| April 11, 2004 - My rubba-dubba splish-splash toy |
| Dear Friends, sometimes I find my own self so amusing I don't know why I even bother being around other people. The other day a commercial came on TV for something called the Rubba-Dubba Splish-Splash toy. I think it's a child's bath toy, but I'm not certain, because I was in the kitchen at the time it came on and I only heard part of the jingle. Anyway, when the commercial was over, I went into living room and pranced around shaking my ass and waggling my head while singing in a high-pitched baby voice, "It's my rubba-dubba splish-splash toy! It's my rubba-dubba splish-splash toy!" I'm sure my neighbors thought I was nuts and anyone who could see in my window from the building across the street must have wondered what in the world I was doing! Anyway, after doing this about 2 or 3 minutes, I burst out laughing. I sat and laughed and laughed until tears were running down my cheeks. I'm giggling even now at the spectacle I must have presented sashaying around like that. Occasionally I like to search on different words on the Internet to see what phrases will pull up my webpage. As many of you know, I've been to Helsinki twice on a ship called Gabriella that leaves from Stockholm. I put in "ship Gabriella" in the search engine, and sure enough, a reference to my website appeared among other websites that deal with shipping. However, there was one website that dealt with a trip on the Gabriella and so I clicked on it to see what it was. It was a narrative some Swedish girl had written in English about a trip she and some friends took on the Gabriella over to Helsinki to see a concert of the Kelly Family. I gather that the Kelly Family is some sort of Irish folk group or something made up primarily of people in their late teens or early twenties. Anyway, her narrative was done in a type of chronological fashion like this: "11:05 got on train headed to Stockholm; 11:10 Mia laughs at my joke; 11:12 The Stockholmspeople are funny." You get the idea? So by the time I was through reading her timeline, I was laughing because parts of it were high-larious due to her broken English. At one point she was complaining that the pressure in the train tunnel caused their ears to ache. But she referred to it as "We had f*****g casseroles in our ears"! At another point she said that while boarding the Gabriella, she "did an english stairflirt". Can any of you, my learned Readers, tell me what an english stairflirt is? There was also a lot of electricity stairshocking going on, which I interpreted to mean that they were experiencing jolts of static electricity on an escalator. If you're interested in reading what she had to say, here's the link to the page Helsinki. Speaking of Sweden, I was shocked to see how much my program is this year. It's still 20,000 SEK, but two years ago that was only $1800. This year it's $2600 due to weak dollar! I almost did a naughty in my pants when I discovered that! However, I'll scrape the money together somehow. I also found an airline called Nordic Airlink that has inexpensive flights from Stockholm to Oslo and Copenhagen, so I hope to go to those places this year. After this summer, it will mean that I've been to every Scandinavian country (I've not made it to Norway before). Isn't that just so Nordic, bootilicious, and ...... FANTABULOUS? Next entry Previous entry Go to diary entries Go back home |