29/12/10: Brand spanking shiny new blog!

Last thing I did: Had a bubble bath... Epson salts and lavender essentials oils... no bollocks...

Listening to: Diana Krall 'The Girl in the Other Room'
Eating: Soon-to-be homemade Chicken Tikka Misala
Drinking: Rather extensive (as in, large) glass of bubbly. Why the hell not?

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OUT  WITH: Facebook
IN WITH: AirTester's Daily Dribbling Blog!

Why, hello there. If you have found me, welcome welcome. You have either been redirected off my recently decided Facebook non-existence or have haplessly stumbled across the soon-to-be daily ramblings of myself. Lucky you!

See, this is the deal: I have been pondering for a while what it is exactly that I do with my time when I decide to jump on the internet... and would you believe it, all I ever do is sit for many useless hours pouring over many a hundred people's Facebook pages, browsing through their recent photos and not really doing anything of value or productivity. I do not want to join Twitter, or no longer hang on no ones comments that will never come when I post up new things. Facebook has become an awfully solitary exercise. It's supposed to be a networking site, and yet no one bothers to comment on anything anymore or 'keep in touch' as what the site originally should be about. Where is the comradeship? Where is the sociality (though that in itself is highly ironic, and no sociality is not a word...), where are my COMMENTS??? How often I see people simply putting up a status update for the 'screaming out for attention' that they really don't get. 3 or 4 comments at the most. You know what the funniest part is? These commenters that response with.... "you ok?".... wow, such sincerity, such closeness right there. Seriously, guys, what is the point? No one really cares anymore. Facebook had its time, and yes I will keep my profile page (so you don't need to fret about losing a valuble 'friend'), it is a fantastic way of keeping tabs on 2/3's of people that you don't really care about. I took a good hard  look at what Facebook has turned people into and I decided that it is a poisoness exercise. Time to move on. If you want to keep in touch with me visit me on my blog, it's where I will be from now on!

*Sip of slightly luke warm sparkling wine* Something I pulled out of the fridge, something I didn't buy, but it somehow managed to magically appear, in my fridge between the avocadoes and my homemade white chocolate caramel slice (yes, it is as good as it sounds...)... between the time of Christmas Eve and now. Hey, free booze is free booze, down the hatch we go!

2011, will be time for a change. I made the executive decision to wipe clean the cupboard that is my Facebook page, clear it of its many pointless contents and make a fresh start at Blogger.com! I am not ignoring you, so please feel free to keep dropping me emails/comments/sms's or hey... a phonecall!!

I enjoy writing, a lot - more than I actually realised until about ten seconds ago... and have decided to start up a useless but conscience-clearing blog, for anyone or no one to read! It will act as my personal, yet not revealing diary, with a post every day or every few days.. depending if anything overly exciting has happened in my life. It will act as my 'vent' for the wind-down of an evening. Writing isn't particularly strenuous, and I always struggle to find things to do once husband Paul has retired for the evening. Yes yes, TV is all very well, but all I need is another hour or so of an evening other than TV that is my own thing to do of an evening, and this will act as an excellent wind-down. Well, we will see I suppose in the coming weeks whether this works or not. I hope so, cause I am rather self obsessed and enjoy re-reading everything I have written over the last few posts.

Eeeew. Warm alcohol shudder...

So. My Christmas was lovely, and New Years is looming once again. Actually have a plan for this year, which is nice for a change! Sadly, I will not be seeing any of my gorgeous lady friends as we will all be in different locations come New Years, but I have a plan none the less! Cocktail party at my sister's house - WOO!! Should be a blast. I wanted a costume party, but then there's the sweat and effort to consider. It originally was going to be a 'party animal' costume theme, I was going to go as a generic 'animal', and Paul was going to go dressed up as a 'party'... you know... balloons... beer hat and the like... maybe we will still do it, why not??

I feel a sneeze coming on. For those of you who know me... yes, it is about that time.... luke warm alcohol will do that to you. Yuck. I just oozed on my hand. Jayzus, 6 sneezes and counting... what is the science behind this? Someone please tell me! I can't be bothered googling it.

As I look out my study window I see the sun setting - yes, the weather has cleared for us down the Gold Coast, how lovely seeing as we've ... sneeze... had about 4 days of non stop cloud dribbling. It can drive one mad. Paul and I have had an arvo of 'beer with the boys' and 'bubble bath, wine and internet blogging'... sneeze... for ourselves has been in order. Just what the holiday doctor ordered!

We've spent the day... well... that's a lie right there... a few hours this afternoon attempting to rearrange our study.. the one I am sitting in right now... We are in 'reshuffle entire house' mode at the moment. We attacked the downstairs loungeroom and dining area, which turned out to be a HUGE success, so we were really eager to get onto the rest of the house - sorting through every nook and cranny and chucking out EVERYTHING that isn't useful, joyful or beautiful... or something like that (I have affirmations on my pantry door, that is one of them...)

Yuck... my wine has floaties... I really should make myself a cocktail, this is getting bad....

So yes, back to the reshuffling.... after a morning of Paul being knocked out with panedine fortes (due to an excrutiatingly.. [that's a tough word to type...] ... sore back from the night before (no reason, he just has bad muscles people...), and me making a start on our wedding 'Thank You' cards... only 2 months late... we came together around lunchtime and made a start on our study - the biggest pile of human un-excrement in the world. Papers everywhere, art materials in every which-way... basically crap EVERYWHERE. In desperate need of a sort out.

We got as far as moving the furniture into the semi-right place when we realised we were getting at each others throats and decided to stop. It can be an ongoing process, we decided. Better not inhale too much dust, might be unhealthy or something... and so we stopped.

Paul ducked out for the afternoon to his friends house and as for myself, I took a drive down to the beach where I sat and absorbed the beachness for an hour: the salt air, people walking their dogs, the oncoming black clouds (or going away? Couldn't decide...), the sand getting into my slide phone. I thought I saw someone drowning out to sea, but as I am severely short sighted after a minute I realised it was a surfer, way out the back of the waves... oopth. It was nice to get out of the house for a bit, we had been stuck in there for nearly 4 days straight with the rain... one can get a little 'cabin fever' with the biggest of patience.

I must say I am getting rather peckish, Tikka Misala in my belly soon!! Oh yeah...

My Diana Krall CD has finished. Oh bother. Do I put in another to keep me going an extra few songs? Meh. Could not be arsed.

I think the time has come for me to 'sign off' on this very first post - how exciting!! It is very easy just to write any random thoughts that come into one's head, I think I will definitely make a good effort to keep this up, I enjoy blurting out any random crap to the world. Not that I'm expecting comments.... that time is over! Secretly though I crave them... stupid Facebook poison shit.....

Tikka Misala and cocktails of any random sort await....

Until I blog again,

- Peace, love and mungbeans -
xxx