Missed my list last weekend what with all the cold weather and friends to be met.  So I skipped a week.  “N”s today and there’s nothing earth shattering in my “N” list I don’t think.  I wonder if the longer you blog/journal what’s going through your head, how much of it just starts to seem repetative given that our thoughts, opinions, values, likes and dislikes are quite set by the time we hit our 30s….  meh… idle speculative comment for the day.

List of 10 Things I Like That Start With “N”….

1.   Nice – beautiful place… not keen on pebble beaches though
2.   Notoriety – finding/keeping a bad reputation is hard work
3.   Non-image forming night photography – weird and interesting
4.   Nail polish – it’s a ‘thing’… cheaper than a shoe fetish 🙂
5.   Niceties – chivalry should not be dead people
6.   Nymphaeum – painted by Bougereau, I’m the one on the left
7.   Nurses – they’ve the worst job and are severely undervalued
8.   Nuts – cashews and pecans and pistachios oh my
9.   Night time – because Mr K told me I like it
10. National Parks – many of my best childhood memories are of family holidays hopping from one National Park to the next…. Kakadu… Canarvon… the Warrumbungles… Maria Island… Great Sandy (Fraser Island)… Lake St Claire… Katherine George…. the Kimberlies… South West National Park in Tas… Limmen Bite… Wilson’s Prom… Geike Gorge… Kings Canyon… Mt Warning… Edith Falls… Freycinet… Windjana… Butterfly George… Cradle Mountain… Keep River… Border Ranges… Kata Tjukta… Wolf Creek Crater… Mt Field…. and these are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head – the list goes on and on and on and on…

Süleymaniye Mosque – Istanbul

List of 10 Things I Hate or Dislike That Start With “N”

1.   News – it’s all so fucking depressing
2.   Noisy toys – as if kids don’t make enough noise on their own!
3.   No shows – RSVPing and then not showing up…  how rude!
4.   Nightmares – the drug induced ones are real doozies
5.   Noisy cinema patrons – fuck off and go talk at home
6.   National anthem – Australia’s national anthem is a dirge
7.   Nightclubs – must be getting old, can’t stand the noise
8.   Naturopaths – the only ones i’ve seen were raving loonies
9.   Noodles – a lot of people are noodle mad and I’m noodle not
10. Non-smacking parents – It is nigh on impossible to reason with a 3 year old unless of course you happen to have one of those genius type ones that can do your taxes by the time they’re 2 and will have finished university by the time they’re 11.  Raising a small child that will not respond to parental authority is a disaster waiting to happen.
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Makes me think of that old Crash Test Dummies song… you know the one:

Once there was this kid who
Got into an accident and couldn’t come to school
But when he finally came back
His hair had turned from black into bright white
He said that it was from when
The car had smashed so hard
Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm….  Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm

Okay, so that has nothing to do with anything.  But here be the “M’s”

List of 10 Things I Like That Start With “M”….
1.   Men – most of my bestest friends are men
2.   Multiple Orgasms – makes up for all the girlie-swot problems
3.   Mobile phones – no idea how we survived before
4.   Mushrooms – favourite foods or decorative motifs
5.   Magic 8 Balls – answers your questions AND wards off fundies
6.   Manicured nails – it’s a little thing but does the trick.
7.   Mataranka – obscure little hot springs outside Katherine Gorge in NT
8.   Movies – being a movie critic would be one of my dream jobs
9.   Mangoes – nice big juicy Bowen ones that I can share with Angel
10. Mini Cooper S – screw getting a Jag… give me a Mini so I can drive around dragging on a cigarette going ‘Vrrrrmmm! Fuck off I’m the Queen!’

List of 10 Things I Hate or Dislike That Start With “M” List
1.   Memory failure – mine or the computer… either way it’s all bad
2.   Muttering – if it’s worth saying its worth saying audibly
3.   Modern Art – 17^th century onwards… just not my thing
4.   Mud cake – nearly go into a sugar coma just looking at it
5.   Marine creatures – on toilet paper… why?
6.   Mobile Phones – left on in the cinema… or worse – answered!
7.   Mouse tails – visual impairment from drug side effects… fun fun fun
8.   Masseuses – painful pointy little fingers – give me man hands anyday
9.   Money – I hate asking people for money they owe me
10. Missing out – bungee jumping, white water rafting and all that fun stuff that people with healthy spines and no chronic pain issues seem to be able to engage in without repercussions. 

