Like the sand that gets in places it shouldnt be when you go to the beach, so it feels the same with my eyeballs..

I need sleep. I have a busy day to attend to later.

work, work, (meet someone who’s an ex of a friend of mine and she’s now working for my work.. EEK) dash across the city for lunch and sleep then work midnight till 6.00am - more after that.

I was going to leave it as just that, but After spending an hour on netmeeting with a friend, i decided to unwind with listening to Kitaro. When I was about 10 or 11, there was a TV series called the Silk Road - all about Marco Polo’s journey through china, the different places he stayed, the landscape was wonderful, and Kitaro was the composer who wrote the theme song. Its awe inspiring music to listen to at this time of night. It makes me wish I was that talented to produce such beautiful sounds that transport me to another place and another time. Which seems more romantic, and mystical.

ps: comments are down (or were) again. feel free to use tagboard.

I found Wil Wheaton’s web log. Wil Wheaton is the dude from Star Trek - Next Gen who was Ensign Wesley Crusher. I loved and hated that guy. I always thought he was younger than me to - he seemed to be very baby faced I guess. Now it appears he’s actually older than me! It also appears he’s very normal. How odd? Not really. TV shows like ET tend to make TV stars seem above the rest of us, including their problems, but Will seems regular like me. He swears, listens to the same music I do, reads the same web cartoons that I do, and unfortunately, seems to like using Apple products. That’s ok I guess, PC’s are for those more technically inclined to tinker with their machines. :>

I think I watched every Next Gen episode. But really the whole star trek phenomena isnt the type of “science fiction” that interests me. It was very clinical and moral. I prefer Sci fi with grunge or applying current theories to realistic situations. Philip K Dick, Greg Egan. Science fiction isn’t black and white, it isn’t good verses evil, it’s real people with real dilemas, its questions about mankind and our direction, it encourages us to think. It shows us what is possible and within our grasp, or what could go horribly wrong. It isn’t always about aliens, new races, old races or a rip in the space time continuim.

AnD to top it off comments aren’t working.

*slaps enetation*

its probaby a blogger problem. if You wish to comment, most don’t tho - there IS the tagboard, but knowing my luck, that too will break! I start work in four hours, what the hell am i doing up?

ummm *looks at blogger*

yuck. whatever blogger did over the weekend to blogger broke it. I couldn’t use the “blog this!” feature because i got a runtime error, so i logged into the blogger.com site to enter in manually, and i get more of an error, plus.. things look warped on the screen, the calender and then view posts bit are wonky and i got another runtime error…

EEP. This better not break my blog or i’ll be VERY upset. *closes the yellow blogger help window that nicely popped up all by itself*

I had a joke for you. At least it made me laugh. And isn’t big brother getting interesting. I remember watching something on TV once about a group of kids that did a blue eyes brown eyes thing where they were segregated due to eyecolour. The impact of the week long experiment had far reaching consequences for the students, the teacher, and society for decades to come. Now Big brother is going to be doing something similar in the house.

The Haves and Have nots. Put simply, the have nots will serve, cook and clean for the Haves and live in one room with card board boxes and have rations for food, and cold showers on the other side of the coin, the Haves will have their own rooms, continuous luxury, more money than they could ever dream of, long hot water showers and be served on hand and foot.

I wonder what will happen to the friendships which are formed, will they be destroyed? Can they stand the stress of being the underpriviledged? How will that affect voting for the following week? How to ordinary nice people turn into snobs? Its a very interesting week on big brother.

Joke time!

A man left work one Friday afternoon. But instead of going home, he stayed out the entire weekend, hunting with the boys and spending his entire paycheck.

When he finally appeared at home, Sunday night, he was confronted by his very angry wife and was barraged for nearly 2 hours with a tirade about his actions. Finally his wife stopped the nagging and simply said to him “How would you like it if you didn’t see me for 2 or 3 days?

To which he replied, “That would be fine with me”.

Monday went by and he didn’t see his wife. Tuesday and Wednesday came and went and he didn’t see her.

On Thursday, the swelling went down just enough where he could see her a little out of the corner of his left eye.

l.

It was a success !! Well part of it was, my movie list friends are too concerned with movies to appreciate me! But that’s not what it was about. No one actually commented on the hugs that I sent to them, so that sucked. I hate you all now, and you’re off my 30th birthday party list. but at least they know.

