Can’t even get the Bruschetta anymore!
I’m in a mood, you’ll just have to deal with it.
The top five things annoying me right now (I could have done a hundred but I decided to spare you the complete list because I don’t want to put you in a mood too).
- My bra shop is closing down. This is a catastrophe people. Being a big-breasted woman in a small-breasted world is DIFFICULT! This was the only shop in town that stocked size F. Oh yes I got all excited recently when Target had a couple of size F numbers, let me tell you Bonds girls have a different size F to the rest of the world.
- There is no bookshop in my town. This sucks. I like seeing books in real life before I hand over my cash. I like to find new titles by wandering the aisles. I don’t know what I’m looking for until I see it. Just spent a fortune online trying to get books covering every HSC subject Hippie Child is doing, because all that stupid information on the internet is convoluted, useless and usually irrelevant. We need FOCUS.
- The writers of Offspring. I’m back to watching via the ads again but it seems that guy Nina was having hot sex with is married with a wife who just gave birth to his child in Nina’s hospital. Seriously writers, you’ve already killed her husband, can’t you cut the woman a break!
- One of my favourite cafes deciding to just serve all day breakfast. I don’t eat breakfast, I don’t like breakfast. I like nice lunches at midday not bloody SCRAMBLED EGGS. Why? Why would you remove all your other meals?
- Everything that is happening in the world. I want peace, love and happiness. I think I’ll give up listening to the news. Which may be a little difficult when I go to work in a news radio station. Perhaps I’ll issue a directive that I’m the “good news” content maker, only fluffy, good time stories from me.
Right, I’m done, anything you want to get off your chest?
I don’t get to frequent cafés as much now that we live in a tourist city (the prices are OTT), but my favourite thing to have for breakfast was lunch. I’d be the one ordering pasta at 10 in the morning.
I usually borrow books from the library, but I still enjoy perusing the aisles of a book shop. I love the feel of the paper in my hands, I soak up all the beautiful images with my eyes and there’s a certain smell to new books that is somehow soothing.
I know we are a tourist town too and the prices are silly.
I hate breakfast too. Such a waste of a meal out. Give me some Vegemite toast at home then treat me to some REAL food when I eat out.
EXACTLY.
If I’d known how upset you’d get about the bra shop closing down I would have poured you another wine on Sunday. However after delivering you that bad news I have some good news on gripe number 2. It was in the paper last week that we apparently getting a Collins book store 🙂 ps which cafe is it?
Clearly you didn’t understand my pain! Hurray about Collins.
If you can get to Sydney, there is a huge bookshop in the Galleries in George Street. I could spend a week in there with no trouble!
Next time I’m in Sydney I’m there!
Bookstore opening in Port Central… With coffee, wine, author talks….can’t wait! Apparently construction starts next month. Could be the new coffee meeting place. Hooray!
There is a God!
Obviously the answer to open your own coffeeshop/bookshop that doesn’t do breakfast. Tourists like me would come and love it. We have one here in our dying western NSW town of 8000 people. Everyone uses it. The town would be lost without it. And they do a roaring trade following presentation nights for the schools. It doesn’t serve coffee, or stock bras, but that doesn’t seem to matter. If anyone ever visits Inverell, visit The Dust Jacket. Now that’s the sort of shop I can imagine you in (complete with the coffee out the back). Here’s to winning Powerball this week.
Oh what I could do with Powerball!
You made me smile. When I was in my original homeland Canada a few years ago (visiting) I went to “my” bra shop. Where had all “my” bras gone? They discontinued my size!!!! WHAT??? How is that possible? Like my breasts don’t matter and everyone else’s do? LIKE I don’t exist? Apparently it was their lowest seller. YEAH! I kid you not, my size was their lowest seller. I sat on the curb outside the store and cried. YUP!!! I have a love hate relationship with these tits and that was just too much to bear.
Also, very much hate Offspring!! Not a very creative show. Gave up after a few episodes. Have you tried looking into Netflix. We pay $5 a month for http://www.unblock-us.com. They give you an American IP Address. Then we pay for Netflix. You can’t get Netflix in Australia with out a North American IP address. All up I think we pay $13 a month. So much cheaper than Foxtel, and you can pause shows wherever, and they have THOUSANDS OF SHOWS. But you do need good internet 🙂
Oh I so feel your pain!
montessori for alzheimer’s patients is not fluffy. it’s awesome! and it’s real science. you do good work, janine! regarding your gripes – you’re entitled to ’em!
i’m with you 150% about bookstores! I do buy online, but try to buy more in real stores. and not half-price ones. i think books are part of what make an educated, civilized society. so keep reading, and let’s give books as gifts, too, shall we? blessings, n
There will be a blog post about this next week. I got my wisdom teeth out on Friday. I woke up after the surgery and was trying to engage the nurse in conversation and they just kept ignoring me and talking to my roommate because “I wouldn’t remember it anyway” – well, I was wide awake the rest of the day and feeling fine and I don’t feel like I should have been ignored. So frustrated. I’m also sad about your book shop situation. Maybe that can be your next business venture.
Oh getting your wisdom out is the worst. Hope you are feeling better.