A blode is a Blog Ode - no poetic writing needed.
Here's to you Calvin, for your spirit, creativity and endurance.
Reading your books, i sometimes feel for Susie - annoying girl, with super ADHD annoying boy neighbour - which i never had.
Othertimes, i relate to your parents - stunningly realistic and even at times optimistic when faced with the snowmen we all wish we could have created.
Rosalie becomes an idol, a woman with such strength of character she comes back for more, knowing that your antics are well paid.
I have never wondered why you are an only child.
Congratulations to your creator for never selling out!
Tuesday, 30 October 2007
Sunday, 28 October 2007
The more things change, the more they stay the same
I'm going through a particularly poor patch at the moment, so dire in fact, that i have listed 9 of my 11 Calvin and Hobbes books on Trademe :( (for those who dont know, Trademe, is NZ version of ebay - we can get ebay, but we like the local version better)
I've been collecting and reading them since 1994 when i acquired my first few from the University of Canterbury book shop - basically i've done a budget, and it looks like i currently wont be able to meet my next car payment - ooohhh harsh, yes I know i have over financed myself, and it is all my own fault, but i just need an extra $100/$200 to get through. And then there is Xmas to contend with! arg! I really want to buy my daughter a bike, but it will just have to see. I'll probably get a commission payout next month - although after tax, it's about half of Gross! always sounds better than reality! still better than nothing!
my flatmate is still driving me nuts - yesterday her brat put his crazy frog on at 7:30 in the morning - it was fucking Saturday!!! She was in the shower, and when i mentioned it to her today her reply was "I didn't even notice". it is taking immense strength of character (or possibly basic laziness) not to ransack the room and destroy said cd. The least she should have apologised, thank god he's only here half the time. Only have till March, then we will be moving - although that's something else I'm going to have to find funds for.
it would be luverly to find a man, and have him mow lawns, do masculine things and then beg me to live with him in March - then i can be that woman with her kid! I don't necessarily want his money, just an opportunity. please?
I've been collecting and reading them since 1994 when i acquired my first few from the University of Canterbury book shop - basically i've done a budget, and it looks like i currently wont be able to meet my next car payment - ooohhh harsh, yes I know i have over financed myself, and it is all my own fault, but i just need an extra $100/$200 to get through. And then there is Xmas to contend with! arg! I really want to buy my daughter a bike, but it will just have to see. I'll probably get a commission payout next month - although after tax, it's about half of Gross! always sounds better than reality! still better than nothing!
my flatmate is still driving me nuts - yesterday her brat put his crazy frog on at 7:30 in the morning - it was fucking Saturday!!! She was in the shower, and when i mentioned it to her today her reply was "I didn't even notice". it is taking immense strength of character (or possibly basic laziness) not to ransack the room and destroy said cd. The least she should have apologised, thank god he's only here half the time. Only have till March, then we will be moving - although that's something else I'm going to have to find funds for.
it would be luverly to find a man, and have him mow lawns, do masculine things and then beg me to live with him in March - then i can be that woman with her kid! I don't necessarily want his money, just an opportunity. please?
Saturday, 27 October 2007
go now!!!!!!!
your 'must have for Spring' would have to be "Meet The Feebles" available from the Warehouse - and it should be in most stores, given i spied it in Oamaru first, before my daughter read it in their flier - so go on!!! get your copy now!!
I'm considering upgrading my version, but having Peter Von Jackson is just too cool!
I've been leading a boy on... and i know it's wrong, but it is fun and easy. Tomorrow however, i shall have to duck, or lie. then again i suppose both options would be fibbing, but there is no way he is going to be coming over here to administer a brazilian then shag me!! not at 10:30 in the morning! I know i'm starting to get desperate, but a chubby 25year old isn't the way, not that i am any goddess picture at the moment.
I loathe wanting a man, but i do right now. I keep hoping it's a phase that will pass, alas it is not and at the same time I don't want to get into something stupid - again - just to cure the urges.
