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[flossums]

I was talking to varity on the phone, when she said that she wanted to pick up an Australian accent. To which I laughed and said, 'Yes, by the end of six months you'll be able to say "G'day, how ya goin' mate?" with the best of them.' Her: ...I have no idea what you just said. Oh

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[lemmealone]

Ah, Strine. How I love your mutated vowels. The broad Australian accent is a thing of beauty!

[flossums]

Hee! If she does pick it up, it'll be strine mixed with a german/american accent. S'gonna be great!

[lemmealone]

Gerstralican! Strermerican! Something!

(Sorry. The word 'turducken' has knocked me silly. I'm getting the freaksih urge to combine words in horrifying ways. *g*)

[flossums]

Turducken? That sounds a bit gross, please explain.

(Amermanine?)

[animadverted]

Yeah, working's not all it's cracked up to be..... Are you just looking for receptionist jobs? Seek and careerone surfing is fun....

[flossums]

Seek is my friend. So is UQ careerhub and my various contacts. Should I apply for promotional work? I have enough experience that I'd get it, but it's tied into the modelling so I'm not sure it's something I want.

[varity]

Ahahaha. I am so embarassed! It was really just very loud and I was nervous and confused about the bit you started with...the one with how you were talking to my MUM?! or something?

Actually the hot hostel guy used a lot of these Aussie expressions and it was quite... hot. heh. I bet all the surfing teachers will use awesome aussie sayings!

It was so cool to talk to you though! *twirls you*

[flossums]

Same to you, chica! :D *twirls you as well* Damn but I love your accent ^.^

OMG, don't be embarrassed! Aussie-isms sound weird at the best of times, and as you say, it was kinda noisy. You'll pick it all up pretty quickly, actually. As soon as Aussies realise there are tourists about we tend to play up to the strine and ocker stereotypes. It's a bad habit but it's there, so you'll come away with all these phrases and sayings that people hardly ever use except when they're being really Australian. ...Did any of that make sense?

(And I was talking to your Mum! I signed onto MSN and she was on your account, except I didn't know it was her so I did my usual 'HEY!' and then she was all 'no, I'm her Mum'. So yes. I wasn't being completely cracked out when I said that, although I guess it might have been a bit weird.) :D

[rainbow_sleeve]

My mom and I are making apricot balls and rum balls for Christmas. There were a whole lot of empty coffee jars at work so I'm cleaning them up for her and painting on the outside all stars and pretty so we can give them as presents for family friends.

Plus we have Christmas cake and some other sweets as well.

We figured a home-made Christmas would be fun this year too! :)

I would hire you honey - believe me, half of this work at work is SO BORING, but I value your soul and figure you wouldn't want to lose it to work for a 60-year-old chauvinist prick. ;)