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To Thank or not to Thank ?

Wed Dec 31, 2008, 5:32 PM
Blue Tish

Finally I'm in a position to start answering my 200+ messages. I've just inherited an upgraded computer with a graphics card that makes everything load faster and ever so thankfully makes my internet connection run as fast as it's supposed to. Prior to my new computer it would take me literally days to answer messages if I let them build up for more than a week or two so I just stopped doing it. I have neither the time nor the patience to sit watching a computer grind away at the speed of a tranq'd snail.

But now that I am able to answer messages I'm questioning whether it's actually necessary to individually thank each and every deviant for each and every :+fav: and/or :+devwatch: . I've read a few things around devArt that pound thanking into the ground as being annoying and egotistical self-serving self-promotion. Personally I think it's polite to thank people. (I'm big on manners.) I can see that it's also shameless self-promotion but isn't self-promotion clever if I want to get my photos and therefore anti-fat discrimination and body self-acceptance message out there in the big wide world ? Isn't it more pro-active to self-promote and network rather than sit back quietly and hope that people will somehow notice and pay attention to the fact that all men and women need to stop hating their bodies and begin loving themselves ?

Anyways ... I'm gonna start answering comments because I don't care what anyone says ... to not answer comments is the height of rudeness, and hopefully by the time I get through those I'll have some feedback re. the whole thanking people for :+fav:'s and :+devwatch:'s question.



  • Mood: Daily Needs
  • Listening to: Doctor Phil.
  • Reading: "For the Term of His Natural Life" - Mar
  • Playing: Guitar Hero
  • Eating: Gingerbread
  • Drinking: Chai Latté

The Second Longest Survey

Sun Nov 16, 2008, 9:16 PM
Blue Tish

Stolen from :iconlimegreensquid: (a fellow survey-o-holic)

-----------• × • I N T R O D U C T I O N • × •--------------

Name: Trish, aka UnhingedSerendipity & Tishounette :icontishounette:
Single or taken: Single
Gender: Female
Birthday: 13th February
Sign: Aquarius
Hair color: Natural salt'n';pepper grey that actually looks cool enough that people ask me if it's coloured. I ask them, “Why would anyone dye their hair grey ?”
Eye color: Sometimes green, sometimes brown.
Height: 5'7”
Are you straight/bisexual/gay?: Bi if you need a label.

-----------• × • F A S H I O N | S T U F F • × •--------------

Where is your favourite place to shop for clothes?: My Size clearance centre & Autograph.
Favorite designer?: Me when I can be fagged.
What is your sexiest outfit?: My skin :P Nah ... I've got a little black nightie that works a treat.
What is your most comfortable outfit?: Mah birthday suit - i'll keep that answer, hehe. - me too ... lol.
What do you usually wear?: Jeans or skirt with t-shirt or something pretty and flowy and floral. I'm big on comfort and natural fibres.

--------------• × • S P E C I F I C S • × • -------------------

What kind of shampoo do you use?: I alternate between Cedal Anti-dandruff and stuff like Schwartzkopf or Garnier.
What are you listening to right now: Really bad telly.
Who is the last person that called you?: My son's American History teacher chasing up a piece of work that's 2 weeks overdue.
How many buddies are online right now?: 3 and they're all on 'away'.

-------------• × • F A V O R I T E S • × •-----------------

Foods: Mangoes, fillet mignon, caesar salad, barramundi, smoked trout.
Girls names: Flowery names like Lavender & Daisy. Oh ... and Jamisyn.
Boys names: Jiordi.
Subjects in school: Maths.
Animals: Primates.

----------------• × • H A V E | Y O U | E V E R • × •-------------

Given anyone a bath?: Sure.
Smoked?: Yes, but I gave up over 15 years ago.
Bungee jumped?: That's only for people who are actually more mental than me.
Made yourself throw up?: No ... I'm really not big on vomiting.
Skinny dipped?: Technically, yes.
Ever been in love?: Of course.
Made yourself cry to get out of trouble?: Maybe .....
Pictured your crush naked?: Well ... as weird as this will sound ... no. I'm not visually driven like that. In all honesty, I put my daydreaming efforts into imagining what it would be like to kiss them. Seriously !
Actually seen your crush naked?: This one I can answer yes to. ;)
Cried when someone died? Of course.
Lied: Only when I've had to.
Fallen for your best friend?: Only once.
Rejected someone?: All the time. This world seems to be full of morons.
Done something you regret?: Only a million things.

------------• × • C U R R E N T • × •---------------

Clothes: Jeans, pink floral top with spangles.
Music: I have no current music seeing as how my son stole his stereo back. Bloody indian giver !
Smell: Just deoderant today.
Desktop picture: A really trippy looking eye thing.
Cd in player: As already mentioned, I no longer have one.
DVD in player: Supernova.

