Songs for Survivors

Obvious:
"Eye of the Tiger" Survivor
"I Will Survive" Gloria Gaynor
"Survivor" Destiny's Child
"Irreplaceable" Beyonce
"Good Luck" Basement Jaxx

Borderline:
"Stronger" Britney Spears
"Breaking Free" Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens from the High School Musical soundtrack
"You Don't Own Me" Bette Midler (or The First Wives Club - Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler and Dianne Keaton)
"When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going" Billy Ocean
"I Move On" Queen Latifah and Catherine Zeta-Jones from the Chicago soundtrack


Inspirational:


"I Know Where I've Been" Queen Latifah from the Hairspray soundtrack





Gorgeous:


"Shine" Take That


"Celebration" Kylie Minogue


"Young Hearts Run Free" Kym Mazelle from the Romeo + Juliet soundtrack

The thing about cities

1. Easy to get around, you can walk to everywhere,
2. but there’s a maccas and a coffee chain on every corner, so you don’t have to
3. People tell you they’ll be in ‘early’ tomorrow
4. they arrive at 9:30
5. and leave at 4.
6. people are everywhere
7. they don’t look at each other
8. they don’t talk to each other
9. they bump into each other
10. this is the city version of community engagement
11. and because it’s such a big place a random person in my team
12. has a boyfriend from my town
13. his parents live on the street behind me
14. and teach at my kids’ school
15. but there is sushi on every street and I like that very much

the absolute happiest thought

Was trying to think of the mostest happy-making thing:
an excellent book plus no interruptions
pop song that reminds you of something good
fresh-baked bread plus EV Olive oil
good, good, smooth sleep
dance music that hits that perfect beat boy

Big fat cranky pants list

this is like a debrief dumping list of stuff that gives me the pip, after having a couple of "action" filled weeks, I have to say this and maybe once it's out in the ether I won't keep talking about it but probably not:
There are some things that are exceptionally specialy annoying:
people who pop up from their cubicle and offer advice when it's so not warranted or even useful.
actually, people who won't do their job and won't shut the freak up when it has nothing to do with them. O yes, that annoys me so much I want to make rude hand gestures at them.
service guys when lie about when stuff was shipped
people who won't answer their calls when you REALLY need to know where something is (like PCs or phones or filing cabinets)
people who don't appreciate how much the Pet Shop Boys rock.
City based people who have no concept of how little service we have in the country and how big a deal it is that I know where the patch panel meets with the switch.
that nobody understands how cool it is when I can plug in network access for someone (esp a person I like)
and nobody gets (except maybe Shannon who gets a lot more than everyone thinks she does) how disproportionately happy I am when the phones and the freaking filing cabinets finally turn up.

Things that rhyme with boring

You know how at work, sometimes, you have to go to presentations and stuff.  Some of them sound interesting, but then it turns out they're not.  This list was written at one of those...

Things that rhyme with boring

• snoring
• ignoring
• (asleep on the) flooring
• 1900-TRAPDOOR-ing
• blah blah gabor-ing
• drawing
• through my brain a rat is gnawing
• it’s as fun as manuring
• the dentist may be more alluring
• from the edge clawing
• 2:30 appointment is reassuring (added at 2:10)
• enough guffawing!
• I wish beer was a-pouring
  

I went to the 2:30 appointment from here.   And, by the way, the 2:30 appointment was real.  Thank you to those who thought me clever enough to have made it up for the sake of leaving the meeting room!

A test

This is a test post. I'm trying to seek new ways to develop posts when I'm
offline. I've been trying some third-party editors but nothing wants to
retrieve my list of blogs from the new and apparently improved blogger.
Poo.

List of cheese

Cheddar
Brie
Camembert
richard

Long Car Trips

So this is not an innovative or exciting new list. but it does highlight that making lists is fun. We went on a fabulous road trip recently to see the fabulous robbie williams (wheeee) and wrote this list on the way.

List of classic film lines:
What film do they belong to?

“Excuse me, I’d like to get by now.”
“I’ll be back.”
“It’s the fastest ship in the galaxy!”
“Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.”
“I’ll have what she’s having.”
“Would you like me to seduce you?”
“Whatever”
“Are you talking to me?”
“Go ahead, make my day.”
“Elmo doesn’t think he’s on Sesame Street anymore.”
“And there goes a girl who I’m afraid will never become a nun.”
“Fuck me gently with a chainsaw.”
“I’ve got so many hickies people think I’m a leper.”
“Come on kids, let’s put on a show.”
“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.”
“That would be ….a….waste…of ….time (insert Red Hot Chilli Pepper hand gestures here)
“Nobody puts Baby in a corner.”
“We are not worthy!!!!”
“You feeling lucky, punk?”
“It’s just a flesh wound!”
“I wasn’t picking it, I was scratching it.”
“Excuse me, was that the “LOSER” sneeze?”
“Missy’s the poo!”
“The first part’s shit. But the second part is really nifty”


But wait there's more...


Pop tarts that need their use-by dates checked:

Melissa Tkautz
Rhianna
Sugarbabes
Pussycat Dolls
Debbie Gibson
Sophie Monk
Dannii Minogue
Beyonce



And this might give away some of our musical tastes on the journey...


The Stupidest Song Lyric List

Most of “Ice Ice Baby”
“Right up where the stallion meets the sun” Could It Be Magic?
“We will never be uncovered again” Back For Good
“Hit Me, Baby, One More Time”
“I smell like I sound” Hungry Like the Wolf
“Don’t you want to dance up on me?” Slave 4 U
“I don’t think you’re ready for this jelly” Bootylicious
“I can see you’ve broken a feather” Chiquitita

and, yes, i did take the laptop on that trip!

I love my best friend

Because:
she's as funny as fyuck
she loves all the things I love, especially cheese and good wine
she likes my dorky taste in music
she listens to all my stories and reacts as though she's never heard them before
she tells me when I'm being a dick
she accepts my partner and loves him too, even when he's hard work
her kids are cool most of the time, and when they're not, she doesn't pretend they are
she likes my kids, and when they're crazy, she doesn't pretend they're not, or that she can't cope with them
her partner can be an arse and we mostly hate each other and she doesn't get wound up about that
she loves me back