I just found a very amusing image to use as my profile picture.......

Feeling confused and bemused and it's only 9.45.
Wondering what work avoidance strategies I can employ...

Went for another test on my eyes the morning. The Ophthalmologist asked me what I could see on the screen to which I replied "nothing". While carrying on writing he asked if I was sure I couldn't see anything and I said yes at which point he turned around and spotted he hadn't turned the screen light on!

Good grief, I hope not! I'm too much of an English girl to spend any great length of time abroad

Wondering when someone sneaked so many notes into my clarinet pieces all of a sudden.

Which pieces are they? the Weber???

Thing is in a year you'll find them easy or at least you won't be scared of attempting other pieces of the same standard!!! And then what a sense of achievement !!

That's what's happened to me over the last year.... now "I'm just a girl who cain't say no!" (clarinet wise anyway )

My Band's in Italy right now...... Could be performing somewhere as we speak..... (well post)

The Weber, yes....... Spring has some to fit in too.
Looking at other stuff I have it looks like lots of notes (and all getting close together and friendly with each other) is not going to be uncommon.....

Arghhhhhhhh. I hate situations where you can't decide if you should feel upset or really,really angry! I think I'm both

I am actually too busy with real life to post much on the forums.
(I never thought I would say that!!)

Good to hear that your life has become more fulfilling, maledictis. I'm glad you've found the time to pop in and tell us so.

Not sure about fulfilling, just busier, I guess...

And of course using the internet can, when done properly, be part of a very fulfilling life....

Good point!

Why do some animals have names for boys and girls which are different to animal names, but some don't?

Examples to make it clear:
Pigs are collectively pigs. A girl pig is a sow, a boy pig is a boar. All fine and clear.

Ducks are collectively ducks. A girl duck is a duck, a boy duck is a drake. So if you say 'a duck', you might mean a girl one, or you might mean a generic one.

Dogs are collectively dogs. A girl dog is a b!tch, a boy dog is a dog. So 'a dog' might mean a boy or a generic canine.

Cattle are collectively cattle, but usually called cows. You don't say 'oh there's a cattle in that field', you say 'there's a cow in that field'. But a cow is a girl-cattle, a boy-cattle is a bull.


Such are the things I am wondering this morning...

It is good to know that the 3 billion years of evolution that have produced the human mind were not wasted.

If you pulled the wings off a fly, would you call it a "walk"?

Thank you for the (unintended?) compliment, but I suspect I am not actually the pinnacle of evolution!!

I'd called it injured....

Or grounded?

Me liked my use of grammmerrr there

lol!

Off out for a curry to celebrate 18 years together for my hubbie and I. Luckily they said that they will do an omelette and chips for son as he wont eat curry.

Get a nice walk too in the bargain!

I'm actually quite shocked/upset... a friend of mine decided she needed to have an op done (and has now had the procedure completed) on her mammaries for "confidence", when she already looked absolutely fine and in proportion beforehand.

I really don't get it, blokes would trip over themselves for someone like her even before the maiming, but she never realises/accepts it

Even worse is the fact that another of my female friends wants to do the same, but she has a perfect figure already IMO... Gah!

Well that's the sublime pressure of airbrushing for you. We are supposed to look like Barbie dolls, thin, hairless, no pores, no spots/blemishes and huge boobs. It's ridiculous, I agree.
Only yesterday I had to patch Jen up because she'd shaved her legs...........her friends at school kept teasing her because she's dark haired. She's 9 for goodness sake.

*sigh* Society fails. I've been trying to talk the other friend out of it for the past hour... she's terrified of the procedure, booked for Feb, so I'm hoping I can instill some sanity in her before then.

As for the dark hair thing and Jen, maybe ask her how she thinks she'll stand out in a crowd of peroxide? Brunettes and Reds are the way forward - why be a sheep?

I shall never ever dye my hair blonde Sol..............just for you. ( Never mind the fact it would look terrible on me )

You look lovely as you are, Bev

HINT: Don't leave the tub of Bisto granules next to the Kenco coffee jar!

I also found not to leave moisturiser next to the shampoo.... Not pleasant...

(not my moisturiser btw)

no offence to anybody, but I don't get the point of having "chest enhancement" surgery-surely they just get in the way?! a girl in my year at school (aged sixteen) could frequently be heard talking very loudly about her desire to have such procedures done-I just don't get it!! But as TheOldLady says, that's the pressure of airbrushing

So many of the forum's Woodwind (and Brass) players seem to live in the North (at least from the perspective of where I am situated).

"The North Wind doth blow ...."

I'll get in with the crack about "hot air" before anyone else does

"Snow joke!"

Finished book 6 (the last one) in the series I was reading. Now feel really gutted

I think I take too much refuge in the escapism of reading, real life just seems to be so much more dull once I finish an epic

You should try living here. I long for some smooth passages of time.

Me too... When things are 'dull' I just *know* that something is going to wrong before too long.

Omg, I made it into today's top ten posters
That has never happened before! I feel like I've won an award! LOL
PSL

I had chest de-enhancement surgery many years ago - that is I had quite a lot chpped off the left side on account of a growth. Then I got some more cut off in France because the offending object grew back and as no one was sure if it was cancerous or not (some medical student even wrote a thesis on its rarity) they thought they had better get it out. The result is that I am now asymmetric! I don't care. I'm just gald to be alive and for the record I wouldn't mind too much if they cut both sides right off! I could then be a bilateral Amazon.

I am glad you are alive too Aquarelle. Priorities and all that.
A couple of friends and I were moaning a bit about big birthdays coming up in a couple of years time, and Sharon said be thankful you are there in one piece. ...............she has had cancer 3 times.

I do agree with all the above! Just heard of 2 "mums" afflicted with the big C - makes you stop and think.

Does anyone ever think they're psychic? 2 or 3 things have happened recently just after I've been thinking about them. Very odd feeling.

This has happened to me quite a few times, too! It's abit creepy really

The trouble with coincidence, is that you only notice it when events coincide. Such confluence of events is however so very much outnumbered by those events which do not coincide, thereby raising no sense of alarm or creepiness.

How many times have you thought about someone/something and nothing more come of it? That nothing comes of it, doesn't register because it's the norm.

Stand in a room and ask someone to point out something symmetrical and they'll look for any sort of 'butterfly' type configuration they can find. Point to a blank wall though and they'd look at you puzzled - just as you may well be now! - but a truly homogeneous blank wall represents countless (mathematical) symmetries, not merely the two that make a special case, the two that stand out.

Does Matalan's Papaya clothing range only go down to a size 8? such are the things I ponder at a little after half past midnight!

Fire alarms. Again.

Like Jordan was far more attractive when she was the entirely natural Katie Price.

Yep. One thing I've noticed with these "enhancements" as well, is that the extra "confidence" gained can change a person beyond recognition. I knew one person that'd had it done a few years ago, the surgeon seems to have accidentally installed a load of arrogance to go with the silicone! The whole "if you've got it, flaunt it" thing makes some lose a bit of self-respect, I think.

Sorry, I appear to be turning into a miserable old ###!

Yeah, you'll be needing a helping hand onto your soap box

The soap box is fine, it's the high horse I'm a bit worried about!

Good grief, that is a VERY high horse!!