The Great Peanut Butter Analogy

Receiving constructive criticism is like craving peanut butter. Most of the time, you source out the peanut butter for yourself (and maybe once in a blue moon - somebody actually gifts you with a bottle or two). When you open your jar of buttery, peanutty goodness, the only thing stuck to the roof of your mouth is the bitter taste of disappointment.

You can't complain, you're not allowed to. Nobody forced this spread upon you, damn...you actually asked for it. As you tongue away at the mass lump of peanut butter that won't go away, it never seems to disappear. As much as you'd like to forget about it, you just can't stop thinking about it. Burdened, forever.

However, you can learn to embrace the fact that you have made a problem for yourself because now, you have to fix it. You could take a bite of another sandwich (unless you eat peanut butter in spoonfuls). Or you could just...well, get over it.

I Get Scared That People Will Come Up To Me And Kill Me At Night

Commentaries

Sigh no more

I actually spent a lot of time on this, on Rotten Tomatoes and googling 'top movies of all time'. At first I just wanted to make a list of my 10 favourite movies but that was too hard, I don't really know what my favourites are but in the end I have this list (not in order) of movies that are, really really really good. Oh and I tried to get some from different genres and stuff and different years.



American Pie

The Truman Show

Charlotte's Web

Where the Wild Things Are

Love Actually

Breakfast at Tiffany's

500 Days of Summer

Juno

Avatar

Vicky Christina Barcelona

10 Things I Hate About You

Happy Campers

An Education

Easy A

I Am Sam

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

The Parent Trap

Mystic River

Ghost

The Home Song Stories

Once Were Warriors

Explorer Of The World

You are Billy, the young explorer of the world. The world is your oyster, and the pearl of that oyster is well - let's say it's your neighbourhood. Each day, you play in this surburban wonderland with all the other charming and well-polished neighbourhood buddies. Life is great, but you've always had some odd, sinking feeling that maybe this oyster isn't as big as it seems. Scientists and worldy experts claim electrons to be the only living beings on your world so far - but you really do think that something's out there. You're not too sure, but there is...something out there.

forever

you know, this blog is going to be on the internet forever, well unless blogger decides to delete it which i hope it doesn't. but that means when we're 25 or 50 or even older, we can read back on old times. brig and i had this conversation about year 6 camp yesterday. don't you just love remembering things you hadn't thought about for ages?
i also remember the first day of that camp, i climbed a tree and a teacher told me to get down.

i really like apricots. my brother climed over the fence to our neighbours garden (to get tennis balls he'd thrown over) and then we got him to take peaches and apricots from their trees. in autumn we'll get some apples.

Spanish Mode

Toy Story 3 is the second film I've ever seen that has made me cry.

blues

i have this really bad habit of never saying good bye to people over the internet, like if i want to leave facebook or something i consider saying a simple "ok i have to go, bye" but i usually don't, i just close it. and i guess that's bad but hey i'm used to it, if people do it do me i don't really care. oh but i also think to myself "oh they'll just think my chat isn't working or something", so yeah maybe i should be nice but that just takes effort

the first ever christmas post (probably the last too)

it's sad that Brigitte can't be here to join us, but i hope she is having a lovely christmas wherever she is. please come back though...

this is going to be our only christmas post ever :( i don't even know what to put here, but i was thinking about this year and i thought probably my highlight (well the only one i could really remember) was seeing jack johnson live, even though we were so far back, and despite the rain.

being on the grass was fun though. the people sitting down hardly got into it. they were SITTING for god's sake

oh what a feeling

i'm going to tell you 2 stories.

okay firstly i went for a run at 8.20pm, which is just after the sun set. i was running along and everything was wonderful. it smelt fresh, the air was lovely and cool, there weren't that many people around (by the way this is in a lovely bike trail so i had grass and trees and a little stream nearby) and i was really energetic, i was having a great time.
then as i go along, i guess the first bad thing that happened was a bug flew into my eye. it was tiny, but it did take a while for it to come out. that was annoying but not too bad right?
about 20 minutes in, i've turned around (running back home you know) and my knee and my foot start hurting (right leg by the way, that's my bad leg). okay that happens sometimes, it's not too bad yet. so i keep going.
then i decide to put my watch in my pocket (you know those shorts with the pocket on the inside?) i try to find my pocket, and it's not there. ohhh joy you idiot, how hard is it to put on a pair of shorts the right way around? i considered changing but there wasn't any place to hide, and i guess they were bike shorts so you couldn't really tell.
next thing is my foot was hurting too much so i go 'right, ill just take my shoes off, barefoot running is better and i have to get home'. so there i go running off - bare feet, carrying my shoes and with my shorts back to front. a group of girls on scooters pass me and stare at me.
that's not even all, not even a few minutes after taking my shoes off, my OTHER ankle is hurting, and i guess the right one a bit, so i have to put my shoes back on. when i put them on something weird happens, my foot pretty much went retarded but it would be too hard explaining it here. but i end up running back, and by then all i wanted was to get home.

