Thats some pricey spandex...

Well if this isn't one of the more interesting things I've read today!

The Top most expensive Video Clips for songs.

1 . "Scream" by Janet and Michael Jackson for $7 Mil. $USD prob. I love this song. I remember this video, it was great! There was lots of Shiny Gold from what I remember, a vaguely Space sort of theme, and lots of lank Jackson hair. I can't think of why it would be so goddam expensive though!

2. "Victory" by Puff Daddy, way down from # 1 at only $2.7 Mil. I have no idea what this is. Enlighten me anyone?

3. "Heartbreaker" by Mariah Carey at $2.5 Mil. This was a pretty song, never saw the video. Any ideas people on its exorbitant cost? was she wearing a piece of $2 million dollar spandex over her crotch?

4. "What's It Gonna Be?!" by Busta Rhymes Feat Janet Jackson at $2.4 Mil. Hmm, more Janet.

5 "Larger than Life" By the Backstreet Boys at $2.1 Mil. Hehe, a very electronic song. I rather liked it, this being just before their decline about 5 years ago when we were in year 11 or 12. The video was set in space with a giant spaceship and there was lots of choreographed dancing (what am I saying-it was Backstreet Boys-of course there was) and they were wearing spacesuits. I guess for that genuine look it'd be pricey.

6. "fairyland" by Ayumi Hayasaki at an even $2 million. (yep I have no idea who that is)

6. "Bedtime Story" by Madonna also $2 mil. Now my resident expert of all things `donna, Billylou, will be able to tell us why this would have been so expensive. Is this the one that was R+ rated?

6. "Express yourself" also by Madonna also $2 Mil. I'm sure I've seen it but I can't distinguish it between all the Madonna I have in my head. I know Vogue has lots of Black and white and Marilyn Monroe looking Mads. Was it all the extras she hired?

6. "Miami" by Will Smith also $2 Mil. I don't know this song I don't think. Was this spawned from a Will Smith movie like all his other songs? I do like Will Smith though. Imagine a pumping bass beat while he belts out "do the robot" (AI-for those of you playing at home)

6. "She's a bitch" by Missy Elliott again 2 mil. Hmm...missy. Your best showing was in Lady Marmalade for Moulin Rouge. I imagine this video features lots of inappropriate wardrobe changes.

7. "Unpretty" by TLC at $1.6 Mil. *sigh* I really like this song too. I think it would have been expensive for the viedo because the background was possibly all computer imaged? They were dancing in front of psychadelic backgrounds (not in an Austin Powers sort of way but). Is that right everyone?

8. "November Rain" by Guns'N'Roses for only $1.5 mil. I love this song I love it I love it. "Do you need some time, on your own?". The guitar riffs of my childhood. *sniff* this video is a wedding thats getting ruined by rain. So by all accounts its a pretty authentic looking wedding, so I imagine that's where a chunk of the budget went. It's a very long song as well, like 7 or 9 minutes, so I guess they needed to film for that long which is all money.

8. and "Girlfriend/Boyfriend" by BLACKstreet and Janet Jackson also for the paltry sum of $1.5 mil. no idea. never seen it. And C'mon Janet! What's with the expensive film tastes!?

fug!

Now I want everyone to think about this picture for a moment. Imagine the possibilities for it.

Think about what this might be.

Now read what Re- the Fug-spotter sent with this picture

• Fug watch! Sneaky movie theatre shot, in case you cant tell this girl is wearing one of those leotards that does up at the crotch, only not done up!!

And I think that speaks for itself.

quick hello

I haven't forgotten you all in Blog land! Just been very busy......

It's ok-The wedding IS STILL ON

It's been a bleak blog free few days hasn't it? I've been sick since my last post, yesterday being the last of a string of days where I didn't feel like I was getting better. But thankfully I'm on the mend.
-----Amended-this post started on Monday-it's now Friday. Sorry, been very busy-----

But now we're back on track. So many things to update on! I know it's been a while, and everything is still on! There's been heaps happening actually.

