Stella McCartney for Target

Holy Shit, if I was wondering lately whether there was a God I well and truly recieved an answer yesterday in teh form of an ad in Vogue informing me that a little designer by the name of Stella McCartney will be releasing a new line for Target on October 29.
Well thank the Lord!! It wqas about time really. I think the last desinger for Target was like I dunno Josh Goot, or was Zac Posen after him, come to think of it I think it was Zac Posen, which was released 2008 which I only know because it was the day after my 21st.

I love Stella McCartney, not least of all because she is the daughter of my favourite Beatle but because she makes fantastic clothes that women love and want to wear and are so stylish yet minimalist and generally fabulous!!

I have about 20 things I want to buy which I worked out would cost me about $1100, which is a little much so I've whittled the list down to 4 with a few other things I wouldn't mind if the others don't look good on me.

These being:

• the rouched panel dress in grey
• the tulip shaped trench in off white
• the rouched panel top in ivory and
• the frame clutch.

While the pirces aren't generally target prices still it's Stella McCartney and is much cheaper than buying off Net-a-porter.

I am a little pissed that none of the stores on the coast will be stocking the whole collection thus forcing me up to Brisbane to do battle with all the fashionistas up there. It would be awesome if they specified which styles were going to be at which stores although I'm certain, having grown up on the Coast, that a lot of the Gold Coast girls will just rock up at the stores here assuming they'll get the whole collection.

And I know there will be pandemonium at the stores so I'm hopeful that I can enlist some help so I can split my list so I don't have to run around like an idiot and hopefully maximise my chance of getting what I want.

I can't tell you how excited I am that this is happening!! Her clothes are so amazing and you can tell that they are Stella McCartney, they're so here and I'm stoked that she has dones this collection, I wonder if Ebay will go crazy with people scalping the collection again?

Confessions of Gen Y

I was having lunch with some friends of mine on Monday and we were having a nice old time talking about guys and general stuff when suddenly the tide turned slightly and it the conversation turned into the old 'you'll never get a guy if you...'

While I appreciate their general advice these two ladies are both Gen X, although on one of their behalves she didn't really partake in this particular vein of the conversation.
Not that I mean to have a go at Gen X in this blog, I merely aim to point out the differences between the 2 generations.

I have been single for forever pretty much and as such have had the time to really think about who I am, what I like and what I am looking for etc etc.
I know what I'm like, I'm not the easiest person in the World to get along with, I'm picky and critical and at times brutally honest. And I'm not dumb enough to think that these are qualities men regularly list on their list of top 10 desirable traits in women, just naieve enough to hope that someone finds them cute.

But as I said I've been on my own for a long time. I've built up the person I am over these years after having who I am handed to me, forced on me, ignored by the people I love and stripped by people I now hate. For a relatively short life I have been through a lot, a lot more than I would wish on anyone my age and when it comes down to it, if you don't know who you are then what good is it to try and get someone else to love you?

I guess what I'm getting at here is that I won't change who I am or how I go about things just to snag a guy. I've worked hard to be me, without constraints and I won't hide this from anyone for any reason. It's hard finding out who you are and to give it away, or change it to impress someone is not only short changing them, but more importantly you're shortchanging yourself.

Chanel App

A big congrats and thank you to whoever is in charge of the Chanel app for iPhones and iPod touches.
I may not be able to use it properly yet but what I can see, the Autumn 2010 Haute Couture Collection was very pleasing to my culturally deprived eyes!!
Traditionally Haute Couture was reserved for the rich and fabulous and was not seen by the little people except for a few stand out garments in the pages of Vogue and Harpers Bazaar.
But with this updated app we can now see the Haute Couture collection, and while it doesn't really have the stand out dresses that one would expect from Karl Lagerfeld, it was so exciting to see the show in full.
I read an article now that said Haute Couture shows are just for that, that the real clients don't like to be seen in public and while this app has proved it correct it feels nice to be included.

