Yes yes, I have noticed a deterioration in the quality of my entry titles over the last couple of weeks, free trip for two to Brisbane to meet me if you suggest a title for me to write about, rather than the bother of the reverse, finding a title for an entry LOL. Conditions of entry are that you are within the public transport network connected to Brisbane City LOL - so basically that is up to Gympie, down to Coolangatta and across to Toowoomba - sorry guys, but I have to have some conditions LOL, but that is only for the prize, throw your title suggestions this way even if you are in Yellowknife NWT LOL.
Had a good evening out last night, with the tsunami Oxfam fundraiser, vaguely attached to work - the reason for the sudden vagueness will become apparent further down the entry LOL. Had a late shift, so the thing started at six and my shift ended at seven, but enough late shift people there, AD, KD and MC to ensure I wasn't nigel no mates wandering down to the Valley. Was at the GPO Hotel, for any of you Brisbanites out there :)
'Free' drink with the entry costs, and $12 card covering four drinks - including pints and spirits, so was good value. Started the evening sitting with MC, KW and SW, MC is single again, but still living in the same house as her ex - lucky they did decide to get a two bedroom place LOL, rental only thank goodness. The evening was fancy dress, supposed to be national dress or something, but I didn't get dressed up because if not going into the costume shop the best I could do would be rugby player from NZ or hockey player from Canada LOL, just was nicely dressed and all :)
Where I was leading to with that sentence was that KW was dressed hmm hard to describe, the national dress of the cheerleaders off Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit perhaps LOL, but perhaps that's a bit mean. It wasn't any national dress I knew, tshirt, fluffy cheerleader type skirt, leather studded belt and white knee high boots - now, not that KW interests me on that level in the slightest, but lol white knee highs, it's a strange look, thinking of finding that the chocolate is white rather than brown as you expected :)
And SW is SW, lol more on her later. After the first drink, wandered back into the bar (we had been sitting on the street patio kind of thing while having that first convo) and started to mingle. AD and KD are good value to talk to, and was speaking in bits and pieces to PP and KP as well, and hmm TF was there as well. Now TF, don't get me wrong, he is an OK guy, and it's not his fault that we hardly have anything in common (that has been discovered so far) to talk about, but hmm, he has balls the size of Siberia in regards to his wandering hands habit - AD and I were watching him wander across the room, and he gets away with murder with the girls. Any other guy would have a heart attack before groping the girls like he does LOL - and the thing is he DOES seem to get away with it, aargh!!
It was supposed to be a cultural evening, with charity fundraising and all, though I didn't see too much culture in the finger food lol, not that I looked too closely though. We had some Hawaiian or Polynesian dancing first up, something about visible belly buttons on the skinnier girls LOL, and the hip shimmying. Next up was the Mexican frilly dresses and the hat dance, lol one of the few songs during the set dances that I can remember - had a tango couple later in the night (the Argentinian contingent no doubt), and had a best costume presentation.
With the costumes, the two crowd favourites from my side of the room were actually both dressed in Native American gear. First off, we had the guy in full chief costume with the bison head hat thing, with the horns and everything, he was OK. But for the guys, we had Pocahontus to look at LOL, as soon as she came in the bar I had noticed her, she was wearing one of those short Native American skirts, without long pants, or pants of any kind, with thigh high boots. Needless to say, she was the guy's favourite LOL, but apparently some belly dancer costume won, hmm, not that we could really hear, the microphone wasn't loud enough all night, not that it bothered us...
But the highlight of the 'cultural' aspect of the evening was these girl dancers in short skirts, camouflage tops and hmm yes they did have panties on LOL, you could see as they twirled around. And during the course of the next two dances they got down to transparent white tops and black bra and finally down to the black bra only (with the short black skirts and white panties) - somewhere in Brisbane a strip club had gotten a set of morris dancers or something LOL, and all the guys were like 'I want to move to whatever country they were representing'.
Was very entertaining but quite strange for a charity semi work function thing LOL. KD was saying 'you watch, we won't get half naked guys dancing around', and yes, unfortunately she was right. Unfortunately I say, because I am all for equality, and even though I wouldn't have watched the guys, would have been OK with them being there if they had been. Mmm, you could almost see what they had for lunch, the camouflage girls - when they first came on and I wasn't sure of their stripper credentials, I thought they were going to a war what is it good for riff or something, representing Iraq blah blah.
