Cosmic Musicology Test – Comin at ya early!

October 5, 2014 The Indecisive Eejit13 Comments

Woo hoo, it’s all very exciting, the Cosmic Captain himself, Steve from Steve Says, is for one week only letting me host his brilliant quiz the Cosmic Musicology Test. Why, I hear you ask yourselves, well because he ~~can’t be bothered~~ thinks I am brilliant is the answer. He’s set the bar high, I have to prove my worth and meet targets, so you’re more than welcome to join in any week, but especially this week to prove to him I am worth my shot in the spot light.

For anyone who has not played the challenge before, here is a refresher of the instructions:

For each test the host will post 3 new questions so…

(1) Go to the music player of your choice and put it on shuffle
(2) Say the questions aloud and press play
(3) Use the song title as your answers
(4) NO CHEATING

Title your post “Cosmic Musicology Test:…” and link back to that week’s page.

Post your response in the comment section of that week’s page.

Any suggestions for future questions welcomed! Just make sure you leave them on Steve’s page, not this one.

Take a look at all the previous weeks in the Archives or by clicking “Cosmic Musicology” in the category cloud on Steve’s page.

If you’d like to host one in the future, get in tough with Steve and beg, he’ll give in eventually :)

On to this weeks questions and my answers:

1. I think I am? – Team by Lorde – I do think I am a team, especially here. It’s like a family and I would have nothing if it were not for my followers, many of whom have become friends. Team Eejit, I like that, you in?

2. You think I am? – Freedom by the Housemartins – Do you think I’m freedom from the housework and the chores, from the nagging voice of your boss, from the laundry and anything else that ties you up. Am I 5 minutes of putting your feet up and reading a load of oul tripe? If I am, that’s fine by me :)

3. We should be? – Ticks & Leeches by Tool – Ah ffs, there is always one isn’t there. Hmmm ok, we’re ticks because for some people we tick all the right boxes and for others not so many. Do what you do, you will never please everyone. We’re leeches because every day we learn and suck in the knowledge of our friends and fellow bloggers and you know what, that’s fine, as long as it makes us more Ticks than Leeches!

Go on, give the quiz a try, you know you want to!!

Cosmic Musicology Test: This or that….

September 29, 2014 The Indecisive Eejit17 Comments

It’s wake up week for super Steve’s Cosmic Musicology Test, woohoo and this week as an additional bonus he is offering anyone who is interested a chance to host the quiz for a week. I’m all for that…note to self, remember to tell him. Please remember if you are completing the quiz you must link back to Steve’s original post, which for this week, you can find HERE! This is his quiz, not mine.

A quick reminder of the rules:

For each test Steve will post 3 new questions so…

(1) Go to the music player of your choice and put it on shuffle
(2) Say the questions aloud and press play
(3) Use the song title as your answers
(4) NO CHEATING

Title your post “Cosmic Musicology Test: …” and link back to the post for that week (as above).

Post your response in the comment section of that week’s page.

Have a look at the archives or click on “Cosmic Musicology” in the category cloud on Steve’s page to see all previous tests.

For more information, to submit ideas for future questions, to host your own or just general feedback go to Cosmic Musicology Test.

This weeks questions and my answers:

1. Beer or wine? – (Interlude 3) by Alt-J – Some people may indeed use an interlude to peel themselves off the sofa and head to the fridge for more beer or wine. Me, well I’m pretty much a non drinker, but I’ll have that bag of nibbles you have in your other hand :)

2. Sweet or Savoury? – Freedom by Paloma Faith – Oh I like this answer, doesn’t that pretty much give me carte blanche to stuff my fat little face with anything I damn well please. Sweet, savoury….ah just give me one of everything!

Chipmunk Cheeks

3. Morning or evening? – Storms in Africa by Enya – Who cares ffs, we’re talking storms in Africa, anytime would be a good time, nuff said!

If you would like to give this quiz a try for yourself, click on the ink and follow the yellow brick road, or the trail of crumbs I left behind……….

CMT – If you’re happy and you know it!

September 10, 2014 The Indecisive Eejit24 Comments

All I actually want to do is sit and write a huge rant about work, but I have decided that’s not a good idea for the following reasons:

Nothing is going to change, I still have to go back tomorrow.
My boss might read it at sometime if someone lets slip this is my blog.
If I spontaneously combust in the middle of the night I would hate for people to remember me as the bitter bitch whose last post ever was rant about her place of employment.

I decided I would do the Cosmic Musicology Test instead, because I have missed Steve and his weird mind bending via music ways.

For those who are unsure how this works, here is a little refresher of the rules as laid out by Captain Cosmic himself.

