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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
6:57 pm	Musicals! Putting up a list of all my musicals - if anyone is interested in any drop me a line. ( Musicals Galore! ) Current Mood: geeky Current Music: King David - 97 Concert Cast (287 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, September 10th, 2007
8:38 pm	Ramblings and New Art Hello my peeps. ( Ramblings Part 1 ) McFly Ink Drawings ( Ramblings Part 2 ) take care guys and gals. xx Current Mood: artistic Current Music: Ray Charles & Johnny Mathis (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
11:09 am	What a year.. Wow, where to start? *warning - Will be long - have to go work out how to do cuts again and i can't be buggered to do it now. So sorry and scroll on if you aren't interested. When we last left off the Jen chronicles I had just been taken off a show and had an arguement (well actually she said something uncalled for and I told her she was full of it and don't talk to me until you've pulled your head from your sphincter) with a person at uni. Basically I never got back to uni - the pain became just too bad and it was ridiculous struggling to go for a couple of days then needing a week off to recover. So I left - I was planning to do theatre studies but I'd be faced with the same issues as it is also a fairly strenous course, so basically I took this year off to try and pull it together. So this year thus far in a nutshell: * Had the diagnosis of Fibromyalgia confirmed by a specialist, discovered the muscle spasms which make me look like i'm having a fit from time to time are actually due to tension in my muscles from being in constant pain and can be dealt with if i persevere. * Started going to Weight Watchers with a mate in an effort to find a way to motivate myself to exercise through the pain. My diet actually wasn't that bad if you ignore a coma inducing caffienne addiction! * As a result has lost roughly 20kg so far. I'm on a platuea (sp?) for the last few month due to the pain being particularly shocking but have picked up swimming (well...drowning with style in my case) again. Took me awhile to get over my fear of Greenpeace attempting to rescue me the second I hit the water and with the help of some baggy board shorts I submerged once more! * Have virtually lost contact with most friends at uni - they're off doing stuff and gradually contact had been lost. My fault really - I'm the one with time of my hands but methinks somewhere in my grubby soul I was insanely jealous they were off doing what I wanted to be off doing but was stuck drugged to the hilt at home. * Am going to pain management counselling to help find ways of dealing with the rest of my life in pain (Fibro doesn't go away - there are treatments in the pipeline but we're talking 10-15 years away) and if I want to lead a normal life I have to learn to cope through it instead of waiting for it to 'get better' *Beth is basically my saviour and is my contact to the outside world and my co-conspirator and the bloody cow moved back to Brisbane!!! *g* She's forgiven as she still comes up to Toowoomba to see me often but how rude! Lucky she's cute. * Hmm what else? Spend my days trying to draw, entertaining my animals - current count is 9 cats (we took in a pregnant cat and then be the hard hearted people we are couldn't bear to give away the kittens..) 3 Budgies - Bloody noisy budgies!!!! Watching a movie with them is hell!!!!! 1 Galah (Belle - slowly warming to me but still not very friendly. Hates Beth!) and 2 Sulphur Crested Cockatoos. Oswald is my baby girl and is a conplete beast. She thinks she's the centre of the universe and screams at me if this feeling is not maintained!!!!! We've been having chat about that, and we also have Socrates - we rescued him from the RSPCA and he's a lovely boy - he loves his big cage - won't come out when we leave the door open, loves passionfruit and toast, makes the funiest noises and hisses at you the entire time you're patting his feet! * Have discovered an English band called McFly and have rekindled my pop obsesssion. Bloody good music actually, Very Beach Boys meets Beatles meets their own unique style. Turning more rockish/indie as thier sounds develops - I really like it! *g* really like the slash as well! Tehy're hot young men. I have a soft spot for Danny. Curly brown hair has always been my undoing! Dougie