IF YOU’RE ON MY FRIENDS LIST, I want to know 28 things about you. I don’t care if we’ve never talked or if we already know everything about each other. I really don’t. You are obviously on my f-list, so let me know with whom I’m friends! Post a reply with your answers

That is, if you can be bothered!

1. Your Middle Name:
2. Age:
3. Single or Taken:
4. Favorite Movie:
5. Favorite Song or Album:
6. Favorite Band/Artist:
7. Dirty or Clean:
8. Tattoos and/or Piercings:
9. Do we know each other outside of LJ?
10. What’s your philosophy on life?
11. Is the bottle half-full or half-empty?
12. Would you keep a secret from me if you thought it was in my best interest?
13. What is your favorite memory of us?
14. What is your favorite guilty pleasure?
15. Tell me one odd/interesting fact about you:
16. You can have three wishes (for yourself, so forget all the ‘world peace etc’ malarkey) – what are they :
17. Can we get together and make a cake?
18. Which country is your spiritual home?
19. What is your big weakness?
20. Do you think I’m a good person?
21. What was your best/favorite subject at school:
22. Describe your accent:
23. If you could change anything about me, would you?
24. What do you wear to sleep?
25. Trousers or skirts?
26. Cigarettes or alcohol?
27. If I only had one day to live, what would we do together?
28. Will you repost this so I can fill it out for you?

WRATH

1. Who did you last get angry with?
   Myself for letting me a family doormat all my adult life
2. What is your weapon of choice?
   I’m with maz on this one – silence
3. Would you hit a member of the opposite sex?
   There are cases where I really wish I had punched certain men for fucking my life up. I fantasise about performing the stereotypical face-slap on someone who really deserves it, but right now I don’t know anyone who does
4. How about of the same sex?
   There are lots of people I know of through the internets that I would love to slap, just to knock some sense into them
5. Who was the last person who got really angry at you?
   Dan, probably. I give him the shits. Besides that, my Director, if only briefly, while I told him about something I fucked up at work
6. What is your pet peeve?
   People who don’t stand to the left on escalators. i want to get past, ffs
7. Do you keep grudges, or can you let them go easily?
   I usually let go, though there are some dumb ones that I still can’t let go of

SLOTH

1. What is one thing you’re supposed to do daily that you haven’t?
   15 minutes of housework, clean my teeth before bed, eat 5 serves of fruit/veg a day, exercise for 20 minutes… the list could go on
2. What is the latest you’ve ever woken up?
   I used to sleep in until after lunch when I was younger and into going out until 4am. these days I’m awake on weekend by 7.30. how tragic
3. What is the last lame excuse you made?
   Oh, we’re only browsing, we don’t really know what furniture we want (read: your stuff is shite/too expensive)
4. Have you ever watched an infomercial all the way through?
   Only if Moira is involved, but I don’t usually bother these days
5. When was the last time you got in a good workout?
   last time i was at the gym… 2 years ago. and it shows
6. How many times did you hit the snooze button on your alarm clock today?
   none. i’m usually pretty good with that shit

GLUTTONY

1. What is your overpriced yuppie beverage of choice?
   I really really don’t have one. I’m a bogan/chav at heart
2. Meat eaters: white meat or dark meat??
   White. i heart chicken
3. What is the greatest amount of alcohol you’ve had in one sitting/outing/event?
   I think I had a whole jug of sangria to myself once at dinner… the night I supposedly flashed my boobs to the whole restaurant.
4. Have you ever used a professional diet company?
   No, because diets don’t fucking work, ffs. You have to change your eating habits for life.
5. Do you have an issue with your weight?
   I totally do, and I’ve got the prescription for fat-reduction pills to prove it
6. Do you prefer sweets, salty foods, or spicy?
   sugar is my best friend
7. Have you ever looked at a small house pet or child and thought “lunch”?
   fuck no, what do you think i am???

