Thankyou Kathy, for that informative comment...

Ok people, you asked for this...

Is this the face of happiness???

I think so!
Now, i have noticed a NUMBER of people enjoying not naming themselves, after i EXPRESSLY forbade such action. although one did reveal himself through subsequent posts on tom's blog (nice work doug :D)
NOW, while i enjoy flaunting the system, this is restricted to all systems but MINE. i require a name. Queen victoria has done well, making the first step, however she has a)not indicated if she knows me nor b) given her ACTUAL identity.
please honour the actual queen victoria's memory by not asking how i know it's not the real queen victoria.
among other things, this individual is somewhat misguided, with claims that a queen outranks a matriarch.
with the exception of God, and the computing system in general, on this blog no-one outranks me. i am supreme. possibly Bec's monarchy might have a hope, but she's my daughter, so that won't work. because blood is thicker than water. and the House of Klauss (and its associate, the House of Snnnn) is an association stronger than nationality. also coz i REFUSE TO BE OUTRANKED!
:D i get to do that.
'sides, who'd take me on?
it has been asked where the squirrelly wrath is. i have withheld it. i believe it is more logical to reveal that squirrelly wrath is not the only danger here. far worse is letting ANGRY TREE LOOSE!!!

Is this the face of pure anger?ARE YOU WILLING TO TAKE THIS ON???

I didn't think so.
see you all soon, i love you all.
dougie, you shall be linked as soon as i can find the suitable superlative for your blog.
gros bises!
~xa*
p.s.Tom is really really really really really really wonderful. really.

Get ready for a world of procrastination...

ok, tom said i'm not an angry person, and he should know, and he is under no
form of duress, so stop being mean, all of you.
and new rule, NO ANONYMOUS COMMENTING!it is simple courtesy to put your name
at the end of a comment if you are under the name anonymous. i am aware that
not giving a name may be the point of commenting as anonymous, but NOT ON MY
BLOG BUSTER!

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__________________________________________/wow.......even i'm impressed. try to imagine it without the lines. blog mean ppl tried to push it all together and ruin it so you couldn't see that it was a cloud, and do you think i was gonna stand by and let that happen????
so i go around expending too much energy drawing a cloud that is happiest when hitting people with lightning, does that make me an angry person?
identify yourselves when you comment plz.
-xa*
oh, and thankyou for helpful responses, which i can sum up as - don't hug guys unless you already do. it confuses them.
oh, and try to be gentler with girl hugs.
can do ppl...
well, ill stop shoving my shoulder into the necks of sitting-down ppl when i hug them, in any case.
toodles!

YAY FOR EVERYBODY!!!!

Yay em.
Yay hairbrush song – tom hates it.
Yay kate.
tom is lovely lovely lovely lovely lovely.
OR HE WOULD BE IF HE HADN'T JUST HAD TO GO TO PLAY A GAME WITH HIS BROTHERS, HAVING TALKED TO ME ON THE PHONE FOR LESS THAN 15 MINTUES!!!
oooohh.....i'm sorry. i've used you all. i've used you to bitch about my boyfriend...you may feel slightly soiled. i apologise.
i'm not really angry, but there had to be a penalty...tho this is slightly full-on.
oh well. i take you with me through all the ups and downs. according to kate, slightly more downs...
SOMETHING NICE....ummm...
well...

ok, FINE, something nice, i went to Tom's work yesterday. it was his first shift, and i decided i'd go and pick him up instead of his parents and surprise him, as i am a half hour drive away. i got there and saw him and waited, and he was serving a woman, and he looked up and said 'hey' very casually. after he got off work he was VERY excited...i said' were you surprised at all?' and he said 'yeah, but i was with a customer'.
STEP BACK! we have a professional!!!!
:D
was funny, coz i told a friend at work about it, and we've both been working for the company that tom has just started with, for over 3yrs, and we split our sides, coz we are NOT that professional.
ok, thats the funny bit, and the nice bit is that tom was really happy, and i was really happy that i could make him happy. can anyone think of a another way to slip happy into a sentence??

OH!! i remember what i was going to blog about!!
help me - i know not the social etiquette.
can girls hug their guy friends??
ill be slightly more specific - can girls hug their guy friends that they havent known ever since they were born???coz if u have, its like a brother, and FEW ppl hug their brothers...
BACK ON TRACK: what do ppl think? coz i have guys friends, and they're cool, mainly in CU, and i dont hug them...i hug a few guy friends...very few...with whom i have looooooong friendships...but it's weird for me coz i hug all my friends who are girls all the time,i hug them goodbye, and then i get to a guy friend and im like'oh....ummm...yeah bye....have fun...'[run fast]
but would it be too weird?some guys are under-practiced at hugging, and many would argue thats a good reason to start hugging them, but i am aware that they might feel just TOO WEIRD...too much close contact.
+, with my friends who are girls (what an unwieldy phrase) i give them tight hugz, which is proper for girls, coz thats a REAL HUG, but with guys, might that be interpreted COMPLETELY DIFFERENTLY???!!!
as i realise, tom is the only guy i give tight hugs to.
so? what should i do?or is this my problem that no-one wants to deal with??
lol, i would like to mention Em's dance of joy. it is addictive and cool. try it at home. close the door - joy can be impeded by embarrassment.
hugs and love and motherly nagging,
-a*

