Tuesday, February 5, 2008

The Return of the Roach

Last night I was up late reading shit on the internet and got a rather large fright. I was in bed with my laptop and looked up at the curtain rod and saw a giant FUCK-OFF cockroach sitting there waving its antennae at me. Knowing that at 3am screaming was not going to attract anyone's attention I thought of other methods to get rid of it.
Both of my cats were outside so my plan of putting a cat near it wouldn't work. Usually putting a cat near a bug results in the cat getting excited and chasing it/eating it. I have done this many times with praying mantises as my cat loves to bite their heads off and it suits me as I cant stand the little fuckers.
This only works with bugs that move enough for the cat to notice them, thankfully mantises like a challenge and want to take on anything (see pic below) so I have always used the cat method to get rid of them.




My only option with this giant cockroach was to get my trusty can of fly spray and spray the fucker. Seeing as they are impossible to KILL with fly spray I decided to use the spray to corral it out the door. It ran around the whole room first which pissed me off but also gave me a chance to RECOGNISE IT as the FUCKING ROACH NABF CHUCKED OVER THE BACK FENCE ON THURSDAY! This put me in a mad rage. Obviously the vile creature had spent the last few days trekking across the yard back to the house just to fuck me off. Pretty dumb since I saved it from being squashed under NABFs shoe. I emptied half a can on it as it ran out my door and I went back to bed quite agitated.

In the morning I was pleasantly surprised to see the cockroach on its back outside the door, its little legs waving around in the throes of death.... 6 hours after I sprayed it out of my room.

I did errands all day long and checked on its status over about a 10hr period. I think it is finally dead. Normally I don't like anything to suffer but cockroaches are different. They are GROSS.

An Odd Sunday

Sunday 3rd February was a good day for most parts, although my plan to send NABF into orbit with my rather loud enjoyment of midday carnal activities was ruined when afterwards we heard the downstairs bedroom door open and then close again, alerting us politely to the fact that NABF's flatmate had returned early from her weekend away and had been listening the whole time. Very big DOH to that.

Went to have a late breakfast with NABF and BFF and seeing as we didn't actually arrive in Ponsnobby until 3.15pm it was pretty slim pickings for food as almost no-one keeps their kitchen open past 3 these days- fair enough too!

Ended up at one establishment where fashionable Ponsnobby types chose to sit facing the road and watch life pass by. Unfortunately as fun as it is sitting outside a cafe and watching life travel on past, its totally fucking boring doing this at 4pm on a Sunday on Ponsnobby Rd, especially when the only view is of the cars driving past and the houses opposite. Its not exactly vibrant.

So we go order our breakfast and as BFF and I are dirty smokers we wanted to sit outside. Unfortunately out of two long tables that seated six on either side of the entrance, a snooty looking gay couple were seated smack bang in the middle of one and were NOT looking keen to move so BFF politely asked the two young guys sitting on the same side of the table but a seat apart to move next to each other so we could sit too.
They seemed to be shocked at the request and said they couldn't be bothered moving and why should they. I heard this and went and stood next to the one who was complaining and he decided to turn it into a joke in the face of us embarking on a Tag-Team approach.

BFF said that me and NABF MUST be allowed to sit facing each other as we are still in the honeymoon stage and are required to stare into each others eyes during meals.

Thankfully under duress the guy decides to shift his bum one seat down so I get to sit next to him and opposite NABF. BFF is sitting opposite this guy. As a peace offering he hands me one of the Vanity Fairs he has in a greedy little pile and just to be a smart ass I refuse it and ask for the one with Harrison Ford on the front that I know he wants to read first and we have a little flirt-fight over the magazines.

NABF is not impressed with the male company at the table and huffs and puffs over the Business section of the Herald. He shoots a rather septic sideways look at the two guys and I can see his mind working.....

Meanwhile I am entertaining BFF with a rather funny anecdote about Benicio Del Toro's appearance on Oprah on Friday and our two cool young companions are listening in. NABF decides to drop a bomb and after loudly shaking the Business section into shape to get everyone's attention he announces that another Blue Chip has gone into liquidation. He says this with assertive dominance in his tone and I know he is doing it to show off to the two guys. They start a mild huffing and puffing of their own and start talking about Real Estate and NABF smugly sets his paper down and drinks his juice happily.

As I am mildly hung-over and hate witnessing cock-swinging contests I say loudly with my mouth open (so only NABF can see the contents of my mouth) "Huh? Blue Chip?" because to be honest I don't really know the full ins and outs of what they are having not a very good knowledge of the business world, which makes me look pretty ignorant (but I'm still learning this stuff).
NABF tries to explain but I'm not really interested and he doesn't really want to tell me anyway because he was trying to out-smart those two guys and I pretty much blew it for him by showing him up as having an ignorant-almost-girlfriend... ME!

