25 March, 2004
Do you miss me?
A question asked all the time I suppose. Missing- been missing not missing pretend missing. All this missing. I find its easier to just numb it down, dumb it down and hold on tight to- oh look at that fibro house.
News.... my cousin David is not well.. my aunt is stressed.. I love my aunt a lot... its hard being sick when you live in a third world country like Ethiopia- they've taken him to London. Hmm. Its all very strange- well no its not- its his heart- that's not very strange is it? Anyway.
I'm in Queensland. Do you know where that is? Its 'up north'- two states north of 'down south' where I normally live. I'm not living here. I'm visiting. I go back tomorrow night.
I'm in an internet cafe in The Valley and its in a snooker hall that has no snooker players in it- no players at all in fact. there IS a big ashtray that stinks near me and the whole place smells like someone who smokes a lot.
Bleck.
So I've been sent here to chill out and all its done really is remind me of all the horrible things that are waiting for me in good old Smellbourne.
But instead of going on about that I'll continue in this disjointed fashion ... no I wont I'll write a list.
CRITTERS I'VE SEEN SINCE I'VE BEEN IN BRIS VEGAS
(please excuse bad spelling)
1. Gecko
2. Big frill necked lizard lizard
3. Yellow faced whippet snake (something like that)
4. F@Cking HUGE spiders
5. Geese
6. little chicks belonging to those water wren funny birds
7. Bella the Cat
8. Basil the Dog
THINGS I'VE DONE
*tried on brides maid dresses and found out I'm a size 6 american which is just too stupid for words
*worn high heals out to the pub (again too stupid for words)
*painted my nails
*put on make up
*spent all my money on new underware
*bought a silvery blue corsetty bodice type senario that makes it hard to breathe
*whilstled at boys in utes (there are A LOT of them- lookin all tanned and aussie)
*sung a long to the radio in the car with Jane without a skerick of shame in regards to song choices
*looked at more fabric swatches for wedding related things than previously thought humanly possible- do you KNOW how hard ice blue is to find?
*been the surprise guest at my Bumma's for dinner.
PICTURE THIS.....
we, danny, ben, bumma, jane, lisa, myself-
sitting around and we're talking about old shows that we used to watch growing up-
fraggle rock
dukes of hazzard (I was all 'ooh hazzard has a double meaning!! the other day- it just clicked- sigh its hard being slow sometimes)
growing pains
the wonderful world of disney (that got a 'ooooh!' out of us as we all remembered the castle and tinkerbelle)
curiosity show
dr who
...
the list went on with musical accompaniment
and then the subject of "How Alex couldn't say G so she called Grandma Bumma instead" came up.
Someone said
Bum ma
someone said
Butt ma
someone else said
Ass ma
then
lots of people said Ass Ma and laughed
my Bumma laughed
then someone said
Crack Ma
...
Date Ma
.....
nothing quite like thinking of someone's date and your grandma in the same sentence thought.