11/01/27: Gonna take you for a ride on a big jelly donut...

Mood: Rather stoked it's like a Friday for me today. DAY OFF TOMORROW!! Seeing as it's ma birfday on Sunday I requested a three day weekend. My boss is awesome. Gave me a treble cash book free from our shop as a birthday present. Tee hee! "Wa-hey" I hear you say? Well, I did need it. Gonna start working out where all my money is going, dammit! Working out what goes in and what gets spent, and then maybe we can work out a budget and start saving for our HOUSE that we will get in like 20 years time... *sigh*

So moving along... yes I am stoked. Tomorrow I get to sleep in, fix up my lisence and bank details, go shopping for party food and tie up a heap of loose end jobs that I've been meaning to crack the back of for a while. Needed the day off really. Then one can enjoy one's up and coming birthday weekend.

Sneeze. Dust. 3 times.

What can I cook at home that will generously feed about 5 - 6 people? I was thinking like either crappy party foods (gems with mayo and tomato sauce... yup try it. AWESOME)... or homemade burgers, or a whopping great casserole or hotdogs or BBQ? TOO MANY CHOICES!!!

Man I ain't getting very far with this post. Been sitting here for 20 minutes already. Too much happening on facebook tonight. Gasp I hear you think? Yes yes I know I boycotted it. I still find it interesting. Plus I miss the people that I actually talked to on facebook regularly. Seemed a bit mean just to throw the entire towel in. I just threw a flannel in I guess. Rest assured (not that you really care, but I care so I'm just assuring myself here...) I don't sit on the computer nowhere near as much as I used to, like... every night before going to bed and then wondering why I can't sleep because my brain is still buzzing from the overload of electricity and stimulation from typing and thinking all at the same time. I watch tv now. In bed. Usually How I Met Your Mother. SO EXCITED ITS COMING BACK NEXT WEEK!!!! NEW EPISODES!!!! And Barney is promoted it on channel 7. Why do I get so excited when I see my favourite characters (note, Amercian characters), promoting stuff, plugging Australian channels on our tvs (ie. Marshall and Lily saying "Right here on Channel 7...)? I have simple pleasures. Freakin' awesome. I couldn't think of the word that sounded cooller than 'promote'. I just had to google it. I am lame.
 
Tv before bed though is still bad. Same stimulation. But not so much thinking, right? Right.

How awesome what the Top Ten Hottest (almost wrote Hootest, har har)... 100 yesterday evening? Silo (or is it Seelo or Sealo? Who cares...) Green, #7? SERIOUSLY? I thought that was a sure fire winner. Though I shouldn't complain it's not like I voted or really cared. It would have made something anyway. How stoned did Angus Stone sounded when they were brought up after being announced the winners.... "Bonanza." Um... spare the excitement dude!

Shall I move on from this question? I'm kind of tangenting here aren't I? Hey, blogging is blogging no matter what category it's coming under. You're still getting a good read.

Eating: I had dessert tonight (which was 2 giant 'pods' I handmade yesterday - see yesterday's blog for a complete rundown). Shutup. I went to Zumba class and felt good that I actually sweated a bit and the ol' ticker got a bit up there (now that's awesome grammar for you). Will be doing that again next week. Plus Step class, though I hated every minute of that from Tuesday. I was so buggered 2/3's of the way though, and looking in the mirrors I seriously was the least energetic in the class, and there were about 30 people in the room. I was really trying too, and that made me feel so unfit. Embarrassment. Gotta keep at it. Gotta lose that belly flabbage (hey, that rhymes with cabbage. Funny!). But my belly cabbage is not funny. It must fly. The flab must fly!

I am sick of the Jetplane song already. I've heard it play 3 times on JJJ today. Overkill!! Yes, it's great it won, but don't get everyone hating it before it's brought out on the CD!!!

Note: I want the new Iron and Wine CD (heard rave reviews), I also want to investigate the new Cat Empire CD (haven't heard a THING about it this time... mustn't have been that awesome I guess? Not inspired to download it yet.) It's been out for months.

Drinking: just finished a fine cup of tea stuff. Velly nice. Though mild caffeine hit maybe not such a great idea before beddies?

Watching: Before now was watching the Supercars Special Top Gear. I do heart that show. I like James because everyone else hates him. Heck, I do like them all. They are quite the characters - ho ho ho!

Listening to: the last thing I did most litereally with my ears is have a brief chat to my mother dearest on the phone before I went into Coles. Now, going into Coles was really annoying. What happened was, I had my Zumba class this evening until 5:45pm, headed home - STOKED to be home, tired... got in the door. Mr Harris was there, keen to start up our tacos for dinner. And then it hit me. The thing I forgot to get today that I promised myself I wouldn't forget. I threw out our last bunch of lettuce this morning due to it being sludgey in it's plastic bag. Not piggies, nor humans could or would eat that. So I tossed it. And I reminded myself I needed to get one that afternoon for tacos. Realised at that moment when I walked in the door (well, just as I had pulled off my shoes and about to collapse on the couch) I forgot lettuce... and was so mad. Trudged... I really trudged... think Barney moment in How I Met Your Mother when he is waiting for Ted to say something, and is slow-motion walking out the kitchen door (I just tried googling it but can't find the episode... BLAST!!!!)... hoping Mr Harris would do the deed for me (no such luck... must work on telepathic abilities...) back out the door, to drive down the road to pick up some lettuce and some amazing $35 worth of something elses. At this point I was just frazzled and tired and whingey. But  yes, in answer to question my mumsy called me just as I was about to head into Coles to pick up $35 of food stuffs.   

Just finished: Sneezing, a cup of tea, dinner, watching Top Gear and chatting to palsy's on facebook. Man I am such a hypocrite.

After this, I'm going to: bed. Simple, beautiful, cool sheeted, fan blown bed. With sand from yesterday. It came out of my hair in the night. Sand gets in weird places. We all know that don't we?

One wish for the day:
To not have given my poor boss quite so much work to do tomorrow. Feel a bit slack that I didn't finish as much as I should have today. Oh well! Good luck to bossman and Kylie the graphic designer. I wrote a list...

"Idiot on the Road" moment: There were plenty today, mostly more annoying ones were the 'careful' drivers... driving 10km under the speed limit on the highway and on the normal streets. Left laners, granted. Still annoying. Especially when they slow right down to 80-70km about 2km from their exit. You can slow down when your exit is actually right there my friend.

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I have nothing else to add! These questions pretty much cover everything - granted I do tangent a heck of a lot. Oh well! It all gets out there one way or another. 

Here's to a fabulous Friday - and a wicked weekend!!!

Y'all's in bloggy boggness...

~ Peace, Love & Mungbeans ~

xxx

26/01/11: Eee-yeah Eee-yeah Eee-yeah!! ♫ #38 and counting...

