Oh. Such relief! Today I gathered up my courage into a little sack and took myself to an appointment with someone in a profession that I have previously had no contact with.
“Who?”
This leads me to try and think of others. Hmmm. Weightlifters, swimming coaches, acupuncturists, welders, botanists..jeez…I could go on but I won’t.
I went to see An Accountant!
He was the one Heidi suggested both because she said he was good and because if I went (referred by her) she gets a $100 Myer vouchure. Not bad! Now I’m going to refer Oliver…I’m already putting together a Myer wishlist in my noggin ;o)

So further on my accountancy romp…I went with a sense of doom due to the facts that;

But it seems (fingers/toes crossed) that my punt on the side of slackness (the kind that very rarely seem to pay off) did! The tax from my other years covers the amount I owe and (hopefully) then some. So I shelled out my $300 via my exhausted piece of plastic as happily as could be expected, and now am wait wait waiting for ten days time when all will be revealed.


I cannot recommend coming home and sitting in the sun knocking back a glass of Coopers Stout more highly. Particularly if someone else has bought it for you and has defrosted the glacier…sorry…fridge in your absence so it now no longer needs to be approached with caution. Relationship Points = 47

Speaking of the wonders of beer. Raised By Chaffinches is a site that I am enjoying reading a lot. Though it tends to give me that gagged kind of feeling - this happens when the blog has no comment function. Anyway, this bloke amuses me greatly. Particularly his reference to going out drinking with a mate who refers to his wife as Myra (as in Hindley) and, when questioned by her about what the hell has he been doing for the past eight hours (drinking at the pub) he can’t think and just blurts out,
‘Learning magic tricks?’
LOL.

Check out my books over there on the left - I gave up sticking in my own when I discovered (…am I starting to sound like an infomercial? sorry) allconsuming which gives you a little javascript thingy to paste into your page and you can just update what you’re reading on their site, comment on it, see who else has read it etc. etc. But the only thing I haven’t figured out is how to add a book they don’t list when there are other books with the same name. I am confuseable. The book in question is Shane Maloney’s Something Fishy…never mind.

One last bit of blather being that I followed a link from the Chaffinch site to a page that deals with a topic I find singularly hilarious - misheard lyrics. I went and poked around to see if my fave misheard lyric was there. No joy. So here goes. I used to live with two rabid Kate Bush fans. Rabid. Box set rabid. There were a few Kate Bush fanzines (I know, just believe me) floating around and one had a misheard lyrics column. In The Saxaphone Song someone heard:
The can opening over your shoulder is thrilling….
Until one second ago when I did a search on it, I remembered the proper version as:
The candle burning over your shoulder is thrilling.
Nope. It’s:
The candle burning over your shoulder is throwing
Shadows on your saxophone, a surly lady in tremor.
The stars that climb from her bowels,
Those stars make towers on vowels.

D’oh. I think I like can opener the best.