Stupido

This has to be the best of all the silly comments uttered from my mouth over the years. The other day whilst talking to a friend I, in complete seriousness, asked the following question:

Is H1N1 a scary film?


I sometimes wonder if this silliness will wear off with age but I'm not sure. Oh well - least it wasn't my boss I said it too.

Uh Oh

The other night I watched 'The 11th Hour'. I now have a sense of impending doom that I can't quite seem to shake off. I think we might be screwed - it is wholly possible the world will end in my lifetime.



The whole time I was watching this piece of film I wondered about what we are actually doing to try to reverse the huge amount damage we have created. If we don't do something drastic now then I fear, oh yes I fear. I can keep recycling my jam jars but really the whole Westerm culture of growth and profit and consumerism needs to be totally turned around and I'm not sure how you would go about doing that!

Maybe I shouldn't worry about these things.

Not so silly after all

Perhaps I am not silly for today the hot deli guy asked me when Halloween was. I had absolutely no right to guffaw and point and laugh at him as I asked exactly the same question a mere month or so ago.


Then we discussed what to dress pets up as at Halloween. Dressing a dog as a cat and a cat as a dog seems like a good idea. I hope my friends Sammy & Matt let us dress their baby up.

Oh well - deli guy may not know when Halloween is but he makes a mean cassoulet.

Peanut Butter Jelly

This seems ludicrous not having a blog post for a few weeks and then writing 3 in a row. I felt compelled to write about this however and if I don't do it now I'll forget.

Family Guy is one of the programmes that just makes me laugh out loud. I never used to like it - right at the very beginning - but I am now a huge fan and often dream about what it must be like to be a writer for the show. They must have so much fun!

Anyway - this is one of my all time favourite scenes from Family Guy and I just watched it because I was thinking about things that make me laugh and this makes me laugh sooooo much. I want a dog like Brian:

Best Weekend Ever

Last weekend Mary and Bert came to visit and it was brilliant. It felt almost surreal to have them here. We ate lots of good food, went to see Mikeys band (great as always), went ghost hunting, visited lakes, climbed a volcano (I'm sure Arthurs seat qualifies as a volcano!) and sampled the city's finest gins and whiskies and fudge.

I had the best weekend ever and it really a pleasure to have two of my most favourite people here for a few days of fun.

Word on the street is that one of my other most favourite people is coming to visit as well. Life is good.

Last weekend I was also looking after this cat:



Ah yes she may look sweet but she causes mayhem and havoc. I still adore her - shes so lovely you couldn't be cross with her.

She seems to like digging all the soil out of plants so all the ones in our flat are currently a bit lopsided. She also managed to escape out the window but I recaptured her before she scampered off never to return.

She woke me up one morning by taking huge running jumps onto my bed and landing with all four feet on my face. It worked - I got up after the 2nd time and fed the beast.

Practical Jokes

I think practical jokes are great and if they were a frequent part of life then I reckon people would be even happier.

Every time flatmate Rob goes away I play a practical joke on him. Nothing too mean as I don't want to annoy Rob and make him move out!

The other week he went away sailing for the weekend so of course a joke had to be played. Quite how I'm not sure, but I decided to make a comical vegetable family and hide them in various places - Robs wardrobe, food cupboard etc.

Not very many people I've told so far seem to think this is funny so I shall be interested to see what my fellow bloggers think. Every time I see the pictures it makes me laugh until it hurts but then I am a simple person at heart.

These are the vegetable people I hid in the wardrobe:



The perturbed looking avocado is my favourite - I think he's feared of the carrot with the handlebar moustache.

These 2 hid out in a cupboard:

A Jigsaw of Life

Yesterday I had a moment of realisation - I don't fit in with my life in Edinburgh any more. I'm like a jigsaw piece in the wrong box! I should be making up part of a colourful underwater fish picture or something but instead I'm in a nice Countryside scene. Does that make any sense?



I met up with some people (all of whom are lovely) yesterday. I was one of only 2 people who weren't pregnant/just had a baby/both! For over 1.5 hours conversation centred around baby names/baby food/baby clothes/nipple stimulation/babies - you get the picture.

Now - without sounding totally rude, I was bored. Of course I will chat about babies for a while but I still want to talk about other things - good movies, what people did during festival and so on.

Sigh.

There really is a baby boom going on and I guess some of my friends are older than me and that's why everyone is pregnant/had a baby. Honestly - counting close friends and friends of friends,I'm getting very close to double figures of pregnant/new baby people.

I really only have 1 close friend in Edinburgh who isn't pregnant. AND my lovely Hannah Banana in Ireland and of course dearest Berlin Becky are both still baby free! Oh god - what's happening.

I think yesterday highlighted even more than ever to me that new adventures must be had. I have such a yearning inside to go to new countries and meet new people and see new sights and experience new things and swim in the sea and get lost in a city I don't know.

I wish I could go today.

Anyway - I don't want to sound like I'm down on babies or anything. I'm really happy for all my pregnant friends (and any friends who want to get pregnant!) because its what they want and I guess what I want is just a little different.