Ever wondered what a puppy and a senile dog get up to all day? I'm thinking I could make a pretty good guess- thankfully I didn't discover this one after dark. I would be wandering around Shanghai wondering what had just happened...
Monday, January 30, 2012
Monday, January 16, 2012
Friday 13th not just for a day
I have always liked dates with a particular pattern such as the recent 12/01/12 for example. So as Friday started and I realised it was Friday 13th I mused sceptically about the 'bad luck' associated with the date. Hah! There is no such thing as bad luck... Then as I was sitting there at work at 8pm, 14 hours after arriving there I started to change my mind.
There is no fun springing the worst ever horror movie style scare on someone when they are expecting it, like say on Friday 13th. No, Friday 13th had better plans. It would lul me into a false sense of security before unleashing the ultimate terror on Sunday night. Here I was, snoozing peacefully when something soft flopped onto my cheek waking me up. I flicked on the light to see what it was, then kinda wished I didn't. It was a wolf spider. Yep, a massive freaking hairy spider had jumped onto my face. I did the only sensible thing in the circumstances and twatted it with a handy slipper (8 eyes and it didn't see that coming).
So now, as it lay there twitching slightly you would think the excitement would be over wouldn't you. Hah, Friday 13th had something more in store. Thousands of tiny baby spiders, everywhere. I have never seen so many spiders. The were all over the walls, floor and ceiling. Now I like to think I am pretty good with a handy slipper, but no slipper was going to make any difference to the swarm of tiny spiders covering everything (no, I am not exaggerating). Thanks to a couple of tins of mortein and an hour while the room aired out and every thing in that room was either dead or drowning in a pool of fly spray.
Thank you Friday 13th for holding out until Sunday 15th for true horror movie style.
There is no fun springing the worst ever horror movie style scare on someone when they are expecting it, like say on Friday 13th. No, Friday 13th had better plans. It would lul me into a false sense of security before unleashing the ultimate terror on Sunday night. Here I was, snoozing peacefully when something soft flopped onto my cheek waking me up. I flicked on the light to see what it was, then kinda wished I didn't. It was a wolf spider. Yep, a massive freaking hairy spider had jumped onto my face. I did the only sensible thing in the circumstances and twatted it with a handy slipper (8 eyes and it didn't see that coming).
So now, as it lay there twitching slightly you would think the excitement would be over wouldn't you. Hah, Friday 13th had something more in store. Thousands of tiny baby spiders, everywhere. I have never seen so many spiders. The were all over the walls, floor and ceiling. Now I like to think I am pretty good with a handy slipper, but no slipper was going to make any difference to the swarm of tiny spiders covering everything (no, I am not exaggerating). Thanks to a couple of tins of mortein and an hour while the room aired out and every thing in that room was either dead or drowning in a pool of fly spray.
Thank you Friday 13th for holding out until Sunday 15th for true horror movie style.
Sunday, January 1, 2012
Its another year Jim, but not as we know it
What a relief to wake up and find out the world hasn't ended. I had gotten a little confused and was a day behind everyone else wondering why everyone was wishing everyone a happy new year a day early. When the fire crackers went off at midnight I vaguely remember thinking they were quite keen letting them off one night early and they should save some for new years. How awful it would have been had the world really ended, and I was out by a day. There would be the smoking ruins of the apocalypse and me saying "but its still December isn't it?" Perhaps somewhere it still is.
So in celebration of surviving yet another end to the world I was asked if I had any new years resolutions (may as well plan since we have another year now). I thought this was fairly short notice, although I suppose the more organised people out there (i.e the people who actually managed to get their Christmas cards out in the same month as Christmas) probably had them all prepared in case the world didn't end. Of course I didn't prepare, heck I thought I still had another day (and I still have the Christmas cards all ready to go- just need to get them out of the box, although hang on its January now isn't it...), so all I could think of was possibly being more proactive in getting the lawns mown before they out grow the fence and the dogs get lost the moment they step of the back verandah.
Ah yes, to be more organised. 2012 will certainly be another year, but not as we know it...
So in celebration of surviving yet another end to the world I was asked if I had any new years resolutions (may as well plan since we have another year now). I thought this was fairly short notice, although I suppose the more organised people out there (i.e the people who actually managed to get their Christmas cards out in the same month as Christmas) probably had them all prepared in case the world didn't end. Of course I didn't prepare, heck I thought I still had another day (and I still have the Christmas cards all ready to go- just need to get them out of the box, although hang on its January now isn't it...), so all I could think of was possibly being more proactive in getting the lawns mown before they out grow the fence and the dogs get lost the moment they step of the back verandah.
Ah yes, to be more organised. 2012 will certainly be another year, but not as we know it...
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