Revisiting Piles

So, as most of our readers (you know who you are Russia) know by now, our blog was originally created as a running commentary on Daly's blog. In her recent venture, Daly revisits her piles.....................................................................of books.

Good job Daly.

 I got thinking about what else to write this months blog on, once I had gotten the dig to Daly out of the way. And I thought about how Daly had vowed not to buy any more books at the start of the year (she failed).

Which led me to think about things that I have achieved not just this year, but in the past.

 I saw recently how somebody had ticked one thing of her bucket list - naked bungee-jumping. Safe to say that this will never be on my own list of things to achieve in life.

 I dont have a bucket list so to speak because I dont want to make that kind of commitment....to a list. So instead, how about I make it a mixture of stuff I want to do and already have done?!

 Here it is, the fuckit list, in no particular order:
1 - Get a degree (done - twice actually)
2 - Get a Masters (done)
3 - Get a PHD (to be completed.....and ummm started)
4 - Pass the FE1s (15 years later)
5 - Get an apprenticeship (done)
6 - Visit New York City (done - and hoping to revisit)
7 - Go on the Oprah show (Which sadly I will never technically be able to do, unless she has her own show on her own network...surely a possibility?)
8 - Go on a show on the Oprah network (see 7)
9 - write an erotic novel (so many ideas, but so much procrastination)
10 - Do the stupid outstretched arm tourist thing at Christ the Redeemer Statute, Rio de Janeiro (and so begins my small mention of things I have done while on holidays......nonetheless cool!)
11 - See the top five waterfalls on Earth (I actually have seen one of the top waterfalls, Foz de Iguassu, Brazil. I feel Niagara Falls may be the next one realistically me being able to see....I dont think the Torc waterfall in Killarney counts?)
12 - Visit the Amazon (I touched a turtle!)
13 - Smoke a Cuban Cigar in Cuba (Think I still have one in a drawer somewhere that we smuggled back in a..."sock", ya "sock")
14 - Visit Halong Bay in Vietnam (we thought we were going to be killed....it was typhoon season/there was some wind.)
15 - Go tubing in Laos (No, I dont need a life jacket thanks, no I cant swim, I'll be grand.........)
16 - Learn how to swim (it's my new years resolution......)
17 - Travel on a sleeper train from Laos to Thailand (It was not exotic or romantic)
18 - See an Elephant in the wild (the mystic was kinda taken away when I realised he was being used for manual labour....maybe it was okay though, you know, if he had like an 8 hour day, decent lunch break, 21 days holidays and a pension plan?)
19 - Stay out all night at a full moon party (It's hard to party when you have pink eye)
20 - Become an extra for a day on the Home & Away set. (It's going to happen)
21 - Read Ulysses (IT HAPPENED YOU HATERS)

 Right, due to my lack of concentration, I am now done with this and have to take a nap.

 To be continued........

Thailand!

my last holiday post on thailand,only about 3wks later,can be summed up in a few words:
-full moon party
-pink eye
-elephants
-beach
-ladyboys

and thus was thailand.......fill in the blanks around the words if you want to and thats exactly what happened.

a lasting memory of thailand is the full moon party,of course,gorgeous beaches,seeing some elephants.but its also where we got ripped off the most,got pink eye and met a really scary lady boy!
things i learnt whilst in thailand:
a sleeper train does not mean that u will actually get any sleep.
u can get pink eye from having a shower in the jungle
a monkey should never wear make-up(unfortunate trip to a "safari")
that you can meet really cool people,and slightly mental people(the guy that just loved evil?)
u can have a really great sweet n sour chicken on top of a mountain
dont get in the water at the full moon party caus everybody does their toilet business in there
the only way to tell if its a lady boy is by their jaw-line,everything has been removed and replaced.

it was still a great country but been there,done that,bought the full moon party teeshirt!

the fact that its 3wks since i've come back leaves me utterly miserable!possibly combined with the howling wind outside,it certainly doesnt help!
but i suppose one has to get back to reality,stone cold reality..............poo.
and my vitamin D levels are at an all time low because of the lack of sunshine!and for some reason nobody feels sorry for me being back,because i got to go away in the first place!