Archives for May 2004

Was it a joke?

May 31, 2004 by Jen at Semantically driven

Sat down to watch the eviction show last night and when I saw Gretel I nearly fell off my chair. Was that wig supposed to be serious? I sincerely hope not as it was so obviously fake. I normally think Gretel looks fairly good but the wig was sure noticed by lots of people of if the Big Brother forum is anything to go by.

On to Krystal. I’m glad she was the one to go as the thing about her was that she was a backstabber. One example – Krystal overhears a conversation between Terri and someone else about Bree and the funny look Bree gave Terri while doing the song task, then immediately goes and reports back to Bree about it – “Oh I wasn’t even going to tell you”. If you’re not going to tell someone, just don’t tell them. There were many other instances of Krystal talking about other housemates behind their backs – not that other people don’t do this but I think Krystal did it the most. And Krystal’s comment when Terri approached her about Krystal walking away when Terri was trying to speak to her. Krystal’s response was “You so shouldn’t take that personally”. How else would a person take it. If I was talking to someone and they walked away I would take it personally and think that person didn’t like me. How two faced is Krystal?

In her interview with Gretel after the eviction, Gretel was fairly kind to Krystal about her comments about other housemates and about why she thought she was nominated and evicted. I remember Gretel grilling Igor about why he thought he was nominated but not the same sorts of questions for Krystal.

So who will be nominated this week? Not really sure. Probably Ash again because she’s an easy target as she doesn’t help much around the house, Terri and Paul again maybe as people can use the same excuses rather than come up with new ones. Or will we see a new nominee this week?

Grin and bear it

May 27, 2004 by Jen at Semantically driven

I got into bed about 11pm the other night – a bit late for me but I’m still painting my bedroom. Had probably just drifted off to sleep when Jaycee Junior came into my room and said he’d been sick. Great. Went and changed his sheets, after also taking off the mattress protector, and gave him a bucket and said that he must be sick in there if he needed to be again with great confidence.

About 2 hours later he came in to my room again and insisted that he had done a wee and even though he wears a nappy at night he kept saying he’d done a wee. I went with him and changed his nappy and went to put him back to bed and noticed he’d been sick again – some went in the bucket and some was on his sheets. Gritting my teeth and trying not be cross at having to do all this again I pulled the sheets off which was my only backup pair for his bed and told him he was in for an adventure now and that he could sleep on the floor. I setup his quilt on the floor with a big towel over the pillow and hung the first load of washing and put this lot in the washing machine for a morning wash. Just before he hopped into his new bed on the floor he started being sick again – some went on the floor and the rest into the bucket but at least he wasn’t sick on his new bed and I obviously didn’t want him sleeping with me. So I cleaned up the floor rinsed out the bucket again, made sure he was settled and made my way back into my bed. All was well until about 7am where he must have been sick on his way to my room.

He was all right during the day. I called up work and childcare and said that we wouldn’t be in, I lit the fire and we settled down at home and had a pretty good day. I had a rest while he was resting and when he had a big three hour sleep during the middle of the day I got some more painting in my bedroom done. All he ate was three slices of toast and vegemite for the whole day which in itself is an indicator that all wasn’t well as he normally eats a lot. All was back to normal the next day when he ate four weetbix for breakfast.

I should have guessed!

May 24, 2004 by Jen at Semantically driven

I wasn’t really sure who would go this week. None of the people up for eviction did that much for me and none of them annoyed me more than the other but I guess what clinched it for Igor was the controversy surrounding him regarding his debts and so on. I think he’s probably correct in guessing that Paul will be up for eviction this week especially after the argument with Merlin the other night about him not being an Australian citizen. Paul should have known when to back down and he just didn’t. I thought things were going to get ugly but I guess that would have been nipped in the bud pretty quickly.

I can’t think who else will be up for nomination apart from Paul – maybe Crystal and Elle? Is Terri settling in more? I don’t think she will make it to the last few that’s for sure but she might have been saved for a little while. A few housemates think Catherine will be one of the last three in the house but I think she’s too quiet and not in the background. But then Ben – the first Big Brother Australia winner didn’t feature that much on our television screens but all the housemates thought he was really funny. So who knows.

I had a thought about Ashalea last week too. She comes across as very naive and not very knowledgeable about past famous happenings in the world, but remember Reggie from last year – she was about the same. The difference between Reggie and Ashalea is that Reggie seemed like more fun to be around.

I hope Channel 10 shake the house up soon as I’m starting to get bored. Perhaps a double eviction, or everyone up for eviction? Come on.