Mood: Quite quite happy right now, but feeling a bit sluggish (blaming weather and onset of tiredness). Got mild gut rot though from badly reheated pork last night, not cool. But hey, it's a holiday today (HAPPY AUSTRALIA DAY Y'ALL!!), have had a ripper BBQ lunch with my beloved, sent him off to Brisbane for the evening to see Mos Def at the Hi-Fi Bar (finally! Had to wait an extra few weeks because of the floods... what sucky timing, at least he didn't completely cancel)... so I am home alone for the afternoon and evening. I am contemplating getting *~drunk~* on Botanicals wine... though I DO have to work tomorrow... hmm decisions... though I DON'T have to work on Friday (requested a day off to catch up with some loose end jobs, plus it's my BIRTHDAY weekend - HUZZAH!!!!)... I will be working on my PhotoBooth book this arvo. Too hot to go out and do anything else! I had my bout of outsideness early this morning. What a gorgeous way to start a holiday day! Forced myself to get up early (6am people... yikes), got Mr. Harris up and we both into our swimmers, and headed down to North Burleigh beach for a lovely cool, morning swim. It seriously is the most perfect time of day to be out during the summer. The sun isn't quite high enough to be hot, there's no wind about and everything is still relatively cool from the night previous. Perfect! Water was pretty chilly but refreshing once you got in. Bliss!


Oh yay, the Bike Song just came on Triple J - love that song! Love Mark Ronson, clever bugger.

Eating: Ate two very naughty but very yummy Buttersnap Tartlets I homemade this morning. So easy, and so yummy! Plain buttersnap biccies, for the filling you need chocolate, cream and butter. Melt all that together and spread em over the biccies, and leave to set. Um. Drool? Yes. Very. I even got some fudge sauce left over, now I just need some icecream and it will be perfect.


♫ Gonna ride my bike until I get home... ♫

Drinking: drinking water to ease gurgling guts, but as mentioned prior, debating on whether to crack a bottle of vino to celebrate Australia Dayness. 

** EDIT: Oh. My. Freakin. God. My computer just turned itself off. Luckily this thing automatically saves drafts, but that's not the problem. My mobile internet was being a right bitch and decided it didn't want to reconnect without serious pain being involved - namely my head and patience. Computer wouldn't recognise the stick. Bing Bong (found it)... Bong Bing (disconnected it)... again, and again and again... Restarted computer. No good. Only until I shut the whole thing down that it's booted up. Took 25 minutes to get from "Drinking" to here. UGH.... we are now at #29 me thinks? Illy song....

♫ A momentary lapse of reality.... ♫ <--- good song, me likey

New Mood: Frazzled/relieved.

Watching: Nuttin right now. Will be watching some chick-flick-anti-Mr-Harris movie most likely later this evening. I have a sticker on every movie on our dvd shelf that I am yet to watch, maybe I will pick one of those. There's about 50 to pick from.

God I'm pretty tired, might wrap this up early today... and I've been nearly 3-4 days without posting a blog! Tsk. What a slack ass. And I can't even be bothered writing heaps. Oh well, I'm still here, there will be plenty more blogs in the future. Gotta enjoy what's left of my Australia Day!

Listening to: what else? I hope you too are all listening to Triple J's Hottest 100 - I'm rooting for Silo Green's 'Fudge You' (the uncensored version, of course...). Heaps of awesome songs already.

OOOOO!!!! Florence and the Machine.... You Got the Love rehash.... freakin sick..... her voice is amazing...


Just finished: A nap earlier. Yes, a nanna nap. I've been up since 6am, it's unnatural for me, and effectively I crashed about 2 hours ago. Just chilled on the couch while listening to awesome Triple J musak.

After this, I'm going to: get cracking on my PhotoBooth, getting a good couple of pages done. Can't wait to get it printed!

One wish for the day:
For Friday to be tomorrow. I want weekend goodies to start NOW!

"Idiot on the Road" moment: Well, havent' really been out a lot today, so for once I won't whinge. Aren't I great?  Saves you all that tiresome reading.

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Ladies and gentleman, I'm signing off. Yawns are approaching and I want to make some headway on my Photobooth booky wooky (as Russell Brand would put it).

Have a fantastic weekend coming up. It's ma birfday!! Got a few awesome things planned... Infinity, Wii party, laser skermish, nice dinner out, casino... should be awesome fun! Get to hang out with some amazing peeps - can't wait!

Man this has been a boring blog, apologies for the dullness even after being away for being so long. Won't be rereading this one! Better blogs to come in the coming days, assured...

~ Peace, Love & Mungbeans ~

xxx

 

Note: Interesting that it took nearly 10 top songs to write this blog... that's a lot of time.... 

20/01/11: My god, I have a wedding ring anti-tan.

Mood: Lets see... it's been an up-and-down last couple of days, thanks to the stinking heat, my mood swings, my lack of concentration and inability to knuckle down hence making mistakes and feeling like poop (at work, this is...), ummm.... in summary I've been a mix of depressed, frustrated, spaced-out, ansty, irritated (is that the same thing? Let's add it anyway), switched off, uncaring, caring too much, cold, hot, angry, sad.... but now... this is right now? I am feeling content. Odd? I'll say. Man, I feel like a woman. *Baaap badda daa daa du duh!!*

Eating: Mmm man-o-man (they need to bring that show back I say), I had a ripper dinner tonight. Super saucy homemade thai green curry (well, ok the sauce mix wasn't home made, but ALL NATURAL INGREDIENTS HERE...). Not so much rice, but loads of chicken, gravy, onions and carrots. More like a soup there was that little rice. So good that way!! Needs a bit more vegies though (ooooo bean sprouts, snow peas, capsicum... the possibilities. I use bracketted thoughts as much as I use normal written prose. Annoying?). So dinner was tops.

Drinking: in the coollness of the evening. Finally it is upon us! Better than saying water again, right?

Watching: Only watched double episode of Simpsons tonight while eating dins. Episode where Homer can't connect with any of his kids and Maggie saves him in the ocean... and the second episode where Apu and his wife decide to have A kid. Turns out to be 8. Ha. Good stuff. Though I will admit I have never been fanatical about watching the Simpsons. I'll watch it, and enjoy it. But I won't kill myself if I miss a new episode, I was never that 'into' them like everyone else is. I don't know the quotes, I don't know all the characters. But it seems that a lot of people do. I think I've missed the Simpsons boat back when I didn't watch it when I was younger. Oh well! Bring on Family Guy. Though the 'It's a Trap!' Stars Wars special wasn't anything to write home about. They said it in the opening credits - talk about being forced to do the other 2 sequels. So not-as-funny-as-the-original 'Blue Harvest'. I am rambling here so I will digress...

Listening to: my yoga breathing belly. I wish I was. I just realised I wasn't doing it and should be. To relax. Did yoga last night, way awesome. Like an hour self-massage (no, no... not THAT kind of massage you sicko...). I have been away for a few days, haven't I? Kinda needed the break, was having long days staring at a computer screen and I didn't want to come home and stare at another computer screen for another hour writing blabble (that's a good word).

BLABBLE: (verb) A hybrid action between 'babbling' and... something that starts with 'Bl-' ...dammit, almost had something good there.

Just finished: Writing a mini-biography for my Awards Presentation ceremony coming up in March for my Diploma of Piano Playing Awesomeness (it's Diploma of Popular Music but that just sounded way better). Have to fly down to Melbourne to a place called 'Kew' and get the gown hire and everything! Have to play the piano in front of a hopefully NOT massive crowd. Had to write the biography I think for their little concert pamphlet thingy. Very cool. I get to go on a plane and back in one day - bring it on!!

After this, I'm going to: have a snoozeness. Late start tomorrow so I get a sleep in, yay! Haven't done that on a weekday in ages. Well, lie. I did this morning, though my alarm went off early. Blast my forgetfulness!

One wish for the day:
For tomorrow to fly by so the weekend can begin!! Not long til my birfday, yee haw!! Have to think of something clever for my costume... not having much luck as yet. Famous Dead People...