humph

I'm a little grumpy.
my stupid links are stupid so most of the time it looks like ppl haven't posted till ages later when i actually refresh the pages and find all this stuff id been waiting for.
and my stupid assessments are stupid, not least of which is french coz im so freaked out that i'll just barely pass again, so i cant even think what to write, but also maths is stupid coz they want you to explain silly things just to prove that you understand that kids need to be taught maths.
for the record, i get that kids need to be taught maths. the non-painful way (which i have discovered during this course, i am learning)
and stupid work is making me work tomorrow when i have all this work to do...
i'm not normally grumpy...this is my sporadic spiel of spite.
......
.......
........wow, i really am an english freak, you have no idea how much better that alliteration makes me feel =)=):D
tee hee.
oh, and i did half-swear on Tom's blog coz i was jealous that he and kathy were excited and i wasn't (HAH!NOW YOU HAVE TO LOOK AT IT!!SUCKERED!!)
but i do have to get up to go to work, and a friend from church is having his 30th tomorrow night, and my gut feeling is that i won't be fit to drive after working....but thats totally pushed on by the knowledge that i could get so much work done tomorrow night...so i'm biased, even though he's cool and i wanna be there.
but i did buy him a present, so it's ok, i might give that to him on sunday at church.

ummmmm....yeah.
it's too hot. it got(became) the perfect temperature and just kept rising.itd be ok if there was a fan in the computer room....its in the garage. (the fan, not the room).
i bought a pretty dress for my cousin's wedding today!
i also had a blood test, but that was less exciting.
ok, bed time, and i hafta change to summer sheets...how am i going to SLEEP!!!???my fan is way noisy!!
work IS air-conditioned...ok, ill be ok.
night people stay safe, i miss all....ok, i am again a little glum.
ooohhh...glum is SO the right word!
lol.....oooooooo i am pitiful.
xa*

Eleven o'clock at night, a week before my birthday, and where am I?That's right, cross the street so you don't have to deal with me

heyheyhey.
yay, went out with girls from church to restuarant and had fun. ate chocolate fudge gelato.
are there more wonderful words than chocolate fudge gelato?
...I'm going to censor these names slightly, coz they don't read this, so it's not fair.
we were chatting, and C turns to R and ses
'yeah, do you find it difficult?'
r:what?
c:well, before marriage, how you won't...
r:huh?
c:well, with like physical-
r:wha?
J:SEX, r.
....im sorry if anyone was showing their children how the internet works and stumbled onto this blog, or if someone i really wanted to impress with my superior mind was just totally disillusioned, but it was so funny. j is a very cool person...with a great sense of timing.
oh, and guys? i can think of a relevant simpsons quote here.
...the one where marge is trying to join a country club, and this woman keeps shooting marge down, and marge's friend ses don't mind her, her idea of humour is a cleverly phrased observation delivered with impeccable timing.
or something like that.

oh, and in case anyone felt like knowing what is going on inside Tom's head?
T:"cheese, like vegemite and ping-pong, is an acquired taste"

(sigh) ah, turning 20.i kinda like being in my teens. no-one can tell you what you ought to be like coz it's all formative. but in your 20's...you hafta grow up.
you DO! i know many are avoiding it, but it's gonna happen!!

OH.
ballroom dancing rocks. even when you make up your own steps. that is all.
yay me almost finishing my assignments....only hafta cut out 400 words....
love that %10 grace.

feelin' a teeny bit sentimental. last night, had 15 mins before had to drive home, and Tom suggests reading the Bible, so we went and looked at 1John.
was good.
..........................
lol, i need a special made up word to describe the feelings there.
2
Sequins
Query
Stars
Tell
Rhymes
~xa*

yes-yes-yes-yes-yes-yes-yes - no.

ok
qq
(in maths, discussing a graph of the level of water in fred's bath, and as if that wasn't disturbing enough...)
nora:maybe he added flowers or petals, you know how people do?
katherine: his name's FRED,nora.

and in french, susan (not maths susan, my granddaughter, french susan)
:(looking at grammar excercises) excitment to the max!(it's funnier when you have experienced french grammar excercises.)

