Another mindless meme…. I wonder does anyone ever read these?

I’ve been sent this meme by email a few times today…

Welcome to the new 2008 edition of getting to know your friends! Here is what you are supposed to do, and try not to be lame and spoil the fun. Change all the answers so that they apply to you.

Then send this to a bunch of people you know, INCLUDING the person who sent it to you. Some of you may get this several times; that means you have lots of friends.  The easiest way to do it is to hit ‘forward’ so you can change the answers. Have fun and be truthful!

1. What is your occupation right now?   Crash test dummy 🙁
2. What colour are your socks right now?  I have nekkid feet atm
3. What are you listening to right now?    Fingernails clicking on the keyboard
4. What was the last thing that you ate?   Scrambled eggs (for dinner!)
5. Can you drive a stick shift?  Of course

6. Last person you spoke to on the phone? Idiot who pooched an eBay transaction
7. Do you like the person who sent this to you?  Yes
8. How old are you today?   19,225,008 minutes
9. What is your favourite sport to watch?   Olympic diving and gymnastics
10. What is your favourite drink?    Port
11. Have you ever dyed your hair?  Yes – blue once
12. Favourite food?   Guacamole and Fruit Tingles (but not together)
13. What is the last movie you watched?  Batman – Dark Knight  
14. Favourite day of the year?   April 25th
15. How do you vent anger?   By verbally eviscerating the offender  :S
16. What was your favourite toy as a child? Don’t know?!?! 

17. What is your favourite season?   Winter in Brisbane
19. Do you want your friends to e-mail you back?  Sure
20. Who is the most likely to respond?  Those that already have
21. Who is least likely to respond?   Doesn’t matter
22. Living arrangements? 1 husband, 1 small child, 1 small dog, frequent visitors
23. When was the last time you cried?   One hour ago cooking dinner*

24. What is on the floor of your closet? Shoes, the emergency present box
25. Who is the friend you have known longest ?  Equinom
26. What did you do last night?  Watched some Weeds chatted w~ Yale

27. What inspires you?  OCD… and once inspiration hits it must be quenched
28. What are you most afraid of?   Being in pain forever
29. Plain, cheese or spicy hamburgers?  Cheese
30. Favourite dog breed?    Rottweilers but they’re fucking dopey
31. Favourite cat breed?  A dead cat is a good cat

32. Favourite day of the week?  Fridays
33. How many countries have you lived in?  1 for the most part.

 

 

 

Swingin’ Safari

I was out doing grocery shopping today … a task I absolutely loathe.. and yes, yes, yes… I checked the fucking eggs with the same little disheartened sigh that I always do.  But I’m not bitching about checking the fucking eggs – for a change.

Today when I walked into the shopping centre I heard a very familiar tune playing on the PA system….

My Dad used to play Bert Kaempfert’s Swingin’ Safari when I was a kid.  Which on it’s own sounds like a fairly innocuous sort of statement but it masks a gross understatement.  My Dad played Bert Kaempfert’s Swingin’ Safari EVERY single time we had people over for dinner…  since time immemorial.  This album embodies all my most enduring social memories of my childhood… rabidly cleaning the house up before guests arrived, putting on our nicest dresses, running amok while the adults fixed dinner and sitting at a kids table in the lounge room.  Dad must have been playing that record from the early 70s – long before I was old enough to be allowed to touch the record turntable and we were throwing it back at him right up until he passed away.  I can still hear him telling us not to jump or dance on the (timber) floor because the record player was on and he didn’t want the needle to skip.

Over time it became the quintessential Cross Family Dinner Music and would be faithfully trundled out not only every time we had company for dinner but eventually for family dinner gatherings too.  I remember hunting down the album on CD in the mid 90s at some point and I can still recall the curious and incredulous looks from the HMV staff when I ordered in 5 import copies of a dodgy old fashioned album they’d never heard of …..one for me, one for BigSal, one for Edouardo, one for Equinom and one for Dad of course.

I remember too giving the CD to the DJ at my little sister’s wedding and insisting he play the album during dinner… which as it turned out was all together too complicated for the idiot DJ and when the silly guy changed to something else after only the first song  Edouardo had to go over ‘sort him out’ until he understood that he had to play it right through with nothing else.  We also played the album at my wedding and at BigSal’s wedding too (DJ’s properly briefed this time so Edouardo didn’t have to play music Nazi).

It reminds me so much of my Dad that I only just realized that we haven’t really listened to it since he passed away and I was quite taken aback to hear it at the shops this morning.  It was quite unsettling actually.
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Them Mazda 3.141592653589793238462643393’s have got a nice arse end on them!

I don’t know what’s worse… recognizing that this is extremely geeky or the alarming realization that I also think it’s totally clever and kinda  cool.  🙁   Unfortunately this is probably means I’m much closer to geekdom than I would normally like to acknowledge.

And the personalized plate really tops off the message 🙂
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If you can’t say something nice….

I’ve not been writing as much as I used to.  Mostly because I’m trying really hard not to constantly bitch and moan about how much pain and discomfort my back is causing me.  The problem is that back pain occupies so much of my waking thoughts that I often feel that I think about naught else.  It is exhausting trying to ignore pain all day and leaves me with nothing to write that doesn’t resemble this…..

Monday
Didn’t sleep so good.
Feel dopey from the medication.
My back is killing me and my neck feels ‘crunchy’.
I still have that head ache from last Tuesday.

Tuesday
Didn’t sleep so good.
Feel dopey from the medication.
My back is killing me and my neck feels ‘crunchy’.
I still have that head ache from last Tuesday.

Wednesday
Didn’t sleep so good.
Feel dopey from the medication.
My back is killing me and my neck feels ‘crunchy’.
I still have that head ache from Tuesday week ago.

Thursday
Didn’t sleep so good.
Feel dopey from the medication.
My back is killing me and my neck feels ‘crunchy’.
I still have that head ache from Tuesday week ago.

Friday
Didn’t sleep so good.
Feel dopey from the medication.
My back is killing me and my neck feels ‘crunchy’.
I still have that head ache from Tuesday week ago.

Saturday
Didn’t sleep so good.
Feel dopey from the medication.
My back is killing me and my neck feels ‘crunchy’.
I still have that head ache from Tuesday week ago.

Sunday
Didn’t sleep so good.
Feel dopey from the medication.
My back is killing me and my neck feels ‘crunchy’.
I still have that head ache from Tuesday week ago.
Not looking forward to another week that resembles this one.

So on days where I have remained silent I think it’s safe to say I could just pick one of the above.
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HELLO… hello… hello… hello… is there anybody in there?!?!

I was beginning to think that the all the drugs I’m on aren’t really having as much effect on me as they were earlier in the year.  I erroneously thought that some semblance of equilibrium was restored and I was once again gaining control of my faculties.   Note the word ‘erroneously’ in that previous sentence…. because as it happens I am definitely not in control of my short term memory nor am I right up there in the mental acuity stakes either which has been succinctly demonstrated by the following conversation which occurred earlier this afternoon:

Oh yeah… I went to see the Dark Night last Wednesday   😐
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