Life List - No way Josè

1. Go to England with less than $1000 in my pocket when the exchange rate was $1:33p.
2. Have Gastric Flu.  Coming out both ends.  TMI?  You bet.
3. Spend 6 months unemployed in the Midlands, UK, in the 1980's, where unemployment was running at 28%.
4. Borrow money from a parent.
5. Find out my new chap was married to a woman called Sharon who lived in NZ.
6. Learn shorthand.
7. Go skiing.
8. Rupture my ACL skiing, hence #7.
9. Wait 2 years for an ACL reconstruction because I didn't have private health insurance.
10. ACL reconstruction.
11. Second operation to fix something they missed in #10.
12. Get married.  Have a wedding** 
13. Put on 3 stone (19kg) after #12.
14. Watch the arches in my feet collapse after #13.
15. Have the police knock at my door to tell me a parent had died.
16. Work as a Secretary.
17. Start anything new in a year ending in -9.  
18. Lose a friend to Breast Cancer.
19. Lose a friend to Lymphoma.
20. Lose a grandparent to Emphysema.
21. Lose a friend to AIDS.
22. Lose a friend to Suicide.
23. Go to a funeral.  Any funeral.
24. Take Mr Golightly shopping.
25. Lose a beloved parent-in-law to Alzheimer's.
26. Fart in the office.
27. Have an accident of the menstrual kind in the office.
28. Almost have an affair with a married man, in the office.
29. Be sexually harrassed by a crazy ex-footballer.
30. Move house.  22 previous addresses (that I can think of) is plenty, thanks.
31. Do data entry for a living.
32. Leave my camera in a taxi and never see it again, Olympics pics and all.
33. Live in Leicester, UK.
34. Work in a library.  It really is like "The Librarians".
35. Let myself be bullied.
36. Convince a doctor I didn't want children.  No, I really don't.
37. Share a one-room flat with anybody.
38. Live in a one-room flat with outside toilet & shower.  Those winter mornings really bit.
39. Fall off a motorbike at speed.
40. Be a passenger in a car which rolls.  Still got the dodgy shoulder from that one.
41. Shoot a sitting duck.  Shame on me (I was 16, does that ameloriate it a little?).
42. Shoot anything.
43. Drink too much white wine from a flagon.
44. Vomit said white wine all over the bathroom floor.
45. Cleaning up #44.
46. Drink cider.
47. Spend 9 weeks on crutches, courtesy of #11.
48. Spend 2 weeks in a caravan on 'holidays'.
49. Share a house with 3 unrelated blokes.  Can you imagine the soap?
50. Take a dog to the vet and come home alone, knowing you'll never see the dog again.
51. Have a neighbour steal your dog when she left her husband and 6 fox terriers behind.
52. Be poor.
53. Live in a foreign country with no support network & no friends.
54. Algebra.
55. Statistics.
56. Wait until I'm newly married before discovering the one thing I want to really do in life requires me to go & live in another city 300km away.
57. Spend November and February in England.  Freezing cold.
58. Spend two years in pain waiting for the doctors to decide if I needed to have my gall bladder out.
59. Have my gall bladder out.
60. Vomit after smelling the vegetable soup somebody ordered for dinner immediately after I'd had my gall bladder out.
61. Wet the hospital bed whilst vomiting after #60 (told you it'd be a good list, didn't I?).
62. Go out on Christmas morning looking for somewhere selling wrapping paper, as Mr G had 'forgotten' to wrap his presents.
63. Wrap Mr G's presents on Christmas morning.
64. Spend a Christmas in Cairns.
65. Spend a Christmas in 42°C heat
66. 
    

