Spice up your life

Have you ever read the lyrics to “Spice up your life” by the Spice girls?

WHAT?

You haven’t?!?

I thought everyone had read them.

Don’t be too hard on yourself.  I hadn’t read them either – key word “hadn’t.”

My little 6’4″ tall brother and I were discussing dating today.  I have grown very tired of the standard dinner date which more often than not goes like this: Blah blah blah - oh really? that’s great – blah blah blah – I just laughed at your dumb joke but I didn’t really think it was funny – blah blah blah - do I look interested? – blah blah blah – wow I should be an actress – blah blah blah.

Of course a dinner date is a great first date but after the first initial few dates it’s nice to get out and DO something.  My brother told me I should start playing “Spice up your life” by the Spice Girls for boys who wish to take me on multiple dates.

I wasn’t sure.  I haven’t actually listened to the words of that song.  But ScottPete does usually give good advice ;) so I decided to read the lyrics.  Here’s what I found.

La la la la la la la la la, La la la la la la la, La la la la la la la la la, La la la la la la la,

So far so good.  I’m all about the “La-la”s.

When you’re feeling sad and low, we will take you where you gotta go. Smiling, dancing, everything is free. All you need is positivity.

Ok – not as good as the “La-la”s but let’s see what’s next.

Colours of the world (spice up your life!) Every boy and every girl (spice up your life!) People of the world (spice up your life!) Aah…

Hmm. I want these boys to spice up MY life – not their own.

Slam it to the left (if you’re having a good time)  Now there is a discrepancy to this one – I found an alternate version that says “Slam ME to the left” Shake it to the right (if you know that you feel fine) Chicas to the front (huh huh) and go round Hi, see ya, hold tight! La la la la la la la la la, La la la la la la la, La la la la la la la la la, La la la la la la la

I love the “La-la”s.

Yellow men in Timbuktu. Colour for both me and you. Kung-fu fighting, dancin queen. Tribal spaceman and all that’s in between. Flamenco, lambada, but hip-hop is harder. We moonwalk the foxtrot, then polka the salsa. Shake it shake it shake it, haka! Shake it shake it shake it, haka! Arriba!

That last verse was poetically beautiful. Yep!  ScottPete is right.  THIS is the song for the boys I date.  I think I’m just going to print out the lyrics and go from there.

You can hate AND be happy

I don’t hate a lot of things.

WHY?

Because most hating is a waste of energy and I don’t like to waste my energy.  ) It’s that simple.

But what about the rest of hating?  You know, the hating that isn’t a waste of energy?  Like the hating of inanimate objects.

Well.  I LUV that kind of hating.  ) For example, I hate my kitchen.  I LUV hating my kitchen and if you sat down and gave it some thought (which I absolutely do NOT recommend you do) you could almost say that I actually love my kitchen.  What?  Bear with me here.

If I didn’t have my kitchen I would be unable to hate it – which means I would be unable to love hating it – and as such I would be unable to feel love for as many things in my life.  And THAT is also simple and simply stupid.

So yeah.  I feel pretty good about this.  The world just wouldn’t be as much fun without the ability to hate inanimate objects.  It’s like Alain De Botton said in “The Consolations of Philosophy,”

We may be powerless to alter certain events, but we remain free to choose our attitude towards them, and it is in our spontaneous acceptance of necessity that we find our distinctive freedom.

I DO have control over my attitude and I’m pretty sure that loving to hate inanimate objects was exactly what he was talking about.  I have found a new freedom by accepting that although I cannot control my kitchen or the oven which I swear is the devil’s spawn – I can appreciate my talent at hating that which I cannot control and choose to LUV the emotion.  LUV makes the world go round and by LOVING the hate which I feel towards the inanimate objects that are out to get me, my hate and I are doing our parts to keep the world spinning.  I can hate AND be happy.

I don’t really like raisins

I don’t really like raisins.  And to be honest, I don’t really like any dried fruit.  So WHY did I buy the Organic Fruit Clusters? I have no idea.  I think it’s because I have this twisted desire to try gross things.  I also have the desire for others to experience the same gross things that I do, but THAT desire is not twisted.  

Today on the bus was GREAT!  I looked out the window and saw the most DELIGHTFUL scene.  It was one of those “What’s wrong with this picture?” moments.  There he was, in the middle of an empty salon (it had closed for the evening,) in the dark, standing next to a mirror, with no shirt on, beer gut exposed, blow drying his comb-over. Confused 7

So guess what?  I found the following emoticon today.

