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I'm moving next weekend. Its a really old villa close to the Central City, with a veranda with roses over it (I might have to post a picture). Really cute outside. Inside not so great, the carpet is different in every room with some still there from the 1970's. Strange colours in every room, but you walk in and it feels like home. The house was at some point owned by the Council, who modified it to suit someone in a wheelchair, so all the lights and switches are at thigh level, and the cupboards are really low. The landlord is a nice man who told me 'I'm not a landlord, I just own a few houses'. The main bedroom has a sliding door into the side yard, perfect for naked sunbathing. And, seeing as I'm on holiday for the next three weeks I guess I might be doin a bit of that as long as summer keeps kickin in. Yippie! |
I got my house too, I think I mentioned that somewhere. It's perfectly lovely, I adore it already. Geek boy does too. It's also right down the street from both geek boy and girl with the blue hair, so...it's excellent. They come and poke their heads through my window all the time. It's excellent. |
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There are boxes and stuff everywhere. I have managed to get myself some stupid flu, which slows me down. On Sunday I did nothing except get out of bed to watch the Tua-Lewis fight and that was pretty depressing. I know Lewis is more of a technical boxer, I know Tua is more of a slugger, but it seemed as tho Lewis just kept running away from Tua during the whole match. So that was a waste. Yesterday I managed to do washing before having to rest. Pathetic. Today I am up, but its slow going. At least the main bedroom is kind of sorted, and the computer room is nearly finished. I hate unpacking. I hate moving. I'm scared to let the cats out yet. |
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Bear talks a lot. In fact he woke me up the other night becuase he was bored and hungry and no one would play with him. He's very sweet. If you say hullo Bear, he replies. Troll on the other hand is just that. Shes stroppy and gets growly if you pick her up. Unless she wants you to pick her up. She doesnt talk at all. |
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I like my new house. I also like the person who is housitting it for me. |
what kind of shit is that??? jesus. i'd have to get pregnant and cough up a weeping fetus to hook up with anywhere *near* that stretch of paid vacation time. fucking 3 week holidays. i'm moving to new zealand. |
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*jumps to the Sorabjite Contest link* |
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i get about three weeks, but we'll all be watching President Nader give the State of the Union address before boss-man authorizes letting me take it all at once. maybe i should try hanging up some farrakhan propaganda, putting P.E.'s "godd complexx" in permanent rotation, and start twitching a lot... |
Have I mentioned lately that it was an Australian who invented the beer fridge and also the esky (cooly bin..chiller...or whatever the fuck you blokes call it because you can't get your tongues around esky). Yeah us! |
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AussieBob's New Fangled Dictionary: Esky: (es-key) An esky is a container that keeps your beer cold. More useful than most women. "Hey love, get me a beer out of the esky would you". |
is that "esky" as in some 'roo-humping bastardization of "eskimo"? over here in the new world we call 'em "coolers". get it? cooler. as in "cold". aussiewanker. |
cooler. as in "in your dreams, mate" |
Let's see, um, Paul Hogan, ummmm, Paul Hogan, ummmm, oh yeah, Crowded House, wait, that was NZ. Sorry, ummm, I got it: Yahoo Serious. oh, I remember: Breaker Morant. Damn fine movie, lads. Que mas? Ummm, Foster's (Austraylian for beeyah, mayte). If nothing else, it's big! And the digereedo. Anybody else? |
1. MacDonalds 2. Dennis Rodman 3. Roseanne 4. The Osmonds 5. Billy Ray Cyrus and all singers who wear those dippy hats. 6. Elvis movies (the songs were good though) 7. Decaf coffee (or any coffee that needs descriptives in front of it because you've buggered around with it) |
Without us, neither would you have Baseball The 5 best orchestras in the world Jazz American Football Rock music The Gap Basketball The Simpsons Budweiser CNN The Tooth Fairy and Apple Pie |
and i could live quite well without budweiser. |
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but we were the first to fly, the first to the moon, we also give the world fine people like Larry Flynt, John Waters, George Lucas and Star Wars, Agents Mulder and Scully.... as further proof of American cultural imperialism....during any given day...just think about everything you are doing and what you are doing it with and ask yourself "did this come from America? I think you'd be surprised how fucking great we are!!! :-> now on your knees..... |
The following is an excerpt from an email I got this morning that had to do with you not having a president yet and reverting back to English rule. It was kinda funny and this section is relevant: You should stop playing American football. There is only one kind of football. What you refer to as American football is not a very good game. The 2.15% of you who are aware that there is a world outside your borders may have noticed that no one else plays "American" football. You will no longer be allowed to play it, and should instead play proper football. Initially, it would be best if you played with the girls. It is a difficult game. Those of you brave enough will, in time, be allowed to play rugby (which is similar to American football, but does not involve stopping for a rest every twenty seconds or wearing full kevlar body armour like nancies). We are hoping to get together at least a US rugby sevens side by 2005. And Patrick honey dont even go there. Your nation is so fricken huge its no wonder you got to places first. But over this side of the world our kids dont take guns to school and dont walk thru metal detectors to get to class. |
ohh poo hell at least we can be assured no one will ever try and invade america proper...due to fear that every joe and biily above the age of 10 is packin heat..... talk about militia you might be interested to know there IS Euro NFL....it's doing about as well as EuroDisney, but hey its a start. And as far as being "nancies" with stopage and armor/pads you could argue that perhaps our thugs, bruisers, criminals aka football players aren't so dumb as their worldwide counterparts...Sheeeesh just compare dental records..... |
My nation is growing increasingly lame. And I was never really a big fan of my nation to begin with. Who will be our President, God? |
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Congrats on your new house. Maybe I'll see it one day... if you want. Put butter on your cats paws before you let them outside. |
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well, well OUR suppressed minorites make better atheletes than YOUR suppressed minorities! So there! oh god... I just heard that England says that since we can't elect a president, they're revoking our independence! Obviously a joke, since I doubt they'd want to take us back now! |
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actually houston has the title now.... in the last 10 years, the smog in LA has actually inmproved dramatically....they imposed tougher emission standards and the air has gotten better here...for what thats worth...it's still not good... but what major city on the planet DOES have clean air. |
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One of the best memories of christmas is a fire in the fire place, the christmas tree lights on, candles burning and no other lights on, just me and my wife watching the fire, drinking white zin |
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Troll is not so good. They also havent figured out that they can get back in using it, but I'm sure we'll get there eventually. We all met the hugest mother cat this morning. Bigger than Bear, which surprised me cause hes a big boy. It meowed, then jumped the fence after chasing Troll inside. |
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The nickname of one of my friends is Troll. I think he would take a while to figure out a cat door if he was a cat. Then, when we weren't looking, he'd make a bomb out of it. I miss my kitties. I get to see them soon. |
When we moved to our own house, it already had a cat door installed. We had to replace it though, because he used to be able to open it when it was locked, and eventually he broke the lock completely. (Nelson stays inside at night - too much fighting otherwise) My friend had a kitten that thought it had to be running at full speed to get through the cat door - helluva funny to watch it come screaming in and out of the house! |
My cats know how to use a regular door. I'm glad we don't have pull-down handles, they would probably learn how to use them. However, they know the real secret to opening any door...Here's a scenario: 3am: cat placed in strategic position next to human head. Cat: "meow?" Human: "uhhhh..." Cat: "Meow?!" Human: *groan* Cat: "MEOW!" Human: "ok, ok, fine..." |