LaraLoola

Previous Post: The only thing you had that lasts Next Post: If I be waspish, best beware my sting

Guava Jelly

9 Things I have done in 2009 that I’ve never done before:

1.Tweeted
2.Taken photos with cameras older than me and my mother added together (as yet haven’t found anyone with a darkroom to develop the film so they’re sat in my fridge still)
3.Properly offended someone that I didn’t properly know.
4.Got to play at the beeb.
5.Fallen in love with a game (y’all thought I was going to say something else didn’t you?): Bioshock
6.Learned to hula hoop and discovered that I am pretty darned good at it.
7.Got a standing order at a comic shop.
8.Had a “Sex on the Beach” cocktail (name is stupid, but it tastes okay).
9.Been drunk with Max.

9 Bizarre things of 2009.
(not very bizarre I’ll grant you, my life may be competing with a soap opera but it isn’t quite reaching the late night one off BBC2 programme that no-one is quite sure is a comedy or drama level)

1.Met a doctor, my cardiologist, who has the same name as a doctor character from one of the Star Trek series’.
2.The soap opera…
3.Had a slightly drunk man whom I’ve been fairly sure loathes me, rub my torso for no apparent reason.
4.Rode in a car with no roof (mild terror thanks to episode of The X-Files in which Fox explains the associated risks*), with someone who used to be in an actual soap opera who was loudly singing along with show tunes. (This counts as a moment of feeling kinda cool!)
5.Found another human with monkey toes (prehensile).
6.Had a man from the torygraph and a man from da beeb tell me I was funny.
7.Spent the best part of the year communicating with my nearest neighbours through mime (and a bit of French).
8.Discovered that yogurt makes my throat feel like it’s burning.
9.Bumped into someone I’ve not seen in 6 years in front of a stand for the competition for where I knew them from, got help for my IRP from someone I’ve not seen in 20 years, and been visited on here by someone I’ve not seen in 28.

9 Things I’ve discovered I like/am reasonably good at in 2009

1.Getting bones out of fish in one piece. The bone that is. The fish didn’t look so good frankly.
2.Supermarket shopping at 4am.
3.Singing Kiki Dee’s part, in tune (I think), but not terribly loudly.
4.Bargain hunting (books mostly, got the textbook for college Biology brand new for less than half price).
5.Resisting when I need to…
6.Saving up when I need to…
7.Actual full on proper sex dreams.*
8.Two wheel cornering of shopping trolleys.
9.A very specific temperature range.

* Being a dance fan obviously Isadora Duncan and her scarf are firmly etched in my head, but TV programmes are more to blame for my weird paranoias about cars. Dallas for instance has forever left me with a jumpiness at the sight of oil tankers.
*That’s not to say I didn’t have them before but in the past few months they have become somewhat more effective…