Johnny news, pissing and moaning and whatever else I think of...

[logansrogue]

Okay. Johnny is doing way better than he was. He's quite sick, but stable. Awake, alert, annoyed at getting poked with needles and being stuck in an uncomfortable bed. Mum is visiting him every day so Cati (his Mum) can go grab some lunch, a coffee and a cigarette.

It's the Royal Show. It happens every year and every year I get so damned excited about it. I KNOW it's a horrible rip-off. I know that it's getting worse and worse and there's less to see. And I know that, being sick, it's a real challenge to be walking all day looking at shit. But it's one of those things that's like a ritual to me. I smell the donuts and cow shit and hear the cows lowing and the people screaming on the rides, the rumble of thousands of people having fun and I just want to go over there and have a good explore. Only problem is that I'm horribly, horribly broke right now. :T

I want to look at bunnies and doggies and kitties and cows and alpacas, damn it! And look at cheap crap at horrible stores. Eat horribly unhealthy food and watch other people make themselves sick on huge noisy rides. Pick up dropped change and sit on drying grass that is trodden to hell while I look in my bag for my purse. Smell the sod and the animals and the sweet smell of plastic from all the showbags and cheap toys.

Anyway, I decided I'm going to do a video of me painting a picture, a real painting on an actual canvas. Just so I can share my way of doing things at this moment in time. I'll look like shit in it but I'm too sick to bother with a tonne of make-up. I'll be painting my Dad. If I do someone too recognisable, I'll get nervous, and the point is to highlight my technique, not ooh at the pretty (which is what would happen if I painted, say, the Doctor :D). :)

I'm setting up my keyboard outside and will be practicing singing again. It's been too long, I used to do it all the time and it made me so happy. I stopped when I got sick cause my diaphragm gets tired and it breaks my heart to hear my voice so weak. But I know I have to keep working at it or I'll lose it.

Anyway, I'm going to keep cruising ONTD for a while and work up to actually doing something today at some point.

Comments

[nephron.livejournal.com]

Being annoyed at being poked with needles is a fantastic sign, I'm so glad to hear he's doing better.

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

It's a very good sign. He's set up with his DVDs and shit, and hopefully there'll be some pretty nurses there for him to flirt with. :)

[annearchy.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to hear the news about Johnny.

And the Royal Show had me confused for a second - then I realized that it's like what Americans call "State Fair".

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

Is THAT what you call them? Good to know! Royal Show is short for Royal Agricultural Show. We have Showbags and fairy floss rather than... well I don't know what you call showbags. You know, bags you buy with samples of stuff in them that cost way more in a bag than they do if you buy them from the shops. A lot of brands you only see IN showbags themselves.

[annearchy.livejournal.com]

We don't have showbags. At the Wisconsin State Fair (which has a permanent "park" just outside Milwaukee), there are a bunch of buildings that house all the competitions for best animal of whatever breed, best of X variety of pie, best quilt, and so on, as well as vendors who are mostly set up in little 3-metre-squre booths from which they sell all sorts of things. There is also a motor raceway (the Milwaukee Mile), which includes a grandstand where people can see musical acts during the 11 days of the state fair, as well as at various other festivals during the year. And there is a couple hundred tons of food, including the best cream puffs in the world.

[asweetdownfall.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to hear that Johnny's doing much better. :D

And ohhh Nancy you could never look like shit. I mean it. :)

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

ROFLMAO. You didn't see me when I was sick. Though my boyfriend would totally agree with you.

It's so weird saying 'my boyfriend' for more than three months at a time!! LOL!

[dark-joxer.livejournal.com]

It may be weird to say, but I love to hear and read it!!

Sorry I haven't made contact over the past few days, but my access in my room has been spotty at best - fucked most of the time, and have been very tired from the gym.

I'm ecstatic to hear Johnny is doing well, and I hope he gets to go home to his own bed soon.

As to your desire to go around the show - well, we'll see what happens when I get home, if you can wait till then. I would like to go for a wander around there too.

I can't stay - lunch is pretty much over..... I LOVE YOU! I can't wait to come home and give you HUGE (gentle) hugs and kisses and try my best to make you feel better.

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

It's okay. I know you're thinking about me, so I'm all secure in that. I'm not going to freak out. :D *hugs you* I like going to the show with boyfriends, I've only had the joy of doing that once before. :) Love you too, darling. :D