is also a very sexy little boy too actually. But seriously if you like pop - have a listen it's really good (and for those cynics of pop - these guys do play and write all thier own music - was watching a close up clip of danny playing his guitar and sat agape wondering how the f%^& does he DO that?! me being the msuicican who can't count to 4) anyway that's me for now, hand is limp from typing so I shall be off. cheers people xx special messge while i'm here for Dennis - still thinking of you and keep missing you on msn and am too hopeless to email, but am here, still care! Current Mood: contemplative Current Music: Transylvania - McFly (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, October 17th, 2006
5:04 am	Tardis This what happens when I am stuck at home on my rear, unable to do much, but am surrounded by art supplies!: Yes, I'm a Doctor Who fan - It's genetic in my case. My Mum grew up with and LOVED the original series and her affection has rubbed off on me. That is of course not to say I didn't laugh at the super-dodgy effects of the old series - absolutely fantastic!!! Been at home for the last week as the pain is not good. Not good at all. I have however discovered a ointment that actually helps! - not dencorub or voltaren or any other commonly used goo...- Horse liniment! As in the four legged, neighing variety. My aunt's doctor recommended it to her for her arthritis and it is great!!! I do however smell like a mix between Fisherman's Friend (awful lolly, drop thingy my Grandma eats...*shudders*) a Stable and a manky old Pub (we're talking a massive alcohol content people!) but it's worth the stench if it eases the pain. Monumental life decisions have been occurring at uni - I'm finishing off 2nd year in Stage Management but next year I'm going to swap and do the Theatre Studies Degree. I'm just not physically able to keep going with SM for now. Maybe when I've finished the Theatre Studies degree I'll go back and complete 3rd year SM - That was I'll have two degrees and be much more employable in a wider range of positions, but for now I just have to do what my body will let me. I'm dealing with it quite well. I still want to be a Stage Manager, but in my current state that's just not an option - but it's not the end of my ambition though so it's all good. - In the 3 years of the TS degree, I may make a complete recovery and then power along through SM's 3rd year. The important thing in that case is to finish this year so I don't have to do the rest of 2nd year again! However I may discover in TS that there's something I want to do even more and that'll be fine too! Anyhoo, I'm young still. I'll work it out eventually! cheers people. Current Mood: creative Current Music: Bernard Fanning - Tea & Sympathy (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006
4:17 am	Fat. Ever had anyone say something so mind-blowingly cruel to you, that you just freeze and have no idea what to do, or where to put it in your mind? I had hoped to be past all that crap when I left high school, but in the space of five seconds I was taken back 6 years. Most people know that I’m sick, I have a condition called Fibromyalgia (Chronic Pain Syndrome) which most likely was caused by the fact I was in a major car accident a few years back. Also just for the record, I had a fairly common spinal condition in my teens which has left a weakness in my back and so makes the pain particularly severe there and makes anything physical very painful. I also have Poly-Cystic Ovarian Syndrome which screws around with my female bits just for added fun. I am also fat. Morbidly Obese to be precise. I was always slightly bigger than everyone else my age growing up, but was not fat by any stretch. I did gymnastics for years and was surrounded by twigs masquerading as bitches, sorry, I mean people, and so I’ve always felt big. I completely descended into Lard-dom after the car accident, before which I was a slightly large size 14/16. Now I’m bigger. Now I didn’t think I’d have to defend my fatness like this but I am NOT sick because I’m fat. It doesn’t help I suppose but even if I was a size 10, nothing would have prevented my illness. I kind of thought most people who knew me would have worked that one out. Evidentially I give people too much credit. Last week I was taken off the show I was working on because my production manager was (reasonably, much to my disgust) concerned