----------------• × • L A S T | P E R S O N • × •----------------------

You touched: My son.
You IMed: My sister.
You yelled at: My son ... but it wasn't nasty yelling ... it was yelling from my room to his at 7am for him to get out of bed and shower.
You kissed: Other than family ... some really hot french dude. Which is really sad 'cause it was like, a lifetime ago.

---------------• × • A R E | Y O U • × •---------------------

Understanding: I try to be.
Open-minded: Very.
Arrogant: Very I think. I can't tolerate stupid and/or ignorant people. I guess that makes me arrogant.
Insecure: Sometimes.
Random: I am the master of random.
Hungry: I'd say peckish. I'm pondering what I might like.
Smart: Exceptionally so.
Moody: I try not to be but hormones are a bitch. Even so, I do my best to control the mood swings that are part and parcel of being a woman.
Hard working: I work as hard as I'm able to, which at times isn't hard at all. I just do what I can when I can.
Organized: For the most part I'm organised. I have to be to stay sane.
Shy: I used to be terribly, horribly shy ... and I still am sometimes, but not near as bad as I used to be. Most people don't notice my shyness these days. I'm pretty good at bluffing.
Difficult: Hell yeh !
Bored easily: Not really. I can usually find something to amuse me.
Obsessed: Only with pegs/washing and cross-stitching.
Angry: I do get angry ... sometimes for no discernible reason (I think it's a manifestation of depression), and my kids make me angry at times ... but for the most part, I'm not what you'd call an angry person.
Sad: Sometimes things make me sad ... and when I'm depressed I'm awfully sad, but in general I'm not a sad person.
Happy: Right now I am genuinely happy, which sounds like a simple enough thing to say, but when you spend so much of your life clinically depressed and on anti-depressant medication which dulls everything, it's absolutely magnificent to actually feel happy.
Hyper: Very rarely.
Trusting: My trust has to be earned.

---------• × • W H O | D O | Y O U | W A N N A • × •--------

Kill?: There's many people in this world I'd wish dead, but none I want to kill.
Slap?: My daughter. (but I won't). She's driving me insane with her bullshit picky eating.
Get really wasted with?: Oh ... I'm not gonna mention his name, but there's this guy I'd love to get tanked with ... well, get him tanked anyway ... and shamelessly take advantage of him.
Talk to offline: No one in particular.
Talk to online: As above.
Sex it up with: See above.

------------------• × • R A N D O M • × •---------------------

In the morning I: Yell at my son to get out of bed, then go back to sleep for 10 minutes.
Love is: ALL.
I dream about: an ex all night every night lately.
Sexual preference: Not fussed.
What do you notice first in the opposite sex you're into: Teeth.

---------------• × • W H I C H | I S | B E T T E R • × ---------------

Coke or Pepsi: Caffeine free diet coke. The coke you have when you're not having coke.
Flowers or candy: Flowers.
Tall or short: Tall.

---------------• × • W H O • × • ---------------

Makes you laugh the most: My kids.
Makes you smile: My kids.
Gives you a funny feeling when you see him/her: One of my exs.

--------------• × • D O | Y O U | E V E R • × •-----------------

Sit on the internet all night waiting for that someone special to IM you?: Never.
Wish you were a member of the opposite sex?: It'd be fun for a day.
Wish you were younger: Hell yeh ! I wish I was 25 again.
Cry because someone said something to you?: Sometimes ... if I'm feeling particularly fragile.

-----------• × • N U M B E R • × •--------------

Of times I have had my heart broken: Oh god ... let's see ... I'm not going to include teenage or superficial broken hearts, only the ones that made me feel like my heart was deadset physically broken, so that leaves ... 3. One of them I'm so totally over, one of them has left me scarred for life, and one that will never heal.
Of hearts I have broken: I think only one ... maybe two.
Of guys I've kissed: Whoa ... might be quicker to count up the guys I haven't kissed ... lol.
Of girls I've kissed: 2
Of CD's I own: About 25 I think.
Of scars on my body: Only counting the big scars ... 6



  • Mood: Apprehensive
  • Listening to: Some really stupid kids show on telly.
  • Reading: Darkly Dreaming Dexter - Jeff Lindsay
  • Watching: My daughter count buttons ... she's up to 1,200
  • Playing: Guitar Hero
  • Eating: Vegemite sandwich
  • Drinking: Green tea with jasmine

Shower Scene

Wed Nov 5, 2008, 4:41 PM
Blue Tish

I'm posting a new series of photos today, which as you've probably already guessed, have been taken in the shower. I've been sitting on these particular photos for yonks now just pondering on what to do with them and whether or not to post them. I've finally made my decision so try not to be too harsh with me as these ones have taken a LOT of courage.

