The Australian meme gakked from around. I never realised just how Aussie I really am!

Bold the ones you've done and add one of your own on the end

1. Heard a kookaburra in person [There was one living in the peppercorn tree outside my flat for a while]
2. Slept under the stars
3. Seen a koala
4. Visited Melbourne [I live in Melbourne!]
5. Watched a summer thunderstorm.
6. Worn a pair of thongs
7. Been to Uluru
8. Visited Cape York
9. Held a snake
10. Sang along with Khe Sahn
11. Drank VB
12. Visited Sydney
13. Have seen a shark
14. Have used Aussie slang naturally in a conversation
15. Had an actual conversation with an indigenous Australian (Aboriginal person)
16. Eaten hot chips from the bag at the beach
17. Walked/climbed over the Sydney Harbour Bridge
18. Used an outside dunny, and checked under the seat before sitting down
19. Seen Chloe in Young & Jackson's.
20. Slept on an overnight train or bus
21. Been to Sydney's Mardi Gras
22. Have gone bush-bashing
23. Taken a sickie
24. Been to see a game of Aussie Rules football
25. Have seen wild camels
26. Gone skinny dipping.
27. Had a Tim Tam Slam.
28. Ridden in a tram in Melbourne
29. Been at an ANZAC day Dawn Service.
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Held a wombat
32. Been on a roadtrip of 800km or more
33. Seen the Great Australian Bight in person
34. Had a really bad sunburn
35. Visited an Aboriginal community
36. Seen a redback spider [Redbacks aren't common in the area where I grew up, thank god.]
37. Have watched Paul Hogan
38. Seen Blue Poles in person And contemplated it.
39. Wandered barefoot in the bush/outback
40. Eaten Vegemite and hated it [Actually, I love Vegemite and I had Vegemite toast for brekky this morning!]
41. Thrown a boomerang [Badly, but I was only eight!]
42. Seen the Kimberlies
43. Given a hitch-hiker a lift
44. Been to Perth
45. Have tried Lemon, Lime and Bitters
46. Tried playing a didgeridoo
47. Seen dinosaur footprints
48. Eaten Tim Tams [Oh YES!]
49. Been to Darwin
50. Touched a kangaroo [I had them eating out of my hands at the wildlife park on Saturday!]
51. Visted the Great Barrier Reef
52. Listened to Kevin Bloody Wilson
53. Killed a Cane Toad
54. Gone to a drive-in theatre [There were two in the old home town when I was growing up and I saw Star Wars for the very first time at the one near my house!]
55. Have read and own books by Australian authors
56. Visited Adelaide
57. Know the story behind "Eternity"
58. Been camping
59. Visited Brisbane
60. Been in an outback pub
61. Know what the term "Waltzing Matilda" actually means
62. Gone whale watching
63. Listened to Slim Dusty
64. Own five or more Australian movies or TV series. {I don't think I own even one!]
65. Sang along to Down Under
66. Have stopped specifically to look at an historic marker by the side of the road.
67. Eaten a 4'n'20 pie
68. Surfed at Bondi
69. Watched the cricket on Boxing Day
70. Visited Hobart
71. Eaten kangaroo
72. Seen a quokka
73. Visited Canberra
74. Visited rainforests
75. Used a Victa lawnmower
76. Travelled on a tram in Adelaide
78. Used a Hills hoist
79. Visited the Olgas
80. Used native Australian plants in cooking
81. Visited the snow [You may think it's odd visiting the snow, but you've got to remember that where I come from the average winter temperature is 10-12C, which means there's not much snow outside the alpine regions.)
82. Chosen a side in Holden VS Ford
83. Visited the desert
84. Been water skiing
85. Read The Phantom
86. Visited Parliament House
87. Gone spotlighting or pig-shooting
88. Crossed the Nullarbor
89. Avoided swimming in areas because of crocodiles
90. Listened to AC/DC.
91. Called someone a dag
92. Voted in a Federal Election
93. Have been swimming and stayed between the flags
94. Had a possum in your roof
95. Visited the outback [I was born in the Mallee. Does that count?]
96. Travelled over corrugated roads
97. Hit a kangaroo while driving
98. Been well outside any mobile phone coverage [Happens all the tme on my way to the old home town]
99. Seen an emu.
100. Have woken to the smell of bushfires
101. Said that you were bludging or called someone a bludger
102. Habitually shortened friends' names. [Yes, although I hate it when they do it to me!]

And mine is...

103. Eaten a snag at a backyard barbie on a Saturday arvo.

Gakked from lordessrenegade

01. Think of the first word that comes to mind when you think of me.
02. Go to Google Images and search for that word.
03. Reply to this post with one of the pictures on the first page of results.
04. Put this in your own journal so that I can do the same.

Go on, picsam me, people!!