about my reliability – I have been getting rather severe migraines of late which leave me in bed for a day or so. He was nice about it. I get the feeling his concerns were raised by someone NOT so concerned for my welfare, but anyway. Last night I was explaining to a ‘friend’ why I suddenly disappeared from the production – I haven’t been in to Uni since and no one had given an explanation why I was gone. I told her I understood why S had taken me off the production, by I felt frustrated as it was not my fault I was sick. I was asked how I could say it wasn’t my fault when it WAS - as Everyone at uni looks at me and sees me constantly eating shit and my diet and my weight were the main reasons I was sick. It hurt people. A) it’s not fucking true and B) I thought this was a person who’d support me when I was having a hard time. (and C) where the hell did she get her *%&^#$% medical degree from??) In a way I’m glad she said it otherwise I would’ve gone on trusting these people and gotten burnt by it later, I also know there are a few people at uni, who DON’T agree and do understand and support me. But bloody hell… Also just to mention I AM NOT CONSTANTLY EATING SHIT. I’m rather pissed that I’ve been judged because I ate some chocolate in front of someone else when I’m so fat I should’ve stuck to carrot sticks. I took bloody yogurt and an apple for a snack most days last week. Bloody selective on what they pay attention to. Also constant pain is NOT a particularly fabulous motivator to get up and go for a jog. Mostly I’m sick of being judged on my looks. Yes, I’m fat, but if you bother to look, I’m actually a decent person. At least I think so. I don’t deserve to be in constant pain and I am. Shit happens. I just wanted a place to turn to where people were mature enough not to judge me on the physical and understand that I’m not well and cut me some slack. I guess that makes me stupid as I really should have known better. Current Mood: crappy (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, August 7th, 2006
7:40 pm	Questionaire thingy. FOR ANG_WA Fill it out about yourselves because you know you want to! 1. Name: Jen 2. Age/Birthday: 22, 05/12/83 3. Single or Taken: Single 4. Favorite Movie: Too many to choose from. 5. Favorite Song: Many... The World I Know, by Collective Soul is a fave. 6. Favorite Band/Rapper/Artist: Love Musicals. Adore Musicals. Normal band? Um. Queen. 7. Favorite Book/Comic Book: The Wheel of Time Series (Robert Jordan) Anything by Raymond E Fiest 8. Tattoos and/or Piercings: Ears are pieced. Wouldn't mind a SMALL Tattoo. 9. Favorite TV Show: the new Doctor Who, Grey's Anatomy. 10. Favorite Video Game/Board Game: Does Spider Solitare count? 11. Do we know each other outside of Livejournal? Yep. 12. Would you give me a kidney? I think it'd prolly be me who required one!, but yes. 13. Tell me one odd/interesting fact about you: I can't pronounce Massachusetts properly. 14. If you could change anything about your current life, would you? My Health. 15. Will you post this so I can fill it out for you? Don't worry about posting it again Ange. I got the idea the first time *g* EVERYONE DO THIS, SO I CAN LEARN MORE ABOUT CHOO!!! Current Mood: blah (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, July 14th, 2006
11:43 am	Oswald! Okay, so a few weeks ago I was supposed to take Oswald(the Cockatoo, to those uninitiated in my Zoo) to the vet to be sexed - nothing grubby! it's just to find out gender! But anyway, I piked big time and couldn't let my beautiful baby go under anesthesia. So I finally built up to guts to drop Oz off this morning (yes I cried....Oz kept calling out for me and clucking as I walked away...it was quite pathetic actually) so the Verdict? OSWALD IS A GIRL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I so won $10 off my mum! Apparently she has VERY active ovaries which means she's in season, hence the clucking and nesting. She!!!!!! We're sticking with name Oswald however, we'll just have to have a gender confused bird. I have started working teaching her "I'm a cheeky girl!" - she can say 'boy' already! Current Mood: amused Current Music: nada (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, July 6th, 2006
