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This is the song I'm currently listening to. Sung by two...

This is the song I'm currently listening to. Sung by two greats of the Australian music industry - Jimmy Barnes and John Farnham. I listen to John Farnham every time I get homesick. His greatest hits lives happily on my iPod (favourite songs include You're the Voice, Have a Little Faith, and That's Freedom. Look him up, it's worth it!).Needless to say, I'm a little homesick right now.On the

This Post is Late, or, a Brand New Monitor

Good morning world!I apologise for this post being tardy. I have a new monitor (YAY!) and so had to turn off the computer to plug it all in. Of course, that means the computer is all grumpy and slow as it usually is every Monday morning. Apparently, my computer hates Mondays.I'm very pleased with myself this week already. I made my 3 000 words yesterday, and then struck on a great idea for

Oddly Rested

Despite having a fairly busy weekend, and waking up ridiculously early this morning, I'm feeling oddly rested.Saturday went fairly well. Lion Dance responsibilities kept me from teaching as is my usual schedule. Our Lion Dance troupe had it's first ever New Year's event. Considering the number of people in the store and the length of the show, the poor sods having to dance in the lion did

Stirrup-Cup

Or stirrup-dram (also stirrup-glass), a glass of ardent spirits, or draught of ale, given by the landlord of an inn to his guest when about to depart [on horseback]. - John Jamieson's Supplement to eh Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language, 1825Tib Mumps will be out w' the stirrup-dram in a gliffing. - Sir Walter Scott's Guy Mannering, 1815In the north of the Highlands called "cup at

It Been... A Week...

Thank goodness it's Friday has never applied more than this Friday. It's been, well, a week; a stressful, stressful week.Emotions were running pretty high in the middle of the week, when category 5 tropical cyclone Yasi hit the coast of North Queensland. I feared for my family there for a long, stressful afternoon until I got word that they were all alright. My sister's house withstood the 280

Magnificent Sigh of Relief

They're safe!I got word late yesterday afternoon that everyone survived the night. My sister's abode did very well, considering. No news yet if my Mum's house survived. It was right on the coast. Fingers crossed that it still is.It was a tense wait for me. I was extremely worried. My friends will attest that I was stressed to the max over this, but as it turned out, Yasi was not as

Not Coping Well

Hi all,Today's going to be a bit of a depressing post, so bear with me. I am extremely stressed at the moment.As most of you know, my mother, my sister, her daughter and my sister's boyfriend live in tropical North Queensland. You may have heard of the floods that recently passed through Queensland. Well, mother nature is at it again.Tropical Cyclone Yasi, a category 5 cyclone with a front of

Weekend and Worries

Nice alliteration, no?With everything all caught up yesterday (I'll tell you about my stupidity later), I can now tell you all about my weekend.CRAZY!Saturday was, at least. It was an epic day. Epic.It started fairly early in the morning (for a weekend day) for me. I left the house at 9:oo am and walked to Chinatown for Lion Dance rehearsal at 10:00 am. There I learnt that our Lion Dance

GAH!

Good morning!I had a lovely weekend, but I have no time to tell you about it. I have something that needs to be handed in today - a day late.I'm an idiot! I hate it when I don't get things in on time... other people are counting on it! I'm so mad at myself.I'll tell you about the weekend tomorrow. 'Till then, here's today's Forgotten English word/phrase:Inkhorn Terms:Pedantic expressions

Doggo

In hiding; desiring to be left alone; "lying doggo."- Harold Wenworth's Dictionary of American Slang, 1960.