I took them because an old ex used to tell me I was at my sexiest in the shower so I thought I'd do a few shots to try to see myself through his eyes. Some of them I'm happy with but there's others, as usual, that I'm not so wild about. Either way, I'll post them and let you decide for yourselves.

What's the worst that can happen ? :shrug: If everyone hates them I'll just delete them :giggle:


* If anyone notices that the tattoo looks a bit mangled it's 'cause I had to edit out the name for privacy.



  • Mood: Hungry
  • Listening to: The construction work down the road
  • Reading: PS, I Love You - Cecilia Ahern
  • Watching: The papers flutter around on my message board
  • Playing: Guitar Hero
  • Eating: Museli & yogurt
  • Drinking: Caffeine free diet coke

I've Done 64 of the 120 Stupidest Things

Sun Oct 12, 2008, 4:13 PM
Blue Tish


Stolen from :iconlimegreensquid:

Level 1
( ) said LOL out loud
(x) forgotten your own age
(x) tried to lick your elbow

SO FAR: 2

Level 2
(x) said the wrong name in bed
(x) had unprotected sex
(x) hurt yourself sexing
(x) sexed yourself hurting

SO FAR: 6

Level 3
(x) Licked your toe
( ) Licked a frozen pole
( ) Licked a dog bone
( ) Licked a dog

SO FAR: 7

Level 4
( ) drank old milk
( ) drank milk right from a cow
( ) ever thought chocolate milk came from brown cows
( ) drank Qwik right from the brown cow
( ) pushed a cow over

SO FAR: 7

Level 5
(x) Eaten bugs (We have an ant problem here so ants in tea is common. They're quite sweet.)
( ) Eaten garbage
(x) Eaten food off the floor after 5 seconds
( ) Eaten a booger

SO FAR: 9

Level 6
(x) Been in a 5 seater Car with more than 7 people
( ) Been in a 7 seater van with over 12 people
( ) Driven in a 7 seater van by yourself
( ) Driven a tricycle past the age of 3
(x) Driven yourself home to the wrong house

SO FAR: 11

Level 7
( ) Put dirty dishes in the fridge
( ) Put bowls of food in the dishwasher
( ) Put a full glass of juice in the cupboard
( ) Put salt in your coffee
(x) Dropped the cap into the glass your drinking from

SO FAR: 12

Level 8
( ) Jumped over a car
(x) Jumped out of a moving car (I was driving and saw a spider amble across the dashboard. I changed from 4th to 3rd to 2nd and decided the car wasn't slowing down fast enough for my liking so just took off my seatbelt, opened the door and got out ... leaving my passenger going WTF in the still moving car.)
( ) Jumped into a thorny bush on purpose
( ) Jumped off a bridge
( ) Jumped off your house

SO far: 13

Level 10
(x) Forgot where you live
( ) Forgot your own birthday
(x) Forgot to zip up in the morning

SO FAR: 15

Level 11
(x) Walked into a Pole
(x) Walked into a Wall
(x) Walked into someone
(x) Walked into a parked car

SO FAR: 19

Level 12
( ) Won A Burping contest
( ) Burped the alphabet
( ) Burped just to break the silence
(x) Burped too hard and threw up (Just a little bomit)

SO FAR: 20

Level 13
(x) Eaten a whole bag of chips
(x) Eaten a whole pint of ice cream in one night
( ) Eaten a whole pizza so no one else could have a slice

SO FAR : 22

Level 14
(x) Caught picking your nose
( ) Caught going to the bathroom outside
( ) Caught with your pants down
( ) Caught having sex
( ) Caught sexing yourself

SO FAR: 23

Level 15
(x) Shoved something up your nose
(x) Picked your nose and studied what came out
(x) Picked your nose till it bled
( ) Let your nose bleed to see the awesome blood all over you
(x) Blew your nose so goddamm hard your whole body hurt

SO FAR: 27

Level 16
(x) Told a lie
(x) Been caught in a lie
(x) Lied to cover a lie
(x) Lied to cover your ass
( ) Lied to an undercover hooker cop

SO FAR: 31

Level 17
(x) Laughed at someone in pain
(x) Laughed too loud and embarrassed yourself
( ) Laughed at a funeral
( ) Laughed so hard you pissed yourself

SO FAR: 33

Level 18
(x) Written A Letter To Santa Claus (Still do every year)
(x) Believed in Santa past the age of 8 (Still do)
(x) Believed your folks that a bunny laid chocolate eggs outside
(x) Believed you were never too old for trick or treating

SO FAR: 37

Level 19
(x) Threw a party for yourself
( ) Threw a ball at yourself
(x) Threw up on yourself
( ) Threw a ball at a wall that returned directly to your crotch
( ) Threw a superball in the house and took it right in the face

SO FAR: 39

Level 20
(x) Pretended to know what you are doing
(x) Pretended you were hot shit
(x) Pretended you weren’t listening
( ) Pretended you were Spiderman

