake of fist' worked!
21/04 - Fired temp says: Attention Wastrels
23/04 - Testing after blog dissapeared
23/04 - Adro and AJ - Biggest Loser mishap
25/04 - BB David is Gay
26/04 - Leaving for Martial Arts camp
02/05 - Martial Arts camp roundup
04/05 - Boring Uni wrapup
06/05 - Sophie Delizio = Movie plot?
07/05 - Middle bro declares his love for the Enny Pen
07/05 - More BB David drooling
09/05 - Pr0n (RL Ppl Free Zone KTHX)
11/05 - Uni whinge
11/05 - More Pr0n
13/05 - When do baby chickens come from?
13/05 - Ross Noble
14/05 - Blogging Comics (still funny!)
16/05 - Dot Points: BB, T'wo, ORLY, Martial Arts Open Day and Work Plants
18/05 - Uni wrapup
18/05 - Dot Points: Eating Disorders in BB, Amused/Bemused and Pr0n
19/05 - HAWT Italian Soccer Team and rules
21/05 - T'wo wrapup
23/05 - Going to Da Vinci Code
25/05 - Went and saw Da Vinci Code
26/05 - Uni group work is a waste of time
27/05 - BB David and Michael Hookup
27/05 - More on 'The (work) Bet'
28/05 - Boys are pikers
29/05 - Pictures of planets in persepctive
01/06 - Boring Uni wrapup
01/06 - I'm vegan!
03/05 - Dotpoints: weightloss, photos and albums, chocolate, margheritas and googlesearch
04/06 - "May contain traces of" dilemma
05/06 - Word verification humour
07/06 - Kids love me!
10/06 - Dadsy's graduation
10/06 - World Cup rules for women
12/06 - Going crazy studing economics
13/06 - Defacto/Defecto
14/06 - Interviewing myself
15/06 - Meme: 15 things to 15 ppl
17/06 - Fringe/mole head!
19/06 - Happy roadside roo
20/06 - Tiffany is a mole
21/06 - TTFN Tiff (proddly my favourite post!)
23/06 - Dolphin corruption
24/06 -Meme: Alphabet soup
27/06 - Dolphin corruption answers!
28/06 - World Cup Scandal?
29/06 - Meme: nicknames
29/06 - Vegan redeye
30/06 - Funeral day
02/07 - Pleasant blast from the past
04/07 - Vegan Subway questions
07/07 - Couples and "I love you"
09/07 - End of semester feelings rollercoaster
12/07 - More on "I love you"
14/07 - SUPRISE! DOOCED!
15/07 - Ranting over being dooced
16/07 - Dotpoints: Not quitting the blog, Newspaper eye, Magf engaged, Mrs Batman preggers
18/07 - Back at uni
19/07 - Hits since dooced
19/07 - Meme: Five things
20/07 - Fallout after being dooced
20/07 - Big fat whinge (shuffle down the emo)
21/07 - 250 posts and unforgettable story!
25/07 - Boring uni wrapup
25/07 - Old car/new car and Google idol
28/07 - Wearing my hair out
29/07 - Cleaning out the archives
30/07 - Gettin' old...
01/08 - Uni wrapup - Adam's Equity theory
03/08 - Meme: One word
03/08 - Clipart filmclip
05/08 - Movie Review: Confetti!
06/08 - Meme: One sentence per blogger
13/08 - Dot points: Qld conference, overtime, share house meal, Maid of Honour, RENT etc
13/08 - Hypothetical: Deal Breakers
15/08 - Open letter to ex best friend (because of a dream)
17/08 - Meme: Books
20/08 - Meme: Have you ever
20/08 - Meant to be studying, shopping and nerdy boyfs
22/08 - First kiss, worst kiss, best kiss
27/08 - Meerkat Manour
27/08 - Melbourne wrapup: comedy revue and erica!
