Dancing: What women want

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I'm taking my ball and going home....

So this is what being an adult is all about - same playground but when people leave, they take a hell of a lot more than their ball home....

No Expectations

Life doesn't happen how you expect it, life just happens.

Scary Robots & Simulated Privacy - ooo Baby

"Nothing gets a woman in your arms faster than scary robots and simulated privacy."

- Homer Simpson

Songs of Love

Have you ever noticed that when you are in the throws of getting into or out of a relationship, 95% of the songs you hear are about love? It's really frustrating if you're trying to get the 'third party' off your mind.

As I was walking home from work today I kept having to skip songs on my ipod to find something without a love theme. Then, just as I was rounding the corner to the train station I came across a couple kissing on the side walk - I thought god damn what is this an Alley McBeal episode? I have never seen anyone kissing on that side street in my entire life!

Ok yes I think you do tend to read into situations more when you are in that head space but sometimes it really is totally uncanny....

I finished my Monday watching Battle of the Choirs when the words of this heart wrenching Cold Play song, Fix You was enough to tip me over the edge.....

And high up above or down below
When you're too in love to let it go
But if you never try you'll never know
Just what you're worth.......

Extraordinary

If you want to live an extraordinary life you have to do extraordinary things.

Self-fulfilling Prophecies

Ok so I've written about getting your ducks in a row, I've written about the true one night stand and I've written about that awful in between stage of not knowing what to say or when to ring.

I guess I haven't really written about love yet though and all the ridiculous stuff we do to either consciously or subconsciously avoid it. We all have patterns around our behaviour - the trick is to work out what they are and then how to avoid getting stuck in these same patterns, doing the same things over and over again. See there I go already getting off the topic of love again....

Here's my current theory for my 'love pattern'..

I hate getting being stuck in between the just friend or does he like me more, or just sex or is this going somewhere stage. I lost a male friend, really close buddy when I was younger because that whole cross over stage went ass up. I really blamed myself for that, I thought how stupid of me, I lost a lifelong friend because I thought I was in love with him.

I think perhaps from that experience I therefore thought - shit I'm crap at this, I'm going to ruin any sort of relationship when it gets to that stage and since then I pretty much have.

If you have a big enough racket about something, you are bound to self fulfil your own prophecy.

You know it's cold when....

You know it's cold when you pour yourself a cold drink from the fridge, forget that it's there for 3 hours and then come back to it to find that it's still cold!

Murphys Law of Dating

In this day and age there is no real dating 'standard' to adhere to. It's just all a matter of opinion - some say don't sleep with a new potential until the third date, some say the third month, other say if it feels right just do it whenever. Then... once you do head down that path, was it just sex, or did it seem like it was actually making love? Not exactly a subject you broach at date four. You just mull it over and over in your head until you are forced to go to the gym and run on a treadmill for 30 minutes to clear your head.

So when you do get to that stage of hmm is it just sex and a few dates or is it a possible blossoming relationship - what on earth is the next step? Do you risk him doing a runner by trying to broach the subject upfront. Do you wait until you both are tipsy on a bottle of wine and bring it up as a underhanded joke?

It almost seems like, if you are too eager to take a relationship to that next stage, then you kill off the possibility of that level of intimacy by freaking the other party out.

So therefore is it only when you are not craving that level of intimacy that it is possible to obtain it? That almost sounds a bit Buddhist to me (in a bizarre way) - ie it is only when you realise that you are an idiot that you become wise etc etc...

Treeboards

"I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all."

- Ogden Nash
Poet (1902 - 1971)

Craughing

There have been several occasions in the last week or so that I've caught myself crying and laughing at the same time. No seriously - fully crying and laughing my ass off a the exact same time. It really is possible - it's a bizarre experience. After recovering from my last 'episode' I was trying to think of a name for it - and voila craughing came to mind. It appears however that someone as brilliant as myself thought this up a long time ago - see reference on the Urban Dictionary website. Although unlike their definition I've never had someone around to "make them laugh and they start craughing" - i didz it all on my ownsome.

It also then occurred to me that those old school online acronyms LOL would become COL and ROFL, ROFC. Yes I know - my mind wanders at times.....

