What was I doing the last couple of days?
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deird_ljOn Saturday, we had a "Women's Wellness and Wellbeing" day at my church - the name being purely so that they could shorten it to "WWW" day (my church is very into acronyms).
There were all kinds of fun activities like crafts, and hip hop dance, and facials, and so forth. And I did none of them, because I was wandering around taking photos of everyone else.
We also had a marketplace, with many many fun things, and I bought a bag ...and almost bought huge amounts of earrings, too.
Then, I spent Saturday night babysitting Caleb.
We made a fire, and sat in front of it, cuddling. (Caleb said nothing for about half an hour, except for "It's a BIG fire, Auntie Deird", over and over again.)
And I stayed overnight at their house, so I got to have breakfast with my sister, brother-in-law, and nephew this morning.
This afternoon, I've been MULCHING.
I believe I have, on previous occasions, mentioned the fact that I don't really like gardening.
Let me qualify that statement: I don't really like gardening, unless it involves shoving things into very loud machines that pulverise them and spit pieces all over the backyard.
Mulching. It's what engineers do to make gardening AWESOME.
I am tired now. I plan to spend the evening eating spaghetti, and watching Gremlins 2.
There were all kinds of fun activities like crafts, and hip hop dance, and facials, and so forth. And I did none of them, because I was wandering around taking photos of everyone else.
We also had a marketplace, with many many fun things, and I bought a bag ...and almost bought huge amounts of earrings, too.
Then, I spent Saturday night babysitting Caleb.
We made a fire, and sat in front of it, cuddling. (Caleb said nothing for about half an hour, except for "It's a BIG fire, Auntie Deird", over and over again.)
And I stayed overnight at their house, so I got to have breakfast with my sister, brother-in-law, and nephew this morning.
This afternoon, I've been MULCHING.
I believe I have, on previous occasions, mentioned the fact that I don't really like gardening.
Let me qualify that statement: I don't really like gardening, unless it involves shoving things into very loud machines that pulverise them and spit pieces all over the backyard.
Mulching. It's what engineers do to make gardening AWESOME.
I am tired now. I plan to spend the evening eating spaghetti, and watching Gremlins 2.
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Date: 2009-05-31 08:53 am (UTC)"Women's Wellness and Wellbeing" = 8 syllables
"WWW" = 9 syllables (assuming you pronounce it "double-u")
Shorten???
:-)
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Date: 2009-05-31 09:16 am (UTC)But it does come with lots of new and improved acronymy goodness...
From Laney
Date: 2009-05-31 10:15 am (UTC)"This afternoon, I've been MULCHING.
I believe I have, on previous occasions, mentioned the fact that I don't really like gardening.
Let me qualify that statement: I don't really like gardening, unless it involves shoving things into very loud machines that pulverise them and spit pieces all over the backyard.
Mulching. It's what engineers do to make gardening AWESOME.
I am tired now. I plan to spend the evening eating spaghetti, and watching Gremlins 2."
:)
You're cute.
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Date: 2009-05-31 07:20 pm (UTC)You have...a mulching machine?
PLEASE EXPLAIN.
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Date: 2009-05-31 09:56 pm (UTC)Or please explain what it is?
(Sidenote: you have no idea how weird it sounds having someone not-from-Australia saying "please explain". Seriously.)
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Date: 2009-06-01 12:32 am (UTC)*clearly knows jackshit about gardening*
(And do lots of Aussie people say "please explain"? I pick up random slang from lots of random places, dontchaknow.)
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Date: 2009-06-01 12:47 am (UTC)So, I drop leaves and branches and stuff in the top of the tube, and lots of mulched up stuff comes shooting out the bottom. Very fun.
And do lots of Aussie people say "please explain"? I pick up random slang from lots of random places, dontchaknow.
Hmm. To explain why I found this weird, I'd really rather get into "Not Happy Jan" - which means double the amount of explaining, overall...
Let's see...
(Fellow Aussies, please excuse my gross inaccuracies.)
"Please explain" comes from Pauline Hanson, who was a fairly famous politician here about ten years ago.
She had a tv interview about something, pretty early on, and the interviewer asked her a question (about something - I have no idea what), to which she replied "Please explain?"
It kind of took off. For months, every time Pauline Hanson was mentioned in the paper, journalists would find a way to work the phrase "please explain" in there, somehow. If all else failed, they'd stick it in as the photo caption.
And people went around saying it in their best imitation of her voice.
And there was this radio song called "Please Explain", which was just a rap filled up with bits of stuff Pauline had been recorded saying, and "Please explain?" every few lines.
Seriously. It was huge.
(So huge, in fact, that typing "please explain" into Wikipedia takes you straight to the Pauline Hanson page.)
Similarly, "Not Happy Jan" is a catch phrase that came out of an ad for the Yellow Pages.
It was so insanely popular that you couldn't go an entire day without hearing someone say "Not Happy, Jan!" for some reason - and this went on for months. Years, even.
...which all means that, when I see someone typing "Not Happy Jan" on the internet, I assume they're an Aussie. Same with "Please explain".
Seeing you using the phrase and clearly not being an Aussie... that's just weird.
:)
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Date: 2009-06-01 01:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-01 02:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-01 02:36 am (UTC)(It still can't beat the Libra Fleur ad that was done as a murder scene. That was just COOL.)
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Date: 2009-06-01 02:38 am (UTC)Good ads do stick in your head, don't they? :-)
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Date: 2009-06-01 12:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-02 01:02 am (UTC)(It took me forever to realise that "Yes, Virginia, there IS a _____!" was a quote.)
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Date: 2009-06-02 01:11 am (UTC)Saywhaaa? Never heard it.
*is old*
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Date: 2009-06-02 01:16 am (UTC)Let's see...
Quick googling gets me
"Yes Virginia there is a Bull Market"
"Yes Virginia there is a magenta"
"Yes Virginia there is a Cthulhu"
"Yes Virginia there is a Delphi MacOSX"
"Yes Virginia there is a Pet Heaven"
"Yes Virginia there is a basic phone"
"Yes Virginia there is a War on Science"
"Yes Virginia there is a Cracker in your Box"
"Yes Virginia there is a Cuban Sandwich Truck"
"Yes Virginia there is a New Economy"
...and on and on.
It's all apparently from Yes Virginia there is a Santa Claus - which is from 1897, so it seems that actually, you're not old enough.
:)
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Date: 2009-06-02 01:10 pm (UTC)Rather, I'm a geek and I've read about these sorts of things. Let's see, without clicking on the link, Virginia writes to the newspaper editor of like the Boston Globe, and he writes a very poignant response about how there IS a Santa Claus, and it's all very adorable, and it gets reprinted sometimes.
Okay, seems it's the New York Sun, but otherwise? I am a history BEAST.
I just didn't know that it had become catchy net slang. I'll keep that in mind. :D
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Date: 2009-06-01 12:34 pm (UTC)Also...um...kangaroos?
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Date: 2009-06-01 03:48 am (UTC)Or the Carlton Draught BIG ad (the Carmina Burana one). But that's not as quotable.
And you have to say "Please explain" in a real Queensland ocker accent, otherwise it doesn't work.
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Date: 2009-06-01 07:31 am (UTC)