• Boys suits! The boys went to the suit hire place and two of four GM and our Groom all got fitted for their suits. They looked so spiffy! *tear* And Mark did a complete about face and went for the full fit out, when we'd been talking about open collar shirts and no waistcoasts! Now we have both. We're going with a black wc for the GM and purple ties in the same silk as the BM's. The Groom will have tie, hanky, and wc all in the same fabric as my dress to match. : ) And HAH has kindly offered to make these all for us, which is brilliant as it will save us a bit.
• Went house hunting same day as the suits. Tedious and depressing. Wish we could just find the house for us : (
• Bridemaid's dresses! Lot happened on this front. We bought the silk in the purple and the black for them all. Isobel made up toiles (calico's) for all girls and invited them to come be fitted. Beeberino and Re got fitted and that was cool. We talked lots of dress : ) Got it all figured out now we think. So that was Tuesday and then Izzy was keen to get some lining so she popped into Town and bought it so she could cut the silk and lining at the same time. So now she's got Beeb and Re all cut out! So this weekend we'll fix them up for proper fittings in their dresses. Whee!!! It's all very exciting at the moment! Apologies for photo quality also, it's taken with my phone as I forgot to take my proper camera : )
• My dress! Movement on this front too, we went into the city and bought the fabric for my dress yesterday : ) No pics because of Mr Groom. But it was cool and I really feel like we're moving now.
• Invites and Stationery. Things rocketing along on this front too! We've decided on style and design and Mr Groom's cousin's husband is a printer and he's being absolutely wonderful by printing up all our bits and bobs. I'm really excited about the invites actually, I can't wait til we've got them all ready *Clapping hands together gleefully*
• Gift Registry- We started our Bridal Registry at Myer at Warringah Mall over the weekend and it was also, very tedious. Amazingly so really. I'm sure it's meant to be fun, but we didn't find it fun. They didn't have a lot of stock, because of their History Making Clearance, they were just that-clear. So the range wasn't fab. We went through for about three hours and then it had worn us down so much we called it a day. We wandered into David Jones after Myer actually and were hit with such choice! They had SO much stock in comparison to Myer it was almost Laughable. So now we're thinking of changing to DJ's, purely for the choice. Eca-Myer had no "fun" things! No Home Decorator style section!! Just function. : ( (have just tried unsuccessfully to upload a picture of a gift but it didn't work so you'll have to just imagine it.)

I think that's all for the mo.

94 days to go

Too sick to be interesting or witty Sorry.

aaahhhh kill me

the day is getting closer and closer now. You know the one I mean.

Moving day!! (Da da DA!!!)

Yes I am dreading it. I've only moved (all my stuff) once in my short life and I remember lying on the couch screaming "Never again!". Knowing of course that I would, but hoping that my love of the salmon swirl carpet and dinghy loungeroom would blossom into a lifetime partnership.
So we are looking for a unit at the moment with eye to buying and I can't help but try to spend as little time as possible in my own home so that I might avoid the inevitable roaming eye that thinks "how am I going to wrap that?" "do I really need to take my entire earring collection?" The answer of course being yes, I just hate having to consider the transport issue.......

Google Fun

Hey I found it!! So what you do is type in http://007google.com/(your name here).aspx
on your browser’s address bar.
For example, http://007google.com/Dataceptionist.aspx would yield a Google page that looks like: Warning though, it does not do "Y" or "V" for some reason.....Weird

How people got to me! ~IIII

It's that time of the week again! Ok well last week it wasn't that time of the week at all, sorry.
Moving on, this week our selections include