Macca's ads

Is anyone else really pissed off with the Macca's ads that mispronounce the French words?
To me, who I'm quite sure is a snob but that's another issue, this reeks of ignorance and stupidity. Seriously it sounds stupid and boganish and I can't see how anybody would be proud of hearing such dribble...
Honestly it's not funny, it's not cute, it's goddam annoying and I can only imagine what the French think of us right now... So ashamed...

Because 2 blogs is not enough

Just letting you all know that I now have a third blog, Confessions of a true Sainter http://strengththroughloyalty/blogspot.com with all things relating to our mighty St Kilda Saints.
Basically it's just me waxing lyrical about all things Saints but I truly think this much passion is dangerous to keep within myself so check it out!!

Some more things that have caught my attention

Ok so here are a few random things that have caught my attention lately and I thought I would let you all know about them.

1. Jez and Kris Smith.
and by these two I mean the photographer and Australia's Next Top Model judge and Dannii Minogue's partner and Football Superstar host. Anyone else think that they're related?
I'm a little devastated because for once Wikipedia let me down.
Jez barely has a profile which has about 4 lines on it all about ANTM which I'm sure is great for the show but like I care about what portraits he's taken.
And Kris doesn't have one at all which surprises me because of his rather high social profile here in Australia, and let's not forget that he is a former rugby league star in the UK. Whatever, I'll figure it out somehow, I just wanted to know but if I can't...

2. Gold Coast bashing.
Now I like to partake in quite a bit of this myself every now and then but I think i'm allowed to coz I was born here and I actually live here and I don't just see it from the outside.
I've noticed that Gold Coast bashing is on the increase and I have to say that i don't think it's cool.
Yes I know that as a tourist town, and it is a town despite what people may say and think, that naturally we have a daggy label, but we're not country. God we have Prada and Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Burberry and Tiffany here so we can't be too bad.
I don't even think that what we're being portrayed as, ie country bumpkins and bogans, is even representative. Ok, bogans in Nerang and Palm Beach but not anywhere else. If anything we're more surfie drop out kind of.
And yes I know there is a tacky, wear all labels all day everyday tendency in the more "upmarket" suburbs but I think that's more from being a wanker rather than any thought of actually thinking it's fashionable.

3. Winter or lackthereof
Is anyone else noticing the distinct lack of winter that is going on around here lately? Or not even lately, just in general?
Now I know I spent last winter in Melbourne where it was quite on the cold side but seriously this is getting out of control, I haven't even really had to wear a jumper during the day when i go out, it's ridiculous. I think I can safely say I've been genuinely freezing 2 days this winter and they were when I was in Melbourne, ok so they don't really count but point made yeah?
And what's with the heat these past 2 days? 26, 25 degrees? This is not winter by any stretch of the imagination...
Oh and as for all those people i see walking around the shopping centres with scraves on, it's not even cold enough for a jumper let alone a scarf, yes I know they look cool, but on the Gold Coast you don't look cool, you look like an idiot and everyone is laughing at you...

4. Term deposit rates.
Can I say that as someone who doesn't owe any money to the banks, I really look forward to interest rate rises in the vain hope that the banks might lift their savings interest rates as well as their borrowing interest rates. Alas I hope in vain.
So i put some money on a term deposit in February, in that time we've had a few interest rate rises. The rate was i think 6.5% or something like that.
You want to know what you can get now for a term deposit of a simillar length, like 6.2, 6.3%.
Now if my maths is correct, and it is, if the interest rates are going up then shouldn't that rate also be going up, not down as is the case.
I think it's a disgrace to the banking industry that I can get more interest on a no-fee savings account with Virgin Money than I can through a long established bank on a term deposit where the money is theres for say 6 months whereas with Virgin it's on call.
So thank you Sir Richard, glad to see the title hasn't made you useless, from the bottom of my bank account I salute you Sir!!

This is why men don't cook here

So having a Kiwi for a father is problematic in many ways, today i'll focus on one and the lead on effects of that...

