Mystery Jets

Sadly, I don't have tons of time for finding new music for myself but while we were in Brighton I actually bought a few CDs that I'd not really heard much (or any) of. This was one of them and I'm liking it so far.

Bashful

I can't believe it took me so long to go to my first proper pub quiz. I went with a few girlies from the school committee last week and we were pretty rubbish but we had some giggles and learned a few things, I think? All I can remember is that the Tuxedo jacket was apparently named after a park in New York. The question was what kind of jacket is named after a park in New York and we put Parka. Don't laugh. We had had a glass of wine/beer each. Oh and I can name all of the seven dwarves in alphabetical order.
What fascinating trivia can you remember from your first pub quiz?

The Mighty Thursday

So we left for Brighton just after noon, sans children (muchas muchas gracias a & a), and arrived around 3pm. We checked into Hotel Una (named after the owner's daughter). I can't recommend this hotel enough. Total ace place to stay in an excellent location. We stayed in Gaula, which was lovely, although we really wanted Eden but it was just a little too much moola and I'd rather do other things with money than spend them on lavish hotel rooms. Funny thing is when we went to have a shower the next morning, our hot water went haywire. There was no cold and even the toilet was flushing steaming hot water. Bizarro. So they did a very kind thing and moved us to the extravagant Eden room! I love it when things like that happen. I have a thing for balconies too. Don't know why.



We also got an ace breakfast of Eggs Benedict which I could eat every other day. I can't remember the last time I had them but it's something that I always want but it seems to much effort to make. Perhaps I need to give it a go.

But all that was nothing in comparison to Thursday night. Ah The Boosh boys did not disappoint. They started the show with future sailors which rocked and then Noel greeted Brighton with his usual, Brighton you cheeky mules etc. Noel even ran about through the audience and I couldn't believe nobody touched him. It took all my strength not to run up to him and touch that wild hair of his. I couldn't believe how polite everyone was. I desperately wanted a photo of them onstage but Nik was adamant that he would not be breaking the rules of no photography. This is where Nik and I differ to the extreme. He obeys rules and I don't ..sometimes. I couldn't see the harm in having a crappy low quality photo of the Boosh on my mobile phone and I don't think they would have minded either. I hardly think Howard would have peshwari nann'ed me (you had to be there). Cue much pleading and begging for his beloved phone. I got this before the show.


And he declared that enough rule breaking. An hour later after much laughing and smiling, I decided to try again. Finally, after even more annoying of rule boy, I got his phone, only to end up taking pictures of black because I had it the wrong way around. Bleeding Barnacles! Maybe I shouldn't have had that glass of champagne before we left. Nik was exasperated by this stage so took one quick photo and here it is. Nanageddon, I think. I looked on youtube and some people were a lot braver. I found the chrimp they did which started off with our favourite and only chrimp we can do, soup.



I believe this took place just before some of the British public , Nik and myself included, rushed the stage and jumped around like loons. Loved it. I really want to see it again, preferably London, so if anyone has tickets or is planning on going-Please let me know! Ah almost forgot, the best bit for me was when Noel did his Kings of Leon impression. My favpurite comedian impersonating my favourite band. It's worth the ticket price for that bit alone. We came out of the event with huge smiles and I was so hyped up. I couldn't stop smiling. Having a sushi meal afterwards was a great wind down and we were the only ones in the place as it was so late. We had a night cap at the bar where we chatted to the bartender and another dude and finally headed to bed at 2am. This was fine of course as we didn't have to get up early, or so we thought. Little Digi wanted to ring us before pre school at 8:30am. Ouch. We decided to get up anyway and Nik surprised me by booking a facial with a back, neck, and shoulder massage. I left Brighton not wanting to leave Brighton. What a fantastic place. I'm a little sad I didn't get to experience going to Uni there like Nik did.
Good thing I had two little Boosh fans waiting at home. They kept telling us about how they saw the Mighty Boosh moon outside and they've learned the theme.
Whew. I'm booshed.

It's an outrage

I would blog about what will now be know as "Mighty Thursday" but I can't. Science boy has decided to kill most of our network. It's a little unreliable around here. There it goes again. And now it's fixed again. I just asked him why a noisy hard drive was in the hallway and he said something incomprehensible which I thought about for two seconds, repeated back to him, and upon realizing that he sounded like a wacky backy head, he started laughing. I think this laughter was out of sheer exhaustion because he has spent hours upon hours fixing and breaking our network. He claims to like figuring things out. I think his new haircut has affected him (which incidentally reminds me of a better version of a caleb followil so I will forgive him because he finally gave in to my haricut request.)
shit off computers.

New Department of Transportation adverts for kids

what do you think? I like it. It has a kind of expensive collector's item ebay vintage doll/Tim Burton feel to it and if it frightened the bajoojoos out of me, imagine what it would do to a smally. I'll road test this with Kalila and Digi tomorrow. Sorry, bad bad pun.

Luckily for me, my two are very aware of cars and are so good about keeping to grass and paths but I did have a nightmare recently of Kalila being hit by a car. Terrifying. Please share with your smallies.

Oh, and Digi has decided to become a vegetarian today. He doesn't like meat apparently. Not even chicken. He wasn't satisfied with my answer to tell him what was in poultry meat. We're toying with the idea of going veggie next year just for fun. Yup, we are THAT wild around here. Now off to find a meat is murder toddler set.