Generally I tend to 'craugh' if you will, when I've been thinking of something I've done or said - and fortunately or unfortunately depending on your glass full/empty point of view I've done a fair few things lately that are absolutely hilarious in retrospect but in a weird tear jerky way. And yes - they are all worth a whole post in their own right but even as an anonymous blogger I'm still hestiantly conservative about what I put up on here... but hopefully not for long!

Life

"Life without the 'f' is a lie."
- Unknown

Person

Last week I had an interview for a fantastic job at a firm that would have to be in the top 3 of my list of potential employers. What was even better was that I was head hunted for it! I got _the_ phone call from the State Manager today but it was to bring bad news, not good, that I had come very close but not been successful.... in my misery I wrote this to cheer myself up:

person

person that jumped out of a plane

that applied for med school, sat the exam and did fucking well

that takes life by the balls and goes for it

do not be sad

there are no triumphs in life without downfalls

no ups without downs

love that you are unhappy only because you went for it and were not succesful

love that you are only sad because _YOU WENT FOR IT_

better to be sad about trying and failing than being sad about not trying at all

Powerfully Relax

"Your ability to generate power is directly proportionate to your ability to relax."
- David Allen

Awe or Eww?

Is it just me, or have song lyrics regressed to an all time low in the last 6 months? When I heard Snoops - Coma song awhile ago I thought hmm yep they're scraping the barrel but then yesterday I heard this Jordon Sparks song on the radio with the catch phrase of the chorus being - now wait for it....... "Just like a tattoo, I'll always have you."

Everyone say awww.... or ewww?!




Pity - because apart from the bad chorus lyrics it's a great song!

One Hit Wonder

If you watched the ABC's new show, 'The Gruen Transfer' last Thursday you would've seen 'The Pitch' segment - will post the video of it after this. The two advertising firms who were up against each other were given the task of selling celibacy. Both pitches were great but Lowe's was defintley the funniest/more believable.

The following night I hit the town after some work drinks and ran into 'Mr Beard' - a friend of one of my colleagues who has, on a previous occasion, managed to slide into first base. After not returning the one and only sms I sent him suggesting a follow up coffee I had written him off as just another smooze artist.

So, needless to say, it was funny to run into him again with mutual friends around. After a few more beverages and dancing to tasteless 90's dance music I could see where the night was most likely heading - and I thought why not?! He's a guaranteed one night stand only so there's no baggage or weirdness about follow up. He was a bit of a looker and - as an added bonus, it would be a great way to break the dry spell.

What could be better!?

Well yes.... famous last words that.

As per the catch phrase from Lowe's pitch - "Sex... it's always better in your head."

Ducks in a Row

If getting all your ducks in a perfect row isn't what life is about then what is it?

If you spend all your time getting your ducks in a row then will you end up regretting everything you missed while trying to organise said ducks?

But then if you aren't supposed to be striving for arrayed ducks then what should you be striving for?

First thing that popped into my mind is happiness.

So should we be striving for happiness, not highly perfected and arrayed lives where are our floors are sparkling clean and our dinners are organised 2 weeks in advance?

I know I put off a lot of things because I want to get x, y and z done perfectly first before I even think of a, b or c. But then a lot of things in my life end up being on hold while many other things are waiting to be done. How does one drop the 'perfect act'. I know I also stress some ppl out with it as well. Strange thing is that I've been able to get past/over it at work but not in my personal life - how does that work?!

The more I think about it the more I realise that I've done this loop before - I've had the 'perfect' job, the 'perfect' car and the 'perfect' apartment but then I was probably the most depressed I ever have been at that time. That said I've come a long long way since then.

I think finding what makes you happy and sticking to it is the key. What will make me happy in the short term is getting a new job. What will make me happy in the long term is getting a new career. I'm doing these both - so I'm on the right path. Life just throws so many curve balls though, sometimes it can feel impossible to get back on the path again - especially without guilt tripping about time lost or shoulda-coulda-wouldas. That said, on my days with sunnier outlooks I've come to the conclusions that although the curve balls in life can be real stinkers, they are what make life worth living. If life throws you a curve ball, expect ten more.