.....sigh....
i should feel better about life, but i feel under-happy....sub-joyful.
of course, last night i was experiencing severe stomach cramps...the ones that i get coz i'm a GIRL, and was rolling around weeping and crying out to God to let the nurofen kick in, and kick in SOON...
hmmmm....that was really honest...
let's pretend i didn't tell you about that.
i do have a haircut, and it does make me feel good, coz its short, so i feel like im twelve again. i was really cool at 12.
and i'm really cool now.
really looking forward to monday tho. should be a fun day.
gaaaaaaaaah.....im so not bubbly, and that annoys me, coz i love being bubbly. but ive crashed. i was watching tv and reading books and cleaning bathrooms and putting out washing today. i slept in, which was kinda nice...
ok, 50 points to samuel for wishing me a happy 20th, for some reason it made me feel kinda happy...maybe i'm so narcissistic that my own celebration of existence is the only thing that makes me feel good.
yup, that must be it!
oohh ...'fabulous party your majesty, i haven't seen this much love and contentment in one room since Narcissus discovered himself' WHAT MOVIE IS THAT???i kno
AND amanda and i decided on friday that maddy gets a prize. we have no idea what it is, but she so gets one.
and i am taking this opportunity to state my opposition to using the phrase that consists solely of the letters 's' and 'n', in kate's convention. i think the book she made is awesome, but without a standard definition of what the term means, i fail to register it.
...
tom's still nice. was angry at me for a while for distracting him unintentionally in monopoly, so that his youngest brother didnt have to pay him close to a thousand dollars...
then he was ignoring me coz i pay him slightly more attention when he's ignoring me, and he likes to feel wanted.
man, i need a kick...im so dead-ish!
xa*

wow....i'm still tired.

maybe i shoudn't have done that shift at work today. i still have to finish various readings and print off an assessment...and i start work at 7am tomorrow.
STILL!
here i am.
everyone seems to be exhausted.
i would like to mention a few things.
1st - -qq
me:i have to clean my room today
katherine: i find things when i clean my room...like my watch...it was broken.

AND
50 POINTS TO THE WOMAN IN THE BLUE FORD WHO LET ME MERGE ON THE M4 WHEN IT WAS TOTALLY INSANE.
she rocks.

AND
it is LESS THAN A MONTH TO MY BIRTHDAY!!!7th October
don't get me a gift, i know i forgot your birthday and i never got you a present. don't make me feel more ashamed than i am. you're not that kind of person.
yes YOU!
someone tell me their birthday and ill make a list.
but i will be 20!!how weird.ill finally be the same age as some of my grandchildren :D

OH 50 points to tom for taking my library book back to the library and doing photocopies from it for me, then coming by work and giving them to me...no....100 points. he really didn't have to. and he helped/made/bossed me cleaning my room yesterday. it sparkles now. mum doesn't understand.
FYI, try not to see wedding crashers. you don't want to see it. esp not with anyone you're related to. i mean...eeeeewwwwwwwww.

AND!holidays are coming very soon. i have to do 2 interviews with my cousins for education, and i have to sleep for 3 consecutive days, AND i managed to get the 18th off, so i'm going to the women's day, and hopefully the pizza and movies after...YAY!
and i have to work on assessments.

unfortunately, the amount of work to be done means i can't sleep in on wednesday. there is a word to express this annoyance. bum.
sometimes i wish i liked coffee. one can't help feeling it would come in handy.
DON'T TELL ME HOW TEA IS BETTER, you know what i do to tea, and why i prefer just to respect it and leave it alone.

when you see tom, tell him he's a legend. you know it's true.
or, you know, think up your own word. otherwise he might think you didn't mean it.
save ferris *xa

stuff it up, it's a mistake. do it again - it's a riff.

ok
i am tired, it is late, and i am working tomorrow.
but then, no. 'sides, i could be doing homework or checking the map that i know where i'm going tomorrow.
but i am here. and i seem to have built up a resistance to homework.
i would like to say that i have noticed how rarely i am online, and it bugs me coz i'm not as with 'it' as i was, in a similar way to how i haven't been able to hang out with Cu girls that much this week, which bugs me coz they rock and im related to them. AND everyone sucks for talking about the social coz i wasn't there i was at work and it sounds like so much fun. but i was at the bushdance, so 50 points for me.(OOH, and 50 points for ben w. coz he navigated tom and i there and back again very ably. woo ben)
speaking of work, COULD PEOPLE TRY ASKING FOR A PLASTIC BAG INSTEAD OF POINTING AND GRUNTING, OR LOOKING AT ME AND SAYING IN TONES NOT AT ALL CONDUCIVE TO A BEAUTIFUL FRIENDSHIP 'bag?!'
thankyou.
i miss everyone. if i haven't talked to you, i miss you. if i have, i also miss you.
oh, few quotes-

ME: (looking at a poster) 1936. what happened in 1936?
BEN:well, world war two...hadn't started.

NORA: ooh, it's raining!
KATHERINE:ARGH!SOMEONE is gonna die!!

NORA: (looking at newspaper) is that guy grabbing his crotch?
(Alison and Katherine both scan the library)

AND I bought a hair straightener this week, and it works, but FEW know this coz FEW have even seen me this week! argh - i cannot deal withsolitude at all.
AND 50 points for tom being sweet about me tho not under duress, posting on his blog. as i recall tuesday before last was very nice.
yeah, note to everyone...tom is amazing, and so very very precious.he aint goin anywhere.
i miss you all and i want to know what's going on, so find me at uni and tell me.
*xa

deep breath...and i posted something else under this so make sure you read it

THE YOU SIDE

*Full name: alison.....

