Monday again

The weekends go by way too fast! Today there isn't much to do at work so I am looking for Christmas presents on the web. It's hard to decide what to get people this year. The pageant was on Saturday. Kind of crazy how far out from Christmas they have it, but I guess they want to spur the credit cards into action. I avoided the busy sections of town and cycled out to Rundle St to look for a dress. I tried on a few, but nothing really great jumped off the racks. After an hour of that I was pretty much done. I contemplated pushing on to Rundle Mall but by then the pageant goers were starting to stream through and I couldn't be bothered. I walk up and down Rundle Mall every lunch break so doing it on the weekend isn't exactly fun.

What I did do on the weekend that I don't do everyday is assemble a trampoline! It was fun! Fairly straight-forward too, except these days there is way too much safety netting and crap all over them. After Generation Y is the Cotton Wool Gen I suppose. MM's dog now has a great deal of shade for the summer too, although she will have to learn not to walk under the tramp when someone's bouncing on it!

On Saturday I hung around in a hammock. It made me seasick :( But aside from that, it was very relaxing!

some stuff

Long time no blog. I haven't been very busy, that's kind of the problem. Nothing to report. Situation normal. Touch has started up again. I am learning to referee this season. It's exhausting, physically and mentally, all those decisions! It's not too bad though, the lower grades are pretty slow so I don't have to leg it to keep up with the play. But by the time my game comes around at 8 I am not exactly fresh. Our team has a lot of referees in it so that's going to be the story all season I think.

I have an engagement party to attend in a few weeks so I have been tempting myself with visits to dress shops. Not very sensible given that Christmas is just around the corner and 5 weeks of unpaid leave looms... For at least some of that time I will be in Canberra chilling out. The rest hasn't been decided yet.

Yesterday was a stupid horse race. I was asked to come to work with some kind of frippery in my hair. As if I own such a thing. Needless to say I did not participate in the event. I am not sure why horses running is so fascinating. Perhaps the fact that you have to lay some money on the line in order to summon up any kind of interest in it is evidence enough that it is a dull event. The only good thing to come out of the day was the left over Tim Tams.

This weekend I did exactly what I had planned to do. I went to the markets early on Saturday morning and picked up ingredients for dinner that night. Burritos! I rode up to watch 4 increasingly sweaty men chase a small rubber ball around and swing racquets very quickly right near each other's heads for half an hour. Then I rode home and discovered I had locked myself out of the house (not planned), so I rode into town and grabbed my brother's keys and then rode to a birthday BBQ in the park. It was hot and I was ill-prepared for the park. I had no drinks, I had nothing to sit on, I had no suncream. I got burnt. I left early in order to meet my friend and head to the beach. A much better option. The water was cold but it was generally pleasant down there. I did not get any more burnt :)

I went home again, I cooked up some burritos. My dad came over and he and my brother ate aforementioned burritos and talked about such topics as why dad is 10 seconds slower around the race track now than 10 years ago, why join the army and how much we eat for lunch. Hmmm. Then I watched some shitty TV and went to bed. Saturday achieved.

Even though I did everything I wanted to do, there were other places I would rather have been.

An evening out

The touch club end of season dinner was on Saturday night. I had a very good time. I drank too much, danced too much and tipped too much water on people. Sorry about that. But why shouldn't I? I think I need to get out more often though since it was all too much like a special treat and the night went so quickly. The food was actually good this year, although frankly the shitty cupcakes for dessert were less than impressive. The guys had done a great job decorating the place with all the old club shirts hanging from the ceiling. There were way too many speeches though. Boring speeches. No one was in the mood to sit and listen to someone drone on about how they established the club. There were heaps of awards to be given out too so they ended up vitually talking all night! I got a little medal for my efforts in the women's team: most improved. That was nice. As MM was quick to point out, it means I am a little less shit than I used to be.

Now we have three weeks, or perhaps only 2, before the summer season starts. It never ends.

Bike status

Still in shop.

Not happy.