It's alive!

Well, kinda. And might I add that this is not a good thing to find on your community list when you're extremely tired from a weekend of frolicking. Scarier was the icon that accompanied - finding Little Johnny on your LJ is not exactly easy to deal with. Although I'll have to chase up this pseudo PM's LJ - could be entertaining in the extreme.

So, there was my boss's retirement on Friday, and then GASP. And that should pretty much give you an idea of a) how my Queen's Birthday long weekend went and b) exactly how wrecked I am right now. But I live, and will continue to do so until I stop.

But right now I have applications to mock. Excuse me.

PS: Mum, Dad, I'll call sometime this week - [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com]'s staying with me until Saturday, so forgive me if it's brief.

Tidbit for the curious

Remember a while ago I mentioned a group of people living in Melbourne who had seceeded from Australia and were calling themselves Caledonia Australis and refusing to pay parking fines? This might be of interest. And slightly unnerving, too.

It's link-eriffic!

Okay, not actually linking this one, but it's been pinched from [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com].

You aren't Australian until...

1) You've caught a blowfly buzzing around your head with your bare hands

2) You've mimicked Alf Stewart from 'Home and Away' - "Push off, ya flamin' drongo"

3) You have argued whether Fords are better than Holdens

4) You've done the Hot Sand run from the beach to your towel

5) You know who Ray Martin is

6) You call your home "My Joint"

7) You start using words like 'Bloody, grouse and champ'

8) You stop greeting people with 'Hello' and go straight into 'how're you doin'?

9) You've seriously considered running down to the shops in a pair of Ugg boots

10) You own ugg boots

11) You've been to a one day cricket match and screamed incomprehensibly until your throat went raw

12) You've had to decide between putting up with mosquitoes and moving the BBQ inside

13) You've changed your ring tone on your mobile phone to something much more annoying than the one it came with

14) You kind of know the first verse of the national anthem, but buggered if you know what 'girt' means

15) You have a story that some how revolves around excess consumption of alcohol and a mate named 'Dave'

16) You're secretly annoyed with Russell Crowe

17) You own a Bonds t-shirt and wear it with pride

18) You've risked attending a music festival on the hottest day of the year

19) You've tried to hang off a Hills Hoist while pretending you could fly

20) You've had to visit the emergency room after hanging off Hills Hoist and pretending you could fly

21) You own pair of thongs for every day use, and another pair of dress thongs for special occasions

22) You don't know what's in a meat pie and you don't care

23) You pronounce Australia 'Straya'

24) You call soccer 'soccer', not football

25) You know a dog named Bluey

26) You've squeezed Vegemite between Vita Wheat to make Vegemite worms

27) You suck coffee though a Tim Tam

28) You've become deeply cynical of politicians

29) You realise that lifeguards are the only ones who can wear Speedo's and look good

30) You've been in a Ute with a blue heeler in the back

31) You pledge allegiance to Vegemite over Promite

32) In your CD collection you have at least one: Kylie Minogue, Cold Chisel or Paul Kelly

33) You understand the value of Public Holidays

34) You order a "Hamburger with the lot, thanks love"

35) You believe that the flavour of any meal is improved by adding tomato sauce

36) You have been invited to a B&S Ball

37) Your weekends are spent barracking for your favourite sports team

38) You have a toilet dolly

39) You've played beach cricket with a tennis ball and a bat fashioned out of a fence post

40) You still go on about how great the Sydney Olympics were

41) You firmly believe that in the end, everything will be ok, and have told a mate in tough times that 'She'll be right, mate'

42) You use the phrase 'no worries' at least once a day

43) You've been on a beach holiday and probably stayed in a caravan

44) You constantly shorten words. For example,breakfast becomes 'brekkie' and afternoon becomes 'arvo', barbeque becomes 'barbie'

45) You order a $5 steak the size of your head at your local RSL

46) You've adopted a local bar as one of your own

47) You know all the words to 'Holy Grail' and sing it at the top of your lungs.

48) Your idea of a holiday is driving hundreds of kilometres to sit on the banks of the Murray and drink copious amounts of alcohol while you pretend to be fishing

49) You can't understand why John Farnham never became an International success

50) You know that the oath of mateship can never be limited by Geographical distance

This might help my overseas readers understand my personality, just a bit. *grins* Especially since there's a hell of a lot of these that are me. My God, I'm a walking cliche. Move over Steve Irwin. ;)