For each test Steve will post 3 new questions so…

(1) Go to the music player of your choice and put it on shuffle
(2) Say the questions aloud and press play
(3) Use the song title as your answers
(4) NO CHEATING

Title your post “Cosmic Musicology Test: …” and link back to this test’s page.

Post your response in the comment section of that week’s page.

Have a look at the archives or click on “Cosmic Musicology” in the category cloud on this page to see all previous tests.

Any suggestions for future questions welcomed!

For more information, to submit ideas for future questions, to host your own or just general feedback go to Cosmic Musicology Test.

This weeks questions:

What makes me laugh? – Roseta Stoned by Tool – I’ve never been stoned as in, hey am I the only person can see those pixies in the forest kinda stoned, and I am pretty sure I don’t ever want to experience the, holy feck is that a brick heading for my specs kinda stoned. So I will have to say Shady introduced me to the band Tool, and sometimes he can be a tool, which makes me laugh. See how it all works out in the end.

What makes me cry? – Freedom by the Housemartins – The thought of freedom does actually make me shed a tear, freedom from a lot of things, but currently about running for the hills and not stopping.

What makes me mad? – Fragile – Frankie & The Heartstrings – Lately with my head all over the place, my feelings of fragility have actually made me feel mad. At the minute it seems like nothing is certain and nothing is stable. I want to go back to the sure footed mountain goat days of my youth.

Over to you, what answers will Captain Cosmic squeeze out of you?

Week 7 of Seven Weeks of Weird!

August 13, 2014 The Indecisive Eejit10 Comments

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So this is it, the last ever post for Mental Mama’s roller coaster challenge. It’s been enjoyable, but it’s also been hard, because even though you might think you are weird when someone asks you why, it makes you question if you actually are. Turns out I am not as bad as I thought I was, but best of all, I now know I am not the only weirdo on the planet.

Out of all the questions I probably found this one the hardest, because after all my life is not that exciting. But here we go anyway.

Weirdest Random Fact About Yourself.

I’ve got nothing. I’ve thought about it for most of the day and I’ve got nothing. Plain and simple. I then started to think about what other people might say or think and the only thing I could come up with is that I am shy and self conscious. Let me explain. For most of my life I have been called a variety of names like header, wingnut, eejit and goofball. Although each word looks different, they all mean the same thing, I am a couple of sandwiches short of a picnic. If there is mischief to be made I am usually never far away and if there is raucous laughter, I will either be the subject of it or the cause of it . I feel comfortable in my interactions with people I know, more so if they do not know me very well.

For all the reasons above, externally I appear to be very outgoing and the life and soul of the party, so people are genuinely surprised when they find out the extent of both my shyness and self consciousness.

I know it’s not all that weird, but honestly it’s all I’ve got.

Thank you Mama for running this challenge, and believe me, challenge was the appropriate word for it :)

Other things to Note

I know I’m really behind on both my reading, writing and commenting but you’ll have to bear with me. I’ve been running on full steam for the last 4 weeks and mentally I think I am at the end of my tether. I’m going to take a couple of days breathing space (which probably means I will be back tomorrow night ffs!) and try and get my head together. I’m even trying to negotiate a day of work. What I wouldn’t give for a full day of having to do nothing at all!

So on that note, I’ll probably see you tomorrow ;)

Week 6 of Seven weeks of Weird!

August 7, 2014 The Indecisive Eejit20 Comments

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Only two more weeks to go of Mental Mama’s weird quiz…..thank goo….I mean awwww, these questions are so easy, said no one ever! Woman, what were you thinking :)

This weeks question asks: Weirdest way you’ve earned money.

This is going to be a short post, because I don’t think I have ever earned money in a weird way. I’ve was a waitress, a shop assistant and a petrol pump attendant before I discovered the dizzying heights of the role of an Administrative Assistant. Promotion would see me promoted to an Administrative Officer and then my recent sideways move to a Personal Assistant, albeit still at the same grade.

Nothing weird there right?

I also worked as a phone operator for a taxi firm, where although I had a few clientèle who were weird, the job was relatively normal.

So all I can do is tell you about the weird job offer I once got. I have mentioned it before on this blog, although I am not sure how many of you were with me way back then. So because I am lazy, I have copied and will now paste it for your pleasure.

