NEW YORK HERE I COME - HOPEFULLY

Lately I cannot get New York out of my brain - I have always wanted to go to New York to see the city that never sleeps. I want to go and experience the hustle and bustle of the city, see all the sites, check out the bars, talk to the locals, shopping of course and maybe bump into a celeb! I am so hoping that someone will come with me as it is nicer when you have someone to travel with - hopefully Odi is thinking about it otherwise I will have to do it on my own. The only problem with flying it is such a bloody long way from Australia, maybe will have to do a stopover somewhere, like Singapore or even Hawaii.

I will have to start seriously savings my pennies now, have been overspending lately and I have nearly everything I need, now it is time for a well earned overseas holiday, hopefully next year sometime.

HAVING A BAD MORNING

Shit, bugger, f--k, darn, help, driving me mad, can't cope, need a ciggie and IC, I am going crazy. My payroll is playing up I have just entered the pays all balanced and now my payroll is saying it is corrupt, (shit, bugger darn) has been playing up for the past 6 weeks, now I have to go an re-enter the whole bloody lot once again, it is so time wasting, no one can help us with the problem as they are fifty thousand miles away!! Oh well back to the payroll I go.

HANDY WOMEN WE ARE!

Tiff bought her husband a massage chair for his birthday but it had to be put together, the massage chair package was left at my place (so Ben would not know). Tiff came around last week and we put it together, well she did and I just helped to hold things together. Tiff wanted to know if I had any tools and I said yes I had one a small screw driver, she laughed at how small it was but it did the trick. It took us an 1 1/2 to get the seat completed. I had to sit in it for a test but was too scared just in case it broke (no not cause of my weight, but just in case we did not screw a part in properly !!) All was good.

I think this goes there!

Testing 1, 2, 3

The finished piece!

THE HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE FINGER

Well, now......here's something I never knew before, and now that I know it, isn't history more fun when you know something about it?
Before the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, the French, anticipating victory over the English, proposed to cut off the middle finger of all captured English soldiers. Without the middle finger it would be impossible to draw the renowned English longbow and therefore they would be incapable of fighting in the future. This famous English longbow was made of the native English Yew tree, and the act of drawing the longbow was known as "plucking the yew" (or "pluck yew").
Much to the bewilderment of the French, the English won a major upset and began mocking the French by waving their middle fingers at the defeated French, saying, See, we can still pluck yew! Since 'pluck yew' is rather difficult to say, the difficult consonant cluster at the beginning has gradually changed to a labiodentals fricative F', and thus the words often used in conjunction with the one-finger-salute! It is also because of the pheasant feathers on the arrows used with the longbow that the symbolic gesture is known as "giving the bird."
IT IS STILL AN APPROPRIATE SALUTE TO THE FRENCH TODAY!
And yew thought yew knew every plucking thing.

WHO WOULD OF THOUGHT

We had STEPHEN KING the American author pass through our town yesterday, no I don't read his books but I know who he is. So at lunch time I spent 1/2 running around town , how often to we have famous people in our town? - (I think the last time was Elle McPherson! no I lie about that as we have had a few but more Australians than world known ones!) I felt like the paparazzi trying to get a photo of him, but with no such luck as I think he stopped in town for some lunch then headed out again.

GREAT MAGNET

Great fridge magnet I got as a little gift

YEAH FOR THE WARMER WEATHER

At long last the warmer weather is heading our way, you can just feel it in the air now, helle bloody lujah . I always feel much for energetic and now it is time once again (it is never ending!) to get the winter weight off and for it to stay off - 10 kilos to be exact. Went to early morning gym with my mate AC and we did sets of lunges and squats and now I am paying for it with the aches and pains in my legs, but hey that's the joys of the exercise. Oh I forgot to mention that I broke a piece of machinery in the gym - I think it was already broken! - and when I put my foot on it - it just fell off.

WHAT IS TIME?

Time means everything to me, I have to have a watch on otherwise I feel naked or I feel something is missing from my arm and forever constantly looking at the time. I have 2 alarm clocks (not that I take much notice of them in the mornings lately!) but time is really important to me.

Where I live I think time means nothing to some people, for instance we play netball on Saturdays at 1.00pm but most people just walk in dribs and drabs and by the time the game starts it is 1.30pm then we don't finish until about 3.00pm I get really pisst because I could be home doing things instead of having to wait around for people to turn up whenever they feel like it. I feel like turning up at the courts at 1.30pm (as I have keys to our netball courts) and when they get pisst off for having to wait for the courts to be opened then I could say "now you know what it is like for others to have to wait "!

Anyway that's my whinge for the day.

I AM NO ARTY CRAFTY PERSON BUT I TRY!

My Photo Board

My World of Travels

In no way am I an arty crafty person, but I try, above is a collage of photos that I have put together, along with a map of the world of the places of I have travelled to, I still have to add some finishing touches to them.

Last night I was having a look through some old photos, boy did I have a good laugh especially as to what we were wearing, I was into bike shorts, high waisted jeans- (oh my gawd!) I use to tease my fringe that looked like a bloody cocky! At the time I thought I looked pretty cool but now you think how could of I even walked the streets looking like that.

I might post some of my cool (no so now) photos and put them on my blog at a later date.

SPEED DATING

Kelly from the office wanted to know if I was interested in going to LA for "Speed Dating" as herself and Macca were thinking of going over there once they, in LA have organised a set date. I said to Kelly thanks but not thanks, as there is no way I would be able to keep a straight face and take it seriously. Of all places in LA, if there is no decent men here, would hate to think what LA has to offer!

MY PUSSY

My beloved "Moggie Lee" cat, she has passed away now, and I loved my cat, she was fluffy, cuddly, playful, always up to mischief, and humongous (people use ask, was she on steroid's!).

Moggie Lee turned up on the door step one day, walked inside as if she owned the place and never left. When I took photo's to get developed of Moggie Lee at AMCAL Chemist they asked if they could put he up in window as photo of the week, I was proud as punch. Bless your little soul Moggie Lee.