"Idiot on the Road" moment: This one was yesterday, when a massive storm loomed over the Gold Coast for my drive home around 5pm. Lots of rain in a very short amount of time. And people panic at such amounts of water falling from the sky. Cause rain is like, totes scary, right? Hmm. So I'm driving along the highway, lefthand lane, basically crawling at 60km/hr because everyone has freaked out at the immediate onset of sky falling water. No big deal, we're still moving. Obviously someone needed to get somewhere really fast, or they were just being a road retard. I see fly past me (now, this is the LEFT SIDE of me, and as you remember I am in the left hand lane here...), fly past me in the skinny bit of shoulder road, in a massive 4WD truck thing at like 80km/hr. WHAT THE??? ARE YOU INSANE?? He must have had like 2cm on either side of his car getting through that. I'm amazed he didn't take anyone's mirrors off. What a tool. Rain does some weird things to people. Let's hope his wife was in labour or something honorable like that.

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Happy as a pig in mustard to report that the newly weds (ie Ruskii and Soda) are lovin' it up in the Harris garage. So cute! They're sharing dry food still and Soda seems to be mad for big hay piles. She buries in underneath it and just sits in there, surrounded by hay/food. Love it. I'd love that too actually if I were a piggy. They both seem really stoked to be in each others company, and even Seb and Charlie like her through the gates. She doesn't seem to mind them either which is amazing.

Photo for your 'awwwww-ing' pleasure:

♫   Thiisss is the night.. it's a bootiful night... and they call it Belle Notte....♫

"Yuu smell mightee purdee.... can I haves a kisseh kisseh?"

Snuggles...I ruv yuu Ruskeh ♥

NAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!! Ain't they just the cutest???

So that's the coot stuffs.

I've honestly had a crap last couple of days, just stupid moods and not really figuring out what's making me moody or how to fix it. It might be sugar detox? Unlikely. I'm still trying to plough through my peanut butter chocochunko biscuits so they're out of my fridge, so that hardly helps, considering I ate like 3 of them today. THEY MUST BE GONE!!!

I've been totally out of it at work, which hasn't done me any favours. Its like I know I have all this crap to do, but my brain is on one side of the room and my physical actually DOING it is way over the other side, and really can't get it's arse across to meet. This is my problem. I've had a lot of important jobs that have needed doing, but I've been so out of it, that I realise it needs doing, I'm taking forever to do it, and hence I get 'out of it' frustrated. Which I'll admit it a strange sensation. I know I am frustrated, but yet I am still detatched. It's odd. I've been making loads of silly little mistakes that I normally wouldn't make - and again this makes me look bad in front of bossman and makes me feel like utter incompetenceness. Not helping. It's been a long week, and a bit of a downward spiral for me this week. 

BUT!

Rest assured that is all over now. I hit my low point just before lunch today, and decided to go and sit on the beach for 20 minutes, just soaking up the sun, sand between my toes and watching the ocean do it's thing, just forgetting all the crap I was trying to deal with and failing. Yoga breathing too. That must have helped. Going back into work I felt better and kept feeling better, to the point now where I feel completely fine and ready to tackle the last day of the week. I hope next week isn't like that, I couldn't handle being an annoying arse like that every week! BLEH!! Stupid blundering detatched idiot. Tsk! OO!!!! Blundering!!!! THATS THE WORD I NEEDED!!!!

*EDIT* BLABBLE: (verb) A hybrid action between 'babbling' and 'blundering'. 

(Yessss!)

Saw preview for Black Swan on Today. I am intrigued and Natalie Portman looks perfect as a ballerina - skinny and square jaw. Looks a bit mildly freaky as well.

Do want to see Tangled. Again. Dang I will have to wait for it to come out on DVD now I spose, can't keep wasting precious pennies on big screen amazingness *sigh*. Oooo, unless I get the "Art of" book? That would be a nice substitute... ahem.... (it's my birthday soon... www.amazon.com... hehehe).

I'm annoyed that it's going to take ages to get my license and bank cards changed over to my new married name, considering I work until 4:15pm every day and both places are shut by 4:30pm. Ugh. What to do? Might have to take an early arvo sometime just so I can get it done... still. The two biggest forms of ID I need to change and they're the most painful, grrr!

YAY FOR AUSTRALIA DAY HOLIDAY NEXT WEEK!!!! Thank you mid week break. So good!!

Anyhoosies that will be all for this evening. I am ready for Bedfordshire, as Bridget Jones would say. Read the book, pretty cool. Considering I bought it for 50c.

~ Peace, Love & Mungbeans ~

xxx

18/01/11: The roar of the greasepaint, the smell of the crowd...

Just realised I've been writing in my dates wrong. Rest assured it IS 2011.

Mood: Hot. Tired. Bleh. More like drained. Feeling like my skin is crawling with sweat. Which it is. That lovely 'sticky' feeling. I feel horrible. I'm going to have a shower after this. Today has just been an absolutely feral day with the heat. I wish I didn't have to rely on air conditioning so much... boooo... synthetic air...

Eating: So proud. I haven't wanted much all day today. Not that I'm starving myself, cause I'm not. I'm just learning not to revolve my day around my mealtimes. Lunch was the last thing I scoffed... lovely tuna sushi! Velly nice to the usual salmon sushi I get. Yes, there is a difference. And I'm still killing 2 omega-3 birds with one stone with the variety. MY LIFE IS AWESOME! Dinner tonight will be bit fat-arse sausages (fresh from the butcher, bloody awesome)... with onion gravy, cheesy mash and vegies. And baked beans. Because that goes so well with the mash. Don't knock it till you try it people.

 

Drinking: ...

Watching: Will be watching 'The Last Airbender' later after tea. Have been wanting to watch it for a while, I do love the tv series, excellent animation. Looks like anime but it ain't. Clever Americanised hybrid.

Listening to: Sweat dripping off my nose. Not really. But that's how it feels.

Just finished: Oh my god. Filling out all my 'official name change' letters and forms. So much frickin' hassle UGH!!! I went and got 15 certified copies of my marriage certificate done today, so totes happy that I could get it all done tonight and ship them off never to have to worry about them again. Wrongo. Realised tonight that some forms need old ID to go with it. So tomorrow it's back to the copies - copying my lisence, my medicare card, my bank card... GRRR!!! Isn't a marriage certificate enough? Plus, on top of this crappola, I have to annoyingly go into the banks, Medicare and QLD Transport to do it in person, cause they don't do this stuff over the phone or online. LAMO! And that's not LMAO. I wish I were.
Let's see I did Vodafone, Optus, E-toll, ATO, Fly Buys, RACQ and Sunsuper. Phew! What a bloody effort. Will be worth it though. Worth the online kit I bought for $30 to take care of all the address finding and form finding. Thank you... www.easynamechange.com.au

After this, I'm going to: have a cool, cleansing shower to rid my body of sweat grime.

One wish for the day:
For all my name-change forms to have filled themselves in. The kit has made it easy, I hate to think what it would have been like if I did it all myself. Horror!!

"Idiot on the Road" moment: Not in a car today actually. Just on my way home up Whistler Drive, some dude with his car parked on the left hand side has his door wide open, coming right into my lane. And him standing out there too. Um. Idiot? Look at what's coming maybe? I had to go right over into oncoming traffic (which thankfully wasn't there...) to get around him. Should have just ran straight into his door. That would have been awesome.

Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh I want to tell everyone about my awesome weekend but my patience in this heat is very short right now, so I will give a nice little rapid overview. It truly was an awesome, packed weekend with sister Sezza.

SATURDAY:
- Slept in. Booya.
- Went op-shopping for a few hours, got a whole heap of awesome tops. Got about 15 pieces, new style here I come! We're going for the 'skirt top' look this summer. Short sleeves (not a tight sweat pit sleeve in sight!), tight around the boobs, and then a skirted effect to hide the gut. Not that that was my aim, I don't really care. But I love the style of these and I am nice and comfortable in them. So I loaded up on some lovely tops, very happy!
- Went to cole and gathered ingredients to make a batch of homemade cookies
- Went home, made massive batch of AMAZING Peanut Butter Choc Chunk cookies. TO DIE FOR.
- Went for a jog around the block... oh my. Yes you read right. My legs are still hurting today. Gotta work my way up to this new thing...
- Sezza came down around 6pm in the end, after a delay up in Redcliffe. She brough with her a little, furry bride. SODA!!! Ruskii and Soda are now united!!! Ruskii was so overly excited to see her he couldn't help but just jump on her when we popped her down. She was loving the attention but wasn't afraid to put the overly excitable little ball-less piglet in his place when he got too rough. Go Soda! I am happy to report that since Saturday they have been napping together, eating in the dryfood bowl together (and that for any 2 piggies is a rariety! No piggy dare shares the precious dryfood!!), and eating together. Ruskii has calmed down a lot and just sneaks in a little bum sniff every now and again when he can. I think he knows that Soda is blind and tries to get away with being cheeky. However, they are totally besotted and it's so lovely to have them together finally. No more lonely piggies!
- Mr Harris came home with Chinese dim sims and spring rolls so we snacked on those, and started up an evening of sparkling wine, Wii and fried egg sandwiches. Mr Harris crashed early but Sezz and I pressed on till 1:30am, giggling like idiots, going for short walking roadtrips to the end of the street and back, hi-fiving a little too much with every small achievement in Wii games... and soooooooo much Mariokart... so so much... we totally sucked. The fried egg sandwiches, complete with far too much grated cheese, was more or less organismic at that time of night. Perfect drunken munchies cure.

SUNDAY:
- Slept in again. Excellent.
- Got some fresh bread and made up some more egg sandwiches - perfect munchies cure, also perfect HANGOVER cure. Feeling ok though.
- Packed up and headed off to DREAMWORLD for the day!! Finally braved the Giant Drop, and I was turned. Scared all in the lineup, scared up the top, then a moment of serenity came over me as I was looking out over the beautiful view, and finally I was over the fear. It was GREAT!!!!! Dunno what happened, but I will be going on that ride again next time!! WHAT A BLAST!!! As we arrived at Dreamworld late we only managed like... 5 rides... Motorcross Motorbikes, Giant Drop, Tower of Terror II and the Claw. Ok so thats 4. Pretty poor show eh?
- Left Dreamworld at 4pm and headed to Robina where we watched 'Tangled' - yes, again for me. First time for Sezza. I was so hoping she loved it. And she DID. Yeshhhhhhhhhh!! So so good, can't get over how good it is. Find the male lead character hot, which is disturbing. Ate lots and lots of popcorn.
- Came home with Sezz at 7pm and made fresh spaghetti bolognise, with Latina Fresh pasta. It makes such a different. I really want some now actually. But sausages it is.... boo hoo. Yes, so bolognaise topped with mozerella cheese... mmmm....
- Sezz packed up her stuffs and headed home around 8:30pm. What a full on day!!! So bugger and tired.

Speaking of buggered and tired, I am. So I'm off. Dinner is calling.

~ Peace, Love & Mungbeans ~

xxx

14/01/10: Happy weekend eve!

Mood: Sleepy. Glad it's Friday. Though I'm not being a lazy sh!t tomorrow morning, I will endeavour (perhaps succeed, perhaps fail) to get up at a reasonable hour. 7:30am maybe? We'll see. I am to do dishes and clean piglets out nice and early so I have a nice full day ahead!

Eating: Ahhh, that craving list was funny yesterday. I am sure I will be having a few more of those moments in the coming weeks, slowly weaning myself off the baddies... though I will admit I was very naughty this afternoon and ate like, half a packet of Aero Bubble Balls. My reasoning? I want them out of my fridge so I don't eat them down the line. Clear it out now, and then I can keep my fridge clear of temptation. Yes, logical.

 

Drinking: A bit more exciting tonight... a lovely stemless wine glass of Rosemont Treminer Riesling. Simply delightful! Thank you Dadsy for the awesome Christmas present.

Watching: Slowly easing off the flood watching. Got home after work today and watching 2.5 episodes of True Blood Season II to start my weekend. I haven't been keeping up to date with it over the last few weeks since Stace borrowed me them. I will admit, Eric is becoming more of delicious eye candy than I originally feared. I feel like I'm SOOKEEEEHHHHHH in that respect. Liked Bill, now liking Eric. Oh dear. So many naked men it's hard to stick to one, isn't it? I cried when Godrich burned to a crisp. Granted, it was late at night and I was a bit fragile anyway (I love being a woman, let's just leave it at that).

Later in the evening I have watched (with Mr Harris, but he fell asleep so his 'watching' doesn't count... he assured me that he will finish it off tomorrow morning when he wakes up at the crack of dawn off his own free will... crazy dude...)... The Taking of Pelham 1,2,3. Actually pretty gripping. We all knew how it was going to end. But the making of was really interesting, it was all shot on location in New Yorks train tunnels and in the streets. Crazy stuff they had to go through to get it all happening. Very interesting! Worth watching. Much much better than 'To Paris, with Love' (Travolta's other 'tough beefy dude' role... utter sh!t). Denzel played a good part. Travolta looked good, but his voice just gets me. It's too feminine, or high or just ungruff. It's too gentle a voice to sound mean and bad-ass. And he really can't pull off saying "mother f**ker", you know how when some people say it, it just sounds strained? Like me, I'm one of those people. Some people just aren't meant to say such naughty poo poo words as that. But it feels good when you kick your toe. Yeah, so Travolta can't pull off 'tough nuttiness' with the voice anyways....

Listening to: My brain slowly shutting down for the evening. Getting sleepy...

Just finished: putting Mr Harris to bed. Mouth is woolly, must clean teeth soon. Have winey aftertaste in mouth with woolly teeth. Icky.

After this, I'm going to: clean my dentals, and go to bed.

One wish for the day:
Hmm, actually I have no real urges for anything today. Must have been a satisfying day!

"Idiot on the Road" moment: On the way home today. Right hand lane, doing 80km in an 80km zone. Have some turd up my arse, I can see he's itching to get ahead. He swerves into the left lane, only to fall back behind an even slower car. Ha ha. Douchebag. Then he manages to get up past me on the left, driving something like 100km in the left hand lane, then dangerously swirves back into the right hand lane about 2 cars up. And yet we both pull up at the same red traffic light. *Sigh*

Plans for weekend...

1. Watch 'Tangled' again. Yup, wanna see it again. Thats rare for a movie these days, ones that are still at the cinema at least. Its just so visually 'drool'. I will be watching it in 2D this time. And sitting in a middle seat. And possibly dragging Paul along too for the ride.

