2 posts tagged “iraq”
After my terrible day yesterday I went out at lunch today and bought 8 DVD's and 1 CD. Too much? I bought stuff I never even thought I'd ever want! I'll bet you now that I wont have watched them all by the end of this year (based on all the other unopened dvd's I have at home).
Only feeling moderately delicate now. Sleeping on something is a good idea. All the 'supposed' problems from yesterday are over. Michelle and her hubby decided they'd put their trip off till later this year and I decided that they should do whatever the hell they wanted to because it is not even my birthday! Aren't my friends beautiful?
I have plenty of things to keep me busy over in the UK/London and what is boils down to is that I feel I really need to be over there for some reason, like something amazing is going to happen to me while I'm there. So the trip is back on track and I am still busy apologising to everyone for my melt down over nothing. Maybe it was the planets misaligning.....
Really enjoying Pure Robbie. Never thought I'd say this but it has an open-ness that MOZ is missing. There are no judgements on PR and you never see the phrase 'IMHO' leading up to a thought or any backpeddling because someone got offended by something you wrote. And there is so much info shared there! I get the sense on MOZ that there is a lot of info only being shared amongst certain people whereas PR members basically open their cupboard of goodies and go "Have a look in there and see what takes your fancy!"
There's a phrase on PR that I love. Man-fur. I am previously of the variety of female that was afraid of hairy men for fear of losing an eye but I have come to love it on a certain individual and suspect I am now willing to tackle it on a real live man! Last night I was watching a Wham! dvd (definate man-fur happening there!) and heard the song 'Edge of Heaven'. Then I was thinking about man-fur again and how I love it when a man wears low cut jeans and a t-shirt that is short enough to reveal bits of flesh underneath when he moves (I must be ovulating as everything is turning me on at the moment!) While having these visuals I realised that under said flirty t-shirt the 'snail-trail' on a man leads right to the 'edge of heaven'. Ahhh. Now I can talk dirty in public without anyone knowing what the hell I'm going on about!
I hope to be a furrier in my next life.
Speaking of talking dirty in public (which has never been a problem for me) there is a game most of my female friends and I play. If some very good looking man comes in to your view the aim is to say 'MINE' first. If he is incredibly unattractive, smelly, old, missing teeth (you get the picture) then the aim is to say 'YOURS' first. It's not a game where you say to each other "We are going to play the Mine/Yours game now." Nope, you could be somewhere very inappropriate like a funeral and your friend leans over and whispers "Yours". Always cracks us up unfortunately. Our fear is that we'll be sitting there one day and some nice lookings chaps will walk by us and we'll hear them say to each other yours. Harsh!
Back to Wham!. You forget how good some of their songs were (because you can't stop laughing at the outfits and hair). The lyrics on some of them were amazing! On 'Everything She Wants' Georgie sings (acknowledging copyright here folks):
And now you tell me that you're having my baby,
Ill tell you that Im happy if you want me to.
One step further and my back will break.
If my best isnt good enough,
Then how can it be good enough for two?
I can't work any harder than I do.
I think that's fucking amazing lyrics. The melody that goes with it is also very powerful.
I bid on a great pair of floor tickets for John Mayer last night (on eBay) and some tosser has over-bid on the 10% and ruined the whole thing! I'll keep my eye out though because I have a feeling I will be seeing Mr Mayer this April! He's another song writer who has some stunners:
Who do you love? Me or the thought of me?
That line says oddles about some of the 'love' I have experienced. Yep, you don't need to be famous to not be sure whether someone likes you for the right reasons.
On a sour note, Bush wants to send another 20,000 soldiers to Iraq. That is almost the size of the town I live in! What the hell are you thinking? I'd like to see a report on the achievements over there to date before I could 'support' sending more soldiers from any country in. Bush is going to implode on himself and I hope he takes John Howard with him.
PS Hi to the PR members who have found me over here on Vox, and by accident! This world is just so damn small these days.
Someone called me crazy today. I quite liked it. (and how did they know?????)
I keep listening to Simply Red over and over today. I used to think Mick Hucknall was hot – until I saw his little stick legs. I’m shallow. Get over it. Now since RW I am looking at hairy men. I’m ruined for normal men now! I do draw the line at back hair though. A girl’s got to maintain some standards.
And I must get yet another set of freaking headphones. Do they deliberately make them so that one ear stops working? I don’t even drag mine around with me – I have multiple pairs for all my listening needs (all with only one ear working!) so I can’t be accused of manhandling them and breaking the wires. My computer at work has the worst sound for a new computer too. Oh and my other gripe about ear phones is that I don’t have very big earholes and they pop out all the time. Very irritating.
Out to see a movie tonight with my girls (HI GROOBLES!!!!!! I’ll be bringing my camera just for you!). We are going to make more of an effort this year to see each other regularly because it is so easy for life to rush right on by. Oh and because I think Kirsten Dunst looked shaggable in a movie that does not make me a lesbian – just open to suggestion (and part boy).
And I’ve come up with a nickname for myself on www.purerobbie.com
– RBlades&Mirrors. It’s from ‘Come Undone’ (which is likely to already have been taken). R&M is kind of a metaphor for me from that song. Even though I have never had a drug/cocaine problem it reminds me of the distortion (looking in the mirror) and destruction (razorblades - self-explanatory!) that happens with an eating disorder. The weird thing is that if you have issues/addictions with one particular ‘substance’ then you can pretty much apply that to all ‘substances’. Food might be my ‘substance’ now but alcohol has also been it in the past. I had a lot of access to serious drugs as a young person and the only thing that really stopped me getting into it as well was that the loss of control that went with it frightened me. With alcohol and food there is a sense of safe endangerment. Stupid I know. So another persons struggles in a song or a book can really feel like my own – it all comes from the same place inside of us.
On to something more serious. On MOZ (www.mozforum.com), a James Marsters fan site, you will find me as Pocket-Pixie. We actually have some interesting discussions on there and a current one is about Haditha in Iraq. Back in November 2005 it is alleged that US Marines murdered 24 civilians after their humvee was blown up. It immediately reminded me of some of the military atrocities that happened in.
Does war make us inhumane? How did our forefathers cope with world wars that lasted for several years? Did they lose sight of humanity as well? Perhaps the difference is in the belief that what a soldier is fighting for is worth it and that the threat to those we love is real. Does a soldier who is ‘peacekeeping’ in or or truly feel his homeland and those he loves is under threat and respond accordingly? Does his need to protect come from the core or just because he/she was ordered to do it? Has war become so ‘grey’ (as opposed to black and white/right and wrong) that it is hard to work out who the bad guys really are?
It might sound like a speech for my Miss World try-out but in my lifetime I truly hope for world peace and an end to poverty, hunger and suffering. I refuse to believe this isn’t possible. Our world is so small now – technology enables us to live in each others pockets regardless of how far away we are from each other geographically. Our community is now a global rather than a local one. There is money and resources enough for all. And there are (supposedly) strong christian beliefs held by some of our world leaders, so when are we going to see it in action? How much innocent suffering is enough? When do we become able to give to our neighbours without expecting something in return, just because we can?
Most of us don’t realise just how good we have it.
