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Funny

2010-06-29T13:34:00.000+10:00

Bwahahahahahaha

2010-04-12T23:54:00.002+10:00

When you compare Aussie wildlife to the rest of the world

New Moon

2010-04-12T16:19:00.007+10:00

The second book for the Twilight saga begins with Bella's 18th birthday. She mopes about how her turning 18 will mean she is one year older than Edward when he was turned. She seems to forget the bit about how he has also been around for one hundred plus years since his 17th birthday. This angst paints the backdrop for the entire book unfortunately.

Edwards’s sister Alice plans a surprise party for Bella, despite her insisting she not. As usual disaster strikes for poor Bella. She gets... Wait for it... A paper cut from the wrapping paper on one of her gifts.

Being in a room full of vampires makes this a perilous time, with Jasper (Alice's partner) fighting (and loosing) his urges to eat Bella at the sight and smell of her blood. Edward oh so smoothly throws his beloved out of the way of Jasper only to have her crash through a glass side table, causing more bloodshed.
After this rather colourful birthday party, Edward and the Cullen's fail to show up at school. This has Bella worried until she finds Edward waiting for her at home that afternoon.

Here is where the source of the pity party starts. Edward breaks up with Bella using the excuse that his family must leave due to the towns folk being suspicious of Carlisle’s lack of aging.

Bella gracefully runs off into the forest in her despair and promptly gets herself lost. She almost dies but is found just in time yadda yadda.
Right now you’re remembering how I said I liked the books in my last post right. Well I do, but that doesn’t mean I don’t think some of it is silly or painful. I can say that this book really was the low point of all four of the books. Hence why I’m feeling the need to retell the story, unlike the last review. It’s all padding people :)

In order to heal her hurt and pain Bella befriends Jacob. The poor sap falls for her. The best way to describe how I feel about the relationships with Bella and her boys in this book was best said on cracked.com

This novel thus teaches two important lessons to young girls everywhere:
1) If a guy dumps you and says he doesn't love you anymore, he doesn't mean it. All you have to do is beg and destroy your life to prove that you really love him, and he'll come right back and love you even more!
2) It is perfectly cool to string along innocent but decent guys who are crushing on you and then dump them immediately as soon as your ex-boyfriend reappears, and totally normal if said ex-boyfriend forbids you from seeing your old friend. After all, your love for your ex must be far stronger, because he makes you feel 'alive' and 'dangerous' since he's always on the verge of killing you. And stalking you. We can't really mention that enough.

This book really is all kinds of messed up. It is basically a module for setting up the next book. New Moon creates a deep and meaningful relationship between Bella and Jacob. More pain and thus more love between Bella and Edward. And last but not least a healthy hatred between the two guys in Bella’s life, therefore making her life more difficult.

Oh and it sets up the Italian vampire mafia part of the story The Volturi. They keep the vampires in check and make sure they don’t expose themselves to the human population.

Oh and did I mention that Jacob is a werewolf?

All in all this book was the lowlight of the series. I read it in 2 days just to get it over and done with.

Twilight... The first in a string of book reviews.

2010-04-12T12:53:00.008+10:00

First thing is first... Yes I know I caved and I actually read the book. I tried to withstand the hype and finally 3 months after the first movie came out on DVD I did pick up the book and read it. Please note that was about 6 months after I purchased the book where it lived under my couch for that time.

I went into reading this book totally sceptical of the story and had basically decided I wouldn’t like it even before reading the first page. I had seen the DVD and thought "Ho hum, sappy teen romance" it really had no effect on me at all. This was despite our sous chef's total insistence that the movie was so romantic it would make me wet myself.

For the record I'm the kind of person who fights buying into popular culture. I have my own taste and I don’t like to be influenced by the general population. I don’t watch crap like Gossip girl just because my work mates talk about it in the smoko corner. In other words, the more other people like something, the less I tend to.