oh and just a random fact here, did you know the fitter you are, the more you sweat? it's so unfair, its as if the word wants us to be unfit. but then if you are too fat you sweat more as well.

okay that went on for too long, i was planning on just telling you about my shorts being backwards, but a lot happened on that run.
next one, i'll keep it short:
i had just come out of the shower, bathroom to be exact. so i just had a towel on (oh god if you are imagining this stop) and i was drinking from a drink bottle because, well it was just after the run so i brought a drink bottle with me to the bathroom, smart hey? but as i walk into my room i spill some water on me. now usually this would be 'oh no i'm wet' but since i was just in a towel i could wipe it off easy! how funny is that :D

brig?

where did you goooo?
i'm lonely
i'm mr lonely
i have nobody for my ownnnnnnnnnnn
......):
i was at the video store, funny how its called that even though you don't actually buy anything from there, but anyway i was about to get Nowhere Boy and Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist because they both sound good but i'm just too lazy to watch anything so i figured i wouldn't watch them. and i didn't get them. really though, i just lie down on my floor or my bed and just... lie there and not do anything...
it's christmas in 2 days, and it really doesn't feel like it at all

people drinking tea

peopledrinkingtea.tumblr.com
i had to type that out because the link wouldn't paste, but it's kinda.. cool?
also have a look at her actual tumblr (ok i'm pretty sure it's a girl) because i found that funny too
i'm a bit scared this is someone i know : i just found the link on facebook hahaha

fast and maneuverable

one day Brig, you will own one of these, yeah?

My Desk Is Really Cluttered

Am I loud and clear, or am I breaking up?
Am I still your charm, or am I just bad luck?
Are we getting closer, or are we just getting more lost?

I'll show you mine if you show me yours first
Let's compare scars, I'll tell you whose is worse
Let's unwrite these pages and replace them with our own words

We live on front porches and swing life away,
We get by just fine here on minimum wage
If love is a labor I'll slave till the end,
I won't cross these streets until you hold my hand

I've been here so long, I think that it's time to move
The winter's so cold, summer's over too soon
Let's pack our bags and settle down where palm trees grow

I've got some friends, some that I hardly know
But we've had some times, I wouldn't trade for the world
We chase these days down with talks of the places that we will go

We live on front porches and swing life away,
We get by just fine here on minimum wage
If love is a labor I'll slave till the end,
I won't cross these streets until you hold my hand....until you hold my hand

I'll show you mine if you show me yours first
Let's compare scars, I'll tell you whose is worse
Let's unwrite these pages and replace them with our own words

We live on front porches and swing life away,
We get by just fine here on minimum wage
If love is a labor I'll slave till the end,
I won't cross these streets until you hold my hand

Swing life away

Do what you want

is ain't an actual word?

what's it short for?

Can't Stop This Train

Speed Dial

Wow, it's a month (well, minus two days) till this entire blog 365 is over. I can't say that this time has wooshed by really quickly, but certainly fast than I expected. I won't do that horribly cheesy wrap-up thing yet, but I will at some point.

Now, I will leave you with a strawberry smoothie that I had today:

Seemingly Catchy But Awkward

I come up with ideas for mixes/playlists which I should get together into some sort of physical form, I never get around to it though.

Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On

MC Hammer - U Can't Touch This

Bill Conti - Gonna Fly Now (Theme From Rocky)

Queen - Don't Stop Me Now

Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse Of The Heart

Air Supply - All Out of Love

Real McCoy - Another Night

Meatloaf - I'd Do Anything For Love

Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlan - Mexican Hat Dance

Cher - Believe

Air Supply - Died In Your Arms

Spandau Ballet - True

Van McCoy - The Hustle

Try playing that in a room of acquaintances.

This Is Not The Plug You're Looking For

Do you want a photo print from me? Consider it a Christmas present. Flatter me and flick me an email.

Banana Pancakes

I can't say that I'm an expert on these delectable specimens, but one has to start somewhere...right? It is only when one get to know something [breathe] as well as every curve and loop on the front of their hand, is when [breathe] they learn to appreciate the importance of their chosen field.

