Daytime TV Discoveries...

Whilst on holidays, lounging leisurely in front of the idiot box trying to dodge talk shows, I discovered that Metamucil comes in tablet form now.

(Not suppository-form, McTavish.)

I've never seen the ad for Metamucil tablets on night time TV so I wonder if it's a little secret for daytime television watching folk only.

Are 9 to 5ers (7 to 3ers, 11 to 7ers, whatever) not entitled to the more easily ingested pill?

Must they endure the original or orange flavour? (Now about orange flavour... that deserves it's own blog at a later date)

And about the smooth texture business... Even the woman on the ad seems to be gagging! How smooth can it be?

Anyway, for all of you who haven't been privy to the secret Metamucil tablets, here's the heads up.

>:o)

One more thing...

They finally fixed the glass at the front entrance.

The building maintenance guy came on Tuesday and swept up the mess and then some glaziers came yesterday and replaced the broken pane.

I'm surprised the morons didn't test the strength of the new glass last night. They were, however, running around slamming their own windows shut screaming 'Hurricane Rita's here!!!' because we had a thunderstorm last night.

*shakes head*

And a big shout out to...

CAROL!!!!

Happy Birthday, sissypants!!!

Did someone say, 'Shots and pots!'?!?!?!?!?

Break out the Cuervo Gold and Jagermeister...

I'm ba-ack.....

Well, I'm back from Annual Leave. I've had the past week off and have been enduring dial-up hell hence the lack of posts. It took me about half an hour to get those Girl Bar photos up. Crikey.

So, it's back to the grindstone... I wonder where everyone else is...

The calm before the storm...

- Cloak room, Girl Bar's 12th Birthday, 23rd September, 2005.

Happy Birthday, Girl Bar!!!

Julie, Gracie and Guy

DJ Ambie Dextrus

The Bevs. I'll keep you updated on the release of their acoustic folk singlet.
Sorry, I meant single.

The Industry Dancers

More photos from Girl Bar's 12th Birthday

Andi, Julie and Danielle

Bectoria and I.

Brooke, the infamous poi dancer

kdj vs. Jenderfunk

kdj steals the show

Claire and Nat

And finally, more pictures from Girl Bar's 12th Birthday...

Carol, Anj & Danielle

Always make a grand entrance...

I love the fireworks setting on my camera...

Jen & Gracie

"And on Thursday, we also have to... Why aren't you writing this down???"

Bob & Nev, the morning after.

ARGH!

Blogger.com is making me very angry... It's not letting me upload all the happy snaps I took on Friday night. It's probably my lousy dial-up connection.

Anyway, I'll keep trying...

Meanwhile, the glass in the entry hall still hasn't been cleaned up. And someone has added their KFC rubbish to the pile.

IDIOTS!!!

And they didn't even clean it up afterwards...

Bogans. Absolute bogans.

They smashed the glass at around 7pm last night. This photo was taken at 8am.

When animals live in buildings....

They think it's really clever to bounce their footy up against a GLASS PANE and when it smashes, they're surprised.

Some of you have had to endure me whinging about my upstairs neighbours for a while now... This is proof that I'm not just a cranky old, intolerant woman. They are morons.

One more sleep!!!

And I'm on holidays for a week! YAY!!!

I have no plans to do anything or go anywhere... I just don't want to come to work for a week. Is that so much to ask?!?!?!

Actually, I do have one thing to do and that's work out how to use my Creative Micro Zen mp3 player. It's been sitting there for months going 'Use me... ditch the shuffle... come on!'

The darn thing is just so much heavier than the shuffle!

Anyway... counting down... 9 hours to go.

Happy Birthday, Ken!

Yay!

*claps*

'Tis a day for many celebrations...

Happy Birthday, Tarnia!

*throws tiny pink skull & crossbone shaped confetti*

Also, Happy 100th Blog post thingy!!!

Opening Night of cOnJuNKtiON, 14th September, 2005

More work by Anjelka Bazdaric

This one's mine. >:o)

cOnJuNKtiON

Artwork and visuals by Anjelka Bazdaric.

