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31 March 2004

Listen to me whine

When you're sick the doctor advises you to drink lots of water and get plenty of sleep and rest. I've been following my doctor's orders, and have been drinking glass after glass of water. But how am I supposed to get any decent sleep when I keep having to run to the bathroom every 20 minutes or so because I've drunken so much water?!

And why is Popstars Live so, so...POO?! It's a poor man's Australian Idol. Popstars Live just screams cheap to me and I can't believe I sat through one hour of it.

And finally, why must eBay be so addictive? Why, why am I so weak and unable to resist it's charms? It's such a dangerous thing to browse when you're home sick and have had enough of lying in bed. I ended up buying myself a new digital camera off eBay because I was bored. Hopefully it arrives in one piece and actually works.

p.s. Happy Birthday sweetie xx

Ear Candy: "Echo" -- Incubus

30 March 2004

Bleh

You know what's worse than being confined to bed, having a killer headache, coughing and feeling like there is a never ending supply of snot in your nose?

Finding out that the Counting Crows concert you were absolutely dying to see has been cancelled.

*sobs*

I think I'm going to crawl back to bed and die now.

18 March 2004

The morning after

Waiting for my prescription at the chemist the other day, I couldn’t help but eavesdrop on the other patients as they were getting theirs.

Three women in a row asked about the morning after pill. Three, in the span of 5 minutes. And I’m not exaggerating.

I didn’t realise that it was so popular. Wouldn’t it be better to be taking birth control pills already rather than to rely on taking the morning after pill after an un-safe sexual encounter?

In a time where safe sex is preached about so much it makes you wonder just how much people actually listen and practice it. And it also makes you wonder if the availability of the morning after pill will make people become even lazier with their birth control.

Ear Candy: "Walk on Me" -- Ben Kweller

16 March 2004

Moo

I have the coolest quilt cover EVER! Reversible! Day and night!

Although by looking at it you'd think they were given to someone who turned 3, not 23.

Day  Night

Hee! So adorable.

Ear Candy: "Breathe In" -- Frou Frou

11 March 2004

Schmeh

You know what sucks? Having to go to the supermarket when you run out of tampons or pads. Ordinarily this wouldn’t be a problem if you were doing your usual grocery shopping or also needed to buy some other items like bread, milk or fruit, but it sucks when you don’t need to buy anything else at all. And because you don’t want to look like you’ve come to the supermarket to only buy a packet of tampons, you decide to buy a whole lot of other stuff that you don’t really need but buy for the sake of buying to make it look like you need to buy more shampoo, conditioner, moisturiser or whatever else can be found in the toiletries aisle. And instead of you spending $5, you spend around $25 for the miscellaneous crap you bought.

But the redeeming aspect of this adventure is when you reach the check out and see the look of total embarrassment and disgust that the 15 year-old check out boy gets when he has to pick up the packet of tampons or pads to scan it. The mortified expression on his face and the fact that he immediately drops the packet into the bag like he’s holding something that’s been peed on totally makes you forget about your pesky problem and instead makes you evilly happy to know that you can bring so much discomfort to one person without much effort.

You know what else sucks? That Maroon 5 is playing at the Gaelic Club in Sydney on April 17th, the same night that John Mayer is playing at the Sydney Entertainment Centre. And I already have tickets to John Mayer. Poo.

Ear Candy: "Sweetest Goodbye" -- Maroon 5

8 March 2004

23 today

Happy Birthday to me!

Yay.

4 March 2004

It’s just wrapping paper

What is the fascination guys have with women in fancy lingerie? I’ve always wondered why guys are willing to fork out lots of cash to see their significant others covered in flimsy pieces of lace and ribbon, but balk at the prospect of forking out the same amount of cash for a pair of shoes or a handbag.

Is it because they like the tease factor when they see a woman in her underwear - do they really like the fact that she’s not quite naked and not quite clothed? Or do they find lingerie hot because they’re thinking about the many ways to take it off and the all kinds of fun they’ll have after that? I’m fairly certain they don’t like lingerie because they admire the pretty colours or pretty patterns.

