Saturday 27 September 2008

Cheerio

See you at

www.sniffytastic.com

Fuck's sake, what are you still coming here for? Have you still not got the hang of typing Sniffytastic in your address bar?

Go on, try it, it won't hurt!

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Thursday 25 September 2008

Off

Sniffy is taking her ball with her and moving the Cakesniffing experience to a new home.

Things are being tidied up at the moment, but I'll hopefully be able to shut down Cakesniffers in a few days and reopen elsewhere.

Anybody wanting a sneak preview (don't get excited) of my miserable take on my miserable world can drop me a line and I'll tell them where I'm going.

Adios, amigos.

But before then, check this out

TO: MR. JAMES THATCHER

BRAND MANAGER, PROCTER & GAMBLE

Dear Mr. Thatcher

I have been a loyal user of your Always maxi pads for over 20 years, and I appreciate many of their features. Why, without the LeakGuard Core(tm)
or Dri-Weave(tm)absorbency, I'd probably never go horse riding or salsa dancing, and I'd certainly steer clear of running up and down the beach in tight, white shorts. But my favourite feature has to be your revolutionary Flexi-Wings. Kudos on being the only company smart enough to realize how crucial it is that maxi pads be aerodynamic. I can't tell you how safe and secure I feel each month knowing there's a little F-16 in my pants.

Have you ever had a menstrual period, Mr. Thatcher? Ever suffered from 'the curse'? I'm guessing you haven't. Well, my 'time of the month' is starting right now. As I type, I can already feel hormonal forces violently surging through my body. Just a few minutes from now, my body will adjust and I'll be transformed into what my husband likes to call 'an inbred hillbilly with knife skills.' Isn't the human body amazing?

As brand manager in the feminine-hygiene division, you've no doubt seen quite a bit of research on what exactly happens during your customers' monthly visits from Aunt Flo. Therefore, you must know about the bloating, puffiness, and cramping we endure, and about our intense mood swings, crying and out-of-control behaviour. You surely realise it's a tough time for most women. In fact, only last week, my friend Jennifer fought the violent urge to shove her boyfriend's testicles into a George Foreman Grill just because he told her he thought Grey's Anatomy was written by drunken chimps.

Crazy! The point is, sir, you of all people must realize that the UK is just crawling with homicidal maniacs in Capri pants.
Which brings me to the reason for my letter.

Last month, while in the throes of cramping so painful I wanted to reach inside my body and yank out my uterus, I opened an Always maxi pad, and there, printed on the adhesive backing, were these words: 'Have a Happy Period.'

Are you *+*#*ing kidding me?

What I mean is
, does any part of your tiny middle-manager brain really think happiness - actual smiling, laughing happiness - is possible during a menstrual period? Did anything mentioned above sound the least bit pleasurable?

Well, did it, James? FYI, unless you're some kind of sick S&M freak girl, there will never be anything 'happy' about a day in which you have to jack yourself up on Nurofen and KahlĂșa and lock yourself in your house just so you don't march down to the local Tesco's armed with a hunting rifle and a sketchy plan to end your life in a blaze of glory. For the love of God, pull your head out, man. If you just have to slap a moronic message on a maxi pad, wouldn't it make more sense to say something that's actually pertinent, like 'Put Down the Hammer' or 'Vehicular Manslaughter Is Wrong'?- Or are you just picking on us?

Sir, please inform your accounting department that, effective immediately, there will be an £8 drop in monthly profits, for I have chosen to take my maxi-pad business elsewhere. And though I will certainly miss your Flexi-Wings, I will not for one minute miss your brand of condescending bullshit. And that's a promise I will keep.
Always.

Best,

Wendi Aarons

Off

Sniffy is taking her ball with her and moving the Cakesniffing experience to a new home.

Things are being tidied up at the moment, but I'll hopefully be able to shut down Cakesniffers in a few days and reopen elsewhere.

Anybody wanting a sneak preview (don't get excited) of my miserable take on my miserable world can drop me a line and I'll tell them where I'm going.

Adios, amigos.