So Kiwi's like lamb, i say lamb and not sheep with lamb being of course dead sheep, let's keep it clean people... anyway the idiot (that would be my father for those of you who are having trouble keeping up) picked up some lamb shanks on the weekend at Coles because apparently they looked lonely.
Now I do all of the cooking around here, remenants of when I was young and stupid and fell into the job, but one of the few things that i do not cook is roast, of any kind, i hate it, it's slow it's boring but requires a lot of attention.
So upon spying afore mentioned lamb shanks in the trolley i steadfastly refused to cook them.
Now the idiot has wednesday's off so it was suggested he could cook them then because most likely myself, and my mother would be working and since he would be doing nothing and never cooks he could cook. Lately he has taken to criticising my cooking so personally i like this idea after never really being nominated to do the cooking and having come back from Melbourne and stepped back into the role.
Continuing on he had spied a recipie for lamb shanks in the paper a couple of weeks ago which he wanted to cook today, but did he get the recipie out of the paper? No, I did it for him. Does he know where said recipie is? No, did he look for it? No.
So at Coles they have slow cookers on special, $49 for a sunbeam which i think is quite good, and as a daughter of someone who likes slow cooked food i thought it would be mighty nice of me to buy idiot features one so he could cook his lamb shanks and various other casseroles in it. Yes i know I am a credit to daughter's everywhere.
I also bought a lamb shank recipie mix in case (as i had every thought was the case) he neglected to look for his lamb shank recipie and therefore had no idea what was needed.
Now he was going out this morning for a doctors appointment, at 10, he knew we like to have dinner at say 7ish because i have to get to work at 8 and if he had bothered to check the recipie mix he would see that it requires 8 hours cooking. So did he start dinner before he went to the doctors? Of course not.
Naturally he gets home and asks me what is required even though he knows that I am in no way responisble for this meal.
Now he knows that it is a slow cooker meal, that generally means it takes a long time to cook, usually with slow cookers people put them on in the morning before they go to work so they're ready when they get home, apparently my father is not one of the many people who know this.
Regardless he begins to cook and starts to brown the shanks even though it's not neccessary but only creates more dishes which he will not deal with. I point this out to him and am told that he knows because he can read.
He then asks if the shanks need to be seasoned and i tell him that since he just pointed out to me that he can read surely he should know... apparently that didn't go down too well since i was then unceremoniously thrown out of the kitchen...
But it is for this very reason, that he gets all snooky, that he doesn't cook more and that i do it simply to keep the peace.
Oh Lord let dinner time come quickly and end painlessly...

Masterchef

Just thought I'd let you all know that I'm now a masterchef.
Yep that's right I finally managed to perfect my macarons, ok so they may not look like they come from Laurent in South Yarra, but they taste like it which i think is more to the point.
They're really not that difficult as long as you know what u're doing which isn't more than sift, whisk, mix, pipe, sit and bake.
Ok so the piping may not be as easy as everyone thinks it is but i'm sure it will get better.
I might even decide to experiment one of these days haha...

Federal Election

God I hate elections, the ads especially, honestly is there anything worse than cheesy music and stupid slogans? Enough with the moving forward Julia, we don't care and your voice is seriously grating, those poor press gallery journos who have to listen to all your speeches. They reckon listening to your ipod will damage your hearing, i reckon she's just as bad, if not worse.
Anyway so only like 5 weeks to go until the stupid ads go away and our news and newspapers return to normal, if only we could fast forward this bit...
Personally if i was a federal party i'm not sure i would want swinging voters, yeah i know a vote is a vote but do you seriously want someone voting for you because they believed your rhetoric and fell for your election promises which will be swept under the carpet in 6 months time once they've got what they want?
Anyway so we got our first piece of election propaganda yesterday, a flier from one of the candidates in our seat.
Being a new seat we don't have a sitting member so of course they could hardly get anything out to us.
But this flier, I'm not going to say which party it was for fear of giving them way too much publicity then they really need, was so dodgy even i could do something better and my group and i wanted to kill off our candidate when we did campaign strategies...
This was a bodgy home made job where the picture wasn't clear at all and was seriously the most boring thing I have ever looked at...
Here's a message, if you want my vote, and seeing as though I've already made up my mind because I'm a 1 party gal, you're going to have to do a lot better than a dodgy home made flier...