*Birth date: october 7 1986 (yay im older than kimmy)

*Age: 19

*Location: sydney australia

*Your zodiac sign: libra. apparently thats why i like pretty things...coz thats so uncommon

*Height: 170...somethingcm

*Eye color: green blue brown

*Hair color: brown...blonde in sunlight

*Are you a righty or a lefty or ambidextrous: lefthanded, aka awesome!

*Favorite TV show: hmmmm...futurama atm

*Favorite movie: le fabuleux destin d'amelie poulain (i nicked kim's...i actually do love it tho)

*What's your favorite flavor of snapple:we don't sell that this side of the border

*Favorite board game: most...trouble is good

*Favorite magazine: meh...(yes its a magazine)

*Favorite food: chocolate

*Least favorite food: tomatoes

*Favorite ice cream: triple chocolate OR chocolate GELATO (coz gelato rox)

*Favorite kind of perfume/cologne: this rose perfume that i got from the fragrant gardens that i like NEVER use coz it smells so nice. but normally?the body shop strawberry perfume TOM bought me...albeit with a hint.

*Favorite subject in school: hmmm...drama was coolest...but ancient history was the most amusing...i have the quotes to prove it

*Least favorite:french was really frustrating from time to time..so was english..and legal...and...:D

*Favorite drink: chocolate thikshake / fanta/solo

*Favorite CDs: i have some i intend to buy that are good...but blink 182 greatest hits is good.

*Favorite thing to do on the weekend: sleep,get uni work done, watch movies, hang with friends

*Best advice: realise who is in control, and that it aint you, and that that's a good thing.oh, and talk to your Saviour. He wants to talk to you.

*Your favorite artist/group: the greats atm...

*Your favorite holiday:Christmas because it's an awesome time with my family and an awesome thing to celebrate God's love for us AND many holz

*What's your favorite color? ew kimmy...how much did school stuff your head??yellow, blue and green thankyou. think the sun rising over hills and sea.

*Favorite shampoo/conditioner: tresemme, not coz of the faux-cool name, but coz its ultra cheap, comes in big bottles, and works pretty well.

*Person/s that know you the best: kathy...family...tom...CU ppl

*Loudest person that you know: rachel from CCHS...so u all know

*Craziest/silliest/wierdest person that you know: woah...rachel again

*Favorite friends to hang with: ALL my friends

*If you could meet any dead person, it would be: my paternal grandmother...

*The Nicest Guy you've ever met: oh come on, EVERYONE KNOWS!!!
(but like i could resist) THOMAS!!!!!

*The Nicest Girl you've ever met: hmmm...nice...bella, and amy d. from school...everyone else is
way too crazy to be nice

*Who's the person you admire most: my mummy

*What do you feel about the Ouija board: the same way i feel about stupid things that are stupid

*Do you believe in yourself: i believe in God. He takes care of me.

*Worst feeling in the world: guilt

*Best feeling in the world: being loved

*Do you have motion sickness: rarely

*Are you for world Peace: "what does our society need?" "harsher punishment for parole violators, stan......and world peace" Jesus will return and make all things new. which is not to say i'm against peace, i am for peace, but when He comes it will HAPPEN.

*One thing you want to change about yourself: my vanity

*Are you a health freak: ...no.
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THE CRUSH SIDE
*Do you have a crush: on tom

*Do you have a Boyfriend/Girlfriend: tom

*If you could go out with anyone in the world, who: tom

*For Girls- like guys with or without hats: whatever tom's doing...lol
*For guys- Like girls with or without nail polish:

*When you meet a person of the opposite sex, you first notice: height

*Who was your first crush: the boy with the red jumper at preschool...don't say anything.

*Have you ever been in love: as i understand it, no.

*What do you remember most about this year: france

*Memory (thing) you miss the most: sleep.chocolate. tom

*What's the first thing you thought of when you woke up this morning: HA!work didn't call!WOOOO

*Were you "cool" 5 years ago: i was...14 turning 15. ah. when i was 14, yes. when i was 15, no.i
was a nigel. i was still wonderful, but i was too upset to be cool.which is not to say being upset isnt cool, or negates it. i just wasnt.

*Does it make you sad to know that you can never go back in time:no.

*If you could go back in time would you: no

*What would you change: rien
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THE FUTURE SIDE
*Where do you see yourself in 10 Years:ummm...teaching...possibly having done missionary work...or doing.and married.probably.i'm pretty nice.

*Future Sons names:meh

*Future Daughters names: Isabella, Grace Annabel, Janet Rebekah

*If you could have any occupation when you get older, what would it be: id love to be singing or acting, but lacking talent, id be a teacher.

*What is your dream car/truck: hmmm...those cute bmw mini thingys with the soft top. hot.

