February 28, 2006
balm
i've converted to being a blistex fruit smoothies girl - but much more a fan of melon medley than berry explosion. too much berry.
February 27, 2006
me one
it is now 32 days until U2. howie and i managed to watch Bono on 60 minutes last night. i do like Bono, although admittedly not as much as howie or tom do
anyway, the concert footage sort of got me freaking out. i don't know if i can go through with going to the concert. i don't like crowds and the idea of being stuck in the middle of that throng of people just makes my brain want to explode, and my body run away! so i'm not sure how i'm going to make it. maybe i'll pass my ticket on to someone more deserving, and spend the night at home watching U2 DVDs
hmmmmmmmmmmmmm
movement
i need to get some new cross trainers. shame they're so expensive.
last night i broke a really nice photoframe by knocking it off my wardrobe in my sleep. that's sad. i think mum and dad both got up to see what the noise was, but i wasn't all that fussed.
another week. wonder how it will feel different with no cafe?!
i should have some breakfast.
i think my attention span has gone to the dogs. i'm not quite sure why.
i would like to watch less television. not that i watch much really, but sometimes it's just on, and i shoul use time more wisely or funly.
February 26, 2006
miam!
i like french toast. i had some with maple syrup as part of brunch with howie and joshy. i like making it at home. i'm so culinary. all things toast and pasta - easy!
February 25, 2006
February 24, 2006
friday yay
it's been a rather emotional week. well sort of. maybe kinda.
in any case, i was quite affected by a doco i watched on two pairs of sisters in the UK who suffer from Harlequin Ichthyosis. with this disease you grow as much skin over night as a "normal" person would in two weeks. so it's very tight, cracks and then is susceptible to infection. it's a one in a million disease. and most newborns die within a few days.
these girls, lucy (18) & hannah (15) betts, and dana (8) & tara (18 months) bowen, each have their own daily ritual, along with their mothers help, of an hour or so bath in the morning scrubbing off the excess skin, then creaming themselves all over. they continue to cream up a few more times in the day, before another bath in the evening, and more creaming. the older three all attend mainstream school. and it was just crazy. i still get teary thinking particularly of little tara. so yes, i didn't sleep very well that night. and it got me thinking lots about different things.
then yesterday was the last cafe. no tears, but it's still pretty sad. it's sad to not see so many of the young people we've come to know and love as regularly anymore.
and i'm doing the talk tonight at GAP. which is always quite draining preparing for that.
plus howie still being sick.
and the usual frustrations, joys and in betweens of life.
but hey.
February 23, 2006
and just another thing...
lunch today with tim was good. he is good value
and fun was chatting to jake a little on msn last night. good old jake
and this arvo is last ever cafe. which is sad. but it will still be fun.
February 22, 2006
February 21, 2006
procrastinator
i don't work well at night. productivity just doesn't happen.
meanwhile, i just read the saddest thing. and that is very distracting.
my hilux
i want a ute so i can have a bumper sticker that says:
yes i own this ute and no i don't wanna help you move
coz that would be fun
February 20, 2006
February 19, 2006
February 18, 2006
cityness
today howie and i ventured into the city today. primarily for me to visit the oxfam shop, and we also took the opportunity to see a movie. so we saw jarhead
i did like the movie. it did make me think how stupid war is. i reckon military people must swear a lot. i don't know what else i can say. so here i endeth.
oranges
i think that no matter what games i do at GAP, it will always descend into madness, and i think it's because there are teenage boys. last night was oranges, the time before that was eggs. hmmmm, maybe i should stop taking food items for games. it's the first time i remember opening the first aid kit at GAP - five people. whoops. but it was a lot of fun. good old GAP. it's fun too coz sam and matt are there now. not that i really see them, but it's nice.
February 17, 2006
gotta watch that gravel
there was an article in the paper yesterday about a lady who was trapped in her car for two hours after crashing off an embankment on nowendoc road, 2km out from mount george. this is exactly the gravel road we were driving on on sunday!! i'm not surprised it happened - we drove past a car that must've rolled off the road years ago. it wouldn't be hard to do! poor lass was sent to the spinal unit at royal north shore.
meanwhile, the rain yesterday gave me an opportunity to clean the dust off the back of my car. there i was in my raincoat, with a chux. much easier than having to use a bucket.
February 16, 2006
counting
one day the little counter will tick over to 20000. that will be fun. not for a while yet. but there's anticipation.
oh where is my blog
if you can see this, i may seem quite stupid.
but i can't find my blog. all this admin stuff works, but viewing the actual site - ba baow.
i do hope it comes back sometime.
February 15, 2006
i'm
borrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrred
and over having a blocked nose and heavy head, and having crap sleep
galandular
my mumma is getting blood tested for glandular today. she and dad already had it a couple of years ago, but doctor thinks she may have it again. lucky girl.