But before then, check this out

TO: MR. JAMES THATCHER

BRAND MANAGER, PROCTER & GAMBLE

Dear Mr. Thatcher

I have been a loyal user of your Always maxi pads for over 20 years, and I appreciate many of their features. Why, without the LeakGuard Core(tm)
or Dri-Weave(tm)absorbency, I'd probably never go horse riding or salsa dancing, and I'd certainly steer clear of running up and down the beach in tight, white shorts. But my favourite feature has to be your revolutionary Flexi-Wings. Kudos on being the only company smart enough to realize how crucial it is that maxi pads be aerodynamic. I can't tell you how safe and secure I feel each month knowing there's a little F-16 in my pants.

Have you ever had a menstrual period, Mr. Thatcher? Ever suffered from 'the curse'? I'm guessing you haven't. Well, my 'time of the month' is starting right now. As I type, I can already feel hormonal forces violently surging through my body. Just a few minutes from now, my body will adjust and I'll be transformed into what my husband likes to call 'an inbred hillbilly with knife skills.' Isn't the human body amazing?

As brand manager in the feminine-hygiene division, you've no doubt seen quite a bit of research on what exactly happens during your customers' monthly visits from Aunt Flo. Therefore, you must know about the bloating, puffiness, and cramping we endure, and about our intense mood swings, crying and out-of-control behaviour. You surely realise it's a tough time for most women. In fact, only last week, my friend Jennifer fought the violent urge to shove her boyfriend's testicles into a George Foreman Grill just because he told her he thought Grey's Anatomy was written by drunken chimps.

Crazy! The point is, sir, you of all people must realize that the UK is just crawling with homicidal maniacs in Capri pants.
Which brings me to the reason for my letter.

Last month, while in the throes of cramping so painful I wanted to reach inside my body and yank out my uterus, I opened an Always maxi pad, and there, printed on the adhesive backing, were these words: 'Have a Happy Period.'

Are you *+*#*ing kidding me?

What I mean is
, does any part of your tiny middle-manager brain really think happiness - actual smiling, laughing happiness - is possible during a menstrual period? Did anything mentioned above sound the least bit pleasurable?

Well, did it, James? FYI, unless you're some kind of sick S&M freak girl, there will never be anything 'happy' about a day in which you have to jack yourself up on Nurofen and KahlĂșa and lock yourself in your house just so you don't march down to the local Tesco's armed with a hunting rifle and a sketchy plan to end your life in a blaze of glory. For the love of God, pull your head out, man. If you just have to slap a moronic message on a maxi pad, wouldn't it make more sense to say something that's actually pertinent, like 'Put Down the Hammer' or 'Vehicular Manslaughter Is Wrong'?- Or are you just picking on us?

Sir, please inform your accounting department that, effective immediately, there will be an £8 drop in monthly profits, for I have chosen to take my maxi-pad business elsewhere. And though I will certainly miss your Flexi-Wings, I will not for one minute miss your brand of condescending bullshit. And that's a promise I will keep.
Always.

Best,

Wendi Aarons

Wednesday 24 September 2008

Twat

I'm a twat. I'm a twat. I'm a twat.

A couple of swigs of cheap plonk on an empty stomach and I go completely off my tits.

Arsehole.

Anyway, to save me getting into further trouble, I thought it best to post some photos. Aaaahhh, I feel myself stepping back into the light.


The Grand Canyon
It's a deep long hole with a river running through it. One... two... three.... JUMP!

Canyon stitch 1

Canyon stitch 2

Wonder Woman's Helicopter
Yes, the delish superheroine is alive and living at the Grand Canyon shuttle site. She was off doing dirty bitch things with her truth lasso, so I didn't actually see her unfortunately, but she'd left her helicopter parked there.

Wonder woman helicopter

Yeeeeeeeee-Haaaaaaaaaaw Cowgirl
I had a strange experience with a card trickster at this ranch, but this cowgirl made me go a bit whatsit when she beckoned me over as I took this photo. She thought I was taking a picture of the horse, for fuck's sake. The horse is called Jackson, and he smells a bit like a horse. I'm sure the cowgirl did too, but you'd let her off for that.

Cowgirl

Actually, she looks a bit rough on this photo, but it wasn't her teeth I was looking at.


Fremont Street Experience
Look at these nasty pieces of work!

Fremont Street dirty bitches

Imagine coming across any of these on a dark night. What a thought, or several...

Twat

I'm a twat. I'm a twat. I'm a twat.

A couple of swigs of cheap plonk on an empty stomach and I go completely off my tits.

Arsehole.

Anyway, to save me getting into further trouble, I thought it best to post some photos. Aaaahhh, I feel myself stepping back into the light.