28/08 - Canberra blogreader trawling archives
30/08 - Magf and mine friendship
31/08 - Welcome to the Enny-Point/gym experience
01/09 - Gardasil and the circle of life
03/09 - More Meerkat Manour
04/09 - Becoming a real girl
07/09 - Kickboxing cartoon
09/09 - Hormonal
09/09 - Maid of Honour update
10/09 - Switching to Beta
13/09 - Dot points: Big Blogger, weighty TV, selling car, Holly Throsby, TJ, Floriade, Phones
15/09 - Forgiving the ex-bestie from my dream
17/09 - Holly Throsby!
17/09 - Procrastinating uni work
18/09 - Hens day outfit decision vote
23/09 - Freaking out about what to do in next two months
28/09 - Dot points: tofu Lulu, D'jen earrings, Hens Day shoes
02/10 - Taking after my parents and growing up
03/10 - Fluffy tofu arrives!
05/10 - New shinpads
10/10 - Hens day at the races
18/10 - Angsty
20/10 - Martial Arts week wrapup
21/10 - Looking for perspective on an argument
22/10 - Sold my car!
23/10 - Talking about the new car
25/10 - Getting drunk with my boss
26/10 - Post 299 filler
28/10 - Interviewing The Hun for post 300
29/10 - Wolfmother at the ARIAs - yay!
29/10 -Emily Williams at the ARIAs - boo!
02/11 - Reflections on studying
04/11 - Summer planning
07/11 - Gardasil and Pap tests
08/11 - Planning a Qld blogger meetup
11/11 - More Qld blogger meetup planning
11/11 - Meme: iTunes story
13/11 - Hypotheticals: Not the only love
17/11 - Meme: 50 questions
19/11 - Dot points: wedding, haircut, dress, shoes, Nutrimetics, Futurama, Talkman etc
23/11 - 30yo acting like 3yo
24/11 - Uni marks are in
25/11 - Cleaning for a house inspection (with pics)
27/11 - Guess handbag and puzzle
01/12 - Roadtrip planning
03/12 - Roadtrip wrapup
05/12 - Morning After Pill ethics
10/12 - Christmas shopping
12/12 - First try of baked beans (haven't had them since!)
13/12 - Nonsensical Kanye video rant
14/12 - Planning my Qld trip
17/12 - Qld blogmeet wrapup
20/12 - Qld blogmeet photo
23/12 - Weighty issue - middle bro, cuz and me
26/12 - Christmas wrapup
29/12 - Liver damage info
01/01 - Food poisoning NYE!
03/01 - Eating healthy (again?!) and Weeds
06/01 - Mini detox and vegan market shopping
09/01- LG15!
10/01 - Magical Mystery Pube
12/01 - Totally Not Vegan - first comic appearance
13/01 - Delurking week!
18/01 - Bridesmaid fitting and living in sin
21/01 - Convertable bra comic
21/01 - Fame from my living in sin post!
23/01 - Big Day Out preparation
27/01 - Big Day Out wrapup
29/01 - Hottest 100
31/01 - Obligation Baby Shower
02/02 - Meme:
07/02 - Martial Arts camp and birthday freakout
11/02 - Martial Arts camp wrapup and Buddhist quote
14/02 - Valentines Day and CD mailout
16/02 - Gomez "How we operate" lyrics and vid
18/02 - Dotpoins: CDS, Holiday, Fyshwick, meeting Desci and Bob and foot warts
20/02 - Wart removal wrapup
22/02 - Wart pictures (perhaps should be "Warty to the Enny-Pen?!")
25/02 - Getting ready for Thailand - passports, safety and two types of baggage
27/02 - Work Allergy?
28/02 - Another ho is engaged - meet the Meatrix!
03/03 - Augie March - Cold Acre... solved!
04/03 - Magf's Hens night wrapup
05/03 - Emovisible (mad at dad)
10/03 - Dopoints: Haircut, Passport, Ross Noble, Curdled Soy, Handbag, Holiday
12/03 - Meeting Canberra bloggers
13/03 - Hot Cross Bunny
13/03 - Wasting time at home, work. the bank, Myer, Uni and DMB
17/03 - Relationship extraction difficulties
20/03 - Toothpaste for dinner says "update your blog"
21/03 - Fun veggie pics
23/03 - Rory McLeod - SQUEE!!!
