March 31, 2006
teeny
happy birthday tamara!! have a most awesome day!
and meanwhile, today was the day that it was that it would have been the U2 concert. so by tomorrow it would have been and gone. but now it is not. and therefore there is joy, because we can still look forward to it. so i think that is a hooray. although also a disappointment.
March 30, 2006
i'm never moving
we moved (mostly) out of the cafe today. so much lifting, carrying, sorting, packing, boxing, cleaning. i've never moved before - been in the same house forever - and today was not much motivation to be wanting to move often, or ever. so much soreness, tiredness, dirtiness and weariness. and so much junk! hoorah for skips!
happy moving day
yay! liberachi is moving to pennant hills today. much closer hills than baulkham hills. that makes my heart smile.
March 29, 2006
someone call a current affair
barry smith and i have a love-hate relationship. he loves me coz he fleeces me for so much money, and i hate him for much the same reason. duckie's 60000km/one year service is now booked for next week, and it's gonna cost me $800 or so. so much for guaranteed $189 per service for the first three years! it's coz astra's need some engine belt replaced at 60000km. whatever! barry is loving it!
maybe i should move to ultratune like the ads tell me to. my car is still under new car warranty.
mugshot
I renewed my license this morning. I've been upgraded to a five year renewal option, which the man said I can do even though I'll need to get a new license in six months - same expiry date, different photo and address. Shame I'll have to get another photo taken - this picture isn't too bad, although howie still payed me out.
March 28, 2006
wild wild west
rumour has it that howie and i booked our flights to perth for our honeymoon today. only $229 each, each way! what a bargain! yeh, seriously. last time we looked it was like $500 each, each way. so this is much much better.
and kostas and eleni are getting their visas to come to Australia today. and then we will book their flights. that is fun also.
March 27, 2006
March 26, 2006
dunked
a good hearty helping of baptisms tonight. yay rachael, yay matt, yay rachelle, YAY LACHY!, yay ben, yay drew. how excitement making.
not looking forward to peak hour traffic tomorrow morning. thats one good thing about my job - avoidance of peak hour traffic. well not this time buddy! ah well.
hiccup
i got the hiccups yesterday. not just once, but about four separate times, with hiccup-free intervals of a couple of hours in between. but it's ok, coz i haven't had them for 68 years - holy moly!
March 25, 2006
rolley poley
so much food! today was fun and productive and good.
this morning debs, snow and cb accompanied me to dural to check out some wedding flowers. productive and fun.
this afternoon, howie and i went to westfield and he bought shoes. we came to my house, and eventually went and got a wardrobe and stuck it under my house. i also cut my foot. fun and productive. and ouchy.
this evening, joshy and i ventured on an adventure. firstly we ran into joy, sam and juicy in westfield. then we branched out to mona vale and manly. there was portuguese chicken and copenhagen. how exotic. fun.
now it is sleepy time. i am very happy about that.
March 24, 2006
goal!
my head hurts. i got smashed in the side of my head by a basketball being used as a soccer ball at school today. i think my brain didn't much appreciate the impact.
i'm sleepy. i do wish i could just go to bed. maybe not right now, but well before 11pm. but i can't. damn responsibility and necessity to be reliable and present. there would just a "do not disturb" sign that you can hang on your face, and just escape.
March 23, 2006
fundraising
it's a bad thing having so much chocolate and lollies in our house all week. so much temptation! but i reckon we're pretty controlled. well, relatively. phew.
March 22, 2006
promises
i was thinking about songs we sang at school the other day, and i remembered this one, although i don't think we sang all the verses, maybe just the first, second, and fifth. it was boppy and fun, with an echo. who would have thought - probably not the guy who wrote it in 1868
O Jesus, I have promised to serve Thee to the end;
Be Thou forever near me, my Master and my Friend;
I shall not fear the battle if Thou art by my side,
Nor wander from the pathway if Thou wilt be my Guide.
O let me feel Thee near me! The world is ever near;
I see the sights that dazzle, the tempting sounds I hear;
My foes are ever near me, around me and within;
But Jesus, draw Thou nearer, and shield my soul from sin.
O let me hear Thee speaking in accents clear and still,
Above the storms of passion, the murmurs of self will.
O speak to reassure me, to hasten or control;
O speak, and make me listen, Thou Guardian of my soul.
O let me see Thy features, the look that once could make
So many a true disciple leave all things for Thy sake:
The look that beamed on Peter when he Thy name denied;
The look that draws Thy lovers close to Thy pierced side.