But... And this is the biggest of all big BUT's
I liked it
*cringe*
I can’t believe I actually just typed that, but there it is, set in stone for all to read.

This is the point where I could go on to give you a detailed reliving of the whole book through my eyes, but really you can Google it, I'm far too lazy to write what has already been written a thousand times over.

I will say, although I enjoyed the story (well except for the idea of Edward Cullen watching Bella sleep without her knowledge... CREEPY) I found that it was not as well written as I would have liked it to be.
I know it is aimed at the teens and 20-somethings but I like to think we are smarter and more literate than the author may (or may not have) thought we are.
The book is VERY repetitive. I swear there are small paragraphs that are just copied and pasted once in each chapter after they fall in love.
The author also seems to have favourite words. Chagrined for one, I never even knew that word existed till I read this book. You will find this word used through all four books, but it is less and less as the saga continues on.
To make my point very short... This is very obviously the writer’s first book. And you can tell she was not a practicing writer to begin with.
On the other hand, I guess it gives hope to aspiring writers that if Stephenie Meyer can get published and world famous then maybe there is a chance for all of us.

Maybe it's me...

2010-04-02T20:20:00.003+11:00

Firstly, I will admit my grammar and spelling isn't always up to par. But I'm noticing that in books I have read lately there are little errors that clearly got overlooked in the editing process.
Most books only have one, but one of the many books I have read lately had at least 3 in the whole book.
I know, I know it sounds petty but it really does irritate the crap out of me.
EG, "I placed the lighted candle carefully at Nyx's feet"
Does that sound right to anyone else? Surely that is some grammatical error that was missed in the editing process? And its only page 55 of the book, what else might I find hiding in there.

It's not to say that I'm not enjoying the books I read. But in years of reading I don't recall seeing errors, be they major or minor to this extent before. I am now reading my 15th book for the year and it seems to be a trend in books written since 2005, and only American authors (Surprisingly no errors in the book translated from Russian)

I also notice that some authors find a word they like and use it over and over again. Usually only in one book, but the last book and the one I am on to now have carried the excessive use of the word "ginomic"over two novels. Hopefully it fades out in the next one.

Edited to add... I also developed an unhealthy hatred for the word "glowered" after reading Twilight. Just another example of an author needing to use a thesaurus.

So....

2010-03-31T17:36:00.001+11:00

Now we can disregard the last post, as I did spend more time than I had planned trying to nut out how to make the templates I wanted to work (never mind that my house it still an irrefutable mess.)

So I have a spiffy new do here on the web.

Although I really must ask, what are widgets and why when I am asked if I want to delete them do I choose to hoard them instead?
Do they matter? Should I hoard them? And most importantly shouldn't I remember what they are since I'm sure my mother explained them to me once upon a time?

Just to clarify...

2010-03-31T17:05:00.001+11:00

No I am not turning into one of the "Emo" crowd.

I wanted to change my blog template before attempting to actually start posting again. To my utter surprise this wasn't as easy as I thought it would be. Everything I liked decided it would only have the base colour show up and not the cool graphics that I wanted.
So this one was the only one I liked that would work.

So there you have it, a thrilling tale of failure and conquest (kind of)

testing

2010-03-31T16:41:00.000+11:00

Testing

My jewelry...

2008-04-23T10:43:00.002+10:00

The pic really doesnt do it justice... I just cant find the better pic I took :/

Awwwww

2008-04-18T19:35:00.003+10:00

Puppy with his new collar on...

The boys suits

2008-04-08T12:33:00.002+10:00

The dress!

2008-04-03T20:13:00.003+11:00

I think its debatable as to whether or not the model in the pic gives the dress any sense of justice, but you will have to wait to see it on the ever so wonderful me :P

Pictures of things so far....

2008-04-03T20:04:00.003+11:00

Just for a start:

Bonbonerie

Invites

Bridesmaids jewelry

New start

2008-04-02T11:18:00.003+11:00

Well since having not written in here for eons I feel somewhat inspired to write here even if its just to keep wedding plans and all on track!

