rambling the night away

Overheard Two

2009-11-19T19:36:00.002+11:00

A Retirement Village in The Hills Sydney

Late 60's woman - I put one of each in my bra

Overheard One

2009-11-18T20:22:00.005+11:00

Outside Manly Wharf

Early 30's Mum - Are you guys okay with Spaghetti Bolognese for tea?

8 year old daughter - [whining] Noooooo, we have that every night

Daughters two friends walk on ignoring them

...Later

Early 30's Mum - alright Pizza it is then

i didn't like you, now i really loathe you

2008-12-02T19:32:00.000+11:00

Keira Knightley and Sienna Miller joked with reporters at a recent London awards ceremony - by pretending to be lovers. How original and quirky and funny, you two are so cool, sorry I mean lame.

Apparently they were both stuck for a "real" date so they made one super cool one up.... each other, wow you crazy kids that's how rumours start..... except when you are so stupid that you blatantly start them yourselves.

Keira told the adoring media throngs "We couldn't get a date for tonight. It's so hard. So we decided be each other's date." Oh you poor things it's so hard to find a man you have to stoop to being a lesbian. You are unconvincing because you didn't style your hair into a fauxhawk to go with your faux lesbian ways.

She then went on to "jokingly" (take that with a grain of salt because it 'aint funny) say they are now officially a couple and even held Sienna's hand.

Did you also press your faces together again in a ridiculous straight girl camera hug?

These types of things just bring back memories of Kimberly Joseph and co hugging at the end of every scene of Paradise Beach (what a delighfully horrible show).

Sienna doesn't get away with this either as she piped up with a "It's true. Our secret's out - we're dating."

And she looks beyond ridiculous in the above photo.

I loathe you both.

The day Hingis was lame and Zvereva was cool

2008-03-17T15:22:00.002+11:00

I went to the Australian Open Tennis in 97 the 1st year that Martina Hingis won the singles. That same year she also won the doubles playing with my favourite player Natasha Zvereva (she was my favourite for mocking Mary Pierce when she was match point down the previous year).

In their 1st round match i was sitting in the crowd watching on an outside court and the whole way through the match the crowd was going ballistic for Hingis "Martina you're a sex god" "We love you" etc, they were even yelling out for their Polish opponents, but not once did they call out to Zvereva. People around me where saying things like "who is Martina playing with?" "Who is that, how do you say her name?" etc; Zvereva at the time was the no. 1 ranked doubles player and is the 3rd most successful of all time. It was annoying me.

At about 6-0 5-1 Zvereva was serving - she served and followed up with a volley winner. The crowd went crazy for Martina, "Well done Martina, go Martina" etc. Now I was pissed, Hingis didn't even touch the ball and they still were ignoring the player that did. Aaaargh. I snapped.

I was sitting in line with the base line that Natasha was serving from, she was bouncing the ball, the crowd was still yelling out for Hingis and i thought that's it so I called out "Go Natasha" of course just as i did this everyone else stopped calling out, so the whole court heard me (i was pretty loud).

What happened next i will never forget.

Natasha stopped bouncing the ball, turned, looked directly at me and said "thankyou" and the crowd laughed.

So, after the match i had a photo with her and she thanked me again.

It goes to show that although athletes are professional and focussed they are still human and are obviously affected by crowd interaction and obviously feel emotion that affects their play.

The Shows i watched as a kid - episode 1

2007-04-25T03:28:00.000+10:00

Now this was a well known fact in my family that MacGyver was my favourite show. My globe trotting Aunt would send us a postcard every few months and she would always address it personally to my parents, my brother, my sister and Mrs Macgyver.

Once, many years after my obsession subsided she sent me a cut out picture of the man in question from a trashy magazine, i laughed and threw it away, or did i secretly keep it for my hope chest? (edit. you don't have a hope chest) or put it safely in the silver locket i always wear around my neck? (edit. um you don't have one of those either).

LAME - i was so lame.

The one epsiode i remember having the greatest significance involved a trip to South America and HUGE human eating ants. My husband survived by making himself a shiny plastic yellow suit out of ah shiny yellow plastic.

Now it has been a good 10-15 years since i have watched an episode and now that they are available on DVD i have contemplated watching it, but i can't seem to bring myself to do it. I don't want to tarnish my memories.

As an adult would I actually be able to see how ridiculous this show was?

Surely not??

...um surely yes.

Case closed.

pedestrian crossings are for pedestrians only

2007-04-19T19:17:00.000+10:00

a tale of car vs push bike..

September 6th 2006. I was on my way home from work, riding a bicycle for about the 5th time in 12 years, when i thought i would safely cross the road by using a pedestrian crossing.

Alas, it was not that safe. Being an inexperienced rider and I'm sure a dorky one at that, i failed to get off the bike and walk it across the crossing. Instead i simply peddled twice and rolled across the road at about walking pace (an illegal act apparently).

To my shock and horror the driver of an approaching car did not see me. Being both smart and ultra cool i saw him first, so i quickly peddled twice which meant that when the car hit me it actually just smashed into the back third of the bike and made me do a 180 and land on the road, with my shoulder taking the majority of the impact.

Did my life flash before my eyes? ah no

But i do distinctly remember when i realised he was about to hit me that everything went super slow and i actually said out loud "oh my god". I wonder if anyone heard me? And i wonder if to them the "oh my god' sounded super slow mo style, like it did to me.

I got to ride in an ambulance which was actually surprisingly stark inside. I was expecting bells and whistles, or maybe just flashing lights, beeping and machinery (or do i mean equipment?)

Have you ever worn a neck brace? I don't recommend it, not if you want to be able to see anything other than pretty much directly up. The roof of RPA Emergency is really quite ugly.

Have you ever had a spinal exam? I definitely don't recommend it. The doctor told me he would have to get some nurses to roll me on my side so he could feel down my spine and then stick his finger up my arse. Yes that is what he said.

I had partaken in some pain killers by this stage so i thought he was joking or i was hallucinating. I was wrong. Tori tells me that she saw him 'lube' up so she patted my leg, i didn't notice i was only aware of the nurse holding my head who was saying 'okay here we go, it'll be over in a second'. Ah joy, it was over in a second.

Have you ever been flat on your back, being x-rayed and been absolutely busting for the loo? Now this I 150,000% do not recommend. Lets say it did happen, then i should imagine if you pleaded that you couldn't hold it anymore someone would rush off and grab six or seven nurses to turn you on your side and pull down your pants and roll you back onto a pan so you could pee. I'm not saying it happened, it's just a hypothetical. Who am i kidding of course it happened.

I also had to pay a $50 fine for ridding my bike across the crossing even though i argued that i would of been hit even if i was walking as i saw the driver and he was not looking. Apparently there was no evidence or witnesses to support that so i had to pay.

Anyway, all is okay now. I'm all good. I basically stuffed my shoulder and bruised my leg really bad, but they are both pretty much fine now.

So the moral to the story is. Pedestrian crossings are lame and scary. Beware!