By far however the strangest request I have ever had, and believe me there have been many, was a gentleman one night asking me had I ever though about branching out on my phone operator career. What do you mean I asked all ears, thinking he was opening a new firm and trying to poach me. When he told me I had the perfect voice to be a phone sex line operator, there was a stunned silence from my end of the phone. Sensing I was not too keen on his idea, he proceeded to tell me it paid £10 an hour, which in those days was really good money. At that point I might have given a small ‘Hmm’, and seizing what he perceived to be an opening he continued by telling me I would be able to work from home….wait….WHAT!!?? I had a quick mind flash of how this would pan out:

“Oh yes baby, it’s getting really hot and steamy now.” – He doesn’t need to know I am doing the ironing.

“Mmmm honey that’s right, my lust is boiling over, oh actually wait, I’ll brb it’s the feckin spuds.”

I started to laugh at that point and told him I didn’t think that I was suited for the job, but thanked him for considering me.

Till next week eejits…..

Week 5 of Seven Weeks of Weird!

July 30, 2014August 6, 2014 The Indecisive Eejit19 Comments

I always knew my life was humdrum and boring, and the 7 weeks of weird is just putting the official seal on it, as each week gets harder and harder! Damn you Mama and your questions making me all normal!

Weirdest Thing You Collect

I don’t collect anything weird, you will not find any dead bodies under my patio, mainly because I don’t have a patio, but hey ho! There are no abnormal toe nails clippings stuck into a scrap book, nor are there skulls encased behind glass in a bookshelf. I am an avid collector of nothin…….wait, hang fire, there’s the Penguins!

Ok so I know you might think collecting Penguins is not weird, but it kinda is when you don’t really like them! And you see at the start I didn’t, but as each person bought me a new one for the collection, I grew to love them. What started out as a joke between my Sister and I, has morphed into Penguin type things adorning the many shelves that surround me, both here and at work.

I think perhaps that is one of the reasons why I do not yet feel comfortable in the new office, the penguins are in a little brown box calling my name and not out in the open as they should be.

The other thing I loved to collect was Final Fantasy figures, but that was going to turn into an expensive pastime so it got nipped in the bud. I managed to get Tifa and Aerith (a birthday present from Lee), but sadly I left it too long for the Cloud figure and missed out due to the collection being discontinued and the price going into triple figures, I love Final Fantasy, but not that much.

On reflection

I just has a lightbulb moment and realised that I do in fact collect something weird. Followers on this blog. I have amassed almost 600, last count I believe was 598. They are weird but unique, and I love each and every one of them dearly! They are my kind of weird :)

Share Your World – 2014 Week 29

July 28, 2014July 27, 2014 The Indecisive Eejit48 Comments

I’ve seen this quiz doing the rounds, usually on Sheena, Not A Punk Rockers blog. I thought about entering before, but as usual time was not on my side and I never got around to it. I liked one of the questions this week so figured I would give it a try.

Many thanks to Cee for hosting this challenge. If you would like to enter or find out more information, please click HERE!

Now for this weeks questions and answers:

Have you ever been in a submarine? If you haven’t would you want to?

I’ve never been in a submarine and I don’t believe it is something I would like to try. I wouldn’t really be a fan of enclosed spaces and I can think of nothing worse than being stuck inside a large metal tank miles under the surface of the sea.

I’m thinking my only means of escape would be to fill myself full of beans while wearing a wet suit in the hope that I could float to the surface, that is assuming I don’t blow the crap clean out of myself….literally!

Are you a listener or a talker?

I’d like to think I am a healthy mix of both, but I guess for an honest answer you would have to ask my friends. I sometimes feel I don’t talk about things as often as I should and bottling things up is not healthy. I might start talking to myself, because no one else knows me as well as I do.

Do you prefer Crunchy Peanut Butter or Smooth Peanut Butter? Anything with your peanut butter?

Yuk! Neither thanks. It was just something I could never get used to the taste of. For me it’s a little like Marmite, you either love it or you hate it. Sadly, for the manufacturers, I don’t like either.

Have you ever been drunk?

I’m not really a drinker, I never was. I was usually the one who stayed sober to make sure everyone else got home safe and sound. I’ve been drunk a couple of times, but I don’t like the feeling of not being in control.

A couple of years ago while house sitting for my Sister and Brother in Law I decided I would buy myself a six pack of Non Alcoholic Beer, Becks Blue I believe it was. The weather was warm and sunny and the beers were going down really well. I phoned a friend of mine and asked him could he get me some more and he told me no. I asked why not and his reply was “Because it’s twenty past 1 in the morning you stupid cow, the off licence is closed”. Righty ho, that’ll be a no then. I decided to go into the back yard for a smoke instead. It was then that I realised I was drunk. What a lightweight, drunk after 6 bottles of Non alcoholic beer, I couldn’t believe it. In fact I wasn’t just drunk, I was very drunk and hitting the fresh air had not helped.

