Hey all Ok I'll admit it. I'm a word person. I love words. I guess you could even take it so far as to say I'm a bit of a word nerd, a term which i guess doubly confirms my 'word nerd' status as it so groovily rhymes. And I guess it's because I'm a word nerd that this came to my attention today in a situation where any normal person would have just gone "hm!" and moved on (if that). "Dagnammit" -- that's the right word, right? You know, the non-offensive swear word used by bad guys in kid...

Howdy world I'm currently at work and as such should probably not be bashing out a random blog -- rather I should be continuing my tasks of planning this year's kid church program or doing layout on my kids' magazine. They're actually both jobs I really enjoy but I've been working on them all morning and need a break. But instead of going outside and doing something healthy and useful like manufacturing vitamin D or raising my pulse from its resting rate I'll sit here in my office until I fee...

Hey ya I think my brain may be empty. Normally I don't know what to write about when I first sit down to do this but within a few seconds a sentence or two comes to me and it all flows from there. Today though my mind is a blank. This may have something to do with the fact that I'm incredibly tired. It's a sad day though when you're tired after going to bed at 12 and getting up at 8. I think I'm getting old or something. It's also stupidly hot outside, so much so that I had to drive home ...

Hey there This is about the third time I've gone to make an entry in the past 24 hours and my plans have been circumvented somehow each time. I've overcome my problems now though -- feel free to congratulate me -- and am now trying to write something before the thunderstorm that crashed around us before decides to come back to terrorise us a second time. It's been an eventful day and a half in a bizarrely non-eventful kind of way. In that I mean that a lot of little things that are meanin...

Hey everyone As a follow-on thought from yesterday's expoundment on my time at the gym, I've come to the conclusion that exercise can severely endanger your wellbeing. I know everyone craps on about how cardiovascular exercise and building muscle can prolong your life, but they're wrong. I know this for a fact, because the class I took at the gym today nearly killed me! I did a pump class which involves a lot of lifting big heavy weights lots and lots of times (when you're doing it you lo...

Greetings universe Now I promised last time that this entry would be wonderfully trivial and barely introspective at all and I intend to live up to that promise. Many circumstances are with me in this endeavour this afternoon: for one thing I have only about 10 minutes before I need to go and I'm also feelin' good. This may or may not be a direct result of my purchasing James Brown's "I Feel Good" this arvo, but whether it is or not, the fact that I purchased it leads nicely onto today's topi...

After the comments and discussion that resulted from my last article, I thought I would indulge my self-centredness and possibly at the same time shed some light upon who I am by writing an entry about... me. Not what happened to me today, not my recent gastronomic fetish, not even an expose on why Christian girls find it so easy to avoid having sex (but that is to come). About me. Name: Tegan -- you can call me Teegs or Teegstar. I'm not putting my surname in because I don't think I coul...

Hi there It's Tegan here, once again updating you on.... *mental blank* .... the goings on of my sometimes-interesting life and spouting badly researched and ill-informed.... *mental blank* .... opinions on issues as diverse as..... *mental blank* *continuing mental blank* ACCESS DENIED Note to Brain User: access to cognitive lobe denied. Please recharge battery before reattempting to use brain. For more information, please click Help. HELP "Help! I'm gettin...

Hey everyone This is just a very short post basically to assure you that yes, I am still alive! Due to unforeseen circumstances beyond my control, I've actually been WORKING at work. Go figure. As a result I've been disturbingly productive, albeit suffering Strongbad and blogging withdrawal symptoms. My doctor tells me these will pass. News from the past week or so: last night we went into the Valley to celebrate my sister turning 18. We listened to very funky jazz music, witnessed a figh...

Howdy y'all Typing is a little uncomfortable at the moment as my hand is still feeling a little stiff from yesterday's guillotining exercise. It seems bizarre and stupid to me that I am whinging after two days of using a device that I'm sure some people use all and every day. I think there's something amiss in my technique. Hopefully I won't have too many opportunities to improve it in the future. Today has been a cool day. I was concious when it began on the stroke of midnight as I went ...

I'm sorry I misjudged you, creampuff. You thought I was talking to you didn't you? Well think again! You're totally hotcakes or muffin, not creampuff. What I was going to say though in my affected, roundabout, misleading, wannabe-literati style before I interrupted and gave myself away was that I never really liked cream buns when I was a kid. It was probably mostly a psychological thing: there was either too much bun and not enough cream, or what I really wanted was an icecream but I ate th...

Yeah baby, yeah! All's cool in the land of Tegan tonight. Nicely set up here now but what I'm really missing is music. I'm trying in vain to get the uber-cool looking playlists (Killer Queen! I haven't heard that for waaaay too long) in media player to work but to no avail. How frustration! Wait a minute, I'm going to get my cds. It's just too quiet here. *gets up, rummages around for a few minutes, flicks through woefully small cd collection thrice, wrestles with drives, speakers and var...

Hi youse I'm writing this mainly because I'm bored with the last thing I wrote and I figure you may be too. The only thing is I have no particular topic in mind today -- except maybe the fact I have "Help Me Rhonda" stuck in my head (something about Beach Boys songs today, except you may or may not be pleased to know I actually remember the words to this one). But as that's not really a topic worth in depth discussion (in my mind anyway), I will wrack my brain for some other topic for today's...

Hey again, I don't have any particular topic in mind right now, I just felt like saying hello to you all. The best part about this is that I really have no idea who "you all" are. Whoever and wherever you are though, I hope you're having a top night and that you're happy about where you are in life. If not, reply to this message and at least you'll have someone to talk to about it. Where I am right now it's nearly half past nine on a Monday night in the greater Brisbane area. It's just...

Hi everyone Again, a while since I've blogged and for that I apologise profusely. I realise JoeUser is just not the same place without a regular instalment of Teganesque insight and wit. In light of this knowledge I have deigned to take this time out of my very busy schedule to give you all the electronic equivalent of a courteous wave. Now with that small chore done, I must move on to my other mammoth tasks: Showering, Dressing and Catching Up For Coffee With Friends. Mushroom-sme...