By this stage I was in need of alcohol so dragged NABF and BFF to GPK for a wine- don't know why we bothered, that place sucks- last time I went there I got food poisoning from the salmon, the service is totally fucking SHITE and as expected, it took 20 minutes for the 3 bar staff and 3 wait staff to co-ordinate themselves into bringing us a drink. Note there were four other customers in the place. Luckily the wine was generously poured so I got to go home tipsy again. YAY!

Monday, February 4, 2008

Vampires on a Thursday

Today is 31st January 2008 and I didn't wake up until midday which annoyed me as now I am fully in unemployed-bum-mode (as opposed to the last 6 weeks of holiday mode) and keep staying awake late at night chatting online to friends.

Was feeling quite positive about getting work after a good interview yesterday although not looking forward to waiting for confirmation of employment as in my experience agencies are full of shit and piss around for weeks on end.

Due to excessive boredom after the Dr Phil and Oprah Happy Hours had finished for the day I gave into craving and spent my last $5 on two Jellytip trumpets. I ate both. Well they are so tiny now, both together mushed in a bowl would barely equate the standard bowl of ice-cream kids get for dessert.

NABF (New 'Almost' Boy Friend)was keen to visit after he finished work especially after I informed him I had been naughty and spent my last $5 on ice-cream and this required him to come over and give me a smack/cuddle.

NABF came over around 7 and met my mum at the front door (I was on a phone call) and within thirty seconds of him entering the house he was on the Express New Paint Tour, I was surprised to find him in my mothers bedroom inspecting the new paint job while she chatted to him like a close chum. Good on you mum. Then we disappeared down to my room for a cuddle and were making out on my bed when sis burst through the door in her usual fashion and caught us, it was hilarious, as she hesitated I could see her thinking- "Do I hastily exit-or stay and pretend I can't see my sister snogging some guy I haven't even met yet?" Sis went with the latter and even came in to shake hands with NABF whilst asking me which present from a choice of two I thought would be suitable for a cousins 30th.
I became aware that during this discourse NABF was lying on his back and displaying a rather prominent erection in his jeans so I had to sort of lean over him to hide it from sis. I ummed and aahed about which present to go with suitably long enough to make everyone even more uncomfortable. (My purpose was to act casual and make everyone relax- it did not work). If sis had arrived 5 minutes later she would have been exposed to me giving NABF one of my most porn star BJs and I don't think she deserves to see that.
NABF decided to take my broke ass to a film (bless him) and despite my previous ice-cream gorging I asked him very nicely if I could have another rather enormous one which he obligingly bought me. The top scoop was precariously balanced and due to the excessive heat the thing started to melt immediately so I grabbed as many napkins and spoons as I could and we went into the theatre.

As lovely as NABF is I am not quite at the level of familiarity or thin enough to get away with walking out of a cinema covered in chocolate sauce and manage to look charming, rather I would have looked like a fat pog (who am I kidding- Looked like a fat pog- LOOKED LIKE= IS). I did manage to choke on my ice-cream (serves me right-pig) right at the beginning of the credit sequence, took NABF about 2 minutes to realise I was unable to breathe/swallow and had my hands rather full with excessive amounts of ice-cream so he held his Pepsi up to my mouth and gave me a sip which relieved my choking but made me look like a yucky bingeing pog anyway.

Film was 30 Days of Night. I am a huge fan of the zombie/vampire genre of film, usually they are sufficiently frightening and gory to make me happy and I love seeing idiots get killed. I do not like to watch people be tortured before they die however, which is why I dislike Reservoir Dogs and other similar films. 30 Days of Night did cross over into this territory and actually made me feel quite sick at one point where a young girl is quite maliciously beaten before being killed.

I don't like seeing NZ actors in bit parts in Hollywood films simply for the fact that the retards in the cinema audience cant seem to stop themselves from sniggering or making stupid noises to acknowledge that they see someone from local television. Who gives a FUCK? I almost turned around to the stupid girl behind us (who irritated me from the second we sat down) "YES that is Marge from Shorty St get the FUCK over it and save your inappropriate laughter for the credits!"

