Someone spat out their gum in middle of the bus aisle and guess who walked right on top of it? yes, me. it was fresh too- the minty smell was very strong and it was still soft (not hard like a piece of gum that's been sitting there for hours). And i was on the 8.10am bus- the only people catching the bus at this time are work people and high school kids. so guess who i death stared the whole way to work? i'm sure it wasn't anyone on the bus, probbaly someone from earlier, but wtf. i expect to walk in gum on the sidewalk, even tho its terribly gross, but on the bus?

i feel i should apologise for lack of posts. i wish the blog didn't feel like a chore, but it does. life is dandy. relationship status=great. work= still enjoyable. social life= enough to keep me busy and satisfied. without the angst, i just don't get the urge to blog.

i've never been one to write flowy, ambigious dribble all about my self-loathing and self-pity, so it always ends up a 'blah blah, today i did this' crap. and that can't be interesting to anyone. meh

since the last post we've trivia'ed a couple more times- once again at the RG but didn't place anywhere. and the other night at my local pub - my dad and his partner had come to brisbane for the night, so with them and the boy we went over for a awesome pub/bistro dinner and a fun evening of trivia. everyone at the brunoir takes it sooooo seriously, but it was still fun. dad and gayle proved to be quite handy for all the sports and australian history questions. Our team name was the Budgie Smugglers (the reason behind this name: that day, i met up with dad and gayle for lunch and we wandered into the Australian Geographic shop and dad found this aussie slang book and was having a flip through it. He ended up in tears, it was so hilarious. Anyway there was a section of slang for Speedos, and one of them was Budgie Smugglers. We had both never heard that before and pissed ourselves laughing)

a few others i hadn't heard:

Built like a long streak of pelican shit - a very tall person
Could eat a horse and chase the jockey too - very very hungry
Could eat a horse between two mattresses - very very very hungry
Busier than a one legged man at an ass kicking contest - very very busy

a few others that are just sooooo true... either my parents use it or i do:

built like a brick shit house - very strong/big
carry on like a pork chop - act foolishly
crack a darkie - get angry and upset
technicolour yawn -vomit
like a chook with its head cut off - flustered, running around like crazy.

he loved the book so much he got it, and then later that night asked me to get him another copy for a christmas present for someone. I'm going to go get it after work today. I should totally update my aussie slang page with some of the sayings from this book.