Meat.

I'm watching the VMA's and as a vegetarian and a fan of avant garde fashion I have something to say......

Gaga, if you are going to wear a dress made of meat at least make sure its a good dress.


(I have other views regarding the whole 'I'm not a piece of meat' issue but I frankly can't be bothered to express them coherently today)

t xx

Little Known Obsession.

For as long as I can remember I have done something that might be quite unusual. Well I have done a lot of things that might be quite unusual but we are just talking about one of them for now. Quite often I have discussed with people the things that you just couldn't live without and the things you never leave the house without and it always tends to be the same sorts of things, mobiles, keys, bank cards but there is one thing I have never revealed. For as long as I can remember I have rarely left the house with out this......

Sometimes when I am in a rush I forget to check my bag for it but usually it is there anyway left from the time before. If I am nervous or anxious about something I will check several times that it is in my bag or in my pocket just so that it is near to me. I'm not proud of it but I am quite a suspicious person and I know its ridiculous but if it keeps me happy I will probably keep on doing it, in the bag there are things that I think bring me luck and although some people know that I carry it with me (particularly when I travel somewhere) I don't think I have ever talked about the the things that are inside it. I write all sorts of nonsense on this blog and as I have failed recently I might as well put this on here to make up for it.

1. Little Ken.

Little Ken was the most recent addition to the bag (the bag which incidentally used to contain worry dolls, hello crazy people) and when I say recent I think I added it when I was doing my AS exams so that is about 4 years ago. I can't add stuff like that up so shoot me. He was given to me by my little brother to give me good luck and was named Little ken by my other brother after a character in the Mighty Boosh radio plays. He was briefly accompanied by a little blue sea but when I added him I messed up my A-levels and blamed that and so he had to go.

2. Rose.

The Rose was my Great Nan's and I was given to me when she died back in 2001, I used to wear it until the link in it broke and I was scared to wear it in case I lost it. Its old, I have no idea how old but its pre-ban ivory from South Africa where a lot of my Nan's family live and so its a connection to there as well. I still really miss my Nan and I never really got over loosing her so I like to sort of have a piece of her life with me when I travel. She used to say when I was little that I had been here before, its a phrase I have fallen in love with.

3. Rabbit.

I have had this Rabbit for luck for so long, I cant remember when I first got it. I remember taking it with me in my pocket to primary school so it has been going for a long time. Its heavier than it looks but the weight of it makes me aware that it is with me. I don't have an explaination for it really, its just something that I do.




Now you think that I have lost it I want to give you a playlist that makes me remember, it reminds me of two people in particular, one of whom I really realised that I was missing this week and can't really do anything about it. I wish I could put them in my pocket and carry them for good luck too.

Week 15 - Reminds Me of a Time

1. Don't Look Back Into the Sun - The Libertines
2. Decent Days and Nights - The Futureheads
3. Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt - We are Scientists
4. Mary - Subways
5. Illegal Tender - Louis XIV
6. Le Disko - Shiny Toy Guns
7. 22 Grand Job - The Rakes
8. Apply Some Pressure - Maximo Park
9. A Million Ways - OK Go
10. We Used To Be Friends - The Dandy Warhols

Also if anyone has stuck around this long or is even reading any of this I want to know if you have anything you always have to carry with you.

Trinkets and Luck,
t xx

Work.

I decided that if I couldn't think of anything exciting to write about I would just write about work, mainly because work really isn't that exciting. Not that I have done much recently.

Last week I returned to what I did for a whole year, temping. I'm not going to blow my own trumpet or anything but I am pretty nifty on a switchboard, pass me a switchboard and eventually I will forward your call, most likely to the wrong person or after quite a long time of you being on hold because I cant find the right number or person to put you through to. You get there eventually.

Anyway when I am at work I have a phone voice. Does everyone have a phone voice? I don't have it when I am using the phone normally I don't think, just when I am at work. The phone voice changes as well depending on who I am talking to and where I am working. Once I had to speak French on the phone to someone....well in France....who had called my office by accident, I had a really confused phone voice for that occasion. I even take the phone voice home with me sometimes and find myself answering my home phone with the intention of going "good afternoon, (insert company name), Natasha speaking, how can I help you?" which absolutely is not the way to answer the phone to your grandmother.

Sometimes when I am at work I get to listen to music. The job I currently have which has nothing to do with offices plays music all the time, sometimes this a curse as much as a musical blessing. Last week at work I had music on but the music played was essentially local radio aimed at middle aged women music and so I thought "hey that would make a brilliant playlist", obviously because it fits in with the rest of the music I have put on here previously. Now as a gift to you, I give you the opportunity to pretend you are at work with me so stick on your Britney Spears style headset, fetch a magazine, switchboard and cup of tea and stick on my "Desk Soundtrack".

1. Haven't Met You Yet - Michael Buble
2. You're Still the One - Shania Twain
3. Respect - Aretha Franklin
4. Patience - Take That
5. Truly Madly Deeply - Savage Garden
6. Breakfast at Tiffanys - Deep Blue Something
7. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - U2
8. When You Say Nothing at All - Ronan Keating

(tis 8, I failed at more.)

Good Afternoons and Telephones,
t xx