let the games begin...

another day closer to the end of 2004. in a way it's a bit exciting. you get to chuck everything out the window on new year's eve and start all nice and new and shiny on the 1st of january, 2005. unfortunately i cannot leave my credit card debt in 2004...so i'll just have to pay it...in case that old superstition comes true. whatever you are doing or whatever you have on the 1st...will be there for the rest of the year. ok ok...so i'm a bit paranoid. i'm so excited...i have two days off...IN A ROW!!!! yes, that's really sad i know. this is the extent of my social life...getting excited about having two days off.

• numerous dodgy hair dye jobs which resulted in scalp turning pink, and very VERY dyed roots
• birds of paradise plants
• OPERATION 4th WHEEL
• the infamous trolley in dandy plaza episode
• last but not least...the unwavering friendships that have existed through food disasters, idiot guys, retail horrors, and the silly little things that make life the way it is.

so here's to one more day of 2004...may we use it to wreak revenge and clear up our debts in order to have a rocking 2005! omg i need a life.

tick...tick...tick

yet another day of hell complete. everyone at work is walking around like zombies. i guess that's what you get for being obsessed with work and money. ah well...such is life. i haven't really though about many more moments...i think my brain has zonked out from being in the one place for too long. but here's my best shot!

• catchphrase of the year: "get that thing away from me!!!!!"
• discovering that we really take a long time in the bathroom to get ready for a ball
• dining at the "cool" (scoffs) places in glen waverley
• i think this was a 2003 moment...but anyway. attempting to cut my own fringe...then racing off to the hairdresser to get it fixed up. his exact words were "don't ever try that again"
• having numerous conversations in VERY public areas about...ahem...taboo topics...in rather loud voices
• getting my bag stolen at the freaking uni library...having it returned complete with my CD COLLECTION!!!! and minus dodgy overseas phone
• living without said phone for 2 weeks and managing to piss off many people because they couldn't contact me
• accidently slamming my thumb into car door and having this hideous internal bleeding...which was useful in horrifying many people. never fear it has finally grown out and thumb is back to normal

some other viking mistress hurry up and add to this. i'm drowning because i can't think of anything!!

ticking time bomb

another christmas over...and soon another year over. i'm feeling in the festive mood (again) and have decided to compile my list of memorable moments that have happened this year. i'll probably add as i go along...my memory hasn't been so good lately. or maybe i can list some quotes and you can guess who said them! nah that's too much brain power. 3 more days of 2004!!! whoopeeee! well not really...it's just the end of another somewhat eventful/uneventful year, and the start of probably a most interesting year.

• spending 10 weeks on my own...and having a car accident the day my parents come back
• surviving 5 weeks in the country...and coming back relatively unscathed (some may say i picked up a few oddities)
• the fabulous 21st birthdays...and some rather creative birthday messages..."HAPPY 21ST BIRTHDAY!!!"
• the creation of viking mistresses (the mistresses, not the blog)...i can't even remember when we started that
• the beginning of the mini skirts
• helga's many accounts of being wolf-whistled/checked out/etc
• the wall of protest (ie. my wardrobe doors)
• helga's fascination with HE that therefore led to being mentioned in his 21st speech
• helga's fascination with many guys
• i've run out of moments...will continue when i'm more awake

on the 12th day of x'mas

Helga is sitting here talking to Olga on X'mas day at 12:50am....why?? i have no bloody idea considering we had like spent 4 out of the last 5 bloody days actually together where we saw each other....just discovered Olga is one big nong...like NONG.

MERRY X'MAS EVERYONE!!!! HOPE YOU GUYS HAVE A VERY SAFE AND ENJOYABLE HOLIDAY.....AND NOT TOO MUCH EGGNOG!!

Helga singing out *JINGLE BELLS DASHING THROUGH THE SNOW RUDOLPH THE RED NOSE REINDEER SILENT NIGHT AWAY IN A MANGER*
P.S I LOVE HOLIDAYS AND THE FACT I CAN COUNT IN AN ASCENDING MANNER

merry christmas baby

since it is christmas, i guess i'm allowed to speak in riddles also. although grey skies are looming overhead...and the light at the end of the tunnel is getting further and further away...i am pretty ok with everything (christmas shoppers included).

so twas the day before christmas...and olga had to freaking wake up at 4.30am to get to work at 6am...evil myer. WHO THE HELL SHOPS AT 6AM IN THE MORNING?!?!?!?!??!?! anyway, it was sooo good to clock off at 12 noon. although i think going 24hr shopping the night before did little to alleviate my severe sleep deprivation. ok so it was partly my fault...but ANWAY...moving on.

another year over...freakishly quickly. if i'm feeling creative...i might compile a list of "memorable 2004 moments" in time for new year's eve. hah. if i'm alive after boxing day sales. the joys of retail and the materialistic motives of olga.

