The New Rock Stars

1. Celebrity chefs

2. People singing in their bedrooms on You Tube.

3. WAGS

4. Strippers

5. Baby Elephants

Best things about 1999

1. The Blairwitch Project scared me out of camping ever again.

2. Ricky Martin could have still been my next boyfriend.

3. Britney Spears was still relatively sane.

4. That the Y2K bug never destroyed the universe.

5. Singing Prince's song "1999" all year.

Shady Tradies

Great tradies are worth their weight in gold. You form lifelong relationships with them and recommend them to all. However, we've encountered some of the more displeasing types in my house and hood lately...for example;

1. Mr No-Can Do- For example, "You can't tile that surface..." or "We don't do that..." or " You'll need to bring in a digger if you need a hole there."

2. The Opinionator - The guy that wants to comment on all your design selections instead of just installing the damned things.

3. The Pack O Thugs- These guys roam in packs, they saunter into your home or garden like they own it. Think they are the River Boys on Home and Away. Known to swear, spit, smoke, crank music and generally carry on in a most unsavoury fashion.

4. The Stuffer Upperer- Either they have let their first year apprentice take the measurements or had no awareness of the quote you had done (usually with some sales person who doesn't seem to communicate with the tradie at all) but these guys take at least three goes to get it right.

5. The No-Show - The ones that you have to do all the chasing. They may or may not show up at any given time. They don't work in the rain, don't work in the heat and basically don't work much at all. Seem to realise you need them more than they need you.

How to Keep Flowers Longer

If you were lucky enough to get some flowers for Valentine's Day, here are five ways that you can sustain their beauty...

1. Put a spoon of sugar or dash of lemonade in the water.
2. Fry the ends of each stem for a few seconds each.
3. Put the plant food in that you usually get with the flowers.
4. Change the water everyday.
5. Spritz blooms everyday with water.

Some Favourite Fictional Romances...

In honour of Valentine's Day here are five passionate on-screen unions. Whether chokingly tragic or getting there in the end, these couples capture (and caress) my romantic side.

1. Anne Shirley and Gilbert Blythe - Anne of Green Gables

2. Karen Blixen and Denys Finch Hatten - Out of Africa

3. Daphne Moon and Niles Crane - Fraiser

4. Francesca Johnson and Robert Kincaid - The Bridges of Maddison County

5. Ellen Olenska and Newland Archer - The Age of Innocence

When you can't admit you're a viewer...

Isn't it funny how many people can't admit to regularly watching a particular show yet seem to know every character, storyline and actor involved? Here are the most common excuses employed to hide compulsive viewing of a really bad show...

1. " I was just flicking between stations"

2. "I must have had it on in the background."

3. " My husband/wife/flatmate/sister/etc watches it."

4. "I must have seen the ad for it."

5. " I might have caught it once or twice."

Support Cast that Steal the Show

In most sit-coms, the wacky side-kick is so much more funny than the main character we are all supposed to relate to, like these scene stealer's;

1. Kramer in Seinfeld

2. Karen and Jack in Will and Grace

3. Sheldon in The Big Bang Theory

4. Finch in Just Shoot Me

5. Elka in Hot in Cleveland

Worst Television Husbands

So many flooded my mind for this one, but in keeping with this blog I reduced my list to five, well, I snuck an extra in to make six.

1. Tony Soprano - The Sopranos - The whole mafia thug factor plus a cheater to boot.

2. Darren Stevens - Bewitched - The nerve of him banning his wife from using her amazing magical powers! At least Samantha always rebels from his tyrannical regime.

3. Frank and Raymond Barone - Everybody loves Raymond - Frank is so wrong I can barely watch him and in my house nobody loves Raymond- what a chump!

4. Tim Taylor - Home Improvement - Apart from making that stupid noise, "eeuuurgghh?",  the only thing he is supposedly good at, fixing things, he can't do right.

5. Spencer Pratt - The Hills - Unemployed, extremely mean to your friends, family and little children, buys house without consulting you, turns your condo into a video arcade and just is the most selfish psycho ever.

Best Television Husbands

1. Mike Brady - The Brady Bunch-  those blue eyes are so sweet and sincere, he's great with the childcare and always has a philosophical gem up his well-ironed and starched sleeve.

2. Chandler Bing- Friends - Anyone who could put up with Monica...

3. Ridge Forrester- The Bold and The Beautiful -  I mean, he did instantly forgive his wife for sleeping with her daughter's boyfriend...and his jaw is so vast and chiseled it makes you want to get out a set square and measure it.

4. Phil Dunphy - Modern Family - corny, cheesy, but a real honey. Anyone who learns the entire chorry of High School Musical...

5. Gomez Addams -  The Addams Family - OK, so he may enjoy blowing up model trains, but could it be that Gomez Addams is the bomb? Always stylishly dressed and passionately in love with his wife, you can overlook his juggling and knife-throwing hobbies. The arm kisses and the whispers of cara mia ("my beloved")  are so romantic.

My Kitchen Rules Suspicions

1. That Pete and Manu had crushes on Bella and Sammy, consequently inflating their scores for Olka Polka.

2. That they tell the contestants to look and sound as stressed as possible.

3. That they have followed a similar casting pattern of last year. You need the gay guy with his bestie, the mother hen and father goose couple, the hot sisters, the stressy guys, the meanies and the ethnics. Perfect.

4. That the dinner parties might get quite long and boring if you were actually at them.

5. That the opening theme song actions don't match the funky Kesha song. Everyone looks stiff and stilted, except Kane and Lee, who nail it.(Shame they didn't nail the cooking part though!)

Why Biggest Loser Families is Better.

1. The trainers all had to pig out and gain weight - insert witchy cackle.

2. They have cast hot fatties even more this season- can't wait for the make over episode!

3. Annoying family members can sabotage the team and there are heaps more feuds going down.

4. The opening theme song is way more uplifting, however I wish everyone was dancing around a bit more, like Sarah-Jayne is.

5. Tiffiny and the Commando add a fresh ( and attractive) new vibe to what was starting to feel a bit stale. (Ps- I think the young Duncan boy already has a big crush on Tiff!)

A Very Brady Blog

I'm loving the fact that The Brady Bunch is back on the air. However, it hasn't even been on for a month yet and already I've noticed a few repetitive ideas in the episodes. Here's what always seems to happen...

1. One of the kids loses something - whether it be Tiger, the dog or when Cindy loses Marcia's diary. The family always have to comb the streets looking for the lost item.

2. One of the kids gets a big head about something- whether it be Peter after he saves a kid in the toy store or Greg with his baseball achievements.

3.One of the kids meets a celeb- From Dessy Arnez Jr to Don Drysdale, the Bradys are totally hooked up.

4. Carol hears a strange noise in the middle of the night - like when Alice gets caught in the kid's booby traps or when Greg is working out.

5. Alice bakes some cookies  - ah, what we wouldn't give to have an Alice! She does everything with a wink and a smile, donning an immaculate uniform and a french roll.

Words I Will Stop Using (as not 13 yr old boy on a skateboard)

1. "Dude"

2. "Stoked"

3. " Awesssssome"

4. " Wicked"

5. "Sup?"