EGG was apologetic when he announced that P was for Psychic. But I wasn't disappointed, no I was very excited given the fact that I really hate surprises and now I was going to know my future and be prepared for anything life was going to throw my way.
EGG's apology however, sprang from the fact that his original P selection was a no-goer. He'd really wanted to take me P for Pistol Shooting. Wow! How good would that have been? But those pesky little things called the Australian gun laws ensured that wasn't going to happen. Normally EGG and I are great supporters of the anti-gun lobby, but of late we are becoming a product of our environment.
It all began on Christmas Day when SSS presented EGG with the first season DVD of The Sopranos. EGG and I had missed the whole Sopranos shebang six years ago because it was on so late, and Channel 9 kept changing the times so we gave it a miss. Well didn't we lose out. So since Boxing Day EGG and I have watched the entire Sopranos series--all 86 episodes.
We watched so much of it that we were referring to the FBI as the bad guys. We watched so much of it that phrases like "stop breaking my balls" and "enough already" started creeping into our everyday speech. We watched so much of it that we were starting to understand why Tony Soprano had so many good looking goomahs (that's a mistress for all you non-fans--see we really have got the lingo). We watched so much of it that we started thinking Carmella had a sense of fashion. We watched so much of it that when we greeted people we went in for the big double kiss-hug combination. We were so addicted that we stopped going out, other than to visit the video store to get our fix. So you can see how pistol shooting was a natural progression. We had been exposed to so much gratuitous violence that a gun in our hand was the next step. Thank you Australian gun laws for saving us from ourselves.
So we tore ourselves away from the DVD player and a-psychic hunting we went. And where is the mecca for psychics in Brisbane? Why South Bank Markets of course. So $90 poorer we found out that EGG and I have the world's most wonderful relationship which means that we'll stay together long enough to at least work our way through the rest of the letters of our Alphabet Weekends. We found out that we're going to travel, have interesting careers and that SSS will be a constant joy to us both. Sound just like a Disney film, doesn't it?
That's all I can remember because even though she was talking about one of my favourite subjects--me--I sort of tuned out and nodded sagely at appropriate times. She did however point out that I was a drama queen. Moi--I was shocked. EGG fell around the place laughing until I told him to "stop breaking my balls". You see how bad the whole Sopranos thing had got.
So EGG and I now have a big Sopranoless void in our predicted happy lives. We're not sure how life will be without Tony, Patsy, Syl, Christopher and the gang. OK, we know they're psychopathic killers and that it's only a TV show but.... Anyway there's another series called Deadwood that might be right up our alley--lots of violence, cursing and killing. SSS suggests we watch Bambi instead.
I'm off to the video shop--well the pyschic said that I would make a journey.
P is for psychic.
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