Malama moe'uhane

For anyone who has friends on or worried about the Tsunami warning in Hawaii, here is the livestreaming of HNN if you need/want it.

Hawaii News Now - KGMB and KHNL

So most of you don't know this but I like to knit. As a result I'm on a local yahoo group email list that knits for the needy/homeless in our city. Most of the people on the list are elderly, in fact a good deal of them are nuns. Adventurous, some of them have other hobbies, like snorkelling, cycling, hiking, camping, as i found out today one of them, an 82 year old nun goes scuba diving.

Anyways, I'm digressing, there was a new member today (or if she's been there for a while I've never noticed her, and trust me I would - you would too).

Her yahoo name is MaryMuffdiver. After I'd finished choking on my Coke because I received an email from her, I had a chat with her in the groups chat room. She's an 82 year old nun, her passion outside of the church is knitting and scuba diving with the youth group attached to her church, and she knits what she calls muff's for the homeless (knitted tubelike things they can slip their hands into for warmth).

I'm not sure she realises that her name is - problematic, and im not sure if Yahoo gave it to her or one of the 'well meaning' kids in the youth group helped her, but I didn't have the heart or the expertise to explain to her why she should change it.

As much as fandom makes me *headdesk* on a daily basis, sometimes RL just blows any fandom shit right out of the water.

Have y'all seen this?

I'm sorry? But it's driving cars that relieves us of our virginity? And how the hell does that co-relate to homosexuality?

My mind is officially boggled.

Oh gymnastics I have missed you so.

Since when does adding sunglasses, funky music and an annoying and 'hip' commentator an olympic sport make? Yes Beach Volleyball I'm looking at you. What's wrong with televising the original not the AU? (this may or may not come from a frustrated ex volleyball player).


Also? Not that I'm not as patriotic as the next Australian, but FFS Channel 9 there are more people there competing than just the Aussies, and we're supposedly so proudly multicultural that I'm sure there are more than just me that have friends/interests in the other teams. It would serve you well to remember that not everything is about the green and gold. Incidentally my old buddy from the Brisbane Gymnastic World Championships, Bulgaria Gymnastics Federation President Iordan Iotchev thoroughly deserved the standing ovation he got from the crowd. Six Olympics is a herculean feat.

It's been a shitty week, mum's funeral was Wednesday and the world has been a wee bit hectic since, but we had tickets to the PBR invitational (That's Professional Bull Riding to y'all) so my sister and I went tonight.

Whilst there I made an observation. There is not much that a cowboy hat can't fix. They even make unattractive men cute. I observed that happening tonight.

Now I just need AOL to sign onto a western movie and I think I'll be a happy little fangirl.

When did I get so old that instead of making me wish of jumping their bones while I'm watching CMT I'm asking when their curfews are and if their Mama's know what they're touching.

Well not me exactly, but this incarnation of my LJ life.

I'm a couple of days late (or a couple of weeks, depending on how you look on it) 07/20/2011 was when I started using this particular journal, even though it was created on 07/08/2011.
Welcome to the stats for my first year.

• 242 Journal Entries
• 1,088 comments received
• 995 comments posted
• 120 Tags
• 10 Memories
• 30+ files in Scrapbook
• 5 Virtual Gifts
• 245 Userpics

My original and still beloved LJ is considerably older (but I missed that birthday too. That one started at 04/21/2004, those stats are slightly more impressive, but when i look at them I'm thinking that I talk way more in this LJ.

• 977 Journal Entries
• 5,029 comments received
• 3,982 comments posted
• 345 Tags
• 496 Memories
• 1,300+ files in Scrapbook
• 7 Virtual Gifts
• 208 Userpics

Happy LJ birthday to anyone else who is celebrating around this time. That includes you two and_ed and thelackey