This particularly stupid receptionist type whore was sitting with a beefy looking labourer type and another girl, all were under 25. They initially pissed me off by having a conversation during the trailers that, while not loud enough for me to hear, was at that annoying volume that stops you from being able to hear the on screen dialogue. Then the silly cow would erupt into a whiny laugh at something beef had said . To hear someone laugh when totally inappropriate totally fucks me off.
I turned and gave her a couple of stern looks which I am sure were a complete waste of time as throughout the first half of the film I could still hear her talking and every time someone got killed the dumb bitch would laugh.
I HATE this behaviour, and it totally puts me off seeing thrillers or horror films at the cinema as generally speaking when someone dies in the film there is a dramatic moment of silence where the audience is supposed to take in what has happened and these moments are where u get father immersed in the tension the film is trying to build. THIS EXPERIENCE IS WHAT I EXCHANGE MY MONEY FOR WHEN PURCHASING A MOVIE TICKET.

This dramatic tension is TOTALLY FUCKING RUINED when idiots laugh nervously or stupidly and bring you back from film immersion to the reality that you are sitting in a smelly cinema with a bunch of idiotic shitheads.
I whispered to NABF that I was going to stand up and tell this stupid chick that no-one in the audience was blind and therefore a running commentary was wasted on us and to therefore SHUT THE FUCK UP but she did end up closing her mouth during the second half of the film, which happened to be a vast improvement on the first half of the film as it was a completely disgusting gore fest and pretty much everyone got slaughtered.
NABF was not impressed post-movie as he informed me the film was based on a comic book (which sounds fantastic) and in true Fan Boy style he didn't like it as it failed to do justice to the comic series.

Came home from 30 Days of Night in a pleasantly gore-ified state and went to wander down to my boudoir for more cuddles and spotted a fucking giant cockroach on the banister of the stairs and had a small chick-fit as I HATE cockroaches.
I made the fatal error of alerting my mother (who started hovering as soon as she heard the car turn into the street) to its presence, she did her usual trick which is to blame me for it being there, as if I am the Queen of Roaches, even though she has told me before that an exterminator told her they live under every house in Auckland.
It did however provide NABF with a nice opportunity to display his manliness and he gallantly offered to smash it but my shrill protestations of "if you squash them then a thousand eggs come off them' made him desist from this method but I think only so I would stop shrieking. Under instruction from mother, he put a glass over it and a piece of card underneath, and carried it out to the back garden and threw it over the fence. I was not entirely pleased with this but I didn't want a squashed cockroach either so I forgot a bout it.
I slept well that night knowing that I was safely protected from bugs due to NABF's presence, but unfortunately not safe from male farts and having to share my bed with a tall heat generating male in already humid weather.

An Unfortunate Vomit-Soaked Incident

During my teens when I worked at village 8 Cinemas I remember coming starting an evening shift and hearing about the afternoon horror story that to this day I am glad I was not present for.

A rather disgustingly large woman had gone into one of the cinemas with her more diminutive husband and managed to squash her giant rear into one of the seats in the middle of the cinema. Halfway through the film, people started coming out and complaining about the horrific smell of fresh vomit that had filled the theatre.
Subsequently, as the aircon is pumped through all cinemas, random people started coming out of other cinemas complaining too.

On investigation it was discovered that big fat lady had eaten too much lunch at the Thai place down the road and then stuffed herself further on popcorn and other crap, had subsequently exceeded maximum tumescence, and unable to get out of her seat, she had proceeded to barf all over herself, the floor and her husband, who (poor guy) was attempting to wipe her chin when the attendants discovered the cause of the stench.

She was just sitting there- perhaps to embarrassed to move, or unable to. Anyway, the movie was stopped, people were given comps to another film, and the cleanup was underway.
One of the attendants was given the task of wiping her chin while her husband asked another attendant to go down to the mall and purchase her a new muumuu(!!), which goes to show just how much puke this woman had expelled over herself.
This was preferable as the attendants moping up the puke at her feet and the surrounding area were not keen to have to then clean up the inevitable vomit trail this woman was going to leave in her wake as she left the building.

One thing I will not EVER do it clean up someone else's vomit, it is too fucking disgusting to contemplate. Luckily my friends aren't quite so harsh as I can recall them having to remove vomit from my/their hair/clothes/bed etc when I have been to drunk to swallow it down long enough to get to a bathroom.

Anyway luckily for myself I was not on the afternoon shift as I would have quit my $5.25ph job before I kneeled at the feet of a bloated puked covered mess and moped chunky Thai/popcorn/coke barf with a paper towel. (Anyone who has tried to clean puke with a paper towel will know that you cannot pick up any puke with a paper towel. All the towel does is spread it around and allow more oxygen to get into the puke and therefore make it stink even more.

