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rushed

well as you may well know, sam, lachie, debs and i went and saw rush hour 3 this morning.

it was pretty much as expected. some funny bits. some lame bits. but it was still a pleasant experience. it was better than #2 i think. i can't really remember. and i'm always a sucker for bloopers.

it was a bit painful paying the full $15 for it though.

two thirds

so far i have had a most enjoyable long weekend.

yesterday was really good, having lunch with debs and my grandpa, and visiting grandma. it was really nice to spend a chunk of time with grandpa and hear his stories and laugh with him. he is a good man. and of course it's always funny to see grandma - she's a hoot.

then debs and i watched geelong cane the power. how embarrassing if you are a port supporter. or player! but the cats have had a good year and deserved to win. it was fun hanging out with my sister. which continued into the evening when i went to the parentals and watched die hard. although debbie did fall asleep. how can you do such a thing in die hard!?!

today was good fun as i got to see sam for the first time since he got back. and i got to see him in style, as lachie and debs joined us to see rush hour 3 (review post to come). what a bunch of friendlies. our plan to watch all three rush hours fell through because no video store had #2, so instead we watched scream 2. just for something a little different

it was good fun hanging out. although we were all pretty buggered.

then church tonight i got to see cathy for the first time since she got back. which was lovely.

now it's time for some friends episodes. yew!

graduation

we officially farewelled the year 12s from GAP last night - although they are totally welcome to keep coming next term. it was such a fun night. although really loud! we did the usual hanging out for the first hour. and then played party games for what ended up being an hour and a half! there was pin the tail on the donkey, a fantale hunt (coz fantales are way nicer than minties), newspaper dressups and extreme musical chairs. the really special part of the evening was everyone surrounding our year 12s with hands and prayers. that was lovely. and i wholeheartedly 'amen' those prayers. we're gonna miss those peoples. they are good value.

creaks

sometimes i do a top notch job of freaking myself out. like most times i clean my aunt's house i get all ogady boogady feelings in the hallway and make sure i can always see behind me (i know, i'm a fruit loop).

just these past five minutes at home i've been hearing lots (like four) of weird noises, and found that the door to under the house downstairs was wide open. which it probably has been for weeks since it's not very good at staying closed and we never go down there.

so i'm doing a good job of being jumpy and paranoid. good fun! fortunately i will be engaging in social interaction over the next few days, otherwise i might send myself to crazy town.

i'm such a weirdo!

drop in

random visits are good fun. thanks for popping in ben and lachy!

rubber

i've been making posters for howie for slum survivor, and it's meant a lot of rubbing out of pencil. my thumb is really sore now. i think i'm getting an eraser-induced callous next to my thumbnail.

how weird are rubbers? you write something in pencil, don't like what you wrote, and then use a piece of rubber to rub it away. and it's gone. how did someone figure that out?

did you know that the UN estimates that by 2030, if nothing is done to change the situation, two billion people will live in slums? well it's true. and sad. i hope something is done to change the situation.

schedule

i feel a little flat out at the moment. my days feel pretty full.

today i had cleaning this morning, then work, maybe meeting tamara in there somewhere, dinner at my parents.

tomorrow is cleaning, farewelling husband, work, youth group.

saturday is cleaning, lunch with my sister and grandpa, visit my grandma, watch the AFL grandfinal!!

sunday is RUSH HOUR DAY!! with debs, sam and lachie. then church (if we've finished... naughty!)

monday i don't know what to do with myself. woohoo it's a day off but no husband around til later. i'm sure i'll think of something fun.

trained

yesterday i bought training day for $7.95 (I got ripped off coz it was meant to be $6.98). we watched it last night.

i had only ever seen bits of it, during a flight to Greece or something, but some of the same bits like four times, and others not at all.

i decided that it was worth $7.95. i am pretty amazed at denzel's performance. he plays a pretty hardcore bad guy. and i think it's cool that they asked actual gang neighbourhoods if they could film on location. it's all pretty full on that for some people, this is their life. i am so very far removed from that.

my car

duckie is going to the doctor tomorrow morning. it's ok, it's just for a check up. hopefully there are no hidden surprises. like new brake pads, tyres, fan belts, radiators, and such.

although i think he needs a wheel alignment.

he's done over 81000 now. go son! he does well.

congrats

i think i have officially entered the era of weddings and babies.

