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I'm feeling a little uninspired this morning. This isn't such a great thing considering I have about 8 articles to write by the end of the day however I'm sure I'll be able to pull inspiration from somewhere. I don't know why I feel like this as I've actually had a really great couple of days. This morning I went to a cool corporate breakfast at one of the top 10 golf courses in Australia and met several interesting people... I'm beginning to feel a little less like a dressed-up child and a bit more like a grown-up professional at things like this although it's going to take some time before the transition is complete. Hey I know deep down inside I'm always going to be a kid but there are times when you don't really want to feel like one... for example, when you're meeting school principals. I'm also learning to use the word "rad" less and resist the urge to adopt a gravelly Strongbad voice when talking to people about things like financial strategies. And if Lisa B ever reads this... sorry, but I don't think "groovox" is ever going to get a mention.

It's all a learning process, to be sure. It would seem growing up, or at least acting grown up is compulsory. Thankfully I have this outlet for when 8-year-old Teegs just HAS to get out!

I'm gunna stay up LATE tonight... like, 10 o'clock!

Teegs ;)
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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
I Love You

You wanted to say RAD? - at all? - let alone at a function -- you really are a weirdo

Oh there was something I was going to say but I've totally forgotten...oh well

on another note I heard SonicFloods I want to know you more for the first time in AGES!!!!!!!!! yesterday -- it was the first sonicflood song I'd ever heard way back in grade 11 - like 5years ago now!!!
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
Hey, you can act 8 whenever you like, that's what JU is for! And isn't it past your bedtime???

Aria
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
yeah i'm nuts but i thought you'd have worked that out by now and you can't talk, gingernut girl!

yaay for acting like a kid! i've already got inkstains on my hands (the mark of a journalist) and a packed lunch, all i'm missing is a pair of mary janes, some pigtails and a runny nose.... actually i'll pass on that last one.

and... i don't WANNA go to bed!!!!
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
I'm sorry, but it is way past your bed time, and you've school tomorrow, so brush your teeth and I'll read you a bedtime story...
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
Arh timezones are fun aren't they - you wrote this blog about an hour ago - being 8pm wherever JU's timer is, sometime early morning where Aria is - in England and 11am here in Australia

I may be slightly crazy at times but I don't think I've ever said Rad - apart from here when I typed an hour ago and 30seconds ago - Saying Rad is the pinacle of weirdoness.
I left you a message on the frontpage of my blog btw.
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
*pouts and stomps off in the direction of the bathroom*
Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top
Well, it would be way past your bedtime if you were in the UK!

Can't say I've ever said rad either, but I am guilty of saying "cool" when my brain is not functioning at full capacity!
Reply #11 from JoeUser Forums Top
"rad" is the new "cool", take it from me. but you do get some strange looks....
Reply #13 from JoeUser Forums Top
"rad" is the new "cool"


the new "cool"???

OMG, that takes me back, way back. Back to when I thought 25 was old, let alone anything past that. Nice post, btw, brings back memories...
Reply #14 from JoeUser Forums Top
What happened to "wicked"? Or is that just an American thing? I've heard this strange expression "That's wicked cool" etc. Where do they get it from?!
Reply #15 from JoeUser Forums Top
i don't know where wicked came from but it is widely used in australia too.

thanks ladycleve, i'm glad you enjoyed the post. and with regards to my referring to "rad" as new, i actually think that part of "rad"'s attractiveness is its old-school charm. kinda conjures up images of scrunch socks, slap bands and teenage mutant ninja turtles. ah, the 80s....
Reply #17 from JoeUser Forums Top
Heh heh, Strongbad!
Reply #18 from JoeUser Forums Top
Strongbad?? No idea what that is! UK gal here...

He-Man, Thundercats, gummybears (or was that 90s??!), fraggle rock (oh, how I miss that...), to name a few that have jumped to the forefront of my addled brain...

Loved them all!
Reply #19 from JoeUser Forums Top
Gummi Bears was 90s

But then so were the Ninja Turtles - at least in Australia

I'm not even sure I could discern the 80's from the early 90s -- I remember everything Aria just named (and for the record twig RadICAL was the turtles not rad like Splinter "He's a radical rat")
*cringe* slapbands oh my gosh
I miss slouchy socks - Rin and I were talking about them the other day - along with stirrup pants -- did stirrup pants make it to Singapore - you weren't home in grade 5 were you? That's when stirrup pants and slouchy socks were BIG here - with troll dolls and the flintstone kids - Grade 5 (1993)

Arh nostalgia blogs - I love nostalgia

Strongbad as far as I know is an internet cartoon/comic - I don't think it's actually on television but I could be mistaken. I think Tegan has a link to their website and if she doesn't Wayno (in teegs list) would
Reply #20 from JoeUser Forums Top
Okeedokee! I might just have to take your word on that one, trina! I love nostalgia trips too - I just wish my brain wouldn't seize up so often when I try to think of nostalgic things!
Reply #21 from JoeUser Forums Top
oh yeah, stirrup pants didn't make it to singapore (too hot!) but i had some in grade six, along with the slouchy socks and hiking-style boots. then of course there was the ever so stylish leggings and sloppy joe/ bike pants and oversized t-shirt (depending on the weather). which when you describe people automatically think 80s but i for one was wearing them well into the mid-90s if i recall correctly. that's me, always on the crest of the fashion wave.

i don't remember thundercats but turtles definitely fought with honour in my neighbourhood.

ahhhh strongbad!!!!!!!!!!! ok ariadne you're about to be initiated... if you have dial-up these will take a while to load but believe me they are worth the wait! go to www.homestarrunner.com and click on sb emails down the bottom. follow your nose and you will be laughing so hard you will cry in no time!
Reply #22 from JoeUser Forums Top
I'm glad thewre are others about who arent afraid to embrace their inner weirdo-ness The peeps at Viva must think i'm totally strange sometimes.. the strange voice impersonations and random quotes... they smile and nod all the same

Wicked awesome, wicked cool... prefixing wicked to any adjective I picked up from watching many Adam Sandler movies... enriching as they are... definitely an American thing.

I'm loving all the nostalgia realted blogs lately! I had such an exciting childhood... bulk fun! High school - different story. But anyways... it's been grand (maybe I should say "It's been rad"??)
Reply #23 from JoeUser Forums Top
Here's hoping there's always some child version of Teegs. haha, that Sinbad voice of yours!