I'm considering upgrading my version, but having Peter Von Jackson is just too cool!
I've been leading a boy on... and i know it's wrong, but it is fun and easy. Tomorrow however, i shall have to duck, or lie. then again i suppose both options would be fibbing, but there is no way he is going to be coming over here to administer a brazilian then shag me!! not at 10:30 in the morning! I know i'm starting to get desperate, but a chubby 25year old isn't the way, not that i am any goddess picture at the moment.
I loathe wanting a man, but i do right now. I keep hoping it's a phase that will pass, alas it is not and at the same time I don't want to get into something stupid - again - just to cure the urges.
Thursday, 25 October 2007
Started in school
I don't play well with others. It's not that i'm disruptive or aggressive or get into fights; I just like to be by myself and I have the ability to function well alone. Hence, my flatmate and her kid are driving me MAD!!!
tonight there was the sound of the annoying Frog - stupid music, but at a high volume - bloody intolerable! she made the attempt to close the lounge door so i wouldn't be bothered too much, but on and on it went and then there was the jumping around etc. loud, obnoxious and here.
there are some people who should never own a gun, and I am probably one of them - my tolerance is low, and i am bottling well.
On the plus side this is all giving me opportunity to practice my poker face.
tonight there was the sound of the annoying Frog - stupid music, but at a high volume - bloody intolerable! she made the attempt to close the lounge door so i wouldn't be bothered too much, but on and on it went and then there was the jumping around etc. loud, obnoxious and here.
there are some people who should never own a gun, and I am probably one of them - my tolerance is low, and i am bottling well.
On the plus side this is all giving me opportunity to practice my poker face.
the rise and fall
fickle really, but since the final cancelling of my friend (well I think he's a friend - even if he doesn't reply to emails or messages - sob) Caleb's LJ - for the 3rd? time, I am finding my friends page on LJ to be particularly boring! Instead of having a selection of differing friends posting their happenings, all i can read is Londoner in search of job, NZ/American student geeking and wellingtonians looking for flatmates.
The controversy created by Dirtyfilthy was interesting, and annoying and drew out the trolls from their bridges of suburbia - gave up I think! come on!! get hard... If i could think as annoyingly as DF, I'd recreate and see how many personia can form. I generally can think this creatively, but only when encouraged by likeminded people - and sadly I haven't found them here in Wellington... yet - but I haven't been out looking either.
in other news I have decided that if the answer isn't "Hell YES!!" then it is "no". Not giving in to easy temptation - be strong!
The controversy created by Dirtyfilthy was interesting, and annoying and drew out the trolls from their bridges of suburbia - gave up I think! come on!! get hard... If i could think as annoyingly as DF, I'd recreate and see how many personia can form. I generally can think this creatively, but only when encouraged by likeminded people - and sadly I haven't found them here in Wellington... yet - but I haven't been out looking either.
in other news I have decided that if the answer isn't "Hell YES!!" then it is "no". Not giving in to easy temptation - be strong!
Tuesday, 23 October 2007
art-high
so i have an idea for an experimental art experience/experiment.
basically 4 rooms, 12 or 20 volunteers - probably 12 would be best. the people would be of an artistic temperament - visual art, writers & performance. In each room, the artists will be plied with different substance. One would be grass, one barbiturates, one sugar & caffeine, the last will endure sleep dep with a ticking clock and other annoying features.
After a specified amount of time their results will be displayed as an exhibition. I would call it "Name that Stimulant".
I just need to work on a consent form, a location, and how to get the hard drugs. I would like to administer all drugs via chocolate brownies and need to work out feasibility of that. also need to suss out the length of time for the experiment to take.
So far (after talking to 2 people) i have one volunteer.
basically 4 rooms, 12 or 20 volunteers - probably 12 would be best. the people would be of an artistic temperament - visual art, writers & performance. In each room, the artists will be plied with different substance. One would be grass, one barbiturates, one sugar & caffeine, the last will endure sleep dep with a ticking clock and other annoying features.
