You know what bugs me......

Nice is nice

2008-09-07T16:31:00.001+10:00

LOCATION Nice, FranceWeather is beautiful, but very warm. You're almost sweating at 10pm still. So an eventful departure from Barcelona. When in the breakfast room, one of our tour group had her handbag stolen. It was so fast it was incredible, she put it down, went to get something, not even her whole breakfast, and when she came back it was gone. Afterward a bunch of people remembered seeing

Come to the cabaret my friend

2008-09-04T07:43:00.004+10:00

oh boy did we go to the cabaret and it was totally worth the 60 euro p/p it cost (we have a Euro symbol on the keyboard, two actually, do I know how to make them work? No. Grr. We went to the Lido show, which is located on the Champs- Elysees, he main avenue in Paris. It was so magnificent, I wish we had been allowed to take pictures but alas we weren't. Unfortunately this is as good as it gets

English people are weird

2008-09-03T00:50:00.000+10:00

I have heard, on more than one occassion that Australians are in denial about the weather. Some people think we pretend its not cold, shirking warm clothing for thongs and singlets. While this is not always true, I agree with it for the most part. The sunday before we flew out of Sydney, the sun came out and I perservered with shorts, for the first time in 3 months or so. It was awesome, for

Memo-Narita is NOT Tokyo

2008-08-29T11:42:00.000+10:00

LOCATION: Narita Airport JAPAN Local Time 10.47 am Weather is overcast but very warm and humid. Shorts and singlet weather! So we’ve landed in Japan and we're about to head off again, currently sitting in the Free Yahoo cafe in Narita Airport, which is cool! Note we're at Narita Airport, NOT Tokyo as we previously thought. Having told everyone we were stopping in Tokyo we feel like right idiots

We're almost away!

2008-08-27T15:47:00.000+10:00

Whee! Busy packing, can't chat, looks like it will be warm tomorrow when we land in Tokyo though!!!

Jesus needs more Carrie Underwoods

2008-08-26T17:35:00.000+10:00

For those of you unacquainted, and too lazy to watch the video (or too busy vomiting after watching it) Carrie Underwood is a country singer that is very pretty, very blonde, and this song is very catchy. Because I am a giant sucker for catchy Country and Western, I can't help but like it. I like it, even though I loathe the subject matter in its syrupy, saccharine vomitude-Chorus Jesus take the

Richard Dawkins reads his email

2008-08-26T09:54:00.000+10:00

Are you my type?

2008-08-21T10:49:00.004+10:00

I most definitely have a type. Thankfully M sits squarely in the middle of it, so I feel I can discuss it freely.As a Married White Female, I don't find myself "checking out" guys very often anymore. Not that I ever really wandered around as a single gal gawking at mens butts and letting out a low whistle everytime I saw something I appreciated. I just find that when it comes to looking at men

Its a lovely day today

2008-08-20T12:50:00.000+10:00

Had one of those bizarre, do I know you.... moments this morning at the Post Office of all places. I locked eyes with this guy, pleasant surfer looking fellow, and thought where do I know you from....hmmm before moving into the line. I kind of got the vibe he was thinking the same thing....I couldn't stop wondering, and am still wondering where I've seen him. I didn't ask him where I knew him

Ew

2008-08-19T11:26:00.002+10:00

As a non-beer drinker I am completely upfront about the fact that I think beer tastes and smell like ass.Ok so I really dislike the smell of beer. I can only imagine that beer smells much like it tastes, but I can really only guess as I've only ever had two sips: from a Corona, (as the "girly beer" apparently. I thought perhaps it would be slightly less than vile, and I was.....wrong), and a

Oh, so Stupid!

2008-08-15T16:14:00.002+10:00

From Runaway Bride To Ex-Wife Video Rental Store | Texas, USA (A few years ago I was working at a video store when there were still late fees, and this exchange occurred after I scanned a couple’s rentals:) Me: “Okay, sir, with the late fee from your last rental, your total is $9.50.” Husband: “What do you mean a late fee? I ALWAYS return my movies on time, so you need to remove that late

Trying to mate with an epileptic cow

2008-08-14T11:21:00.000+10:00

Your Money, Starting Out and Starting Over - Anita Bell ****

2008-08-14T09:23:00.009+10:00

Hmm Kind of hard to rate this book, it was good and everything, but different people will find it useful in different ways. Having read the first book, Your Mortgage: How to pay it off in 5 years (by a woman who did it in three), it was mostly same-old-same-old: an awesome way to make a budget and stick to it. There is also a heap of easy investing at the back but we're not quite at that point.