5:25 pm	Tagged by rumblepurr 1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 123. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions. 5. Don’t you dare dig for that “cool” or “intellectual” book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest. 6. Tag three people. okay so luckily "Simply Pilates" only has 62 pages and I was able to move onto the next closest book! Page 123: 6th sentence - 8th sentence: "And once Kinch got going, there was no stopping him - Max might lose Irene along with Barbara. So whom should he try to please, Kinch or Irene? Sometime having a dissociated identity was no frigging picnic." It's actually quite a good, albiet creepy book! - The Girls He Adored, Jonathan Nasaw. and meh on tagging people - do it if you feel the urge! (YAY! Restored last saved draft worked! Damned update page isn't working for me very well of late.) (Comment on this)
Friday, June 30th, 2006
3:48 pm	Yesterday, Whilst in the midst of a highly entertaining conversation with alanafish (I can't remember what we were talking about actually....I'm sure I was highly entertained at the time however) I was uncermoniously ejected from the internet!, After Ranting about Dodo, Cursing, Checking the modems, and refreshing a millions times, I resigned myself to an internet-less fate and began to work on a website instead. these are the results: Jen's Gallery I'm rather proud of it actually. Also while I was making it I caught up on listening to song files that fyrie had sent me...Jakub Wocial *melts* such a beautiful voice. I'm very smitten. Shakespeare arrived a couple of days ago and despite Buffy's best efforts, still remains on the property! After a bit of biff, Shakie has worked out he's actually twice her size and maybe he doesn't need to run under the bed at the sight of her.... and boy is he a smoocher. He rubs against your legs, jumps in your lap, rubs against EVERYTHING in the general vicinty.. It's rather sweet in an in-your-face kind of way! On a not so sweet note, he has tried to eat the bird a couple of times.... Methinks he is going to push his luck very soon and will be rewarded with beak imprints in his face.... Speaking of the bird, I piked totally with the vet. I couldn't bear to send him away by himself, so I've rescheduled for a few weeks time to give myself time to pull it together!!! Also while Liz was dropping off Shakespeare she mentioned her sister was looking for a home for her cat too..... So Cashew the Burmese cat arrives next week... we are WAY too easy....Buffy is going to have a seizure.... That's the grand sum total of my last day in the world of the internet-less few! Woke up this morning find myself online. Just as well I hadn't called Dodo and ranted....My mother informed me that while I had checked the modems, I had failed to notice to phone cord was unplugged....*sheepish* oops.... Current Mood: cheerful Current Music: Phantom Medley (12 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, June 28th, 2006
2:40 pm	snitched from bwinter Greed: Medium   Gluttony: Low   Wrath: Medium   Sloth: Medium   Envy: Low   Lust: Very Low   Pride: Low   Take the Seven Deadly Sins Quiz (Comment on this)
2:04 pm	bruised fingers Okay, so I bought a sewing machine last week and twas working fine - until about 20 minutes ago it decided to go on strike. This a machine i bought LAST WEEK. So naturally I'm mildly unimpressed. Called the help line - as the retailer (in this case K-Mart) has nothing to do with it after you buy it, so cannot get a replacement - it must be repaired. So the courier will come get it in 2-3 days, will take it to the repairer, and they'll let me know at their earliest convinience whether it can be fixed or not. GAH I was in the middle of making Bethany a Superman bag too (blue with the red/yellow Logo) twas looking groovy too. But now it must wait. MY KINGDOM FOR A BIT OF TECHNOLOGY THAT JUST WORKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! At least I was able to get the sound clips fyrie sent me to work! I am in love with the Polish Von Krolock and Herbert. Gah, Such beautiful voices. Prolly heading to Berlin around April now due to respectives educational commitments and such. Gives me a few more months to accumulate money. The bird is off the vet's on Friday to be sexed (to find out whether he's a girl or a boy you degenerates!!!!!) and the check all is well with his (her?) hormones and such. I have to leave him there all by himself for a few hours and i'm taking it surprisingly badly. - I want to stay with him and make sure they don't hurt my Baby!!!!!) (or my baby doesn't hurt them...) ah