The Grand Canyon
It's a deep long hole with a river running through it. One... two... three.... JUMP!
Canyon stitch 1

Canyon stitch 2

Wonder Woman's Helicopter
Yes, the delish superheroine is alive and living at the Grand Canyon shuttle site. She was off doing dirty bitch things with her truth lasso, so I didn't actually see her unfortunately, but she'd left her helicopter parked there.
Wonder woman helicopter

Yeeeeeeeee-Haaaaaaaaaaw Cowgirl
I had a strange experience with a card trickster at this ranch, but this cowgirl made me go a bit whatsit when she beckoned me over as I took this photo. She thought I was taking a picture of the horse, for fuck's sake. The horse is called Jackson, and he smells a bit like a horse. I'm sure the cowgirl did too, but you'd let her off for that.
Cowgirl

Actually, she looks a bit rough on this photo, but it wasn't her teeth I was looking at.

Fremont Street Experience
Look at these nasty pieces of work!
Fremont Street dirty bitches

Imagine coming across any of these on a dark night. What a thought, or several...

Sunday 21 September 2008

Fear and loathing in Las Vegas

Las Vagas is an amazing place. Sat in the middle of vast desert, it is an oasis of madness, fun and light.

A fantastic venue for a holiday, but not when your life has fallen apart. Things should have been so much different there, it would've been brilliant in different circumstances, but I've just had the most miserable holiday of my entire life; I'm having the most miserable time of my entire life.

The sun shone, it was lovely and warm, I spent lots of money, lost about $120 in the slot machines, chain-smoked cheap fags. For these reasons alone, the holiday was worth it, but trying to act "normal" and pretend that I was OK with everything was just too much for me. I guess things were compounded by Jo acting as if nothing was wrong, as she has done and continues to do.

So now I'm back and life goes on, even though I wish it wouldn't. Too cowardly to put an end to things, you just wait for a 70mph coming together with a brick wall or truck. Or you smoke yourself to death.

Bring it on.

Fear and loathing in Las Vegas

Las Vagas is an amazing place. Sat in the middle of vast desert, it is an oasis of madness, fun and light.

A fantastic venue for a holiday, but not when your life has fallen apart. Things should have been so much different there, it would've been brilliant in different circumstances, but I've just had the most miserable holiday of my entire life; I'm having the most miserable time of my entire life.

The sun shone, it was lovely and warm, I spent lots of money, lost about $120 in the slot machines, chain-smoked cheap fags. For these reasons alone, the holiday was worth it, but trying to act "normal" and pretend that I was OK with everything was just too much for me. I guess things were compounded by Jo acting as if nothing was wrong, as she has done and continues to do.

So now I'm back and life goes on, even though I wish it wouldn't. Too cowardly to put an end to things, you just wait for a 70mph coming together with a brick wall or truck. Or you smoke yourself to death.

Bring it on.

Friday 12 September 2008

A week in the world's party capital

Is that what they call Las Vegas?

They won't do after I've had my miserable face there next week.

We're off to Vegas! Yes, Tina, Jo and the outlaws are going away on Saturday on our trip that we planned a long time ago, when Tina wasn't as apparently unbearable and depressing to live with. Like I wasn't a few weeks ago when we bought a house together. Fucking tool.

I think I'm doing the right thing by still going... just. I need a holiday and some sunshine (not had any in over 2 years) and Jo's family are really nice (I wonder if she's adopted). There'll be plenty of things to take photos of, and if I'm any good at the Black Jack table, I might win enough money to buy her out of the house and tell her to sling her hook (which would make a difference from what's been proposed so far).

Do I want her to sling her hook? Nope, absolutely not, but that's what that crazy little thing called love does to you. Fries your brain and makes you lose all sense.

Failing winning a stack of cash in the casino, a fatal "accident" at the Grand Canyon might result in a positive outcome.

"It was a mercy killing!" You'll see me being led away by the FBI, or state police, or by a band of cheering admirers.

These things I mention in jest, so I really do hope that nothing happens to anybody in the party.


I'm a celebrity, get me out of here!
Yes, so you book a trip to Vegas with the intention of taking in one of shows from a superstar. Who's in residence there at the moment? We have the wonderful Bette Midler, Cher and Mr David Furnish's partner Elton (accompanied by his amazing performing eyebrow [check out Princess Di's funeral]). Unfortunately, they're all on holiday for the week while we're there, so a celebrity hunt would be rather fruitless unless I mozy on down to the courthouse to catch a look at OJ Simpson, who's on trial AGAIN.