*Where do you plan on living after getting out of school: someplace near a school where ill teach

*What age do you want to be when you get married:24+

*Do you sleep with a stuffed animal: next to. she's a tigress named sally

*What do you wear to bed: warm pj's

*If you could dye your hair one color what color would it be: i did red...id do white blond on
the last three/four inches

*If you could have a tattoo, what and where would it be: a rose on the back of my neck. not coloured.

*Bellybutton....Innie or Outtie: innie.

*Any piercings....where: 2 ears, one navel

*What's on your walls in your room: dolphins, monet, van gogh

*Have you ever been skinny-dipping: please tell me wouldnt think it of me

*Do you type with your fingers on the right keys:farout no, i aint no nerd

*Have you ever been convicted of a crime: not as yet.
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THE LEFT OVER CRAZY SIDE
*What's on your mouse pad: aapt....what i assume is a guy with a ladder in a rush

*How many rings before you answer the phone:am i awake?

*Have you ever been attacked by a big dog: no. animals love me. im like sleeping beauty. not cinderella.not snow white.

*Is the glass half empty or half full:why cant you people fill up a glass?

*Do you eat chicken with fingers or with a fork: bbq'd, hands. anything else, fork

*Which do you prefer, mud wrestling or Jell-O wrestling: jelly, coz its edible and not muddy

*What is the best number in the world: 7

*Would you rather give or receive: if i picked a good opresent, give

*How many homes have you lived in:seven

*How many schools have you been to: five

*Do you play any instruments: flute 3/4th grade, guitar...couple of chords. and i sing nice.

*Words or phrases you overuse: awesome!cheers.thanking you.meh.

*Toothpaste:once a day...twice if i like you.

*Do you get along with your parents: coz theyre cool

*Favorite town to chill: regentville

*Thunderstorms- cool or scary: damn cool

*Roller coasters-cool or scary: so cool

*Do you like to drive: dependes where im going and if anyone else is on the road.

*Chocolate or vanilla cake: chocolate

*Drinks, with or without ice cube: without

*What's the first thing you'd do if you won the lottery: give money to all the charities i could find before i had time to think about it.

*Favorite commercial: that ad where the mum's at the doctors, and the kids is mucking around and the mum is nervous. the doctor comes in and ses "we've checked his lungs, heart, kidneys, liver and spleen...he's got cancer" the mum ses "cancer??"...then breathes a deep sigh of relief. the doctor smiles and passes over a pill bottle "give him one of these twice a day. it should be gone in a few weeks"

*Favorite cereal: froot loops. its been years...mum seems to have something against them

*Something you'd like to try: having a band

*What would you do on a first date:be paranoid

*Any hobbies: spending way too much time answering questions about myself, and i think i was just cured.

House of Klauss

ok, here we go. i know manda already did one of these, and did it well, but i get to do this and not get in trouble coz i'm her grandmother.
ok
GENERATION 1: ME,alison, younger than most of this family, and Tom, who is in Sicily, but pays child support,but is generally uninvolved...voluntarily.

GENERATION 2 daughters Katherine, Nora and Bec.

GENERATION 3:Katherine's daughters Amanda and Susan and Emily, Bec's son Pete

GENERATION 4:Amanda's daughter Bella

IMAGINARY FRIENDS:Katus, who belongs to Bella
DISINTERESTED BYSTANDERS: Matt (way to TELL ME....WAS I MEANT TO FIGURE THAT OUT MYSELF??)and Sarah T.
i repeat, additions and changes must be reported to me.this is a serious commitment to...something.

Because it's late and i should be in bed -

I decided some things couldn't wait.
FIRST, i don't know my stance on the my-own-little-world epidemic that Kate has noticed in me - when i'm listening to music, i tune the world out. it's very relaxing that way. it's like i'm in a bubble. it's at max potency when you wear sunglasses. then aint NOBODY making contact without your saying so. when you aren't wearing glasses you can't pretend not to see people, coz you look fake and mean.
OBVIOUSLY had i seen kate i would have waved and jumped around like a maniac - AS I DID TODAY WHEN I SAW KATE AND CALLED OUT HER NAME, ONLY TO SEE HER KEEP WALKING. i kept yelling till she turned around :D
but sometimes you really would prefer not to notice things and people. recently i was on the bus and (it's kinda my fault, coz i like sitting near the back, it feels more fun) a group of high school guys sat VERY near me, and started talking. part of the conversation was who was angry with whom, but the other...they were discussing some girls they knew. the word offensive isn't exactly correct, coz i was not discussed, but...yeah, revolted will do.it was nasty. 16 year old boys who seemed to lack relationship skills.it's not a pretty sight (NOW, if they'd paid attention in SCHOOL...).
oh, i also want to mention how crap stomach cramps of the once-in-a-month variety are. i couldn't go to bible study tonight. and we are hot-water-bottle-less. AND almost out of heron, WHICH barely works anyway.
but i did get to watch futurama.
still, uncool feeling horrible, ESPECIALLY in french class while the tutor just goes oooooooon, and i grip the table till my knuckles go white.
yay tom having pain-killers. he's my hero.
or did i already mention that?
-xa*

i don't know who to blame for this...

