McLeod's Daughters

I know, yet again I'm spending too much time on YouTube. As you may know, McLeod's Daughters is one of my favorite tv shows. It's an Aussie import, and is currently airing the final season, Eight, on tv down there. I've watched all six of the seasons that have been released here in the US so far. And, since another fav, Lost, is on hiatus until February of NEXT YEAR (not that I'm bitter or anything), my friend Beth (who has a massive crush on "Nick", the blonde Ryan brother on McLeod's Daughters) and I have turned our weekly Thursday night viewing parties into McLeod Daughters nights. We manage to watch 4-5 episodes each week and are just starting season four. My Aussie friend, Gavin, rolls his eyes and says "You do know, you couldn't go to any farm in this country and really find it run by a group of gorgeous women like that!" To which I reply, yeah, and you couldn't go to any police station or hospital here in the US and find it staffed totally by gorgeous hunky doctors or cops, that's why it's TELEVISION! It's a great show, and available on Amazon or Ebay. And I have to take a moment to say thanks to the Koch president of marketing, who has been so patient every time I've emailed to find out when the next season would be released!





Sadly, Lisa Chapell (second from left), the actress from New Zealand, playing Claire decided to leave midway through the show, to pursue her singing career.

An aging meme

Once again I steal inspiration from the Noble Savage, thanks Amity! Read the parts in bold, and then finish the sentences:

At a certain age women should stop worrying about what everyone else thinks!

At a certain age men should realize that being an adult can be more fun than being a teenager forever

When I was a kid I thought I would get married, have a houseful of kids, be a mirror image of my mom.

Now that I am older I wish I had realized earlier how quickly time goes by.

You know you are too old to indulge your first impulses when shopping when the teenagers at the mall are buying the same things you’re attracted to.

You know you are too young to “act your age” when doing that would bore you silly.

When I was in high school I listened to the music of Blondie, Abba, Fleetwood Mac, Beatles, Stones, Journey….

Nowadays I find I like the music of the Stones, Roy Orbison, KD Lang, KT Tunstall, Katie Melua, Amy Winehouse, Robert Plant/Allison Krause, Big Brovaz, ….

On my last birthday I didn’t do much. I think I probably took the day off and got a pedicure or caught a movie.

On my next birthday I want to either totally ignore it or throw a big bash, I’m turning 50. How did that happen? But, I know ignoring it won’t make it not happen. But throwing your own birthday party seems egotistical. Wanna throw it for me?

The best birthday present I ever got was trips to the Nut Tree in CA.

The first time I felt grown up was learning to cook.

The last time I felt like a kid was last week when I put one of my Hello Kitty bandaids on my cut finger.

When I read lots of historical biographies in grade school it changed my life

Last year was a disjointed blur. I keep thinking it will get better, will it?

Next year I hope to be settled in a place I can think of as “home”.