My Love and Loathe Lists
Posted by Carla in 3. Love & Loathe on July 27th, 2009
The fallen Panties
Sunday is my laundry day! Irrespective of Maltese weather in summer black still remains the predominate colour in my summer wardrobe. Colours and whites separate – but i always have a black load! Anyway i was doing my black load last Sunday and as I was hanging out my laundry it happened. I live in a flat I have a tiny balcony and I have to hang out my laundry on my extendable horse that extends outward over the edge of my balcony over my neighbours yard. Yes of all things to bloody fall my lace knickers!
Knowing my neighbour this was a bloody nightmare.. first of all he is young, second of all most days his father works in his yard! So in desperation to cover them up I drenched a towel and tried to throw it over them in his yard. Yes – I didnt consider the wind. So now fully exposed in my neighbours yard – my knickers and my towel. Brilliant!
So I wrote an apologetic note and slipped it under his door and place a bag under the common area stairs.
AND GUESS what?
Today I got my panties and my towel back!
Hopefully wont see my neighbour in a while though!
Update – This post was so popular so here is a link to the brand of my panties that fell

Cool Signature Gmail
Posted by Carla in 2. Useful Tools on July 14th, 2009
Unfortunately Gmail doesnt support rich text editting in its signature settings. The plain text that it does allow is fine for a simple signature in a personal gmail account but my Gmail at work (Google Apps Premier Edition) was 10 lines long and looking ridiculous. I needed a professional looking signature.
Alas I have just came across this awesome plug in for firefox which helps you easily assign your signature to your emails for both personal or business in the same application. Wisestamp is a handy tool that sits neatly in the bottom corner of your browser window. All you have to do is:
- Go to http://wisestamp.com
- Download Wisestamp
- Restart your browser
- Click on the ‘stamp’ icon at the bottom of your page
- Choose ‘Edit Signature’
- Get creative with the editing tools or Search for a template here: http://wisestamp.com/goodies/category/signature-examples/
- Copy and paste the Signature style that you like
- Toggle between Business and Personal to ammend details and add links to social networks
- Apply and OK
- The tool is automatically set to embed your signature into your email – however you can change this in your settings.
Lemme know your Loathe n Love
Posted by Carla in 3. Love & Loathe on June 9th, 2009
Ok this is proving a little harder than I imagine… I need some help with my lists ’666 reasons to loathe’ and ’777 reasons to love’.
Here’s the idea – Gimme your TOP loathe and TOP love, Ill add my favourites to my person list and link back to your twitter or website
1. Loathe
1. Love
Comment here now!
*image courtesy of http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/2006_08.html
Like loathing music: www.myspace.com/totaloathe
8/777 Reasons I love
Posted by Carla in 3. Love & Loathe on June 9th, 2009
1. I love puppies
2. I love coffee in the morning… erm and all day long!
3. i love the internet
4. I love my laptop
5. I love uniblue’s erognomic chairs – adjusted to MY comfort!
6. I love flip flops
7. I love jeans
8. I love tshirts you dont have to iron
Thats already a whole lotta love for the day!
14/666 reasons to loathe
Posted by Carla in 3. Love & Loathe on June 9th, 2009
7. I loathe dumb people
8. I loathe talkative people in the morning
9. I loathe the mosquito that bit me last night
10. I loathe dust
11. I loathe feeling bored
12. I loathe sinus headaches
13. I loathe people who have to shout to make a point, yelling doesnt make you any more right.
14. Pointless meetings with no agenda
Remember to add your top reasons to loathe here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Loathe/54158225871?v=info&viewas=525971808#/topic.php?uid=54158225871&topic=81
777 Reasons to Love
Posted by Carla in 3. Love & Loathe on June 8th, 2009
6/666 Reasons to Loathe
Posted by Carla in 3. Love & Loathe on June 8th, 2009
Here we go.. the things I loathe…
1. Sunday Drivers on a Monday
2. Monday morning
3. My inbox on a Monday Morning
4. Not finding parking, near work, near home, near bloody anywhere
5. Stupid trucks that are too big for Maltese roads
6. Male drivers who think that they are gods of the road because they have ‘well you know what’
Remember to add your top reaasons to loathe here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Loathe/54158225871?v=info&viewas=525971808#/topic.php?uid=54158225871&topic=81
666 Reasons to Loathe
Posted by Carla in 3. Love & Loathe on June 8th, 2009
Well here is a flowery post about sugar and spice and all things nice and loving of course!
After listening to a couple of tracks by a local Maltese metal band called Loathe and becoming a fan of theirs on Facebook, I noticed something challenging on their facebook discussion thread… ’666 reasons to loathe’. Being an enthusiastic person I have decided to take it upon myself to list 666 reasons to Loathe… So from today onwards I will post very short points of things I hate – labeled x/666 reason I loathe… Yes I know ‘lovely’
Seeing that Loathe have inspired this post and several others to come, here’s some background info. Over the past 5 years Loathe have released 3 EP’s and a full length album is currently being recorded and will be released by the end of the summer. These guys have done several tours in the UK and have played some legendary gigs locally. If you are into metal this band is definitely one for your ears.
You can check out their music on their myspace page http://www.myspace.com/totaloathe
Or even better still you can add your own reasons to loathe, by becoming a fan on facebook and going to their discussion page where a group of loving people are sharing their thoughts: GO click now – spread the loathe : http://www.facebook.com/pages/Loathe/54158225871?v=info&viewas=525971808#/topic.php?uid=54158225871&topic=8104
Loathe on!
You can check out their music on their myspace page http://www.myspace.com/totaloathe
Or even better still you can add your own reasons to loathe, by becoming a fan on facebook and going to their discussion page where a group of loving people are sharing their thoughts: GO click now – spread the loathe : http://www.facebook.com/pages/Loathe/54158225871?v=info&viewas=525971808#/topic.php?uid=54158225871&topic=8104
Loathe on!
Pink Flamingo
It was by coincidence that my drink ended up pink… I couldnt help getting a tad feisty. The bar man was out of Martin Bianco. I mean wtf?…How can one drink vodka martini without martini.. my night was ruined.. seriously… Im not over dramatising the point here… No alcohol in Gozo on a Friday night is a dangerous mix for me. I may as well had stayed at home. After making a couple of weird faces at the barman… he suggested I give the martini rosso a go.. I ponder a bit knowing that the rosso is much sweeter and doesnt have that sharp cutty taste like the bianco…. but in order of not being called a martini racist I decided to give it a go. He served me a pink drink… there I was standing at the bar in my skinny jeans, tshirt and pink drink in hand – had I had a large handbag and a dog in it I would have been something not too far off from Paris hilton (except Im not blonde, dumb or rich) Ok – forget that reference point.
Anyway back to my story. So the pink martini rosso’s were ok and as the night went on they just kept on coming…. until one fine glass came in front of me with a pink straw and a pink flamingo on it. In all fairness it looked kinda pretty.. sitting there between the pink illuminated ice cubes just hanging out over the lip of my glass. Totally amused with my flamingo i picked it up twirlled it around put it back in my glass and then all of a sudden my flamingo had two heads. Now in most cases I hold my liquer well so I knew that I wasnt drunk, but how the hell did my flamingo get two heads.? It seemed that my flamingo had gotten drunk not me.. it decided to go for a dip in my drink.. as its frilly puffed body dipped into my drink, it slowly started to disintegrate; its body becoming less fluffy by the minute. Had my flamingo died or had I killed it? As I pulled my the flamingo out of my glass saving it from a sad drowing death.. I placed it on the table… saturated to the core it built its grave on the table.. surround by bunnies and unnies ( will explain this later) Along came the next glass with another beautiful flamingo in it… a few minutes later another one… I was being invaded by flamingos and so grew my hate for their pink fluffy gayness. As each and every one of them slowly died in my martini glass… i became happier. I decided that killing the flamingos was actually more fun that watching them float around in my glass. So I got creative. Now I was letting them drown and would compliment the torture by stabbing them with my stileto before putting them in the bunny and unny graveyard. It made my night and btw I hate flamingos and to be more specific pink drinks.

