Friday, November 23rd, 2007...3:28 pm
A meme to calm the nerves
omg I’m pacing like a caged beast. Bless Bernice for tagging me with this meme, the rules of which are:
1. Link to your tagger and post these rules on your blog.
2. Share 5 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.
3. Tag 5 people at the end of your post by leaving their names, and links to their blogs.
4. Let them know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.
So here’s some fascinating facts about me:
1. I used to be shy to sing before I had a baby to sing to all the time. Now it makes me happy to sing.
2. I will tear up at the polling booth tomorrow. I do every time. It’s a bit embarrassing.
3. I’m actually an enormous sook.
4. I hope John Howard wins Bennelong so I can watch him suffer and my outlaws can have Maxine as their MP in 12 months time when he slinks away and starts doing active seniors classes with the YMCA. My friend Steevy came around today and he suggested that there was a German word that sounded kind of like this.
5. The sum total of my involvement in student politics at uni was the year that my friend Katie and I formed “Anarchists Against the Election”. She painted a big banner and we sat next to it outside the polling booth attempting to discourage people from voting because there was no point.
I’m not going to tag anyone because I’m like that, but leave a link in comments if you’re inspired to share.
9 Comments
November 23rd, 2007 at 9:46 pm
Tomorrow I’ll struggle and try to win as I do at every election but the smell of the sausage sizzle and fried onions will do the usual battle with the uncommitted vegetarian part of me. Damn, I can smell them now and my mouth is watering and there are bound to be chocolate crackles. I tell you this voting is dangerous to my health.
November 23rd, 2007 at 9:58 pm
You and Best Beloved both, Z. He hasn’t even gone to bed yet because he’s too nervous, and you know what a n*zi he is about bedtime.
Don’t forget that Lyneham Primary has a fete tomorrow next to the polling booth so you can come and support the school, using those nerves to overspend on crap for a good cause
See you soon! I’m feeling up. IT’S TIME.
November 23rd, 2007 at 11:28 pm
I am beside myself.
Can’t sleep.
Baked SIX FUCKING CAKES for the school cake stall today and am now contemplating a few batches of brownies.
At 12.30 at night.
I hear ya on Howard. I want him to have to go through all the stages of rejection slowly, not in one fell swoop.
Jethro’s crawl is rockin’ da house.
Maybe I’ll make lamingtons…
November 24th, 2007 at 8:20 am
We couldn’t sleep either. More Exciting Than Christmas.
A friend of my parents has a trifecta on with Geelong for the Grand Final (done), Rudd for Prime Minister (a favourite) and Obama for President (a roughie). He’s a bundle of nerves.
We’re off to vote at our nearest (tiny and barely noticed) venue. Then we’ll walk down to the school in search of snags.
November 24th, 2007 at 9:47 am
I’ve been tagged too; don’t worry Duck, I’ll get to it soon.
“4. I hope John Howard wins Bennelong so I can watch him suffer and my outlaws can have Maxine as their MP in 12 months time when he slinks away and starts doing active seniors classes with the YMCA. My friend Steevy came around today and he suggested that there was a German word that sounded kind of like this.”
Schadenfreude perhaps?
November 25th, 2007 at 12:24 am
Can you believe it.
I mean, can you effing believe it…
November 25th, 2007 at 6:33 am
Well thank the gods for that. All the tenseness is gone, replaced by the tiredness of staying up until 10.50pm (I usually zonk out at 8.30pm I have small children) then being woken by small children at 6.45am. (Get up! The sun’s up, it’s time to get up!) But it’s a good, ha you bastard I got the satisfaction of seeing you concede the election and possibly your seat, tired.
November 25th, 2007 at 6:35 am
The bit I like best is that while everyone goes on about what JH will be remembered for if he loses his seat, as only the second sitting PM to do so, that is what he will be remembered for. Schadenfreude exactly.
November 27th, 2007 at 12:13 pm
Have always loved singing but it’s sure good to have a captive audience…. and sometimes it even works!
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