2. Go op-shopping with sister Sezza. Wanting new clothes like really desperately, but have no money on which to spend it. Will op-shop and get lots of unique and funky clothes. Need a new look this year. I'm over t-shirts. Time to be a bit more 'I've put a bit more effort into how I look here'. Ya know?

3. Final Dreamworld trip before my annual pass runs out. Last chance this weekend. Kinda over it though, heh.

4. Piggies Ruskii and Soda will be UNITED this weekend!! So excited! Have to reaarange the pens in the garage so Seb and Charlie's pen will be seperate from pen with female in it. Problems could arise. It's going to be magical! And luckily Ruskii is over his rotten belly bowel movements. Phew!

5. Make spaghetti bolognaise. Meh, it's a plan of sorts!

6. Burn wedding DVD for rellies in UK. Well overdue for that.

That's aboot it. Yup, aboot. Like a Canadian would say it.

Eyeballs and attention span is dissintergrating.

Hope y'all have a mad weekend - filled with all things fun/cruisey/friends/family/food/boozies/heading out/roadtripping.... etc. etc. You get the drift.

Man, it's my birthday soon. I have to plan a bloody party or something ...

HAPPY WEEKEND! AirTester oot.

~ Peace, Love & Mungbeans ~

xxx

13/01/10: Oh sweet chocolate, how I crave thee...

Mood: Really. Craving. Chocolate. Must. Resist. God. Dammit. This. Is. Crap.

Eating: How about what I wish I COULD be eating right now, but stupid Mr. Will Power is telling me no. This must be the wall I feared I would smash my poor little pudgey gut into. Run fat girl, run. No, no I won't.
Ok. What would I like to be eating right about now? Let's list.... maybe visual triggers will help the cravings...

*Time seriously does pass*

Ok. It's now 10 minutes later after I've googled everything that I want to be eating right now. And it's really made it worse. That was really really dumb. Now to share my agony, though most of you have a choice... poo poo to yous:

MY LIST OF FOOD CRAVINGS RIGHT NOW:

  White Bubbly. Pops in your mouth with white chocolatey sweetness and bubbles...

 Give me a chocolate chip cookie (homemade prefereably), heck I'll even take the dough... and I will be your b!tch. Right now anyway... Chocolate chunk... oh chunkiriffic...

 

A old favourite. Light, crunchy middle with that gloriously thicky and fridge-hard chocolate around the edge. Especially nice over ice-cream... *cries*

 

Chocolate jam donut. Or Dreamy Donut, lindt chocolate icing with jammy middle. Either or. Have I caved any of you yet? 

 

 Now these my friends, are Lindt Macaroons from the Lindt Shop in Melbourne. They are served chilled, so the cream middles are cold, and the macaroony bit is light and crunchy. Flavours I would like right now... milk chocolate and vanilla bean. Save me. I'm having a sugar brain overload.

 Wispa Gold. Limited Edition Chocolate. Why the hell don't they keep these around, they are AMAZING. Do you remember Craves? Aero bottom, smooth, light caramello on top, thick chocolate coating. They are heaven in saturated fats.

 Double chocolate chip muffin. Warmed up, with butter smooshed on the inside. 

Ok. I managed it. So proud. And so sugar deprived.

It's easy right? Just say no. Just. Say. No..... ARRRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

Drinking: Tea tea glorious tea. Oh how I would love to have a chocolatey treeeeeeeee (rhyming here) eeeat.

Watching: Still on flood watch non-stop. Still not getting over what I'm watching. I just heard the story of the 3 horses that were nearly drowning, with their heads resting on the tiles of a building's roof. Happy ending though - they made it!!! GO HORSES!!!! Then I heard about the 40 horses that drowned in some stable. Those poor poor animals. There must be so many lost, wounded and drowned animals out there, it's so heartbreaking. They would be more lost than us humans right now. How awful would it be to be separated from your beloved family pet - I can't bear to think about it.
It also makes me shudder when I heard that a number of people will need to be fished out of cars that have been sucked in under bridges in the Lockyer Valley. I hope they don't find too many people, that is so tragic.

Listening to: Mr. Harris downstairs watching... ahem... 'Dave Chappelles Block Party' - featuring Mos Def (Mr. Harris is rather fanatical about this dude)... I bought him a ticket to go and see Mr. Def at the Tivoli tonight, which ain't happening now due to the flooding (they ain't bringing no Mos Def into disease infested flood areas, no sir!). They've rescheduled for Australia Day and will be playing at the Hi-Fi. So as a substitute for tonight, Mr. Harris went to our local video store and bought an evenings worth of stuff featuring... you guessed it... Mos Def. Let's see, we have Dave Chapelle's Block Party... god I can't even remember the other ones, there was about 5 movies in total. Mr. Harris did tell me them. They go through one ear and out the other. I hear 'Mos Def' and affectionately tune out. Though my darling husband did think of me and hired out one movie he thought I'd like (and gained brownie points for doing so...) The Taking of Pelham 1,2,3. Looks ok. I just want to see Travolta and his shaved noggin. And beard. I will be watching a late night True Blood tonight for certain. Also can you guess that by the size of my blog already I am avoiding the Block Party? Hehe. Be grateful I am writing more this time! 


Ooo helicopter! And it's gone.

Just finished: looking at a preview of 'The Art of Tangled'. Oh my freakin god I want it bad. Yes I'm superficial, but I can't help it. The art is beautiful. Glen Keane (who animated Ariel, the Beast and Tarzan)... the book is FULL of his amazing sketches. Wannit Wannit Wannit... woo woo...

After this, I'm going to: feed my beloved babies. All 4 of them. The 3 fluffy ones and the one hairy one.

One wish for the day:
Two wishes for today. One meaningful, one superficial.
Meaningful wish - for the floods to have never happened. Just a nice onset of soaking rain to help all the crops and the dams. Nothing like what we've had. 
Superficial wish (cause I'm allowed): I WANT 'THE ART OF TANGLED'. Please.


"Idiot on the Road" moment: I re-read my last few posts and realised a lot of my blabbing is about bad drivers out there. So I figured why not create a category? Now I've done this I probably won't need to gripe again. Ha.
I was doing 100km in a 100km zone today, in the left hand lane. And there was a ute UP MY ARSE. Took him bloody long enough to figure out that he could GO AROUND ME if he wanted to drive at a stupid speed. Seriously though, having someone tailgate you in the left hand lane? Shame on you arsey driver!

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I filled up my car with petrol today because apparently the Gold Coast is going to run out of petrol. *GASP!!!!* A few servos today had actually run out already. It's like a disaster movie, seriously. Everyone is carrying on like idiots. It took me nearly 20mins to get inside the petrol station today to fill up. Had some silly lady in front (in a short, floral dress, she was in her early 50's easily...) drive up and realise she parked too far away from the hose cause her tank was on the other side. Ha. I couldn't help but giggle and be annoyed at the same time. Tsk. Delays, I dunno!

What made me really mad though, was some other silly lady in the servo shop, was loading up with like 6 x 2L cartons of milk. Dude. WE AREN'T GOING TO GET ANY FLOODS. That milk, which could have gone to people who actually desperately need it... IS GOING TO GO ROTTEN. You are just going to use maybe one in the course of a week, and then the rest of it will expire. You will be tipping it down the sink. Shame on you, selfish over-reacting lady. Get a grip. We aren't getting floods. We may be running out of petrol, but we still have cows.

