Update on my fundraising efforts

Woo hoo! Only $95 to go until I hit my target, and since it's payday tomorrow I'm going to cash in on a few pledges. Don't think I'm stopping at $1500!!

If you happen to be reading this and have suddenly though "ooh, that's a good idea...I'll go do my donation now", you can do so on the website here, or if you know me and are in the vicinity I can take cash, cheque or card.

Tassie, you're all in line for some serious begging when I get there next week, so get those wallets out...it really is a great cause after all.

thanks so much to everyone who's already been so generous!

J. (soon to be know as "baldy", "nude-nut" and other rude names for people with no hair)

Happy Launceston Cup Day

to all my Friends in Lonnie....

even though I've never been to the Launceston Cup, for various reasons. Or the races at all. Ever. In my whole life.

Hint, anyone?

I feel a bit dirty...

I admit it, I watched the Oscars last night.

I usually hate awards ceremonies. Actually I always do. I didn't even get any particular enjoyment out of it last night. I think that they're such industry w*nks where overpaid people sit around and pat each other on the back for doing such a good job of failing completely to make the world a better place.

Can you imagine the world tuning in to watch the International Finance Forecaster's Awards? No? Why not? Boring? Hmmm...more boring than the Oscars?

But somehow they suck you in. I was literally just changing channels, waiting for something to start on another channel. I was lured by the frocks and the shoes.

Anyway, since I've already admitted I watched it (apart from the big award at the end, that happened after I fell asleep), and since every other person on the planet seems to have an opinion, here are my expert [sic] opinions on the night....

1. Too much long straight hair, pulled over one shoulder. You look like you have a pet otter draped over there, straighted to within an inch of it's life (or beyond)
2. Far too many fishtail frocks. Not good in it's hey-day, this look hasn't improved just because they made Dreamgirls
3. Kirsten Dunst. What were you thinking?
4. Ellen, I really wanted you to be funny. Pity that only worked out about half the time.
5. Al Gore. Congratulations. If there were an award for funniest moment of the night, I would have awarded it to you!
6. Maggie Gylenhaal - didn't you just have a baby? Have you been living on lettuce leaves and water ever since?
7. Clint Eastwood - glasses can make you look intelligent. Especially when the alternative is looking like you're illiterate.
8. Yep, all that back-slapping "aren't we wonderful" sentiment after announcing this year's to be the most multi-cultural Oscars ever. Doesn't seem like such a good idea when you've got people giving acceptance speeches that are "gasp" not in English (or the US version thereof).

So there you go. I think I'll go have a shower now. For the next three weeks. At least.

An other food brag.

After many year of preparing burritos, a commonly cooked recipe from my repertoire of vegetarian delights, I decided to get all adventurous last night.

I think that I may, just possibly, have perfected the burrito.

Ow ow ow!

Note that that's two less "ow"s than yesterday, and less exclamation marks too.

So I'm a lot less sore than I was yesterday.

but still 3 "ow"s more than usual.

Pre-emptive post

I was going to write a post whinging about the state of my laptop...the fact that it's had the umpteenth bit replaced costing me yet another fortune. The fact that I lost stuff this time. The fact that it came back this time with absolutely nothing on it - no drivers, software or files.

But I've beaten myself to the punch. New laptop ordered today and on the way. Fast and big memory and still under warranty!

Yay! Posts from home will be a possibility once again!

Ow Ow ow ow Ow!!!

I did a Rogaine yesterday. 6 hours of running around in the rain, up hills and down stairs and up stairs and down hills and across streets and along the beach and over bridges and down paths.

All while alternately getting rained on periodically or feeling like we had our own personal saunas happening inside our parkas.

Lots of map reading, a bit of map-misreading, navigation and confusion.

Did we win? Far from it.

Did we get wet? Wet would be an understatement.

Did everything hurt by the time we'd finished? Hell, yeah.

Does everything hurt even more today? I can barely walk. I think "hobble" would be a more accurate description of what I'm doing to get from place to place.

Did we have any fun at all? Lots and lots and lots. :-)

Thanks Danielle and Kate & Andrew

p.s. I'm still going to whinge lots. It really does hurt!

Ummmm..... \:-/

Yep, um, hello to the person who game here by searching for "jacki's videos toy love"

I actually hope you didn't find whatever it was you were looking for.

J.