MERRY MERRY CHRISTMAS!

on the 11th day of x'mas....

Helga gets woken up by annoying-golf-loving-having-to-wake-up-at-the-crack-dawn-to-go-play-golf brother who just wants to remind her that she has to plan x'mas lunch and dinner tomorrow and that he wants to play so it should all be bbq style.....and all this after spending 4 hrs at chadstone for the 24hr shopping...

chadstone - 1
helga - 0

did i get anything substantial from the night?? not really...not unless you count finding out that some of your closest (i'll include you in this category piney dan...you're cool, plus you find those weird but funny teen girl squad movies) friends have *ahhhummmm* raging libido's and are just more adventurous then you would think *wink wink*.....oh and i bought food...does that count???

not sure what the hell i am going on about?? if anyone of you guys have like 2 hrs up your sleeve, would like to breathe, and want good company where you find out there deepest darkest secrets about your companions then grab a drink, a couple of astrology/horoscope books (particulary that which gives insights into the many aspects of one's life!!) and bob's your uncle...pure entertainment!!

Helga actually singing out coherently despite lack of sleep (yes Olga i know not as lack of sleep as you...) *HO HO HO HO HO HO HO HO HO HO HO HO HO HO*
P.S. I LOVE (i think i am running out of these) X'MAS SHOWS DESPITE SEEING IT ALL AFTER 16 YEARS....AND BEING ABLE TO COHERENTLY TYPE DESPITE LACK OF SLEEP

on the 10th day of x'mas

Helga sitting here planning a scrumdiliumious x'mas dinner/lunch (depends on when she actually wakes up...) and getting hungry again.....

Helga getting hungry (again....) *RUMBBBBBBBBBLLLLLLLEEEEEEEE*
P.S. I LOVE FALLING ASLEEP AFTER A GREAT X'MAS LUNCH

on the 9th day of x'mas...

Helga sat very bored at work with nothing to do getting very hungry waiting for yummy x'mas lunch and listening to the wine bottles swish around near her.....

bad news...

Annie did NOT save any cake for us....she ate it all....however she would like to mention that it was yummy.

Helga getting hungry *rummmmmbbbbbbllllleeeeeeeeeeee*
P.S. I LOVE X'MAS LUNCHES

spreading the christmas cheer!

[quote] P.S I LOVE FRIENDS WITH GOOD MEMORIES [unquote] : that would be ME as in OLGA who has the good memory.

happy 21st fannie!

B'day cheers...

HAPPY 21ST BIRTHDAY DEAREST ZELDA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
now you didn't think that we would forget right?!?!?!?!?! as if!!!!!
now that you have turned 21 you must do the following things...

1. get cake
2. eat cake
3. get 2nd cake
4. don't eat 2nd cake
5. save cake
6. give cake....to us!!

hope u got all the b'day pressies that you wished for and many more....

Helga on behalf of all the other viking mistresses singing out *HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU...*
P.S I LOVE FRIENDS WITH GOOD MEMORIES

Mrs Claus has left the building

Chadstone + X'mas holidays + screaming kids = headache
Pancake parlour + friend (Olga) who eats just as much as you = full tummy

Hallelujah we viking mistresses and our loyal followers have found our new bible....MEN BE SCARED...BE VERY VERY SCARED.

Helga singing out *YODALADIDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO*
P.S I LOVE SLEEP AND FOOD

"he's just not that into you"

and so the new viking mistress mantra is stated in concrete. this book cracks me up! it provided many pearls of wisdom...well most of it i knew anyway

• you already have one asshole. you don't need another
• an excuse is a polite rejection (oh how i am so familiar with this)
• "hey let's meet at so-and-so's party/any bar/friend's house" is not a date
• murky? not good
• life is hard enough as it is without choosing someone difficult to share it with

ok that's enough of that. to get the whole humour of it...you have to actually read the whole book. anyway, my wonderful weekend of freedom is coming to an end. it's back to the city...and myer...and esprit tomorrow. how wonderful. not really. but at least i scored the day shift! thank heavens for that. i hate working nights. anyway, i wanted to add a bit of red because it IS christmas week...yippee! well not really...but the festive season cheers anyone up. merry early christmas viking mistresses out there.

Sporadic

what a cute word!! until this...

[quote] "A disease that occurs infrequently and irregularly"[/quote].....now that was definately not what i had in mind when i was thinking of a grown-up-more-than-one-syllable-word to describe our beautiful blog.

Hey Olga (aka...B) at least with the two of us making posts in this blog it inadvertently (hey i'm on a roll with these big words) makes it seem like we're spreading some christmas cheers....the red and green...get it?? *tick tick tick tick...anne's brain...ticking over trying to make sense....*
Let's hope the other (slack...you guys know i love u!!) girls don't come and ruin our good thing here!