O Jesus, Thou hast promised to all who follow Thee
That where Thou art in glory there shall Thy servant be.
And Jesus, I have promised to serve Thee to the end;
O give me grace to follow, my Master and my Friend.
O let me see Thy footprints, and in them plant mine own;
My hope to follow duly is in Thy strength alone.
O guide me, call me, draw me, uphold me to the end;
And then in Heaven receive me, my Savior and my Friend.
security plus
i forgot to lock my car today - it was parked a few hundred metres down the road from work all day. whoops. but then again, the car next to me had it's window down with no one in it, so i didn't feel as negligent.
March 21, 2006
ryan's the bomb
that is all.
actually, no its not. i have missed my blog. so i am glad it's back. i had so many bloggable things over the last few days. but they all escape me now.
but i do have a shout out to sam tannen... hi!!
March 18, 2006
March 17, 2006
hungry?
anyone need a sausage? or 50? so maybe i bought too many for GAP tonight. my bad.
but good on ben, lachy and matty cooking up a storm. and yay for the fun of ice sliding.
this evening sam, ben, ben and i also visited the new and not-so-improved waitara maccas.
now tis bed time. that is bliss.
my day
thornleigh - hornsby
hornsby - turramurra
(edit) add turramurra - gordon and gordon - hornsby
hornsby - thornleigh
thornleigh - hornsby
(edit) no more hornsby- wahroonga and wahroonga - hornsby
hornsby- thornleigh
thornleigh - wahroonga
wahroonga - thornleigh
thornleigh - wahroonga
wahroonga - hornsby heights
hornsby heights - hornsby
hornsby - thornleigh
there would have been an extra thornleigh to turramurra and back but i'm cleaning my grandparents place tomorrow instead.
good old duckie.
what to do
i have many things to do today, so i wrote them all down this morning. makes the remembering process much easier. i just hope i haven't forgotten to write anything down!
yesterdays day off consisted of, well, not many adventures after the initial airport excusion. we were both pretty wrecked from getting up to say "bye david". so there was lots of sitting or lying around. i watched a couple of dvds while howie slept. we had to got to work for a meeting at night. and then sat around howie's house. so it wasn't all that much a crazy, adventurous day! but it was good, coz i think we both needed some rest.
still pretty tired though.
March 16, 2006
March 15, 2006
may i introduce to you...
Tabitha
as you can see, i got to meet her today! she was less than 12 hours old. so little and cute, and sleepy (i'm sure that'll change!).
bundle of joy
steve and bel had a baby girl this morning at 2:18am. welcome to the world little yet-to-be-named one!
now named! (8:16am)
Tabitha Melody Hope Wade
3.54kg. 49cm long.
March 14, 2006
feeling words
i'm not sure how i feel these days. i know feelings aren't everything. but i get a lot of different ones, but only fleetingly. so it's kind of hard to know where my head is at sometimes.
for the moment i feel tired, a bit sore, like i want to be lazy, a little nervous, a little controlling, and what else i'm not quite certain of.
i'm looking forward to thursday off. i'd like to watch a dvd.
March 13, 2006
the best house ever built
i don't think we ever posted pics of the coolest paddlepop stick house EVER!
we have the front and side with swing set, sand pit and clothes line
we have the back and side with dog house, car port and makeshift helipad
a superb example of skilled workmanship
random house
tasos from greece just called me! and unlike last time, this time i was home! i met him the first time we went to greece, in athens, and we ran into him again last year, just by chance up at some beach. and he called me this morning to see how things are going and what's been happening in my life. how fun. he's a good guy.
so, if you know tasos, he says hi.
also, i got an email last friday from lucien who i met in maroussi (athens) in 2004, who's from romania. it must be with week of contact with international randoms!
so if you have someone you met overseas, who you have contact details for, why not give them a call, or write an email, or a letter, and let them know they are in the heart and mind of someone else - you!
March 12, 2006
steam and sun
yes, today was steam train day! howie, joshy, sam, julian and myself enjoyed the 11:55am steam/diesel train ride from waitara to gordon back to hornsby and to waitara again. it was good fun. sam is a good train whistle. i think it's saef to say we all had a jolly good time. and all the train men were so old and friendly.
then from waitara howie, sam and i drove to shelley beach for david's goodbye event. we stopped in manly to get some coles. it was a bit of a trek to and from the car. then we couldn't find a park near the beach, so ended up park up near the hospital! and trekked back to the beach.
it was nice sitting in the shade, eating some food, and seeing peoples.
good bye david.
then back home before church tonight. i am so tired. church is going to be so hot. ay ay ay.