Oooh....new word!

i love this one.....


apogee \AP-uh-jee\, noun:
1. The point in the orbit of the moon or of an artificial satellite that is at the greatest distance from the center of the earth.
2. The farthest or highest point; culmination.

Hmmm...is this how it's supposed to work?

Good News: Another 2 items crossed off my list at the end of the day!!

Bad News: Another 4 items added to the list by the end of the day. :-(

Something I've never done before

I'm not referring to the shaving-the-head thing (again)

I'm planning a baby shower.

Do you have any idea how much information and how many different ideas are are there on the internet for such activities?

Well, if you don't, I can tell you: It's a lot.

Anyone have any good stuff they'd like to share? It's for the lovely Bec and I'd really quite like it to be a lovely day.

Hello strangers

Hi all, or anyone still out there reading!

Apologies for the Zen Minimalist posts lately. Serious case of the busies at work over the last week or two.

Have finally gotten a huge piece of work finished that has taken us literally since December , so am now in the process of working my way through the list of all the other stuff that was put on the back-burner since then. 19 entries on the to-do list as of this morning, and I've managed to have a bit of a power day and cross 5 off today so far and counting.

I'm going to try to get a bit further through a couple of items and then head back for a big juicy post. Well, tomorrow at the latest or you can give me a slap on the wrist.

Remember Choose-Your-Own-Adventure books? Any votes on the topic for the next post...

1. For me whinging about my dodgy laptop problems go to page 37
2. For my new favourite recipe go to page 15
3. For my take on Chinese New Year go to page 72
4. For more hilarious stories of Sydney Public Transport go to page 66
5. If you don't like any of these ideas go to hell

"How long is Happy Hour?"

I love moments when people (preferably people other than myself) say things like this.

That whole "maybe I should have thought that through a second before letting it jump out of my mouth as a sentence" type of moment.

by the way - it wasn't actually me who came up with this gem, in case you were wondering.

2 thirds of the way!!!

Woo Hoo!! My fundraising efforts are going so well. I've just passed the $1000 mark!!! Only $485 to go until I reach my target.

Looks like the whole head-shaving thing is going to definitely happen. Gulp!

Another List

In the interests of fairness and equity, I believe another list may be in order.

Things that aren't annoying me at all this morning

1. I got a new pair of shoes yesterday. They are shiny and new.
2. The sun is shining
3. I have had lots of generous donations for my fundraising efforts
4. I have impending holidays
5. I got a new pair of shoes yesterday. They are shiny and new.
6. I'm having lunch with Bec and she makes me laugh
7. Did I mention I have some shiny new shoes?
8. Plus the shoe place is fixing my old ones that I broke when I tripped over last week.
9. Shiny, shiny shoes.

A list of things that are annoying me this morning.

1. My laptop. Stupid machine.
2. Mondays
3. My breakfast shop who put their prices up when they were already overpriced
4. My finger. It hurts. Jammed it when folding up the sofa-bed yesterday. Ouch.
5. The Internet. Well, it's OK now, but we have had no access all morning until now. How dare it be out there with all that information and me not be able to get any of it?
6. Sydney Water. Sending me nasty letters even though they were the one's who stuffed up and had my address wrong.
7. Whoever has been giving out my number as the contact for any number of resourcing issues handled by another area of my team. I don't know about this stuff!!!
8. Unhelpful Customer Service staff who automatically blame someone else for mistakes before even checking their facts.
9. Adobe Acrobat. Just didn't feel like working this morning, apparently. Making it necessary for me to manually produce all 86 reports this morning. A task that normally takes about 10 minutes. I've just finished and it's taken me 2.5 hours.

That is my whinge for the day. That will be all.

A sensational piece of lateral thinking

Check this out

One third of the way there

Thanks to everyone who have made generous donations so far to my World's Greatest Shave fundraising drive. I've crossed the $500 mark this morning!!!

Only $1000 to go.

Can you tell I'm focusing on the money. I'm in active denial about the whole losing the hair thing.

Thanks to everyone who has supported me so far. As for everyone else, well I'll be hunting you down this afternoon!

J.

It's pay day

Feel free to share the love around here

Request

I have a real thing going for bran muffins at the moment. A shop nearby sells great ones, but they're extortionately expensive.

Does anyone have a good recipe?

I might even make enough for everybody.