Can we actually learn to appreciate everything on a nearly-equal basis? Say you are God (just pretend) and you have the choice to omit anything from the world, tangible or intangible. Maybe you take away war, poverty, maybe banana pancakes, or even...dare I say, peanut butter.

What would the world be like without banana pancakes? There is some inkling in the back of your head telling you that a world without banana pancakes is a much worse world than without war. If you took butterflies away, you might be preventing typhoons in the Atlantic oceans but then all butterfly jokes would not exist.

Q: What happens when you throw butter out the window?

A: Butterfly.

If you made time travelling, appreciation and regret have a child. It would be peanut butter. Just sayin'.

Sierpinski

Today, Vi Hart taught me the importance of mathematics. Not only can it allow you to entertain yourself endlessly with numerical patterns, but it actually shows that maths is actually rather awesome once you get past the fact that you have to learn it. Most people seem to find maths boring because this mindset has been hardwired in our brains ever since we step foot into school. Trust me, when you are five years old, your views are swayed very easily.

Which is why I got put by the time out cupboard so often in my first year of school. My dad very kindly told my teacher to keep an extra eye on me, I don't know why - maybe to make sure that I was extra good. And thus, I was practically living by this said cupboard for the entirety of year one. I did learn not to talk while the teacher was talking after that, I think.

There is a line, this represents the point of time in which I will stop procrastinating. I am a hyperbola.

NAGAMBIEEE

I thought maybe I should start doing something different, like wearing only organic cotton and using recyclable shopping bags. I mean that would be pretty cool. I went through an environmental stage once. I went to the library and put post-it notes in the books telling people to be eco-friendly, and I emailed the prime minister (or some minister) saying how we should start caring more for the environment. I think that was also around the time I went vegetarian. Now I just realised that now I don't seem to care about anything. Even today when I thought about being environmental it was more because of what people would think, like I want to be someone that people talk about and say "oh, she's different, she's cool". But I don't want to be 'different' like allllllllllllll those girls who wear vintage clothing from op shops and loveee film cameras 'but I was into it before all the hype' and support local bands etc etc.

Sorry just got off track for a second, I hate indie.

Anyway this whole thing started today when I was wearing my organic Jack Johnson t shirt and the couple next to us were using re usable bags for groceries. But we can't do that because plastic bags are our rubbish bags, and I can't possibly wear only organic clothes because I just don't have the money, plus I have clothes for sport made of not cotton.

But I would love to start something. I should probably go now, I'll see you all on Sunday. But next year I think I will start something different, it will be awesome.

Everybody Lies

Well, it seems like my internet should be working...forever now. What have I been doing for the past two weeks?

- Watching House
- Supermarket shopping
- Watching House

- Seeing...friends

But now I'm 'back' and nothing much has changed.

(Sorry Joy)

moustache

blogging is no fun without brigitte, just saying

i had a picture to post but it didnt fit and i can't be bothered finding it again...

angry

the other day, i was walking my dog. okay my dog is gorgeous and extremely lovable. anyway, we walk past this cat, Cody growls so I drag him away. the cat bloody follows us and dares to growl at a DOG. now that does not happen and im thinking 'hey you can't do that, you're supposed to run off and be scared'. so i let Cody a bit closer, to teach this cat a lesson. it doesn't move and gives Cody death stares. then i'm stuck with the choice (no not really but i wanted to) either let Cody go for his life but then possibly end up hurting each other, or walk off. the stupid thing followed us. for a while then it went back. but there's no real point to this story except that dogs > cats always. and if you have a cat, teach it what's right

yellow

help me with ideas?

for nagambie rowing camp, we do kris kringle (secret santa) but as well as getting a present we get to make the person we have do stuff, within limits of course

such as: last year one girl had to take care of a baby born the whole week

eating on the floor without their hands

had to say pick up lines to the coaches

soooo i do have ideas, quite a few :D but if you can think of some let me know! THAT MEANS YOU BRIG, GET SOME INTERNET PLEASE

oh and ill be gone allllll of next week except sunday

tomorrow

i

go

to

jack

johnson

:)

is this sentence still going on?

i think i have found the meaning of life

i went through so many of these today

Taken

Okay, I'm back today. Just today until we actually get real internet back. Only one person noticed that I've been missing...virtually (thank you for noticing).

48 emails.

27 dA messages.

36 google feeds.

I love the internet.

From

From the wonderful Brigitte:

I'm not dead, rather that my internet has died and that I'm currently in an internet cafe. if you want to punish anyone...it should be vodafone. aaaarrrggghh

so yes, I'm not dead, maybe half-dead.

AGOIWUetoiuw2tru235 no internet :(