After a specified amount of time their results will be displayed as an exhibition. I would call it "Name that Stimulant".
I just need to work on a consent form, a location, and how to get the hard drugs. I would like to administer all drugs via chocolate brownies and need to work out feasibility of that. also need to suss out the length of time for the experiment to take.
So far (after talking to 2 people) i have one volunteer.
Monday, 22 October 2007
goodness
Sooooo good to be back in Wellington!
Man, i would love a shag though! instead, i have been grocery shopping, and filled my car with petrol and am now eating yummy coupland Super choc-chip Bites! mmmmm bought specially from chch :) I had one on the plane too - was just like old times when Air NZ used to hand out biscuits.
I had such a great holiday! but here is not the place to blab about it.
Man, i would love a shag though! instead, i have been grocery shopping, and filled my car with petrol and am now eating yummy coupland Super choc-chip Bites! mmmmm bought specially from chch :) I had one on the plane too - was just like old times when Air NZ used to hand out biscuits.
I had such a great holiday! but here is not the place to blab about it.
Friday, 19 October 2007
The Man Quest
are there still men out there?
One of my friends pointed out to me, that i refer to males as 'boys' - but really that is what they are. Boys i understand - although i'm no longer sure what would categorise a male to be a 'man'. Infact when i mentioned this to another girlfriend of mine, she too was stumped to mention any of our male friends as men. Perhaps it is this lack of respect, that is truely holding me back from finding someone worthy. My view is that not only does my man/boy friend have to be worthy, but he also needs to be able to cope with me, have a strong enough character to deal with me. I know i have issues, but most are hidden, and only the strong and/or persistent have the means to find them, let alone actually make me deal with them. Other than that - I'd make a great wife/girlfriend/lover, i like to think that i am fairly low maintenance, but i guess that is mostly surface stuff.
Talking to girls about boys at the wedding was an interesting venture (and not something i recommend to do everyday). one topic in particular started on the subject of swallowing. All the girls in the room exclaimed how disgusting it was blah blah... (I quietly - due to being sober - mentioned 'nothing a shot of whisky wouldn't fix') then one girl who has been married for a few years said "you won't have to do that anymore" to the bride. I was left thinking that perhaps this was one of the contributing factors to the demise of my marriage ... our sex life got freakier and more inventive, rather than ending with me lying back and thinking of england.
enlightening? perhaps, I now know a little bit more about me, and a little more on them. good to know that different doesn't mean better.
One of my friends pointed out to me, that i refer to males as 'boys' - but really that is what they are. Boys i understand - although i'm no longer sure what would categorise a male to be a 'man'. Infact when i mentioned this to another girlfriend of mine, she too was stumped to mention any of our male friends as men. Perhaps it is this lack of respect, that is truely holding me back from finding someone worthy. My view is that not only does my man/boy friend have to be worthy, but he also needs to be able to cope with me, have a strong enough character to deal with me. I know i have issues, but most are hidden, and only the strong and/or persistent have the means to find them, let alone actually make me deal with them. Other than that - I'd make a great wife/girlfriend/lover, i like to think that i am fairly low maintenance, but i guess that is mostly surface stuff.
Talking to girls about boys at the wedding was an interesting venture (and not something i recommend to do everyday). one topic in particular started on the subject of swallowing. All the girls in the room exclaimed how disgusting it was blah blah... (I quietly - due to being sober - mentioned 'nothing a shot of whisky wouldn't fix') then one girl who has been married for a few years said "you won't have to do that anymore" to the bride. I was left thinking that perhaps this was one of the contributing factors to the demise of my marriage ... our sex life got freakier and more inventive, rather than ending with me lying back and thinking of england.
enlightening? perhaps, I now know a little bit more about me, and a little more on them. good to know that different doesn't mean better.
Monday, 15 October 2007
ye Gods!
