The Jamjar

Why would you want to

Why would you want to be anything else but Australian?!?!
From the Australian Bureau of Statistics

3 - Australians die each year testing if a 9V battery works on their
tongue.

142 - Australians were injured in 1998 by not removing all the pins from new
shirts.

58 - Australians are injured each year by using sharp knives instead of
screwdrivers

31 - Australians have died since 1996 by watering their Christmas tree
whilethe fairy lights were plugged in.

19 - Australians have died in the last 3 years by eating Christmas
decorations they believed were chocolate.

Hospitals reported 4 broken arms last year after cracker pulling
incidents.

101 - Australians since 1997 have had to have broken parts of plastic toys
pulled out of the soles of their feet.

18 - Australians had serious burns in 1998 trying on a new jumper with lit
cigarette in their mouth.

A massive 543 Australians were admitted to casualty in the last two years
after opening bottles of beer with their teeth or eye socket

5 - Australians were injured last year in accidents involving out of
control Scalextric cars.

?.........and finally:

8 - Australians cracked their skull in 1997 after falling asleep (passing
out) while throwing up into the toilet.

YEP! It's great to be Australian!

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I like the Little Gamers

I like the Little Gamers sometimes
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Beginning of the year feels

Beginning of the year feels strange - like starting a new job. The slate feels clean and the year new stretches out before me so full of promise. My head is a list of objectives to make sure this is the year i meet the goals I set for myself.

In the last few dark weeks of 2001 when a deadline was screaming up and hours were few and running out, I was beating myself up for being a failure. For not moving enough, for only reading one non-work related book, for managing my finaces like a bumbling idiot at the best of times and like Gollum with the Ring at the worst. But then I got a case of the sensibles and listed the wonderful things i had been able to do in 2001. I had managed to buy my beautiful MacG4 and legal software. I had left the job at Aztech Productions which was killing my spirit by degrees. I had travelled overseas - alone - and seen things so old and so beautiful and met long time dearly loved friends. I had survived being unemployed for the first time in my life. The scary druggies upstairs forced a move but I am now living with other people which means I'm taking better care of myself. I had the flush of wonderful job offers which gave me the luxury to chosing a really good job as a Graphic Designer. My family still love me and I have a nice place to live. My friends still love me despite my vagueness and infrequent care. My car is registered and has a current Warrant of Fitness. I fixed my iBook. I even managed a date or two. That's pretty grown up, isn't it?

I'd like a quiet year this year though. To concentrate on work. To feel more solid about things in general and me in particular. I willprobably have to move house but if that's the most change for 2002, I will be happy.

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