Do any of you watch Smallville? Is it any good, besides providing fodder for Clark Kent/Lex Luthor slash fiction? It’s going to be starting on TV here soon. We’re also getting the latest series of Dawson’s Creek and The Osbournes too. How great is Australian television? Answer: very.
Month: June 2002 (page 6 of 10)
My fellow webloggers – do you ever get Blog Crushes? This is a new term I have invented. It refers to the period after you discover a new blog that you love and start visiting daily and then find yourself reading all the archives and commenting on every single item. That’s how I am with Claire right now. It’s like when you make a new friend and just totally click and get momentarily obsessed with them. Her post about skin care products cracked my shit up. (I sound like a Blog Stalker, don’t I?) 🙂
Once again Ebert answers the questions enquiring minds want to know: Who would win in a fight – James Bond or Ethan Hunt (from Mission Impossible)? I think he gets it wrong, personally.
How great are the Senegal team? The Snook and I watched their marvelous victory last night and then headed out to dinner. We were sitting by the window in the restaurant when a parade of Senegalese in six cars drove through Newtown, honking their horns and waving the flag. Everyone on the streets cheered. Later we saw they were having an impromptu celebratory rally by the church on King Street. Man, I love it when an underdog wins!
This is it! I’m hydrated and rarin’ to go for the big race. Stay tuned for pictures and results. Wish me luck!
Update: I did it! Well, sorta. The course was actually pretty hard and I had to walk the last couple of hills. I think my increased pace from the “race day adrenaline” made up for it, though, because my time was pretty much the same as it was on the treadmill (despite my unfamiliarity with running outdoors and the pounding heat from the sun). Here are the official results, which show me coming in at 356th out of 663 participants. (Note that I was just beaten by a ten-year-old. Sheesh.) I was disappointed that I had to walk at all, but the Snook pointed out that everybody except the first few runners had to walk the last hill. So that made me feel better. And I was definitely not last. There were hundreds of women running, jogging, and walking, and it felt good just to be out there among them challenging myself.
  
  
The first is good ol’ number 7929 before the race. (My tummy is really not that round, I swear. It’s the shirt.) I’m squinting because although it’s only 8:30 a.m., the sun is bright and it’s already above 70 degrees. The second is me sprinting towards the finish line. My mouth is open because I’m trying to yell “I’m going to die!” at the Snook but I lack the moisture to form the words. The last is me after the race, wearing my little “participation” medal and picking up my goodie bag of drinks and power bars. Man, it felt good to be done. That was seriously one of the hardest things I’ve done in years.
Anybody know where I can get one of those big silver “K” earrings Kylie wears in the “Love at First Sight” video?? 🙂
1. How often do you do laundry?
Whenever A) the pile in the bedroom threatens to smother us, or B) whenever I have nothing to wear, whichever comes first.
2. What’s in a typical wash load?
Mostly just clothes. If it’s me, jeans and T-shirts. If it’s the Snook, work shirts and pants.
3. Front or top loader? Powder or liquid detergent?
Top loader. Powder detergent. The brand of detergent is a tricky issue, because Snookums won the State Science Fair when he was, like, eight, with a project on the effectiveness of various laundry detergents. So I have to get one of the good ones.
4. Do you use fabric softener in the rinse cycle?
Are you kidding? Once I close the lid that load is FINISHED as far as I’m concerned. You’re lucky if I remember to take the clothes out at all, let alone put fabric softener in.
5. Dryer or clothesline?
Dryer. We thought we might dry some stuff on our balcony, but the traffic from the nearby road generates a little too much dirtiness.
Ha! Korea helped the US team go through to the second round. Check out my two teams helpin’ each other!
Ladies and gentlemen… Introducing Couch Cam! You should be able to see it over there on the right. Yes, that’s my actual couch in my actual living room (and probably my actual ass parked on it). The camera is located on a shelf about two feet above our TV. It’s currently set up to upload a new image every five minutes while we’re online. Keep in mind, though, that Sydney is about 15 hours ahead of Indiana time, so you Yanks can only expect to see us during your wee morning and evening hours.
Since the home page was getting rather image heavy, I’ve broken the big repeating header image down into four parts, any one of which will randomly show up when you hit the page. It loads pretty quickly on my crappy modem, but let me know if you have any difficulties.
Ever have a dream so great that you got angry when you woke up and realized it wasn’t real? This morning I had a fantastic dream that the Snook found a “Two Million Dollar Golden Ticket” in a Hershey bar. It was so exciting, and when he gave his interview on the news he even mentioned my Dahl site. I was on the phone to my mom happily explaining that we were now fabulously wealthy when I woke up. I was so mad I swore. Not a good start to the day.