When my Sister and Brother in law returned from holiday I was telling them all about it and my BIL goes to get himself a beer. It was then that he realised I had drunk his 6 bottles of extra strength beer and not my Non alcoholic ones. Oops!!

Till next week :)

Week 4 of Seven Weeks of Weird

July 28, 2014July 27, 2014 The Indecisive Eejit28 Comments

Welcome to Week 4 of 7 weeks of Weird hosted by the fabulous Mental Mama herself. You can find all the information you require HERE!

I’m late this week, but I’ve been late on everything. It’s a good job the Mental one is relaxed about the whole thing or I could have been on the receiving end of a kick up the arse all the way from the United States of America.

Weirdest Habit / Routine You Have

Until I started thinking about this I was pretty sure I didn’t have any weird habits or routines. I read Sheena’s post and found myself nodding when she said she swore too much, because I too resemble that remark.

On giving it further consideration I realised there are a few weird things that I do. Are they habits, routines or good old OCD, who knows.

I’ll check to make sure the doors are locked at least twice before I go to bed. I’m not however as picky about this as I used to be, owing to the fact going up and down the stairs now requires more effort due to my wonky leg.
For some strange reason I count when I chop or shred vegetables.
I hate sitting down at night to do anything (tv or blogging) unless all the dishes have been washed and put away.
I carry a cigarette behind my ear. I don’t do this as much now that I have changed jobs, but I used to do it a lot. When it was behind my ear I didn’t want to smoke it.
When I telephone doodle I either write my name over and over again, or draw eyes and weird faces.
I hate answering the door to strangers so I usually hide :)
I try to sit in the same seat on the train in the morning. I get a little territorial if someone has made it there before me, although I have not yet got to the stage of pulling them out of it. In my defense the one I like has more let room and is perfect when your knee will not bend as far as it used to.
I nearly always put milk in my coffee before the water goes in, unless of course it’s really strong coffee!

Woohoo, perhaps I am weird after all….what about you?

Cartoon Craziness Challenge – Superhero!

July 26, 2014July 26, 2014 The Indecisive Eejit26 Comments

As with all things this week I am pretty much late to my own party! My business partner in Cartoon Craziness has even got there before me, but better late than never, here is my entry for Cartoon Craziness Challenge – Superhero!

Sue me, I find all things bottom burp related kinda funny, so my Superhero is called the Phantom Farter! She has a utility belt to help her out in all kinds of situations as well as wings that can waft as well as fly! My character in GTA has a black bob style haircut and no one gives her shit, so I figured PF should have the same.

Who would you be as a Superhero, or who is your favorite Superhero, tell us in a doodle and join the fun. For more information, click HERE!

Cosmic Musicology Test – Well, What Do Ya Know

July 22, 2014July 21, 2014 The Indecisive Eejit19 Comments

Steve New Music Challenge — Spaceman Steve on the Decks!

He was gone, but never forgotten, and now he’s back with the re branded Cosmic Musicology Test! I mean what’s not to love, good tunes and wacky predictions, where else would you get it!! Welcome back Steve :)

Here’s a reminder how it works:

Each week Steve will post 3 new questions so…

(1) Go to the music player of your choice and put it on shuffle
(2) Say the questions aloud and press play
(3) Use the song title as your answers
(4) NO CHEATING

Title your post “Cosmic Musicology Test – …” and link back to this week’s page.

Post your response in the comment section of that week’s page.

Have a look at the archives or click on “Cosmic Musicology” in the category cloud on this page to see all previous weeks.

Any suggestions for future questions welcomed!

For more information, to submit ideas for future questions or just general feedback go to Cosmic Musicology Test.

Here are this weeks questions and my answers:

I Know I Can – Self Esteem by The Offspring – F@&k! Of all the answers there are in the world, this new test would have to pick that! Self esteem is one of the things I don’t have in abundance and at the age I am now I had pretty much given up hope of ever having any! Perhaps my new job and no longer dressing like a tomboy are the things that are going to define me!

I Know I Can’t – The Bones of You by Elbow – I know I can’t jump the bones of you until I get some self esteem perhaps? I reside in a vicious circle! :)

I Know I Might Be Able To? – Nightmares on Wax – Les Nuits – Steve, you broke the quiz, I’m speechless and we all know that’s a first for this challenge. Ok here we go, I want to go to Madame Tussauds the Wax Museum, I’ve said it for a while. When I go I’ll take my low self esteem while dressed in my new girl clothes and try to jump the bones of the waxwork of Orlando Bloom dressed as Legolas from Lord of the Rings, probably getting arrested in the process. Now if that doesn’t give you nightmares nothing will!