A followup from
jakebe's
post. Basically he's come up with five words that he associates with me and I need to elaborate on them. If you want me to do the same to you then I'll do my best to accomodate.
BuffiesBuffies is one of the best words ever. I stole it from
Poop when he was using the word to describe an auction that I'd won for some original inks of his which you've probably seen hanging up in my place. It obviously refers to muscles. Weight lifting has been a pretty routine activity in my life for the last 4 years or so. I've always been very slender for most of my life, and then when I was doing outdoor labouring I started to thicken up pretty rapidly and enjoyed the change. Then my job changed and the heavy lifting wasn't there anymore so I shrunk. I went to the gym to get that strength back and here I am now. I haven't progressed much over the last year or so and have basically been treading water and maintaining my shape.
Muscles are a pretty big physical turn on for me, but despite that it's pretty far from the top of the list in what I look for in a person. Wierd eh?
AustraliaI love this country and feel very fortunate to live here. If I've ever been away for too long then I get nervous and can't wait to get home. Having travelled the south east asia region quite a bit has given me even more appreciation for it. It's a bit backward at times but the ease of lifestyle that I have in Australia, and more specifically Perth, is pretty unreal. Strangely enough I'm never quite satisfied with that though and want more, but I think that's more to do with people around me having it even easier/better.
I still think Australia day is the greatest day of the year.
HikingI do love the bushwalks we've been doing lately. More so I like hiking solo, but that's a far more complicated issue. In the latter years of my Geraldton days I used to live right on the outskirts of town, and there was plenty of undeveloped bushland, beach and dunes for me to venture over. The Abrolhos Islands offered plenty of interesting islands to trek around. More recently it's been through the forest and bushland areas outside of metropolitan Perth. There is always plenty to see and the physical challenge is exhillarating.
RugbySilly. It's all about aussie rules football, not rugby! I'm actually not a big fan of rugby, I find the players less than stirling characters and aussie rules an exciting, fast paced and high scoring game. I used to play on wing when I was younger, then half forward flank before I stopped playing altogether. Speed was my game on the field, and as we all got older we naturally got bigger and, well, I was sent flying through the air quite a lot. That combined with the unsportsman-like tactics that started being used took all the enjoyment out of the game for me and I stopped playing. It's an unreal and exciting spectator sport though.
I support Collingwood in the AFL, much to the amusement/ire of everyone in the state as they are a much hated Victorian team. Their mascot, Jock McPie, features a lot in my Livejournal icons.
HumorThis used to be pretty abrasive and I wasn't too happy about that. (Except when dealing with shitty furry comics) It's fairly safe to say that my sense of humour is very slapstick and puerile. And toilety. I think it was Mel Brooks who said a few years back 'Who doesn't enjoy a good fart?". One of my best sources for comedy is some of the comment threads amongst the Perth furs.