addicted to blocks of Cadbury Chocolate

Was it always THIS good!?!?

fizz and trans-fats

my latest obsession.

I am having an afternoon ume chu-hai with some prawn crackers (which I threw in the hot oil myself - I am not sure exactly what temperature to cook them at, so they are a bit massacred, but hey). I am a bit into fizzy drinks at the moment. Must be the heat. It has started raining here now, so we are inside for the rest of the day - poor R might not even get an evening walk.

J is away in LA for a meeting tomorrow. Well, actually he leaves tonight, gets in this morning, has meeting today, stays tonight then catches a plane tomorrow to get back on Thursday. hehe. These time zones are crazy.

right, off to the sofa with Nora (Roberts) for some trashy romance novel time.

I'm on the drug that killed River Phoenix....

.....and it is called "THE INTERNET".

I am addicted. Because we moved house this month, I have been off line for a few weeks, well, actually really only 11days (I counted). And man, was I having withdrawal symptoms for the first few days!! Then, just like when I stop buying chocolate for a few days, I found that I don't even feel like it (chocolate, that is) anymore (well, not that much anyway). So I was actually almost over the addiction to the internet when, wham, we got re-connected at our new place. Now I can't get off it again. I had to drag myself outside this afternoon to take R and K for a walk (we now live about a 10min walk from a river, so the walk along the riverside is great for dogs, runners, babies, one and all really). As a soon as I get back home, I find myself drawn to the computer screen again. And K is out for a nap, so while I know I should be doing something practical, like getting dinner ready, I am here.

Oh well, at least I am back on line, and that is all that matters for now.

Oh, and about the title - it is actually a song title, from about circa 1996-98 I think.... it was definately when I was at uni (showing my age here, a-hem). And bonus points for anyone who actually knows the name of the band that sings the song (cause I can't remember for the life of me). The song goes like this:

"I'm on the drug
I'm on the drug
I'm on the drug that killed River Phoenix"

I remember the day that River Phoenix died, I was at school (grade 8?) and we were all shocked when we heard - sort of like (but not as dramatic as) when Diana died, I was at uni basketball practise, and someone who arrived late told us. We couldn't believe it. I think I might have cried. September 11, I was home in front of the TV watching it happen live. I was on a phone call to my friend in the UK and we were both watching it in disbelief - we saw the 2nd plane hit the tower live. What a shocking event that was.


FWIW, I think I might also be addicted to brackets (do I use too many??) lol!

back for a bit of blogging therapy

I realise it is wordless wednesday, but I have too many words in my head not to write them down, mostly because I have been AWOL for the last week or so, as we ended up moving into our new apartment on Thurs (after a phone call from J on his way home from work on Wed night, 10pm saying "we're moving tomorrow"!!) We still have sh*tloads of stuff at the "old" place so I am back here tonight to do a bit of a clean up (well, actually, the phone line gets cut off tomorrow, so this is my last internet chance for a while, until we get the new one set up. And I have a dentist appointment for tomorrow morning at 10am, and figured it would be easier to stay here (dentist is about a 3 min walk away) than try to get K ready to leave the house before midday!

On another note, *man* talk about confusing trying to cancel our current internet connection. We are on B-flets, through biglobe, (I think). So I thought all I had to do was cancel the Biglobe account....but I can't sign on to biglobe. so I ring them. Seems that I have already been cut off for some reason from the internet, not sure why, (although I now think it may be related to when I cancelled my visa card, from which the Biglobe virus buster payments were coming out of)? Anyway, uummm, so how am I still using the net? because I have a b-flets router that is still usable, apparently - makes no sense to me!! So I cancel Biglobe, but she is raving on the other end of the phone about something, I actually had to say to her, "look, I do not understand what you are saying" Seems that even though I cancel Biglobe, I still have to contact NTT to contact B-flets. It makes NO SENSE to me. I was gonna try to apply for yahoo internet connection for our new apartment, but don't know if the phone we have is analog or ISP or something, and the owner of our phone line is J's dead grandfather, so I don't know his name to write it in the part where they ask for the name of the person who owns the telephone line!! aaaarrrggh.
Maybe this sort of thing makes sense to some people. but I still dont even undestand what the difference between ADSL and Hikari or B-flets is! And I did a science degree at uni - THAT came in handy, now didn't it.

Right, I could rant on about move-related things for hours, but as I still have a lot of stuff to move, I should probably continue packing. And now that K is asleep I should do it.(she dropped off in like 10mins tonight! I feel a bad premonition for the rest of the night though now - she might wake up in 1hour thinking she was just going off for a nap!!)

obsessive compulsive and addicted

I think I have a bit of an obsessive personality....for example, I just ate an entire pack of oreos. not because I am a junk food addict, but because I just cannot stand to see any oreos left in the pack. Inthe same light, whenever I open a bottle of soft drink, I can't relax until I have drunk it all. I feel like rainman or something (lol).

I have been told that I am a bit of a 三日坊主 (mikka bozu) - I don't know if there is an equivalent of this in English (??), but it means that I start a lot of things, but only ever continue them for a few days, then give up. It's pretty true. Take this blog, I was all keen to write one blog a day for a month, and I have so far, but gee it is getting a bit of hard work(hehe) I hope I can get through the month posting every day. But me starting this blog came high on the heels of "falling out" of my latest addiction, facebook. I have recently signed up for mixi too - I can see a new addiction comin' on (sung to the xxxx beer ad theme song tune).

Soooooo, here is a list of my 三日坊主-type addictions that have all come, and passed:
* yahoo blog (lasted about 1 year? actually only started to show off photos of our honeymoon to South America)
* K's blog. haven't uploaded photos for people at home to look at for a few months. sigh.
* a photo of K a day. I try to make up for it though by taking 20 photos a time when I do take them - overkill, I know. just call me バカ親 (actually, I mean 親ばか, oops!!)
* facebook. My poor fluff-friend would starve to death if it werent for friends such as N that are still obsessed with facebook, and feed and pat her every other day. Thanks N!
* mixi.
* cleaning the house. actually, this was never really an addiction, but I go through stages when I am pretty good at keeping the cleaning up. Then it lapses......for a LONG time. like now.
* baking cakes. (see yesterday's post) I think I might be on another addicion here. I feel like baking a carrot cake next. And anzac biscuits
* exercise. The most exercise I do at the moment is picking up the remote to change channels as I lie on the couch all day (bit of an exaggeration). I can't believe that I used to take part in (mini)triathlons, go cycling up and over mountains etc etc. would like to get back into it sometime.
* oreos - yum!