Smoking
I'd forgotten how quickly I get addicted to things. Aren't Marlboro Lights divine? I don't think most people who read this blog would ever have smoked Marlboro Lights because they're all quite common and prefer things like Regal, or Royals, or dimps that they pick up from the ashtrays of outside cafe tables. It was people like these who complained about the smoking ban, but they're really benefiting from recycling used cigs from ashtrays.

Anyway, I haven't bought any more fags since I finished the last of a packet yesterday, so I hope I can get it out of my system and ignore the constant nagging in my head long enough to get back on the straight and narrow.

And then I don't know what I'll do. Keep chewing my fingers I guess.

What a mess they are: a sad reflection of my chewed up and spat out life.

A week in the world's party capital

Is that what they call Las Vegas?

They won't do after I've had my miserable face there next week.

We're off to Vegas! Yes, Tina, Jo and the outlaws are going away on Saturday on our trip that we planned a long time ago, when Tina wasn't as apparently unbearable and depressing to live with. Like I wasn't a few weeks ago when we bought a house together. Fucking tool.

I think I'm doing the right thing by still going... just. I need a holiday and some sunshine (not had any in over 2 years) and Jo's family are really nice (I wonder if she's adopted). There'll be plenty of things to take photos of, and if I'm any good at the Black Jack table, I might win enough money to buy her out of the house and tell her to sling her hook (which would make a difference from what's been proposed so far).

Do I want her to sling her hook? Nope, absolutely not, but that's what that crazy little thing called love does to you. Fries your brain and makes you lose all sense.

Failing winning a stack of cash in the casino, a fatal "accident" at the Grand Canyon might result in a positive outcome.

"It was a mercy killing!" You'll see me being led away by the FBI, or state police, or by a band of cheering admirers.

These things I mention in jest, so I really do hope that nothing happens to anybody in the party.


I'm a celebrity, get me out of here!
Yes, so you book a trip to Vegas with the intention of taking in one of shows from a superstar. Who's in residence there at the moment? We have the wonderful Bette Midler, Cher and Mr David Furnish's partner Elton (accompanied by his amazing performing eyebrow [check out Princess Di's funeral]). Unfortunately, they're all on holiday for the week while we're there, so a celebrity hunt would be rather fruitless unless I mozy on down to the courthouse to catch a look at OJ Simpson, who's on trial AGAIN.


Smoking
I'd forgotten how quickly I get addicted to things. Aren't Marlboro Lights divine? I don't think most people who read this blog would ever have smoked Marlboro Lights because they're all quite common and prefer things like Regal, or Royals, or dimps that they pick up from the ashtrays of outside cafe tables. It was people like these who complained about the smoking ban, but they're really benefiting from recycling used cigs from ashtrays.

Anyway, I haven't bought any more fags since I finished the last of a packet yesterday, so I hope I can get it out of my system and ignore the constant nagging in my head long enough to get back on the straight and narrow.

And then I don't know what I'll do. Keep chewing my fingers I guess.

What a mess they are: a sad reflection of my chewed up and spat out life.

Saturday 6 September 2008

Dull

Jesus, you're going through emotional turmoil, spending too much time on your own and what is there to distract you? Telly is crap, time differences mean that I have to be awake in the early hours to have online chats about baby oil fights with delicious Canadians, and the blogworld is crap at the moment too. I mean, I've even resorted to posting messages in Facebook of late, that's how bad things are.

So, to save plummeting further into the abyss of despair, I need to post something.

Things are rubbish, let's just leave it at that. I don't really know where I am or what the future will hold. My emotions are running high, or should I say, to the extreme. I have had shameful lapses with nicotine and booze, neither of which I'm intending to repeat ever again.


Anyway, washing machines. What is it with these things? I'm staying at my folks' this week as they're in Italy again. Their washing machine is really confusing, it's not one that you turn the dial to the "dye everything pink and shrink" setting, it has buttons and flashing lights and different options. I got a bit muddy earlier (nothing to do with lesbian wrestling) and so I'm having to wash my otherwise clean jeans and some socks, knickers and stuff. I put the washing on about 2 hours ago and it's still going! What the fuck is going on?? I could've taken it down to the Irwell and bashed it against some rocks on the riverbank.