Patience is something i generally have, although as i get older it is becoming harder to hang on to. Speaking of getting older: I finally found a grey hair on Sat - pretty exciting, infact i pulled t out and put it in my bag to keep :) I'm on track for average really at 31 nearly 32 I get my first sign of aging that isn't related to alcohol.
I am also feeling a little freaked by this up and coming birthday, i just dont really like even years, it's a radioactive thing as I remember what i was doing in my half life, and when i start to realise that half my life ago i started doing things i'm still doing now, it's a bit freaky - like driving. I've had my lisense for half my life. I was also having more sex then than now - perhaps this is the one that sucks the most.
I realised however - and this is a new one for me - that i'm just not in a place in my life where i can do another one night stand, or meaningless sexual encounter. VERY strange feeling that one. But hey, you live you learn, you try new things.
Oh back to patience; I'm on dial up, but keep forgetting that there is no speed and having 3 windows open only slows things down. Also I am the family computer expert - scary, and my mother wants a website for her shop - oh ye gods! I really don't want to be doing this kind of thing. new mantra for the day: 'live, learn, try new things'. She keeps losing documents off her computer! What the hell will happen when I'm back in welly??
I spotted a new painting when I got here too - really intriguing abstract piece - not my mother or step dad at all! they normally have something a bit more tangeable like scenery or animals etc, but mum got it for the pattern - so she can copy it into her craft - now it makes sense. It didn't cost her much, and i had much delight turning it round before finally settling on which way up I think it should go - hehehehe. there is no signature to confirm which way up it goes. I think Mum is going to bring it up to me at Xmas :)
There is more to come on earlier adventures, but it may wait for my return to the Cap.
I am also feeling a little freaked by this up and coming birthday, i just dont really like even years, it's a radioactive thing as I remember what i was doing in my half life, and when i start to realise that half my life ago i started doing things i'm still doing now, it's a bit freaky - like driving. I've had my lisense for half my life. I was also having more sex then than now - perhaps this is the one that sucks the most.
I realised however - and this is a new one for me - that i'm just not in a place in my life where i can do another one night stand, or meaningless sexual encounter. VERY strange feeling that one. But hey, you live you learn, you try new things.
Oh back to patience; I'm on dial up, but keep forgetting that there is no speed and having 3 windows open only slows things down. Also I am the family computer expert - scary, and my mother wants a website for her shop - oh ye gods! I really don't want to be doing this kind of thing. new mantra for the day: 'live, learn, try new things'. She keeps losing documents off her computer! What the hell will happen when I'm back in welly??
I spotted a new painting when I got here too - really intriguing abstract piece - not my mother or step dad at all! they normally have something a bit more tangeable like scenery or animals etc, but mum got it for the pattern - so she can copy it into her craft - now it makes sense. It didn't cost her much, and i had much delight turning it round before finally settling on which way up I think it should go - hehehehe. there is no signature to confirm which way up it goes. I think Mum is going to bring it up to me at Xmas :)
There is more to come on earlier adventures, but it may wait for my return to the Cap.
Sunday, 7 October 2007
Thai Satay shouldn't be on chips
so many little issues right now...
there is rugby on, and not in the middle of the night for once - which i'm sure that many boys will be lamenting from trying to do an all nighter and finally passing out at 7:35am this morning.
me though, well, I really just want to know the final score - actually not even that, i just want to know who won. so I've got free audio - which tells me squat due to having watched very little - if any- rugby for about 7 years.
The only reason I want to know who won, is because later today i plan to meet up with some boys (who do watch rugby & care at least a little) to play pool - again something i haven't participated in for over 12months, but don't care to count exactly how long in case I cry over the lack of social life - and I know the result will affect the mood in the pub, and i like to be prepared.
My daughter will be attending the pool-playing with me, as i don't really have any one to look after her, but it's in town, and I will be driving, so not drinking, and it's not like bars are smoke filled dives anymore - just dives. Still I've still got 8 years before i can leave her home alone!