Inside Sport

Just a quick note to let you all know that from now all my comments about sport will be found on my new blog http://theviewfrommywindow-insidesport.blogspot.com so do yourself a favour and check it out!!

Body Image and the Septmeber Issue

So I just watched the September Issue, yes a little behind the times I know but whatever...
I found it so interesting the influence Anna Wintour has. Yes I know she's great and yada yada yada but seriously, don't the fashion world know how dangerous giving one person all that power can be? I'd seriously like to see the designer who had the balls to stand up to her coz in all that doco I didn't see it once.
I get why they let her, because they need the press her magazine and her inturn can give them but it just makes me sad to see how the fashion industry works.
FOr those of us, myself included, who love fashion and love the power of the clothes and the ideas they provoke, it makes me sad to think that designers really can't get anywhere if they don't bow to her request.
But as i said i do get it.
What I did like was how she helped Thakoon. Sure i know it's only 1 designer in a sea of designers but it was nice, it also, very powerfully showed her power and influence. "I said you'd get Gap."

Body Image.
The federal government has introduced guidelines about models and retouching in magazines.
Ok well and good, i don't really enjoy seeing walking skeletons paraded in front of me.
However if they are, I'm not stupid enough to see them and think that's what I need to look like. Yes I would like to be skinny but seriously I don't see these models as a danger to my health. I also see those pictures and realise they have been retouched.
I don't know about many people, and maybe because of things I had to go through as a child I was realised early, but no one is perfect. I know they're just words and I actually got to see this in action but i want to know what happened to teaching people common sense? Seriously.
If you're a young girl and see a picture of Miley Cirus or whoever and think that she's like that in real life you're seriously deluded and maybe just a large bit thick.
I don't think these guidelines are going to make 1 bit of difference until parents start stepping up to the plate and teaching their kids common sense, tolerance and self acceptance.

Gay Marriage

I think it's rich that our PM, a single woman who has a male partner, who for all intents and purposes is living in sin, to tell homosexual couples who are so entirely desperate to tell the world they love each other and want to commit to each other for the rest of their lives that they can't.

Why not Julia? You don't believe in God so what's the problem?
And for that matter why aren't you married? YOu've been with your partner for ages what's the hold up?

Take for argument's sake that people may say that marriage is so the couple can then start a family ie it's for procreation. If this is to be accepted then why don't we just ban homosexuality altogether. Seriously it's a slippery slope if you start down that road.

I just find it all so hypocritical that as our PM she herself is living in sin and more than that doesn't even believe in God so i don't see what basis she can give for that reasoning.

If you don't believe in God, then marriage, as a religious institution, shouldn't really bother you. So maybe that's why she's not married. But then marriage between a same sex couple should equally not bother you.

Personally I really don't see the problem here. As a Catholic I was taught acceptance and love. I have homosexual friends and some of them have been in relationships longer than hetrosexual couples.

Or maybe there's a bigger picture with Julia, maybe she's homophobic, she does have Jason Akermanis sending her text messages afterall...

Some things that have caught my attention

Here are some random things that have caught my attention that i possibly couldn't be bothered to write full blogs about.

1. iPods.
Thank Christ that finally Apple have developed software, and this maybe for touch's only i'm not sure, that allow you to edit your playlists direct from the iPod, it was getting mighty annoying to have to log onto itunes to change 1 song in a playlist.
I'm a big playlist user and so for me this is almost like the invention of the ipod.