24/03 - Totally Not Vegan - second comic appearance
26/03 - Almost my birthday (25 years and my life is still...)
28/03 - Birthday wrapup
01/04 - Magf's wedding
01/04 - Toothpase for dinner says "you're vegan"
03/04 - Bra talk
04/04 - Promotion
06/04 - Holiday details
08/04 - Bloggers in an Age article
09/04 - Easter and sick again!
11/04 - SMH Chicken farming article
14/04 - STOP -
15/04 - "The Landlord" vid
Hooray!!!
Friday, March 23, 2007
Welcome to the Enny-McLeod
That's right - name change time.
Last night I nicked out of my tute a little early to meet up with dadsy and youngest bro and dadsy's long time friend at the Polish Club.
WTPolishClubF?
Merry Muse!
The bistro had closed so I popped over the road with youngest bro for a bag of hot cross buns for dinner and settled in to hear Women in Docs from 8pm - I believe I've seen them before at the Folk Festival and they were absolutely fantastic. The type of songs from the heart that are so suitable for careoke. After the show I came over all fangirl again (as per Holly Throsby) and bought all the CD's they had to sell and loaded them onto the EnnyPod as soon as I was home. I will say that they are one of the few bands that sound better live too - not that their CD's weren't awesome, just that they let loose a little more when on stage - and that's how I hear it when I listen to the CD's.
AND THEN>>>?!
The main attraction!
Mr Rory McLeod.
*swooooooooon*
I've mentioned him here before - most notably on this post after picking up a copy of one of his CDs. The long of the short of our history is that he was at the first folk festival I ever went to, after which I went home and memorised all the songs on his Kicking The Sawdust album which I still love and have always joked to The Hun that I was going to marry him. Youngest bro also ordered the entire back catalogue the other month so I cannot wait to hear all the ones I am yet to hear.
I mentioned to the family that I believed he was to be at the folk festival this year (courtesty of the blogmeet!) and middle bro checked out his website to see that there was unfortunately no mention of him touring the folk festival this year BUT he was doing a show on Thursday night.
Women in Docs were scheduled to start at 8pm - dadsy and youngest bro were seated at 6pm, while the setting up folk were still madly rushing around getting it all ready - hence reserving us a table right at the front!
Enough rambling - I just want to say that if you EVER get the chance, you MUST see him. He is so charismatic, passionate, funny and I wasn't the only girl in the room who was swoony for him! He proddly only played 8-10 songs in the just over 2 hours he played as they're long songs by standard but he was just able to talk to the audience in between each piece. And you know how sometimes you go to a gig and just want them to shush it up between songs and sing? He was not at all like that - I just sat and smiley gawked the entire time.
Similarly to the Holly Throsby show, there were also some rude biatches in the audience. Sitting right in front of me were two 30ish-something biddies out for a night on the town, who perched themselves at their table to share a piece of cake and whispered to each the ENTIRE WiD performance. At one stage, the older one of the two pulled out her mobile and wrote out an SMS and showed it to her biddy friend before sending it: Waiting for Rory McLeod and listening to Women in Docs, you'd really like them. Wish you were here. YES I'M SERIOUS! They would not have been 3 metres from the mic's into which they were singing and were brazen enough to disregard all manners like that! The non messaging biddy even had the nerve to turn around halfway through a song and ask me if they had CD's for sale - Grrrr.
Anyways, as Rory's show was long, people were actually getting up and walking out - I guess that's what happens in Public Service Town at close to midnight on a Thursday... but I was NOT upset to see those women get outta there.
