My first tweets – our two year anniversary

Dear Blog,

I scrolled back in time and found my early tweets – I seemed to have quite the poetic bent back then. Wonder if I’ll find my way round that corner again. Here’s some of them:

@McFifi
so beautiful and strange-so Hindenberg-esque http://www.etravelblackboard.com/showarticle.asp?id=101689
11 Feb 10

@McFifi
Sky opened lightening flashed leaves flowed in veins over the tarmac water pooled and now all softly settles down in cool
11 Feb 10

@McFifi
A vine came over from next door to visit but it’s become a regular fixture, now having claimed a considerable, growing space as its own.
10 Feb 10

@McFifi
When I have no paper I feel bereft. Words on the screen are so impermanent, so easily lost and my mind drifts, on paper they stick around.
8 Feb 10

@McFifi
I think next year I will put all my strawberries in hanging baskets. I have only one swinging this year but he seems to like it.
8 Feb 10

@McFifi
The day is heating, like a wave rising distantly seems inconsequential till it suddenly crashes upon you, left swamped, dripping, dazed
8 Feb 10

@McFifi
Early Sunday morning, I’ve done three loads of washing, vacuumed, mopped the kitchen floor and let two cups of tea go cold, now what..
7 Feb 10

@McFifi
Am spending much time stuck in one place having to stick communicative and transportable things in wall sockets to make them transportable
31 Jan 10

@McFifi
It’s one of those mornings where the air con’s humming at 7am before the sun even hit ‘s, a soft breeze, warm air like a a second skin
31 Jan 10

@McFifi
sometimes packaging defeats me
29 Jan 10

@McFifi
sigh
27 Jan 10

@McFifi
If only they could wrap all the junk into one a day: Hi I’m from Russia see my sexy watch it makes a mans organ big hey you’ve won a lottery
27 Jan 10

@McFifi
Pleasant weather should be uplifting, expand the lungs, raise the face to the sky, but it gets old very quickly
27 Jan 10

@McFifi
to wit to whoo night owling again.
28 Sep 09

@McFifi
how did my tissues get thick and large and my ice cream topping get thick and rich? how did my spam find its way into my real life?

@McFifi
My eyes are dim I cannot see I have been staring at the screen I have ave ave been staring at the screen
15 Jun 09

@McFifi
There are times when only chocolate brownies understand you – soft fudge moist and sweet love
15 Jun 09

@McFifi
the roads in the outer suburbs are wider, as though the sprawl itself has made them obese
21 Apr 09

@McFifi
Taking a walk with metaphor and look in its windows seeing reflections and distortions twists of illuminated understanding looking back
12 Mar 09

@McFifi
the rain has stopped the minor birds are happy the blackbird is digging and life is a twittering
12 Mar 09

@McFifi
I think my washing is blowing away – yikes
3 Mar 09

@McFifi
gingerbread ice cream is good.
3 Mar 09

@McFifi
I saw a very tall man get out of a van. The sign on the van said “A Very Tall Man in a Van” Made sense I thought.
24 Feb 09

@McFifi
It’s disconcerting that we know so little about why the world is the way it is when so many new books in Borders assert they can tell us
24 Feb 09

@McFifi
My coffee was too cool for someone like me, from a place of natural light, quirky features and naive cartooning on white walls. I drank it.
23 Feb 09

@McFifi
I’m vibrating like a twang – it’s the chocolate cake’s fault – it doesn’t won’t let me sleep
22 Feb 09

@McFifi
crossing the car park concrete speckled with hard black rain, its tarred anemones of forgotten gum, I carry too many lost hours in bags
21 Feb 09

@McFifi
I have observed many people walking as though bowling balls are in their hips, corpulence appears most uncomfortable
21 Feb 09

@McFifi
I am at a party where I don’t know anyone. Perhaps if I could find the bar I would find a way of feeling less self conscious & more relaxed
20 Feb 09

@McFifi
Walking into cyberspace the view is square and yet limitless…
20 Feb 09

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