six impossible things

Reading:
“The Road”, Cormac McCarthy. Bleak.

Listening:
Les Miserables soundtrack.

Watching:
How does that large white cat fit into that tiny cubby in the cat tree? MAGIC, that’s how.

Eating:
Peanut butter M&Ms. It’s probably for the best I can’t buy them here.

Liking:
House plans. Not so good: putting them into action.

Pondering:
My complete lack of singing ability. I used to be in choir! Admittedly I was twelve, and a lot of things have gone south since then; but still.

Reading:
“Otherland”, Tad Williams. I think I need some new books.

Listening:
The puppy muttering and twitching in his sleep. Quite loud, he is.

Watching:
Huge banks of TVs in electronic shops. Do we need a new TV? Really?

Eating:
Chicken schnitzel rolls. It’s a sickness.

Liking:
New cowboy boots! Canada, you have been good to me.

Pondering:
The inherent crapness of traffic. Westgate roadworks, I’m looking at YOU.

Reading:
Guidebooks and the TomTom screen. Turn left. LEFT!

Listening:
Mr. T’s endless CD of mp3′s in the rental car. Yes, there is such a thing as too much Guns N Roses.

Watching:
Elk! Snow! Deer! Chipmunks! Mountains!

Eating:
Twinkies! (Note to self: Still don’t like Twinkies. Stop eating them.)

Liking:
Cheesecake pancakes counts as birthday cake, right? That’s TWO types of cake, practically.

Pondering:
Ah, holidays. If work didn’t pay me, I’d never go. Which is sort of the point, I guess.

Reading:
Trip Advisor. You people are never satisfied! You like nothing! NOTHING!

Listening:
Lady GaGa. Not because I particularly want to, but because she’s unavoidable.

Watching:
Awful, awful infomercials. I need to go to bed earlier.

Eating:
Easter eggs. And Easter bunnies. I don’t discriminate.

Liking:
Anticipating the upcoming holiday WHEEEE

Pondering:
If the Australian dollar will stay strong. That’s right, my pretty…

Reading:
House and Garden magazine. I am pulling this house into shape if it kills me.

Listening:
“Me and Julio down by the School Yard”, Paul Simon. On repeat. Many times.

Watching:
Seinfeld re-runs on Go! channel. Ah, Seinfeld.

Eating:
Grapefruit

Liking:
Summer weather – not too hot, not too cold, even for me.

Pondering:
This yoga business is not nearly as easy as it looks.

• Reading:
  “The Talisman”, Stephen King. Some light beach reading.
• Listening:
  “Wonder”, Lisa Mitchell
• Watching:
  Avatar in 3D. OooOOoo 3D. I am easily amused, clearly.
• Eating:
  Full cooked breakfasts down at the Sounds. I could get used to this.
• Liking:
  New puppies
• Pondering:
  I want a new camera lens, but I don’t want to spend the money required for it. This will not end well.

• Reading:
  “The Drowning Tree”, Sarah Goodman
• Listening:
  “Fireflies”, Owl City
• Watching:
  Bad, BAD daytime TV while sick
• Eating:
  Ham. So much haaaam.
• Liking:
  Christmas! Well, when I’m not sick that is.
• Pondering:
  Geelong made me very, very sick with a throat infection. Now am I allergic to Geelong or is Geelong allergic to me?

Reading:
The Fionavar Tapestry trilogy. Yes I am crying, I always do. Shut up I will cut you.

Listening:
The high-pitched broken-hearted whining of a dog whose cats won’t play with him.

Watching:
District 9. Prawns! Now I’m hungry.

Eating:
Chicken schnitzel rolls from the chicken schnitzel roll place on Bridge Road. This is very bad and must stop. They KNOW MY NAME.

Liking:
The large sun visors in my new car. Yes, I have simple pleasures. And I am short.

Pondering:
How close IS Christmas, exactly? It seems very far away but I know that is a LIE.

Reading:
The new Marian Keyes book, on the plane to/from New Zealand.

Listening:
I feel compelled to sneak in here that I walked down the aisle to Led Zeppelin. The first 90 seconds of “Over the Hills and Far Away”, specifically. Yeah, not quite so bad-ass as you thought.

Watching:
My little sim people from my sim-style game DYING. I forgot about them. Sorry, sim-people. I didn’t know you kept on living when I left the game! I am not a kindly nor benevolent god.

Eating:
Wedding cake – chocolate buttermilk cake with ganache. Recommended.

Liking:
Seeing all our Australian friends again who have somehow scattered to the far corners of the country. Come back! We are not scary!

Pondering:
The likelihood I will cry at the ceremony. MUST NOT CRY.

• Reading:
  Wedding forums. Oh yes. There are a LOT of stressed-out girls around, I tell you. About table linens, mostly. And chairs. Who cares about chairs?
• Listening:
  Hamish and Andy on the radio. I really do think they genuinely crack each other up.
• Watching:
  Glee, sporadically. I keep forgetting that it’s on.
• Eating:
  I am in a huge pasta phase. If it’s a noodle, I’ll eat it.
• Liking:
  My new wedding dress. Yes, number three. It’s a sickness.
• Pondering:
  Why do all these people insist we need an MC for the wedding? We don’t. I promise you.