It's 9.53am. 9.53am Wednesday morning, September 1st. It really is. In Australia, anyway. How can this be possible when it’s still Tuesday for most of you ?????. Too much for my little head. Seriously. 9.53am !!!. It’s raining outside. I am watching an old Hitchcock film and eating my ‘Weet-Bix’ in my pajamas !. Hah. Does anybody really know what time it is ????? PS: I fixed it, Trina ! hehe

In a recent blog of ( the fabulous ) Sabrina, ( Link ), a comment was made by BlueDev ( Link ) that contained an extremely funky little smiley with a flamethrower. BlueDev was kind enough to 'share the wealth' by providing a link and instructions on how to use the 'alternative' smiley collection. This is how I feel about the alternative smiley collection: Yes, I like it that much. I would even go so far as to say that, when I found the alternative smiley collection, I felt like d...

The world is round. I know this because it is 4pm on Thursday afternoon. Yes, I know it's not really. But it is. For me, anyway. Me. Adrift in a cultural wasteland in which a small problem called 'distance' renders my 'real time' participation on JU near impossible. Many's the morning I have woken to find a fabulous party going on in my comments that I wasn't invited to !. I post. I sit. I wait. I fall asleep (sometimes even in that order). I wake to find that a stimulating and relev...

i had to go outside today. i know. awful !. i didn't want to, but i had to drop my car off to the mechanic. i forgot until a half hour before and had to haul ass in my pajama top and trackie bottoms. my car didn't want to go either. (iris the vw kombi has instincts like a faithful old dog. she just knows ). matters were complicated by the bone-dry fuel tank courtesy of the friend who dropped it back the night before. ah, well. it was only a right turn into oncoming traffic on the pac...

hello fellow ju bloggers who are presently going about your daily business. i just thought i would take a moment to inform you that i cannot sleep. aaaaaaaaaaarrrghhhhhh. it's driving me demented. i'm so tired i could cry. it's 3.45am. nothing in my suburb (including my husband) has moved for the past 5 hours. these country people, are creepy, dammit, with their whole early to bed early to rise palaver. the whole village is out like a light by 10.30pm. it's sinister . they're all ...

hello, my name is miggy, and i am a girl. whilst that may not be news to some of you, it has come to my attention that we have a spate of female ju users whose screen names have caused other ju users to call them 'bro', 'mate', 'dude' or (my very own personal favourite) 'that mignuna guy". whilst recently commenting in a blog by 'shadesofgrey', i noticed a similar phenomenon. shades crafted a very intelligent point, and it made everyone assume she was a man !. i mentioned this in my c...

when something i read, see, or hear inspires me, i like to jot down reminders to myself so i might explore 'whatever it was' at my leisure later on. (yes, i agree, that makes me a total nerd, and, even worse, i do not care !). as this note-taking seems to occur at inconvenient moments, i am often left without the time or resources to properly record my thoughts. as a result, i tend to find hurried, cryptic little notes almost everywhere i look, and none of them seem to make a whole heap ...

i recently grew a tomato plant for the first time. it was about 8 inches high when my mum last visited. it was absolutely flourishing in a combination of dark soil and duck poo. (i save my food scraps for a neighbours' duck and he, you know, obliges , with the fertiliser). upon spotting said tomato plant, my visiting mother asked me what type of plant it was. "it's a tomato plant" i told her. and she laughed !. and then she said "i wasn't born yesterday, you know". now, i'm fully aware ...

i read recently some statistics from one of the ‘oldest’ blogsites on the internet. i am aware that it probably includes everyone who ever registered there, so i can’t vouch for it’s currency, as many of the bloggers 'registered' would be long gone by now, having jumped on the first blog site available then run out of steam shortly thereafter. it is, however, a very interesting snapshot of the age of your ‘average’ blogger (if there can be such a thing as an ‘average blogger’) when bl...

as much as i am all for allowing anybody at all to have their say, i draw my personal line at seeing genuine articles getting spammed out of the forums by 6 or 8 straight posts from an overzealous biznet promoter or a dodgy ‘importer’. i just scanned the first (full) page of the ‘business’ forum, and we have a courier service, a ‘trade guru’, a ‘make money online for no investment’, a ‘usa import/exporter’ and fourteen posts from the same biznet marketer. there are articles in t...

part of a recent article of mine briefly touched on how many points it is possible to accumulate via launching a deliberately 'toxic' or 'inflammatory' post, then sitting back to watch the score go up via a hundred outraged people promptly arriving to announce that the post is offensive/stupid/racist/sexist/blah blah. it was discussed that, instead of adding fuel to the fire in a 'toxic' post and rewarding it with points at the same time, we could simply bypass it and go instead to the 'n...

the world needs a suggestion box. i figure here is as good a place as any to start one up. so, unfold your torn half-sheet of scrap a4 paper and scrawl down a message to the world. the idea being to blame nobody in particular, just give the world a hint at what it might do to sort things out. i'll go first ... dear world, i think it would be wonderful if everybody living in you saw each other as part of the one giant family (i warned you. first stop, idealism central). ......

sick of difficult self-help books that expect results ?. (nasty concept, that ... reward for effort) ... well, never fear, mig is here, and failing is easy . anybody can do it. i've done it heaps of times in the past, so i thought i'd save you the time and show you how to do it step-by-step. ... ready ? ... ok, these were my top 10 life mistakes ... (or) 'how to be a failure': 1/ have your entire emotional existence tied to something as unreliable as anoth...

i, gentle reader, have laryngitis. i cannot speak !. i have not been able to utter a single word in almost 35 hours !. the only person happy about this is my husband. he is filling the void of my banter with annoying ease by making jokes about "how quiet it is in here". my mother is also here. i took her "shopping" today. she got lost and i was forced to attract her attention by clapping and waving my arms in a manner that made all the other shoppers assume that i was ...

So, you came home after a few coldies at 3am and decided it would be a bit of a lark to auction your corpse on eBbay ?. Never mind. We've all done it, right ?. So spare a thought for a British man who has received death threats after failing to make good with the delivery of his body to the successful eBay bidder, a German cannibal named "Donnie". 22 year old Daniel O'Dee listed his corpse for sale as a drunken dare, and before eBay could remove the listing, he received a reportedly ...