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{August 28, 2008}   Blech

I’m sick. Virus plus low blood pressure. Dude, it totally sucks. Everytime I stand up, I get dizzy. I’ve spent most of the day sitting down. Small but permanent headache with me, I thought you guys needed another post.

Okay, for anyone who’s seen both the trailers for Twilight, check this out on youtube: Twilight Trailer Spoof. It is HILARIOUS, I promise. It’s funny, but only if you’ve seen both trailers. There’s supposedly going to be another trailer (not a teaser) which has a surprise date. Plus, they’re filming an extra scene. A flashback, apparently.

Yay! The Olympics are over and now I can get back to watching Bones. And City Homicide is back! Yippee! New character on Bones. A psychiatrist. I liked the last scene with him in it – “You wouldn’t even have coffee with me?”, the way he’s just grinning to himself and writing down notes.

I wish I had a book to read. I’ve read all the ones on my shelf a tonne of times. Actually, now that I think about it, I got out a book the other day, so I’ll try to read that. If anyone’s got any boredom busters for me (or any ideas for lists), I’d appreciate them right about now.

Ah, my head.



{August 19, 2008}   I’m Pathetic

Yes, I am. It’s not ‘cos I’ve eaten whipped cream straight from the can. It’s not that I have fantasies about celebrities. It’s not that I’ve watched a soppy romcom several days in a row. No. I’m pathetic because I’ve got the Men in Tights song stuck in my head. For all those who have no idea of what I’m talking about, this is a song from Robin Hood: Men in Tights. Yes, I am aware that I am sad.

Anywho, moving on! Apparently the sequel to Bad Kitty (named Kitty Kitty) is coming out. I just want to read it already ‘cos I need something to read. I have literally read and re-read all my books.

Music! I already mentioned that I like the song Pirate Bones by Natasha Bedingfield (I’m almost tempted to just call her NBed in this blog ‘cos I’m lazy and am sick of continually having to type her full name). I also like:

-Forever by Chris Brown

-Violet Hill by Coldplay

-One Step at a Time by Jordin Sparks

-the Scientist by Coldplay

-Black and Gold by Sam Sparro

 You know, just to name a few.

I must be one of the only ones, but I hate the Olympics. With a passion. They are so BORING. Plus there isn’t anything else on any other channels you can watch. BAH!!!!!! Sorry. Just venting. No Bones, no Heroes, no nothing. Well, there’s Doctor Who, but I never get a chance to watch it. Oh well. It won’t matter ’til Midnight.

I noticed that everyone’s noticed that I’m back and I appreciate it. Love you lots.



{August 18, 2008}   Edits on Last Post

Firstly, I’ve just found out that Australia’s release date of Twilight has been moved forward to December 11 (around the time the US were originally going to see it). Secondly, the convention is weekend of 16th/17rh January 2010 in Sydney.



{August 18, 2008}   Need more posts

To get people reading my blog again. That’s what happens when you get busy with other stuff.

Okay, let’s see. I saw the Forbidden Kingdom with Jackie Chan and Jet Li. Occasionally silly, but still a good movie. One fight scene had me smiling with satisfaction, but I won’t say, ‘cos I’m not about spoilers.

Twilight, for everyone in the US, is now coming out November 21st. Yay you. Us Aussies have to WAIT until January 9th. But I’m not bitter. No, of course not. Why would I be bitter that Australia’s release date is a lot later than all the others? Oh, and there’s going to be an OZ Twilight convention. It’s either late 2009 or early 2010. I’m sure you can find out more about it.

We’re in season 3 of Bones now (stupid Olympics got it paused). Plus seven has finally shown the other two eps of Heroes back to back, so I’ve seen them!!! Third “Volume” of Heroes starts September in US, which probably means October in OZ. Celebrate people.

Check out, if you haven’t seen it, Frank Woodley’s version of the Swim and Adam Hills theory on creating boy bands (both from Spicks and Specks and both can be found on Youtube).

Yeah, sorry I haven’t been on. Tonne of work. Plus my surprising social life (as in I’m surprised it exists).

Facebook is a funny old thing. You can come across people you haven’t spoken to in years. It’s so weird.

Been listening to lots of Natasha Bedingfield online. Like Pirate Bones, Pocketful of Sunshine and some others.

Anyway, dinner’s on the table. Catch you lot later.



