Daily Prompt – The Language of Things

You have to write a message to someone dear to you, telling that person how much he/she means to you. However — instead of words, you can only use 5-10 objects to convey your emotions. Which objects do you choose, and what do they mean?

This confuses me.

Daily Prompt – One At A Time

Today, write a post about the topic of your choice — using only one-syllable words.

Xmas.

Much stress. Much gifts.

I wrap gifts like a boss. Matte wraps and fun bows.

Smooth like silk with a bit of sheen. Scotch tape makes it soeasy.

Hard to make bows are,

well, hard, but look great when done

– if you can get it. Gifts for him and her and them

but none for me. All my gifts are cocoa-based. And so YUM!

They say I’m hard to buy for, but I’m not.

It is so easy. Gift cards make it so. When in doubt, cards

for tunes can sort it out, and I get to buy what I like. I say cards are good,

but some say they are not. I love tunes, so it is good for me, but not for those who do not

like tunes. Try a film gift card instead.

We all like a good film now and then.

**HAVE GOOD XMAS**

**SO XMAS. MUCH GIFT**

**STAY SAFE, HAVE FUN**

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5 Dec – Happy Playlist

What is on your happy playlist?

 

Don’t you need to *have* a happy playlist first?

I don’t.

23 Sept – Mixtape

If you had to make a mixtape of sad songs for someone, what would you include?

This is actaully quite simple because I have a series of playlists in iTunes for different emotional states.

Daily Prompt – Sleepy Time

More and more of us go to bed too late because of sleep procrastination. What are the nighttime rituals that keep you up before finally dozing off?

I’m what is referred to as a ‘night-owl’, because I like to stay up late at night. However, when you also have to get up early in the morning, it’s becomes a bit of a nightmare.

Daily Prompt – Can’t Get it Out of My Head

Have you ever become obsessed with something? Tell us about something that captivates your attention like nothing else.

I have somewhat of an addictive personality. It doesn’t take much for me to become focused on something , and want to give it my complete undivided attention. I think that the two worst offenders here are tv and video games.

Let’s start with TV…

So I find that once I watch a new tv show, I’ll be able to ascertain whether I like it enough or not from just one episode. If it doesn’t pique my interest enough within the first half of the episode, then I’m sorry, I’m out. However, if I can get hooked on it after the first ten mins… Then sign me up for the whole season immediately.

I’m that type of person who will sit down and watch an entire season of a show in one afternoon. Give me a couch and my onesie and a giant bottle of water, constant cups of tea and biscuits, and I’ll smash out an entire season in a day. Episodes back-to-back and get so completely engrossed by it, I’ll completely ignore the outside world.

I have also been known, during holidays or long weekends, to go a couple of days without showering because I’m so fixated on what I’m watching. It’s gross, but it has happened.

The other offender here are video games. Admittedly, I’m completely obsessed with the entire LEGO franchise of games. If it comes out on PS3, then I need to own it. No questions. I can’t quite explain what it is about these games, but once I pick up the controller, if I’m left on my own, I’ll spend 15hrs playing that without a break and will do so without any reservations whatsoever. Yesterday I bought the LEGO: The Hobbit video game. The week before it was The LEGO Movie game. Then I bought it on 3DS as well, simply because it’s a whole completely different game to the PS3 version.

Clearly, I have a problem.

Just as I was about to publish this post, I realised that I had one smaller, last-minute addition. Fashion Shows.

Now before you all start babbling on about ‘oohhh how TYPICAL… the gays and their fashion…’ firstly, shut the fuck up; and secondly, what’s wrong with it? I don’t actually know what it is, but I am fascinated and slightly obsessed with fashion shows. Granted, the best bits are when the models fall down (it just reiterates my statement to all women – if you can’t walk in those heels, then you shouldn’t be wearing them!!) and if you’re not sure what I’m talking about, watch this:

I can’t quite put my finger on why I’m so drawn to a fashion show. I just love watching them. And I think that for label clothing stores, they should always be playing their fashion shows in the window. On a recent visit to a shopping centre, I passed a store and their window display was a 5-screen x 5-screen video display showing some of their fashion shows. It stopped me in my tracks, and I stood there, fixated on the footage. It was hypnotic.

I should probably also admit that I subscribe on iTunes to a couple of fashion video podcasts. Although they don’t show you the entire show, they at least show you almost every show, from every label, from every Fashion Week around the globe… New York, Paris, Milan etc. Constant fashion love. However, I fail to watch them all when they become available, and instead find myself wasting hours at a time slumped over my MacBook watching the likes of Dior, YSL, D&G, Chanel etc.

Perhaps I should seek some professional help? *lol*

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Daily Prompt: Papa Loves Mambo

What sort of music was played in your house when you were growing up? What effect, (if any) did it have on your musical tastes?

I remember as a kid, being subjected to all different kinds of music. When I was a little kid, I remember my parents were both into music by Roy Orbison, John Farnham, Van (The Man) Morrison, Sarah McLachlan etc. My father loved artists like Slim Dusty, Jimmy Barnes, Cold Chisel, Australian Crawl, Dire Straits, Midnight Oil etc etc. Mum’s music taste on the other hand, was completely different. She was a bit all over the place. She listed to artists like Joni Mitchell, Crowded House, Peter Gabriel, Tracy CHapman, Phil Collins as well as artists like Madonna, Enya, INXS, The Eurythmics etc.

Needless to say, I was exposed to quite an eclectic variety of music, and because I was too young to really have my own taste in music, I generally seemed to like whatever mum liked. As for Dad’s music… i loathed it, however, unfortunately that didn’t change the fact that I was subjected to it regularly. Sometimes I look back and ask myself whether or not that type of behaviour would be considered a mild form of child abuse?

What makes it worse is that I still know so many of those songs, even to this day. It was only a couple of weeks ago, I found myself constantly singing John Farnham songs to myself, and got a little bit too obsessed about it. I realised that something was wrong when I was looking through the iTunes Store contemplating whether or not I buy his Greatest Hits album… :-S sidenote: I didn’t buy anything… although even thinking about it now I still kind of want to… *sings* ‘Just give me a reason / And I’ll come runnin’ / When I have reasons / I’ll know the way / I’m pointing my feet in the right direction / give me a reason… <Reasons -John Farnham

GOD DAMN IT!! Now I wanna buy his albums… just FYI Whispering Jack and Chain Reaction were my favourites as a kid. I remember we’d always play them in the car when we went away on family trips in the car… even as a small child, I’d be in the back seat, wailing away…

…and now I realise just how that has affected me and who I’ve become. hehehe.

*listens to a preview of ‘Playing To Win’ on iTunes*

…DAMMIT!!!

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