Still urks (erks?) me that people carry on so selfishly. Granted, they are a minor few. But still.

Until tomrorow peeps! Time for dinner - we're having a home sausage sizzle tonight. Fat sangas, onions in bread. Mmmm. Still want chocolate though. Curses....

~ Peace, Love & Mungbeans ~

xxx

12/01/10 - Oops, someones fluffed the dates much?

Mood: In a state of disbelief, shock, dismay and sadness. I can't believe everything I've been hearing and seeing on tv and radio today. These kind of disasters are always something that you watch on tv, where its happening somewhere else, and you sit there, watching it and think mindlessly... "wow, those poor people" but deep down you don't really take in the event as something 'real', nor think too hard about the impact it is having on those people (not in a cruel way, just a mindless way). It doesnt really hit home. Until you see this stuff happening to things on your own doorstep, happening to people you know, in places now overflowing with unbelievable amounts of water, places that just the weekend prior you were strolling through, fixing to catch a movie. I can't believe how quickly it's all changed. The Southbank Eye has water at it's base, from the river. The Brisbane Powerhouse is under water. There are bullsharks on the Ipswich Motorway. Um. WTF? Our beautiful city has been completely trashed. I never thought I would see the day where our beloved Brisbane City became a natural disaster zone. While I thank god that the Gold Coast and Redcliffe are yet to be affected by the floods, my heart truly does go out to those thousands upon thousands of people who have had to leave their homes, watch them go under the torrents of water, have lost everything (including loved ones), and now have to face the long haul of rebuilding their lives from scratch. I can't even begin to imagine what that would be like. And the bulk of it isn't over yet, that's the scary part. Everyone still has to wait for the water to peak. How gutwrenching. Today has been a very grim day for everyone, in spite of the sunshine we had today. At least a glimmer of positivity to help the solemn job at hand.  

Eating: Errrgh... It seems so petty to be writing crap like this at a time like this. But I need to get my brain on paper somehow. I feel so utterly helpless down here. I can't believe that within a space of 100km there can be such an extreme of circumstance. If only the rest of SE Qld could be so lucky as the Gold Coast. What a freak chance though, I can't believe we missed all of it.
Answer to question: Scotch Fillet steak for tea (medium rare of course), cheesy garlic mashed potatoes and vegies with brown onion gravy. Pretty damn good. I bought a supply of meat this afternoon after hearing one of our local Coles supermarkets was selling out of basic food stuffs. Bought some steak - well, that's already gone now - we were SUPPOSED to have lasagne, but I brought them home and there was no contest really. Lasagne can wait. Paul also had the same though this afternoon and stocked up on meat and basic food supplies too - more scotch fillet steaks, tiny teddies (the important stuff, you know??). Just in case, it so does not hurt to be prepared. Anything could happen over the next week. We just don't know.

Drinking: Did yoga tonight. So I did water.

Watching: Haven't stopped watching the constant stream of updates on the floods. Neither of us can stop watching it, it's addictive. It's the same videos playing over and over again and the reporters are saying the exact same stuff, but you can't stop watching them, it's just so unreal. It seriously is like watching a movie play before your eyes, but you know it's not. Oh how I wish it were.
I will admit that I think Anna Bligh is doing an absolute amazing job at keeping everyone banded together, updated and in control. She's seriously better than the Prime Minister at this point in my opinion, and it looks like she hasn't stopped for sleep since 3 days ago.

Listening to: Nothing worth mentioning.

Just finished: yoga and shower. Good yoga class tonight, feeling relaxed but toned. Bring on fat loss!

After this, I'm going to: bed. I wanted to watch some True Blood tonight but I wanted to blog more (watched 2 episodes last night and it ended on a real humdinger... it always does, curse it!!!)

One wish for the day:
For the floods to have never come and destroyed our beautiful city, homes and lives. While this disaster has been terrible beyond anything, I think in the long run this event will bring everyone back down to earth, and really take take a long hard look at the things that are really important in life. Maybe we will get back to a point where we're not so selfish, we are more friendly and don't pine for the superficial things in life. Phones, cars, tvs and ipods mean nothing, and I'm sure a lot of people have realised that since the floods started. You can replace an ipod. You can't replace a loved one. Hopefully that will be the silver lining to get our society back on its feet and become a humane society again. 

Man, I want to write more about my day but I'm kinda exhausted now. From yoga, from that vent and because the fan is whirring and my eyeballs are drying out.

I will go over some points of my day in simplified form so I don't have to think too hard...

• The delivery van was making weird noises today, and I had to drive down to Tweed and back to pick up some printing and make some stationery deliveries. It sounded like a robot was being murdered in amongst all the cogs and grinds. Bossman said it was happening since yesterday. It was a bit unnerving travelling down the highway at 100km/hr with the sound of a raped blender screeching in your ears. But, I made it down, and made it back. So all was well. There were some bank spots along the Tugun Bypass that had collapsed at one point (landslides, yikes!!!) and the traffic was reduced to 40km/hr (grrr... and siiiigh...). Semi excitement, but it just looked like roadworks, I couldn't see any landslides.
• Coming back from Tweed I was driving behind an Ambulance. To start he was travelling 10km below the speed limit in the left hand lane (fair enough, but still a gripe for me... I hate dawdly drivers...) BUT. The clincher was, he was taking the same exit as me... and... HE DIDN'T FREAKIN' INDICATE. You are an emergency vehicle, you should be practicing SAFE DRIVING TECHNIQUES. Didn't indicate to turn off, and didn't indicate AGAIN to turn left at the traffic lights. I was so mad. HOW DANGEROUS. Stupid Ambulance driver. I yelled out my window as we were pulling up to yet another set of traffic lights to "USE YOUR FREAKIN' INDICATOR YOU MORON!"... and wa-hey! Wouldn't you know it, he turned on his indicator. At the last second mind, but still. He did it. That annoyed me. That whole thing annoyed me. 
• Paul was talking to me this afternoon about how wearing pants is a smart thing to wear during flooding, as the water is septic you would be in less risk of cutting your legs with long pants, and in turn getting diseased. He then went on to describe something on the... as he said it... and I seriously don't know how else you WOULD say it, but god it made me laff... "if you get it on one pant..." What else do you call one half of a pair of pants? Left pant, right pant. It makes sense, but sounds ridiculous! Hahaha.
• Work was very busy today, constant and controlled for most of it - until like, half an hour before I was due to finish. Mark wasn't in, was making his way back from Broadbeach, and just as I was about to wind down and get ready to leave, in comes an inundation of customers, all wanting really long-winded things (ie. large scale printing from THEIR laptop to our printers... a customer whose 10 invoice books are missing his ABN number... ergh that one was my fault too so I felt sh!t about that one... someone coming in wanting to talk about business cards...) all the while I was trying to do some important artwork for a big client of ours, trying to send off about 3 different emails, all very important ones that would need to be out that afternoon.
  Ugh. That was a headache. The invoice books sh!t me the most, because I had a gut feeling when I sent them off before Christmas that I missed something on them. The client never viewed the final proof, just gave the ok for a 2/3's done job. Ugh. It was all very rushed. So I'm going to offer him a stamp at a discounted price with his ABN on it. I will. inform Mark of this tomorrow. Hopefully it's ok. I thought it was very sensible of me to think of a solution like that. Rather than taking back the books, wasting them just to reprint nearly $400 worth of stuff again with just the ABN added. Silly that would be. 

