a short photo journal of Saturday night in Canberra, using 3 grainy images from my phone…
drinks
(vodka+lime w.soda on left = yum. scary horrid jagerbomb crap on right = yuck).
my dancing shoes
me & j selfie.
fun times.
*trippin* April 15, 2009
We’ve been in Melbourne for the last few days, returned home last night. Was fun (if not downright INFURIATING at times). We spent the Destroyers 3rd birthday on Puffing Billy – that was totally a rather excellent way to spend part of the day!
Anyway, I’ll have some pix to share this week. Hope everyone had a loverly hippy hoppy Easter weekend.
x.L
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*oooh* March 29, 2009
I am so slack! Well I have been a bit busy.
I was here….
up in sydaneeee for that work conference. IT was OK actually, we met our new national boss. His name is Ed. I wanted to call him Mr Ed. Continually. Which would have been bad news if I had actually said it to his face…*HA*
I found the CUTEST bag up there – a Kathy Van Zeeland bronze tote which is so fabulous AND the perfect size ANNNND on sale AT 30% off and was THE bag I had been eyeing off on her site. I’ll have to take a photo of it at some point. I wonder if I can work one of the Category Stories categories to feature it….
Seeing as I used the last CS prompt of “I’m Lucky” to make this….
A little book with photos I took while I was up there.
Come along and play over at www.categorystories.wordpress.com and join – cool prize and all!
OK it is now Sunday 29th March, and I just realised I had it draft on this post instead of publish….duh.
SO what else have I been up to….
I am VERY proud of the fact that since last Sunday I have been on an exercise (and trying not to eat toooo much chocolate) kick. I finally got around to driving the tracks I run to actually clock how far I go. My “loop” which goes from the gates at the back of the sheep yards (I don’t count the 300 or so metres extra to get from the house gat to the gates at the back of the sheep yards, as that is my warm up/cool down walking area), along the little paddock and up the hill, into the hayshed paddock and down the hill, back up to the hayshed, OVER the hill, down to the tree near the dam, and then back up the hill to the hayshead and back home again, is 2.6 kms. So this week I have interval run (sprints then powerwalking for most of it, then sections of running) it twice, and taking the mountain bike for a whirl twice (the second time on the bike I went out the gate past the tree near the dam and back home along the road – so it would have been about 3.5ks). I am feeling MIGHTY pleased with my effort.
SO I am going to try and keep a bit of a track on here what i manage to do. My aim is to do 8-10kms a week. More if I can. Although, I’ll have to work on the bindy situation – the little f*ckers keep getting in the tires on the bike and making them go flat rawwwther quickly – most annoying and inconvenient. The Farmer has put that slime crap in them, but they are still not bindy proof – I might have to see if there is some form of tractor tyre thickness I can get for my bike tyres! Although a new bike is on the cards – we the hill I go up is a sand rise, and I came a buster while going down towards the tree near the dam – I have a “men’s” style bike and that freaking bar across it is freaking painful!!! I definitely need a ladies model….
And my excertreks are also good for Moe our dog – he loves running along and snuffing out the rabbits and fox holes an things!
That is a good thing about living on the farm, I have all this space to run and don’t have to share it with anyone. Except for Mr Stampy the clydesdale (sometimes) – and random bits of sheep shit and cow poo. And the flies. BUT apart from that, when I get my ipod cranked up I’m good to go!
Are you totally bored yet?
Oh we watched the latest RAMBO movie on Austar tonight. It started at 8.30 and finished at around 9.45. In between my laughing fits at Sly’s mad “akting” skillz as he attempted to resuce the hapless missionaries, the insane amount of explosions resulting in people being blown to bits in rather graphic ways, a guy who was strung up and his legs being eaten by pigs, and the incredibly thoughtful and indepth dialogue, I nearly snorted my lime cordial out of my nose when at the end of the flick, when the Austar mob put their “behind the scenes” trailers on where the “aktors” have a chat about the movie, and the first thing Sly said was “this time round I wanted the movie to be meaningful and not just about the cocaine rings….”. Sly. you are SO funny!
Ok, off to bed, I’m a bit tired after I had a big day out with the Craft Group Chicks – we were doing a fundraiser for the Worlds Greatest Shave, as one of the CGC’s bro’s went a full body wax to raise funds, as his wife was recently diagnosed with hodgkins lymphoma. He has raised $2500 or so which is a pretty ace effort!
Ciao.
L.
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*New* March 2, 2009
So – do you likey the new blog? I was a bit over the blognow functions, and having used wordpress with the category stories blog, I have been liking it very much – it has tags to sort the posts, spell check (that’ll make a difference!), nice easy links in the side, and especially as it is much easier for people to comment now. So all you non-scrappy readers (yes KW – I now you are there laughing that your life is much better than mine - and Happy Birthday for yesterday!) you can just click on the “comments” word at the bottom of this post and you can say HI. Just like that. Nice hey.
And speaking of Category Stories, – HURRAY- the new prompt is upiddlyup at The Blog – go check it out.
The first category for March is Precious Things, and we have a totally FANTASTIC sponsor – www.nutandbee.etsy.com who have donated a voucher.
Not much else to report.
My shitful week continued right up until yesterday morning. I did get some painting done but there were so many *issewes* I was ready to chuck it in (like that the freaking roller tray was TOO SMALL for the new roller I purchased, which I had found out AFTER I had tipped paint in and started to roll – and I was on rations for the paint as there wouldn’t be much left after the 2nd coat – wasn’t THAT just the gravy on the chicken when I was trying to get the feature colour painted in the heat….*grrrrr*). Anyway, the feature colour is now done, so I just have to go hit the other 3 walls with white now. joy.
So I think it just might have been February was cursed or something. I have much higher hopes for March bringing GOOD THINGS.
Like Orlando Bloom dropping in to say high.
You know, easily obtainable stuff like that. *ahem*.
Actually I am off to Syd-a-nee for work next week which will be great – two nighter this time YAY me. Smiggle here I come. And Napoleon. And perusing the wares at DJ’s. And going to Tempt. Although, I think my current budgetary restrictions mean that only a new bag is in my future – I am tossing up between some of the ace Kathy Van Zeeland totes or a new Guess bag. I’ll have to see what takes my fancy when I get to the big smoke. Although I could always get lucky and find some Manolo mary janes in black. That fit me. For $75. Or something. That would make it a good month….
OK, back to the regularly scheduled programming. Of not much.
Ciao!
L.
