I made an ATUB..

Twitter is known for many things. Being in the news. Also being a news source for news.com.au, getting readers reactions. For crying out loud, don’t do this if you’re a journalist, myyyygooodddddddd.

But moving on, it’s also known in Australia for it’s TUB’s. That stands for Twitter Underground Brigade.

The name has stuck for quite a while now and doesn’t seem to be going away. Oh, and it’s catchy. But it’s not very underground (see cities Sydney, Melbourne and Perth).

Adelaide is a bit behind. I mean, since I joined Twitter over two years ago now, I have been trying to encourage it, and now FINALLY it is taking off thanks to it’s explosion all over mainstream. They say it’s the new Facebook. It’s the new MySpace. It’s the new GET OUT OF MY SOCIAL NETWORK THIS ONE IS MINE!! Who cares if it’s the new whatever? You either get it or you don’t and STOP SPAMMING ME.

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Thursday night was the biggest and first massively organised Adelaide meetup. There were 19 people there with a few sick and as we descended upon chocolate land, most of us left nursing a sick stomach and that unmistakeable chocolate mouth disease.

I had a good time. I got to meet a few people I have been wanting to see for a while, see others I knew but haven’t seen for ages, and also, catch up with the classics like my old housemate.

Get some of that chocolate crossiant into you!

For more information on the elusive ATUB - The Adelaide meetups, check out http://www.adelaidetweeters.com.

And then I went to Melbourne!.

While discussing money one night, Michael runs in and says:

“I’ve got money at Crown in Melbourne!”

And randomly takes off for a night and leaves me all alone in Adelaide while exclaiming his delight at the awesome room in Crown Towers, the little meanie.

So the following Sunday, we decided that the balance on my Credit Card looked healthy enough to go over for two nights and stay at Crown Towers.

Whee! I can tell you if I was to move to another city in Australia it would probably be Melbourne. Because they have these.

Dugong!.

I got back from Sydney on Tuesday night. We were standing in Red Rooster Friday evening after I finished work and I commented that I didn’t have to work for a week. Michael suggested we go to Sydney, so on Sunday afternoon we flew out of Adelaide.

I got to go into the Qantas Club and felt really out of place. I also had some pumpkin soup. Did you know it was free? Though, at the price of membership it bloody better be.

We met Twitter folks and ate tiny portions of Chinese food with them whilst conversing about phones and internets. After saying goodbye to Twitter folks (you guys are awesome, by the way, thanks a lot for organising it!) we then went BACK to the casino. Like we didn’t spend enough time there on the first night or anything.

Then it got really freaking cold. And some other stuff happened, and then we went to the aquarium. And saw these mystical awesome creatures of win.

This is a dugong. They have two of them in the parts where you can walk in the tunnels underwater. Michael liked them so much we bought this tiny plushie version. Michael also likes to say “dugong!” really loudly and randomly at various times during the day. He also speaks dugong language, which consists of him saying “DUGONG”. I may or may not have threatened to injure him. :P

So! Until I can retrieve lion (which is NOT in the car, so my brothers and sisters have presumably eaten it) and rabbit, dugong will be visiting this blog. I hope you can make him welcome, he’s very cute and looks like a dolphin. But it’s cuter. In a unique way.

Dugong!

Dramatise this!.

I have the flu. Yaaaaay!

I tried to man it up this morning and just go to work and get through the four and a half hours I was required to sneeze on customers and blow litres of….. stuff out of my nose, but I failed in my attempt. At 10.30am, I gave in and called my manager. She came in to do the rest of my shift. I felt bad, I hadn’t really achieved much. I did open the store, so I take the slight credit for that.

Anyway, I was scheduled to run out of tissues by 12.12pm at the rate I was using them and then we would have had a global natural disaster.

So what are the benefits of having the flu?

SHIT ALL.

Are these cold and flu tablets working? Not reeeeally. They cost $15 a box! And they don’t even have real speed in them! I feel ripped off. This IS the first time I’ve ever taken cold and flu tablets but THAT’S NOT THE POINT, I WANT TO GET HIGH.

Not really.

And to top it all off, I can’t even find IKEA rabbit on the website to show you a picture of IKEA rabbit. It’s holding a freaking carrot and I can’t find it. It’s not even in the children’s toys section which makes me very sad. Their stupid heart with hands is in that section. WHAT THE HELL. Hearts do not have hands! But IKEA does have this wonderful wonderous soft toy, which I shall adopt next time I visit.

It’s called a GOSIG PUDEL. That’s right folks, the Swedish are freaking excellent with their language. Can you guess what this soft toy may be called?

This was going to be a witty and awesome post but all my awesome has been taken up by the bastard flu. So instead, here is a picture of what I will look like in approximately 24 hours.

Oink.

Number One..

How quick are nameservers updated these days? Holy smokes!

I’m back. Starting fresh. I can’t find my lion and I can’t find my IKEA rabbit, they are somewhere in hostage in my siblings toybox (I think). I may have to pur-chase a new IKEA rabbit (but that is okay, it’s Horatio the lion I’m really after. My first present from Michael). I am however going to do more pictures about things and tell you more crazy insane stories.

Like how Twilight is really frustrating the hell out of me at work.

See I thought it was bad back around Christmas, when Big W was *always* out of stock and it was pointless and impossible to refer anyone there to get a copy of one of the four books. Now that the movie has come out on DVD, all the little kidlets who went to see it on their darling school holidays are pissing me off coming in to ask for it again.

Dear customers: Stop it. Love, Monnie.

Of course I guess they don’t understand we probably won’t carry the book until it’s extremely unpopular and has been out for hundreds of years. Well that’s not entirely true, we’ve had new releases, I just doubt we’ll ever ever get Twilight. It’s kind of like Harry Potter. Why would the bookstores send that back to the publisher and then we’d buy it and get it cheaper? It’s a classic and it’s going to sell forever. It pretty much sells itself, just bring out another movie and WHAM POPULARITY SKYROCKETS!

So I have a pretty new website and a pretty new start. Today is June the 2nd and I am pretty sure I have the flu. Just your garden variety. Either that or a really really shitty cold.