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todayiamadaisy) wrote2015-01-27 11:55 am
todayiamadaisy) wrote2015-01-27 11:55 am
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Solita and the Spies
Our Prime Minister, honestly. Last year, in response to precisely no demands, he re-started the practice of creating knights and dames. Yesterday was Australia Day* and to mark the occasion, he knighted Prince Philip. I assume he did this because he couldn't dame the Queen.
Back in the real world, painting is proceeding at... maybe not at full steam, but definitely at some steam. They start at 7:30 in the morning and finish at 3:30, without stopping for lunch, which I find extraordinary. I need lunch.
They bring a radio with them and the head painter likes to sing along. This morning while I was having breakfast he was stirring paint under the patio singing along with Bruce Springsteen's "I'm on fire", but the only line he knew was, 'Ooh-ooh-ooh, I'm on fire'. So Bruce would sing about the freight train running through the middle of his head, and the painter would chip in about how he was on fire. Then at the end, he whispered, 'I'm. On. FIRE!' to the paint, sounding as though he should be doing jazz hands. I don't know if Mr Springsteen finishes the song like that when he performs it in concert, but he should consider it. It was just what was needed.
A few people on my f-list have been doing that 10 day challenge meme, which I have enjoyed reading. Here's the start of mine, fashionably late:
The 10 Day Challenge
Day 1 - Ten random facts about yourself
Day 2 - Nine things you do everyday
Day 3 - Eight things that annoy you
Day 4 - Seven fears/phobias
Day 5 - Six songs that you’re addicted to
Day 6 - Five things you can’t live without
Day 7 - Four memories you won’t forget
Day 8 - Three words you can’t go a day without
Day 9 - Two things you wish you could do
Day 10 - One person you can trust
1. When I was little, I would find a long stick, put one end on the ground and the other in my belly-button, and walk around the garden. This was tremendous fun (I was a sad and lonely child, yes), until I hit a bump and the stick pushed back. It's a great game, and I urge you all to play it. I take no responsibility if it disembowels you.
2. A doctor once told me I may be allergic to chocolate. I have bravely eaten my way to immunity.
3. I really am allergic to sunscreen. I get to spend summer either indoors and pasty white or outdoors and rash red. This is getting worse as I get older.
4. I can't get to sleep without one or both feet uncovered. Even on the coldest winter night, I prefer to have my feet out with socks on than have them tucked in.
5. I worry that the car will tip off backwards when I drive up a steep hill.
6. I had a terrible case of chicken pox as a toddler, so bad that I am still polka-dotted with white scars all over my back and belly. And that is why I'm not a bikini model. There's also a chicken pox scar on the bridge of my nose, which is generally covered by my glasses.
7. My car is named Freddy, because (a) it is a Ford Festiva and I adore alliteration and (b) I also adore Freddy Eynsford-Hill from My Fair Lady.
8. My confirmation name was Bernadette, and to mark the occasion I was given a glow-in-the-dark Lourdes grotto. I have my issues with the Catholic church, but credit where it's due, it knows what it's about when it comes to knick-knacks. (I do not still have the grotto. It stopped glowing in the dark after about twenty years, and by then Mary had lost a hand, so I threw it out.)
9. I own a triangular... I want to say bridge board? It a piece of wood with lines of paired holes to put matches or toothpicks in, used for some card game or other, only mine is three pieces of wood joined to make a triangle. I have never used it, obviously. It belonged to my grandmother and I never saw her use it either. I don't think she even knew how to play bridge (her game was euchre).
10. I had to give a random fact about myself as an ice-breaker at a work conference, and the fact I offered was that I have double-jointed thumbs. There I offer bang for your random fact buck, because that is two random facts in one: that I have double-jointed thumbs, and that I have previously used them as a random fact.
* Was I made Australian of the Year? No, I was not.
Back in the real world, painting is proceeding at... maybe not at full steam, but definitely at some steam. They start at 7:30 in the morning and finish at 3:30, without stopping for lunch, which I find extraordinary. I need lunch.
They bring a radio with them and the head painter likes to sing along. This morning while I was having breakfast he was stirring paint under the patio singing along with Bruce Springsteen's "I'm on fire", but the only line he knew was, 'Ooh-ooh-ooh, I'm on fire'. So Bruce would sing about the freight train running through the middle of his head, and the painter would chip in about how he was on fire. Then at the end, he whispered, 'I'm. On. FIRE!' to the paint, sounding as though he should be doing jazz hands. I don't know if Mr Springsteen finishes the song like that when he performs it in concert, but he should consider it. It was just what was needed.
A few people on my f-list have been doing that 10 day challenge meme, which I have enjoyed reading. Here's the start of mine, fashionably late:
The 10 Day Challenge
Day 1 - Ten random facts about yourself
Day 2 - Nine things you do everyday
Day 3 - Eight things that annoy you
Day 4 - Seven fears/phobias
Day 5 - Six songs that you’re addicted to
Day 6 - Five things you can’t live without
Day 7 - Four memories you won’t forget
Day 8 - Three words you can’t go a day without
Day 9 - Two things you wish you could do
Day 10 - One person you can trust
1. When I was little, I would find a long stick, put one end on the ground and the other in my belly-button, and walk around the garden. This was tremendous fun (I was a sad and lonely child, yes), until I hit a bump and the stick pushed back. It's a great game, and I urge you all to play it. I take no responsibility if it disembowels you.
2. A doctor once told me I may be allergic to chocolate. I have bravely eaten my way to immunity.
3. I really am allergic to sunscreen. I get to spend summer either indoors and pasty white or outdoors and rash red. This is getting worse as I get older.
4. I can't get to sleep without one or both feet uncovered. Even on the coldest winter night, I prefer to have my feet out with socks on than have them tucked in.
5. I worry that the car will tip off backwards when I drive up a steep hill.
6. I had a terrible case of chicken pox as a toddler, so bad that I am still polka-dotted with white scars all over my back and belly. And that is why I'm not a bikini model. There's also a chicken pox scar on the bridge of my nose, which is generally covered by my glasses.
7. My car is named Freddy, because (a) it is a Ford Festiva and I adore alliteration and (b) I also adore Freddy Eynsford-Hill from My Fair Lady.
8. My confirmation name was Bernadette, and to mark the occasion I was given a glow-in-the-dark Lourdes grotto. I have my issues with the Catholic church, but credit where it's due, it knows what it's about when it comes to knick-knacks. (I do not still have the grotto. It stopped glowing in the dark after about twenty years, and by then Mary had lost a hand, so I threw it out.)
9. I own a triangular... I want to say bridge board? It a piece of wood with lines of paired holes to put matches or toothpicks in, used for some card game or other, only mine is three pieces of wood joined to make a triangle. I have never used it, obviously. It belonged to my grandmother and I never saw her use it either. I don't think she even knew how to play bridge (her game was euchre).
10. I had to give a random fact about myself as an ice-breaker at a work conference, and the fact I offered was that I have double-jointed thumbs. There I offer bang for your random fact buck, because that is two random facts in one: that I have double-jointed thumbs, and that I have previously used them as a random fact.
* Was I made Australian of the Year? No, I was not.