The hmm most interesting convo I had the rest of the night though was with a couple of team leaders from another section of my department. LN was saying that everyone wants to go to her section and would I want to, of course, social function and all I said yes, JP the other section team leader comes over and LN mentions it to her as well, and then JP sits on LN's lap, and both of them still talking to me about a possible move and I'm thinking OMG, I am attracted to BOTH these women, they are BOTH married, and they are talking to me sitting in each other's laps AARGH, and I could just imagine having either of them as boss LOL, suppress suppress suppress, nod head, agree with things LOL.
So, a tough choice for highlight of the night LOL. But it wasn't having my legendary rubber arm twisted into having scotch and water by AD - LOL, I am a sucker for the 'everyone is doing it' argument, but I HATE scotch. Last time I had scotch and water was in Edinburgh in 98, after the NZ Maori v Scotland rugby match at Murrayfield. Woke up in a police cell the next morning, too intoxicated or something - when I was back home and that happened (once) the cops dropped me off home LOL, but in Britain they lock you up. I was soooooo lucky I remembered the backpacker hostel my tour group was staying at to catch my bus back to London LOL. So yeah, scotch and water I am not a great fan of. Bourbon hands down anyday.
Drank myself sober by about eleven, and got to the boredom stage, said to those that remained that I was leaving, SW decided that it was time for her to go as well, so about ten minutes waiting for her to say her goodbyes before heading to the station - where we had just missed the last train by about two minutes LOL. So taking our time ordering Subway and such, and discussing the evening - well, me being a sounding board for SW mostly. Not happy in her relationship, was talking to eye candy at the party, but afraid she was making a fool of herself, basically in a sentence.
Got home at about 12.30, and up this morning at 7.30 - I can never sleep much after imbibing alcohol, even when I have gone nowhere near my limit, as last night. V's dog has pancreatitis, so gave her a quick call to hopefully cheer her up - the dog is on a drip at the vet's, and will be for probably all of next week as well. Is ten years old, but still, nobody wants their dog deathly sick.
Okies, think that is my evening covered :) Maybe a websurfing entry later in the day?
Pauly
Had a good evening out last night, with the tsunami Oxfam fundraiser, vaguely attached to work - the reason for the sudden vagueness will become apparent further down the entry LOL. Had a late shift, so the thing started at six and my shift ended at seven, but enough late shift people there, AD, KD and MC to ensure I wasn't nigel no mates wandering down to the Valley. Was at the GPO Hotel, for any of you Brisbanites out there :)
'Free' drink with the entry costs, and $12 card covering four drinks - including pints and spirits, so was good value. Started the evening sitting with MC, KW and SW, MC is single again, but still living in the same house as her ex - lucky they did decide to get a two bedroom place LOL, rental only thank goodness. The evening was fancy dress, supposed to be national dress or something, but I didn't get dressed up because if not going into the costume shop the best I could do would be rugby player from NZ or hockey player from Canada LOL, just was nicely dressed and all :)
Where I was leading to with that sentence was that KW was dressed hmm hard to describe, the national dress of the cheerleaders off Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit perhaps LOL, but perhaps that's a bit mean. It wasn't any national dress I knew, tshirt, fluffy cheerleader type skirt, leather studded belt and white knee high boots - now, not that KW interests me on that level in the slightest, but lol white knee highs, it's a strange look, thinking of finding that the chocolate is white rather than brown as you expected :)
And SW is SW, lol more on her later. After the first drink, wandered back into the bar (we had been sitting on the street patio kind of thing while having that first convo) and started to mingle. AD and KD are good value to talk to, and was speaking in bits and pieces to PP and KP as well, and hmm TF was there as well. Now TF, don't get me wrong, he is an OK guy, and it's not his fault that we hardly have anything in common (that has been discovered so far) to talk about, but hmm, he has balls the size of Siberia in regards to his wandering hands habit - AD and I were watching him wander across the room, and he gets away with murder with the girls. Any other guy would have a heart attack before groping the girls like he does LOL - and the thing is he DOES seem to get away with it, aargh!!