Friends of mine - and they are people i consider real friends - think I need a boyfriend; apparently i have too much time on my hands and have been spending too much time on the net - not scouring the porn sites either - facebook, or FB for us who spend too much time there.
I have been officially single for 18months now, and given the last couple of relationships I have to have potentials vetoed by friends first. Intelligent people do Stupid Stupid things, for me it's boys. can't even call them men. So, I've been regarding some of my male friends who I would NEVER consider, and they have wives that aren't too unlike myself, and realise I should perhaps go after podgy, ugly, nerdy guys. and two out of three ain't bad. they just have to have a job and their own place of residence that isn't under a bridge.
I think I'm going to try this out next weekend at the wedding I'm attending down south. I'm VERY excited about my holiday that is coming up next week. Haven't quite worked out how to get to the airport yet... probably buses, always feel a bit apprehensive when it comes to catching planes like.
oh no! news just in - the boys won't be happy today. I bet the jerseys get blamed- hahahahaha!
me? I'm quite glad, there will be less chatter about the world cup at work now.
there is rugby on, and not in the middle of the night for once - which i'm sure that many boys will be lamenting from trying to do an all nighter and finally passing out at 7:35am this morning.
me though, well, I really just want to know the final score - actually not even that, i just want to know who won. so I've got free audio - which tells me squat due to having watched very little - if any- rugby for about 7 years.
The only reason I want to know who won, is because later today i plan to meet up with some boys (who do watch rugby & care at least a little) to play pool - again something i haven't participated in for over 12months, but don't care to count exactly how long in case I cry over the lack of social life - and I know the result will affect the mood in the pub, and i like to be prepared.
My daughter will be attending the pool-playing with me, as i don't really have any one to look after her, but it's in town, and I will be driving, so not drinking, and it's not like bars are smoke filled dives anymore - just dives. Still I've still got 8 years before i can leave her home alone!
Friends of mine - and they are people i consider real friends - think I need a boyfriend; apparently i have too much time on my hands and have been spending too much time on the net - not scouring the porn sites either - facebook, or FB for us who spend too much time there.
I have been officially single for 18months now, and given the last couple of relationships I have to have potentials vetoed by friends first. Intelligent people do Stupid Stupid things, for me it's boys. can't even call them men. So, I've been regarding some of my male friends who I would NEVER consider, and they have wives that aren't too unlike myself, and realise I should perhaps go after podgy, ugly, nerdy guys. and two out of three ain't bad. they just have to have a job and their own place of residence that isn't under a bridge.
I think I'm going to try this out next weekend at the wedding I'm attending down south. I'm VERY excited about my holiday that is coming up next week. Haven't quite worked out how to get to the airport yet... probably buses, always feel a bit apprehensive when it comes to catching planes like.
oh no! news just in - the boys won't be happy today. I bet the jerseys get blamed- hahahahaha!
me? I'm quite glad, there will be less chatter about the world cup at work now.
Tuesday, 2 October 2007
huh?
Perplexed is me. either this site is a lot more budget than i expected it to be, or i just can't work it out. Of course it is very possible that i have spent wayyy too long on LJ & FB, but i can't work out how to save other blogs.
there MUST be a way!
I still think Fed-Ex is a funny name for Britney's Ex husband.
appologies if you are actually reading this cause I've got nothing! I have an assignment that was due today, and managed to get a 2 week extension - that's just fucking nuts! I didn't even ask for one, and told them I would be late and had no excuse other than lack of time management. I guess honesty gets rewards after all.
there MUST be a way!
I still think Fed-Ex is a funny name for Britney's Ex husband.
appologies if you are actually reading this cause I've got nothing! I have an assignment that was due today, and managed to get a 2 week extension - that's just fucking nuts! I didn't even ask for one, and told them I would be late and had no excuse other than lack of time management. I guess honesty gets rewards after all.
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