Official countdown... 7 weeks to go

What has been done so far...

Reception and food - Booked!

Ceremony - Booked!

Celebrant - Booked!

Wedding dress - Ordered!

Bridesmaids - Mostly done... just need shoes for one of them

Bonbonerie - Mostly done... Mark ate the last of the chocolates though so will need to order more closer to the date! Cant blame him though... they are decent chocolates and he did think I had finished hehehe

Invites - Made and sent! One was missing in the post so am going to chase that up today

Flowers - Ordered!

Rings - Ordered!

Still to do:

Cake - eeeek I keep forgetting about that one

The guys - I have warned the groom to be and his best men that they will be going naked if they don't hop to it an get suits! Luckily they are going out to organise it on Saturday!!!!!!

Vows - Haven't even looked at them since meeting the celebrant... really should get onto that.

That's all for now

Here piggy piggy...

2007-05-27T10:29:00.000+10:00

Now this is one big arse pig!!!!!

Boy kills giant pig

My pink hair!

2007-05-19T12:20:00.001+10:00

Not a super pic as I just used my phone for it, but you can see my pink hair and my pink middle finger from where I managed to poke a hole in my glove with my nail :)

The secret.... Chaser's Style

2007-05-18T10:19:00.000+10:00

This is too funny....
The Chaser's war on The Secret

Oh and can I ask why the fuck blogger TODAY has a message saying it now auto saves, but YESTERDAY I lost a frigging massive post on the new child restraint laws?!?!?!?! Fuck blogger! I'm actually now really miffed because of that!

The no "poo" update

2007-05-15T17:18:00.000+10:00

Yes I have been slack with my postings yet again. But I did move house so I have a valid excuse!

From Kath and Mum's comments on the last post I thought I would update on my no shampooing endevour.

Well I still have NOT shampooed my hair. Have lost count how long its been though. And no Mum my hair is not a greasy hideous mess :P
I have discovered the wonders of bicarb soda. I only do it once a week but it seems to do the trick. My hair is actually quite fluffy and soft surprisingly enough.

Oh and my red bits on my hair did go pink and now they are a hideous orange colour. BUT I have ordered some Manic Panic HOT HOT Pink hair dye to fix this problem :P Although I guess that goes againt the whole no shampoo thing, putting dye chemicals in my hair and all. All I can say to that is if henna had pink dye then I might have gone down that route lol

When did we stop standing up for ourselves?

2007-04-29T10:14:00.000+10:00

There is this parenting forum I go to. I generally just stick around the "What do you think" section now since I'm now not such a freaked out new mum.

My problem is this...
Not just once, but several times this week there have been posts about work place bullying.
I do understand that this can be traumatic and if the boss is bullying a worker that it can be a very difficult situation to be in. But this last post I read was ridiculous!

The "bully" was your ordinary retail assistant, and the bullied one was a freakin manager!
The bullying was that this employee was swearing at the manager on numerous occasions.
This person was asking if the bullied party should go to a Dr and try to get stress leave while the issue is sorted out.
I am just flabbergasted. Why is this person even in management if they cant deal with an employee swearing at them?!?!?!?!
Just by the sounds of the post this person was just to gutless to pull their employee up on it so they took it to senior management.
Isn't that just like a teacher going to the principle when one of their students acts up?

All the other posts are pretty much as frustrating as the last, "Oh this person doesn't like me what do I do? Is it harassment when someone gives me an evil look as I walk past?"
Fucking twits, that's all I can say.

Oh and don't even get me started on how many people on this forums have started to use the word "incredulous" lately. Must make them soooo smart if they can substitute the word incredible in every post they make.

The "No poo" (shampoo that is) phenomenon

2007-04-27T20:53:00.000+10:00

Whats your first thought when you think of someone who doesn't shampoo their hair?
Tree hugging hippy scum? Or just plain EEEEEEEEWWWWWW?