It was supposed to be a cultural evening, with charity fundraising and all, though I didn't see too much culture in the finger food lol, not that I looked too closely though. We had some Hawaiian or Polynesian dancing first up, something about visible belly buttons on the skinnier girls LOL, and the hip shimmying. Next up was the Mexican frilly dresses and the hat dance, lol one of the few songs during the set dances that I can remember - had a tango couple later in the night (the Argentinian contingent no doubt), and had a best costume presentation.
With the costumes, the two crowd favourites from my side of the room were actually both dressed in Native American gear. First off, we had the guy in full chief costume with the bison head hat thing, with the horns and everything, he was OK. But for the guys, we had Pocahontus to look at LOL, as soon as she came in the bar I had noticed her, she was wearing one of those short Native American skirts, without long pants, or pants of any kind, with thigh high boots. Needless to say, she was the guy's favourite LOL, but apparently some belly dancer costume won, hmm, not that we could really hear, the microphone wasn't loud enough all night, not that it bothered us...
But the highlight of the 'cultural' aspect of the evening was these girl dancers in short skirts, camouflage tops and hmm yes they did have panties on LOL, you could see as they twirled around. And during the course of the next two dances they got down to transparent white tops and black bra and finally down to the black bra only (with the short black skirts and white panties) - somewhere in Brisbane a strip club had gotten a set of morris dancers or something LOL, and all the guys were like 'I want to move to whatever country they were representing'.
Was very entertaining but quite strange for a charity semi work function thing LOL. KD was saying 'you watch, we won't get half naked guys dancing around', and yes, unfortunately she was right. Unfortunately I say, because I am all for equality, and even though I wouldn't have watched the guys, would have been OK with them being there if they had been. Mmm, you could almost see what they had for lunch, the camouflage girls - when they first came on and I wasn't sure of their stripper credentials, I thought they were going to a war what is it good for riff or something, representing Iraq blah blah.
The hmm most interesting convo I had the rest of the night though was with a couple of team leaders from another section of my department. LN was saying that everyone wants to go to her section and would I want to, of course, social function and all I said yes, JP the other section team leader comes over and LN mentions it to her as well, and then JP sits on LN's lap, and both of them still talking to me about a possible move and I'm thinking OMG, I am attracted to BOTH these women, they are BOTH married, and they are talking to me sitting in each other's laps AARGH, and I could just imagine having either of them as boss LOL, suppress suppress suppress, nod head, agree with things LOL.
So, a tough choice for highlight of the night LOL. But it wasn't having my legendary rubber arm twisted into having scotch and water by AD - LOL, I am a sucker for the 'everyone is doing it' argument, but I HATE scotch. Last time I had scotch and water was in Edinburgh in 98, after the NZ Maori v Scotland rugby match at Murrayfield. Woke up in a police cell the next morning, too intoxicated or something - when I was back home and that happened (once) the cops dropped me off home LOL, but in Britain they lock you up. I was soooooo lucky I remembered the backpacker hostel my tour group was staying at to catch my bus back to London LOL. So yeah, scotch and water I am not a great fan of. Bourbon hands down anyday.
Drank myself sober by about eleven, and got to the boredom stage, said to those that remained that I was leaving, SW decided that it was time for her to go as well, so about ten minutes waiting for her to say her goodbyes before heading to the station - where we had just missed the last train by about two minutes LOL. So taking our time ordering Subway and such, and discussing the evening - well, me being a sounding board for SW mostly. Not happy in her relationship, was talking to eye candy at the party, but afraid she was making a fool of herself, basically in a sentence.
Got home at about 12.30, and up this morning at 7.30 - I can never sleep much after imbibing alcohol, even when I have gone nowhere near my limit, as last night. V's dog has pancreatitis, so gave her a quick call to hopefully cheer her up - the dog is on a drip at the vet's, and will be for probably all of next week as well. Is ten years old, but still, nobody wants their dog deathly sick.
Okies, think that is my evening covered :) Maybe a websurfing entry later in the day?
Pauly
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