How's The Serenity?

You know, it's times like these - when I've had a terrible day at work, wanted to punch someone and only just gotten home at 11.30pm - that I am so very very thankful for YouTube. There is a plethora is videos just made to make me smile. Case in point the video for The Spice Girls' "Wannabe". The song, which spent 11 weeks atop the Australian singles charts plus seven atop the British charts and four atop the American charts, is pretty much one of the most perfect pop songs you're ever likely to hear and the video is a classic for a reason. It just makes me happy. I so wish they'd perform a concert in Melbourne. It would totally be the great concert in the history of concerts by a band featuring a lesbian, a robot and a tranny. Right?

Ziga-zig-ah, indeed.



Also, I'm not sure why I used a quote from The Castle as the title of this entry, but I've been a foul mood all day and only now am I feeling better so don't test me. OKAY?!

(I love you all)

The 8 Things Meme

So, I'm feeling a little bit worse for ware today (getting ridiculously drunk can do that to you) so I thought I'd use the time to do this meme that I got tagged with doing by My New Plaid Pants' resident blogger Ja. The soul point of the meme is merely to state eight things about myself that you guys wouldn't know. I've done this thing before.

The rules:

1. All right, here are the rules.
2. We have to post these rules before we give you the facts.
3. Players start with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
4. People who are tagged write their own blog about their eight things and post these rules.
5. At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names. Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.

1. I'm pretty sure I drank an entire bottle of Smirnoff last night, yet I still don't have a hangover (just a tired body). I only get hangovers from wine and especially goon. I'm surprised I could get to sleep last night considering the amount of red bull I also had. Too many Vodka+RedBulls and too many Jagerbombs.

2. I had a dream two nights ago that Adam was best friends with a good mate of mine (Simon) and I got all snarky at him for stealing my friends and for getting to see Inland Empire with an introduction by David Lynch himself. I have weird dreams.

3. The parents of my best friend Georgie have this friend who looks like Margaret Pomeranz (the famous film critic). She was meant to be at Georgie's 21st earlier this year and I was planning on going up to her (whilst incredibly drunk) and ask for an autograph as a joke. Alas, she was sick or she died or she got turned into a monkey or something and she didn't end up going. I was... disappointed.

4. When I was at work yesterday I nearly yelled at this old lady because she kept calling me "boy" and saying things like "That's a good boy" whenever I did something she approved of like I was a dog or a circus freak. IK sort of really like yelling at customers, but only when they've yelled at me first because then it's entirely justified.

5. (this one is a response on one of the eight things Ja discussed in his meme reply) When I was in America last year I drank Diet Peach Ice Tea Snapple like it was going out of style. When my family was there earlier this year I asked them to bring me back some but it only comes in glass bottles and they wouldn't have been able to bring it back. I was majorly shattered. I also went to this store in my city that sells American foods and drinks, but they're unable to get it shipped in. They can get more Dr Pepper than anybody has any idea what to do with it, but they can't get in a one lousy carton of snapple. Ugh!

6. I hate Peter Everitt. You know, the one from Ready! Steady! Cook! I get so uncomfortable watching him on that show. He's always touching the chefs. Plus, he's really stupid. Take this exchange from when I accidentlally caught a bit of the program last week (or whenever it was recently).

"What's this?"
"Basil"

I know, right?!

7. After seeing The Breakfast Club during my high school years I always held out hope that my detentions would end up like they did in the movie (one of my all time favourites, by the way). Alas, it was always really really boring being in detention.

8. It's nearly tax time. Which'll be good because I have a credit card that I'd like to get fully paid off sometime this year.

I'm meant to tag eight other people, but I can't be bothered. If you wanna do it then you can. Blah.