SO FAR: 42

Level 22
(x) Fell on the sidewalk
(x) Fell down the stairs
(x) Fell UP the stairs
( ) Went Sledding down the stairs

SO FAR: 45

Level 23
( ) Tried to do a real cool back flip (too scared for stuff like that) - me too
( ) and busted your ass
(x) Tried to do a real cool cartwheel
(x) and didn’t lift your feet, retard

SO FAR: 47

Level 24
( ) Ate food that you just kind of found
( ) Ate the mystery food in the back of the fridge
(x) Ate something nasty to get a laugh (Well ... my family thinks tofu is nasty)
( ) Cried when no one laughed

SO FAR: 48

Level 25
(x) Cried when you hurt yourself
(x) Cried when you didn’t get your way
(x) Cried over spilled milk
(x) Cried after sex

SO FAR: 52

Level 26
( ) Gone swimming naked
( ) Gone swimming in a strangers pool
(x) Gone swimming with a hose in the yard
( ) Gone swimming in a stank ass pond
( ) Gone swimming in the bathtub like a champ

SO FAR: 53

Level 27
(x) rode a Pony
( ) rode a Donkey
(x) rode a lawnmower pretending it was an awesome racecar
( ) rode a shovel pretending it was an awesome spaceship
( ) rode the dog

SO FAR: 55

Level 28
(x) Locked yourself out of your house
( ) Locked yourself out of your car
( ) Locked yourself IN the car
( ) Trapped yourself in a child's plastic house
(x) Tangled yourself up in a rope
( ) Tangled yourself up in a hose
( ) Locked yourself in the trunk WITH the keys

SO FAR: 57

Level 29
(x) over-cooked a fancy meal
( ) over-cooked the Easy MAC
( ) over-cooked a pop-tart
( ) over-cooked a tiny plastic army man
(x) over-cooked yourself at the beach *cough*

SO FAR: 59

Level 31
( ) Bitten plastic fruit
(x) bit too hard and hurt your teeth
( ) bit down before the fork got in your mouth
(x) Lifted an empty soda you thought was full thereby flinging it
(x) Overcompensated an extra step in the stairs that wasn’t there

SO FAR: 62

Level 32
(x) Mistaken a stranger for a family member and blabbed at them
(x) Mistaken a man for a woman or vice-versa
( ) Shaved your eyebrows
( ) Poked yourself in the eye with safety goggles! Sweet irony.

TOTAL: 64

Repost this with the title:
I've Done ___ of the 120 stupidest things



  • Mood: Hungry
  • Listening to: My back screaming at me
  • Reading: "Twilight" - Stephanie Meyers
  • Watching: The message light blink on my phone
  • Playing: Guitar Hero
  • Eating: Museli & yogurt
  • Drinking: Lime & gingseng tea

Book Survey

Wed Oct 1, 2008, 11:15 PM
Blue Tish

I'm addicted to surveys, and thanks to :iconlimegreensquid: I'm gonna be feeding that addiction for the next few journals.



The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Strike out the books you have no intention of ever reading, or were forced to read at school and hated.
(5. And i'll leave untouched the ones i've never heard of, or am neutral about)


1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible - i tried reading it, got through 12 books of the Old Testament, and then 2 in the new, but it promotes so much evil and hatred and intolerance, that i had to stop - too much mind pollution for sure! <- Ditto what Squid said.
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - I tried some Romeo & Juliet but it's completely snoresome.
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - I've tried to read this a couple of times ... under insistence from my son ... but really just can't get into it.
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell - Tried to read this but was very disappointed I couldn't get into it. The movie is a masterpiece !
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams - My kids have watched this movie too many times for me to ever be able to read it.
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - I tried when I was a kid but just found it way too trippy.
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis - One of my favourite books of all time !
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden - Bloody hell ... the movie was bad enough !
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert - even though my son has been nagging me to read it.
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck - I recently recommended this book to my son who read it then said, "Mum ... you coulda told me it was so sad !" I asked him if it made him cry and he said, "How could anyone NOT cry reading that ! How do they get so much into such a small book ?"
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold - This book annoyed the shit out of me ! *spoiler warning* Don't you think that if you had the opportunity to come back from the dead for a while that rather than go have sex you'd go tell your parents where they could find your raped and murdered body and who'd done it to you ??? Grrrrrr .....
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker - I found the way this book was written was VERY disrespectful. Good story, shit writing.
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl - I'm glad I read it and liked it BEFORE I found out what an arse Roald Dahl was.
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo


  • Mood: Hungry
  • Listening to: The radio from my daughter's room
  • Reading: Poseidon ... trust me ... the movie is better
  • Watching: Nada
  • Playing: Guitar Hero
  • Eating: Nada
  • Drinking: Nada

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