I’ve been dreading it for months, but despite my best efforts, I’ve not been able to postpone it any longer. Yes I’ll admit, I’m 29 today.
That’s right, I’m officially 29. Which of course means there are only 365 short days left until I’m 30.
30. Thirty. Three-zero. It doesn’t sound any better no matter how I say it and now it’s looming large on my horizon and is going to haunt me for the next year like a big giant scary haunty thing.
So today’s question is, what amazing mind blowing things do you think I should do in the next year to make the most of the short remainder of my life? The clock is ticking, so Operation Zimmer starts here…
I’m sure as a regular Blogalism reader you’ll remember that I briefly mentioned Hoodwinked a while back. Were my good trailer/bad film fears unfounded?
Ok, true the trailer had a lot of the funniest parts included in it and the animation wasn’t the best I’ve ever seen, but the story was still very well put together and I just couldn’t help but laugh at the sheer silliness of it all.
I always try to avoid reading too much about a movie before I see it - this movie wasn’t quite what I expected and for me, ended up being more enjoyable for it. Think a cross between Shrek and Columbo and you’re not far off.
Hoodwinked was released in the USA last December! Sheeesk. That was a long wait. Was it worth it? Hell yeah! Oh, and the singing goat rules! Hopefully Japeth will “be prepared” (spoiler) for a bigger part in Hoodwinked 2: Hood vs Evil! 7.5/10
I think it’s fair to say that most people who know me, realise that I’m not a morning person. I’m not usually properly awake until around 11am and that’s after I’ve had at least three cups of tea to help me jump start my brain.
This morning, I woke up bleary-eyed after a very short, frankly rubbish nights sleep, with a headache and generally feeling like I had a cold coming on. So you can probably imagine that I was feeling even less ‘with it’ than normal.
I got into the office about 8:30am. The first thing I had to do was get my timesheet faxed off to claim for my previous weeks work. I ambled over to the fax machine and waited a few minutes for the stuff that was already on it to go through.
Whilst I was dozily watching dozens of bits of paper feed through, I started to get a *major* runny nose. With my head still pounding, I hurriedly checked my pockets only to find that I didn’t have any tissue on me. Things were starting to get messy, so in order to prevent any embarrassment, I rather ashamedly used my hand to remedy the rapidily increasing goo situation. Phew, problem temporarily solved.
It was very shortly after this that the hottest girl in the office walks up with her timesheet also ready to be faxed. I smiled and she smiled back. She looked down and saw me clutching an identical timesheet to hers and she said excitedly “Ooh, you’re with the same agency as me!”.
I’m sure you’ll agree that the signs were quite clear, she obviously wanted me - badly.
“I’m Ashleigh!” she beamed and extended her hand to me in a really friendly way. With me not being completely with it and still in slight shock that this fox had willingly introduced herself to me, I shook her hand and started to greet her.
Of course as my snot filled hand met hers, I instantly realised my school boy error. A look of horror spread across my face as I watched a slow motion look of disgust spread across hers. Now I have no idea exactly what she thought the slightly lumpy, warm sticky substance was smeared on her palm, but whatever she thought - it couldn’t have been good.
Frankly, I didn’t quite know what to say to best remedy this situation. Before I had struggled to think of even a single word of apology, she had turned and quickly walked away, very nearly breaking into a run!
Now I’m no expert with women, but I’m pretty sure this is a fairly negative reaction. I guess even Valentino had to start somewhere though, right? Taxiiiiiiiii!
In the last few weeks, I’ve gone back to school. “Seriously?!” I hear you ask. Well no, not really, but let me explain what I mean.
I first heard about Digg.com about 6 months ago. I thought it was a bit geeky (yes, even for me), so I didn’t return. Anyway, by chance a couple of weeks ago I stopped by again.
The blend of news seems to have shifted and now I’m totally hooked on finding out about stuff that I never knew that I needed to know. It’s kinda like the best of the web voted for by other ‘diggers’.
I’ll give you a few examples. In the last seven days, I’ve found:
How tin foil is made.
Liquid sculptures.
Why you should turn off the engine after you crash your private jet.
A really cool live webcam in the middle of some African national park.
How to take pictures of Earth from 32km up on a shoestring budget.
And, a real World “Rock, Paper, Scissors” Championship. Yes, really.
Ok, the last one is still extremely geeky, but quite funny nonetheless.
You could say that the above covers a range of school lessons like Physics, Psychology, IT and Art. I even found a link to a huge collection of highly NSFW Myspace pictures which I’d loosely call, err, Biology.
So if that’s not the online equivalent of going back into education, I don’t know what is. I’m still bunking some lessons, but for me school has never been so cool.