Well I have been seeing this topic pop up quite a bit around the Internet of late. Or maybe i'm just stumbling into weird places that everyone else has the good sense to avoid.

The idea is that you don't shampoo your hair and by 6-8 weeks your hair will have restored its natural balance and you will have glorious natural chemical free hair. Apparently shampooing strips your hair of its natural oils therefore causing your hair to go a bit hyper in making more. Sounds plausible enough to me.

Me being the chemical-phobe that I am quite likes the idea of not using chemicals. I figure I use very few chemicals around the house so why the hell am I using numerous products in our bathroom that have ingredients with every letter of the alphabet in them on my own skin?

I started by buying some natural soaps which I am quite fond of, including a shampoo bar. But then I got my hair done. Top is dark brown and the under half of my hair was made bright red.
Well the red was washing out horribly every time I washed it so last week I decided to stop just to avoid anymore colour run.

I figure since I'm a stay at home mum I can get away with trying this little experiment out. I mean who am I really going to offend with my greasy as chips locks other than Lil Mr Mr & Mr M?

So this is week one down. The idea is to "water only wash" my hair for as long as I can stand it, BUT if the need arises ONLY use natural/non toxic ingredients to wash my hair with.
And yes my hair is skanky right now, its is currently constantly tied up. BUT not one person has commented so either they are being overly polite or they haven't noticed yet... we will soon see.

My poodle says "baaaahhhhhh"

2007-04-26T22:34:00.000+10:00

This is a crack up!!!!

Japanese fooled in poodle scam

Sure I might feel a bit sorry for the people who were scammed but hell if you don't know a dog from a sheep when you are buying one you your an idiot!

I don't need this bit... CHOP!

2007-04-25T09:05:00.000+10:00

What on earth causes a man to chop off his own penis in public?
Man cuts off penis in resteraunt!

Hold on a minute.....

2007-04-09T10:05:00.000+10:00

Didn't the naughty Ralph Feinnes bonking flight attendant say she WASN'T a prostitute in the last article they had in the age?

Sacked hostess reveals prostitution secrets

HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!

2007-04-07T21:55:00.000+10:00

Destruction of my lounge room....

2007-04-02T16:04:00.000+10:00

From right to left this is the view of my lounge room as of this moment...

And here be the great destructive monster that has sprawled his toys and 1/2 a pack of rice (he was "cooking") over my lounge room, all tucked in for a nap.

Oh and just for the record I didn't tuck him in, he did it all on his own. I was busy doing some study and next thing I know the lil boy has tucked himself up and gone to sleep.

Emailcash.com.au

2007-03-31T17:49:00.000+10:00

How thrilling, I just made $1 on email cash.
I spent 10 mins doing a survey just to make $1.
You know why I did this... because I joined email cash about 4 years ago and you need to have $30 cash to get a cheque sent to you.
You know how much I have made from email cash in the 4 years I've been a member (inc. the $1)
$22.88
I'm sooooo close now... Only 2 more years and I should be able to get my $30 check from them!

And you know what I really will keep going till I get that $30 dammit coz I really believe I deserve it just for signing up in the first place!

Luring in the innocent

2007-03-28T09:56:00.000+10:00

Fucking Scientologists! Need I say more?
Not enough that they try and lure people off the street now they are luring in teens by staging a "Human right forum" which was more of a ploy to let them know about Scientology.
Makes me sick! It really truly does!

Ohhhh shock horror...

2007-03-27T08:06:00.000+10:00

Anthony Callea has officially come out as being gay.

Wooooppp deeeeee fuck! Is there anyone who serioulsy thought the guy was straight?

Good on him for comming out and all but bring on some real news dammit! This is hardly shocking!

Boobs...

2007-03-26T16:38:00.000+10:00

Is all I can say when I see the recent pics of Paris Hilton on X17online (which means I now have to publicly admit I do look at this trashy site from time to time *insert embarrassed smiley here*)

How plastic does she look in the second shot down?!?!