well. I'll get over it. We're recieving a new family member tonight. A friend of Beth's circumstances have changed rather dramatically and she must find a new home for her 2 yr old fluffy gray cat named Shakespeare, so we forced ourselves *g* He'll be arriving tonight and while our older male cat will prolly enjoy the company, our female cat (named Buffy the Vampire Slayer!) will not take it so well I suspect. Should also be interesting to see whether Shakespeare tries to eat the bird. ah, my life would be so boring without pets.... Current Mood: cranky Current Music: Wenn Liebe in Dir Ist - Polish Cast (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, June 22nd, 2006
6:27 pm	Travel!!!!!! My how one's immediate future can change in the space of a few hours!!! fyrie the devious creature she is, under the dreaded influence of bwinter have gorged themselves on the lustful goodness that is the musical Tanz Der Vampire (Taniec Wampirow in Polish) and they have managed to convert me completely (that being said I wasn't exactly a hard sell....) so now i have a shiny new fixation. And somehow this has all led to the hatching of a plan - a plan that involves my going to London (where I regrettably will be forced to visit the West End) and then onto Tanz Der Vamipre in Berlin where the shiny-ness of Clare, Beth and Jakub-as-Herbert shall await! and bloody hell, I'm going to go. So basically I have 6 months get healthy and to collect enough money for airfares, west end shows, accommodation, traveling to meet Clare, Tanz der Vapire and other assorted travel goodness!!!! So expect to see a website up in the near future selling art and other goodies. Ang and I are off to the markets next semester so I shall be flogging ma' little heart out there and basically I am now going to be the biggest tight-arse ever and save save save!!!!!!!! I said SAVE DAMMIT! Thank you so much Clare. This has been the biggest kick of motivation that has been in the region of my bottom in ages. I'm going to be dangerous! (or at least mildly threatening...) Also I'm currently on a weight-loss kick anyway (will help with my illness),so I've readjusted my exercise/weight loss goal to getting onto that plane a good 30 kg's lighter (so expect some whinging and moaning from moi. - Just a heads-up people!) God my brain is full and i'm babbling. am now going to go watch a movie and unwind!!!!! Current Mood: crazy (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 20th, 2006
7:20 pm	Bah to Subjects God I admire Lana. She writes so regularly and it’s interesting stuff. I don’t think my saying “I watched TV…it was good.” compares really. Meh I did stay up to god all hours of the morning to watch Australia vs Brazil. I think it was worth the lost sleep. Australia played so well. They didn’t lose – Brazil won. (if you understand what I mean!) Went over to Ang’s for a brief while this morning – Her IHTD (Introduction to the History and Theory of Drama) exam is tomorrow. I did quite well on it last year – not that I think I was much help to her! – Evidentially a lot of it was lost to my brain’s crevices once the exam was over. I only have 3 exams left in my degree (and a couple of design presentations) – I have 2 exams next semester and 1 next year. I’m really glad I did my core subjects in 3rd semester last year (at USQ there are certain courses everyone must do no matter what the degree is. We have to do 3 of these courses in my degree) I’ve found out that what’s wrong with me is a syndrome called Fibromyalgia also known as Chronic Pain Syndrome, which is good because it means there will be no permanent damage to my joints (it also means I’m not just crazy!!!) but unfortunately there isn’t really much I can do apart from manage the pain – there is no way to tell how long it will last. I was doing all the right things before we got the diagnosis – Hydrotherapy, painkillers, acupuncture etc. It’s strangely reassuring to have a name for what’s wrong though. Even if Fibromyalgia sounds like a form of cheap housing material! The pain has been a bit worse than normal the last few days – I seem to be affected by colder weather – so I’ve been rubbing heat cream into various painful places. This has had the unforeseen effect of making me smell not unlike a nursing home. While not as offensive as some smells, it can be a bit too fragrant at times! I went to see a show at Uni that Stevi DSM’d for (Deputy Stage