she just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich

ten famous kiwis:

1. rachel hunter (model, rod stewart's ex wife, star of the stacey's mom video and dancer with the stars)
2. lucy lawless (XENA WARRIOR PRINCESS!)
3. peter jackson (director of all the lord of the rings films)
4. cliff curtis (rabbit from trauma)
5. russel crowe (gladiator)
6. sam neill (the cardinal from th etudors, jurassic park)
7. anna paquin (sookie from true blood)
8. phil keoghan (from amazing race)
9. brett & jermaine (flight of the conchords)
10. melanie lynskey (rose from two and a half men)

risin' up, back on the street

my love for survivor is boundless. my ten favourite players are:

1. yul
2. parvati
3. courtenay
4. richard hatch
5. amy (omg amy!)
6. sugar
7. boston rob
8. ethan
9. ozzy (first time, not all stars)
10. stephenie

what i need is a good defence

ten things i am illegally downloading from uTorrent without guilt because my tiny useless country does not show them on tv:

1. torchwood
2. carnivale
3. californication
4. the wire
5. oz
6. the shield
7. supernatural
8. deadwood
9. sons of anarchy
10. jersey shore

i am the last of the famous international playboys

ten bigwigs i schmoozed at last night's flash matariki ball i went to for work:

1. my CE
2. the ex chair of the waitangi tribunal
3. his mad as a meataxe wife
4. the ex-deputy chair of the waitangi tribunal and current high court judge
5. the maori language commissioner
6. the MP for Waiariki
7. the ex principal maori advisor for dpmc
8. one of the partners from chapman tripp
9. the CE of ngai tahu runanga
10. the maori development officer for creative new zealand arts council

i'm never gonna stop the rain by complaining

to commemorate the sixteenth day in a row of thunderstorms in wellington, my ten favourite rain songs:

1. fire and rain (james taylor)
2. purple rain (prince)
3. I can't stand the rain (tina turner)
4. why does it always rain on me (travis)
5. let it rain (amanda marshall)
6. november rain (guns and roses)
7. only happy when it rains (garbage)
8. a hard rain's gonna fall (bob dylan)
9. no rain (blind melon)
10. it's raining men (the weather girls)

i'm wicked and i'm lazy

ten things i committed to myself i'd do this morning at 3am during a bout of insomnia that i have actually done:

1. get up and out early this morning
2. buy gorrilla filla and steel wool
3. use said gorrilla filla and steel wool to block up the mouse's hole FOR GOOD
4. and fill up the other hole in the spare room
5. clean up the laundry
6. move old wood from the back out to the front so that i can get a bin and get rid of it
7. laundry
8. cook something delicious for dinner
9. vaccuuming
10. press play for 30 minutes

walking back to happiness

ten places i can walk to from my house:

1. work
2. the vet
3. the best coffee in wellington at people's
4. the farmers market on sunday mornings
5. the only dog exercise area in wellington
6. oriental parade
7. s&m, my favourite bar
8. embassy, paramount and the empire, my favourite movie theatres
9. my mechanic
10. the mediterranean warehouse, moshims, moore wilsons...

i like the lady newsreader more than the reviews of the day

ten actresses i love, but that i forget how much i love them, until i see them in something, and then i remember how much i love them, and i yell at the screen how much i love them and other people look at me funny:

1. janeane garofalo
2. bebe neuwirth
3. tammy lynn michaels
4. rosie perez
5. lucy liu
6. joanna lumley
7. daniela nardini
8. davina mcall
9. jacqueline pearce
10. simone lahbib

didn't i make you feel like you were the only one?

ten reasons why crystal, not lee, should've won:

1. come to my window
2. me and bobby mcgee
3. black velvet
4. you can't always get what you want
5. midnight train to georgia
6. people get ready
7. give me one reason
8. hand in pocket
9. maybe i'm amazed
10. whatever the final song that she sang was that would've got released if she had won...

aotearoa, rugged individual glisten like a pearl

ten new zealand things i just don't get (to be fair and equal)

1. why we're obsessed with rugby and think we're good at it. we last won the rugby world cup in 1987, and basically only 5 other countries play it well.
2. john key
3. why we're always ashamed about being good at stuff
4. how come you can get married to someone the same sex as you but you still can't adopt kids
5. why broadband is so ridiculously expensive compared to other countries
6. auckland
7. eating kina
8. marmite
9. tomato sauce on EVERYTHING
10. ugg boots