Global Warming

No one really cares about global warming. And no one will until something happens. I mean the scientists will, but that is about it.
Sitting in my lecture i started thinking like that guy from die hard 4. Remember when he said that he though a fire sale would be really cool? Well how many scientists think a global warming disaster would be spectacular? Sitting in biogeography I was getting a bit of perspective of the timescale. We are a pinprick in the earths life. Australia moves north 7cm a year on average. The land mass of india smashed into asia forming a huge mountain range. To think of how long that would have taken. Earth is actually in a cooling period and we are in an interglacial period. Humans have only known a small part of the earth's history. Yet we think ourselves indestructible. Change happens so slow we don't see it. Imagine being able to watch evolution, to watch speciation occur. Well I had a very dark thought today. Global warming. We could just let everyone go and watch as they alter the climate with their power plants, factories and cows and watch what happens out of scientific interest. But we are nice. We warn you about it, we do your research, and then you choose the option that allows you to keep your creature comforts. But unlike a firesale we can't fix the environment. Though im sure we will get paid a shit load to attemp to. Perhaps one day a much more intelligent species will find our fossils and try figure out how such a widely distributed species became extinct...

It's hot. So what?

One thing years of basketball and 5 Australia Day Tournaments has given me is an apparent disregard for playing in heat.

My under 10s basketball mums asked to cancel training because it's 38 and my netball team manager was like "sorry girls, I know it's a hot one tonight" and I'm kinda like uhh...um that's okay.

After you've played 5 games in 2 days in 30 degree stadiums one social game in the evening on a 35 degree day is really no biggie.

Besides, today my clothes will dry :)

Responsibility vs. Zoe

The awkward moment when you have to think of a lie to tell your team manager that explains why you can't train your Under 10 boys on Sunday when the real reason is that you plan to be hungover and sleep deprived.

"uh...yeah, I have to work Sundays."

Responsibility - 0
Zoe - 1

Which is improvement on last week when I spent $35 on a coaches whiteboard instead of booze which left the score board:

Responsibility - 1
Zoe - 0

***

Responsibility - 1
Zoe - 1
It's on responsibility, you're going down.

Pushups

I'm not sure whether to be insulted or flattered when one of my friends is surprised I can do "boy" pushups properly.

On the one hand, just because I'm a girl doesn't mean I can't do everything boys can do (better, and in heels). On the other hand, having one of your army mates comment on your good pushup technique is kinda cool. It's cool to know I can kind of do something the army peeps do.

Put a smile on your dial :)

Apparently there are two things that can make me smile and laugh after a craptastic day: One Direction and David Tennant.

I think I should move to the UK.

Game of Thrones!

Just finished the first series of Game of Thrones. Our favourite characters are Ghost, Arya and Daenerys. We got together and finished it in two nights. So excited to get together and watch the next season. We spent half the time shouting at the screen or getting confused with the intricate plot. (I am horrible with names and there is a lot of people talking about others behind their backs. In fact there is more plotting than there is nudity, which there is quite a bit of...)

Also, completely off topic, I have 7 hours of driving to do this w/e so I hired an audio book from the library. 17+ hours on one cd! Where can I get me one of those? You could fit multiple playlists on there. The Ambassador's Mission is the first in the Traitor Spy trilogy that follows on from the Black Magician trilogy, which we have both read and enjoyed. I am not usually one for audiobooks. I get really annoyed with the voices and confused with names. I remember them better when I read them. I have listened to the Harry Potter audio books sooooo many times. I read them first of course, but there is absolutely nothing you can fault Stephen Fry on. He reads at a perfect pace, with perfect tone/noise/pitch. One day I will buy them all, when I have 490 dollars to spend.

Haha I came on here to talk about game of thrones and ended up talking more about other stuff...

"I'm burning up a sun just to say goodbye."

The awkward moment when you just watched the Season 2 Doctor Who finale, burst into tears because the insanely epic David Tennant delivered the line "I'm burning up a sun just to say goodbye" perfectly and he and Rose will never be together again and she was your first companion and he will always be your favourite Doctor (even if you haven't seen Matt Smith give it a shot yet) and you're not entirely sure what to do with the rest of your night so you just decide to go to bed because you can't handle anything else after that.

And their goodbye scene was on a freaking beach in winter.

Hair

This is potentially going to be the weirdest blog post I've ever written but bear with me here.

I like my hair. I really, really, really like my hair, you could even say I love it. Yeah let's go with love.
I love how it looks, I love how (relatively) low maintenance it is, I love how every piece curls without me having to do a thing, I love how it makes me feel like a mermaid whenever I go swimming, I love the compliments it gets, I love how it gets no knots in it when I straighten it and, most of all, I love how it feels just after it's been washed.

One of the simple joys in my life is the feel of my hair when it's clean. I don't know why, maybe it's something others can relate to I just love the feel of my hair when it's been washed. It feels so clean and smooth and light too despite the fact it's almost perpetually damp.

