media beat ups

Today i turned on my TV and the biggest breaking news seems to be about Warney and Liz Hurley....  Seriously? is this the best Australia has got?  does anyone really give a flying fuck what they are doing?  personally i think they are just drumming up a bit of attention for themselves.  they both seem to be media whores and I'm sure they both have some new exciting projects coming up that they are about to start spruiking all across our TVs and radio's

Does it really require helicopters to spy on them? what are they hoping to see? do they think they might catch them going at it in the back yard?

And then we have the Politics debacle.  Apparently Julia was cold, and then when she did cry, she was fake.  It's not an argument she is ever going to win.  lets face it, i think you have to have some pretty big balls to go after the big job.  I would never make a good PM.  far too emotional.  we would lose one digger and i would bomb the entire country responsible, and then think rationally about it when i calmed down. 

As a female PM it must be a really fine line to walk,  she can't be too feminine, because she will be seen as soft.  can't be too firm because then she'll be a dyke.  

And then we move onto the Abbott beat up.  now i am no Tony Abbott fan.  i think he is one of the biggest wankers in politics at the moment.  I was under the impression that most pollies think and then speak, but it seems unless this douche bag has someone thinking for him, he is a complete moron.  Did Mark Riley stitch him up? probably.  Has he brought up something that is completely out of date, and simply rehashing a families grief? absolutely.  Did Australia need to see it?  well this little black duck certainly didn't.  I also didn't need to see the footage night after night on the news of Riley holding up his laptop, and each channel actually still showing the ridiculously long gap in which Tony needed to collect himself.  Did Tony spin things around to favour himself?  you betcha, he has come out of this smelling like roses, and the Reporters credibility and rep is in the gutter.  By all accounts his office had several hours notice that the footage was going public.  could they not come up with something for him to say?  or was the crazy "I'm gonna punch you in the face any second now" silence, yet another spin?

So does the Media show us what we want to see? is it like a car crash or a horror movie? you don't want to look, but you can't help it? or do they show us what they want us to see?

Brad and Jen.  frankly i don't think their marriage was ever genuine.  i think they are great actors who chose for whatever reason to boost their profiles and be the golden couple of Hollywood.  Angelina and Billy Bob.  same goes.  they went down the weird road, but still the amount of attention they got as the "weirdo's" of Hollywood was massive.  I mean seriously, think about.  She went from some hot young thing called Johnny, to an old wrinkly has been/nobody being Billy Bob,  got some attention and then moved onto Brad.  something doesn't quite gel there.  SHE adopted while they were still married.  not THEY adopted, just her.

And while we're at it.  Demi and Ashton??  mmm maybe they are maybe their not.  Julia and Lyell? well he was hot.... not.  Most of these hot things who "find love" on the movie set, to only break up once the movie has finished at the cinemas.  maybe I'm just a cynic, maybe its just part of playing their lives out in the public.

Frankly i am pretty happy being a nobody.  the rest of the country doesn't give a shit what i think do or say.  i can skinny dip in my back yard without hovering helicopters.  i can go to the shops in my slippers or my yard clothes.  Being a nobody is great.  may not pay as good as Hollywood, but they can keep their fish bowl.

What makes a good blog?

Well, here I am.  I have a captive audience (of 2), lots of things to say, and crappy unreliable Internet, that no doubt will stop me from saying it, how i want and when i want.

So, what makes a good blog??  I have read a few lately, and completely random kinds, and the thing that keeps me going back for more is what???  I actually don't know.  so how can i write it, if i don't even know?
I guess I'm just going to have to suck it and see.  Perhaps I'll be good at it, but perhaps I'll be shit. 

I guess a little about me is a good start.

I lead a crazy life.  I work part time (3 days a week) at what i call my day job.  I am a book keeper extraordinaire, and go to girl when someone who should know what they are doing, doesn't.  Some days this pisses me off, some days I love it.  I guess it depends who comes knocking on my desk.

One day a week I wander into the office at our shop.  Some days i work, some days i spend my time pretending, and surf the net,  putting off the inevitable.  It's probably lucky i don't get paid for it, because I sure as shit don't earn my wage in there, that is until the end of the month, when i have no alternative to pull my finger out and do stuff.  Unfortunately bills don't pay themselves, and bank statements don't reconcile themselves.

In between work, i have a devoted, beautiful, patient and quiet husband, he is the Yin to my Yang. We have two kids.  One a very demanding three year old diva, who knows what she wants, when she wants and god help anyone who gets in the way, or dares to say no, evened out by a placid, thoughtful and caring 10 year old boy.

On top of that we are on the hunt for our dream home.  This one will be the settler.  The one we stay in until our old legs and backs are breaking and its time to downsize.

Life is busy.  Mostly good, but busy.

At the moment we are in a dark place, hit hard by the death of my husbands brother.  but that's a post for another day.