i'm partly blogging coz becca told me to, partly coz she guilted me into it, and partly coz i have something to say:
(ahem) was anyone aware that our current pop culture image of an 'angel' and all the representations of angels with feathery wings can all be traced back to greek representations of the goddess Nike(chick with wings growing out of her back) and hermes(feathery wings growing out of his shoes or his hat, depending on who you talk to)!
it's so obvious when you think about it. i mean, no one ever actually thought angels really had wings from the bible. nowhere are angel wings mentioned in the Bible, it's all about people dressed in bright white. THEY WOULD HAVE MENTIONED DIRTY GREAT WINGS GROWING OUT OF SOMEONE'S BACK, as my minister commented.
ALSO, while we're on the topic, cherubim and seraphim, in short angels, do not look like children with wings and no clothes. if they looked like that, they would not have been sent into war as occurs in the Bible - revelation - nor would the reaction they are given by almost everyone who sees them prompt them to start talking with 'DON'T BE AFRAID!'. an angel stood at the entrance to the garden of Eden blocking it from adam and eve who had been sent out. the angel in question was wielding a flaming sword. are we recieving the impression that these ones who are sent from God as messengers are a teeny bit more terrifying that we thought?
i mean, the sistine angels are cute, obviously, but you know why they are cute?COZ THEY LOOK LIKES KIDS, AND KIDS ARE CUTE.that has nothing to do with angels.
as in a quote from somewhere that i should have rememebered coz it would make me sound so much more intelligent: 'a lovely poem Mr Pope, but you must not call it Homer'
thankyou.
a*

HURRAH!

THAT WONDERFUL, AMAZING, DARLING, GORGEOUS, IRRESISTABLE, UNBELIEVABLE, AMAZING...
THAT BOYFRIEND OF MINE HAS GONE OUT AND GOTTEN HIMSELF HIS RED P'S!
I am joyful. now he can drive me everywhere!
OH i am kidding.
but it is really cool.i'm very proud of him.
he's my boyfriend. I get to be proud of him. he's wonderful.
~a*

My mother thinks i'm odd. It seemed reason enough to blog.

Ok, i saw two films
SUPERMAN RETURNS
ok, i won't tell you how it ends...hmmm...i'd really like to ruin it tho. ill keep you posted, if i'm going to be evil i'll give due warning.
ok, the film is set 5 yrs AFTER the whole legend superman thing, which FYI i wasn't exactly au fait nor au courant with (don't worry, a french person reading that would say it was tautology anyway :P). Ok, superman boggered uff for about five years, and comes back to find people have changed, his girlfriend's not his girlfriend, and Lex Luther aint out of the picture.
I ruined nothing.if that radically changed your idea of what was going to happen,you're thinking of the wrong film.
REVIEW: (who am i kidding,putting that in capitals does nothing to ensure i won't digress)
ok, film is pretty long, and some bits of it i find annoyingly purist (ie that kitty g/f of Luther's...who'd keep her around that long??!BUT!she was played by Parker Posey - YAY for parker posey! - as seen in 'A mighty wind'...and those other two ones...the dog show one and the musical one - IT'S A SATIRE PEOPLE!!)
BACK to the review, the actors were good, superman is...he resembles strangely everyone who ever played him (shockingly, as they were all almost covered in blue FYI superman wears his undies on the outside coz originally at one point superman wore no blue SUIT, but was PAINTED blue, and thus some sort of loin cloth was required, so BACK OFF the red undies!)
ummm...reporter girl...named...LOIS LANE (had to look it up) she wasnt as annoying as i'd thought..she was pretty good, and i like...also...the family members that appear...
AHEM!plotline...not exactly there, apart from typical ->bad guy has a plan, good guy goes to stop it,people get caught up in the crossfire. wahoo.
cinematography and special effects ...AND WHOEVER IT WAS creating the graphics of the galaxy - YAY FOR YOU!!VERY VERY COOL PEOPLE!!
script...non-annoying...i guess.
ending - i wasnt that attached to the dream, so it wasnt that important to me, but it was ok, tho left SEVERAL QUESTIONS unanswered...ok, certain conclusions were drawn,but no consequences were played out, which is STUPID.
however, i really enjoyed the experience, and could follow the story tho having previously cared nothing about the legend.
VERDICT...ummm...fun...three and a half stars.