Now showing at Esco, 386 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy.

Recommended listening...

1. Dare (Soulwax Remix) - Gorillaz
2. Nasty, Sassy, Classy - Audiowhores
3. Manga - H-Man
4. Mandarin - Booka Shade
5. When the Lights Go Down (Deepgroove) - Armand Van Helden
6. Say Hello - Deep Dish
7. Lose Control - Missy Elliot feat. Ciara and Fatman Scoop (shhhh... don't tell anyone!)
8. What if - Coldplay (possibly the saddest song I've ever heard... *loves it*)

The end of an era

Everyone else (in Australia) is writing about it so I'm going to as well.

Australia lost the Ashes last night. Game over, red rover.

It's a travesty.

But really, did *anyone* expect Australia to score 342 runs in 18 overs before play was called off due to bad light and a draw declared? That's a run rate of 19 runs per over! Are they INSANE?

The things you do...

Well, well, well... Last night was the Careers Expo at the University of Melbourne. This 'event' was hosted by the student club of the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning. James and I went along to, I suppose, market our company to future quantity surveyors.

I'll tell you what, two hours of meeting and greeting after already being at work for 9 hours just isn't what the doctor ordered. And these shoes weren't meant for standing in.

Fortunately, I made an early decision not to put any of my business cards out on the table because I'm sure I'd have a lot more to complain about once the influx of CVs comes in, closely followed by the follow-up phone calls.

To top it all off, as I was trying to get home, I was threatened with a $100 fine for walking on the tram tracks! Ok... Admittedly, I was in a tram marshalling area but really, if they don't want people mistakingly walking into that area, maybe they should close off the fencing. Anyway, I just kept walking and said, 'Sorry, not from these parts!' They can't fine you if they can't be bothered walking after you!

I reckon it's a very clever ploy of Yarra Trams or Metlink or whoever it is to generate revenue by building a tram depot right outside a university where there are many foreign students. Imagine how many $100 fines are issued per day... Amazing.

Happy Birthday, Di!

It was Di's birthday on Thursday so this is a bit belated...

We have just entered the phase of many, many birthdays... Virgos and Libras. It's going to be a very busy couple of months.

The A-Team

They call themselves the A-Team.

This is the official hand signal of the A-Team.

I'm not sure either of them are old enough to even know who Mr. T is.

My favourite clouds

Serenity now!!!

*bangs head on desk repeatedly*

Maybe today would be better if I was unconscious...

The Ashes...

Will Australia retain them?

Will England regain them?

Will Ooh Ahh find his form?

Will Shane Warne get caught up in another text messaging scandal by the end of the 2nd innings?

So many questions...

*tsai*

I remember when cricket was just that weird game the men in white pajamas were playing in Assiniboine Park.

Jimmy, I hardly knew ya...

Once upon a time, there was a girl named Jimmy. Jimmy started a new job this week, working in a factory doing many different things from stuffing boxes to packing underwear to labelling pallets. As each day progressed, Jimmy's hours increased until yesterday when they culminated at a whopping 12 hour day! Jimmy was wrecked. The end.

Hehehehe... get some work ethic up ya!

Congratulations on making it through your first week, Jimmy!

(if Jimmy were made of cardboard, this is what she'd look like)

Consarn it....

Yesterday, I walked home after work on the lefthand side of the street just to have a look and see what sort of photos I could take at that angle and discovered that you get a much better perspective from there.

Alas, I left my camera at home today and with the possibility of rain over the next few days, I don't think there will be new photos on my blogs for the next 4-5 days.

I know I can take photos indoors at the pub but the patrons... well... some of them are a bit rough looking to start with so they're no better when you add water.

Get well wishes...

To Edwin Scissorlips, who had her tonsils removed yesterday morning.

For some reason, tonsilitis always makes me think of that episode of 'Diff'rent Strokes' where Arnold has his appendix taken out.

I don't know why....

