Happy 1,000,000,000 second to me...

Oh man! I have missed my 1,000,000,000 second anniversary of being born on the 17th. Awww, what a milestone to miss. I will have to look out for my 1,500 week anniversary of being born on Friday 8 April 2011. No idea what I am talking about? Have a look at some interesting dates related to your birthday.

Lousy Wednesday, Sweet Thursday

The last couple of days have been complete turmoil. I can't believe its only Wednesday. Still, since it is Good Friday this Friday, I can think of today as Thursday and feel a lot better about everything. I can't wait to have a break from work for a couple of days. I think I like the potential of what can be done the most about weekends and holidays. Perhaps that's a bit strange, I don't know. I always used to like thinking of all the ways I could spend, say, birthday money more than the actual spending of it. Because once the money is spent, or the holiday is over, the excitement is gone.

Anyway, I was reading The Punch at lunch today and came across this strange article... "Generally alarm bells should ring if people pose like this". Here is a picture of the pose...

The thing I find most amusing about this article is the fact the majority of the comments focus on this guy's make up. Actually now I have had my attention drawn to it, its hard to notice the gun and the swastika tattoo over the lipstick and eyeshadow. Still I can't help but think that if he was holding something else, like say a flamingo, it would be a fun children's story to read at bedtime.

See what I mean?

Bitey, stingey and snappy

Its hard to admit, but there are still some things out there that stun me. I was talking to my husband the other night and said he should get someone to email a brief summary of something to him rather than asking for it to be posted. After all, surely it is easier to email stuff nowadays right... right?

As it turns out its not, at least for some people. I couldn't really believe it. What do you mean they don't have access to the internet? Can't they walk down the street to the nearest cafe? No? How odd. It is kind of like being told some one can't read or write or swim- and have no intentions of learning. How do they get by in life? What happens if they fall into a waterhole? Well here you would probably get eaten by a crocodile. I sometimes think a lot of people I come across up here think they are like this...

When in actual fact they are more like this...

You mean you drive more than 20min?!? Whoa, how do you manage it, can't you fly that? You mean it was less than 25degrees?!? Argh! How do you survive temperatures like that? And the beaches down south have sharks! I think I'll stick to the beaches up here that are full of crocodiles, killer jelly fish, fish that look like rocks that kill you, small pointy poisonous shells, sting rays and flesh eating bacteria...

War of the worlds

I had the afternoon news on as I was stuffing about after work, and came across an amazing story. A lady in Sydney photographed a couple of UFO's when trying to get some photos of the sunset. Now I am sure everyone knows that Darwin is the next UFO hot spot (possibly due to the high proportion of the population that are on drugs). So I thought that if a UFO was spotted in Sydney, surely there would be one hanging around up here. I mean, it is the next UFO hot spot.

So Jack and I set off, at sunset, to see if we could get a photo of a UFO. Can you believe it, but we actually did. And here are the blurry photos to prove it...

It suddenly appeared, and everything was quiet. It hovered over the dog for a while, appeared to consider abducting him, changed its mind and flew off.

Of course I took my photos to the government and was told that the photo is clearly of a weather balloon caused by dirt on the lens of my camera. But I don't care what they say, we know it was a UFO, I just hope the aliens didn't give Jack a weird skin rash...

Hey you, don't you know who I am?

I was in the shopping centre the other day practicing zen like calm as half the town clamoured for two very slow moving checkout lanes. A lady came along and put one of those 'register closed' signs up as I was paying for my groceries. A rather agitated man came up and wanted to use the closed check out and couldn't understand the poor lady was about to go on her lunch break. He was rather upset it appeared, presumably because he has to share the world with other people. Anyway, my jaw nearly dropped on the floor when he actually said "I am very high ranking, don't you know who I am?" I was immediately reminded of Happy Land's classic 90s tune "Don't you know who I am?" and was humming it as I walked away while Mr High Ranking argued with the poor checkout lady over why she should miss her lunch break so he could get through the checkout quicker.

Cupcake madness

I had a great day today, and even managed to be home on time, Yay! I came across a few odds and ends that I want to share from my lunch time googling.

I have a really long list of things I want to do once I fininsh uni and actually have time to do them. One of these things is to make biscornu (thats french for pointy). I am not sure what they are meant for, but I plan on sticking pins into mine. Here is a picture of one...

I also found another cupcake related trinkety thing at Scrapbooks etc. It seems pretty simple to make, so I will have a go at making one and send it to my cupcake mad friend. I am sure she will love it!

Speaking of cupcakes and pin cushions, I also came across a cupcake pin cushion. How great is that? Perhaps I could make a really big one to sit on while watching tv...

Blog-itis

I think I am developing a google addiction. Well, its more an addiction to blogs than anything else really. There are just so many out there that I keep stumbling across it makes me want to keep looking. Its a bit like walking down a bush track that is twisting and turning, you want to go back because your unfit and it looks like there is a hill up ahead, but you keep going just to see what is around the next corner. Yeah, like that. Anyway speaking of blogs, I think I have found the worlds longest sentence at Sassy Kathy. Its worth reading, and the lesson is; if you have had a bad day don't get a hair cut.

I found this picture while googling. I am sure there are many people who could identify with this. I cant help thinking the inbox is filled with different versions of the same damn scope of work... Its at times like this you need Brannigans Law, but apply it to people instead of planets. Hmm yes, "I don't pretend to understand Brannigans Law, I merely enforce it".

Anyway, I also found a great blog-a life made easy peasy lemon squeezy home- for making alien softies. I am having a great time reading about how to make them and stuff. I had a go at making a dove last Christmas and it kinda worked out. I think there is a lot I would change next time though.