Monday, December 31, 2007

You spin me right round, baby right round

I’m currently at the Laundromat (we call it laundrette in England, but I prefer the American term as is my way) and I’m not going to spend half hour of my life watching it spin round, baby right round and sing the song endlessly til the cycle is complete

What always amuses me is the seriousness exhibited by this fine establishments patrons.

Firstly, I’ll admit I’m very uncaring about the whole affair.

I only ever go there to use the driers as it’s the fastest and cleanest as frankly the thought of the bugs and dust in the air drying my clothes – no thanx

Before I start about drying, in regards to washing again to me I’m a wild one. I’ve even committed the cardinal sin of brights and whites together, yup I just don’t care me.

Then I walk down to Laundromat and I just bung my clothes in as they came out from the washing machine, put £2 in and let the baby dry away for 30 mins and by the end it’s all dry.

What really bugs me, is (now I generalise but it seems to be the trend) slightly ‘mature’ women who persist in taking clothes out mid-cycle, checking to see if it’s dry, folding it up neatly if it is otherwise leave it in. Then what REALLY bugs me, is they have 1 minute remaining but they insist on still sorting clothes out, and leaving the remaining there – why ? surely a minute ain’t going to make a blind bit of diff

ALSO, it’s a false sense of security as the heat from the dryers may lead you to believe your clothes are drier than they actually are.

Also, I get told I shouldn’t leave clothes in there – why??

It’s a dryer, I put clothes in to dry and in the words of Jerry Seinfeld “you can't "overdry". So, just leave the clothes be.

& when it’s done, I just bung it in and take it home, no folding for me, no siree

Sure, this leaves a lot of my clothes looking like Gordon Ramsay’s face but life’s too short for folding mang !!

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Friday, December 28, 2007

Dream for an insomniac

I love that, also Dirty Pretty Things but anyway

It’s 3:19am and I’m wide awake and nothing to do, so thought may as well update this hurr blog.

I think the actual word insomnia is used too widely. Chronic sleep deprivation and not the odd night should warrant the usage of such a word. Personally I am mostly sleep deprived, purely down to my overly active mind that refuses to stop ticking. Oh how I’ve longed for a huge off button on the back of my head

Failing that, I’ve always dreamt of the idea that we could just go without sleep or at the very least have some sort of a regeneration/power-nap device that you go in for an hour and bingo bango that’s a good 10 hours solid sleep right thurr. Think of how much more time I’d waste =]

The festive season is upon us and therefore everyone is in a big kerfuffle over nowt. Perhaps it’s due to the fact I’m on the outside looking in but I just don’t get the big deal over Christmas. It’s an arbitrary date that we chose to give significance and therefore must have a 2 plus month build up to what is seemingly like the biggest anti-climax of them all.

I may sound very bah hambug but I’m not a very big on the celebrations especially ones that are overdone, Christmas being the case in point. Also what’s with xmas ? I don’t get it, I only ever use X for Kings X and surely it can’t be Crossmas ? perhaps Kissmas? but that’s equally as wrong

Regardless of whatever you call it, I do have to admit I love Winter. Especially at night when it’s just so serene and beautiful, my only real complaint is that it doesn’t snow (heavily) as much as it should. I should really move my ass to Greenland (perhaps I’ll find myself a hot Eskimo girl too)

On a side note, I’m in love with this laptop

I want to buy it, but it’s horrendously overpriced and expensive. I’m trying not to convince myself that beauty transcends utility but who am I kidding? Look how pretty it is, and carbon fiber !!!!!

I must leave you with a goodbye and hope you enjoy the new year =] hasn’t it gone quick?

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Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Writer's Block

mic check, one two, one two, anybody there?

shit, it's been a while since I updated this thing

my enthuiasm for blogging has somewhat dwindled, I guess I wasn't so great at regaling people with my life and experiences as I had first thought

add to that, I haven't really had much sparks of interest to add on hurr

or perhaps just perhaps, I've been spending my time doing actual productive things? I know, right? so un-taleb

Winter's coming up, I miss snow I remember going to New York a few years back it was amazing ... really thick snow, had to dig your car out of it was so much, doing snow angels .. ah was pure bliss

There is an ice-palace somewhere, probs numerous of them but one of the places I'd love to visit in my life-time

I have this fascination with ice, it's just so serene, so beautiful ... and this place is almost all ice, like some wonderful winter wonderland

right, I'm gonna shut up now ... I'll update this thing more in due course, til then I hope ya'll aint missed ya homeboi too much

which reminds me ... if you do read this on an even semi-regular basis DO comment, and try not to be annoymous about it, it seems I mostly get abuse from anoner's but is it like the whole publicity thing? all comm is good comm?

I'll leave you to ponder that.

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