Manager) – at intermission I realized the lady sitting up from me in the first act had moved to the opposite end of the row!!!!! I was torn between amusement and being offended! *g* At least the show was really good! On that note it’s nice to watch how far the actors have come since first year. I’ve changed a lot but being I’m so used to me the change doesn’t seem so obvious! Besides knowing a lot more about Stage Management, I have noticed I’ve matured a lot over the last 3 years (in some ways anyway!) I don’t care so much what people think of me, unfortunately this has resulted in me being a tad bitchier than I used to be, but ah well. I’m still tactful and civil (mostly) so I don’t step on too many toes! At least not toes I’m concerned about stepping on! (bad jen!) I do wonder how I’d be if I hadn’t been so badly bullied in primary/high school – I think all the collective shit that’s happened to me has made me stronger today, but it really did suck at the time! In other news I’m going to drag my cockatoo to the vets to check all hormones are in order. He’s started nesting in a big way – frenzied paper shredding, hissing if I interrupt etc. I also discovered on a website the oh-so-cute clucking he does for me is a form of birdy foreplay!!!!! Typical – the men I like are either gay or emotional 5 year olds or those who like me are cockatoos! It’s probably fairly standard cockatoo behaviour but maybe I’ll be able to learn how convince him I’d be a bad choice for a mate without offending him! Anyhoo, that’s enough for now! Cheers Current Mood: content Current Music: Chess - OLC (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 24th, 2006
3:12 pm	Hopeless!!!! Yes, I am- Completely hopeless. If I actually followed through on half my good intentions (updating my journal regularly for example) I'd be dangerous. Meh - that's one of my new goals in life - a bit more reliability! So sorry to all my friends, family, aquaintances who waited or are still waiting for drawings, cd's whatever. I'm aware of my faults and am working on them! Also if it's any consolation I love you all and it irritates me almost as much as you!!! Anyway. In Toowoomba, been here long enough to settle in. Our house is lovely - i have a MASSIVE room, which is good being that I have massive amount of junk everywhere! I still maintain Art Supplies can be bulky and that's half the problem. That's my excuse and i'm sticking to it. Still getting used to not tripping over Jess everywhere i go - I still find myself saving her bones at dinner and the like. Tiger (our 15 yr old cat) is making up for it though - it's considerably more chilly up here and Tiger more or less has become a permanent fixture on my bed at night, which would be fine if he didn't snore and dribble!!!! He's a sweet old thing though. and while i'm here: HAPPY BIRTHDAY RIO AND ANG!!! Ang's isn't for a few days but I didn't want to leave Ang out, so Happy birthday to you both! I've re-enrolled for uni next month - exactly a month from today actually so I start again soon! - I'm really looking forward to that. From what i hear it's still the same old drama filled place I left so it's going to be great. I'm going to have to use a walking stick to help me get 'round to try and relieve some of the strain on my back, but it could be worse - my grandma doesn't want me to look like i'm sick (re: a Freak.) and wants me to wear a corset!!! That is so not happening. I'd rather look like a cripple/freak thanks all the same. Can you even get a corset in this day and age???? Gah. Besides, the added bonus of a walking stick is that if anyone gives me the shits at uni I have an instant weapon!!!! BWAHAHA!!! Nothing else earth shattering is happening. Same old day to day events. I'm making a serious effort to lose weight as I'm on a waiting list to get a breast reduction - YAY!!!!! ( I hate 'em!!! hate 'em hate 'em hate 'em!!!!) A few less endowed friend have asked for donations... - I would if I could ladies!! but seriously, I'd swap you any day! I'm looking forward to the day I can wear a button up shirt that isn't 3 sizes too big...or have the men around uni actually realise that my head is a good 30cm higher up!!!!! (Yes Col. I mean YOU) anyhoo, pain and uselessness aside, all is well, hope everything is trucking along for you guys too. cheers. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, April 21st, 2006