I hate Fax machines too. Stupid bloody things.


The liver of a Chinaman
I don't know why I did it, other than stupidity I suppose and possibly because, well if I can't have a drink now, when the hell can I have one, but I had two moderate glasses of whisky last night. I was tired, I hadn't eaten. On top of this, I haven't touched a drop in over eight years. What this means is that my liver has no alcohol dehydrogenase. Whot, whot, whot? It's an enzyme that breaks down alcohol at the start of the metabolic process. Of course, my liver doesn't have any of the enzymes further down the metabolic pathway that help to clear the circulation of aldehydes - the things that make you feel shite when you're hungover - you only synthesise these enzymes if your liver is exposed to the stimulus (alcohol in this case).

Anyway, I got absolutely shitfaced within about 2 minutes and spent all day today feeling utterly wretched, moreso than I had been doing.

So there's a lesson there. You think you want something so much, crave for it, think about it so much that it becomes all consuming, you think Yes, this is what I need, I can't be happy without it. So you cross the line, taste the forbidden fruit, but when you finally get it, it's really disappointing and you wish that you'd have stayed the way you were before. Worst still, you know you've actually cheated yourself and let yourself down, people who know you will be let down and betrayed too and you can never go back to that time just a short while ago; it's been tainted. The fact that you can't go back, that you've blotted your copy book, is much worse than the disappointment of realising that smoking is pretty disgusting and that being drunk just makes you feel crap.

If where you're at is OK, just stick at it.

And if you decide to do some washing, see if there's a "quick wash" setting.

Dull

Jesus, you're going through emotional turmoil, spending too much time on your own and what is there to distract you? Telly is crap, time differences mean that I have to be awake in the early hours to have online chats about baby oil fights with delicious Canadians, and the blogworld is crap at the moment too. I mean, I've even resorted to posting messages in Facebook of late, that's how bad things are.

So, to save plummeting further into the abyss of despair, I need to post something.

Things are rubbish, let's just leave it at that. I don't really know where I am or what the future will hold. My emotions are running high, or should I say, to the extreme. I have had shameful lapses with nicotine and booze, neither of which I'm intending to repeat ever again.


Anyway, washing machines. What is it with these things? I'm staying at my folks' this week as they're in Italy again. Their washing machine is really confusing, it's not one that you turn the dial to the "dye everything pink and shrink" setting, it has buttons and flashing lights and different options. I got a bit muddy earlier (nothing to do with lesbian wrestling) and so I'm having to wash my otherwise clean jeans and some socks, knickers and stuff. I put the washing on about 2 hours ago and it's still going! What the fuck is going on?? I could've taken it down to the Irwell and bashed it against some rocks on the riverbank.

I hate Fax machines too. Stupid bloody things.


The liver of a Chinaman
I don't know why I did it, other than stupidity I suppose and possibly because, well if I can't have a drink now, when the hell can I have one, but I had two moderate glasses of whisky last night. I was tired, I hadn't eaten. On top of this, I haven't touched a drop in over eight years. What this means is that my liver has no alcohol dehydrogenase. Whot, whot, whot? It's an enzyme that breaks down alcohol at the start of the metabolic process. Of course, my liver doesn't have any of the enzymes further down the metabolic pathway that help to clear the circulation of aldehydes - the things that make you feel shite when you're hungover - you only synthesise these enzymes if your liver is exposed to the stimulus (alcohol in this case).

Anyway, I got absolutely shitfaced within about 2 minutes and spent all day today feeling utterly wretched, moreso than I had been doing.

So there's a lesson there. You think you want something so much, crave for it, think about it so much that it becomes all consuming, you think Yes, this is what I need, I can't be happy without it. So you cross the line, taste the forbidden fruit, but when you finally get it, it's really disappointing and you wish that you'd have stayed the way you were before. Worst still, you know you've actually cheated yourself and let yourself down, people who know you will be let down and betrayed too and you can never go back to that time just a short while ago; it's been tainted. The fact that you can't go back, that you've blotted your copy book, is much worse than the disappointment of realising that smoking is pretty disgusting and that being drunk just makes you feel crap.

If where you're at is OK, just stick at it.

And if you decide to do some washing, see if there's a "quick wash" setting.