Gakked from just about everywhere:

When you see this, post another Supernatural quote in your LJ. Let's see how long this can go on.

Dean: You know what, there's a ton of lore on unicorns too. In fact, I hear that they ride on silver moonbeams, and that they shoot rainbows out of their ass!
Sam: Wait, there's no such thing as unicorns?

Meme time, gakked from katikat

Name a CD you own that you think no-one else on your friendslist does:
Poseidon by The Mavis's. It was their first EP and hasn't been commercially available since 1993. I bought while we were all still living in the old home town and I should have gotten them to sign it before they broke up, but I always thought they'd be around forever :~(

Name a book you own that you think no-one else on your friendslist does:
Blahnik by Boman: Shoes, Photographs, Conversation. Why yes, I am a shoe queen. Why do you ask? *g*

Name a movie you own on DVD/VHS/whatever that you think no-one else on your friendslist does:
It's not exactly a movie, but I'm not sure how many of my flist would own Lillie, a miniseries about the life of Lillie Langtry starring Francesca Annis.

Name a place that you have visited that you think no-one else on your friendslist has:
I'd say the old home town, but I know for a fact that at least two of you have been there, so I'm nominating Manangatang in the Victorian Mallee region.

Name a piece of technology or any sort of tool you own that you think no-one else on your friendslist has:
My book measure that tells me if a book is a folio, elephant or giant folio. It was given to me by the rare books cataloger at work and I just love it.

I seem to have taken a mini hiatus from LJ. I've been lurking around - sort of - but not interacting much and only really skimming my flist. I've had a bit of a week at work and what with not riding my bike for the last ten days I'm feeling like I've gone to seed just a tad. All the pikelet's I've made over the last couple of days haven't helped either. But the denim skirt I've been making has worked out wonderfully and new MiniSN after such a long time is enough to put a smile on anyone's face.

It was More Joy Day yesterday, and thank you so much to vsee for my rubber duck and to Anony-Mouse for my polar bear, I love them greatly!

Is it just me or is LJ being awfully slow at the moment?

I have a pretty packed weekend coming up, aside from the usual laundry/cleaning/groceries kind of thing. On Saturday I'm going to see Wicked with a couple of friends. We're having dinner at Wagamama first, which is not my favourite place to eat, but it has lots of vegan options for A which is the important thing. Then on Sunday afternoon I'm going to see the Art Deco exhibition at NGV with best work friend and her office mate, and for dinner I'm dining at a Japanese restaurant with the lovely in_the_bottle and a few others. Woot, social life!

Aaaand in other news, here's my contribution to that retrospective meme that's going around:

No post for July 4th 2007, but on July 3rd I was bored at work and distracting my flist with picspam of cute boys and a kitten. I was also quite gleeful about the fact that my season three Slings and Arrows DVDs had just arrived and could hardly wait to get home to say hi to Geoffrey and Co.

On July 4th 2006, work was so boring I thought I was about to die from ennui.

No post for July 4th, 2005 either, but on July 3rd I made chocolate cake to take over to a friend's house and that even A dragged me out to see see War of the Worlds so as to escape his housemate's cacophonous relatives.

I didn't post at all on July 3rd or 4th in 2004, but on the 5th my Sports Night DVDs finally came back to me after living with a friend for a month or so, and I was in the midst of doing the research that would eventually result in the purchase of the laptop I am currently using. OMG, has it really been four years since I bought it?

And only July 4th, 2003, I hadn't even heard of LJ that stage and was still trawling around yahoo.groups for all the good stuff.

How time does fly!

I think I might be suffering from SPN Big Bang fatigue. The last couple of days, just the thought I tackling one of the fics in my 'To Read' folder makes me cringe. I think I need to go back to due South for a while. Get me some F/K snuggling so that when I return to the SPN boys it will be all fresh and new again.

Yeah.

I'm still feeling poorly so I've taken another day off today. I did go into work yesterday, but that might have been a mistake because everyone kept saying, "You don't look too good, are you sure you should be here?" so I'm assuming that my absence today won't come as any shock to them. I've got an appointment to see the doctor at midday and depending on what he says I may take tomorrow off as well, as long as I can get someone to do the roster for me :~\

Of course it happens to be my luck that I have not one but two building sites outside my bedroom window at the moment, so do you think I got the chance to sleep in or anything? Of course not! 7.30am and there's the insistent beep beep beep of the bobcat, thew banging of hammers and the conversations about football and "Hey, mick, chuck us the bloody hammer, mate!"

Grrr!

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		I will marry Callum Keith Rennie.
		After a wild honeymoon, We will settle down in London in our fabulous Apartment.
		We will have 5 kid(s) together.
		Our family will zoom around in a Red Mercedes.
		I will spend my days as a Professional Shopper, and live happily ever after.

Yep, I can totally live with that :~)