The organiser guy was signing for Rory to wrap it up with two more songs and he put out a call for what his final song should be. Someone called out for the Fruit Shop song that I didn't know and he finished on it and he got loaaaaads of applause. So came back for encore and asked which one he should play now... dadsy and his friend were really keen for the Copper song but I couldn't help but cheer out for the Mariachi Love Song that is the final track on Footsteps and Hearbeats. And I'm so glad he played it (but feel a little bad I didn't support the Copper song for Dadsy and Co).
And the best part?
Oooh yeah - he is EVEN HAWTER when he is hugging you for a photo.
I've been giddily counting the days till he returns in 2008.
*fans self again*
Last night I nicked out of my tute a little early to meet up with dadsy and youngest bro and dadsy's long time friend at the Polish Club.
WTPolishClubF?
Merry Muse!
The bistro had closed so I popped over the road with youngest bro for a bag of hot cross buns for dinner and settled in to hear Women in Docs from 8pm - I believe I've seen them before at the Folk Festival and they were absolutely fantastic. The type of songs from the heart that are so suitable for careoke. After the show I came over all fangirl again (as per Holly Throsby) and bought all the CD's they had to sell and loaded them onto the EnnyPod as soon as I was home. I will say that they are one of the few bands that sound better live too - not that their CD's weren't awesome, just that they let loose a little more when on stage - and that's how I hear it when I listen to the CD's.
AND THEN>>>?!
The main attraction!
Mr Rory McLeod.
*swooooooooon*
I've mentioned him here before - most notably on this post after picking up a copy of one of his CDs. The long of the short of our history is that he was at the first folk festival I ever went to, after which I went home and memorised all the songs on his Kicking The Sawdust album which I still love and have always joked to The Hun that I was going to marry him. Youngest bro also ordered the entire back catalogue the other month so I cannot wait to hear all the ones I am yet to hear.
I mentioned to the family that I believed he was to be at the folk festival this year (courtesty of the blogmeet!) and middle bro checked out his website to see that there was unfortunately no mention of him touring the folk festival this year BUT he was doing a show on Thursday night.
Women in Docs were scheduled to start at 8pm - dadsy and youngest bro were seated at 6pm, while the setting up folk were still madly rushing around getting it all ready - hence reserving us a table right at the front!
Enough rambling - I just want to say that if you EVER get the chance, you MUST see him. He is so charismatic, passionate, funny and I wasn't the only girl in the room who was swoony for him! He proddly only played 8-10 songs in the just over 2 hours he played as they're long songs by standard but he was just able to talk to the audience in between each piece. And you know how sometimes you go to a gig and just want them to shush it up between songs and sing? He was not at all like that - I just sat and smiley gawked the entire time.
Similarly to the Holly Throsby show, there were also some rude biatches in the audience. Sitting right in front of me were two 30ish-something biddies out for a night on the town, who perched themselves at their table to share a piece of cake and whispered to each the ENTIRE WiD performance. At one stage, the older one of the two pulled out her mobile and wrote out an SMS and showed it to her biddy friend before sending it: Waiting for Rory McLeod and listening to Women in Docs, you'd really like them. Wish you were here. YES I'M SERIOUS! They would not have been 3 metres from the mic's into which they were singing and were brazen enough to disregard all manners like that! The non messaging biddy even had the nerve to turn around halfway through a song and ask me if they had CD's for sale - Grrrr.
Anyways, as Rory's show was long, people were actually getting up and walking out - I guess that's what happens in Public Service Town at close to midnight on a Thursday... but I was NOT upset to see those women get outta there.
The organiser guy was signing for Rory to wrap it up with two more songs and he put out a call for what his final song should be. Someone called out for the Fruit Shop song that I didn't know and he finished on it and he got loaaaaads of applause. So came back for encore and asked which one he should play now... dadsy and his friend were really keen for the Copper song but I couldn't help but cheer out for the Mariachi Love Song that is the final track on Footsteps and Hearbeats. And I'm so glad he played it (but feel a little bad I didn't support the Copper song for Dadsy and Co).
And the best part?
Oooh yeah - he is EVEN HAWTER when he is hugging you for a photo.
I've been giddily counting the days till he returns in 2008.