Life List - Thanks but I'll pass

1. Go to England with less than $1000 in my pocket when the exchange rate was $1:33p.
2. Have Gastric Flu.  Coming out both ends.  TMI?  You bet.
3. Spend 6 months unemployed in the Midlands, UK, in the 1980's, where unemployment was running at 28%.
4. Borrow money from a parent.
5. Find out my new chap was married to a woman called Sharon who lived in NZ.
6. Learn shorthand.
7. Go skiing.
8. Rupture my ACL skiing, hence #7.
9. Wait 2 years for an ACL reconstruction because I didn't have private health insurance.
10. ACL reconstruction.
11. Second operation to fix something they missed in #10.
12. Get married.  Have a wedding** 
13. Put on 3 stone (19kg) after #12.
14. Watch the arches in my feet collapse after #13.
15. Have the police knock at my door to tell me a parent had died.
16. Work as a Secretary.
17. Start anything new in a year ending in -9.  
18. Lose a friend to Breast Cancer.
19. Lose a friend to Lymphoma.
20. Lose a grandparent to Emphysema.
21. Lose a friend to AIDS.
22. Lose a friend to Suicide.
23. Go to a funeral.  Any funeral.
24. Take Mr Golightly shopping.
25. Lose a beloved parent-in-law to Alzheimer's.
26. Fart in the office.
27. Have an accident of the menstrual kind in the office.
28. Almost have an affair with a married man, in the office.
29. Be sexually harrassed by a crazy ex-footballer.
30. Move house.  22 previous addresses (that I can think of) is plenty, thanks.
31. Do data entry for a living.
32. Leave my camera in a taxi and never see it again, Olympics pics and all.
33. Live in Leicester, UK.
34. Work in a library.  It really is like "The Librarians".
35. Let myself be bullied.
36. Convince a doctor I didn't want children.  No, I really don't.
37. Share a one-room flat with anybody.
38. Live in a one-room flat with outside toilet & shower.  Those winter mornings really bit.
39. Fall off a motorbike at speed.
40. Be a passenger in a car which rolls.  Still got the dodgy shoulder from that one.
41. Shoot a sitting duck.  Shame on me (I was 16, does that ameloriate it a little?).
42. Shoot anything.
43. Drink too much white wine from a flagon.
44. Vomit said white wine all over the bathroom floor.
45. Cleaning up #44.
46. Drink cider.
47. Spend 9 weeks on crutches, courtesy of #11.
48. Spend 2 weeks in a caravan on 'holidays'.
49. Share a house with 3 unrelated blokes.  Can you imagine the soap?
50. Take a dog to the vet and come home alone, knowing you'll never see the dog again.
51. Have a neighbour steal your dog when she left her husband and 6 fox terriers behind.
52. Be poor.
53. Live in a foreign country with no support network & no friends.
54. Algebra.
55. Statistics.
56. Wait until I'm newly married before discovering the one thing I want to really do in life requires me to go & live in another city 300km away.
57. Spend November and February in England.  Freezing cold.
58. 
    
59.  

**Edit to clarify - Mr Golightly is perfectly safe, but I never want to go through all the stress, hassle & bad behaviour weddings seem to engender.

Welcome, Newest Gentle Reader

Did I mention, Remaining Gentle Readers, that I was happy to see a new Gentle Reader join your discerning ranks?  How nice it is to have your company, ArtyGal, and how inspired I was by your running blog (not quite inspired enough to get off my lardy arse & join in, but inspired nonetheless!) - I gave up running after item #14 on the Life List of Things I Never Want to Do Again, Nosireebob - running is way too hard with fallen arches & pronating feet, you just keep falling over.  

I used to enjoy it, when I was a teenager, out with the dog(s) every day (only one at a time, sadly, we had Honey first, and after her (hit by a car), Chocky (came to us because her family was temporarily living in a caravan park & couldn't keep her)... pictures?  Sure:

Taken in 1973.  See, I knew how to take pictures even then.  Joke.  Honest.

I'd love a dog now, but Mr G quite rightly says it isn't fair to be out of the house 12 hours a day & leave a dog on its own, but MGF Kaz is working on convincing him that two dogs (Remember that great joke, the punchline of which is "why do you ask, Two Dogs Fu**ing?") would be fine together (No?  Ask nicely, I'll tell you it privately)... he's not convinced.  Maybe I would be better to dedicate some Sundays to spending time with the waifs and strays at Monica's Doggie Rescue???

And back on a crafting note, I have finished the four small trees, and I did a few gussying-up thingys on the Amy Butler one which I will post at some point today.. I showed them to two separate yet equally biased audiences yesterday, and all audience members seemed to think they were just the ticket, so hopefully Kerry The Beautician will be equally pleased. I plan to do nothing more complex than a little sparkly beading on the Japanese balls, as it is glorious enough already... but as always, suggestions welcome.

And that, for now, is it.  I'll be back when the sun is up, and after a pleasant cup of coffee with My Best Friend this morning.  Enjoy your day!

Ciao! 

Life List - Not today thank you...

1. Go to England with less than $1000 in my pocket when the exchange rate was $1:33p.
2. Have Gastric Flu.  Coming out both ends.  TMI?  You bet.
3. Spend 6 months unemployed in the Midlands, UK, in the 1980's, where unemployment was running at 28%.
4. Borrow money from a parent.
5. Find out my new chap was married to a woman called Sharon who lived in NZ.
6. Learn shorthand.
7. Go skiing.
8. Rupture my ACL skiing, hence #7.
9. Wait 2 years for an ACL reconstruction because I didn't have private health insurance.
10. ACL reconstruction.
11. Second operation to fix something they missed in #10.
12. Get married.  Have a wedding** 
13. Put on 3 stone (19kg) after #12.
14. Watch the arches in my feet collapse after #13.
15. Have the police knock at my door to tell me a parent had died.
16. Work as a Secretary.
17. Start anything new in a year ending in -9.  
18. Lose a friend to Breast Cancer.
19. Lose a friend to Lymphoma.
20. Lose a grandparent to Emphysema.
21. Lose a friend to AIDS.
22. Lose a friend to Suicide.
23. Go to a funeral.  Any funeral.
24. Take Mr Golightly shopping.
25. Lose a beloved parent-in-law to Alzheimer's.
26. Fart in the office.
27. Have an accident of the menstrual kind in the office.
28. Almost have an affair with a married man, in the office.
29. Be sexually harrassed by a crazy ex-footballer.
30. Move house.  22 previous addresses (that I can think of) is plenty, thanks.
31. Do data entry for a living.
32. Leave my camera in a taxi and never see it again, Olympics pics and all.
33. Live in Leicester, UK.
34. Work in a library.  It really is like "The Librarians".
35. Let myself be bullied.
36. Convince a doctor I didn't want children.  No, I really don't.
37. Share a one-room flat with anybody.
38. Live in a one-room flat with outside toilet & shower.  Those winter mornings really bit.
39. Fall off a motorbike at speed.
40. Be a passenger in a car which rolls.  Still got the dodgy shoulder from that one.
41. Shoot a sitting duck.  Shame on me (I was 16, does that ameloriate it a little?).
42. Shoot anything.
43. Drink too much white wine from a flagon.
44. Vomit said white wine all over the bathroom floor.
45. Cleaning up #44.
46. Drink cider.
47. 
    
