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Music, music, music

A good friend of mine has started a music blog and as I'm sick of myself and my own crap I'm following her lead and compiling a list of songs. While not exactly a 'best of' list, these are my all time favourite songs.

If you have time, pop in and say hi to Jess ... she's a real sweetheart :)

Some of these you'll know but you may not know the Aussie ones lol. Some are probably not the greatest songs either but they're special to me for one reason or another and they're not in order of preference because I'm going down my playlist (which is now up to 674 coughcough) to remember them all.

* 1927 ~ If I Could
* Alice Cooper ~ How You Gonna See Me Now
* Alicia Keys ~ Falling
* Anthony Callea ~ Rain
* Atomic Kitten ~ Whole Again
* B.J. Thomas ~ Hooked on a Feeling
* Bach ~ Air on a G String
* Bad English ~ When I See You Smile
* Bay City Rollers ~ I Only Wanna Be With You (Oh hush you lot) lol
* Beach Boys ~ Kokomo
* Bill Withers ~ Aint No Sunshine When She's Gone
* Blondie ~ Atomic
* Bob Dylan ~ Just Like A Woman
* Bon Jovi ~ Always
* Bonnie Tyler ~ Total Eclipse of the Heart
* Brian McFadden/Delta Goodrem ~ Almost Here
* Cat Stevens ~ Peace Train
* Cher ~ If I Could Turn Back Time
* Chicago ~ If You Leave Me Now
* Cold Chisel ~ Working Class Man
* Cold Chisel ~ Cheap Wine
* Crazy Town ~ Butterfly
* Creed ~ Hmm, 99% of them lol
* Crowded House ~ Private Universe
* David Bowie ~ Sorrow
* David Bowie ~ Changes
* David Bowie ~ Space Oddity
* Deisel ~ Cry In Shame
* Dewi ~ Left of Center
* Dido ~ White Flag
* Dido ~ Sand In My Shoes
* Don McLean ~ American Pie
* Dr Hook ~ Years From Now
* Dragon ~ Are You Old Enough
* ELO ~ Most of them :)
* Elton John ~ Something About The Way You Look Tonight
* Elvis ~ If I Can Dream (<<<>
* Enrique ~ Hero
* Eric Clapton ~ Tears From Heaven
* Gabrielle ~ Don't Need The Sun To Shine
* George Harrison ~ My Sweet Lord
* Gio ~ Fantasy Girl
* Greenday ~ Boulevard of Broken Dreams
* Heart ~ What About Love
* INXS ~ Need You Tonight & Never Tear Us Apart
* Jet ~ Look What You've Done
* Jimmy Barnes ~ I'd Die To Be With You Tonight
* Jimmy Barnes ~ Still On Your Side
* Jimmy Barnes ~ Stone Cold
* Jimmy & John Farnham ~ When Something Is Wrong With My Baby
* John Farnham ~ Hmm, everything :p
* John Lennon ~ Too many to list
* Kermit ~ Rainbow Connection hehe
* Kylie Minogue ~ Can't Get You Out Of My Head
* Lifehouse ~ Hanging By A Moment
* Lords of Acid ~ Nope, I am NOT gonna tell you the title ;)
* Macy Grey ~ My World Crumbles
* Maroon 5 ~ She Will Be Loved
* Marmalade ~ Reflections
* Massive Attack ~ Angel
* Matchbox 20 ~ Real World
* Meatloaf ~ Can't choose just one
* Missy Higgins ~ The Special Two
* Nelly Furtado ~ Turn Out The Lights
* Nickelback ~ How You Remind Me
* Nirvana ~ Come As You Are
* Outlandish ~ Aicha
* Peter Frampton ~ Baby I Love Your Way
* Phil Collins ~ Awww how do pick just 1 or 2 lol
* Powderfinger ~ On My Mind
* Procol Harum ~ Whiter Shade of Pale
* Queen ~ Bohemian Rhapsody
* Quiet Riot ~ Come On Feel The Noice
* Sade ~ No Ordinary Love
* Santana ~ Smooth
* Shawn Mullins ~ Rockabye
* Silverchair ~ Across The Night
* Stereophonics ~ Since I Told You
* Sting ~ Every Breath You Take
* Streisand/Kristofferson ~ Lost Inside of You
* Sugababes ~ Round round
* Taxiride ~ Everywhere You Go
* The Cowsills ~ The Flower Girl
* The Troggs ~ Love Is All Around
* Tina Arena ~ Chains
* Train ~ Drops of Jupiter
* Twarres ~ She Couldn't Laugh
* Uncanny Xmen ~ 50 Years

There it is and I know I've left some out because I burnt a lot to CD and deleted a few hundred lol.