1. Girlspoke-which I was reading last week and left a comment on. Go Girlspoke.Their post today actually says that they've started a blog thats all about sex. I dare not read it at work so I don't know if it's funny or not.
2. Good ole Godawful wedding Crap, which the author, Riona, has since married and abandoned her blog. Lol. No but seriously the last post was titled "Blog? Oh right! blog!" Who can blame her really? It's sort of hard work being enthused about quirky wedding crap when you're finished planning your wedding.
3. Hmmmm this ones interesting. The Blog title description reads What We Have Here Is...
   "For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from truth, and be turned aside to fables." 2 Timothy 4:3-4 ------A church planters run at applying practical Biblical truth and defending sound doctrine. So umm yeh. Some sort of religious blog. Not sure how they came across lil old heathen me.....hehehehe
4. A Japanese Google search for Elizabeth De Varga (hehehe see, proof she makes lovely gowns)
5. And someone looking for Yarmukle flowers (whatever they are). And if you came here expecting them, I'm sorry I'm fresh out....

On another note, I was reading something that says if you add this bit to the Google site address it will come up with "Your name" written like the Google Logo. hehehe. Searching now, when I find again, I'll let you know how to do it : )

The toilet seat....

I don't know why there is such consternation regarding this issue. It's probably because I grew up in a house with two males (and four females) so there was seat pickupage from a young age. I think these things shape the person you grow to be in a profound and spiritual way............ but I digress.

Seriously though, why are women so uptight about this issue? My husband to be is probably quite relieved I'm not a seat Nazi ( he grew up with a 75% male household-of 4). But when you think about it objectively, why should it always be put down by the men, when they have to pick it up every time they need to go? Hah has said it simply a matter of courtesy, men doing things for women and all. One argument I think is that the seat is yukky. It's unhygenic. Another thing I grew up with, if nothing else my mother cleaned the bathroom every Friday. So I never had to worry about yukky seat lifting. Is there another issue with it?

I still call Australia Home.....

What it means to be Australian

Being Australian is about driving in a German car to an Irish pub for A Belgian beer, then travelling home, grabbing an Indian curry or a Turkish kebab on the way, to sit on Swedish furniture and watch American shows on a Japanese TV.

Oh and...... Only in Australia ... can a pizza get to your house Faster than an ambulance.

Only in Australia ... do supermarkets make sick people walk all the Way to the back of the shop to get their prescriptions while healthy People can buy cigarettes at the front.

Only in Australia ... do people order double cheeseburgers, large Fries and a DIET coke.

Only in Australia ... do banks leave both doors open and chain the Pens to the counters.

Only in Australian ... do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars on the drive and lock our junk and cheap lawn mower in the garage.

Only in Australia ... do we use answering machines to screen calls and then have call waiting so we won't miss a call from someone we didn't want to talk to in the first place.

Only in Australia ... are there disabled parking places in front of a skating rink.

NOT TO MENTION...
3 Aussies die each year testing if a 9v battery works on their tongue.
142 Aussies were injured in 1999 by not removing all pins from new shirts.
58 Aussies are injured each year by using sharp knives instead of screwdrivers.
31 Aussies have died since 1996 by watering their Christmas tree while the fairy lights were plugged in.
8 Aussies had serious burns in 2000 trying on a new jumper with a lit cigarette in their mouth.
A massive 543 Aussies were admitted to Emergency in the last two years after opening bottles of beer with their teeth.
And finally.........
In 2000 eight Aussies cracked their skull whilst throwing up into the toilet.

I'm pretty bloody proud to be an Aussie!

Happy Friday everyone!

Today I have discovered two new sites I am enjoying.

Girlspoke is a funny blog written by a team of girls (strangely enough!) of varying backgrounds. For those of you at work though, there are some explicit images occassionally, so be ready with the minimise button! And they talk about sex a little, but hey, it's funny.

Flattire is a similar blog style with multiple authors, but by boys (*gasp*). Amusingly, somehow they took a picture of one of their butt-cheek's-cleavage and have submitted it to some sort of bizarre Boob-watch websites. In all fairness though, the pic looks a lot like Boobs. But I'll leave it up to you as to whether you want to view that sort of content by not posting the pic here.

my journey last night to Chatty Myer left me cold, empty and annoyed at the traffic. When I rang Sandler to enquire whether the Sandler "crystal" Shoes (featured on the back page of Myer's "spring" catalogue out now) came in white, and was subsequently told they did {by an extremely helpful lady at Sandler Head Office} I was worried they might look like Drag Queen shoes, being that in the white they are in patent leather. Now I know this is scary- because the concept is- and I was right. In white patent leather, cute wedges simply look like they're made for a man-foot. *sigh* so back to the drawing board with that.

