WANT WANT WANTTTT

Why is it that now, when I am still job-hunting and thus not particularly well-endowed in the bank balance department, all the lovely things start surfacing in various online high-street stores? I tells ya, it is a slap in the face, adding insult to injury, pouring salt in my wounds, and a host of other clichés that might apply which didn’t immediately come to mind.

L-R: Topshop lace dress, Topshop check dress, Miss Selfridge check hitch dress, Miss Selfridge dobby spot hitch dress.

I love the last dress in particular. It only equates to about $AUD80 so I think I might be bad and order it. It really reminds me of All Saints as well, only at about a quarter of the rate that All Saints would charge for a similar item. Grrr. Don’t get me wrong, I love All Saints as much as the next person, and I will cherish the dress and bag I bought from them always, because unless I end up getting a job sometime before I die, I am never going to be able to afford anything from them like... ever again.


Feel-good read (at others’ expense) of the day: When you’re having a bad day, there are a few things that never fail to provide partial relief. And nothing is more effective in dire times of personal FML than seeing the weird and wonderfully horrid situations other people get themselves into, which they then thoughtfully post onto http://www.fmylife.com/ for your consolation (and entertainment). Here is a lovely example:


‘Today, my boyfriend brought me breakfast in bed, told me all the things he loved about me, got down on one knee and pulled out the little blue box I had been hoping for, for so long. He opened the box and there was a note inside that said, "April Fools!" FML.’

If it were me, I’d have given him a little blue box back. With his nuts in it.


..Just kidding!


Wtf of the day: Apparently a German anatomist is set to release an exhibition of corpses preserved for anatomical studies, that are to be posed in various sex positions...

Image courtesy of Ninemsn News / AAP

 http://news.ninemsn.com.au/glance/863779/exhibition-depicts-corpses-having-sex


...If that’s not dead sexy, I don’t know what is.


Wtf of the day #2: Is it just me or are those little advertisement links at the bottom of MSN and Hotmail getting creepier?

Chompy B-]

Visit to the cemetary

Today I went to the cemetary to visit my Grandad who passed away not long ago. His headstone is still not put in place yet since ownership details have to be sorted out before we are allowed to place one. Still the grave looks fresh and un-neglected. A few people have been already to pay respects and place flowers but most of the flowers were getting old and wilted so I decided to get some more from the nearby flower store. The flowers were really pretty and in a nicely designed pot with a ribbon tied around with a bow. I didn't leave a card since I feel like so long as Grandad knows who it's from it doesn't matter about a card.

On a more weird note I recently got given a Dennis the Menace soft toy from a holiday trip. I've never shown any interest in Dennis the Menace so it was a confusing gift to me.. The only thing I can think of as to why I was given the toy is because of a wristband that I often wear. It's in a red and black checkered pattern which I've had for years now. I am not sure why I even like it so much it's just a silly wristband (which Isobell my neice thinks is a plaster and that i've hurt my arm). The Dennis toy now sits proudly in the boot window of my car! A few people have noticed it and said it looks cool.


I think it's amusing how his mouth is so far away from the middle of his face lol

Hmm not a lot else to talk about right now, it's a shame I dont have anything more merry to talk about but oh well lol.

Oddsocks xxx

p.s. Chompy how do i change the author to just Oddsocks when i'm making a post or reply? I've seen you reply as just "Chompy" but mine always says ChompyOddsocks

Piano Aspirations

Ok so not so long ago I bought a keyboard piano *with full amount of keys*
here is the song that inspired me to buy a piano in the first place:



and yes... its a final fantasy song, i realise how nerdy that makes me look..
so anyway tomorrow I will be spending all day trying to learn this song. I have the basic notes down and learned all of the Good Boys Do Fine Always or Great big dragons fly around or FACE!lol

Oddsocks <3 xxx

New to this

Both me (oddsocks) and Chompy are kind of new to this blog thing. I've been taking a look around other peoples blogs and they all look really nice and original using lots of different art and stuff. I'd like to do something similar if possible, maybe make some nice headers and pictures for our blog page. The header we're using right now was something i made in a few minutes just to put something there (and also to figure out how to use it lol). To explain the picture, the little thing inbetween chompys name is a chomper.. don't ask what that is it's just something i googled. I actually am not sure why chompys name is chompy I think it's just something from her school years. You can probably spot the pair of oddsocks inbetween my name... yea.. that's pretty self explanatory.

Anyways, not a lot to add to the blog right now. I myself am just waiting on a phone call to see if I have to go into work or not since the manager failed to let me know about that lol. Some good news though, England is getting colder as we speak! finally I will be able to use the mittens I bought from our trip to Finland.



Worst answer to a question ever goes to Chompy!
Q. If you were a transformer what would you transform into?
A. A sewing needle

DOH!

Oddsocks  t('.'t )

Such oddities

Oddsocks has had a fairly quiet week. I've recently started to work night shifts, so my whole day has completely changed. It's really strange going out for work when everyone else is saying goodnight and enjoying a nice slumber in the dark (sleeping in the dark is a luxury right now). Apart from that I'm enjoying it since I get left alone to get on with my work, whereas before the day was filled with drama and stress. It's also great using the roads when no one else is around; no more waiting in traffic queues.