in the next two and a bit months three of my good friends are getting married - two of them to each other. another close friend of mine just got engaged (yay snowy!). three of our work buddies are expecting babies in the next two-four months.

it seems there are patterns in life for celebratory events.

the 18ths, the 21st, the engagements, the weddings, the babies, the "big" birthdays.

i'm in the engagements/weddings/babies sector at the moment.

hometime!

back in my lovely house, with my lovely turtles and my lovely laptop and my lovely bed.

i had a pleasant jetstar experience today because, firstly kochie was on our plane to sydney from launceston. and secondly the jetstar lady gave me hot water for my cup of noodles for free!

then there were no trains, so we got free buses to central. yay for freeness! boo for buses.

it's good to be home. and i am almost sick. still developing in my sinuses. fun.

we're having maccas tonight. howie's craving.

i have one episode of season one of friends left. then only nine series to go!

one more night

then back home.

been fun to seeing peoples. but am tired and think i'm getting sickly.

alive and kicking

well alive at least. things are going alright. as to be expected. the poo thing is that i have breakfast duties the next two mornings. poo bum wee. we've been getting up 30 mins before the start of things. duties means getting up 2.5 hours before the start of things.

fun seeing people. hasn't been too too cold. fun finding internet just now.

will be nice to get home though.

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have a lovely week... enjoying sunshine and warmth.

brown is making a comeback

had a tops time celebrating will's birthday today at whale beach. it was lovely and warm. i even got a tan line, after all my suncream application! ooooh bring on summer!

it was good fun chatting with peoples, being silly and funny, playing soccer (oh i suck), shielding ourselves and the youngens from topless ladies, eating a LOT of food, and of course singing happy birthday to will.

good on you will for having a birthday. and for having good taste in friends.

our afternoon has consisted of a nap, followed by homely duties - lawnmowing for husband, and house cleaning for wife. i'm still to vacuum. but i'll get there.

then packing time.

and hopefully bed time because we leave for the airport just after 7am. boo for that being the cheapest flight.

doubling the fun

happy birthday to two very cool people...

happy 19th juicy!

happy 18th will!

you guys are getting old.

shut down

i am a very happy chappy at this moment.

collingwood beat west coast.

that means no more west coast in the AFL finals. good stuff. from here, it doesn't bother me who wins. but it would be good if it was the pies, port or the cats.

i am going to bed now. i refuse to be kept up by the 20/20 cricket. i need some sleep.

eight pieces of info

1. My grandma is going ok after her hip surgery on wednesday. Yesterday she had to have a blood transfusion though because some silly nurse ripped a tube out of her too roughly and grandma later found she was lying in a bed soaked with her own blood. Fun! But she is going ok. "As good as can be expected" is the line

2. Today is feeling the potential of warmness. I wore jeans for some reason. Might buy a $5 skirt from next door and enjoy the sunshine.

3. A photobook I made (for only $6.90 instead of $44!) arrived today, and it is AWESOME! I'm very excited about that

4. I didn't feel sick at any time yesterday. Go team

5. Tomorrow is Saturday. And that is worth celebrating! So we will be at a birthday party for Will

6. I have just over $1000 in superannuation. I'm ready to watch that dwindle away as fees are taken out

7. Still loving lemonade, and not drinking diet coke all that often

8. Sam comes home on Monday and we're away! Poo bum wee

afternoon

yes, the vaccination hurt. it's ok now though. still one to go, but that's four months away - ages! speaking of ages, i was in the waiting room for 35 minutes. not too too bad.

had a really good meeting with neil, my senior pastor, this afternoon. it was really helpful in the purpose of having it. it was also good just to catch up and chat and all that. neil is a good bloke.

tonight is dinner at the folks place. that is nice because it means i don't have to think about dinner, and also because i get to see them, and my cat.

i want to watch more friends. but that will have to wait for some other time.

i'll be there for you

rumour has it that i just bought the entire series of friends.

i am very excited. and it was cheaper in target than buying it on ebay (which i had been looking at for a few months). wooohoooo!

facebook is taking over my life.

enjoying the waifs at this very moment. i do enjoy them often.

prick

i booked my doctors appointment on thursday for round two of the cervical cancer vaccine. i don't like going to the doctor when i know it's going to hurt. i'm not so worried about the needle - i've decided they are ok as long as they don't inject you with something painful. but this vaccine hurts. so i am not excited about thursday afternoon.

afl

sadly the swans are out of the finals.

a bit disappointing but, all the same, not totally unexpected.

i hope collingwood wins the premiership. and really hope that west coast doesn't.