*fans self again*
Saturday, March 10, 2007
Busy Bee Week (please Gawd, no more)
So last weekend was a hive of activity round here - three updates in three days!
And then?
Nu'n.
Uni is back on and I'm into week three - I'll save you the ranting about how sh!t it is and instead provide you a rant about my lack of time:
Monday: Work - Martial Arts - Family Dinner - Home at 9:30
Tuesday: Work - Uni - Makeup trial for Wedding - Home at 10:00
Wedneday: Work - Karate Kids - Martial Arts - Marital Arts Dinner - Home at 10:30
Thursday: Work - Uni - The Hun's Family Dinner - Home at 10:00
Friday: Work - Travel Agent - Ross Noble - Home at 11:00
So all this week, I haven't been home after work to listen to podcasts, update or even get a good read in on my blogs (let alone clean, do uni, read, eat properly etc)!
So, I have a few dotpoints to catch you up with (otherwise there's too many posts and I'll forget what I was going to say and I know you hate not knowing every ridulous point about the mundate parts of my life).
And then?
Nu'n.
Uni is back on and I'm into week three - I'll save you the ranting about how sh!t it is and instead provide you a rant about my lack of time:
Monday: Work - Martial Arts - Family Dinner - Home at 9:30
Tuesday: Work - Uni - Makeup trial for Wedding - Home at 10:00
Wedneday: Work - Karate Kids - Martial Arts - Marital Arts Dinner - Home at 10:30
Thursday: Work - Uni - The Hun's Family Dinner - Home at 10:00
Friday: Work - Travel Agent - Ross Noble - Home at 11:00
So all this week, I haven't been home after work to listen to podcasts, update or even get a good read in on my blogs (let alone clean, do uni, read, eat properly etc)!
So, I have a few dotpoints to catch you up with (otherwise there's too many posts and I'll forget what I was going to say and I know you hate not knowing every ridulous point about the mundate parts of my life).
- Haircut this morning - $190. I AM NEVER GOING BACK THERE - the girl was half an hour late to start, was VERY rough with the foils, used water that was too hot such that I pulled my head out of the sink, yanked at my hair, cut my fringe too short AND it was only a TRIM and foils - not a CUT and foils. Who pays that much for a manky trim? Not me, again.
- Passport arrived this morning - the fuzzy vaseline affect was a bit of a help, believe you me.
- I think I drank some curdled skim milk this morning - is there any risk of food poisening with that?! I feel fine so far...
- Saw Ross Noble again last night (as mentioned above) and although he was SUPER FUNNY he wasn't AS good as last year? I smiled for the whole 2.5 hours but there was only one or two OUT LOUD laught.
- I fell in love again - with a handbag. I saw it at Myer and did a cheesecake dance, I went back another day and showed my boss and tried it on and she told me we were made for each other (the bag and me, not my boss and me)(as lovely as she is) and I've spent many a day pining over him... here he is:
- Mocha Guess Gabrielle. Yesterday, my boss OH SO CASUALLY dropped to me that Myer was having a 25% off sale for bags over $75, so maybe we should head over at lunch time. And we did and he wasn't there - I was mini distraught until I fetched a lady to check the backroom, and in the glorious back room we were reunited again. With credit card in one hand and mobile in the other, I paid for the bag and called mumsy to ask if she'd pay it back for me for my birthday, and it was done. And then at D'jen's suggestion, I took it home today to show my parents, and "suggested" I'd take it now and the 'suprise' part of my gift would be the birthday gift. SO HE IS MINE AND I'M TRYING TO PICK A SUITABLE EVENT FOR HIM TO MAKE HIS DEBUT. He's my winter bag, and slightly larger than my current summer bag (sorry to those of you who already received an email from me entirely dedicated to the bag).
- My foot is healing nicely - there's still two holes in my foot and last night I finally stopped the whole rinsing foot in warm salty water and hairdrying each night (I got tired of it) but am still keeping a bandaid on it. ALTHOUGH, the left side of my big toe and right side of my second toe are pins and needled ALL THE TIME. Is that normal?!