I really hope she wasn't hoping they would look natural to the public eye considering we have all seen her rather famous nocturnal activities video!

PS... yes I'm a bad bad girl for neglecting my blog, but I haven't been getting into the new much this last couple of weeks since Mr Mr wont watch ANYTHING but Thomas the gay engine and Telli-Turds at the moment *insert unimpressed smiley here* hehehe

One fine looking cat!

2007-03-16T10:01:00.000+11:00

Neofelis diardi: New species of clouded leopard found in Indonesia
Photo: Reuters

Stupidity by the bucket load

2007-03-15T15:51:00.000+11:00

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/03/14/1173722560437.html?from=top5

Did this woman seriously think she would be employable in the airline industry after she came out saying she slept with a customer (wheather they be famous or not) in a toilet cubical while she was working?!?!?!

Maybe she just thought that sleeping with a celeb would give her millions (as opposed to the $120K that she is still yet to receive for her story)

Blech, stupidity is the only word I can think of here.

2007-03-08T21:13:00.000+11:00

Am I the only one who thinks this little piggy is kinda cute if you look at it long enough?

Conservapedia

2007-03-05T08:29:00.000+11:00

I'm not terribly trusting of everything in Wikipedia, due to the fact that the site is open to be edited freely. But this certainly isn't the alternative I would have thought to look for if I had not read about it in the The Age this morning:
Conservapedia

Just looking at the first article I could find on the site, I have found in the first para solid evidence that this site is probably even more unreliable than good old Wiki.

This para is trying to convince me that abortion will cause breast cancer. Quote...
The vast majority of scientific studies have shown that abortion causes an increase in breast cancer, including 16 out of 17 statistically significant studies. Studies showing that abortion increases breast cancer predate the political controversy.

That line is all good and well, but lets read on to the the second half of the para...

It is undisputed that having a baby protects against breast cancer, and thus early termination of pregnancy must increase the risk of cancer for the mother compared to carrying that same pregnancy to birth. Yet the abortion industry conceals this increased risk, just as the tobacco industry concealed its cancer risk for decades.

Now this is the part of their opening para that has destroyed their credibility for me. Okay maybe I'm looking into the wording too much but please note my highlighting of the word "must". One only needs to do some reading about critical thinking and analysis of arguments to see that this is an argument with no real validity just due to the use of that one word.
When someone is saying something must they generally don't have any concrete evidence to back this up. And reading on they don't present me with any concrete evidence!
Then there is their comparison of the abortion industry being comparable to the tobacco industry in their concealment of this medical "fact" that they are talking about.
Now I'm not about to start any kind of debate on abortion, its a subject I prefer to leave alone, but I have not seen this 'fact' covered up. I have read about the possibility of an increased risk of breast cancer in these cases and have also seen that its not concrete fact, only possible. But its just a great example of how skewed the site is and will be on certain topics.

Oh and just looking at their references for this particular piece I found one entitled "Self-checks 'useless' in breast cancer fight" WTF?!?! I am so not going to start on that one.
I'm just going to stop here or I may never stop poking holes in this site. I seriously hope that the predictions of the site creator are wrong and that this site will not form a valid and standard point of reference for American schools in the future. No offence intended but do American children really need this craziness in their minds?