The smell lingered for a couple of months after that and people constantly complained, luckily the smell of stale popcorn is quite similar to the smell of stale puke so we just blamed it on that.

Monday, January 21, 2008

Relationships vs Sex Arrangements- My Views

Men are quite happy to get sex on tap. However, only if the benefits outweigh the costs of GETTING sex. There is a specific costs vs benefits model that men apply when considering getting into a sex arrangement with a woman. See COSTS VS BENEFITS -THINGS TO CONSIDER.

Sex arrangements are what women call ‘relationships.’ They are not the same as ‘Friends with Benefits.’ (see FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS)

Men have always allowed women to believe that sex arrangements are relationships because it keeps the girls happy. Its not a big deal to call someone your girlfriend or say you are in a relationship with a girl, Men can stay confident in the secret knowledge that they share with their guy mates that their ‘girlfriends’ are really just ‘The Other Party in a Sex Arrangement.’

WHAT WOMEN WANT FROM MEN
Attention
Sex
Someone to fuss over
Someone to hang out with
Someone who likes her friends
Someone who gives proper massages/cuddles/presents
To fall in love and live happily ever after

WHAT MEN WANT FROM WOMEN
Sex. (Everything else they want, they get from their mates/family etc.)

COSTS VS BENEFITS -THINGS TO CONSIDER
Obviously you cant have a Sex Arrangement with someone you dont like as a person, or are not attracted to. (see FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS)
Sex Arrangements are about sex, any COSTS can be taken off the value of the sex to find out if it a potential Sex Arrangement is worth pursuing.

The following example can be applied to work out if a sex arrangement is benficial. It is recommended as a basic guide only, the Sex Total is given as 100:

SEX______________________________________100
TALKING__________________________________-5
CUDDLING_________________________________-10
HANGING OUT WITH HER FRIENDS______________-10
HAVING TO HANG OUT BEFORE/AFTER SEX_______-20

TOTAL SCORE_______________________________60

In the above example, the Total is 60. This is a pretty good deal. Anything less than 50 is not ideal- anything less than 20 is a waste of time. 25-50 is Friends with Benefits territory.
NOTE: If the sex is really great, this should be factored in. Great sex is worth a potential 200 starting figure, so the negatives would still leave a good cost vs benefit ratio. However, if she wants sex more than you do, -50.

Other things that can increase the Sex Total for a girl are:

  • Sense of humour +20 (this is made up of +10 for laughing at your jokes, +10 for making jokes you think are funny. If she is funnier than you, -10)
  • Intelligence +20 (as long as she is not smarter than you, in which case -10)
  • Likes watching porn +80
  • Good at cleaning/cooking +50
  • Pays for things +50

As these things are all what make women attractive, they can be added to the Sex Total.


FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS

Friends with benefits are very casual Sex Arrangements with girls you don’t really like that much. The less talking the better, also they aren’t great looking, and the last thing you want to do is spend money on them. Due to the casual nature of friends with benefits, you can have more than one FWB at a time.

If you are too lazy to enter into any other type of Sex Arrangement then FWB is a good option.


NOTE: At some point or another you will find out (usually via a teary phone call/ abusive text/drunk FWB turning up at your house) that girls ONLY take up an FWB arrangement because they THINK YOU WILL END UP FALLING IN LOVE WITH THEM. Once they realise this is not the case you must be prepared to deal with the fallout, and the end of your FWB arrangement. It doesn’t matter if you said you only wanted to be friends at the outset, girls dont understand the concept of sleeping with your friends just for the sake of it, which is fair enough really.


FURTHER INFORMATION

Sex Arrangements can turn into Proper Relationships when:

  • You end up really liking the girl
  • You end up getting the girl pregnant
  • The girl traps you into a financial commitment (eg. buying a house)

This is when people usually decide to get married.
Basically if you can find a girl who is funny, smart, attractive, a nymphomaniac with her own collection of porn, who is a great cook, cleans up after herself, great in bed, enjoys all the same hobbies/sports/music as you (but doesnt have to participate in doing things with you unless you want her to), has learnt not to drunk dial, had great cleavage, her own income, transport, and her own friends, then you should definitely enter into a Sex Arrangement with her, this is the perfect girl to have a Proper Relationship with in the future.

Although dont get into a Proper Relationship straight away- this is unnecessary, just keep it as a Sex Arrangement until she asks for more/starts giving you hints/ultimatums. At this point, the BENEFIT is huge and the COST is minimal, so there is no drama in getting into a Proper Relationship. Just don’t let on to the girl that the Sex Arrangement status has changed to Relationship, she ALWAYS thought you WERE in a relationship anyway.