the outback lingo...i'm catching on.
the craving.
the dilemma.

vocabulary list to get by in the outback:
chewie - chewing gum
lippie - lipstick
feed - meal
two pot screamer (no, not me) - person unable to hold their drink
wrangler - type of jeans. i can't believe they are still available. soooo 80's
whoop whoop - outback
yabbie - small freshwater crayfish (very yummy. kinda like shrimp)
drongo - stupid person
chockablock - full
righteo - sure
yarn/chinwag - a conversation
Gold - XXXX Gold Beer

so here's what i've come up with:
I am way out whoop whoop wondering how i got here. decided to take in a rodeo so i put on my wranglers, put on my lippie and popped a chewie. the place was chockablock. met a two pot screamer that i tried to have a yarn with but realized he was a drongo. Righteo mate, time for a feed so let's grab a gold and some yabbies.

and they say they speak english here....pffft

# posted by elizabeth @ 11:45 PM
7 weeks ago i got a job in a photo lab
4 weeks ago i was on a tropical island, great keppel. snorkelling galore and chillaxing.
2 weeks ago i went to Moreton island swam to shipwrecks..sorta...camping (me! i know - crazy), squishing blue bottle bugs or something like that (pop pop) and met some really nauice people...a nauice american even!
1 week ago watched Casablanca for the first time...whatta classic. here's lookin at you kid.
over the weekend went to a real cowboy rodeo! danced, got stepped on both feet simultaneously by one drunk ocker aussie, rode in the bull catcher (the 4x4 car that rounds up the bulls), had a yarn (meaning a chat) with a few nauice locals, almost got a cowboy hat from a real cowboy and (this is the crazy one) craved a XXXX Gold Beer at 12pm!!! (i'm becoming a local) i never liked beer before and i never craved alcohol at midday.

am having a dilemma now. i have come to boulia, the 'capital' of channel country (the southern part of Queensland), pop 300, in a cute little 2 bedroom house with NO MICROWAVE!!! i am the microwave queen and there is noooo microwave!! what am i to do!! shockers! my roommates consist of Milly the spider and Oscar the Cockroach. (they get the other room) Tania, my boss, said she might get me a microwave if she can pick one up for cheap in the next town over. phew. let us all pray for me to get one.