Rental rebellion

2007-02-27T08:39:00.000+11:00

As many Aussies would know the rental market in some areas is astounding at the moment. Rental bidding wars, some official some not official. People going in to sign their new lease papers only to find out another renter has been given the property even after said tenant was approved for the property.
I know that the rental vacancy is low but the tactics we are seeing in Melbourne are disgusting. I have friends (lovely family with 2 kiddos and one in the oven, have been very good tenants the last 2 and a bit years in the same house) their landlord has kicked them out of their house so that the can renovate and get more money a week.
Yes their house was becoming a bargain at $230 for the 3 bedroom in a popular inner city suburb (well if you ask Mum 20 mins on the train isn't inner city though :D) but they were not even given the option to stay. They were not even offered a rental increase notice to stay in the house. Most likely because the landlord thinks they can get a whole lot more per week if they just paint and rent out again.
I have even seen evidence of this greed around where we live, this is a 90 min drive from Melbourne and a basically rural area mind you... The house 2 doors down was around $150 when we were looking to rent here. Now just to put things in perspective, the house we live in is 3 bedroom, as is this other house. Our kitchen is much nicer, lounge is larger and the house generally looks to be in better condition than the other house. We also have been paying $150. Our rental increase will be $160, that was the original price of this rental when we saw it so that's no shock to us. What IS shocking is that I now see the house 2 doors down asking for $175 a week in rent!
While I know there are interest rate rises and things that the actual home owner has to contend with and that many of them have losses on rental properties, that jump in price for a rural area property is just greedy. I foresee that house being on the rental market for quite some time!

So with the pile of ranting over with, it would seem that Victoria has already had enough of these antics and is going to do something about. Rental war agents face bans if they do not adhere to the new guidelines set out by Real Estate Institute of Victoria stating that:

■That once a tenant has been told their application is successful, no counter-offer can be accepted.

■Not to use a range of prices when advertising.

■To ensure the initial advertised price is realistic.

■To not initiate a bidding process for a rental property.

Maybe by putting these guidelines in place the price of an average 3 bedroom house for rent wont cost the same as a mortgage. And maybe it would mean that my friends could find a house for their growing family without having the price of it go up before they have even seen it.

Rant over!

The love boom

2007-02-13T21:48:00.000+11:00

Now who wouldn't want this for valentines day?

I'm sure Mr M would most appreciate being shaken awake to go to work rather than the usual gentle "Hun its time to get up there is a coffee in the kitchen for you" that he normally receives.

And gee it would make a nice change to wake up to this rather than my gorgeous (albeit mischievous) toddler waving at me and pulling the doona off me.

:D

And if the boom doesnt do it for you maybe Clocky is more your style.

Toddler joy

2007-02-13T09:30:00.000+11:00

The top of my shopping list this week goes something like this....
500g bag of salt (I make my own playdoh don't actually use salt in food)
2kgs of SR flour
2kgs of white sugar
1kg of brown sugar
and lots of rice.

You might look at this and think I do a lot of baking... Fact is, while I do cook every day, I need to replace these items due to Mr Mr taking these things out of my cupboards in the morning and playing with them. The other morning for instance I woke up only to step in a giant mound of brown sugar next to my bed. This morning I woke up to find salt all through Mr Mr's hair, all over his table and all over (and inside) his fisher price stride n ride toy.

I guess some people might think it nice to wake up only to have to vacuum as soon as they are out of bed, but I'm not one of them!

Oh well Its just one of the many joys of toddlerdom I guess... joy for him that is :D

Pimp my puter Wednesday

2007-02-07T09:49:00.000+11:00

Well Mum has "Duck Friday" inspired by "Goat Friday" I believe, so I'm bringing you "Pimp my puter Wednesday"

Okay as you may have noticed by my post "THE keyboard" I am dreaming of upgrades for my PC. Nothing to do with how it runs, my PC is super the way it is. I just long for some prettier peripherals to make my computing experience all the more pleasant. That and who doesn't love new things with funky lights on them!

So I give you THE case! Just a dream for the moment as my current case is still pretty and is in perfect working order. And I definitely have better ways to spend my money (damn us needing food and such hehehe) so I plan to save my pennies (yes I actually have a jar I'm putting my silver coins into for these upgrades) and pimp out my puter piece by piece. The case will very likely be last due to my more pressing need for a more responsive mouse and less sticky keyboard.