February 14, 2006
surprise!
the boy ordered me something (he won't tell me what) to be delivered to work today between 8am and 3pm, but there was no delivery. so i have no present and i have no idea what it was that i was meant to get! that's the killer, the not knowing - present shmesent.
maybe i'll find out one day.
ah well.
point form
- last night with joshy and howie was tops, if not cold
- why, if you feel the urge to sneeze, does looking at light make it come sooner than it may otherwise?
- still with the sniffliness
- didn't get much sleep again last night
- wondering if glandular fever is like frodo's injury, where he still experiences pain each anniversary. no sleep. a cold. i'm waiting to wake up with big puffy eyes
- happy valentine's day
February 13, 2006
sniff... sniff... cough
oh how i love colds. that must be why i so frequently have one. and my mother is sick, with a throat thing and vomiting - i don't want part two of that, believe you me
good old bert back on tv. i happen to be home, and mum is watching it. i'm not really a bert fan. is that un-australian? i like old school family feud
playing with joshy and howie tonight. shall be fun. and an early night for me. sorry boys.
February 12, 2006
tripping
back home in old sydney town. duckie, howie and i had quite the adventure from armidale to old bar to sydney, involving lots of 100 km/hr roads, and 55km of gravel road!!! oh boy! we took a "shortcut" at Nowendoc that was in fact a shortcut in distance, but we're not so sure about shortcut in time. it was heaps of fun, if not a bit scary, driving along so much gravel road, winding our way around and down the hills. i was so excited to come back to sealed road at Mount George! and duckie sure needs a clean now!
we visited my grandparents in old bar, which was nice. it was fun to catch up with them, and to see that my grandpa is going ok. and to drive around town and relive a bit of my childhood.
then we made it from old bar to sydney in three hours! naughty me didn't stop and revive, but i survived so it's all good.
pretty tired though. hoping i'm not getting a cold back. and worried about the boy who is again feeling unwell. stupid infection or whatever it is.
today's fun musics were:
Various - In the Name of Love
Bernard Fanning - Tea & Sympathy
Cat Empire - Two shoes
John Mayer - Room for squares
Jamie Cullum - twenty something
DC Talk - Jesus Freak
PC3 - live electric
the last two were very good at avoiding microsleeps.
February 11, 2006
a good innings
nan loved her birthday party. she's so funny. i love how she's so rude to howie. me thinks me know partly where he gets it from!
i am glad that we came up. i am so so full though now. i never knew you could feel so stuffed just from pastry, fruit, cheese, lemonade and cake.
and tomorrow we get to visit her again before heading home. we'll also visit my grandparents in old bar along the way. well kinda. we'll make it along the way.
good old country roads.
as promised
coming to you live from maccas armidale, and isn't it good to be back
i always have very vivid dreams when i'm in armidale
and as howie mentioned, we are up here for his Nan's 90th birthday party. i like howie's nan
the trip up here was uneventfully good. we stopped at different places to last time, and took photos, and listened to fun musics:
John Mayer - Any given thursday (disc 1 partial)
Michael Jackson - number ones
The Waifs - A brief history... (disc 1)
Ben Harper - Live from mars (disc 1)
Jamie Cullum - Catching tales
The collection that is howie (partial)
now i bid you adieu. i think we're off to koorong.
February 10, 2006
sms exchange
jenny: "hows your relationship with the toilet today?"
howie: "Solid"
oh how i laughed.
today we go to armidale. i'm driving us up. i do hope it is a safe journey. i worry less about my ability than my vulnerability, because of all the other road accidents along the steches of road we will take. it is more worry about the ability of other drivers than of my own. although i am becoming less confident in my ability to drive long distances as i get older. i don't know how my dad has done it for all those years of family holidays.
looking forward to maccas hotspot in armidale. that's when i shall see you next i assume.
February 09, 2006
You know you grew up in the 1980's if...
(i've bolded whatever it is that i identify with - there's quite a bit)
Cabbage patch kids were legitimate members of your family
You watched the Pound Puppies
You can sing the rap to the "Fresh Prince of BelAir"
You wore biker shorts under your skirts and felt stylish
You yearned to be a member of the Baby Sitter's Club and you even started a club of your own
You owned those lil Strawberry Shortcake pals scented dolls
You know that "WHOA" comes from Joey on Blossom
Two words: M.C. Hammer
You ever watched "Fraggle Rock"
You had plastic streamers on your handlebars
You can sing the entire theme song to "Duck Tales"
When it was actually worth getting up early on a Saturday to watch cartoons
You wore a ponytail on the side of your head
You saw the original "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" on the big screen
You made your mum buy one of those clips that would hold your shirt in a knot on the side
You played the game "MATCH" (Mansion, Apartment, Toilet, Church, House)
You walked like an Egyptian
You wanted to change your name to "JEM" in Kindergarten
You remember reading "Are you there God, it's me, Margaret"
You know the profound meaning of "WAX ON, WAX OFF"
You wanted to be a Goonie
You ever wore fluorescent clothing
You can remember what Michael Jackson looked like before his nose fell off...