2. iPads.
I hate that ad. "You already know how to use it." No i jolly well don't. I'm not an apple person. The only reason I know about apple is because they invented a little thing called the iPod. I like windows, i have a dell laptop. I do not appreciate the prices of apple products or the fact that most of the world use pc's because they're cheaper but not neccessarily better.
I may have an ipod touch but because apple seem to be against telling me how to use it, i don't really except to listen to music. I was hoping this great world of apps would be open to me but it's really not. Here's a hint apple, if you put a web address in your instruction book at least make sure it exists...

3. Housing Prices.
As a potential first home buyer I'm not really made all warm and fuzzy with the news it's going to take me 6 years in SEQ or 16, yes you read that right, in Stonington, VIC to save the deposit for a house.
They talk about baby boomers handing their kids the debt of their houses, nope forget about it, it will be me handing down my debt to my kids.
The governments, all of them, really need to do something to help rectify this, whether it's grants again for first home owners, australian citizens not people who have owned homes overseas and then come over here and get grants not really meant for them..., raise the minimum wage for first home owners are probably the people owning this money. Something needs to be done because at the moment it's ridiculous.

That's about it, the rest i really could be bothered to do full blogs on so read on...

FIFA World Cup.

Once again I take exception to FIFA's referees. I find it staggering, especially in regard to the ENgland Germany game, not so much in regard to the referees but their lack of resources.
Why doesn't FIFA embrace video technology? Pretty much every sport in the world uses it and has no problems with it. I don't see why football should be any different.

Apparently Sepp Blatter has said it couldn't be used at a grassroots level as some sort of justification as not using it.
I didn't no under 9's were televised, i can imagine the world's perverts would love that. I also didn't realise there were such high stakes at the same level. I can imagine the difference between awarding one team a pizza party and the other nothing must keep the teenage ref's awake at night.
Come on Sepp, video technology is barely used at state level for cricket, let alone at Milo level.

I think though, after Frank Lamard's non goal that was a goal last night that something definately has to be done.
I think at the very least that another ref behind the goal would be useful, especially as so much can happen with the 16 yard box.
Just think about it, we all want to see the best in the world playing a beautiful game, so don't ruin it by refusing to take it forward.
And while u're at it perhaps you could throw us the 2022 world cup, it's never been here and afterall we are a continent all to ourselves...

Afghanistan.

Now, being a child of the late 20th Century or whatever you want to call me, it was said a few years ago that us children of that era were afraid of war. To an extent that stands true.
We've had the benefits of studying the First and Second World Wars as well as Vietnam and saw the utter devastation that took place. I don't think it's a bad thing for us as a generation to not want that to happen to us or any other generation, or group of people for that matter.

In saying this, as a somewhat patriot, i find it disgusting that people are using the reccent deaths of Australian soldiers in Afghanistan to question why they're there.
Don't get me wrong I don't like Aussies being killed anymore than the next person. My Grandfather fought in WW2, for England but still, and I have friends in the Armed forces and i shudder that there's a possibility of them being in harm's way but if anything these deaths, especially of the two QLD Sapper's the other week that there is still work to be done.

I don't like the rationale, that we need to bring democracy to Afghanistan because that rationality didn't work out the first few times away, but i do think that if it is in our power to bring the people peace, stability and some sort of equality then we owe it to them to try.

Our armed forces join and know what they will be asked to do. They know what sort of situations they may find themselves in and they continue to do their job in spite of this.
These are not conscripts who didn't ask to be there.
These men and women want to be there, to do their duty to their country for people who wouldn't do it.

We owe them our support. They're fighting over there so that these horrible things don't come here.

I may not support the war but I will always, always support our troops.

Referees

I find it utterly confounding as to why the referees at the FIFA World Cup are so horribly inconsistent with their calls?
I am also confounded as to why FIFA are letting so many weird and inconsistent decisions stand and why the appeal process is not more evenly weighted.

For the second time in as many games we have a had a player receive a red card for a non red card offence.
In the case of Harry Kewell FIFA showed a presentation to all 32 teams regarding hand balls and apparently covered the exact situation in which Harry and the Socceroos found themselves in on Sunday morning, with the FIFA ruling being play on. Not red card and penalty.
At the very most I find a yellow and a penalty all that should be given.