Anyway back to my story. So the pink martini rosso’s were ok and as the night went on they just kept on coming…. until one fine glass came in front of me with a pink straw and a pink flamingo on it. In all fairness it looked kinda pretty.. sitting there between the pink illuminated ice cubes just hanging out over the lip of my glass. Totally amused with my flamingo i picked it up twirlled it around put it back in my glass and then all of a sudden my flamingo had two heads. Now in most cases I hold my liquer well so I knew that I wasnt drunk, but how the hell did my flamingo get two heads.? It seemed that my flamingo had gotten drunk not me.. it decided to go for a dip in my drink.. as its frilly puffed body dipped into my drink, it slowly started to disintegrate; its body becoming less fluffy by the minute. Had my flamingo died or had I killed it? As I pulled my the flamingo out of my glass saving it from a sad drowing death.. I placed it on the table… saturated to the core it built its grave on the table.. surround by bunnies and unnies ( will explain this later) Along came the next glass with another beautiful flamingo in it… a few minutes later another one… I was being invaded by flamingos and so grew my hate for their pink fluffy gayness. As each and every one of them slowly died in my martini glass… i became happier. I decided that killing the flamingos was actually more fun that watching them float around in my glass. So I got creative. Now I was letting them drown and would compliment the torture by stabbing them with my stileto before putting them in the bunny and unny graveyard. It made my night and btw I hate flamingos and to be more specific pink drinks.

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