QUACK

I haven't updated this journal in a while. Probably cause nothing worth mentioning has really happened in my life recently...
Well I lie, A LOT has happened, it's just the kind of stuff that is posted in my "proper" lj, not my observations one, the truth is nothing has happened that I've taken much notice of.

I'm at my dad's atm. I'm here for the Christmas/New Year break and it's been awesome. Good food, good company and good weather are always the best ingredients for an awesome holiday. By good weather I mean the sun, this my dear friends is because it's summertime this side of the world. So before you go and ask me something like "is it weird that you have a summery Christmas?" or make a statement like "Jeez, it must be weird that you have a summery Christmas" take a moment to bash your head against the desk. Of course it isn't. I've lived here all my life :)

Anyways we went to the supermarket today and I bought a Cosmopolitan mag so I could lax out on the couch reading while I fell asleep in the sun and because I LOVE the sealed section...
That's probably my best part of the mag tbh, fascinating...
So guess how gutted I was when it didn't have it??!??!

Sealed section... WHERE DID YOU GO??!!

Call me a heathen but I must admit that I am a Californication fan.
It's one of those shows that you either love or hate, there is no in between and as a Christian I'm not sure that I should like it as much as I do.
There is one thing about this show that I just can't get my head around (or at least want to - because it's just so damn WRONG). Madeline Zima's sex scenes with David Duchovny. I mean who else here remembers her as Grace Sheffield on The Nanny?

There's something inherently wrong in watching the kids you saw growing up on TV partaking in lewd sexual acts.... It's kinda like watching screetch's sex tape, or the Olsen Twins in a porn movie.

With that being said, I would have thought that the Olsen Twins being in porn - or at least the centerfolds in a playboy magazine would have been more inevitable than wee Gracie sexing it up with a dirty old man...

I just got handed an off campus magazine for extra mural students. The magazine was opened to a page, which has a little ‘communist wanted’ ad tucked away neatly in the corner…

I’m tempted to apply, writing opinion pieces for a magazine or newspaper has always been a dream of mine – as well as having Carrie Bradshaw’s wardrobe… it just seems so glamorous.

In all seriousness though, writing for a magazine HAS always been a dream of mine. It's part of the reason I started this observation's blog - so I could just get my opinion out there. I’m just not sure my writing is good enough. Entertaining 16, 000 students is a scary thought. I’m not sure I’d be able to entertain one student without boring the living crap out of them and sending them to sleep. That’s not to say that I wouldn’t give it a go, test the waters see if they’re as scary as I thought they would be…

So let’s see, they’re looking for someone who is:
Opinionated: Big tick here
Observant: This isn’t an observation journal for the sheer hell of it, so I guess this is a tick
Witty: I’ve been told I’m witty, but I don’t know if that’s people being nice or simply humouring me. I can be sarcastic and flippant…
And as my boss (so eloquently) puts it, sometimes I'm not too sure if that's a 'shining wit, or a whining shit'

Hmmm. I might give it a go… I mean, what’s the worst that could happen? I don’t get the job? Better than not trying at all I guess…

*crosses fingers*

I was watching Rachael Ray one morning. It was the episode where ‘The Super-nanny’ Joe Frost was her ‘special guest’. Anyway, they were making icepacks (Rachael Ray called them Ice Frosts in homage to the super-nanny, which was so cute it almost made me throw up in my mouth a bit) for when your kid’s outside games get a little too rough.

The icepacks:
3 parts water
1 part rubbing alcohol
Food colouring
The alcohol shouldn’t freeze, so what you’re left with is a soft squishy cold icepack…

My idea…
3 parts lemonade
1 part vodka (good vodka doesn’t freeze)
Food colouring

This is an adult’s icepack, cause after you’ve used it to soothe those aches and pains you can stab your squishy icepack with a straw and drink your icepack down….
Haha numb the pain in more ways than one :p

Call me a psychic (or maybe these things are inevitable in a word of political correctness gone mad) but this one's been a LONG time coming, the day when Santa would be forced to ditch ye ole' ho, ho, ho cause it could either

a) Be offensive to women, or
b) scare little kids

I'm not sure about the scaring little kids part, I mean isn't that what Halloween's for? I'm damn sure someone dressed up in a devil mask (like the one I have) or a witch even is going to give the kiddies more nightmares than Santa spreading some festive cheer ever will
When it comes to the ho, ho, ho being offensive to women DANG! It seems like I may have lost my only viable excuse for calling people skanks

Me: ho, ho, ho (slow and drawn out)
Them: what? You calling me a ho? ho!
Me: what, no! Just getting into the spirit of Christmas
(This is more effective when there are three girls standing side by side... but still, it's so much fun!!)

At any rate the new's story was well worth it to hear Mike McRoberts utter these words while trying to stifle a giggle "because of the negative connotation of the word ho"