11:03 am	Moving Hey Peoples. Sorry to those friends i've been neglecting of recent - dug myself into a deep dark hole the last few weeks in order to lick my wounds and only occasionally came up for air. Mum and I move tommorrow - To good ole Toowoomba. So I shall be offline for an unknown period of time, prolly not that long - we've been quite organised this time so Dodo broadband here i come. anyhoo. Must go pull apart the bird's large cage. We're stuffing him into a little cage for a few days. He is very unimpressed. talk to you all later. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, April 11th, 2006
9:11 pm	Jess My dog died this afternoon. We took her back to the vet to check out what we were last week told was a cold, which didn't seem to be getting better. Turns out she actually had secondary cancer spreading through her lungs which was interfering with her breathing. The only thing we could do for her was to let her go. Which was not easy. While shit happens, the grief will lessen etc etc, I can't believe the gap that is now in my life. It's like a part of me is missing, however cliched that is. Something is just gone. I don't know if it would have been easier if we'd had some warning or whatever. Dammit I don't want her to be gone and she is. I can barely remember a time without her. I was nearly 11 when we got her, she was 6 weeks old. She was so tiny she couldn't climb up onto the lounge. Once she got bigger we had a hard time getting her to get off.... She was loyal, friendly, protective, lazy, a bed-hog, comforting, greedy, happy, tolerant - basically a fantastic dog. How the hell do people cope with losing a child???? Life is just a shit-bucket from time to time. Jess 1994-2006 Current Mood: crappy (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, March 23rd, 2006
7:42 pm	Randomness Stolen from ang_wa Open iTunes/iPod or Windows Media Player to answer the following. Go to your library. Answer, no matter how embarrasing it is. How many songs: 12776 Sort by song title: First Song: '39, Ingram Hill, Killer Queen: A Tribute to Queen Last Song: Zydeco, Cirque Du Soleil Sort by time: Shortest Song: 0:00:01 We're On A Mission From God, Blues Brothers (Okay, so this is a sound clip...) Shortest SONG song is: 0:00:07 Introduction; Rocky Horror Picture Show, Aust Cast. Longest Song: 1:23:05 Wicked: US Tour: Act 1 Sort by album: First Song: Sit Down John: New Broadway Cast: 1776 Last Song: One Song Glory: Alana Mcdonald Top Five Most Played Songs: 1. Everybody's got the right (Assassins NBC) 2. Oh, Better Far To Live and Die (Next Three are from The Pirates of Penzance, Australian Cast) 3. When The Foeman Bares His Steel 4. With Cat-Like Tread, Upon Our Prey We Steal 5. Lola - Mig Ayesa - Rockstar INXS First song that comes up on Shuffle: Hungarian Folk Song - Chess OLC Search .... "sex", how many songs come up? 12 "death", how many songs come up? 99 (Lots of Death Cab for Cutie songs....) "love", how many songs come up? 790 "you", how many songs come up? 1424 "cock", how many songs come up? 10 (had to laugh - 5 of the results were songs from 'Naked Boys Singing!' however this is due to cast member Brian BeaCOCK) yay for random goodness. Current Mood: amused Current Music: Disco 2000: Pulp (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, March 4th, 2006
7:58 pm	My Baby Boy! It's been raining here and my cockatoo loves playing in the rain! My digital camera takes film clips and so I present my boy Oswald. The voice you can hear is my mother (and for those interested, yes the end phrase you hear IS "Nothing like a bit of pig's ear..." - T'was the dogs treat from shopping....and yes it was rather feral....) and the shaking of the camera is me trying to wave at Mum to get her to shut up. anyhoo shall be up for 7 days-ish: Oz Edit: Added another one! (Comment on this)
Wednesday, February 15th, 2006
