ABC Meme

A - Are you single?         Yes

B - Because?         I am

C - Crush? Yes

D - Drink you last had?    A bottle of dessert wine

E - Easiest to talk to? Men

F - Favourite Song?         Oh Very Young by Cat Stevens

G - Greatest Memory?      Camping on the the Isle of Wight

H - Hometown?        Guildford, Surrey UK

I - In love? Yes

J - Jealous? No

K - Known longest?         Janneke

L - Last Text?         to JH

M - Middle Name?         Elizabeth

N - Number of Siblings? Loads if you count steps and halves

O - One Wish:        Never have to worry about money again

P - Person you last called? Job agent

Q - Question I'm always asked.  Why?

R - Reason to smile?         Many and varied

S - Song I last heard? Can't remember 

T - Time I woke up?         Today, 10.30

U - Umbrella Colour? Black with cloud on the inside

V - Violent Moment?         Ripping up the grass vines today

W - Worst Moment?         Muv dying

X - Person I'll never stop loving? Muv

Y - Your last hug?         GB

Z - Zodiac Sign? Libra

Favourite Word

I had to look something up in the dictionary earlier and I happened upon a link to ‘Why is Q always followed by a U’. I read the article which was interesting, but by no means life changing, to the right of the screen under ‘Popular Links’ was a link to ‘The Most Beautiful Sounding English Word’. It’s not something I’ve really given a lot of thought too, but now that I do, I find this subject appealing. Who knew people thought about such things.

I had to see what others thought, after all, there are over 650 comments.

Most contributors stick to topic, but invariably least favourites creep in, favourite sounding names and others just try to corrupt the system with sly suggestions of racism and fornication (one of my favourites).

It would seem supercalafragilisticexpealadosious is a favorite despite not actually being an official word. Edward Lear managed to get runcible into the dictionary, so how come after all these years the Mary Poppins classic still hasn’t made it? It may not be in any official tomes, but it has made it in popular culture along with chim-chiminy-ciroo, well maybe not :-)

Other favourites seem to be words with negative connotations, but sound nice as they roll off the tongue: blarg, gynecological, melancholy, narcissistic, bubonic, jezebel, ennui, and insidious.

The favorites that win though are the nice sounding, happy though provoking classics like; angel, love, soliloquy, cornucopia, gossamer, curvaceous, evanescence, hallelujah, succulent, and serendipity.

The least favourites are headed up by: squelch, crusty, wet, merge, wacky, ooze, crotch, excess, cabbage, fart, tax and cancer. Most of the words in this list had negative meanings, no one voted for desire (for example) as their least favourite.

Moist wins hands down though, with loads of expressions of eww, ugh, revolting and vile used to describe it. It appears that a lot of people associate the word moist with yeast infections and humidity, but Angel counteracts that with ‘Moist isn’t a gross word if you put it before CAKE!’ She has a very good point. Dry cake or dry roast beef stick in the mouth without moisture.

Swift got a vote, but according to Elma, it only works ‘ if it’s whispered’.

Personally I’d have to go with for my current favourites: jezebel, fornication, procrastinate, hippopotamus, and awesome.

The words I avoid would be: c**t (always repugnant even if it wasn’t a swear word), phenomenon, and burp.

The comment from Robbie made me laugh hard though, so I’d thought I share it in full.
“‘The best word to say is botulism. It has awful connotations but it jumps out of the mouth like a prizefighter, ready to strike down anything in its way.
‘You can’t eat that candy in church!
Botulism! Of course I can!”’

What are you favourites and least liked?

Fight or Flight

I learnt a few things in the last seven days.

1. Not all insurance assessors are horrible. Of course I haven't seen the result of her assessment yet, but so far this seems to be true.
2. You can't always trust your 'friends' to support you in the decisions you make.
3. Some things still shock me.
4. It's hard to take a guy called Jeff, talking about English Literature seriously when he's dressed in drag.
5. The weather in Aussie still makes me smile, I put my washing out at 10.30 pm and it was dry by 8am the following morning and it's still winter.
6. Bok Choi flowers if left in the pot, as does broccoli
7. Eating raw cabbage makes you fart
8. Motorcyclists out for a weekend ride are very friendly towards other motorcyclists out for a weekend ride
9. A cat that has been in fight, and then has the flight reaction can release an awful lot of poo.
10. A poo covered cat doesn't protest too much when shoved under the shower.

Five Observations

They are a few people on the bus that don’t give a damn about old people having to stand while the fresh young thing sits in his seat with the ‘doff doff’ of his iPod annoying everyone.

There are some really wide girls out there who make some really bad fashion decisions.

The South African guy who works in my office is an aggressive arsehole who steals the work supplied newspapers everyday.

