Today as I was driving in to work, I drove past a van that at first I thought said ‘Geelong Breweries’. When I looked at it again, I realised it actually said ‘Geelong Rewiring’. Dyslexia, anyone?
I found out today that Monowoman, who sits next to me, is a big fan of the band Aqua. And her reason for loving them so much? “Oh, they’re so theatrical in their video clips.” Of course. What a good reason to be a fan of a band.
I was talking to my friend on the phone when I got home from work this evening, and mentioned how Monowoman is a big fan of Aqua. My friend said that whenever her 3 year old daughter or any of her friends has a birthday party that Aqua and the Vengaboys are actually more popular with them than the Wiggles. It’s good to see Aqua and the Vengaboys are reaching their target audience.
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I remembered something last night I’ve been meaning to talk about here for some time. I only found out a short time ago that my mum is going through menopause. What’s worse is that I found this out from one of her friends. I came home and asked her why she hadn’t told me she had gone menopausal, and she reckons she told me. In fact, everyone in the family and most of our neighbours seems to know that mum is menopausal, but not me. I would have taken her out to a special Menopausal Dinner or something if she had have told me.
Um, maybe.
Speaking of dinner, I’m getting my parents a voucher to go out to dinner at a restaraunt in Geelong that I know they want to go to. I went in to the restaraunt this afternoon to get the voucher, and the guy I bought it off went ‘Okay, I’ll just go upstairs and get one for you’. He went upstairs for fifteen minutes, which I believe is a slightly longer normal than time for someone to write out a gift voucher. It’s probably the first time he’s been asked for one… maybe he was actually making the paper so he could write out a gift voucher, that’d explain the delay…
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All the work groups at work are having a contest to decorate their working area with Christmas decorations (what, you don’t celebrate Christmas? Well too bad!), and they judged all the areas today. The winning decorated area was called “Kangaroos for Christmas” or something, and featured these turd-brown polystyrene kangaroos cut out towing a giant inflatable Santa around in a sleigh. There’s an awful lot of inflatable Santas around the office, and a lot of them are this real weird freaky breed that are real skinny Santas. They scare me, their eyes follow me around the room.
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I love these new ‘Fromage & Oignon’ Pringles… oh, hang on… (turns pack around) Umm, ‘Cheese & Onion’.