I will welcome any suggestions on things I could waste my money on! And I hope someone is interested to see what item I pick for next week, not as thrilling as ducks and goats but its all I could think of for now :)

The lessons of shame

2007-02-07T08:16:00.000+11:00

Children shamed on unpaid school fees

Now this pisses me off. Its one thing if they were high school students getting this treatment (they are angsty little bastards anyway) but these are primary school students!
I don't think there are many primary school kids who actually realise the relevance of fees, nor would they simply go home and tell mum and dad to pay them. With this treatment they would go home crying to mum and dad at how they were humiliated in front of the whole class and board from not being allowed to do anything all day long. Its just cruel!
I STILL remember being told by one teacher (I'm pretty sure it was in 1st grade) that if I got nits I would have to have my gorgeous long hair shaved off! Right in front of the whole class! This kind of shit scars little kiddies for life.
From what I understand about the curriculum for becoming a primary school teacher you need to know at least something on childhood and developmental psychology. I have a good friend who is studying towards her dip. ed. in primary teaching and there is tons of psych stuff in there.
Obviously these teachers missed or failed that bit of the course or they wouldn't have done this to small children!
Its just great to know what idiots we have to shape and mould the future of this nation isn't it.

THE keyboard

2007-02-06T11:10:00.000+11:00

In my many adventures of "window shopping" over the web I have come across the ultimate peripheral device for the PC...
Now as you guessed by the title its a keyboard, your probably thinking booooorrrring. But take a look at this:
My precious
now who wouldn't love to be able to change your keys at the click of a setting? Sure I might not need to write in Russian or Asian alphabets but I could definitely use it for better gaming and easier access to short cuts in photo shop.
I was planning on saving up for new spiffy gaming keyboard (the current one has been given one to many drinks of coffee by little Mr Mr) but I am now seriously thinking of waiting for the Optimus as its so versatile!

My poor neglected blog

2007-02-05T08:42:00.000+11:00

As quickly as my blog started I have already ignored it for 3 days...
I do have good reason though and I thought I should explain before anyone thinks I don't care.

I have neglected blog world for Plutarch, yes that's right, the fall of the Roman republic has become more important than blog world.

So if you do happen to stop by and there is nothing new here its is just because I have an exam in 2 weeks, then one on Australian literature to 1950 the week after. But if I find anything insightful that I feel the world has to know about in my studies Ill be sure to fill everyone in hehehe

In the mean time you can tell me your thoughts on this...
http://blogs.smh.com.au/lifestyle/samandthecity/
Miss "I ripped off sex and the city" She annoys me thoroughly and yet she has hundreds of people replying to her. Am I the only one who hates this woman?

Proving his "diversity"

2007-02-01T07:36:00.000+11:00

In my morning trawl of the online news, I came across this....

Little Harry Potter very obviously trying to show the world what a big man he is!
I know that between movies 2 and 3 of the saga there was some talk of Radcliff dropping out of the filming of the Harry Potter movies due to him not wanting to be forever known as the one character, but this is a bit tacky.

His rep has been quoted as saying "Daniel does not want to step away from Harry Potter but he does want to show he is a rounded actor capable of … diverse roles."
Diverse is right! From little boy wonder to on stage porn star. That certainly is diverse. I wonder who on earth gave him permission to do this though. He is still only 17, so I assumed his parents would have to have some say in his choice of role for the time being. Are they actually okay with this??

Also there is the issue of his fan site. There have been a couple of quotes used from their forums, very obviously written by very young girls. For instance "When I saw it I couldn't breathe for a moment. I was shocked. But [the] pictures are very cool and very good. I like it ... They're awesome!" He is corrupting young girls all over the world!!! Introducing sexuality to girls who probably hadn't given it a terribly large amount of thought until they saw "Harry Potter" with a half naked girl standing in front of him. One of the promo pics has a naked girl on top of him from what I gather. Is that what we want little girls to think of when they see the next 3 Harry Potter films??
This email from a concerned parent pretty much sums up how I would feel if I saw my 9 year old looking up Radcliff's new project
"We as parents feel Daniel should not appear nude. Our nine-year-old son looks up to him as a role model. We are very disappointed and will avoid the future movies he makes,"
I just think its highly inappropriate, considering his position in the lime light at the moment, to jump onto a stage and do numerous sex scenes in a controversial play just to prove his worth as an actor.