364 days

husband and i went out to dinner tonight to celebrate our first wedding anniversary, which is tomorrow. we went to castle hill in search of an italian restaurant. there were a few to choose from, and we ended up at Il Nido The Nest. it wasn't too bad. it was fun to eat out like a "real" couple.

but the random was that the main street was blocked off and traffic diverted because of a street parade. we aren't really sure what it was a parade of. there were lots of people with balloons leaving the area, but nothing else much going on except for big flood lights, lots of cars, people in bright traffic jackets, school children and diverted traffic.

now we're back home watching the AFL. all fingers are crossed for the swans. looks like it could be a stressful game.

visiting another golden oldie

my dad randomly rang me last night because he and my uncle are up here, in old bar, to see my grandma. they offered us a free bed for the night but we'd already booked this place. so this morning, we're off to visit my grandma in hospital.

and then hopefully i don't microsleep the whole way down the coast. never been real good at sleeping in places that aren't home.

northern adventures

we're currently in taree, at some best western we booked on wotif at tamworth maccas yesterday. it's not a bad room actually. i think we'll soon hit the city centre and get into the taree night life. i'll have to find my rifle.

last night and today were pretty hard. seeing Nan so weak and thin and tired was sad. sad because i think she's such a great lady, but more sad on behalf of Mary and Howie. she's been such a huge part of their lives. and i reckon a lot of who howie is has come from her.

i got a bit emotional this morning as we said goodbye to her. in fact i couldn't say goodbye.

but we left armidale and headed to the coast (whoops for no stop, revive, survive). tomorrow we'll head back south again, and if howie has his way we'll be staying tomorrow night in gosfords F1. i'm not so sure that he'll have his way. the idea of driving back into sydney on saturday is much more appealing than attempting it on sunday.

almost time for dins.

road trip

just about to head off to new england, via hornsby for a few errands.

it's reaching a maximum of 9 degrees in armidale today. just when spring was starting to show it's pretty warm face...

fun tum

maybe i'm stressed. too much nervous apprehension. of what i'm not sure. but my tummy is all tied up again tonight. i've just had dinner, so hopefully that doesn't come back to haunt me. i even cooked veggies again. just beans and carrots, but they were still nice.

tomorrow we're going to armidale because howie's Nan isn't doing too well. which is sad, coz Nan is a funny lady. i guess i'm a bit anxious about all that, and for howie and his mum particularly.

but i'm not sure what else i'm anxious about. probably some of the usual stuff. 'don't be anxious about anything...'

tonight is fun because new Chaser (finally!) and the start of Summer Heights High.

girl

i wore my hair out today. i never really wear my hair out. i don't like it. i don't know what to do with it. and i really couldn't be bothered learning how to style it. or spend time doing it. it would be nice if it just happened. but it doesn't. so it's just easier to put it all up in less than a minute, and it's done! but for some reason today i thought i'd keep it out. i picked a windy day for it. fortunately it wasn't windy AND rainy. that could have spelt disaster! well that's what the adds for hair products tell me.

another year over, a new one begun

happy birthday ryan. have a tops day!

And the winner is...

ME!!!

Woohooo I won our 2007 AFL Dreamteam competition! Go team Spensy!!

I can't believe it!!

And it matters not that Grant is overseas and doesn't seem to have much internet access - it is irrelevant.

Go my team of boys! I am indebted to those who got over 100 points this week:

Adam Hunter
Tarkyn Lockyer
Adam Simpson
Bryce Gibbs
Brad Ottens
Ryan O'Keefe
Eddie Betts
Angus Monfries

YAY!!

so much burping

cheer cheer the red and the white

that was an awesome swans game. took me back to the good old days of 1997-98 with huge winning margins, good football and a huge atmosphere. it wasn't all pretty, but there were a lot of spectacular moments.

lets hope they carry the same form into the next few weeks.

and leave barry hall out of it.

sprung

hoorah for the springing of spring. with september 1st comes a few steps cloer to summer, and also the return f fast internet. good times.

today was good. i averted a potential migraine. just. but things seemed to have been enjoyed by all. tired now though.

workday

i'm feeling a little apprehensive about today's trip. i'm still not feeling 100%, and am tired, and have a job to do that i'm not all that confident in. so short version is, i'm excited about 9pm tonight.