The blogs are out there, and they're waiting for you

2008-08-13T10:00:00.000+10:00

In the last few months I've discovered a whole new bunch of blogs out there in the blogsphere that are all brilliant. Initially I meant to post a bit of a roundup of them all and how I got to them, but as the days progressed I got more and more into them and then I simply couldn't choose a post that spoke most to me, nor could I remember the post that had initially caught my eye, in order to

Kenji

2008-08-12T09:17:00.004+10:00

Its times like this I think how ignorant I am of relatively modern history. This is a video of a song by Fort Minor (the guy from Linkin Park) about the Japanese internment. Unlikley subject for him (until the end), but very interesting. Thanks to SkepticLawyer

Who's ring is this?

2008-08-11T14:23:00.003+10:00

Guess which WOMAN this engagement ring belongs to?Yes, it really is a woman's hand, and I too was surprised. Her husbands ex-wife has just undertaken court proceedings to establish how much this couple were recently paid for their wedding photos on a remote island. One has to ask how can she possibly think she'll be awarded any money from AFTER their marriage? To fin out who this is, just drag

Ghost ships and other maritime mysteries

2008-08-08T11:56:00.000+10:00

I love stuff like this.This is a picture from the Kaz II, which was found floating, empty, off the coast of Northern Queensland in April 2007.The three man crew have not been found, nor their bodies recovered. They simply...disappeared.Today's article on news.com.au at the Coronial Inquest details the feeling of the first rescuer on board"It was eerie," Benson yesterday told the inquest in

A fancy function indeed

2008-08-08T08:20:00.001+10:00

I recently worked a very exclusive function, as wait staff for a small sit down affair. The client was a major Global Banking Corporation (very well known), very serious money going on.I was quite nervous before it started as we'd been briefed that it was going to be a very formal affair, selected wines for different courses, all fine dining, when all I've done previously is finger food (with

That asshole in your rearview mirror might just be me

2008-08-07T11:23:00.000+10:00

I'm quite an aggressive driver. I know this, but don't try to tell me, its embarrassing enough knowing it myself without others pointing it out. Its not that I'm road raging all the time, but I have a tendency to be impatient, especially when I'm running late, which is often. I have been known to beep my horn on occasion, but I draw the line at screaming at someone out my window. That kind of

Paris Hilton for President?!?!?

2008-08-06T10:31:00.002+10:00

This is what happens when you try to use someone like Paris Hilton to slag off your opponent without asking her. Someone pays her bucketloads of money to make fun of you in response. See &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;a href="http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/64ad536a6d"&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;Paris Hilton Responds to McCain Ad&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;

World Youth Day, a guest post

2008-08-05T19:09:00.003+10:00

M got the opportunity to see the Pontiff from a VIP seat when he arrived by "boatacade". He recounts his experience as a practicing Catholic and ponders why it didn't really hit the mark for him personally. The green bags on each of the seats are branded with Xt3, "catholic Facebook" Somewhere along the line, the chance of me getting anything out of World Youth Day 2008 went swiftly down the

You hated it, but ate it anyway?

2008-08-05T15:48:00.001+10:00

Now I'm not trying to make excuses, but M finally gave me his head cold after two weeks of staving it off. Take THAT immune system!Sorry its been a bit quiet, I've got some stuff I'll put up tonight hopefully, in the meantime, a Not Always Right from our own sunny Aussie shores: Don’t Mess With MumRestaurant | Sydney, Australia (I’m working in a busy cafe that my mum owns. A man approaches the

On a scale of 1-5...

2008-08-01T14:30:00.003+10:00

Where 1 is not-so-bad and 5 is back-away-from-the-internet Which is worse? Trawling the Facebook profile of your ex-bfTrawling the Facebook profile of your husband's ex-GFTrawling Facebook profiles of people you barely knowTrawling Facebook for acquaintances of old (which may or may not include old hook-ups)(why do I always end up doing this on Friday afternoons?)

Women and money- chalk and cheese or peas in a pod?

2008-07-31T14:51:00.003+10:00

The demographic I am part of, and the geographic area I live may be skewed, but every couple I know (our age), the women are in charge of household finances. Obviously there are exceptions to every rule, but in the circumstances where finances have joined, it seems to be the girls in charge of the everyday cash, bills, and banking**. This is in contrast to times gone by when the "men" were the

I too, like email

2008-07-31T08:00:00.000+10:00

HAD to post this one, its too bizarre! (I'm on page 49 of 99 pages of archives....) A Woman Of Few WordsInformation Technology (University) | Midwest, USA (I was in our technology support office when a housekeeping staff person, Donna, stopped by. There was no preamble to the dialog below.) Donna: “Dr. Franklin gets e-mail in his office.” Me: *nods* Donna: “Alicia says she can check her