*Edit ... anddddd because blogger gobbled up my first list, I think I've forgotten some :/ Let's see if it's second time lucky.

Pokes the Unkys

Slapppppppppppppps mood thingie.

Hurry up and work before I resort to making my own :p

My rememberer is broke

A friend, noticing how far away I am lately, sent me this. Very apt at the moment lol.

My forgetter's getting better,

But my rememberer is broke

To you that may seem funny

But to me, that is no joke

For when I'm "here" I'm wondering

If I really should be "there"

And, when I try to think it through,

I haven't got a prayer!

Oft times I walk into a room,

Say "what am I here for?"

I wrack my brain, but all in vain!

A zero, is my score.

At times I put something away

Where it is safe, but, Gee!

The person it is safest from

Is, generally, me!

When shopping I may see someone,

Say "Hi" and have a chat,

Then, when the person walks awa

I ask myself, "who was that?"

Yes, my forgetter's getting better

While my rememberer is broke,

And it's driving me plumb crazy

And that isn't any joke.

Distracted

Looks like I've lost my focus. "The usual" just isn't being done and my to do list keeps growing with nothing being crossed off.

I tried to catch up on a bit of weeding yesterday but Gizmo the evil helper had other ideas. She loves coming out with me but her idea of weeding is sitting on the exact spot I'm trying to get done ... or waiting till I've got one half out then whacking it out of my hand ... or 'hiding' behind a bush, wiggling her butt, waiting to pounce on me as soon as I reach for something.

I'm not complaining though, she makes a dull job fun (albeit a hell of a lot slower lol). Actually, I probably only pulled out a few handfulls before giving up and playing in the fallen leaves with her.

Anyway, I'm not sure why I'm writing this boring crap so I will leave you with another ...

TGIF

... and for those of you living in the past, welcome to the future when you hit midnight lol. ;)

10286.00 miles
16560.46 kilometers

That's the distance between my heart and me.

Pretty hard to live with.

ps

And I forgot to mention ... If you use msn and want to get the music thingie working with winamp instead of mediaplayer let me know ... now all I have to do is get my mouse wheel scrolling again :/

ta taa >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

mumblejumbles

I have to get this off my chest. It's been bugging for a couple of weeks now. Call it a feeling, intuition, whatever you like, but I've had a niggling feeling I may have pissed someone off. I don't know how or why ... it's just there.

I'm not going to obssess over it because .. well to be honest I can't think of a damn thing I could have done and I have a shitload of other things going on at the moment that have to take priority or I'll go insane.

So if I have I have no idea what I've done but I'm sorry. If I haven't, forget you read this people lol.

In other news ... not a lot ... well, a lot but it's more of the same.

I'm having really evil thoughts about someone at the moment and that makes me feel rotten for being such a horrible person.

On the other hand, I'm having really wonderful thoughts about someone else so maybe it'll balance itself out? lol

Yeah ok I'll dream on lol.

Anyway, in the words of my favourite band, Creed ... what's this life for?

I'm off to hit repeat on Six Feet From The Edge. Happy weekend everyone.

Uggh

I had a big long ramble that I was going to post tonight but when I finally got home and came online I got sidetracked by a problem with my mouse and wouldn't you know it? Ramble all gone :/

I've just spent the past two hours hunting around for info but of course I can't find my problem amongst all the geeky, nerd talk about reinstalling drivers and blah blah blah.

One good thing though, is that reading through all that techie stuff (there's that word again) puts me to sleep so I think I'll go and veg on the couch and fall asleep during whatever movie is on tonight.