So there, weirdest blog post ever about...my hair. Yep.

Little Talks - Of Monsters and Men

"I don't like walking around this old and empty house

So hold my hand, I'll walk with you, my dear

The stairs creak as I sleep, it's keeping me awake

It's the house telling you to close your eyes."

I sometimes wish I was a songwriter but, considering I'm a shocking singer, maybe it's a good thing I don't write songs.

I admire the lyrics in songs more so than the beat or the rhythm and I know I'd never be able to write the music part so, again, songwriter is probably not a valid career path for me.

Regardless, when I hear songs like the ones I've posted here before (Wings - Little Mix, Wish You Were Here - Delta Goodrem, practically anything by Ed Sheeran) it makes me want to write songs. I suppose it all comes back to wanting to write something that hits someone, touches someone the way these songs/books/poems/plays touch me.

Up the top there is another song the lyrics of which I've fallen in love with. Little Talks is a song written in english by an Icelandic band. Songwriting skill added to my appreciation of anyone who speaks more than one language let alone writes anything in a language other than their mother tongue...it's no surprise I love this song. I'd recommend YouTubing it (though it's on the radio fairly often nowadays) and giving it a listen.

More Funnies!

This behind the scenes video legit had me in tears. It is HILARIOUS.
They just spend half the video making "I have a new business" puns with really clever answers.

I LOVE BRITISH HUMOUR!!!!

Worried.

So fanfiction is kind of what I spend half my life reading and/or writing (I know right, I have the coolest and least creepy/lame hobby ever) but what's been starting to worry me lately is the prevalence of abusive relationships and rough sex I've been coming across (and promptly skipping).

When he hurts you, hits you, intentionally or you know, at all really (unless he trips over a squirrel and elbows you in the nose or something in some freak accident), thats not "hot", it's not good, it's not sexy, he's not being macho protector man, he's being primitive cave man. You don't forgive him the second he promises he "really does love you." You get the fuck out of that relationship! Staying with someone who's hurt you, not just physically but emotionally or mentally or in anyway at all...you're not helping yourself at all and I suggest you hightail it out of there.

Maybe I'm being naive and narrow minded, maybe I've never been in love. Maybe I'm a stronger person who has more self-respect for herself. I do try my best to "think about the circumstance that led a person to be doing what they're doing" before I make my judgements but hitting someone, anyone...that is not cool. That's not to say I've never done it, my cousin and I used to fight like cat and dog when we were kids, I play basketball and sometimes you get frustrated but when you do it to someone you love...I don't really know how there's any coming back from that. Maybe I won't know what I'd do if I were ever in that situation until (God forbid) I am. Maybe I'd give him a second chance. But if I did, it'd only be the one.

'Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.'

As for rough sex, I suppose some relationships do have a trust base where, if you were into that kind of thing, you would trust that other person not to hurt you seriously but...I just worry about what the likes of this stuff and 50 Shades of Grey will do to the admittedly far-too-young-to-be-reading-porn and impressionable girls who do read it and, unfortunately, seem to take it as gospel.

At least the over-romanticised world of Mills & Boon novels didn't hurt anyone.

Baby in the Summertime

I never used to understand what all the fuss was about Summer.
Sure, it's hot, the sun's nice, swimming, being outside blah blah blah but then, then, I got my license and I could go places. God, being able to drive is potentially the best thing in the world, ever. Definitely the best thing since sliced bread. Being able to go: 'Hey, you know what would be great? If I went here and did this. Awesome, it's a plan. Leaving now.'

The beach, driving with the windows down and the music pumping, sunnies on, swimmers and towel in the boot, sunscreen, reading a book in the sun, waves, laughter, sand everywhere, fish and chips, more daylight, good times.
Summer is all of the above and more.

I love winter fashion, long coats, tights, boots, scarves, hats, gloves but there's something about the Australian summer that even European fashion can't top.

Last summer was amazing I spent a large amount of time at the beach and also a fair amount of time driving to and from it. I only hope this summer supersedes it. I have high hopes for it though. The summer hasn't even started yet and I've been to the beach and already have plans to go twice more in the upcoming weeks. Despite the fact I plan to spend two weeks in February in Italy (the coldest month in Europe so everyone tells me) and thus miss out on two weeks of Summer here I have a feeling this summer is going to be fun.

Doctor Who - David Tennant

I'm new to the Doctor Who universe and I started my Doctor Who adventure for two reasons:
1 - My friends rage about it
2 - David freaking Tennant. 

I am in love with David Tennant.
Ever since I saw Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire I've had a crush on him even though he was the evil and more than slightly creepy Barty Crouch Jnr.
He's hilarious, he's quite good looking in a really distinct way, he has an accent, though admittedly I've never been so attracted to a Scottish accent before and he's just plain awesome.

Usually, on talk shows and whatever they're in suit pants and whatnot (which I love of course because there's nothing better than a man in a suit) but David Tennant rocks up and he's like I'm the mother-fucking Doctor, I'm wearing jeans and hi-top sneakers bitchezzzz, deal with it.