Busy busy busy

May 20, 2004 by Jen at Semantically driven

It’s been all go recently in the Jaycee household and for me at work. I’m filling in for my boss at work and I’ve been flat out. It always seems that I’m either not very busy or very very busy – never quite a happy medium. Oh well, today has gone really quickly. I got in a 8.15am and it’s not 4.30pm and the day’s flown. Last weekend was mainly taken up with house stuff as I’m still painting my bedroom. The ceiling and walls are all finished now. I’m just stuck with preparing the woodwork which includes skirting boards, chair rail and fireplace so there’s a reasonable amount of preparation work here. Oh, and I haven’t scraped all the paint off the door but the bit I have done has just peeled off which means last time it was painted it wasn’t prepared properly.

We managed to fit in a first birthday party which wasn’t too bad. I think as far as kids birthday parties go, first birthday parties are the best as they are usually more for the parents actually making it through the first year and surviving to tell the tale. There were a few older kids there so we endured one game of pass the parcel and the rest of the time was spent eating, drinking and talking.

I had a couple of friends over on Sunday night for dinner and they’ve got one child each around my sons age. One of them I’ve nicknamed monkey as she climbs up everything. It was a real shock for me as my son doesn’t do that. She also managed to make all the bread fall out the packet, and have a good look around my kitchen cupboards. I find dinner parties stressful as it’s only me doing the cooking, cleaning, hostessing and washing up so I don’t do it very often and when I do I keep the numbers right down. In summer it’s a bit different having a few people over for a barbeque.

Monday was Adelaide Cup day and as usual on this day it rained but I offloaded the kid for the afternoon and got stuck into some painting. I get my wardrobe installed tomorrow so I should be back sleeping in my bedroom within the week. Can’t wait. I can’t remember where all my clothes and shoes are.

Why Aphrodite?

May 18, 2004 by Jen at Semantically driven

I know Aphrodite was a bit annoying but I don’t think she should have been the person to go. Why not evict Terri for trying too hard or Igor for being a sexist liar. Even though the housemates voted for Aphrodite to be nominated most of them were quite sad when she left – except Paul – but we all know that he didn’t really like her. It’s funny though when someone obviously doesn’t like somebody else they will say nice things about them when they nominate (I love her/him to death, I think she/he is a great person) but their actions tell the real story. I haven’t quite figured Paul out yet. He appears to come across as quite controlling with being critical about people not doing the recycling correctly for instance so I think he would probably annoy me as I don’t like being told what to do.

My favourites are – in no particular order – Trevor, Ryan, Bree (they all seem natural)
The people who don’t really stand out – Wesley, Kane, Catherine (haven’t really seen much of them)
The people who annoy me – Terri (tries too hard), Ashalea (childish), Elle (the way she speaks), Igor (contradictory)
Those I feel indifferent towards – Paul, Crystal, Merlin (almost in the annoying category but haven’t seen enough annoying things for me to put them there).

I think and hope Igor will go this week. I hate it when housemates say they want to go but have no intention of really going. As I think it was Merlin who said, Igor’s just using it as a defense mechanism in case he is the one to go.

No surprises really

May 12, 2004 by Jen at Semantically driven

When the nomination show started on Monday night I thought to myself that Igor and Aphrodite would be nominated for sure. The third person I thought might be Terri but I wasn’t absolutely sure. Now who will be evicted? I think Igor will probably go, but I think that Terri should go as from past experience the controversial person – in this case Igor – always goes the first but I think they should hang around for at least another week to see what happens in the house. Then again, I’m not living in the house and don’t have to put up with Igor farting, swearing and offending me.

36 pairs of undies

May 12, 2004 by Jen at Semantically driven

I’ve haven’t posted for a few days because I’ve had time off work and also went away for mother’s day. It’s been all systems go at home with the bedroom renovation. I finished the ceiling and have prepared all the walls and done the first coat of paint with the roller. I’ve done some of the cutting in on the corners and near the chair rail and skirting boards. I’ve also just had the floorboards sanded and polished and it’s come up a treat. I had to spend last night at a friends and will go there tonight also as the house stinks and I didn’t want a chemically induced headache.

I had a good weekend though. Went to a 40th on Friday night. The theme was Bowling Boogie Wonderland. It was held at a lawn bowls club and we were able to play lawn bowls. It turns out that I’m not a bad player seeing I’ve only ever played once before about 5 years ago. My team won the first game I played in and I don’t think we scored on the second game. Not quite sure what happened there. The vodka jellies were a hit. They turned out quite strong so my ratios can be adjusted somewhat. I’m thinking double the water and halve the vodka. Shall give it another try at some stage and see how I go.

On a lighter note I’ve had a couple of friends ask me if I wanted to participate in a sort of chain mail thing where you buy one pair of underpants to send to someone and send the letter to six of your friends to get the ball rolling to receive 36 pairs of undies in total – provided everyone participates of course. Last night at my friends place I was finally roped into participating in this undies chain mail. So why not – lets see if I get 36 pairs of undies. I just have to find six friends to send the letters to who haven’t received letters already.