Sunday, 10 April 2011

Billy Connolly

 
Urban Hunk has been working very hard so it was great to have a night out together and enjoy a show.  Tonight was Billy Connolly who has sold out 25 shows, including 6 at the Opera House.  We were lucky to get seats so I warned Urban Hunk we might be sitting closer to the roof than the stage.  I had also forgotten my glasses and they don't have large screens at the elegant and dignified Opera House.  It took me forever to decide on the tickets and whether to pay for seats that could be up near the rafters, I wasn't sure of the layout because I haven't been to this section of the Opera House, so much internal chatter I was exhausted before I finally bought them.  Arriving in good time before the show we made our way to the seats, wow, we're in the centre in an elevated position, fantastic, I felt so lucky, I didn't even need my glasses.  I tried to only sip my lemon, lime bitters so I wouldn't have to go the bathroom half through the performance.  The last thing I need is to be heckled!
 
Billy Connolly has this animated and off-the-cuff intensity that has you caught up in every story.  He has a great outlook on life and reminds you not to take life so seriously.  Thankfully I embarrass myself enough to be able to laugh at myself daily and Urban Hunk will often find great amusement out of my exploits, a few I can't even bare to write about.  Great night.

Monday, 4 April 2011

Vajazzled!

I won my first ever competition!  I can't believe it.  How excited.  I got a call from TodayFM telling me to be at the radio station by 4pm to get the limo, yes, a limousine, out to be Vajazzled!  Before I accept I do the quickest mental checklist ever: am I wearing nice underpants? am I prepared down there? I take in my clothes, shoes, I'll need a jacket, should I take the camera, no, I'll have phone!  Right, I agree to accept the offer to be Vajazzled.
 
I want to surprise Urban Hunk so this adds to my excitement.  I’m too embarrassed to tell any one about my Vajazzling but so energised that I’m busting to tell some one. I leave a message for my close friend, knowing that she'll get a laugh out of it.  Why am I so embarrassed about explaining it, I can be such a prude.  I laugh at myself and the electricity zipping through my body.
 
Urban Hunk phoned.  He can tell some thing is up by my voice.  I realise that my Vajazzle probably won't last until Friday. Damn.  So I tell him the news.  We both laugh hard, only me, he says. 
 
I wish I could use my navigational device inside buildings because finding the lifts in to the radio station is proving a challenge.  Composing myself as I walk through 2 security doors I'm greeted by the young and over-confident Simon.  He thinks he is way too good looking than what he is but he's young and its fun to watch the circus of personalities at the radio station.  Four other girls are also there waiting for our Vajazzled experience, they're much younger.  I wonder if they'll have champagne in the limo.  I go to the bathroom to empty my bladder incase I'm in luck with the champagne!  I'm sure as you get older your bladder shrinks.
 
I return to find the other girls still just sitting there but not talking.  Hmmm.  Okay, too weird, so I break the ice with, "so, what kind of Vajazzle do you think you might get?"  The others girls all smile and its like they exhale for the first time as they relax and start talking all at once, throwing out names and ideas about what they'd get.  Ofcourse we forget it’s a small area 'down there' and names like, 'press here,' 'enter,' might not fit and the conversation then goes down hill fast as every one laughs and get over excited.
 
The Hummer Limo is waiting, lots of people are on the pavement and watching as we giggle like school girls and climb in.  Inside it's like a disco, lights dance around the ceiling, music plays and there is bottled water and lollies.  No champagne.  Although this is probably a good thing because the other girls are too excited and crude and I'd hate to see them after a glass of champagne while stuck in a limo.  I sit back and listen as they talk about their boyfriends and their sex life.  They're not shy about sharing details which amuses me.
 
The TodayFM crew tell us about what to expect and prepare us for the Vajazzle. As we reach the Beauty Salon out west we're guided in and filmed as we're Vajazzled.  Its quite a delicate operation and quite comical as they interview me while on the table.  It's all sound bites for radio so we fake some comments and sounds.  I would never have done some thing like this in the past, now here I lay getting myself Vajazzled!  Such a fun night, a great experience chalked up.