January 2011
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How I'm celebrating the cyclone non-event: Cutting...
Dear BOM,
Where the hell is my wind and rain? The weather is awful here but in the opposite way that you told us it would be.
Yours in annoyance,
Amy.
My standard response.
Mum: What are you laughing at?
Me: The Internet.
Mum: Again?
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When adults say, “Teenagers think they are invincible” with that sly, stupid...
– John Green (Looking For Alaska)
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Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women...
– Televangelist Pat Robertson
the onion couldn’t even write something this hilarious
(via jamiekeiles)
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Singing Amanda Palmers' Australia by way of...
I could decide to do these dishes, I could decide…
Or I could go to Australia, carry a bowie knife and wear my hair like Hepburn parted on the side…
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Today is a big pile of green and pink.
I don’t know what that means but that’s what it feels like and that’s what I’m wearing.
Or it could be the delerium talking. Ask me again tonight when I hit the 40 hours without sleep point.
In other news, that point is coinciding with the Rock n’ Rods event I’m going to with Carly. I shall be the one with the giant red skirt with printed poodle and a denim...
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I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who...
– Anna Quindlen, “Enough Bookshelves,” New York Times, 7 August 1991
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The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.
– James Bryce
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
– Chinese Proverb
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Don't let me out in public. I will say things that...
My mother and I are observing a lady with her grandchild.
Me: You aren’t getting one of those anytime soon. Not anytime soon at all.
Later while shopping for a baby shower.
Me: Oh these baby things are kind of cute, I can see how people might be tempted to procreate if you can get involved in the whole hysteria.
That didn’t go down well with everyone else in the store.
I actually...
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A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without...
– Edward P. Morgan
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Today I award bonus karma points to that guy at...
I love gravy and apple sauce sandwiches, but I’ve been at carverys before where they don’t like to make them for me because “they’re meant to be served with the roast”. Hell, I’d pay the $6 for a gravy and apple sauce sandwich somedays since my other options in food courts are limited.
But this guy was more then willing to make one for me and he only charged me...
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I should learn how to replace the rubbery-soles on...
It would save me a fortune since they all just melt when I go out walking in Townsville.
I’m ignoring your arguments about wearing different shoe because if you don’t drive and you’re going to fancy appointments or job interviews etc. you’ll wear the fancy shoes and you’ll leave the soles melted behind you on the sidewalk as you trek your way across town. It is...
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Math puns are the first Sine of madness.
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He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot.
– Arabic Proverb
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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
– Mary Wortley Montagu
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Watching Lost in Austen.
Jemima Roooper and Alex Kingston.
The classiest of Australia Days.
Watching Toy Story 3.
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Listening to I Summon You by Spoon on repeat.
This is act is also known as ‘How to make a bad day better’ which is closely linked to the question ‘What am I even doing awake at this time of the morning?’
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‘Tell me what you read and I’ll tell you who you are’ is true enough, but I’d...
– François Mauriac (via lifeofliterature)
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new zealand woman is partially paralysed by a... →
needsomefiction:
and yes, it’s as hilarious as it sounds
I was always warned about the chance of stroke if you gave yourself/got hickeys because everyone use to do it to their arms in primary school. I had the coolest childhood.
I'm not obsessed... Really I'm not.
I just organised my tights drawer by type, material, style and colour.
Now I can fit in the new pairs I’m going to buy, because the fairy shop is closing down so all their pairs are $5. I cannot resist bargain priced tights or stockings.
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The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps.
– Bob Black (via libraryland)
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No regrets.
What follows is a text message I sent to my mother on Jan 3rd 2009:
Hey mum… I changed my uni preferences :-) so engineering is now last :-) love you lots. see you in a couple of days. xxamyxx
They were changed at the last moment while I was out of town - literally the last day so they couldn’t be changed back… I didn’t get back into town for another 14 days.
In the...
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There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by...
– James Madison (via truth-be)
courtneylarkinisabamf replied to your post: courtneylarkinisabamf replied to your post: I…
I think thats awesome. Cause honestly,if you just think about it in a health standpoint, meat really isn’t that essential. You can get those nutrients in different places and such. I thinkkkk I may try this, if nothing more than one day a week. :D
It’s certainly a great way to see if...