Grocery Store Confidential

So, I was working the closing shift tonight at my job and it was about 9.30pm and it was very quiet but I was serving these two women. Blah blah. This man goes walking through my checkout and I see that he has packets of what look to be Starburst lollies shoved into his pockets so I go to him "Excuse me sir" and he turns around and I go "Would you mind showing me what's in your pockets there?" and he goes to me "Are you the manager", to which I reply "No, but I'm going to call him down" and he's all "Fine" and then turns around and runs out of the store, jumps on his bike and rides away.

Thing is, the guy is a regular customer! He comes in pretty much every day (or, at least, every day I am there) and buys cigarettes and whatever else. Like... why would you steal from a store that you routinely shop at? Anyway, he was clearly caught on camera.

I've been involved with something like this before when two guys scammed a carton of cigarettes. I ended up having to go to court! I didn't end up having to testify against them though because they finally realised they were being idiots and that we had enough evidence against them. Crazy.

I mean, really. Starburst are nice and all, but still...

Stab her.

Stab Norma right in the neck.

Or maybe just make her see Epic Movie. I'm not sure which is the worst deal.

PS; I hate Norma. Like, a helluva lot and I hope she's reading this (although I highly doubt she is because her brain capacity is very low and she probably can't turn the computer on without yelling at it, telling it it does nothing, is worthless and that she is the supreme leader of all things ...just maybe)

Random Things

**You know what I love? I love a good ol' cry over a movie or tv show. I just watched the series finale of Roswell on DVD and as I've made it abundantly clear before I love Roswell (it's sorta one of my all time favourite tv shows) and it was just... awww, shucks. I love Katherine Heigl and Brendan Fehr. I love that ending so much. It's one of my all time fave finales.

**There's a thing on television right now called ABBAmania and it's just a whole bunch of celebrities singing ABBA songs in front of a big audience. I'm confused. I just... don't understand it. Hi-5 (yes, Hi-5) are singing "Take a Chance on Me" (and I love that song, so it's weird and freaking me out.) And it's hosted by Richard Wilkins AND Bec Cartright Hewitt. Two of the most insufferable personalities in Australia. Ugh. Remember Wilkins' gameshow Keynotes or Keytones or... whatever it was called, where contestants had to guess songs by listening to the notes that were uncovered by answering trivia questions. Hilarity ensues.

**So, the store I work for (BiLo) closed today. It's no longer BiLo, but on Thursday it'll open as Coles. People are idiots though. Everyone was like "Oh, you're closing earlier tonight?" (we closed at 6pm instead of 10) even though we'd been telling customers for a month. I hate people.

**I think I'm gonna make a new banner.

**The light in my room blew up again.

**Kylie Minogue returned to the stage last night as her Showgirl Homecoming Tour premiered in Sydney. She performed a brand new setlist and included upcoming single "White Diamond". She also upped the homo-factor by doing a cover version of Madonna's "Vogue" (another song that I L-O-V-E) I'm gonna have to LimeWire that in a few days time.

**There was just a tv commercial for "Weeds". It's actually gonna air! Holy crap!

**YAWN. Seriously. I'm in the minority in that I actually like Hannibal, but I thought Red Dragon was one of the dullest pieces of claptrap all year. I personally love the comment that IMP Awards wrote about the poster

As for the tag line, can something truly begin with revenge? Surely it must begin with whatever inspires someone to take revenge in the first place. Maybe I'm just being too picky...

Oh, so true...

**Kate Ceberano is on this ABBAmania thing. LOL, remember X-Factor? That show was a disaster from day one.

**That's all right now. I think I'm gonna go watch last night's episode of Veronica Mars.

An Open Letter...

Dear Random Stranger from Geelong,

If the extremely sexy European parametic who I served tonight, at BiLo in Belmont, is out there please for the love of god, e-mail me! leave a comment! DO SOMETHING! Apparently you were checking me out (two people said so!) And, seriously, you were European (I'm fairly sure you were Italian omg) and you were hot and you wear a sexy uniform and you save people's lives for a living. You're like the perfect man. So, if you're out there, let me know.

;)

Love,

Glenn