Aaaand that's me. I'm buggered. Signing off. Stay safe everyone out there in waterworld, hope you're all doing ok (or your loved ones if they're in affected areas). Hopefully the worst of it will be over by tomorrow.


Thinking of everyone in flood affected QLD tonight...

~ Peace, Love & Mungbeans ~

xxx

 

12/01/10 - Rain and storms and floods... oh my!!

Mood: Worried right now, with a hint of paranoia. Floods... gotta stop watching the news... it's like some crazy natural disaster movie, except for real!!! I cannot believe Brisbane CBD is under water, literally and for real. My dad had to go home early today, lucky he made it back before the mayhem started, yikes!! The water has risen to be RIGHT UNDER the Good Will Bridge right now... that's pretty damn high. Seriously high. Though while this is such a scary and massive disaster for everyone, I think under the circumstances everyone affected by the floods right now are doing amazing. Keep your chin up guys, and we'll be holding onto our hats for the next few days... eep!!! Here's hoping the worst of it is over... rain rain GO AWAY COME AGAIN IN TEN YEARS TIME PLEASE! We've had enough for one decade thanks.
Eating: Just ate 4-5 Hello Pandas. Shoot me, I'm not going to the gym tonight for fear I might get flooded in or washed away. My gym is right near the Currumbin Creek, so should flash flooding occur (and pray it doesn't...) my lil car will get washed away like all the videos we've watched, and I might too, right in the middle of my step class. I figure one night away won't hurt. Better to be safe than swimming upstream under a car. I will go to yoga tomorrow.
Drinking: Cup of tea while I watched the updates on Channel 9 for the floods. Errrgh it's so scary!!!
Watching: Well didn't I just answer my own question there? News updates on all the flooding. Again, scary!!!
Listening to: Triple J-ness downstairs. Had the news on but figured that was wasting power while I potter away upstairs. Not worth it really.
Just finished: having a shower. I really must remember to STOP WEARING TIGHT SLEEVED TSHIRTS in really humid weather. Stupid stinky sweat soaking into the sleeves and then hanging around ALL DAY. And yes people, I thoroughly apply deoderant every day. I had to keep my arms down all afternoon for fear of lifting up and passing someone out with the smell of deoderant, wetness and sweat. You know you've been there before. I'm just putting it out there so people nod and go... "yup... been there before... heh heh, but like I'd admit that..."
After this, I'm going to: do some tidying I guess. Maybe make dinner. Mr. Harris is out as of the moment and I'm burning a long awaiting DVD series for him. Maybe we can watch it tonight! Around the World in 80 Gardens - looks like an amazing TV series... better than watching depressing news or crappy sitcoms.
One wish for the day:
Simple. Floods, water and all the damage you've caused - please go away. You're just being a pain in the arse. Enough is enough. 

So work happened today, and all day conversations just revolved around... guess what... wa-hey!

~The floods~

All day we were sitting, eyeing the BOM weather radar, watching the clouds circle, move down, around and in from the sea. Watched videos showing cars being swished away by rising waters - yikes!! Chatted to nearly every customer about the weather - well, they chatted to me. It's the first point of conversation. Gotta love that small talk eh?

Got mildly panicked when I heard my boss's missus evacuated out of Brisbane CBD, called up Mum and checked to see if all was well (my dadsy works in Brissie too...). Luckily, there was a lot of rain but no flooding where my family live. Phew! All my family were safe and have been doing pretty well all day today. Dad got sent home early too and has the day off tomorrow, lucky bugger (and yes he called up to gloat earlier)! My little sister has relocated her guinea pigs from their cubby house to her house... not that that's really much better as it's still ground level but having them inside rests one's conscience - well, for us 'little animal enthusiasts' anyway. Good to have everything in the one area.

Just think of what a guinea pig is: eyes, mouth and a big fat belly. That don't do well when it comes to swimming. Unless they would float from the fat, who knows? Don't want to try...

I am contemplating putting my boys upstairs tonight, in the off chance we have flash flooding down here... I would hate to wake up the next morning and find all our downstairs just an oversized wading pool of water. Piggies don't swim. I will think whether it will be worth moving them... maybe just set up a spare pen in case? I'm thinking out loud here...

Anyway, that was the day, nothing grand. Did some artworky stuffs, set up a customised invoice, a flyer here, sending off business cards there... all standard stuff. Had sushi and yummy juice with orange/apple/pineapple/ginger for lunch. YUMMY! Am contemplating saving up to get a juicer that I will use once and lose interest in. Didn't eat a sweet treat all day, except for the miniscule Hello Pandas from before. Thats it until dinner though! I CAN DO THIS!!!

Loads of cloud and drizzle down our way today but nothing gargantually downpoury. Let's hope it stays that way!

To all of you in South-East QLD tonight. Please be careful. Have a backup plan, have an evacuation plan, be safe, get food supplies ready, stay together and keep your eyes on the news updates.

We will all get through this, just gotta wait it out!!

Until tomorrow, when I will either be blogging or bobbing... or blub blub blubbing...

~ Peace, Love & Mungbeans ~

xxx

 
  

11/01/10: Damn it, missed the 10th!!! Oh noes.

Mood: Blissed out. Yes I found an emoticon to match it. 

Eating: Today I vowed to lay off the chocolates and sweets until I lose a bit of weight/flab/jelly-feeling bits. I looked at myself in the mirror last night after having a shower and nearly vomited. Well, that's a bit of an over reaction. But it sounds funny. So I didn't nearly-vomit, but I have definitely 'pudged' beyond what I really consider acceptable since before Christmas. So. Today I didn't eat a single sweet treat. Aren't I good? Not that it really has to do with this question. I ate a delicious Angus Beef homemade burger around 6pm today (complete with lettuce, bbq sauce, avocado, capsicum and triple cream brie - heh...), and that will be it until tomorrow. Though I forgot to buy bread today so I can't have a nice 'eggs on toast' brekkie tomorrow like I would have been craving. And we bought a lovely tray of eggs at the meat centre too - they're just ITCHING to be EATED. There's like 24 of em!! So it will be a simple banana. Maybe on cornflakes with honey? Might try that instead... I love my eggs though... sad faces...
In answer to the question at hand - a homemade angus beef burger with all the trimmings.
Drinking: Well, I just finished yoga and they recommend drinking at least a litre after doing yoga to swill all the agitated toxins away. I had a glass of water, close enough. Was going to have a nice cuppa tea, but decided it would keep me up. Instead, the blog has kept me up - curses!!
Watching: Haven't watched any tv tonight - well except the news earlier and I got depressed and slightly paranoid at the prospect that the south-east may be flooded before too long. Started panicking and thinking up emergency 'get our precious stuff to safety' plan. Piggies first of course, as they can't swim they would sink. Then TV and Playstation... we figured moving it all upstairs is a safe bet. Unless the building collapses.
Listening to: Whirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr of the fan
Just finished: Yoga class earlier. Gee it was zenny. Zenny? Cool word.
After this, I'm going to: bed. Shortest answer in my blogging history I think?
One wish for the day:
For my fabulous flabulous to get shifted easily over the next few weeks - don't want to look at this gut for much longer, I didn't realise how bad it was getting, bleh!!! Fatty boom bastic... 