The past week has been really draining but for once I'm looking forward to waking up tomorrow :)

Cure All?

From my brief browse around blogland this afternoon I see quite a few people are going through a lot of stuff at the moment.

I almost didn't say 'stuff'. It's such a shoddy word when others are much more appropriate (and less childlike) ... but I like the word 'stuff' for some weird reason. I like the way it sounds, I like the innuendos you can create with it, I like what you can do with 'stuff'.

Anyway I digress. Here's something for those of you going through whatever 'stuff' you're going through. STUFFFFFFFFFFFFF this in your gobs and feel better. ;)






Oh and Firehawk, I've linked you. Hope you don't mind but if you do I'll take it off and all I'll do is cry and sulk and pout for a while and won't post for a whole week and and and .... (how's that for a manipulative guilt-trip hidden down the bottom in small print)? ;)

Where I Am ...

Well, apart from crawling into my cave for a while, I finally got the motivation to try and fix my sound (which I've done). When things get a bit overwhelming I tend to be like a cat who crawls away to die alone.

Emotionally, I'm at opposite ends of the spectrum at the same time ....

Heaven and Hell
Agony and Ecstasy
Love and Hate
Overjoyed and Terrified
Lost and Found

Where I started to forget to sign into msn, now it's the first thing I think of again.

So, yeah, that's about where I am.

What is it that draws two people together? Draws them to eachother so strongly that they feel powerless to stop it?

What keeps drawing them back even when the powers that be have deemed things impossible.

Even when you tell yourself this can't happen, this should not happen, stay away, leave it be.

What is it about that one person who brings tears to your eyes, a genuine smile to your face and fills your heart just with a simple "hi"?

These are the questions I'm asking myself today.

Seafood and See Food

I received these pics in an email a week or two ago and every time I go to my inbox I find myself having another look. There's something about them I find fascinating.

As I'm up early this morning (bah! lol) I took the opportunity to find some info (all I had was underwater restaurant in Israel). Here's what I found out:

"This amazing restaurant is 6 meters (over 20 ft.) below the surface of the Red Sea, with thick Plexiglas windows that give you an octopus-eye view of the surrounding fish, corals, and other creatures. The decor is fantasy oceanesque, with sand floors covered by a layer of clear epoxy, velvet, sea urchin cushions on the chairs, starfish lighting fixtures and wavy blue underwater light filtering through the subsea pavilion from natural sources by day, and artificial sources by night.

The details are so well done that the effect is enchanting-you find your attention torn between the underwater vistas outside the windows, and the interior decor, overflowing with marine shapes and textures (the work of a young Israeli, Ayala Serfaty, whose aquatic designs have received international attention and exhibition). Not resting on its one-of-a-kind location and design, the Red Sea Star serves meals that are quite good. Dennis, a fish from the Red Sea, leads the list of well-prepared fish (though you may not feel comfortable dining on a sea creature while its family and friends glide past the windows). Grilled ostrich fillet in a Dijon berry sauce with mushrooms; spare ribs in a melon and chile sauce; as well as pastas and salads round out the menu. If you dislike smoke, request the no-smoking area when you make your reservation. "

I also discovered it's not the only one either. You can see the one in the Maldives here.

Anyone wanna go a'travellin?

Tough Love

If you've been reading me for while, you'll know by now that I love my cat. Love her to itty bitty pieces, but (yes there's always a but isn't there) I'm not sure how much more of HER love I can take.

Gizmo is a weirdo. I've known it from the time we brought her home when she was an adorable ball of fluff (and I've always been partial to weirdos) . :)

She settled herself into her position of Queen immediately (I am merely 'the Princess' hehe) and not long after, developed her 'sock fetish'. Yes people, I had a cat who stole socks! Clean socks, dirty socks, no sock was safe.

She would steal them from the clothes airer, wet or dry, it didn't matter, she would steal them from the kids' bedroom floors and drawers if they were left open.

I'd find stock piles in the most amazing places. One of her favourites was my bed. She would pinch one from the laundry, haul it alllllllll the way upstairs and leave it on my bed. Then back down she'd go to do it all over again until there were none left.