Ill be very curious to see what "diverse" acting jobs come out of this move.

I think they're just doing it wrong...

2007-01-31T22:47:00.000+11:00

According the Dr Oz (on the Oprah show) we only burn about 25 calories during sex. He only touched on this very briefly but quite frankly I was shocked. I just wondered where the heck he could get such a small figure from.

Well according to Indiadiets.com I (its asks for weight, which I'm soooooo not disclosing here!) would only burn a measly 61 calories during 30 minutes of sex. This astounds me to be honest. It also made me think that Dr Oz is implying the average Jo only spends about 10 mins having sex. Which to me is mind boggling! If its under 20 mins its not worth showing up for!

I what i really want to know is how they measured this... Did they include position changes in their calculations? Surely those who bother to pick up a copy of the Karma Sutra would be burning more calories during their routine romps. I noticed only one option for sex in the calorie counter - moderate. What about the lazy people who are having less than "moderate" sex, is it possible to be burning more calories blinking their eyes rather than having sex?

I personally believe more research needs to be done on this topic. As a person trying to loose some excess weight I'm quite disappointed to know that my very active sex life wont do a thing to help me loose it!
Sigh, I guess Ill just go clean the house (30 mins will burn 1443 cals) Not nearly as much fun!

Where's the beef?

2007-01-31T22:19:00.000+11:00

Well I have the answer to that...
In my freezer. 3 kg slab of the stuff straight from the abattoir!
Why do I have this mass of beef? Because Mother in law gifted it to us. Even though we very rarely eat beef.
By no means am I ungrateful for this gift of frozen flesh. In fact I decided to defrost it today as I could use the room in my already overstocked freezer. Little did I know how time consuming defrosting and hacking it would be.
The slab spent from 10am till 4pm defrosting. Then took me 45 mins to hack into manageable bits. I guess it doesn't sound so bad, until I add in the rampaging toddler who just happened to hurt himself 4 times while I was wrist deep in cow meat! Try explaining to a crying 2 year old that "Mummy cant pick you up right now because her hands are covered in stinky cows blood" Needless to say he wasn't very understanding.

Once the meat was done I roasted some, it was still 1/2 raw, even though I cooked it for double the time it said to. And the other 2 kgs are chopped into cubes until tomorrow when i decide what to do with them.

You might be wondering the point of this post...
I guess I felt the need to put it out there my utter disgust at the smell, feel and overall experience of chopping up this fine hunk of meat. Especially since I ended up having nutri grain for dinner since I cant bare even slightly rare meat. And Mr Mr had ravioli (yes my child eats better than I do) So all that effort was for naught.
I think Ill stick to beef stir frys in future, that stuff thats already chopped and ready to throw in the pan!

The secret of the cake

2007-01-30T22:28:00.000+11:00

For Kathy who wondered how I made such an amazing cake for Mr Mr's birthday here it is... the ultra cool 3D wilton ducky tin:
http://www.cakesnthings.com/pdfs/2105-20943-DRubberDucky.pdf

I probably could have bought a cool cake for the price I paid for this tin + ingredients and the day it took to make it. But it wouldnt have had the love, and I wouldnt have taken as much joy in loping off its head!

And coffee of course!

2007-01-30T22:16:00.000+11:00

Somewhere to sit...

2007-01-30T22:15:00.000+11:00

To aid the feng shui...

2007-01-30T21:12:00.000+11:00

As suggested here is a fountain for my little corner of the web...

Not Avatar Brieflets ;)

2007-01-30T20:08:00.000+11:00

At the suggestion of Timt I have a blog.

Looks like a nice enough blog... spacious... lacking any form of content... but its a blog all the same.