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So boys and girls, pull up your chairs and let me fill you in on my weekend just gone... if we were looking at a graph right now let's say it started off in the middle... then dooooown.... then plateau.... then down down doooooown... then up.... ok this really doesn't work without a picture and I sure as hell ain't drawing one up. Let's start from the top...

SATURDAY:

Had a sleep in - yays! I get cranky if I don't get at least ONE sleep in on my weekend. Slept in til 9am. Aiming to get away to Brisbane by 12:30pm to meet up with sister-in-law and her boyfriend to see 'Tangled'. As on the train pulling into Brisbane, got a text message from S.I.L. saying.... oh crap, we slept in - we are going to be late, sorry!!! EEEeeerrrrrrgh... "How long will you be?" I tentatively ask. "Don't know, but it will be a while." BLAST IT!!!

So I mosy on into the CBD to potter around to wait for S.I.L. and B.O.S.I.L. It was raining. I went into Broadway to get myself some moolah to get set up for the afternoon. Ask for $60 at the suncorp ATM. It gives me $40 and the receipt says it's taken $60 out. W...T...F.

!!! NOT HAPPY JAN !!!
 

Fuming, in fact. Could not be arsed trying to get it back so I get yet ANOTHER $20 out of the friggin' ATM and storm up to the Myer Centre to get some food. Got wet walking up as it was raining and people were overkilling the sheltered walking areas.

Sit in the food court with lasagne and gems. At least it was yummy. Tossed around some ideas of how to kill some time. Museum? Southbank? Markets? I decided, in the end, seeing as it was raining... to stay right where I was (for at least a half hour anyway), and do some muchly overdue people watching, and sketching.  

Saw one thing that caught my attention and make me guffaw in disgust at the state of the world. See below!

  ABOVE: (From top left anti-clockwise) 

• 2 people having lunch, or what I coined it... 'a double date'... these two people, who should really be engaged in conversation WITH EACH OTHER, were both sitting there, in total silence, each of them sending text messages on their phone, to OTHER people. Fair enough, this moment only last for a few minutes, but it just made me think "WTF is the world coming to???" people do not engage in conversations anymore!! Any awkwardness and its STRAIGHT to the phone - gah!! People, your phone is for calling people... TO TALK TO THEM... or sending text messages. Not to sit on, dawdling on Facebook, checking emails, updating your frickin' Twitter status. You are out, enjoy being out and enjoy being with the people you are with there, in that moment.
  Facebook will be there when you go home, sadly. Check it then.
  You can survive without your phone.
  It is a piece of equipment, not an extra limb. Grrr....
• The next few sketches are my encounter with the soul sucking ATM... and the following facial expressions I tried to capture... seething... yes very seething... and a few potential hair cuts I'm considering... dreads? Bring back the fringe?...
• Bottom right image is the only other one worth mentioning. Coming across the bridge (behind some gay guy with some scarily tight pencil jeans.... looked spray painted on... I wondered where his doodle would be? I sure as heck couldn't see it...), I looked over to the museum and giggled when I saw the Tyrannosaurus (??) Rex sitting atop the museum building. I think he looked chuffed being there. The real thing looked a bit menacing but I liked the idea of the dinosaur just lapping it up, like King Kong.

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Muscle my way through Southbank to meet up with SIL and BOSIL at the sushi bar next to movies. Pushing it a bit for time (our showing was full)... we made our way into the cinema... to find it packed to the brim.... bar the usual 'fun-time-for-your-neck' seats way in front. We had no choice. 2nd from the front it was! And YAY the movie was in 3D!!!

Bring on the tension headache...

Apart from the tension headache that smothered me for the following 4 hours 'Tangled' was actually fan-bloody-tastic. The animation was beyond BEAUTIFUL, the story was great and save a few overly slapstick moments, I enjoyed this more than I enjoyed the Princess and the Frog (and FYI, I enjoyed that... a LOT). Plus I cried, like twice. Good sign! Carissa gave me a movie poster of the movie and it is now on our movie poster wall up the stairs. YAY! I give this movie...

 So pretty.......... (and p.s. that is the poster that is now donning my wall... booya)

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 1/2 out of a possible ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ (that's 10)

Can't wait to watch it again!!

And for those of you who haven't seen it... FOR GODS SAKE GO AND SEE IT!!!

Worth the overly expensive movie ticket!

After movie, I had to depart and make tracks back home. LONG TRAIN RIDE..... For our friend Ryan had come to visit and had been at our house since 2pm!

Got home, headache pounding in my skull, and the evening begins. Felt better after half an hour at home, I hate the train ride up to Brissie now, I can't believe I did that for nearly 2 years straight. No wonder I got a bit head sick. Anyway...

Had roast pork for dinner (sadly very dry... booo), watched Dispicable Me (crappola) and played many joyous video games well into the evening. I crashed at 12:30am.

Sleep.

SUNDAY:

DREAMWORLD IN THE RAIN DAY WITH MY LADIES!!!

Got to Dreamworld at 11am, and spent the day running riot with Stace and Bec. Our year passes are due to outdate as of next weekend so we were squeezing in ONE. LAST. TRIP!!!!

Thooper Dooper day, loads of rides (though this time we were a bit more educational and went to the Wildlife Experience - commenting on how poor all the enclosures are...) and we didn't go on all the rides we were planning! Missed out on the Giant Drop (oh. Darn...), and the Tower of Terror II.

Though we went on some of the old favourites, like the carosel and the Captain Sturt boat, with icecreams and corny Australian themed tunes blasting out the loud speaker. We saw about 40 eels in the water.. *shudder* some looked a bit mutant...

It rained a lot.

We went on the River Rapids 3 times in a row.... where was the line you ask? THERE WAS NONE!!! RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!! Yes that was pretty cool, though there was some loser climbing out of his seat in the tyre behind us. Sooooo wanted to dob on him... but lost nerve... damn those nerves!

Had feral burger for lunch at the grand cost of $15. Ouchie. 

Went on the Claw like 10 times. Wicked fun. 

Stace and I went on the Wipeout while Becca went and ... ahem... took photos of us/sat on her phone... there was a MASSIVE black cloud looming, like storm stuff. Stace sat there... and said ... betcha it pisses down as soon as the ride starts.

Man, did it piss down. We looked like we had stepped out of the shower at the end of it. Hysterical!

Saw a crappy magician at 5pm, Matt Hollywood... he was doing awesome card tricks until his stage show (none of us could figure them out... really amazing!), and then boom. Crappy stage show. Oh well!  He did all of 3 bigs tricks, and that was it. BLAH! Stick to the card tricks Mr Hollywood.

Scored a free Sunday paper on the way out. Wanted Churros but couldn't find any fresh ones, boooooOOOOOOOooooooo!!!

Said bye bye to my beautiful ladies, depart in the peeing down rain back home. 

Have decided I am having a costume themed birthday party. Famous Dead People. Should be interesting...

.........

And today was Monday, work day. Boring! But oh so busy. Freakin' busy. I was on my own for 2/3's of the day. First day back for a lot of businesses. And they want PAPER. AND THEY WANT IT NOW!!!

So they got paper. 

And I did a bit of artwork, but I couldn't be bothered explaining it now because it's well past my blogging deadline and I've written too much again.... pish! Today was semi-ok, nice and quick.

Bring on Tuesday, but no floods please. I don't want to wake up to my guinea pigs punting around in a boot in the morning....

~ Peace, Love & Mungbeans ~

xxx