Wedding bits n pieces.

I need to qualify that now don't I? I post about so much miscellaneous (hehe sp?) things we need to sort the chaff from the ......(other bit of the wheat?)
Moving on-
We're getting closer on the Stationery front. We've selected the colours from the printer *clapping hands* and the graphic designer [where's Erica when you really need her-England! LOL] has played with our designs and made them workable for them. At the moment I feel like we really need to focus on the Invitations, then I can worry about the rest. I swore I wouldn't be Mark's cousin and send them all last minute but now I worry we'll be addressing madly the day before! Lol.
So 100 days to go today and having mini-freakouts. Trying not to stretch my neck and shoulders in that "nervous tic" way of mine.....*chewing lip*
We may be one step closer to centrepieces. Got a picture from a company that fits what we were looking at doing.(just need a decision)
The other night we met with the priest to talk Ceremony (woo) and such. Mark was sick as a dog the poor love and couldn't even eat his favorite dinner (chicken schnitzels). He's got the flu. Worked out our readings and stuff.
Saturday we're going to Surry Hills to the fabric shop to buy the fabric for the bridesmaids dresses and for my dress *yay*. Izzy should be back in action this week so hopefully we power along with that and it'll be sweet!
Ummm, aside from that....there's a lot in the pipes....I'm going to Chatty tonight to check out a pair of shoes that fit the concept for my wedding shoes...good ole Myer!
Oh and we're going on Saturday next week to choose and fit the boys suits! That'll be fun, I'm looking forward to it actually. Unfortunately one of the boys will be down the snow so he'll go after we've been and we've decided on style and he'll just be fitted.
Umm And I think that's all for now.....

How people got to me! ~III

This segment is late this week, and I'm sorry, Monday when I normally do it I was off work because I couldn't walk,a nd then I got all caught up in work. Lame.

So here we go- There's heaps this week! So here's a selection

1. http://www.yonked.com/ The Diary of a new home!
2. http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/ Because Scientists are funnier than you are. I think this was a quirky blog I clicked on but then didn't continue with.
3. http://solar-system-info.blogspot.com/ which I'm assuming was because of the Sun photo posted earlier! Wasn't that the coolest pic though!? I loved it.
4. A Google Search for {engagement pictures AND "what to wear"} Which related to Help Need Pt II . Kinda cool though!
5. A Search for Jatablog! Which if you recall was one of last week's HPG2M's. And hey, did you know Google comes entirely in Spanish? (I'm so sheltered)
6. And rounding us out- My friend Robbie, who's blog is a Marketing Odyssey (sidebar).

I've decided my favorite ones are the Google Searches. They're funny!

And I get a lot of hits with "Anorexic" searches. Hmmm.....

legg-un's Update

I had a request to chop the fug girl's head off, and I was going to, BUT, I've deleted the photo! So unless Re still has the copy I sent her, it's lost forever.....

Celebrate Good times C'MON!