If I managed to hide them all from her she'd start on the undies lol.

After psychoanalysing her I decided it was a comfort thing to have something in her mouth.

Anyway she went missing 12 months later (that's another story but the kids and I were heartbroken). Amazingly, we got her back 3 months later (much the worse for her ordeal) and her fetish for socks had gone. (I guess mice, birds and rubbish bins don't wear socks).

She didn't quite overcome the mouth thing though. Now? It's my BOOB people.

You know how cats claw for a while when they're getting settled somewhere comfy? She has to have something in her mouth when she does that and when she decides to settle on me, it's my BOOB!!

When I let out random yelps, the kids just laugh and assume "Giz has mum's boob again". Mancub shrugs philosophically and says "She just likes your bosom Mum" (he likes that word, he likes saying buttocks too and says it like Forrest Gump lol).

I put up with her sitting on my hand when I'm trying to move the mouse, I put up with her sitting in front of the screen when I'm trying to type, I put up with her walking over the keyboard to squeeeeeeeeeeze onto my lap, I put up with her sitting so close she makes me go cross-eyed while she headbuts me, I put up with her pouncing from behind the curtains and attaching herself to my ankles ... are you getting the picture? I put up with A LOT from her because I wuff her.

BUT ... God help her when summer comes and I'm only wearing one thin layer. She may find herself doing aerial acrobatics across the room.

Uh huh, tough love :)

Stuff

Uh huh, just a mish-mash of stuff because I'm tired. Correction, make that exhausted (thanks to a phone call at 3.45am and the fact I couldn't get back to sleep).

Don't people know it's a crime punishable by death to wake an insomniac on the rare occasion they're asleep?

Ok so stuff! Ummmmmm, now I've forgotten what STUFF I was going to say :/

Crap.

I really have gone totally blank.

Maybe I'll come back later ... unless the 'stuff' is gone for good ... or I fall asleep, or I'm arrested for stabbing the person who woke me up.

If you hear on the news something about an Aussie woman falling asleep in the back of a police car on her way to jail it's probably me.

Some fluff

Just because.

Surprise, surprise at the results, Aussie huh, well who woulda guessed lol. Funny but this just reminded me of how I used to love confusing the hell out of my o/s friends back in my old chat days with weird Aussie sayings.

Your Slanguage Profile

Aussie Slang: 75%

British Slang: 50%

Canadian Slang: 25%

Prison Slang: 25%

Victorian Slang: 25%

New England Slang: 0%

Southern Slang: 0%

What Slanguage Do You Speak?

Right this very minute

For lack of much else to say at the moment I'll tell you what's going on as I type ...

~ It is absolutely bucketing down
~ I'm thinking about a lot of jumbled, random things
~ It's 10.08am
~ Make that 10.09am
~ I'm getting antsy because I only have a few cigs left and I don't want to go out
~ I'm feeling a little jittery inside because I left my comfort zone and made a comment where I don't normally
~ I'm still pondering Firehawk's posts ... he really makes you think (yes you do lol)
~ I often think if he ever writes a love poem, whoever it's to will be TOTALLY swept off her feet
~ I've often thought of saying that but never have, till now lol
~ I'm wondering if I'm allowed to take pics at 'the teenager's' school concert tonight
~ I'm going to anyway
~ My mind is wandering
~ It's 10.16am (see how little I've said in 7 minutes because of above)
~ I'm jiggling in my seat because I need to go to the loo
~ I need to get out of my pj's so I can go and get smokes and petrol
~ Blah, I hate getting petrol
~ I wonder where Gizmo is (my cat)
~ So many things are bugging me about Schapelle Corby's failed appeal
~ I'm going now cos I really need to pee and I know you all wanted to know that :p

Tired

I'm tired. Tired of mind, tired of heart, tired of soul ... just bone tired ~ of everything ~ me included.

And I'm bored, which means I don't like myself very much at the moment because a bored person is a boring person, as the saying goes.

So unless I get a major boost of motivation it might be quiet around here for a while.