Jordandchan

There are times when I think that cleaning is futile task.

Don’t get me wrong - I’m not against keeping things tidy and clean. I just get astounded at how short a time things remain in that state once it has been done.

There are times when I will be sweeping or vacuuming and i will turn around to survey what I have done. There is no doubt the results are better than when I started, but to a certain extent it seems some of the dirt and dust has just been shifted around, rather than removed altogether. As I see it there are 2 explanations:

1). I am no good at cleaning. Let’s discount this due to my awesomeness. Which leaves us with…

2). There is an optimum level of cleanliness (say 90%) and any cleanliness beyond that level is ridiculously hard to maintain. This means that cleaning past that point is essentially a waste of time as before you are finished, cleanliness will be back to 90%.

This revolutionary new concept could change the way we clean. Expect to see 90% Off BAM and the Dyson 90% in stores soon.

One of the books I read while we were away on holiday a little way back was The Vertical Self by Mark Sayers.

Sayers is an author and senior leader of The Red Church in Melbourne and is a man who has his finger on the pulse of modern culture and what Christianity means in the midst of it. I have been reading his site for a while, and when i got the opportunity from his publisher to have a copy of the book for review I jumped at the chance.

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you can learn something new everyday…

i took a call at work from a very elderly gentlemen the other day. He wanted to get a phone number - i very rarely think about how to pronounce numbers - except for 0. some people cant hear or think you are saying um so i tend to pronounce it zero.
so i was reciting the number back to the gentleman with the last 4 digits being 0600.
i started to say zero six and was interrupted by him stating “no no love - we shot all of them down in the war”
i was a little confused but went on with the number - now saying it as oh-six-oh-oh.
once i’d hung up i googled zero and war.
turns out zero’s were the name given to japanese aeroplanes used in the war.
so i’d managed to offend a war veteran simply by giving him a phone number.

i will never get tired of listening to the older members of the population filling us in on things that they have seen and experienced - and i wont ever use the word zero when giving phone numbers to people anymore.

have you ever tried so hard to do something the right/best way only to have it blow up in your face???

i have one of those personalities that should could with a warning, something like the following perhaps:

WARNING: Severe emotionally unstable individual who may AT ANY TIME bacome aware of people not living up to her expectations of how life should go at which point you MUST evacuate the area so as to not witness the mushroom cloud like explosion of pent up frustration and DO NOT return until subject has again become stable or another fallout could occur.

sometimes i wish i could have warned jordan of this before we were married - he should have been able to go into it with his eyes open but instead ends up with a wife who moonlights as ‘a big ball of crazy’ every now and again. Sadly its only with age that i’ve actually noticed myself doing this and i would love to be able to say that its something i have under control - but i dont.

i can even point out at which point during one of said episodes that i KNOW that what im doing/saying is abnormal but cant seem to stop.…. well until i’ve done or said something that needs to be apologised for and taken back.

UNTIL TODAY  - when i was being completely rational and trying to think through the situation and how a normal person would react and i still came up with the same answer - so now im just thinking maybe everyone is a little bit crazy and maybe i pick up on it too easily.

Generally i spend the few hours or days afterward on the verge of tears and trying to rationalise myself.

I think maybe i should just stay away from people altogether.

mostly im all for technology… mostly

i guess there are some things i have come across that i just dont understand how they are still relevant (like having a typewriter at work) or handwriting envelopes - although i do find this quite fun some days…

but there are other things that i wish could have stayed the same… even if it means a little more work.

take, for example, borrowing library books. jordan and i LOVE to go to the library - pick out hundred different books, cds and dvds and take them home. the problem comes when they need to be returned and you cant find the shopping docket type arrangement they give you after scanning them in. sure, we could get on the computer and log into the council webiste, enter the card number and wait for the results… but what about in the good old days when you flicked open the front cover and found a date stamp right there - with all the info you needed about returning your book. in those days you were less likely to get hate mail from the library for forgetting your returns.

or is it maybe that its just a little bit of my childhood i’d like to have back??  i used to be one of the good kids that got to stamp my own return dates on the card on the inside cover… *sigh*

I now know what it feels like to be trapped in a lift.…

maybe it was because it was morning and i hadnt had my coffee yet but it wasnt that bad… i called the left people - told them i was stuck - and then sat on the floor to read my book.

it was a little bit hot - and it was a pretty long 20 minutes, but i came out the otherside unscathed and ready to start my work day… and i still managed to make it to my desk by 8.30am.

Last saturday we had some plans fall through slightly… Concidentally it was 7-Eleven day - when by uttering the phrase “Happy 7-Eleven day” at any store you could get a free Slurpee.

We had a few things to do, so we printed out a map of 7-Elevens on our route and decided to see how many free Slurpees we could get.

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Awesome! I really like them and am quite crazy enough to want to swim with them - that would be amazing.

It appears that there is a Giant Shark in QLD that is biting other ones in half…

Last night the girls were doing exciting things at our house, so I vacated the premises and headed go lukey’s place.
A couple of other guys were heading over too. One of then walked on the door carrying, of all things, a nintendo entertainment system.
I don’t think I had played a NES since primary school. But I still had the feel for Time Lord, and Super Mario Brothers was as good as I remembered. Awesome fun.