PIRATES OF THE CARRIBBEAN, DEAD MAN'S CHEST
i don't care whether you say carRIBbean or carribBEan, it's an addictive phenomenon. may have something to do with the prescence of orlando bloom and johnny depp. i saw this with my darling Tom (1yr2mnthstoDAYYAYYAYAY)so it has nothing to do with those actors for me :D.
OH MY GOODNESS,HOW MANY laws of the universe of the first film were completely screwed around for this one!!???
seriously, don't expect logic. if they want something to happen in this film, it's gonna happen. no matter how DEAD anyone was.(DEAD!!)or totally readjusted in one, and suicidal in another.
ummm...oh, and completely cutesy thing:
GUY WHOSE NAME I CANT REMEMBER:Im looking for a Jack Sparrow
WILL &ELIZABETH:(jumping in so fast it's impossible,with an agression traditionally seen with lionesses for thwarters of their cubs)CAPTAIN!
(pause)
LIZ:CAPTAIN, jack sparrow.

ok, so i get that they have a few amused, perhaps fond memories of the unforgettable CAPTAIN jack sparrow,but they act like he personally saved their entire families from certain death, and would marry him themselves if time and circumstances permitted!!
please.
ok, storyline/plot/up-late drunken stream of thought->...ok, it's better than that makes it seem, ill admit. i could follow what people were doing, and the RANDOM situations people ended up in were VERY funny...laughed out loud a LOT in this one,stuff made sense for the most part.
BUT(and this is a very big but)WE ALL GOT ... EXPLOITED!IT IS A TRILOGY!IT IS TO BE CONTINUED!!!
ILLEGITIMATELY BORN PEOPLE WITH THE IQ OF A CHILD OF SEVEN!
how dare they?
anyway
johnny depp - did so well, loved it, great character, good for a proper laugh
keira knightley/elizabeth: (YES im going to blame keira for everything that's wrong with her character!) ok...not as annoying as last time, tho the opening scene is REALLY confusing.AND there's a scene where three guys are fighting and liz just stands and yells at them and throws rocks at them,like swordfighting used to seem logical to her but now she's totally disillusioned and it's all their fault.
AND ALSO - WHAT was up with the elizabeth+jack vibe??OH YES, they went there!it was interesting in the first one, and amusing, but in this one...no-one actually wanted that to happen. i blame ppl who decided...that certain characters should...interact...with certain other characters...to sell the film better.
anyway.
orlando bloom...should take himself less seriously more often.its really good when he doesnt.but when he swears promises and refers back to them...he's a little passionate...like he thinks he's the hero of this story, instead of the sidekick.
all in all, i really really liked it,i know it doesnt look it, but i subdued everything that made no sense in order to enjoy the film. i was very successful and had a great time,but it's all surfaced.
COOLER than superman returns,and takes itself less seriously,and way funnier, and for better reasons,BUT sold out and made a third that they did not release at the same time.
WOULD BE 4 STARS,but i get to put penalties. so 3 and a half for pirates. ha ha ha.

I'm the best reviewer in the world, i should be paid.
no, not you thomas, put the money down. buy me a cat.
no don't really
~love to the family, alî

I'm BAAAAAAAAACK!

I was camping for a lil while.
how is everyone?what's everyone up to?
camping was very nice thankyou.
Had a lovely day yesterday watching DVD's at Becca's, yay! and by the time i got home...well, i felt a little more human, after being next to the same person for 5 days 24 hours a day. In fact, that same person once again inspires me very much. I mean, you get a little tired....and then you realise/remember how special someone is to you. AND YOU'RE ALL SPECIAL TO ME!!
yay for everyone.
xxxxxxxxxxali

Good grief

It's 12:03 AM,(i dont care what that stupid timer ses, might be that time in AMERICA)and despite my full capacity to message, my boyfriend insisted i go online(in that he messaged saying to go online coz i didnt have credit, then refused to reply when i showed that i DID).so here i am.dutiful as ever. what i wonderful girlfriend i am.(ok, i would be if i weren't on my blog bitching:D)
hey, what else would i be doing? SLEEPING???!!!
i think not.
well, if anyone stands a chance of getting me online when i'm tired, it's him.
i love everybody.comment because you love me back.
:D
-xali

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i was checking out this quiz in sympathy with becca, coz she's been hounded by rigged quizzes...so i tried my luck, but i don't know who the guy is that it came up with.Still...interesting...ish.
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Who on earth is this 'Gary' character? His picture looks like he's advertising a watch or a cologne! He sounds like a very sympathetic individual,but i'm pretty sure i have never made his aquaintance.
But at least he commented!much could be said of the lack of proportional comments of people who actually know me!
and don't use the excuse that you'll tell me when you see me, the commenting function is important, as 'Gary' (if that is your real name) has demonstrated by provoking me to post merely by offering a friendly word!
Thomas - you're always online, don't deny it, comment (if only to protest your lack of obligation to comment, or to celebrate the vegemite war)
Kathy - i am now visiting your blog to comment. sometimes your blog doesnt let me comment. if this is the problem, well and good. if not - squirrelly wrath for you!
kimmy - ditto.
ummmmmmm......
anyone else who reads this - i don't even know that you read it!disgraceful!COMMENT!
This place is a commenting wasteland.
xxa
p.s. 'Gary' had better not been some sort of online salesman or he will be fed to fairies. Oh yes! they eat more than nectar!!
-a

'I'm a vegetarian, well I'm not hardcore because I eat meat, but only because I like the taste. So morally, I win' - Dylan Moran