So hello. :)

Okay, what’s up? Well, I haven’t been able to go on the Who boards ‘cos I haven’t seen the finale, so have been sticking to the Twilight boards. New trailer out and everyone’s geting excitede over the upcoming release of the fourth and final in the series Breaking Dawn. However, if you go to Stephanie Meyer’s website, she seems to have a chapter of a novel which is Twilight from Edward’s perspective. It’s called Midnight Sun.

Also, I have seen Raiders of the Lost Ark and Speed. Liked both, especially Speed.

Songs you should check out: Black and Gold by Sam Sparro, Mirror by Barlow Girls.

All those people in Australia cringed as they watched the Top Gear crew (BTW, SBS are showing the eps out of order) waste beautiful. glorious water by using it to fill up cars and see which old British car could go ’round the track the furthest (water leaking out, they had to stop when the water was below the steering wheel).

Someone I know spent five minutes trying to remember what she had for dinner last night (to our amusement). Here is in general what she said (I can’t put everything up here ‘cos I don’t remember it all. I’ll start somewhere in the middle and skip bits): “This is really worrying… It wasn’t steak, that was the night before…I remember, I had popcorn beforehand and then it was dinner…Wait, did I even have dinner last night?…And there were these stringy things…yes! Spaghetti bolognaise”. I laughed a lot.



{July 13, 2008}   So Random (what’s new?)

Latest searches leading to my site: Janet Fielding’s huge boobs, july girl, going red from stress.

Okay, I really want to read Twilight now, ‘cos I’m actually looking forward to the movie.

Just saw Hancock. If you like Will Smith, you’ll like this. Plus, it’s like the anti-superhero movie, almost.

You know, there are a tonne of blogs created for a tonne of different reasons. Maybe they’re personal, maybe they’re professional. But there is one blog that I would love to see shut down and that is Juicy Campus. It is a bitchfest where some of the stuff isn’t even true (actually, probably most of the stuff is garbage). The idea that people can be so damaging for secular entertainment kind of bugs me. This, along with all the Youtube bashings, just makes me feel sad. Sad for the people who have to endure this and sad that humankind has been reduced to this. But I also think that t makes you value the ones who aren’t like this even more. But maybe that’s just me.

I also watched Casanova (the Heath Ledger one, not the David tennant one). I thought it was funny. There was an amusing line which comes from one of the puppet shows.

I just saw the first pic for the American version of Kath and Kim and, as much as I think Selma Blair is awesome, I’m feeling a little dubious. It’s just the whole Americans remaking a perfectly good TV show thing. A lot of it, though, is Australian humour and I don’t think they’ll get it.



{July 11, 2008}   ‘Tis Cold

And I hate it. I’m not a cold person. I don’t particularly enjoy having my hands being replaced by blocks of ice. No, that’s not for me. I just went outside and I could see my breath. My breath! That is cold for me!!!

BTW, sorry it’s been ages since I last came on here.

Let’s see, what have I done? I saw Narnia again. PD watched the finale of Doctor Who without me (I’ll just watch the last four eps with Dad). I bought a pair of shiny, red flats today for $20. PD covets them and so do I. I’m going to see Hancock tomorrow. Everyone I know agrees with me when I say If a movie is bad, it’s not the fault of Will Smith. Actually, even if one of is movies is panned by critics, it makes a stackload of money ‘cos it’s got him. I went to an awesome sleepover. Took a tonne of pics.

One thing I really want to do, however, is read Twilight. The series looks pretty good, everyone I know tells me they’re brilliant. Actually, the movie’s looking pretty good, too. New Moon and Eclipse follow, but the final book Breaking Dawn comes out on 2nd August 2008. The movie comes out just after Harry Potter 6 (ironic, ‘cos the main actor is in Harry Potter 4).

One movie I really don’t want to see is Wall-E. The lack of speech would just totally bug me. The people I hang out were like “He’s so cute…I’m so not seeing that”.



{June 29, 2008}   Well, Hello

Well, this sucks. I’ve just discovered I’m allergic to something, but I don’t know what. I find I get really hot and I get the butterfly effect on my cheeks. It also happen ‘cos I’ve got sensitive skin (I even had an allergic reaction to a bloody Vitamin E cream, of all things). But obviously something I’ve eaten has sent me like this. I don’t think it’s chocolate, but it could be (NO!!!!!!!). Could also be something in my dinner, potatoes, strawberries. Oh, I don’t know. But it sucks and it’s actually been going on for a while. I’ll get hot and my cheeks will go red. I’ll go “Is it just me or is it hot in here?” and the answer will be along the lines of “Err…it’s just you”.