But maybe Harry doesn't play for the right team, maybe he needs to change his name to Nemanja Vidic...

I think FIFA should, if they don't already, should be constantly assessing the refs and addressing inconsistent penalties that are given out.
I thought what we all wanted was a fair game, but it seems that Australia cannot get a fair game for whatever reason.

I'm trying to be reasonable but i find it so very disheartening to try and respect the officials when they obviously don't respect our players enough to give them a fair game.

I also think SANZAAR need to do something about the ref's for the Wallabies game on Saturday. When is a forward pass not a forward pass? When it goes backwards out of the hand... Quade Cooper might be accused of being a thief but he doesn't throw the ball forward....

Catholic Church

I've been doing some thinking about religion and what not.
Now, i consider myself semi-religious, as well as a spiritual person. I was baptised in the Catholic faith and have done my reconciliation, communion and confirmation and plan to get married in a catholic church.

But what gets me is when old people moan about young people, especially Gen Y, not attending church.

Personally I don't feel I need to attend Church to talk to God and feel his presence or whatever it is that going to Church is supposed to make you feel.

I think some of that has to do with the fact that the Church is so far out of touch with young people. Their stances on so many things are so way out of date that young people can't relate.
We weren't taught by Nuns at school, in fact I doubt whether any young catholics have had anything to so with a nun.

Firstly, the Church's stance on women Priests.
Many of us Gen Y's have grown up with our mother's working. Mine certainly did, full time, for quite early on in my life. So it's second nature to see women working and in positions of authority. While women may not have equality in the workplace yet, make no mistake that it is coming. Women now occupy many high power positions around the world. Take the German Chancellor Angela Merkl, Hilary Clinton etc etc.

Secondly, homosexuality.
For a lot of people homosexuality is not something that can be helped, it was how the person was born and thus was meant to be like that, something that God, the creator, did.
Many of us have homosexual friends and we accept them. We've grown up with Ellen DeGeneres on our tv screens, we've listened to Freddie Mercury and Ricky Martin.
Isn't religion about acceptance? If so then why do we leave these people out in the cold?
Aren't we all God's creatures and deserve his love?

Thirdly contraception.
This is just ridiculous. We've grown up with AIDS and we know that it's not nice and something to avoid. Studies have shown condoms are the most effective way of preventing STI's of HIV/AIDs is the most dangerous. We can all see the spread of HIV/AIDs in Africa because of the lack of sexual education and don't want that to become a reality in our world too.

Fourth, sex before marriage.
Personally im of the try before you buy camp. And while i can respect people who want to save themselves for their hubsband/wife i think it's unrealistic to think the majority of people will do the same.
Even in the 50's and 60's it was realistic and times have changed a lot since then.
You can see in the United States with the practice of promise rings that it can sometimes do more harm than good with rates of STIs very high within this group because they don't have any education about safe sex. Unwanted pregancies also result.

I just don't see how the Catholic Church, or any major religion for that matter can hope to stay relevant when they are so out of touch with the people they are ministering.
It doesn't make sense.

The law adapts and changes in response to changes in science and technology, why can't religion?
I don't mean the Pope taking to twitter or facebook in order to reach a wider audience, I mean changing the big things that are turing the youth away.

It's well publicised that Gen Y don't listen to their parents so why would we listen to an old German virgin preaching at us from Rome.

DOn't get me wrong, the Vatican is a lovely and extremly revrent place but what's coming from it isn't relevant to us, the people who will carry the church when the current lot are gone.

Sports

This is a little pet hate of mine, but what I really can't stand is people criticising things they don't understand, particularly sport.
Carrie Bickmore I'm talking about you.
On the 7pm project she never likes Dave Hughes talking about sport and then last night jumps on the Socceroos bashing bandwagon.
I'm sorry but if you don't know what's going on then don't talk about how you could do better.
Say it was disappointing and that we all hope they do better next time. Trust me it makes you look stupid, especially to people who have a long memory or just remember random things and happened to remember that.

