Birthing Day. MARY VIKKIMAS.

Yo Yiggidy Yo.

Mary Vikkimas to one and to all a goodnight. That gives me an idea... hmmm.

Indeed, the birthing day came and went.

The week itself was quite spectacular and this forthcoming week might just be as entertaining.

We'll see. :)

The birthing day involved a minute amount of work, cheese toasties, the goonies, hot chocolate with Jeannie, movies with jeannie, and a spectacular giant Rice Krispie Cake.

OH YEAH. Easter officially came early and in a giant sized form. Air High Five.


















Pretty good don't you think :) thank you Anne.

Jeannie gave me the most amazing brooch as well. Which I love... totally kick ass.. .it's called cosmic mess or 80s vomit.

I'll have to photograph that later.

Zero. (Mary Vikkimas.)

I am now 25.

One. (Mary Vikkimas Steve.)

It is indeed Vikkimas Steve.

Two years ago I named this day then Steve Irwin died.

Sorry steve...

sorry whichever steve had to die today.

So, One - Swimming, sleeping, eating cheese, rolling stones.

Swimming is the highlight I suppose.

I came home so exercised and energised and happy.

I'm watching good will hunting just now, it's a strange one, but I appreciate some of the quotes about soul mates, and taking chances on people and love.

Let's push that to the side, get on about the stats and go to bed.

I have 8 minutes left of technically being 24... although if we are being mega technical I was born at 23:37pm.

There was an ad for iPhone 3G... that can only mean that not enough people are buying. Fact.

I heard that in Poland Apple had to pay people to pretend to queue up to buy one.

Funny.

Stats.

200m Front
200m Breast
200m Front Legs only with flippers (OH YES, FLIPPERS AMAZING)
100m Breast Legs only with flippers
100m Back Legs only with flippers
100m front legs flippers
100m breast legs flipper
100m butterfly legs flippers
100m back legs flippers
100m front crawl flippers and paddles
100m breast flippers and paddles
100m butterfly flippers and paddles
100m back flippers and paddles
200m front crawl paddles only
200m front crawl
100m swim down

2100m in about an hour and 7 minutes.

Two

Live Music.

It was all about the live music last night.

Glasgow has some of the best venues in the world.

And thanks to Dris Chaines, I was able to see the Dodos with the very awesome Mary 'the Skills' Mills and Jeanie.

Mega.

Their co-ordination and timing was incredible, and we speculated in the car that they are more than likely trained professional music students trying to pretend to be rough, rugged and accidently talented.

A pretty good two though.

That, and I had a violin lesson, and watched columbo while working from home during the day.

I've been wondering if it's sad or quite normal that my daily activities in just seven days can actually sum up and cullminate my entire life.

Perhaps that's the way it's meant to be though. But then I am just skimming the surface and not actually doing much more than shoe horning ideas.

How Do You Get Great Ideas?

Ideo are a design company that I hold in high regard. If Fabrica would ever reply to me I would be applying for jobs with them... or doing my masters in design writing in New Yoik.

Anyway.

I just downloaded a widget that asks a new question every day.

Today's question is: How do you get great ideas?

The grammar seems a little incorrect, but who am I to judge?

My thoughts are: that great ideas are not gotten. They do not just appear. They are not something that wakes you up in the middle of the night and by morning you are done masterminding your ideas.

A great idea is something that grew from an idea.

I'm going to use a quick and partially appropriate metaphor. It is like (or a simile if you're Ed Byrne) the Great Wall of China. It is great. It started with an idea, it started with a thought, it started with one brick, and one pair of hands, followed by many thousands of others. There was one person though that laid the first stone/brick.

And then as the chinese proverb says 'Many hand make right wolk.'

That's what an idea is. It's not something forced, and more importantly it comes from the want to fulfill and need (rather than the need to fulfill a want).

That is how great ideas come to be. From one thought, that is built on over time, and developed by other people to the point of it becoming great. More than likely your 'Great Idea' will far succeed your own meandering existence.

Three.

Was today Three?

Nothing significant happened... and therein lies the significance.
I got the train to work, I came home, listened to some podcasts, ate eggs, ate weetos... the weetos were the most significant thing... they were star shaped, and they remind me of my childhood.

I also listened to a lot of punk music today and wore my 'My Ruin' pants.

There are few things in life that make me really really happy to own them my My Ruin pants are one. They are the epitome of comfortable - I wish i knew where Yael got them from to print on them, so that I could wear them forever. They will be the one pair I miss the most when ... if...

Anyway.

I also attempted to catch up on some of the freelance freelance stuff people have asked me to do and I've come to realise that I profusely suck at a lot of simple design things.

Hmmm.

Anyway... hopefully swimming tomorrow. And if anyone sees any cheap flight to Italy I want to go this time next week for Donna's wado. LastminuteVikki.com

I want to be as wonderful as angela lansbury.

I also want to be in a musical.

Man I feel sick.. too much screenage and not enough non-screenage... I hate my life for the amount of screen time, it makes me want to vomit.

I did however read some really interesting things in Adbusters today. But that will have to keep.

Love.

Five.

Today was all about church. And, as always, I slept in. Donna and I pitched up around 12:30, just in time for the closing talk prayer and hymn (not in that order) and the munch and migle.

I came home and busted the tunes on the violin, chatted to Toni on the phone, watched Oliver and ate dinner with my family. Watched the Work and the Glory and then chatted to kayleigh for a gazillion hours. And also caught up in 10 minutes with Lorrainium on facebook chat.

So I suppose the symbolic happening of this day: day five - is violin, mormonism family and friends.

25 years of my life culminated in seven days.

This is the song I was playing on the violin earlier.






I can only get the first line to sound like this guy plays it, the second is close and the rest is just a disaster. Haha. I'll get there though. It's book four of the Suzuki method of teaching so I'm not sure if that means it's grade four or if it's actually a higher grade than that. I should really check that out.

I just drank some chamomile tea so i'm now pretty much tired, subdued and ready for a bit of a zoning out. I wish I had something interesting to write about, I blatently don't at this time, hence why we're sqeezing significance out of the days impending my birthday.

I, want to go to Italy for Donna's Wado...

and It's my birthday weekend this coming Friday... any suggestions to what I could do?

And work emailed me on Friday and told me that there was probably no work on for me this coming week but they would let me know on monday, so I'm just going to sit tight and enjoy the time I have off. I'm almost finished Mark's Sister's book, and I need to get cracking on other bits and pieces i've been holding on to for a while.

I should really start my book too, I just need more travelling time and a more balanced balance of balance-ness. I need to go East.

I am just rambling now. Ramble on.