 Secondly, Doctor Who! Ah, I hear you say, it’s not a good post without mention of Doctor Who. Well, don’t worry, here it comes. Even though I’ve already seen it, I just watched Voyage of the Damned with Dad. There are only two other Australians (I’m referring to the fact that Ms Minogue was in this episode, obviously) that I can think of who have been in Doctor Who. One played Tegan (who lived in Brisbane, I believe. Her name was Janet Fielding). The other was in the Christmas Invasion as the guy translating for Harriet Jones to whom the Doctor said “Don’t you think she looks tired?” (Adam Garcia. He was in Coyote Ugly and Bootmen, for movie buffs). Hopefully, soon I’ll get to watch Silence in the LIbrary w/PD.

I want to see Narnia already! Probably, I’ll go see Prince Caspian (the Narnia movie, obviously)and Get Smart this week. If I do, I’ll tell you lot what I think WITHOUT spoilers (‘cos you know I’m good like that, no Who spoilers or anything :) ). I know no one appreciates spoilers so I try not to spoil anything.

 Mum is cackling away while reading Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum series (either they have Plum in the title or a number). That’s the thing about this series. You know when someone’s reading a Stephanie Plum novel because it’s the same laugh from every person. A sort of cackle.

Okay, that’s enough for today. You’ve already had a post from me. It’s just I thought of some extra stuff (and, unlike the last post I think, something associated with our favourite Timelord). Nighty-night.



You’re probably wondering what the Hell I’m going on about. Well, recently for an assignment on teengers, I borrowed out a few books in the hopes that they could help me. One, while not helping me with my assignment, has been the book I’ve been reading. It’s called Living with Teenagers. And let me say, these three teenagers are ungrateful little brats. They not only use swear in everyday language (which if they had jobs would get them fired, but apparently there is at least one too lazy to bother finding any) and in front of their parents, but they call their parents attrocious words. I don’t swear in front of my parents and I never call them swear words. But they use all sorts of things to call their parents. These kids also seems to like to tell the mother (furthering on the bad parent thing) “You wonder why we’re so screwed up?” and after they scream and be totally unreasonable when the mother gets even the slightest bit mad ask her if she’s in therapy, ‘cos she should be. I would have decked these kids several times by now.

I’ve also noticed that the mother might say something neutral, but these kids whinge, saying things like “You always take his side! Can’t you see he’s playing you? You’re a terrible mother” (except with at least one swear word, probably the F word). These are kids who whinge about “being deprived” when if anything, they’re spoilt. “I don’t like the way this towel feels.” Grow up. Some people have worse problems than you. They don’t have parents who worry about them; they have parents who beat them up. They might not have parents at all. They might not be well off and not have any money. They might be homeless. There’s another thing; money to these kids is like sand- it slips through their fingers. Always borrowing money, asking for advances instead of getting jobs. They tell their Mum that she’s selfish. This is where they need to take a good look in the mirror.

Okay, so on some occasions, they appear to be decent. But from the sounds of it, most occasions, they’re stupid little pigs. These are the people who give all teenagers a bad name.

I’m still reading the book, and I pray to God that they get better. Actually, I hope this whole book is a wake-up call. If it isn’t, then something tells me that nothing will be. The only comfort I get is the knowledge that no one I know (including me), well, at least not most of the people I know, are like that or have ever been like that, really (except maybe as toddlers, but that’s different). Welcome to the next generation of parents.



{May 21, 2008}   the Insult Dictionary

Firstly, I just had a job interview. I’m really hoping I get it, because it seems like such an awesome place to work.

Okay, now that’s out of the way, I can tell you about a discovery of mine. Sometime last year, for $2, I bought a book called the Insult Dictionary:How to be Abusive in FIVE languages. These languages are English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. Now, right about now, you must be wondering what the catch is. Well, it was published in 1966. I’m about to list a few. However, I would like to warn you before hand that it is NOT in ANY way politically correct.

So, here are a few beauties (in English. However, I’m copying it straight from the book, word for word):
(on the beach) Move your fat carcass so I can get some sun.

(in the butcher’s shop) That rabbit is still miaowing.

(at a party or a dance) Keep your wandering paws to yourself.

(in the bookshop) Do you only sell pornography?

(Between the Sexes) Your lips are like wet liver.

(General terms and all-purpose insults) Incapable lout.

(General terms and all-purpose insults) Repulsive, evil-smelling layabout.

Those are just a few of the terms. If you want to know more, or want the book’s translation, just leave a comment.



et cetera