new tunes i'm lovin

Jason mraz - wordplay

welcome to the dark side...kitty

gravitational pull

so the effects of the coming full moon are making their presence known.

emotionally i am all over the place

starting to feel better after a bout of the flu

coasting on happy momories of finally seeing The Laramie Project






grateful

no longer under any illusion that my faith and trust in self and others has been shattered

hopeful

looking forward to a break from reality in two weeks when i travel to the sunshine state

looking forward to dog's ball on my return



loving this song by The Presets "this boy's in love"

visual stimulation

there is a feast of visual images to behold and enjoy

these beauties are up around my neighbourhood

sunday flashback

"oh he was just a window washer i picked up at the traffic lights, buns so tight he was bouncing offf the walls"

love the pet shop boys, one of the best concerts i ever saw was them playing at the entertainment center in Briz Vegas - their usual composure and straight face was broken when the rendition of AbFab was fucked up by dodgy sound feedback - third time lucky and the boys were off and running with much laughter....


I think in terms of highlights of concerts i've been too, the cure is the most memorable and Lullaby is one of my most favourite songs

lunch with the boys

now where are you off to?











so what else do you do on a beautiful rainy day...hang out with good friends for good food great chat and lots of laughs!!!

Carnival

i love the weird mix of people i share this city with!

i love listening to this song as i wander around and appreciate

fabulous friday's tasty morsels

coming home on the bus tonight i took this photo of the sun setting on another glorious autumn day








have a happy and safe weekend

marg the rains are here

still no luck finding a flatmate and i'm a little over the process but i will persist, surely in the so called rental shortage/crisis in sydney there is someone who can not only live with animals but also cope with a house that is quirky, and not sanitized to within an inch of it's life, oy..


now it's not everyone's cup of tea but i have a guilty secret...i am a huge gilmore girls fans...i know i can hear the groans from here but what can i do, i think amy sherman-paladino is an amazing writer and i love the characters she created. the exciting news is that today i got my hot little hands on series 7 on DVD, the final...sigh..series. so i'm looking forward to snuggling down for some healthy indulgence and the weather has played it's part too, cool rain adding to the winter feel..lovely.

what the hell am i doin???

blast from the past sunday

ok so i was going to delete my newly created dating site profile but i've managed to find someone who at first glance doesn't appear to be just after quick hookups ??? can you belive it?

wasn't even sure about setting up the profile but it was the only way i could get my friend to join facebook. but what the hell might as well have a little fun and experiment with the whole online dating scene, never done it before and i just don't know where it will lead.

this is some really cute graffiti that is in my neighbourhood...makes me smile

oops i tripped and fell

the sensibilities of the week took a downward direction when i overdid work and lifting my dog and put my back out. too much attention being paid to the noise in my head and not enough to the physical well-being of my being.

isolated myself to not subject others to my woe-is-me-ness and wallowed for a while in self pitty. still a bit sore but on the mend both emotionally and mentally. felt isolated by others who for what ever reason treated me with the attitude of one who was just complaining. we'll you know what, to you it might be complaining but to me it's an important aspect of who i am. and i don't think it's just me. the need to release the pressure and get things out of my head and off my chest have a cleansing cathartic effect needed to shift the gremlins.



once i stopped being so hard on myself and took a look at the world around me i discovered this whole controversy over the "pregnant man" which has been swirling. What a great story and one which is not in one sense new, other men have had babies before, but in another sense is new in that Thomas has come forward on a very public platform to tell his story, I mean come on, Oprah, how much more public can you get!



I love the challenging of the normativity assumed within sex, gender and sexuality this story provides. and i think the responses have been quite interesting, expected, and at least to me, dissapointing. But then again the normalizing of stories such as this wouldn't mean the challenging of 'conventional normality' has been overcome but that backlash agianst the perceived other remains unheard. i for one would prefer to have the discussion of these issues in the public forum, and i think it is quite brave of Thomas and his family to take this step.