Honestly you don't see me going round saying i could fix the health system better than K Dudd or i could raise her kids better than her, so how about you stick to what you know and i stay sticking to what i know...

Socceroos

Although words cannot express how incredibly angry I am at Pim Verbeek's utterly perplexing selections on Monday morning I'm going to try.

We all know that Pim is a defensive coach. As the saying goes defence wins premierships. But we're nto after premierships here. This is the World Cup, a competition that Pim Verbeek has never gone to as head coach.
Yes he did a fine job to get us through qualifying but this is an entirely different kettle of fish.
Perhaps because of the job Pim did in qualifying is why we were thinking there might be a possibility of getting something from this game.
But the team and tactics Pim employed for the game against Germany said to them, and the rest of the world that we were not going to attack, we were going to sit back and let them come at us for 90 minutes.
That's not what Aussies do. We have pride and passion and want to win every game, not settle for a draw before the game has even started.
I don't know what Pim Verbeek has done to those boys but they played without passion. Actually i do what he did, he sent them out with a 4-6 effectively. I was zapped of passion the minute i saw the line up, no wonder the boys played without heart.

I'm sure had Richard Garcia's goal gone in we might be talking a little differently here but it didn't and we got our asses handed to us on a plate.
After the first goal he should have made attaking changes. Obviously our defence couldn't absorb their pressure, so why not take the game to them? Put Kennedy on, surely if Jason Culina can out jump Phillip Lahm then Josh Kennedy wouldn't need to get off the ground in order to beat him. But instead he puts of Brett Holman,a player who has scored twice for the Socceroos. Why does he persist with Brett Holman? He couldn't hit the side of a barn if he tried. Remember the Netherlands friendly in Sydney Pim? I do and we would have had it won if it wasn't for him and his "ability".
And playing Jason Culina out of position? Yeah, nice one, worked a treat!
We need to be more attacking, put on Kewell, Bresciano, Vidosic.

And as for the FFA. Get of our arses, stop sucking up to people to improve our bid and try and get Timmy off that card! It wasn't even worth a yellow and yet he got a straight red. If the player involved said that the card was unwarranted then surely something isn't right! Timmy is a massive part of our team and if we want to make it to the round of 16 then we need him to help us get past Ghana and Serbia.

Pim, you may be our most successful coach but we don't love you. We loved Guus because of what he did with our boys. We love them and we want them, so desperately, for them to do well. What happened on Monday morning was an abomination and spits in the face of Australian football and all we have done to try and raise our reputation.
Pull your finger out and play it like we know they can!!

Getting Reacquainted

So I'm back. I was watching the latest episode of House, teh one with the chick from That 70's show and she was blogging and I was like, 'Oh yeah I have a blog, why don't I still do that?' So here I am.

Still proper jobless, i did move to Melbourne last year for 6 months but i got myself into a bad frame of mind workwise. I transferred down through the company i'm still with but it was horrible. I think there's nothing worse working for someone when it's obvious they don't want you there and there's nothing you can do. Let me tell you it sucks arse.

What didn't suck arse was getting to go watch my boys, St Kilda, play footy pretty much every weekend. We don't speak of what happened on the last saturday of september but rest assured we will be back there this year!

I love Melbourne and i'll be down there this weekend and I can't wait! It's a great city and i wish it held more for me.
But i've got a lot of decisions to be made now, do i go back to melbourne? do i go overseas? I'm not sure.
What i do know is i've started writing, probably for the first time in a decade, without external pressures. I'm not sure if what i've written is a way to express my complex emotions on an issue or a viable product but i do know it has made me feel better.

Anyway, my aim with this blog is to fill you in on my opinion on the latest trends, my thoughts on random subjects and what's going on in the life of a lost professional... I hope you enjoy!!