I'm playing a game of Uno on facebook, so this entry's going to take forever, lol.
Mi madre and I went shopping today.
My purchases were many and varied...Well, not that varied, but you know.
I got a new iPod Nano - black and 16 gig. I can see myself downloading a ton of podcasts. I can't wait. Mum got a green 8 gig one and it listening to it around the house. This is her first experience with an iPod and I must say, she's coming along swimmingly.
I bought an arseload of DVDs...OK, five, but they were from JB HiFi, so they were cheap. I got Kinky Boots (I finally succumbed), Good Will Hunting, Don Juan DeMarco (yet another Johnny Depp movie), Billy Elliot and Happy Tree Friends And Friends, Vol. 1. I'm going to say, right now, that if there are people out there who haven't heard of Happy Tree Friends, then go and look it up on YouTube...It's a bunch of cartoon, cutesy animals killing each other. Often brutally. And it's hilarious.
Went to Dymocks, so books had to factor into the equation. I've decided that for me, book buying is usually a passive experience. I don't tend to actively participate unless I need something (like the copy of Wuthering Heights I needed)...Usually I amble around (usually for hours) and books I've seen elsewhere and neglected to buy make themselves known, or, as has happened more than once (seriously), books I've wanted but couldn't for the life of me find fall off the shelves and onto me. Dead set, it happened with my copy of Greg Louganis' book Breaking The Surface (a great read, as it happens).
So anyway, nothing fell on me today, but I was having this conversation with my mother about Billy Connolly and how she doesn't think he's as great as I do when, lo and behold, right there is the last copy of his new book Journey To The Edge Of The World. It's about him travelling...I guess to the edges of the world, lol, and has a touch of Stephen Fry In America about it. Great photographs. Needless to say, I am now in possession of said book. I headed to the travel section (which I adore) and found Me, Myself And Prague sitting there right where I left it the last billion times I've been to Dymocks. It's a travel book, and it's about the country from which my paternal family hail...Mine now. And lastly I got Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists and Other Sex Offenders. I admit, it doesn't make for comfortable reading, but I bought it in order to try and answer my favourite question about human nature: Why do people do the things they do?
Oh, and that wretched Wuthering Heights. Classic or no, I can't stand that book. Nor others of that genre and period. I know they're popular and I have to study them for English Lit, but I don't enjoy them. Pride And Prejudice, Wuthering Heights, Rebecca (bloody Mandalay) and The Great Gatsby (what's so great about him?) are on my blacklist.
And shin pads. Because my old ones are about four years old and are...Well, suffice to say that I've never washed them ;)
I'm going to end it all over this dashed essay of mine. It's due on Monday and for all intents, it's finished: Done the referencing, done the bibliography, done the cover page and I've done the blasted essay itself, lol...But I have to cut out almost two hundred words!!!!!! I'm going to chop out all of the ands, ifs, buts etc. Sure, it might not make sense, but there's a 1500 word limit to adhere to!
On the plus side, I'm feeling all accomplished - I've never had to pare down an essay before. Usually I have to flesh them out...I just do the first draft and go "meh, close enough", which was fine back in high school. Well, not fine, but it did the job. But yeah, I feel good. Frustrated, but good.
Back to the old grind, then. Ugh...I wish I had a Jeeves - he'd help.
Toodle-Pip.
Mi madre and I went shopping today.
My purchases were many and varied...Well, not that varied, but you know.
I got a new iPod Nano - black and 16 gig. I can see myself downloading a ton of podcasts. I can't wait. Mum got a green 8 gig one and it listening to it around the house. This is her first experience with an iPod and I must say, she's coming along swimmingly.
I bought an arseload of DVDs...OK, five, but they were from JB HiFi, so they were cheap. I got Kinky Boots (I finally succumbed), Good Will Hunting, Don Juan DeMarco (yet another Johnny Depp movie), Billy Elliot and Happy Tree Friends And Friends, Vol. 1. I'm going to say, right now, that if there are people out there who haven't heard of Happy Tree Friends, then go and look it up on YouTube...It's a bunch of cartoon, cutesy animals killing each other. Often brutally. And it's hilarious.
Went to Dymocks, so books had to factor into the equation. I've decided that for me, book buying is usually a passive experience. I don't tend to actively participate unless I need something (like the copy of Wuthering Heights I needed)...Usually I amble around (usually for hours) and books I've seen elsewhere and neglected to buy make themselves known, or, as has happened more than once (seriously), books I've wanted but couldn't for the life of me find fall off the shelves and onto me. Dead set, it happened with my copy of Greg Louganis' book Breaking The Surface (a great read, as it happens).
So anyway, nothing fell on me today, but I was having this conversation with my mother about Billy Connolly and how she doesn't think he's as great as I do when, lo and behold, right there is the last copy of his new book Journey To The Edge Of The World. It's about him travelling...I guess to the edges of the world, lol, and has a touch of Stephen Fry In America about it. Great photographs. Needless to say, I am now in possession of said book. I headed to the travel section (which I adore) and found Me, Myself And Prague sitting there right where I left it the last billion times I've been to Dymocks. It's a travel book, and it's about the country from which my paternal family hail...Mine now. And lastly I got Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists and Other Sex Offenders. I admit, it doesn't make for comfortable reading, but I bought it in order to try and answer my favourite question about human nature: Why do people do the things they do?
Oh, and that wretched Wuthering Heights. Classic or no, I can't stand that book. Nor others of that genre and period. I know they're popular and I have to study them for English Lit, but I don't enjoy them. Pride And Prejudice, Wuthering Heights, Rebecca (bloody Mandalay) and The Great Gatsby (what's so great about him?) are on my blacklist.
And shin pads. Because my old ones are about four years old and are...Well, suffice to say that I've never washed them ;)
I'm going to end it all over this dashed essay of mine. It's due on Monday and for all intents, it's finished: Done the referencing, done the bibliography, done the cover page and I've done the blasted essay itself, lol...But I have to cut out almost two hundred words!!!!!! I'm going to chop out all of the ands, ifs, buts etc. Sure, it might not make sense, but there's a 1500 word limit to adhere to!
On the plus side, I'm feeling all accomplished - I've never had to pare down an essay before. Usually I have to flesh them out...I just do the first draft and go "meh, close enough", which was fine back in high school. Well, not fine, but it did the job. But yeah, I feel good. Frustrated, but good.
Back to the old grind, then. Ugh...I wish I had a Jeeves - he'd help.
Toodle-Pip.