You have even pondered why Smurfette was the only female smurf
You took Lunch Pails to school
You remember the CRAZE, then the BANNING of slap bracelets
You still get the urge to say "NOT" after every sentence
You remember Hypercolor tshirts
Barbie and the Rockers was your favourite band.
You thought Sheera and HeMan should hook up
You thought your childhood friends would never leave because you exchanged friendship bracelets
You even owned a pair of JellyShoes
After you saw PeeWee's Big Adventure you kept saying "I know you are, but what am I?"
You remember, "I've fallen and I can't get up"
You remember going to the skating rink before there were inline skates
You ever got seriously injured on a Slip and Slide
You remember when the film clip to "Like A Prayer" was banned
You have even played with a SkipIt
You had or attended a birthday party at McDonalds
You've gone through this nodding your head in agreement
You remember Popples
"Don't worry, be happy"
You wore like, EIGHT pairs of socks over tights with high top Reeboks
You wore socks scrunched down
"Miss MARY MACK MACK MACK, all dressed in BLACK BLACK BLACK"
You remember boom boxes vs. cd players
You remember watching both "Gremlins" movies.
You know what it meant to say "Care Bear Stare!!"
You remember watching Rainbow Bright and My Little Pony Tales
You thought Doogie Howser was hot
You remember Alf, the lil furry brown alien from Melmac!
You remember New Kids on the Block when they were famous
You knew all the characters names and their life stories on "Saved By the Bell", the ORIGINAL class
You know all the words to Bon Jovi SHOT THRU THE HEART
You just sang those words to yourself
You cut your tshirts in half and wore it with your homemade Levi shorts...(the shorter the better)
You remember when mullets were cool!
You had a mullet!
You still sing, "We are the World"
February 08, 2006
weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
now, i don't much like "scary" rides - ones that go straight down or upside down. debbie loves those sort of rides though. there has to be a happy medium - but as you can see, we aren't much impressed with this ride at wonderland
childhood photos are fun. how about another.
coz debbie almost broke my arm.
February 07, 2006
it may have been and gone
but i love posting photos every now and then, and so i thought the engagement engagement warrants such a posting. so hold on to your hats and here we go!
we'll begin with this oh-so-romantic shot - "g'day buddy"
next we have a very attractive group of people...
followed by another very attractive bunch.
then some lovely girls
some very special oldies
two guys and a girl
and tom and anmol.
so there you have it. yay for all 104 of you.
February 06, 2006
my favouritist building
i can't wait to return to london one day, mostly because i am in love with st paul's cathedral. i'm not even quite sure why. but it is lovely
February 05, 2006
dunked
well 10000 hoorahs for michaela, rhian and emily getting baptised tonight. good work girls. yay God!
February 04, 2006
it didn't rain
hoorah... thanks everyone who came and seemed to enjoy themselves at west pymble today. we much appreciated your presence. we feel very loved. and blessed. thankyou.
orbitBIG
my legs are sore from the fun of OrbitBIG games - too much skipping, twirling, sit uping, star jumping, under and over tables, and lunge-ing for my little body. i swear the floor was going to cave in with all the jumping at the end. fortunately it didn't. good to be reminded that when i ask God for something and don't get it, it's not because he's a big meany dad, but because he has the bigger picture in mind. but still, too often he'll hear me whining "but i want it now!" or "but i neeeeeed it".
hmmm
For Saturday
Cloudy day with a few light showers or drizzle, chiefly morning and
night. Light to moderate south to southeast winds, freshening in the
afternoon.
Precis Max
Sydney: Light shower or drizzle. 24
Liverpool: Light shower or drizzle 24
Penrith: Light shower or drizzle 25
Richmond: Light shower or drizzle 25
UV Index: 8 [Very High] under cloud.
i'd rather it say "it's fine all day" or "it's raining all day". stupid decision-makingness.
February 03, 2006
hippy happy hooray
happy birthday tom!
when i typed 'happy birthday tom' into google images this came up on the first page.
isn't that pretty.
have a tops day.
February 02, 2006
you go girl!
imagine eating 26 grilled cheese sandwiches in 10 minutes, or 46 dozen oysters in 10 minutes, or 56 hamburgers in 8 minutes! and you only weigh 45kg! and you're a woman! and you kick the butts of big fat guys trying to do the same thing.
this woman is incredible, as smh reports. She is the number 1-ranked eater in America with 27 current World Titles!
she has her own website too.
holy moly.
February 01, 2006
there goes the bride
no wedding today. sick boy is more sicker again.
so i'm at work instead of all poshed up for a schmancy wedding in the city. not that i'm all that much concerned about that. i am concerned about the boy. three weeks today. that's not very good at all.