It also amuses me that there are quite a number of guys out there who think that women wear lacey and sexy underwear all the time. Sorry boys, but most girls prefer a comfortable pair of cotton undies and a plain bra instead of that rather saucy bra and g-string set that you saw on the cover of the latest Victoria’s Secret catalogue.

Guys need to get over the underwear fetish and come to realise that they’re not going to see women wearing sexy lingerie all the time. If they’re even lucky to get that far.

I think Rob Gordon’s character in High Fidelity captures this nicely:

“Women’s knickers were a terrible disappointment to me when I embarked on my co-habiting career. I never really recovered from the shock of discovering that women do what we do: they save their best pairs for the nights when they know they are going to sleep with somebody. When you live with a woman, these faded, shrunken tatty M&S scraps suddenly appear on radiators all over the house; your lascivious schoolboy dreams of adulthood as a time when you are surrounded by exotic lingerie for ever and ever amen…those dreams crumble to dust”

Ear Candy: "Cush" -- Dave Matthews Band

3 March 2004

Ego boost

Strange Girl at Train Station: Did you do a jazz solo to Michael Jackson’s Scream?
Me: Um, yeah
SGaTS: And a dance to Velvet Pants?
Me: Err, yeah
SGaTS: Larissa right?
Me: Yeah
SGaTS: I loved watching you dance! You’re an amazing dancer
Me: Wow, thanks. You remember me?
SGaTS: Yes, I competed the age group four years below you. I used to stay back and watch the older age groups compete and you won prizes all the time

Compliments from a random stranger while waiting for the train is such a boost to the ego.

My parents spent more money sending me to dance lessons than they did sending me through primary and high school. What do I have to show for it now? Nothing.

Ear Candy: "Since I Left You" -- Tha Avalanches


YAY!!

Josh Kelley is the support act for Counting Crows!!

I. AM. ALL. KINDS. OF. EXCITED!!!

Counting Crows AND Josh Kelley!!!

I'm so excited I could pee my pants.

*ahem*

Ear Candy: "Amazing" (Acoustic) -- Josh Kelley
(Song of the moment, so pretty)

2 March 2004

Open mouth, insert foot

“Hi, I’m Grace”
“Oh, you’re Levy’s new PA right?”
“Yes, I started last month”
“How are you liking it so far?”
”It’s great. Levy is a pretty good boss”
”Yeah”
“But she can get bossy sometimes, and when she gets mad she is such a bitch”

In walks my mum.

“Grace, this is my daughter Larissa”
”Laris this is Grace, my new PA”
“Um, nice to meet you Larissa. I should have recognised you from all the picture’s on your mum’s desk”

Man, the poor girl’s face went so red when she realised she had been telling me how bitchy my mum can be. Heh. No need to tell me, I have been on the other end of her vicious tirades countless times. I hope she ends up being okay, the last personal assistant my mum had was hopeless.

Girl Power

I saw Mona Lisa Smile last week and I can safely say that I’m glad to be a young woman living in the year 2004 and not the year 1954.

I’m glad that I’ve had the opportunity to go to university and get a degree. I’m glad I’ve got my own career and don’t have to depend on any man. I’m glad that I wasn’t expect to get married at 18 and become a housewife. I’m glad that birth control has become a social norm. And I’m freaking glad that I don’t have to prance around in prissy skirts and ruffled blouses, wear my hair up or be expected to conform to any retarded social rules.

Even though the movie was a poor man's Dead Poet's Society, it was quite liberating to see how far women have come in the last half century. I admire those women who fought for women’s rights. Kudos to them.

Ear Candy: "Fell in Love with a Boy" -- Joss Stone
(I totally dig her cover of The White Stripes' Fell in Love with a Girl, her voice is amazing. Gotta love the husky, sexiness it has to it)