- We draft booked the rest of our holiday, and I have a question for the worldy ones out there. The accomodation that is available to book through the agent is somewhat limited (ie, only 6 places to pick from in Tokyo) - is it safe to book overseas accomodation from here and then have it all magically work out when you get there? We'd need to work some out for Phuket, Ko Phi Phi, Bangkok and Tokyo. I'd reaaaally appreciate any advice on this one as I'm pure panic at the thought of rocking up overseas and finding the hotel doesn't exist/they "can't find" our booking/they don't speak English etc etc.
- Meeting some Canberra bloggers tonight too - Squee! Nervous/excited/anxious/thirsty.
Sunday, March 04, 2007
Hens Night
Last night was Magf's Hens Night.
Organising this party made me realise that I don't want to have a Hen's party - 32 people were invited, 13 people responded with yes, 13 responded with no and 6 people didn't even reply. So many people don't even bother to reply or even attend, and then there's always the other people who pike later on or whatever - more trouble than it's worth! Just another night that you have all these expectations on that will never be as good as you hoped... not that it was a totally sh!t night anyway!
I picked her up to take to the Pole Dancing class and we were expecting 3 people to watch and 9 people to dance... only to find one girl was sick and stayed home, one had pulled her neck muscle and one had had a mole removed so we ended up with 7 dancers and 5 watchers.
I knew that I wasn't going to enjoy the dancing and I was totally right - if there hadn't been so many people watching already, I woulda done the watching thing. I only knew Magf and one of our martial arts students, so I felt reaaaaaally self conscious - and I'm too self conscious at the 'best' of times. I stopped participating halfway through, because I couldn't get the whole spinning thing to work - I didn't shift my weight properly, didn't move my hips in the right way and gripped too hard or not hard enough (did you know that the poles actually spin in the ground?! Neither did I!). I just don't think I'm the type of person who is ever going to enjoy faux humping a pole while squatting, flicking my hair around (I always wear my hair up) or using my cellulite to hold my up as I wrap around a pole... Either way - Magf had a good time:
(yeah - they had costumes to wear over our normal clothes at one of the guests insistance!)
After that we headed out to Turkish (the same place we took Desci and Bob a fortnight ago!) and I ate soooo much. Mental note - explain that when you want falaffel and hummus for a main, you don't want TWO mains - I only ate 1.5 falaffel due to all that bread! Here's Magf, myself and another senior from the school:
(I didn't know I'd been outside enough to get tanlines and I MUST learn to tilt sideways in photos to shrink down those shoulders! )
Everyone was meant to wear pink, but I couldn't find anything pink at home so I headed out to the shop with my old boss on Thursday - that top I'm wearing is actually a dress - guess how much it cost?! I'll tell you! $29.95 for one, or $25 for two (in el-cheapo Sisco), so it was only $12.50! Bargain. Also - see that glass in front of me? Brown Brothers Moscato - GO AND GET SOME NOW!
At dinner there was a bit of downer that started to wind the whole night down - the girl that had pulled the neck muscle is a bit of a high stress drama and was sitting holding her chest during dinner. The girl next to her asked if she was ok and neckgirl replied that she was having heart palpitations - when the girl asked if this was normal, neckgirl replied that it was, but not usually for this long. Because neck girl was sitting with her eyes closed, one hand over her heard and one hand over her mouth (seemingly holding any spew back), conversation started to lull at the table and everyone watched on tentatively. This was proddly the worst thing to do as she started to get even worse and it started to get faster and stay longer, so another girl helped her to the bathroom - she kinda staggered and stumbled there with her friend supporting her. Next thing we new? An ambulance shows up. The staff had laid her down in the bathroom and then she had pains down her right arm, her fingers and hands wouldn't move as they had stiffened up and she was bawling. Anxiety attack. They moved her outside after about half an hour and she sat with the ambos outside for close to an hour - the mood died down a bit, obviously.
