The Big Apple

I am going to New York tomorrow, I am well excited.
I have been wanting to go since I was 15 years old and I have a list of things to do that takes up 4 pages - no joke.
I spoke to my friend who lives there and she warned me that is is the norm to tip 20%, which is not going to work for me at all.
I hate tipping, I have worked in many bar, restaurant, cafe establishments and whilst I appreciated the tip, I never expected it. So if anyone has a go at me, which I have heard they do, I will have no problem giving them a big ol piece of my mind.
NYC here I come, with a big empty suitcase and a shopping list of American candy and rip off designer hand bags.
Woop!

Dieting sucks.

There is nothing fun about being on a diet.
But I want to shed some of the tub, so I have decide to go on a diet.
Nothing to full on, but I have to not eat bad food no more.
This is of course, not fun.
I bought a book and it told me that lettuce, fruit and oily fish were my new best friends.
Lettuce, it is nice, it is fresh, it comes in lots of different types but lets be honest here. There is nothing great about it.
Fruit, yes it is nice. I like fruit alot but there is only so much fruit I can possible eat. Fruit for breakfast, fruit as a snack , fruit for a dessert. It is all to much.
Oily fish. By the en of it I might be skinny but no one will want to talk tome as I will have cat breath.
And no chocolate or chips or lollies. I am not the biggest eater of these but the fact that I can not have them now makes me want them more than I have ever wanted before.
My typical diet menu goes like this - Bran flakes with soy milk for breakfast....then air for a snack, some water. Tuna on rye bread with a water for lunch and some more air in the afternoon and a green tea and for dinner it is freaking salad and oily fish.
Seriously.
I want to eat my hand.
I will give it another week of this total B.S till I can no longer stand the rumbling of the empty pit that used to be my stomach and Ill go out and eat a bowl of pasta as big as my head with cake to wash it down.
Stupid diet.
Stupid skinny friends.

Fact

I heard an interesting fact today.
I am not sure if I believe it necessarily, but it is quite worth while.
A girl at work told me that if you do something 21 times in the same way it becomes a habit.
So does that mean, that if you smoked 20 cigarettes it would not be a habit?
I am not sure.
Anyway, I have started doing sit ups in the morning as I am planning on wearing a bikini this summer and the current status is not so great.
Sit ups are hard work, especially when you have not done any since about 1997.
But I have done them every day this week, I think they might even be getting easier.
So 16 more days of this and it will be part of my morning ritual like brushing my teeth and checking I have turned my hair straighter off 3 times before I leave the house.

Today the music died.

Well, maybe that is a slight exaggeration but it feels that way.
Today, my company cut off our access to Facebook.
W.T.F
I work in the 'communication' industry. One of my company's logos is 'communication' How the hell am I supposed to 'communicate' if you take away my key form of 'communication'?
I.D.I.O.T.S
Yes, some times facebook is gay but most of the time it is rad.Like yesterday when my friend Tess went on a date with this guy and she wanted to be his friend on facebook so she could look at his profile. so we got his mate Scott who we work with to write on Tess' wall so he would see it and then he would add her as a friend.
It is also good for scamming on your friends friends and getting dates.
And I am selling a concert ticket and someone is buying it from me who i only know through facebook, how the hell am I supposed to sell it to him now??
How am I supposed to keep in touch with friends back home, facebook is so easy and quick to say hi and now ill have to go back to long emails.
I am not sure what to do about this.
I was thinking of a mass walk out but so far I only have 1 person willing to join me and it is raining and no one has an umbrella so we would not get very far.
Stupid company and its stupid IT policy ruining my life.

Why is ester egg chocolate so good?

It taste different from any other kind of chocolate, why is this?
I am a fan, I had chocolate for breakfast, maybe not the healthiest option but was most tasty. And now, I am having chocolate for an afternoon snack.
Is it really not related to getting spots, I think it might be but whatevs.
I cant remember what eggs and chocolate has to do with baby Jesus, I thought he was more a loves and fishes kinda guy but I am sure there must be a reason.
And having 4 days off in a row is also very good, gives me plenty of time to sit around and eat more chocolate.

Still got it

There are many great well known Australian artists out there - Nick Cave is brilliant, Kylie (though I personally hate her music) has done good for herself, Delta gets the ballad vote and Bernard Fanning is a beautiful man, but nobody and I mean nobody makes me more proud to be an Australian that Tina Arena.

From her days on Young Talent Time I have been a fan, now this might not go with my rock and roll lifestyle but I do not care. I love her all the same.
Sorrento Moon is a flippin great song, I re discovered it today as my friend is going to Sorrento so it was a perfect tie in, then I listened to Chains, again another amazing track and Burn is also very good and yes I do want to be a poet, and write.

I can not decide if she is hot or really odd looking and her video clips are very bad with lots of naff graphics but I love her all the same,I think I have to find her as she now lives in London with her boyfriend and kid so I got to see if she is playing in my local area - Tina Arena coming to a convention centre near you.