There was policeman at the bottom Forvaux Street at lunchtime with a speed camera hiding behind an unmarked car. For those that don’t know, Forvaux is the steepest hills around that even the fittest person avoids having to walk up and cars can’t helping speeding just a little on the way down. Hands Up anyone who thinks City of Sydnay is down in revenue this month.

This has been really long week and I’m glad hump day is more than half way over.

1988

On Saturday evening Todd and I opened a rather spectacular bottle of wine. Bottled in 1988 the Grange Hermitage we drank was so smooth it went down well. A deep purple red with the flavours of berries and bush fire smoke. Was 1988 a bush fire year in South Australia? It was divine.

We consumed it with mature cheddar and reminisced about the year it was bottled.

We were both still at school although nearing the end.
It was leap year
Perestroika began in the Soviet Union
Wimbledon won the FA Cup Final
George Bush Senior became the US president
Pan Am Flight 103 was blown up over Lockerbie by Libyans
Madonna was working on her Like a Prayer album to be release in 1989
A-ha released their third album Stay on these Roads
And Dangerous Liaisions, The Accused, The Dead Pool, Kansas and She's Having a Baby were at the movies

My Day in Numbers – Part 2

‘Cause I really don’t want to be here, I’m going to cronical my involvement in the Flora Fest display in numbers.

839 – the time I got up
900 – the time I was supposed to be at the marquee
35 – minutes late for setting up the display
4 - helpers, three from Taree and Macksville
1 – major downpour
1 – wet passenger seat when I couldn’t wind up the car window
123 – dollars to buy a new car battery, when the old one died
1 – time down Kariong Hill
1 – trip to Bunnings (for tarps and cable ties, don’t ask) and Officeworks for sugar
20 – bales of straw
10 – fleeces for sale
8 – mannequins dressed in groovy Alpaca outfits
3 – males mannequins without pants with everything hanging out (well they would have done, if they had any genitals)
135 – kilometres to pick op the 2008 Alpaca Hmmm… calendar
500 – hot looking calendars
1940 – the time I got home
2 – pairs of trousers of Hubbies that will be on mannequins tomorrow

I Like...

What with yesterday morning being the coldest since the early 80s it got me thinking this morning (my brain slows when it’s cold, it’s like putting maggots in the fridge (it’s a fishing thing)).

There are a few things I like about the cold and a few things I don’t.

Like being tucked up in my nice warm bed
Don’t like having to get out of said warm bed
Like Puss cuddling up with me
Don’t like the fact Puss paws me to get attention before cuddling up
Like being able to see my breath as I walk
Don’t like not being able to feel the ends of my fingers
Like the low winter sunshine
Like the steam coming of the dams
Like the covering of frost that melts as the sun hits it
Like that i have to wear the brightly coloured scarf
Don't like that I have dress and undress several times a day as I walk from inside to out and vise-versa
Like the amazing light you only get in winter with frost and fog
Don’t like having to get up to see it
Like the clear skies and frosty air, it reminds me of the UK in spring
Love the way the stars look so much brighter in a clear winter sky

Mondayitis

It’s Monday and in light of me having a fairly social weekend that’s already been blogged I have a few things random things to report about my Monday so far, so here’s a list;

1. I’m bored at work.
2. Edna is unwell with a chesty problem. No, her boobs are fine, but her lungs are having issues. So I took her a heater in my lunch break and haven’t had anyone to email and look busy with all day. Get Well Soon babe!
3. I’m surfing blogs and have read a few new ones (nothing standout) but did find out that my review from the other night got a link from Syms blog…ta mate!
4. The first Ramdom Article on Wikipedia was a rather interesting piece on the song ‘Sea of Love’
5. The second random article was about Inverell in New South Wales. Never been there, but it’s just north of the Central Coast & Hunter alpaca region boarder and they hold a pretty good show I hear.
6. My Rubber Band ball is now 3.1cm in diameter.
7. I wrote a letter to my penfriend in Washington DC
8. Read an article about Wally De Backer and Gotye from the Sydney Morning Herald Good Weekend magazine, it was very short, so it didn’t take long.
9. Did I already say I’m bored at work?

What to do?

This is my second day back at work after my trip to India. I’m jetlagged, I’m still suffering the after effects of long-haul travel and I’m severely bored. I have heaps of stuff I would/should be doing, but work is interfering. A little list for you.

1. I have a Uni piece to write. It requires I spread out papers and it’s very hard to be discrete about that at work.
2. I have an alpaca newsletter to gather advertising and content for. Thankfully this is the last time I will EVER have to do this.
3. I have sleeping to do.
4. I have cats to spend time with, they are very p*ssed off right now after being abandoned while we where on holiday, even if the cat sitter did read Harry Potter to them.
5. I have blogging to do about all the things I experianced in India but didn't 'do'. This one can be done at work, but I feel guilty doing this when I have an assignment to do.
6. My wardrobe needs sorting, yes…I’m that bored at work.