So, we fitted Magf out in the gear we picked up from Fyshwick the other week:
(The flashing penis is magentised onto a metal penis badge... all class)
It was at this point I starting feeling my internal monologue kick in - I'm too old for Civic. However, that would then mean that I'm also too old to eat soy ice cream for lunch or salty chips in bed at 2am just because The Hun is away, so it should maybe be that I was too sober for Civic (being dessi and all).
We headed out to the new Uni Pub (not to be confused with either of the Uni Bars in Canberra) and it wasn't too bad it - it has 4 levels open with one more to go - There's a clubby one on the ground floor, a grill house that was closed, a pool floor that was playing 'Roxanne' so we hightailed it) and then an 'executive' floor that requires collars and was hosting a private function. We sat in there for a few hours and the 3 girls (including Magf - isn't that poor?!) that made it to Civic sat on the couches and had a few drinks and only got hassled by a dood once (who was toooooooo drunk and got removed shortly after). I also got a 'nice stick on bear' by some old dood (all the people at dinner got bride beanie bears to pin on to their tops) but I told him it was a Hens Night and continued staring straight ahead.
There was another hens night in there as well - and their Hen handcuffed herself to some guy from the private function and took him into the lift and disappeared for like 20 minutes. Now that is so totally wrong - I don't understand these people who are about to get married and decided that all of a sudden hooking up with someone isn't cheating... it makes me so mad! She was yucky anyways... mebbe hence the handcuffs? It also shocked me how nonplussed her gaggle of hens was about it - I knew that one of them there was to be the sister in law - I'd be SPEWING!
Anyways, we looked for somewhere to dance but the buzz still hadn't come back from dinner (not so much out of worry, I think that ppl were just pissed she done the drama act) and we headed to the convenience shop for something for the drive home (I wanted caffeine and salty chips, Magf a sausage roll). In there another oldish dude said to me "I've never seen a pink dress look so good". Can I say - I thought that was lovely. Not in a "OMG LETS PASH" lovely, but in that I'd felt totally awkward on the poles, stayed sober for the drinking (after the wine at dinner) and watched one of the other two girls talk to about 20 guys that night - it was nice to hear someone say something like that (it didn't sound like a come on that was actually meant to go anywhere, so I took it as a compliment).
Anyways - that was the Hens Night! I'd biasedly say it was the most successful of the three I've been to, but I still don't think I ever want one of my own.
Organising this party made me realise that I don't want to have a Hen's party - 32 people were invited, 13 people responded with yes, 13 responded with no and 6 people didn't even reply. So many people don't even bother to reply or even attend, and then there's always the other people who pike later on or whatever - more trouble than it's worth! Just another night that you have all these expectations on that will never be as good as you hoped... not that it was a totally sh!t night anyway!
I picked her up to take to the Pole Dancing class and we were expecting 3 people to watch and 9 people to dance... only to find one girl was sick and stayed home, one had pulled her neck muscle and one had had a mole removed so we ended up with 7 dancers and 5 watchers.
I knew that I wasn't going to enjoy the dancing and I was totally right - if there hadn't been so many people watching already, I woulda done the watching thing. I only knew Magf and one of our martial arts students, so I felt reaaaaaally self conscious - and I'm too self conscious at the 'best' of times. I stopped participating halfway through, because I couldn't get the whole spinning thing to work - I didn't shift my weight properly, didn't move my hips in the right way and gripped too hard or not hard enough (did you know that the poles actually spin in the ground?! Neither did I!). I just don't think I'm the type of person who is ever going to enjoy faux humping a pole while squatting, flicking my hair around (I always wear my hair up) or using my cellulite to hold my up as I wrap around a pole... Either way - Magf had a good time:
(yeah - they had costumes to wear over our normal clothes at one of the guests insistance!)After that we headed out to Turkish (the same place we took Desci and Bob a fortnight ago!) and I ate soooo much. Mental note - explain that when you want falaffel and hummus for a main, you don't want TWO mains - I only ate 1.5 falaffel due to all that bread! Here's Magf, myself and another senior from the school:
(I didn't know I'd been outside enough to get tanlines and I MUST learn to tilt sideways in photos to shrink down those shoulders! )Everyone was meant to wear pink, but I couldn't find anything pink at home so I headed out to the shop with my old boss on Thursday - that top I'm wearing is actually a dress - guess how much it cost?! I'll tell you! $29.95 for one, or $25 for two (in el-cheapo Sisco), so it was only $12.50! Bargain. Also - see that glass in front of me? Brown Brothers Moscato - GO AND GET SOME NOW!