LUST

1. How many people have you seen naked (not counting movies/family):
   Apart from boyfriends? None. By the same token, so one’s asked to see me naked…
2. How many people have seen YOU naked (not counting physicians/family):
   Oh, I kinda already answered that question
3. Have you ever caught yourself staring at the chest/crotch of a member of the opposite gender during a normal conversation?
   Yeah, it’s not pleasant when I realise.
4. What is your favorite body part on a person of your gender of choice?
   Hands, because they fit so well with mine
5. Have you ever been propositioned by a prostitute?
   No, thank fuck

GREED

1. How many credit cards do you own?
   Two. but one was meant to pay the other off, i swear.
2. What’s your guilty pleasure store?
   Right now? Kikki K or Howard’s Storage World. Let the mocking begin
3. Would you rather be rich, or famous?
   Rich, please
4. Would you accept a boring job if it meant you would make megabucks?
   Probably not
5. Have you ever stolen anything?
   Yup. I was a little thiever when I was younger
6. How many MP3s are on your hard drive?
   3250, 8.3 days, 13.35Gb. I haven’t converted all my CDs, though. And it doesn’t include some bootlegs I’ve got on MP3

PRIDE

1. What’s one thing you have done that you’re most proud of?
   Taking myself off to therapy to fix myself before things get worse
2. Whats one thing have you done that your parents are most proud of?
   You know what? I really don’t know. Difficult when dad’s dead and I’m still incapable of a decent relationship with mother
3. What things would you like to accomplish in your life?
   My main thing at the moment is to become the person I want to be, deal with all the issues that are the reasons I’m at therapy and learn to live no day but today
4. Do you get annoyed by coming in second place?
   depends on the game i’m playing
5. Have you ever entered a contest of skill, knowing you were of much higher skill than all the other competitors?
   Yes, skeeball!
6. Have you ever cheated on something to get a higher score?
   I did when I was a kid. God I was a shit
7. What did you do today that you’re proud of?
   Started the assignment that’s due tomorrow, and it’s not even lunchtime

ENVY

1. What item (or person) of your friends would you most want to have for your own?
   Josh’s cashed up mum who buys him through his life, no matter how much he denies it.
2. Who would you want to go on “Trading Spaces” with?
   I really don’t know
3. If you could be anyone else in the world, who would you be?
   Someone who is confident with themeselves, emotionally stable and financially stable enough to buy a house and still be able to afford a can of coke every day
4. Have you ever been cheated on?
   If you consider the gay one was with his boyfriend, yes. If you consider that the emotionally retarded one was only in it for himself, yes.
5. Have you ever wished you had a physical feature different from your own?
   yeah, my eyes are tiny, and the bags under my eyes are gross
6. What inborn trait do you see in others that you wish you had for yourself?
   Honesty
7. Do you wish you’d come up with this survey
   Jesus Christ, what sort of question is that?

With the whole moving thing, I’m in the market for a washing machine. I’ve been having fantasies about buying a front-loader since experiencing the one my in-laws bought a few years ago. I’ve heard everyone’s opinions as to why I shouldn’t buy a front-loader, but too bad, I’m hooked.

The model I’m after (the LG WD1238C) retails for $1249. Fine, a bit more expensive than I can afford, but it got shortlisted in Choice mag this year.

But it’s amazing what you find when you type a model number into Google (although, Dan deserves all the credit for this). First result is Appliances Online, where there’s free delivery in Sydney. MY LG WD1238C sells for $849 at Appliances Online – a $400 saving.

The icing on the cake is the $150 rebate from Sydney Water because of the water efficiency of the machine. Which easily covers the $115 to extend the LG warranty to 5 years.

Effectively, I’m saving $435 for being too fucking lazy to look at washing machines in stores like Hardly Normal and Retravision. Next mission: the new fridge.

There is a very fine line between “hobby” and “mental illness.”

“Come in” / “Go away” Doormat from Suck UK design. Think I’ll have to buy when when I’m over there at Christmas.