Jabba

HAHAHAHAHAHA!  I love the original Star Wars.  And by love I mean that I think they’re classic.

OK – so now that this post has succeeded in being absolutely POINTLESS!  I’ve decided to leave you with another fab quote from “The Consolations of Philosophy.“   Schopenhauer, a great philospher, once said:

Our greatest pleasure consists in being admired; but the admirers, even if there is every cause, are not very keen to express their admiration.  And so the happiest man is he who has managed sincerely to admire himself, no matter how.

I think I’m going to have to step up these blogs if I’m going to admire them!  HAHA!  Just kidding.  Any blog post that has a Jabba EMOTICON warrants mad props.  How could I NOT admire it?  ;)

Ah … happy is she who delights in the simple things in life.

Yes. Yes.  Happy is me.

I haven’t forgotten about my gratitude journal.

Sunday I was grateful for my room.  After being out and about all weekend it was soooo nice to go home and relax.  YAY!  I even have a couple vases with flowers – ah – so pretty!

Monday I was grateful for the public transportation system.  Yes I hate it but without it I would have to live in a dorm … so that means I’m grateful for it!  )

Today I am grateful for my flatmates.  I am invited out to fun activities with them all of the time.  This weekend is a themed dress-up party.  I can’t wait!!

Dude that’s Heaps-Cool

My new favorite set of phrases revolve around the use of one of the most popular words in Australia: “heaps.”

And btw – seriously do you know how frustrating it is to have your internet go off for an entire weekend?   It makes me this frustrated.

Ok back on track.  The word “heaps” is easy to throw into your vocabulary.  Like I’m going to take HEAPS of photos today.  Or there are heaps of things I can’t eat because I’m gluten AND dairy intolerant. 

It’s simple right? But I bet you didn’t know the BEST and COOLEST way to use the word “heaps.”

heaps-cool, heaps-bad, heaps-smart, heaps-sweet, heaps-hot etc.

Examples:

Heaps-cool – a 40 year nasty guy trying to pick up on me.
Heaps-hot – a chic whose make-up is so thick you would need a spatula to scrape it off.
Heaps-smart – when a friend had to explain to me how to use an AUS vending machine I felt heaps-smart.

Look – I’m flippin in love with these adjectives.  And if you have any heaps-sweet examples of things that are heaps-cool-bad-sweet-or-hot … please comment. D I love it so much that I even called ScottPete and told him.  Because pretty much if he and I want to be heaps-bad we’re going to have to be heaps-cool.  oh yeah – that’s right.  It’s pretty flippin heaps-awesome.

Episode 4 – What does Daisy decide to do?

If you missed out on the last Episode in The Days of My Life in Bondi 2026 you can catch up on it here.

Ok so there we were – NOT KISSING in a way on the street because kissing really tall, hot, intelligent men with accents is gross!!  When I was faced with a decision.  Do I take CommitmentPhobe up on his offer to shuttle me out of the cold?

Please feel free to EXTRA roll your eyes right about …. NOW.  I decided to say yes no.  Yeah that’s right – I said yes no and was like pretty much in shock when somehow we ended up cuddled up on the balcony of his flat, (to stay warm of course) gazing at the moon’s reflection on the clear ocean water just below.

The rest of it went pretty much like this: blah blah blah blah blah – except it really WAS blah blah blah blah blah. What??

??  ??

That boy is a talker! Want to know where he got the name CommitmentPhobe? How about from the hours he spent explaining his fear of commitment to me when he SHOULD have been kissing NOT kissing me!!

I’m not going to lie – it was like WHOA!  Ok!  Thanks for OVERSHARING!  Glad to know you have those issues and felt like telling me.  But for real … are we not at your flat after you so not kissed me on the street?  Did you think I was serious about your having cooties?  Because I was … but now that you’ve been talking to me about your relationship issues before we’ve even gone on an official date … well … I’ve changed my mind!!!

You’re emotionally unavailable?  Sign me up for that ride!!!  And that’s when I practically fell in love with him because I’ve always loved unavailable men best!!  yay!! Or maybe I just got bored and decided to change HIS mind …

So insert a little blah blah blah of the kind and please don’t be surprised that he bothered to get my number this time – hmm, imagine that .

UP NEXT:
Episode 5 – The one where I become a BOY.  Poor me – for real.