I’ve made my “L” list and was going to check it twice, but think it’s probably more interesting with my typos left in it 😛  No doubt… no doubt… there are many many grammatical errors every time I start bimbling along in here.  Yes strangely I think of this journal as being ‘inside the internets’ and it bears little resemblance (or effect) on my actual Life™.  Weird.  Anyway… “L”

List of 10 Things I Like That Start With “L”….

1.   Latex – pillows of fantasticness and mattresses of fabulousness
2.   Lists – the latent anal retentive’s best friend
3.   Lingerie – love good quality lingerie but hardly ever wear it
4.   Lobster – fresh, no fancy sauces and eaten with your fingers
5.   Light photos – non image forming photos of light
6.   Literature – some books become ‘classics’ for a reason
7.   Lemon – lemon chicken, lemon ice tea, gelato, tarts/pie etc
8.   Libraries – the Bodleian in Oxford & Trinity in Dublin are amazing
9.   Leadlight lampshades – there’s a timeless romance about them*
10. LJ Feed – http://fuzzysquid.com/LJ.php  it’s really interesting to see what sort of imagery people are adding to their journals… however it seems to be getting over run of late with lots of tacky porn.  If it was good porn I probably wouldn’t mind  😛

The Long Room, Trinity College University 

List of 10 Things I Hate or Dislike That Start With “L”

1.   Lies, Liars, Lying – dishonesty hurts like a bitch.
2.   Love bites – hickeys!  yuk!  can you say ‘trailer trash’ kiddies?
3.   Lawyers – douse one in kerosene and put one on fire today!
4.   Long haul flights – love to travel but hate the getting there bit
5.   LiveJournal – gotta get a haircut and get a real blog
6.   Link – comes to town to save the Princess Zelda (ad nauseam)
7.   Luteal hormone support – Argghh! progesterone poisoning!!!
8.   Lending stuff – things never come back in the state in which they left
9.   Lines – Queueing is one of the banes of our modern existences
10. LoLCats – I loathe LOLCats which incorporate two of my pet hates… cats and bad grammar.  With one notable exception (where ceiling cat is watching you masturbate) they’re universally annoying.  So I fink yoo peoplz can haz yor damn LoLCats but pwease don’t inflict deez stoopid cat pichas on me enymoor!  It is beyond my understanding why some of my friends and family persist in sending them to me.  

More list nonsense.  The “K’s” have been bloody hard.  So difficult in fact that I felt compelled to look up the frequency of letter use to see how common or uncommon the use of the letter “K” is in the English language.  Not surprisingly “K” rates at only 0.772% of relative frequency in the English langage making it the 5th least used letter…. and I have a sneaking suspicion that most of those “K”s are at the end of words.

List of 10 Things I Like That Start With “K”….

1.   Kiwi fruit – should buy more of these but I don’t like the fuzziness
2.   King ‘Love and Pride’ – a song none of you probably remember
3.   Kenneth Brannagh – love may transform me to an oyster…
4.   Kandinsky – I don’t know much about art but I know what I like  😉
5.   Knuckles – kids don’t appreciate simple games anymore
6.   Knives – good quality Wusthof Tridents are the weapons of choice
7.   Kisses – little ones, long ones… they’re all good
8.   Keys –  big antique brass ones, little baby silver ones… locks too
9.   Kittens – I like them for about 8.2 weeks then they become cats
10. Kilometers – for some reasons whenever I have to think in miles I’m absolutely fucked.  Grew up with kilometers and metric measurements and miles/ounces/pound/gallons etc leave me totally bamboozled. Perhaps if I’d been better at math….

Vassily Kandinsky, 1866-1944 (creatively titled ‘Composition no 8)

List of 10 Things I Hate or Dislike That Start With “K”

1.   Kool aid – not quite sure what this is but the connotations are all bad
2.   Kids – other peoples children drive me bonkers
3.   Kitchen dwellers – people who hang in the kitchen at parties why?
4.   Kayak polo –  never quite understood this particular weird sport :S
5.   Kill Bill/s – fell asleep during both of them
6.   KFC – bleurk…  and they have the gall to call it food
7.   Kia TV ads – ‘keeeeee-a!’… like fingernails down a blackboard’
8.   Knitting – can embroider til the cows come home but hate knitting
9.   Kraft – don’t like their pretend cheese products… it’s fucking plastic
10. Karaoke – surely this needs NO explanation
11. K-Mart Public Address system – (probably applies to any PA system in el cheapo department stores)  “Welcome to K-Mart Radio across Australia where we keep you entertained and up !CHT! Security. Security to section seven.  Security to section seven. !CHT!  to date”.

Please note we HAD to go to 11 this week because there was no way I could leave the karaoke out 😐