March 10, 2006
daytripper
tomorrow is gonna be a long day working from 6:10am-11pm. ay curumba. imagine if it was a paying job!
i sure do hope tonights sleep is quality.
but still to come, GAP! hoorah!
March 09, 2006
balderdash!!
howie and i ventured to big W tonight because after months of searching we finally found balderdash!! so thankyou to elise, luke and matt for purchasing it for us without knowing it.
March 08, 2006
off again
yesterday was the day off of fun, as many day offs are. Howie and i headed into the city with good old cityrail
we walked down to Darling Harbour coz i like the water features – but a bunch of them were under repairs. so sad. but i cheered myself up by pretending to fall in. the pavement was very very hot
we got to the powerhouse museum
it had been many, many years since i’d been there. and for what i’d probably already seen and done, i didn’t really remember much at all. there were lots of things to see and do. the trains were fun. the experiments room was fun. i’m a sucker for a big plasma globe. and i’m even more a sucker for anything cheeky. and so, the coolest was Isaac the robotic arm! He was so naughty and fun. he dances to music, and moves blocks, and races you to push buttons. then he says naughty things to you with signs.
this is Howie looking at the Rhodes development. we like Rhodes. and this display had fun lights to play with
there was also a display of last year’s HSC major works. some of them were very very cool. there are some clever people out there. i liked this campaign against domestic violence
but I still reckon I should be hired somewhere as a professional proof reader. how do you spell ‘information’??
anyways, there was heaps more, but we couldn’t use flash so we couldn’t take a lot of photos.
we were there for three hours - didn't feel like that long! and i got hungry. so we finished up, and headed to darling harbour for foods.
we walked past some obviously dangerous trees
we bought massive sandwiches
and did a little shopping. i got new Nike’s from Paul’s warehouse. and to balance out the naughtiness of buying potential sweat shop work and promoting globalisation, i supported the environment by buying a hemp skirt from Braintree Hemp. it's plenty good
we succumbed to purchasing lollies from the british lolly shop, coz the shop girl was so nice
by this stage we were pretty tired. but there was time to have fun on play equipment
we walked back to town hall and caught a train home.
a successful day off.
oh, i almost forgot, the powerhouse visit was free thanks to some person giving my dad a free family pass. hoorah.
MAWW
i'll miss debbie's graduation, coz i'll be out near port augusta or something. that makes me sad. i'm so proud of her and so much want to be there, even just to see her to get a bit of paper and wear a funny hat. so yeh. so sad making.
wake up call
i was woken by a power saw next to my head, through the wall. what the hell. some man has come to fix our fence at 2am. ok, it's only like 7:30am, but no one warned me.
March 07, 2006
power to the people
i'm blogging from the powerhouse museum!! how fun is that! good on the powerhouse museum. and all for free.
good stuff for days off.
March 06, 2006
helpfulness
some people are so helpful! some people are so not. but the ones who are, i reckon, make up for those who aren't. well maybe almost.
March 05, 2006
i'm a big kid now
the idea of growing up is a little daunting at times. the idea of bills to pay, decisions to make, household chores, blah blah blah, on top of knowing we won't be rolling around in monies. but i am glad howie's someone fun to share that all with.
i wonder whether anyone who is rich rolls around in their money.
March 04, 2006
blah
enjoyed being part of the clump at orbitBIG. think i liked the video thing too.
off to blacktown today.
March 03, 2006
ash tray
you know how you throw coins in the ashtray of your car? well howie and i do, but we have a 'gold coin only rule'. anyway, just counted it up and it amounts to $106.00!! so that's $106.00 towards the 'kostas fund'. how fun!
and that is my last post for the morning.
warmth
im excited about winter coz i like all my fleecey jumpers so much.
i think i like winter better overall coz i can control how warm i am. i don't like how hot it gets in summer coz i can't do anything about it. yes. therefore i am a control freak.
March 02, 2006
vale cafe
i think i prefer the finishing of work at 6:30pm or 4pm rather than 5pm. it feels weird being in the office so much.
calloused
i bought myself a mousepad with gel wrist rest yesterday to use at work. it's so nice and kooshy. i must admit, will's disgust at my wrist callous was a motivating factor. but it's comfy, so it is all good.
March 01, 2006
waiting room
why must doctor's always run so late? mine was an hour behind today, so the desk chick told me. lucky i came back after 45 minutes or i would have missed him!! but once i get in there, i figure i might as well get my moneys worth, and chat away (or, more precisely, allow my doctor to chat away), coz it's only fair! he's so fun.