At dinner there was a bit of downer that started to wind the whole night down - the girl that had pulled the neck muscle is a bit of a high stress drama and was sitting holding her chest during dinner. The girl next to her asked if she was ok and neckgirl replied that she was having heart palpitations - when the girl asked if this was normal, neckgirl replied that it was, but not usually for this long. Because neck girl was sitting with her eyes closed, one hand over her heard and one hand over her mouth (seemingly holding any spew back), conversation started to lull at the table and everyone watched on tentatively. This was proddly the worst thing to do as she started to get even worse and it started to get faster and stay longer, so another girl helped her to the bathroom - she kinda staggered and stumbled there with her friend supporting her. Next thing we new? An ambulance shows up. The staff had laid her down in the bathroom and then she had pains down her right arm, her fingers and hands wouldn't move as they had stiffened up and she was bawling. Anxiety attack. They moved her outside after about half an hour and she sat with the ambos outside for close to an hour - the mood died down a bit, obviously.
So, we fitted Magf out in the gear we picked up from Fyshwick the other week:
(The flashing penis is magentised onto a metal penis badge... all class)It was at this point I starting feeling my internal monologue kick in - I'm too old for Civic. However, that would then mean that I'm also too old to eat soy ice cream for lunch or salty chips in bed at 2am just because The Hun is away, so it should maybe be that I was too sober for Civic (being dessi and all).
We headed out to the new Uni Pub (not to be confused with either of the Uni Bars in Canberra) and it wasn't too bad it - it has 4 levels open with one more to go - There's a clubby one on the ground floor, a grill house that was closed, a pool floor that was playing 'Roxanne' so we hightailed it) and then an 'executive' floor that requires collars and was hosting a private function. We sat in there for a few hours and the 3 girls (including Magf - isn't that poor?!) that made it to Civic sat on the couches and had a few drinks and only got hassled by a dood once (who was toooooooo drunk and got removed shortly after). I also got a 'nice stick on bear' by some old dood (all the people at dinner got bride beanie bears to pin on to their tops) but I told him it was a Hens Night and continued staring straight ahead.
There was another hens night in there as well - and their Hen handcuffed herself to some guy from the private function and took him into the lift and disappeared for like 20 minutes. Now that is so totally wrong - I don't understand these people who are about to get married and decided that all of a sudden hooking up with someone isn't cheating... it makes me so mad! She was yucky anyways... mebbe hence the handcuffs? It also shocked me how nonplussed her gaggle of hens was about it - I knew that one of them there was to be the sister in law - I'd be SPEWING!
Anyways, we looked for somewhere to dance but the buzz still hadn't come back from dinner (not so much out of worry, I think that ppl were just pissed she done the drama act) and we headed to the convenience shop for something for the drive home (I wanted caffeine and salty chips, Magf a sausage roll). In there another oldish dude said to me "I've never seen a pink dress look so good". Can I say - I thought that was lovely. Not in a "OMG LETS PASH" lovely, but in that I'd felt totally awkward on the poles, stayed sober for the drinking (after the wine at dinner) and watched one of the other two girls talk to about 20 guys that night - it was nice to hear someone say something like that (it didn't sound like a come on that was actually meant to go anywhere, so I took it as a compliment).
Anyways - that was the Hens Night! I'd biasedly say it was the most successful of the three I've been to, but I still don't think I ever want one of my own.
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