Actually, a lot of things remind me of 'Diff'rent Strokes' and, to a lesser extent, 'The Facts of Life'.

For instance, whenever I hear 'Strangers in the Night', I think of Kimberley being kidnapped.

And whenever I stumble upon a periodic table, I think 'A! U! Give me back my gold necklace!'

Innovative or just plain ugly...

This used to be an ordinary pedestrian overpass connecting Melbourne Central Latrobe to Melbourne Central Lonsdale. With the recent refurbishment works to Melbourne Central, they have decided to encase the overpass with this... thing. Is it a bubble? Is it a pod? Is it architectural license gone bad???

On anoher note, I can understand why they would connect buildings with enclosed pedestrian bridges in Winnipeg seeing as in winter months, you can get severe frostbite from trying to cross the street but really, is it necessary here in Australia?

Get out and get some fresh air during your shopping spree.

wtf, part deux

Does anyone know what this means???

I could just Google it but I don't want to.

I bet if Andi read my blog she could tell me what this is about.

Gotham City...

This is a Church I walk past on my way home from work.

It wasn't really this dark at 5:30pm.

wtf?

I was browsing eBay looking for wrist bands and arm bands when my search turned up this Men Arm Band Blade Cutting Wild Man Old Day Suit 526.

What the hell?

Damn you Coca-Cola Company!

I'm addicted to Coke with Lime.

I'm actually hoping that they mean it when they say it's for a limited time only because I would like it taken off the shelves so that I stop drinking it.

Diet Coke with Lime, however, is wrong.

I'm addicted to buying DVDs...

Or maybe it's just being able to browse through a properly alphabetised library of DVDs that makes me want to buy them...

Yes, I'm still harping on about it.

*shakes fist at K-mart*

I went to JB Hi-Fi again yesterday. I was actually intending on buying a new fragrance but the one that I had my nose set on didn't really tickle my fancy. That and the people who work in the fragrance section at Myer really do my head in. I'm sure I was the only customer there. The rest were all professional sprayers who were eyeing me like buzzards on a dead carcass in the desert.

Back to DVDs... Well, I can't resist a sale so I purchased the following titles (it seems I'm getting a bit nostalgic as I approach 32):

• Beautiful Girls
• Can't Buy Me Love
• Die Hard with a Vengeance
• Less Than Zero
• Some Kind of Wonderful

The man at the sales counter kept looking at me funny as he processed my purchase. There is nothing wrong with my selection.

I love Canadians, really.

For a different take on news, check out www.dose.ca.

It's great for what ails ya!

There is 'real' news on this site. You just have to poke around and find the 'mock' news. Especially the on location news reports.

This just in...

Pamela Anderson (known aliases: Erotica Jones, Stripperella, Agent 69) has been named the most powerful Canadian in Hollywood.

For a full report, please go to http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/08/31/Arts/pamela-anderson-20050831.html

Makes me proud to be a Canadian.

I think.

Do you think this will earn her an Order of Canada? Perhaps she already has one.

I don't think she's listening, do you think she's listening?

Auditioning to be a Jet in 'West Side Story'

Jelkie!

I wish I'd discovered blogspots earlier...

I wish I had a time machine so that I could travel back about 15 months and take photos of all those people who have asked me, in a roundabout way, whether I am June the Crown Casino Croupier.

Then I could have an entire blogspot dedicated to that subject.

So let me just state the following:

• My name is JUDE.
• I do not work at the Casino.
• I do not play soccer.
• I did not meet you at a party in Cranbourne 3 years ago.
• If I don't recognise you after your first story about how we met, I'm not going to recognise you when you tell me again.
• Please stop trying to convince me that I know you.
• I mean it.
• Really.
• Stop now.

I *heart* Rafiki

We went to see 'The Lion King' last night... Brilliant!

Rafiki was the best! Having never seen 'The Lion King' cartoon, I believe Rafiki is a baboon? I'm not sure. But he/she was hilarious.

The swaying grass freaked us out just a little bit though. Ok, maybe a lot. It was just wrong.

And look out for the stampeding hyenas...