7:14 pm	The 2006 thesaurus 404. Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message "404 Not Found," meaning that the requested document could not be located. ADMINISPHERE. The rarefied organisational layers beginning just above the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the "adminisphere" are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve. This is often affiliated with the dreaded "administrivia" - needless paperwork and processes. AEROPLANE BLONDE. One who has bleached/dyed her hair but still has a 'black box'. ASSMOSIS. The process by which people seem to absorb success and advancement by sucking up to the boss rather than working hard. AUSSIE KISS. Similar to a French Kiss, but given down under. BEER COAT. The invisible but warm coat worn when walking home after a booze cruise at 3am. BEER COMPASS. The invisible device that ensures your safe arrival home after booze cruise, even though you're too drunk to remember where you live, how you got here, and where you've come from. BLAMESTORMING. Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible. BREAKING THE SEAL. Your first pee in the pub, usually after 2 hours of drinking. After breaking the seal of your bladder, repeat visits to the toilet will be required every 10 or 15 minutes for the rest of the night. BRITNEY SPEARS. Modern Slang for 'beers', e.g. "Couple of Britney's please" CUBE FARM. An office filled with cubicles. GOING FOR A McSHIT. Entering a fast food restaurant with no intention of buying food, you're just going to the bog. If challenged by a pimply staff member, your declaration to them that you'll buy their food afterwards is known as a McShit with Lies. GREYHOUND. A very short skirt, only an inch from the hare. JOHNNY-NO-STARS. A young man of substandard intelligence, the typical adolescent who works in a burger restaurant. The 'no-stars' comes from the badges displaying stars that staff at fast-food restaurants often wear to show their level of training. MILLENNIUM DOMES. The contents of a Wonderbra, i.e. extremely impressive when viewed from the outside, but there's actually naught in there worth seeing. MONKEY BATH. A bath so hot, that when lowering yourself in, you go: "Oo!Oo!Oo! Aa!Aa!Aa!". MYSTERY BUS. The bus that arrives at the pub on Friday night while you're in the toilet after your 10th pint, and whisks away all the unattractive people so the pub is suddenly packed with stunners when you come back in. MYSTERY TAXI. The taxi that arrives at your place on Saturday morning before you wake up, whisks away the stunner you slept with, and leaves a 10-Pinter in your bed instead. OHNOSECOND. That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just made a BIG mistake (e.g. you've hit 'reply all') PEARLHARBOUR. Cold (weather). An example of it would be - "It's a bit Pearl Harbor" out there (there's a nasty nip in the air) PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE. The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again. PICASSO BUM. A woman whose knickers are too small for her, so she looks like she's got four buttocks PRAIRIE DOGGING. When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm, and people's heads pop up over the walls to see that's going on. (This also applies to applause for a promotion because there may be cake.) SALAD DODGER. An excellent phrase for an overweight person SALMON DAY. The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die. SEAGULL MANAGER. A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves. SINBAD. single working girls. Single income, no boyfriend and desperate. SITCOMs. Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids or start a "home business". STRESS PUPPY. A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny. SWAMP-DONKEY A deeply unattractive woman TART FUEL. Bottled premixed spirits, regularly consumed by young women TESTICULATING. Waving your arms around and talking Bollocks. Current Mood: amused Current Music: Il Divo - Isabel (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, February 14th, 2006
1:47 pm	Bugger.... Brief anecdote: Went to Dirty Dancing (again) on Sunday evening as Markham was on. He sang a solo which was very groovy. he has a gorgeous voice. I'm biased but he does. Anyhoo, in intermission a man apologised for tripping over me when he went to his seat at the top of the show, he hadn't tripped over me as far as I knew, but he was lovely and told me to enjoy the show. Was flicking through my program this afternoon and saw a photo of said lovely man. Under the welcome from the Producer. The producer being Kevin Jacobsen. SHIT! (For those of you who don't know Kevin Jacobsen Entertainment one of the leading theatrical production companies of professional musicals in Australia. Think of Kevin Jacobsen like the Australian Cameron Mackintosh) In retrospect i'm glad i didn't know who he was! - My brain would've melted. but oh my. Not sure where to fit this bit of knowledge into my brain. Current Mood: amused (Comment on this)