TrashCan: Too lazy to play properly.

Trash Towers Dictionary

a/c - art crap. CK's fond term for the means of assuaging my addictions.

BSD - Been Seen Done. Devised while travelling the Great Ocean Road on CK's first Australian trip. Every lookout point was as fabulous as the previous and we got a little bit magnificenced out so rather than pull in we would shout BSD and keep driving.

Now general usage for when a situation is over or beyond repair.

bob - noun. Princess Curly- Wurly's word meaning all sweets, chocolate and yummy things.

blurry - (pr. to rhyme with hurry) Sth African/Zimbabwean term and my favourite polite swearword. Means kind of like bloody but usuable in mixed company. See 'Feck' & 'Eejit'

eejit - Irish term meaning 'idiot'. Suitable for use in polite company. Used by my Aunt Marion.

feck - Irish term used by my Aunt Marion so it cannot be rude!

ho-ho -(pr. with a short o). Zimbabwean word for bugs.

lani - (sp?) Sthn African word - means posh, expensive, elegant, stylish.

La Villa de Lamaca - (translates from Ital. as The houseof snails. My 'green' house out in the garden with all my a/c (ref: above) stuff in it. Built by CK and Babyman for me. CK lost his fingerprints over it. I cannot actually get in there at the moment!

lubbard - derived from 'beloved'. Devised by my then two y.o. son b/c unlike his sister he could not say 'Mother Beloved'. Usually prefaced by a noun.

OfStEd - Office for Standards in Education. Bossy civil servants who would like to see every child in formal, full-time education from birth.

Q.I. - Quite interesting.

terence - sobriquet applicable to all small children. Originated with one 'borrowed' child who could not pronounce ' terrorist' .

TG - exclamation. Thank God! An interesting choice for the dictionary of a recovering Catholic but is a phrase used by my Irish family and is now deeply fixed in my conversational repetoire. (reference also PG - Please God).

TGTH - The Great Trip Home. Alt. known as 'How I spent Christmas and N.Y 2008.

Sunday, 22 June 2008

Too lazy to play properly.

As one does I was sitting on the couch, blithely ignoring CK next to me, blog-hopping away when I saw this.

"AHA!" I thought. "This is perfect. A fabulous swap that requires no real effort but will result in getting interesting post, some fantastic craft goodness and blog love from the loveliest bloggers ever."

Because like everyone else I love the swap thing. I do, I really do. It is just that time management is NOT my forte. Things get done - eventually. But to be honest I am actually pretty lazy so having a box swap would be just about the best thing I could think of.

(see how lazy I am? I have convinced Babyman this IS proper snorkelling!!!)

As I understand it would something like this

Take one box (check. Michaela just sent me a cracker!).

Fill it full of crafting goodness. (I could get off the couch and manage that I'm sure... probably ;-/)

Person Number One TAKES OUT three things from it that she loves (b/c lets face it we are most likely all girls together here)

Person Number One then ADDS three things then sends it on to Person Number Two on the list.

And so on until the box ends up back here at Trash Towers and I can see what is left from the original package and just what the blogoverse thinks of my taste!

14 comments:

Lucy Locket-Pocket said...: Oooooh! Goody! I really wanted to do this when I saw Jodie post about it but just couldn't face organising another swap yet! So go ahead Trashy - organise to your heart's content! I'm definitely in for this one! (because it doesn't have to be handmade things does it? It can be crafty supplies too can't it?)

Locket xx; 22 June 2008 4:33 pm
Kitty said...: Yep, count me in Trashy - a box of goodies sounds good. We just have to take stuff out and put new stuff in, right? Nothing handsewn, handknitted, handcrocheted, etc?

x; 22 June 2008 5:07 pm
Lesley said...: Yes please - me please - I want to play please - please!!!

xxxx; 22 June 2008 9:32 pm
wonderwoman said...: hey hey, sounds like a plan, please can i play?; 22 June 2008 9:44 pm
Michaela said...: Count me in too - and I don't remember putting a cracker in the box. Just miles of bubble wrap and a jar of jam. We used all our crackers at Christmas.; 22 June 2008 11:23 pm
quiltygal said...: me too me too me too ....would be like xmas !
Claire; 23 June 2008 3:36 am
Jodie said...: Thats pretty much it trashy - I'd probably keep it in the Uk though as the postage would get a bit out of control. The box had fabric, supplies, little handmade thingy's - a great swap ! You'll love it if you go ahead.; 23 June 2008 4:14 am
American in Norway said...: Thank you for popping by today & the kind comment! : ); 23 June 2008 12:25 pm
wonderwoman said...: in reply to your comment, i dont mind being the last one, but am not sure about gold tho! - possibly ribbon, fabric, buttons maybe!
x; 23 June 2008 2:03 pm
Toni said...: Hey I thought you might like to The Big Annoucement over at my blog A Daily Dose of Toni. If you are interested in having your blog included at Mom Dot please contact me back either through a comment on the post or through my email tpatton5@gmail.com Thanks! Love your blog!; 23 June 2008 2:37 pm
Working Mom Knits said...: Are you taking on International players? If so I'd LOVE to join the fun! (please, please, please - pretty please with sugar on top...); 23 June 2008 4:43 pm
Gina said...: I want to play too please!!!; 23 June 2008 5:16 pm
Genevieve said...: me too me too! though I have to second WMK's comment about international players... (you know you want us. you get a wider variety of stuff that way!); 23 June 2008 11:06 pm
dottycookie said...: Is your list full? Because if not, I'd like to join in ...; 1 July 2008 5:25 pm