48. 
    

**Edit to clarify - Mr Golightly is perfectly safe, but I never want to go through all the stress, hassle & bad behaviour weddings seem to engender.

Life List - Nosireebob, never again...

1. Go to England with less than $1000 in my pocket when the exchange rate was $1:33p.
2. Have Gastric Flu.  Coming out both ends.  TMI?  You bet.
3. Spend 6 months unemployed in the Midlands, UK, in the 1980's, where unemployment was running at 28%.
4. Borrow money from a parent.
5. Find out my new chap was married to a woman called Sharon who lived in NZ.
6. Learn shorthand.
7. Go skiing.
8. Rupture my ACL skiing, hence #7.
9. Wait 2 years for an ACL reconstruction because I didn't have private health insurance.
10. ACL reconstruction.
11. Second operation to fix something they missed in #10.
12. Get married.  
13. Put on 3 stone (19kg) after #12.
14. Watch the arches in my feet collapse after #13.
15. Have the police knock at my door to tell me a parent had died.
16. Work as a Secretary.
17. Start anything new in a year ending in -9.  
18. Lose a friend to Breast Cancer.
19. Lose a friend to Lymphoma.
20. Lose a grandparent to Emphysema.
21. Lose a friend to AIDS.
22. Lose a friend to Suicide.
23. Go to a funeral.  Any funeral.
24. Take Mr Golightly shopping.
25. 
    

Oops, I did it again...

So, here we are again, 2.29am.  I swear it's not because I'm crawling off to bed every afternoon at 2.00pm for a nap, nosiree bob, that's not happening, even though I have desperately felt the need for the last few days - having this coldy/flu-y/sinus-y thing is making my sleep pretty damn patchy, that' s for sure.  Mr G keeps waking me up telling me I'm snoring, I keep dreaming the weirdest things and now, again, I have indigestion & am wide awake.  Personally, I blame last night's culinary marvel, which I preceded with half a bag of Red Rock Deli Sea Salt chippies (curse you, Red Rock Deli, curse you!)...


Anyway, I spent a very productive day yesterday contributing to global warming by drying sheets, towels & shirts in the tumble dryer, but made up for it by putting everything else on the racks to dry - I still didn't get any info from you, Remaining Gentle Readers, about our US cousins and their obsession with the tumble dryer.  I must admit to a modicum of disappointment, but hey, I'll live with it.  


I also made three (yep, not one, not two, but three!) Christmas trees for Kerry the Beautician, only one small one and the whopper to come, which I should be able to knock off on Wednesday, today being profitably spent having lunch in town with former colleagues, dragging Mr G to the bank to sort out exciting things like Life Insurance and Credit Cards, and travelling on the L90 bus.  Fun all round, really.


So, Remaining Gentle Readers, tomorrow (or even later today) I will post pictures of the Christmas Trees for your delectation and review.  I promise.


Now, however, I am going to update the List of Things I've Done and Never Want to Do Again.  See?  Being up at 2.43am does have some advantages.  Really!


Ciao!

New Life List Possibility

Suebob's Red Stapler: New Life List Possibility

You must read this. I'm going to do one of my own, realsoonnow. Mine will be endless. Yours?


Ok, so here we go - things I've done & don't ever want to do again, as at 25 October 2010.

1. Go to England with less than $1000 in my pocket when the exchange rate was $1:33p.
2. Have Gastric Flu.  Coming out both ends.  TMI?  You bet.
3. Spend 6 months unemployed in the Midlands, UK, in the 1980's, where unemployment was running at 28%.
4. Borrow money from a parent.
5. Find out my new chap was married to a woman called Sharon who lived in NZ.
6. Learn shorthand.
7. Go skiing.
8. Rupture my ACL skiing, hence #7.
9. Wait 2 years for an ACL reconstruction because I didn't have private health insurance.
10. ACL reconstruction.
11. Second operation to fix something they missed in #10.

That'll do for today.