Hey all. Tom was quite concerned by my last post - not that he COMMENTED! He reckons i should delete it now because it sounds so distressed. but i refuse to edit my history of emotions, i'm way too narcissistic for that. However i figure i owe you people pics....
how in the hell do i do that?.....ah, i see.
this has been my completed quest. I am victorious once again.
xxa

It's one of those nights...

man, i seriously need to vent. if you don't care, go somewhere else.my blog. my problems...those pretty pictures don't come out of nowhere.
oooook. i'll do happy things towards the end of this. happy stuff can always wait. you never feel as compelled to blog when you're happy.
there is NOTHING on tv, was a good movie on SBS before,but we have crappy reception.
ok was watching 'the banger sisters' because i was THAT BORED (it is NOT a film which i endorse...largely because it has goldie hawn in it, but when nothing is on...)
anyway, and these two sisters are chatting about their mother and their problems etc etc, and i got so depressed....i know i'm prone to this drama queen depression all the time...but seriously, if i chatted to my sister about personal problems like that....i'd have to make some sort of joke or something....be entertaining in some way...
and we never chat like that. well, we chat, but it's never personal, if she wanted to talk about something personal she'd talk to one of her actual friends, or maybe her boyfriend, not that i've ever met him, though he apparently knows about one of the more embarrassing incidents of my life, because it entertains her to tell people. i get slightly more information than my parents, which isnt much at all. all i get to hear is that whatever she told my parents, it was slightly worse, and she didn't say so so that they wouldn't freak out. not that they would anyway, FYI.
we only chat from time to time about my life because i want her to know, i want to share, because im trying to actually have a relationship here. i ask her about her life and if she's in the right mood she'll give me a sentence in reply, otherwise she'll just ignore me. i don't even know if she's a christian, and i lived in the same house as her for most of my life.
it doesn't help that i know that, ideally, she'd love to be on the other side of the world. the person i am (BIOLOGICALLY) closest to would rather be on the other side of the world. fan-bloody-tastic.
farout, when i have kids (yes, WHEN, i'm nice enough, and even if i can't have children i'm adopting) im so having them closer together...the age difference between us just makes her more inclined to see me as her pet.
well, not hers. her parents'.
if i was older she might think that i have more of a right to claim her attention. not that she doesnt care at all, not that she doesnt talk to me, not that she doesnt think im interesting.

it's just all on her time. she sees me because we are related,not because she likes me.and she's my sister, and i love her.so it sucks.
and it's stupid, but this is as good as it gets expressing it.
man, now i feel worse than i did when i started typing. serves me right for sharing.

.................
in addition (yes, im about to talk about GOD. OH NO! because i dont think God sucks suddenly my opinion doesn't matter.
i love God. He loves me. He loves me more than i ever had any right to expect. He would have been well-advised to get rid of me a long time ago, because of what i've done to Him.
But instead of chucking me out, He sends the person He loves best to be KILLED so that i'm ok, and that He and i can start again.
anything i do will never be enough to pay Him back, and He doesn't care, so long and He and i can be how we should be. and we are. and i'm such a sucky person, i'll never stop re-realising how He loves me and how amazing its going to be when i see Him.
And a person i care about reckons that God hates him. to the point that mentioning God makes him cringe. and it's so wrong because i know how much God loves him.it's so horrible, he doesn't think he's all that good, but he's a great person, and farout, if God did all that for me while i'm sooo....then God LOVES this guy, what's more He made him and knows what he's like and wants him to understand how much He loves him.
it's horrible the way this guy thinks God just judges him and doesn't care about him.
because i think it breaks God's heart.

.................
ok, come on, happy happy joy joy (;P tom and justin)
Tom and i have been going out over a year. it's so weird, because he's not bored with me, he still likes me and treats me as though im incredibly special.and he's still so sweet and smart and....not an idiot like a lot of guys, you know?he tries to annoys me when he wants attention, but he knows crap when he sees it, and he knows important things should be treated importantly.
he's a Christian, as am i, he actually recognizes that for how important it is and HELPS me being in a relationship with God. and i can't think of a more amazing guy God could have brought into my life.
the other week we actually fought for the first time. it was great.
not the fighting, at the beginning we got kinda annoyed at each other and that sucked, then we started actually explaining what we meant, and that was ok, but the way we figured out what the problem was, and addressed THAT , it was such a beautiful thing, because it WASNT easy, but we did it anyway, because i know that he's so worth it, and he reckons i'm someone he wants around for a long time.
it made me happy.
happy is good.
oh, and WHILE I'M HERE...
im pretty sure one of my friends recently lost her virginity, and that annoys me so because this guy, no matter how much she likes him, was not worth it, and thats something she has to deal with for the rest of her life now.
no guy is worth it before marriage. tom isn't worth it before marriage.
because it means that you're taking that away from your future husband. and it's significant. i dont want my husband to feel that there's something hurting our intimacy, and i dont want to screw with someone's wife's feelings of security about her husband.
coz it would break my heart if my husband had slept with some girl ages ago. someone else is in a domain NO-ONE else gets to be in. it shouldn't be.
ok, i'm done.
ill go find some pretty flowers...