My coffee gals were great - traffic was a nightmare for both Fi and myself, stuck on opposite ends of the city to get to Fremantle Dome for a coffee, another leaving early because of husband and child commitments, and the other needing to catch a bus but we still found our way to Freo, found parking! and dashed to Dome and then made me move next door to Marconi’s because the food is better and my sister’s boyfriend is the head chef! So there was Fi, Bel and myself, having coffee, gossiping and eating.

After Bel rushed off to the bus and leaving her shopping behind, Fi and I walked down to the car and had a talk about life love and relationships. We’ve arranged to do the lunch thing next week, and maybe cass can come along if she’s not too busy studying to be a Custom’s chicky. I drove up to Cass’ house and spent some time with her and her hubby. Sash (daughter) is looking more and more grown up, its hard to believe she’s only 7 years old. They have an interesting woman living with them, she used to run a spiritual shop near Cass’ house and she’s teaching cass how to be.. a psychic? not sure what you call it. Cass seems to think this woman likes me. Heh.

I paid for the car repairs, and the tyres and found that i had maxxed out the card. My account only lets me take out $1000 per day. Well, my car was close to $740, plus the tyres, $1150. I had to go back and pay for rest of the tyres this morning ;-/ .. I also dragged my ass around Perth to get some book cases for the dozens of books i have lying around the place which need a home, since the 2 7 feet high book cases are full with a no vacancy sign hanging on the front of the shelves. any more books and they might just revolt and throw themselves off the shelf in disgust.

Busy last couple of days!! ! I need sleep… ZzZzz

Well work got in the way of my good intentioned Friend Appreciation Day, however I am now back on track. I asked a few people for their ideas on what they could do to let their friends know that they are appreciated. I will list them down.

Spending quality time with them - this doesnt necessarily mean going to the movies, cuz you’re not talking to them, maybe go for a walk, or a coffee and just chat a while.
Send them email - and thank them for their friendship, ask them how they are going, and let them know how much they mean to you.
SMS - send a hug! or a cheery hello
E-cards - don’t we all know about these! the most obvious one being bluemountain.com
Hugs - Hugs make the world go around
Small card - for real life friends, these are priceless, you can make them yourself, or go to a card shop and find something suitably mushy
Phone call - some friends might live overseas, or interstate, they would love to hear from you.
Small gift - for those who feel a more permanent sign of their friendship would be nice, something small, like flowers, teddybear, altho i think girls might like these more than guys, so maybe a bottle of wine for the men.. less girly - or friendship bracelets.

So here’s the “to do” list and what I am up to now…

So today.. I kind of cheated, but how is it cheating when the whole point is to tell your friends how much they mean to you!!

I have a group of real life friends, about 8 not including myself on a mailing list that we use to arrange social events, movies, dinner parties etc. So today I sent them an email telling them how much I appreciated them and a big hug was included in the email.

Yesterday I made contact with another friend I haven’t spoken to for a while and had a good chat with her, and found out how she was, and I am going to arrange to meet for coffee after her exams. She’s always been there for me even when I have been absent due to my own issues that I inflict on myself.

Tomorrow, I meet 4 friends I haven’t seen in a couple of months for coffee and a gossip - that should be alot of fun
So It has STARTED!

This entry was inspired by dave - who left a comment in my journal and mentioned his fighting fish. You know a couple has moments when there are things you think are only between you and your dear one?

Like the time my partner and I sat on the couch for 10 minutes a few months ago and did fish faces at eachother making little puffing noises like we were breathing through water.

Then at the dinner party on Friday night, we were laughing about something and spontaneously one of my other male frends started doing the fish face at me, I quickly responded with my face, and pretty soon, a group of adults in a room where the average age was about 28 were busy making fishy faces… and no.. we were not drunk..

goodness me, its been a packed day full of working/cleaning more cleaning and lets think about it.. cleaning!

What is the reason for this urge of domestic cleanliness? well I rent, and tomorrow we have the estate agent coming around to scrutinise the house and tell us about what we haven’t done to fix things yet. To see if we are dirty people, if the garage still looks like a bomb has hit it, the usual.

Its not too bad though, I have to wonder about the cocktail of chemicals we use to clean things only to find after we have choked on the fumes that really its not that clean. Why must everything be so clean a person can eat off the clean surface.. we need to have germs in our atmosphere, it builds up your immune system and makes you better able to fight nasty things like SARS. I am not recommending we go back to being totally unhygienic.. HYGIENE IS GOOD - just lets not clean ourselves into illness and immunity problems.