New Years Resolutions

It's taken me a month to decide, but I've finally decided what I'm resolving to do.

Some of you who know me very well, will know that I have a tendency to rub my belly button. It's right up there with sucking your thumb, for childish self comforting nervous ticks.
I don't notice it myself, but certain people have pointed out how odd it is.

And so, out of regard for others I've decided to stop rubbing mz belly button, cause I don't see any one else running around sucking their thumb!

(And yes it's a damn sight harder to stop, that I thought it would be.)

Sydney in heat

K and I went to one of the Sydney festival performances today.


It was a pleasant 40°C degrees in Ryde today, 4Gazillion °C on the train into town.
K, enjoyed a Gaytime while waiting for the train, and it was still 40°C when we reached the domain at 5pm.
For some reason the Australian media insists on refering to the mercury when giving temperatures.. because they have obviously spent too much time chewing on themometers.
At the domain we proceeded to talk about the wild temperatures while the MET office was issueing warnings of a Souwesterly moving in.
By 6pm the temperature had dropped to a frisky 20°C. You may scoff, bah that's bloody hot, however, when you are dressed for between 35 - 40°C as it has been the last two weeks, then 20°C is damn cold.

But it was worth it for the fireworks at the end of TCHAIKOVSKY's 1812 Overture.

And then we ran for the hills... where we live.. and where we keep our other clothes.

A little bit of give and take

--This is of course ripped off from someone elses blog.. because I can have no original thoughts of my own.. without then googling them!

The first six people to respond to this post will get something made by me.
This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:
- I make no guarantees that you will like what I make.
- What I create will be just for you.
- It’ll be done this year (2009).
- You have no clue what it’s going to be. It may be a mix CD. It may be a poem. I may draw or paint something. I might bake you something and mail it to you. Who knows? Not you, that’s for sure!
- I reserve the right to do something extremely strange.

The catch is that you have to put this in your journal as well, if you expect me to do something for you.

Also, I'll need you to identify yourself. Although I pretend to be, I am not actually psyhcic, infact I can't even spell psyhcic.

Still alive!

This whole holiday thing can be really distracting.


I had a whole 4 days holiday over the festive season... not much I know, but the fact that everyone else was on holiday, allowed me to get all my work done without interruption. So after the holidays, I was probably more relaxed than if I had take a holiday myself.

Christmas and Boxing day were spent in Goulburn. Hot & Dry, so we kept ourselves cool and moist with a traditional christmas lunch of Ham and Turkey, and an Austrailian traditional christmas lunch of Beer and monster Prawns off of the Barbie. Excellent.
(Apparently there's a nack to shelling prawns, and Australians have a secret code, only tell the foreigner about the "Shit Strip" after he's eaten it!)

On new years is was strange to be at a new years party with children at it... but strange in a cool way, not strange in a put them on the BBQ way.
Besides that the Sydney fireworks were quite spectacular, especially seen from a balcony in Dromoyne, instead of at the waterside with 10,000 drunks.

After midnight K turned around to me with a look of horror and said, "Do you realise that we're now getting married THIS YEAR!". After some quick sums, we arrived at 14 weeks until the big day. That's about how long it was between deciding to move to Australia and getting on the plane.
(Personally, I was thinking, how long before we're bringing our kids to watch the fireworks)

K's been steadily ticking things off the wedding todo list, doing me proud. I think however it's about time I contributed... my first idea, a heartshaped pinata, was speared immediatly and set alight in the pit of bad ideas. I'm working on getting all the bad ideas out of the way, so that I can concentrate on the solid gold ideas. ;-)

I just hope I can get the "job" work out of the way so it doesn't affect the "home" work.

On a side note... still cycling to work twice a week. I need to, it seems to be the only sport I have time for. Still, at least we are getting faster.

And I'll have to tell you about my new garden.
And my "keep the mosquitos out" automatic door closer.
And my remote control LED flashing thingy.