This week I have been to visit Westport lake which is a large lake near where I live. It was a family trip which involved me, my sister and brother along with the newest additions to the family, Aaron (my nephew) and Isabelle (My niece). The last time I had been was over 15 years ago (even though it is really close). A lot has changed since then and it is looking great now. A brand new park has been added which included a huge spinning disc you could lie on which I obviously had to try out and get dizzy on. Isabelle, although only 2 years old, was climbing up the ropes and using the large slides the whole time we were there, much to her mum's panic. It also has a cool boathouse with a great view of the lake and a cafe.





Some things I've been pondering this week:


• Why are baked beans more expensive than the cans of sausage and baked beans?

• Why are 99's called 99's if they dont cost 99p?

• Why is the fast lane in stores never fast?

• Where did swine flu go to?


If anyone has the answers to any of these, please enlighten me! Now I will go back to saving the world... of Warcraft. Which I might add I'm totally not addicted to in any way.


Oddsocks (O'.')-o

Chompy’s driving misadventures – Chapter 1 of 1(00[000?] potentially thousands)

At the ripe old age of 21, I have recently been learning to drive. Well, I got my learner’s license back in ’07, so technically I have been learning to drive for about 2 years, but without actually taking any real practical measures to do so until this week. We all have to learn at some point, and being one of the only (and more sadly, one of the oldest) of my friends and family who still hadn’t completed a single rotation of a steering wheel was getting a little embarrassing. So it was time to say ‘sayonara’ to being carted around by everyone else, and ‘konnichiwa’ to some driving lessons.

My driving instructor is really cool, and, like Oddsocks, coincidentally English. In the last few days I’ve driven on surfaces other than a road at least 4 times and have nearly faceplanted into the kerb on countless others, and she still hasn’t yelled at me once. Not even when I kept indicating incorrectly and repeatedly went over the same pothole. What a saint.

Furthermore, she didn’t blink when I had a close encounter of the humiliating kind with one of the refuge islands in the middle of the street (which I later unwittingly referred to as ‘refugee’ islands during a recount of the incident to some friends... I feel it is needless to say that much laughter ensued, and naturally, I was at the receiving end). And with her help, I survived my first roundabout relatively unscathed.

...At least not physically.

Despite the aforementioned mishaps, learning to drive has actually been quite fun, should I even dare to say it. It certainly hasn’t been as terrible as I assumed it would be – which was pretty terrible. I blame it all on a bunch of recurring, vehicle-related nightmares I’ve had over my lifetime, the worst of which involved a pink ice-cream van stalking me down the street and then driving up onto the footpath to run me over. The mental damage was such that for some time afterwards the mere suggestion of Mr. Whippy and ‘Greensleeves’ would induce mild panic attacks.

Toon of the day:

History of the day: On the topic of the quote in the cartoon above, have you ever actually read the lyrics of Greensleeves? A general summary of the song is a man lamenting that his lady-love with sleeves of green has never loved him, and all the time / dollars / sense he wasted on her. A whole 13 verses of it! No wonder she left... Then again, don't think you're such a catch, Lady Greensleeves! Why on earth were your sleeves green?? Perhaps thy suitor should have bought thee kerchiefs for thy nose instead of thy head.

Horror of the day: A very graphic video of a guy attempting to jump into the sea from a great height (or ‘tombstoning’, according to Oddsocks) and splitting his head on some concrete below has been circulating my Facebook homepage recently. Naturally there was no way in HEY-ELL I was going to click play, but some people did, and have been scarred for the remainder of their natural lives. So if you ever see it, don’t watch it!

Explanation of the day: Most, if not all, of my posts will involve a segment called ‘____of the day’. Perhaps more than one if I feel there are numerous things that deserve a special mention.

Soup of the day: Pumpkin.


Chompy 8-)

Another day, another blog.

Here is just a quick introduction to our blog and ourselves, the people who will be posting in it.

Chompy is 21 and lives in Australia. Having gained a fashion diploma in March, she’s been taking this year off to travel a tad, make clothes and job-hunt herself to death, to very modest success. Chompy’s plans for the future are to make it all up as she goes along, but if a full-time job doesn’t materialise anytime soon, she plans to re-apply for an advanced fashion diploma next year. Chompy is not normally a fan of referring to herself in third person, but has become used to it, partly due to a not-so-recent phenomenon that may or may not be known as Facebook.

Oddsocks is soon to be 25 and works for a department store in the United Kingdom. As his name might suggest, Oddsocks likes to wear odd socks. He also enjoys travelling and has 3 trips to Australia under his belt, along with a recent trek around England and a visit to Scandinavia earlier this year with Chompy, and their good friend Margie. Oddsocks’ plan for the future is to save up enough money and then piss off to Australia for a couple of years, all while single-handedly taking over the world (of Warcraft). If he likes living there, he might even stay longer.

What can you expect to read about? Well, we can’t really answer that at this stage, because there isn’t an answer to give. Seinfeld was supposedly a show about nothing, and in a way, so is this blog. Who wants to put themselves in a box right from the word go? It’s just us, two very different and yet quite similar people, rambling on about the places we live in, the stuff we’ve seen, and the things we like.

We hope you like them too.


Chompy & Oddsocks.