Consider this post, if you will, a physical expression of shaking the detritus out of my head, a la "time to clean out your hand bag… oh god, can’t believe all that crap’s in there etc."

1. Please… a baby doll dress, cute [tiny] shoes AND a black thick woollen winter tea cosy hat?  What were you thinking?
2. I’m now no longer a menace on the road and it only cost me $1100 to make it so.
3. I am continuously at the mercy of well meaning idiots… I would like to reach out to them… with a baseball bat… hard… probably more than once, even.
4. It’s approaching that time of the month… yes, this could be a factor in the baseball bat impulse.
5. Soup night.  Tomato.  How long is the grace period on expired sour cream do you think?  If I’m not twittering tomorrow you’ll know it wasn’t 3 days…
6. My house still smells like last night’s curry.
7. Cooked 3 nights in a row.  It used to be that cooking all week was a record… 3 DAYS?  I need help.
8. Potatoes won’t bugger up tomato soup, they may even save it.
9. Only took my family 5 days to acknowledge my graduation… with the exception of Mum (aww, bless).  I definitely live too far away; either that or my achievements are considered insignificant… I’m opting for the former.
10. I find getting to the root of what someone needs from me next to impossible.  Dee 101.  Need a hug?  Good practice to say "Dee, I need a hug, would you be so kind?" Easy.  Does compute.  Other less direct means may yield mixed results.

 

I found this meme at Reflecting and thought it looked kind fun
I give you money and send you into the grocery store to pick up 5 items. You can only pick one thing from the following departments.. what is it?
Produce: Nectarines… or mangos. At least at this time of year.
Bakery: Wholegrain Rolls
Meat: Chicken Breast
Frozen Foods: Raspberries
Dry Goods: Weet-Bix
Let’s say we’re heading out for a weekend getaway. You’re only allowed to bring 3 articles of clothing with you. So, what’s in your bag?
Jeans
White Blouse
White singlet
If I was to listen in on one of your conversations throughout the day, what 5 phrases or words would I be most likely to hear?
Oh really?
Yeah, I know, it was on facebook.
Have you tried turning it off and then back on again?
I’ll add it to the list.
I totally blogged it
So, what 3 things do you find yourself doing every single day, and if you didn’t get to do, you probably wouldn’t be in the best mood?
Get Coffee
Check my Blog Feeds
Did I say get coffee already?
You just scored a whole afternoon to yourself. We’re talking a 3 hour block with nobody around. What 5 activities might we find you doing?
Watching TV
Reading my RSS Feeds
Playing Scrabulous
Cleaning up the House
Yakking to the Fam on Skype
We’re going to the zoo. But, it looks like it could start storming, so it’ll have to be a quick visit. What 3 exhibits do we have to get to?
The Elephants
The Seals
yup, the bears
You just scored tickets to the taping of any show that comes on t.v. of your choice. You can pick between 4, so what are you deciding between?
Grey’s Anatomy
Private Practice
Friends
CSI NY
You’re hungry for ice cream. I’ll give you a triple dipper ice cream cone. What 3 flavors can I pile on for ya?
OK – this is tricky… there are Ice Cream Rules…
Good Vanilla
Dark Chocolate
Raspberry, like really rich raspberry – but not sorbet.
Somebody stole your purse/wallet…in order to get it back, you have to name 5 things you know are inside to claim it. So, what’s in there?
Mobile Phone
Ipod mini. Green
USB Cable for Phone
USB Cable for iPod
Batteries for Noise Cancelling headphones
You are at a job fair, and asked what areas you are interested in pursuing a career in. Let’s pretend you have every talent and ability to be whatever you wanted, so what 4 career would be fun for you?
Concert Photographer
Backing Singer for Sting
Uni Lecturer
Painter (not of houses)
If you could go back and talk to the old you, when you were in high school, and inform yourself of 4 things, what would you say?
It gets better.
Losing a Friend is not the end of the workd,. there are others, and they are better.
You’re only intimidated if you let yourself be.
Worry Less.
Tag, you’re it! If you decide to play along, leave a comment and I’ll come read your answers.

When you have made a commitment not to blog about work for the safety of your job and the high profile of the outfit you work for and the damage bad press could cause, you get really pissed off that you can’t say a bloody word about being on the receiving end of a collective bollocking.
But you can say that some people are weird because to give someone who’s just given you a bollocking a standing ovation is just plain twisted.
Isn’t it?

I have a confession to make.
I haven’t watched tv for months. Well, not in the usual sense.
I have cottoned onto this business of surreptitiously posted links to streaming tv, posted onto the interweb immediately after they’ve been broadcast and captured lovingly on digital units across the Pacific and reuploaded for the likes of me who appreciated being able to watch long before my cohorts and without advertising.
And if I’m not doing that I’m watching DVDs of my fav shows that I’ve bought at various times, or of movies I’m fond of and my tolerance for ads is getting reduced with every new episode I watch.
This is a dilemma, for as you know these shows would not exist without advertising and clearly to download dodgy tv isn’t exactly the ‘Christian’ thing to do.
But the convenience outweighs these concerns for the most part and I am now abreast of all the developments in the latest episodes of Grey’s, I’m addicted to Private Practice and for some reason I’m sold out to CSI:NY Season 4.
It’s a consolation to me that I’ll have something to look at during our notorious ‘non ratings’ period over the Summer and when the boxed sets come out of the above shows I’ll buy them so that at some level those who produce the shows will be compensated for my illicit behaviour.
Of course, if iTunes Australia offered these shows I’d be paying for them. So it’s about time they got their act together.