More Ettiquette hell madness

"First, let me say how entertaining and informative your website is. Some of your readers may wonder if the more outrageous stories are true but I sure don't. I know how amazingly rude people can be, because the following story is absolutely true.
Several years ago my brother was hospitalized for several weeks with a serious illness. His condition was so grave he was on a respirator for a time. My entire family flew to the city where he lived to be with him, staying in a nearby hotel and spending our days at the hospital. Because all his siblings have jobs and families and live far away, and because our parents are both still employed and live far away as well, we couldn't all stay with him the entire time, but took turns flying in and out and being with him. Of course, his own wife lived in the same town, in the same house, which my brother owned (he bought it before their marriage). But my horrible sister-in-law only came to see my brother, her husband, in the hospital ONCE, on the day he was admitted. She then declared, through her tears, that it was "just too difficult to see him like this" and disappeared! He was in the hospital literally for months, and she was MIA. We called and asked her to come, but she refused. Then my parents when over to their house (my brother's house) to demand that she go see him, but she refused to their faces. They also noticed that the house was filthy and the living room full of overflowing ashtrays and empty beer cans.
Once it was clear Brother was getting better, my parents (who were with him at the time) had to go home. Another brother was flying in a couple days later, but Ill Brother recovered so quickly (once he was recovering) that he ended up being discharged on a day when no family was in town. So he called his wife for a ride home. She said she was going to lunch with some friends, but she'd be by to pick him up when they got done, and he should just wait in the lobby of the hospital! Weak and exhausted, he then called a taxi to take him home. When he arrived, he found the house filthy just as my parents had seen, but also found that in his absence SHE HAD MOVED ANOTHER MAN INTO HIS HOUSE! Shaving stuff in the bathroom, clothes in the closet and on the floor in the master bedroom, the whole nine yards. Not surprisingly, shortly thereafter Brother got a divorce. This made his physical recovery more difficult because, no matter how richly deserved, a divorce is almost always a painful process. Throughout the divorce proceedings, my ex-SIL kept calling him and telling him how much she loved him and how sorry she was, but some things you just can't forgive. Brother is now married to a wonderful woman who is amazed at how awful his first wife was."

106!!!

Things to look forward to!

The joys of Blue crayons

"oh, the wretched. the worst thing about this whole debacle, as my husband later informed me, is that i TOLD Violet to "go play with the peanut butter." she liked to roll the jar around in the kitchen. unfortunately, big sister figured out how to open the jar and pile the entire contents onto the little one’s head. it was very hard to convince them that they should never do this again when i was laughing and crying and taking a million pictures."

Ummm simply can't figure out what to say

Sun

This fantastic ultraviolet photo, taken by the TRACE Project, Stanford-Lockheed Institute for Space Research and NASA, showed our sun as a sizzling ball of seething hot gas:

Unpredictably, regions of strong and tangled magnetic fields arise, causing sunspots and bright active regions. The Sun’s surface bubbles as hot hydrogen gas streams along looping magnetic fields. These active regions channel gas along magnetic loops, usually falling back but sometimes escaping into the solar corona or out into space as the solar wind. Pictured above is our Sun in three colors of ultraviolet light. Since only active regions emit significant amounts of energetic ultraviolet light, most of the Sun appears dark. The colorful portions glow spectacularly, pinpointing the Sun’s hottest and most violent regions. Although the Sun is constantly changing, the rate of visible light it emits has been relatively stable over the past five billion years, allowing life to emerge on Earth.
Link

legg-un's

Now on Fug they have a rule about not fugging everyday people because normal people don't pay stylists to ensure they look good. Now, I have no such compunction! BUT-I'm sure it violates this girl's privacy to post a photo of her abominable fashion taste (ie I don't think it's legal)
So, while I won't post the photo I sneakily took at the servo while I was waiting to fill up, which I subsequently sent to Re so we could laugh about it-I will talk about it.

Picture this- A girl in her late teens, early 20's, so gets out of her new Barina, she has the wind in her long brown hair. My first thought-well would you look at that jacket, navy, with some widely spaced red pinstriping-interesting I think. I then look to her lower half where she has paired this jacket with a pair of long black leggings, that's fine I think, she could have been at ballet? But no-on her feet, Hot pink pointy pumps. As 80's as it gets. Her ears were sporting Large sparkly hoops, and to top off the ensemble-A black band t-shirt under her Navy jacket.

FUG!!!!!

So to re cap- Black leggings, pink heels, short navy jacket with red stripes (which displayed her lycra clad ass to the world) and black t-shirt. And she was definitely going out somewhere-no excuses.

And I don't think she was in a play.