HI JANE KIM THE FAITHFUL ONE WHO STILL VISITS US HERE EVEN THOUGH WE DON"T MAKE SENSE SO SHE GETS CONFUSED...

Helga's other cute words of the day...

• infatuated
• confiscated
• located
• allocated
• caffinenated
• jeanniecated
• helgacated

Helga singing out *YODALADIDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO*
P.S I LOVE PARAGRAPHS AND DOT POINTS.

smelly hair dye

ok so why am i still the only one writing? because i have no life. i see. so day two of the seven day hell that is esprit has just finished. i swear...christmas brings out the devil in people...it's like they're possessed to act like the craziest shoppers ever.

anyway...off to jeannie's hut at night where we gorged ourselves on food. again. and i got my hair dyed sitting in the middle of jeannie's kitchen. so it's back to natural looking hair! yay! well as natural looking as you can get out of a $12 box of clairol nice and easy. and yes i will probably get bored of it 6 months down the track and dye it red or something and round we go in the vicious cycle. but my hair still has that smelly ammonia smell. yucky.

will go back to staring into space. olga off to the wonderful world of sleep

saturday night fever

i just got home from a 10 hour work day and what do i find? my parents out. and me? at home. i don't know which one is more distressing. if i could be bothered i would drag my sorry ass out somewhere. but the reality is, i really can't be bothered. the thought of a nice peaceful night at home is quite...tempting. plus it's been ages since i've had the whole house to myself. so this is my social calendar. staying at home on a saturday night. how exciting. and what of the sleepover club you ask? well it got moved to tomorrow night. so i find myself with no plans. well there was plans...if i wanted to take them on. but i can't be bothered. this is like the very little time i have off from work. so i'm off to...i dunno. watch tv. sleep. something that doesn't require me to think. olga signing off.

back to reality

so it is the morning of my last day in the country town. and i am very very very relieved. well it's kinda sad to be leaving a place you've been milling around for 5 weeks. oh well...such is life. and so it is back to the horrendous experience that is christmas work. to save myself the trouble of being told off numerous times about my materialistic motives, olga is uncontactable and unavailable for a few days. say starting from tomorrow (saturday 11th) till the following saturday. yes, i had been rostered on for 6 days straight and yes tomorrow was supposed to be my one day off. but my friend who had been rostered on to work for 14 days straight needed a day off and so i did her a favour. how good a friend am i? very. at the expense of my own sanity and flagging social calendar. at least all of my faithful friends will come visit me during the week...yes????!!!!!

i have been working in the country too long. like that's going to happen. olga signing off. in 8 hours she will be HOME for GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Three blind viking mistress (well 2 cos one has 20/20 vision but no hearing)

[quote] "she can see well enough" [/quote]...and so B believes....how ironic
[quote]"every path that B takes will have a troll lurking in the distance"[/quote]...yes perhaps but now one path has one less troll to contend with and by no means does that indicate at all that A has given up cos A can so take man boobies on and squash them into little silcon valleys...A has simply in the worst phrase possible "chosen her side" and now will let matters rest in others hands....side note A was wondering how was PSEUDO BF's party and wanted to say she can't make it to Jane's b'day cos A has to be at airport and A + B's pharmacy friend will go shopping for herself first and if she sees nice pressie then shopping for pressie.

Helga singing a little louder now..*YODALADIDOOOOOOOOOOOOOO*
P.S I LOVE THE X'MAS SPIRIT IN POURING RAIN WITH LEMMINGS AT BOURKE ST MALL

So said the three wise mistresses

[quote] "what A can see...B can see just as well" [/quote]....perhaps...but none can read minds...not even john edwards. And depsite what B may think, B may be on an entirely different path from that of A....and which of the paths shall it be that has trolls??

Helga refusing to sing today.....loudly *yodaladidooooooooooooooooooo*
P.S I LOVE HEATERS but not rose tinted glasses.

Amendment 1.15

639th most recently updated blog as of 6:25:42pm (American whatever-side-of-the-country they-are-on-time) despite me updating it at like 1:24pm (Australian on-the-east-side-of-Down-Under-time).

The changing of the guards

Hmmm...how strange now that the tides are turning. What one can see may not be what another can....why am i being cryptic?? hmmm....got some things/issues on my mind + very full stomach (thanks kamil for making very nice kebab's available to so many) + getting quite bored at new job = the ability to ramble and confuse you guys even more so than normal.

Once tummy has the chance to actually digest food then maybe my brain would be able to utilise those yummy ketone bodies to make sense..in the mean time i shall let those of you, those VERY FEW of you who visit us ponder on such philisophical (is there one to many i's and p's in there???) on my quite mind blowing revelations of the early afternoon.

Helga singing out wistfully *YODALADIDOOOOOOOOOOO*
P.S. I LOVE AIR CONDITIONING.