I'm yet to actually see a Doctor Who episode with David Tennant but I've spent the last two days YouTubing his interviews and he's...epic. He's another D to add to my Epic List.

At this point in time, I'm tempted to call my first child David in honour of his awesomeness (though hopefully this is just a phase).

David Tennant is a God. I can't wait to fall in love with him all over again while watching Doctor Who.

Have a bit of a laugh

A couple of things people have emailed me or I have heard

Ricky Gervais - Polotics
I've never figured out what the moral of Humpty Dumpty is? If you are an egg don't sit on a wall?
The moral of the boy who cried wolf is not "don't tell a lie" but "never tell the same lie twice"

Some photos my dad sent me




Will Anderson
If you have a friend who wants to use a hairdryer in the shower: Let them. Not for the whole electricity and water thing, but for the reason you would buy a hairdryer in the first place. "My hairs not getting dry" "you're in the fucking shower" One less moron to be pissing in the shallow end of our gene pool.

Have You Ever Wondered Why...

1. Why the sun lightens our hair but darkens our skin?
2. Why women can't put on mascara with their mouth closed?
3. Why you never see the headline: "Psychic Wins Lottery"?
4. Why "abbreviation" is such a long word?
5. Why Doctors call what they do a "Practice"?
6. Why you have to click on "Start" to stop Microsoft Windows?
7. Why lemon juice is made with artificial flavour, while dishwashing liquid is made with real lemons?
8. Why the man who invests all your money is called a "Broker"?
9. Why there isn't mouse flavoured cat food?
10. Who tastes dog food when it has a "New & Improved" flavour?
11. Why Noah didn't swat those two darned mosquitoes?
12. Why they use a sterilized needle for lethal injections?
13. Why sheep don't shrink when it rains?
14. Why they are called apartments, when they are all stuck together?
15. Why they call an airport a "Terminal" if flying is so safe?

And in case you need further proof that the human race is doomed because of stupidity, here are some actual label instructions on consumer goods:

1. On a popular hairdryer: "Do not use while sleeping".
   (Darn it, that's the only time I have to dry my hair)
2. On a bag of Crisps: You could be a winner! No purchase necessary. Details inside.
   (A shoplifter's special)
3. On a bar of Palmolive soap: "Directions: Use like regular soap".
   (And that would be how?)
4. On some frozen dinners: "Serving suggestion: Defrost".
   (But, it's just a suggestion)
5. On Nanna's Tiramisu dessert (printed on bottom): "Do not turn upside down".
   (Well...duh, a bit late now)
6. On Marks & Spencer Bread Pudding: "Product will be hot after heating".
   (And you thought?)
7. On packaging for a K-Mart iron: "Do not iron clothes on body".
   (But, wouldn't this save me more time?)
8. On Boot's Children Cough Medicine: "Do not drive a car or operate machinery after taking this medication".
   (We could do a lot to reduce the rate of construction accidents, if we could get those 5 year olds with head colds to stop driving those dumper trucks)
9. On Nytol Sleep Aid: "Warning: May cause drowsiness".
   (And...I'm taking this because?)
10. On some brands of Christmas lights: "For indoor or outdoor use only".
    (As opposed to...what?)
11. On a Japanese food processor: "Not to be used for the other use".
    (Now, somebody help me out on this one!)
12. On Nobby's peanuts: "Warning: contains nuts".
    (Talk about a news flash!)
13. On an Airline's packet of nuts: "Instructions: Open packet, eat nuts".
    (Who'd have thought it?)
14. On a child's Superman costume: "Wearing of this garment does not enable you to fly".
    (I blame the parents for this one)
15. On a Swedish chainsaw: "Do not attempt to stop chain with your hands or genitals".
    (Was there a lot of this happening then?)

Let's Drive

We're all over 18, the grand majority of us have our P's, and we drive places. Driving to said places we often carpool for all of the reasons carpooling was invented - save money, save petrol, convenience etc. The problem with carpooling is that, as someone who drives themselves around on a daily basis, you are putting your means of transport as well as your life in someone else's hands and trusting them to be capable.


I will be the first to admit that I am, by no stretch of the imagination, the safest driver in the world.
I speed on a daily basis, I (according to my mother at least) often drive too close to the car in front of me, I don't brake early enough and, because of where I live, I don't always stop at give way signs or roundabouts which is okay out in the country for the most part but is not so good in suburbia.

With all that in mind, I do not like driving with my guy friends. In fact, I am legitimately terrified and actively go out of my way not to drive with one of my friends in particular.
That's not to say all my guy friends' driving scares me, my best friend is quite a safe driver but I think it's more out of adoration for his car than anything else.

Maybe I'm being paranoid, I'm sure that, just the same as me, each of my friends know the limitations of their own car far better than I do but I feel that guys are just more prone to pushing the limits and eventually that'll end badly and, perhaps selfishly, I don't want to be there when it happens.