Christmas

I ate too much.

More photos

Making a dive for the try line at Henley

I am pretty excited about something. Perhaps the free drinks?

Touch club 25th anniversary dinner - medal winners


Go-go gadget arms!

Touch days

Here's a picture of me running around last night. We won 7-2 but we should have done much better. How long is my hair getting! Better sort that out I think. There are more pictures - beach touch ones. Sunday was the big event and we had poeple diving all over the sand all morning. It all went pretty well and even the weather was perfect, not too hot but not raining. Unfortunately I got a little bit sunburnt on my chest, the only place i forgot to reapply. Just goes to show how well that sunscreen works.

Last night after touch I made a batch of gingerbread biscuits. They look pretty cute, all Christmas shapes. I bought a baking tray and it came with all these cutters. I also bought a sieve and a rolling pin so now I am pretty close to done for kitchen stuff. Tonight I am going to ice them. The gingerbread recipe needs some work though I think - it isn't tasty enough. I'm going to have a look on the web for something with more omphf.

This weekend I am catching up on some housework and planning on cleaning out all the crap from my wardrobe and getting rid of it. There isn't really much in there, but there is stuff I don't wear. I am down to about 5 outfits for work which go on rotation and it's getting a bit boring! Friday night is the work dinner - too bad it's cold or it could have been another occasion for my new dress. I am still allowed to call it new even though I have already worn it.

Tomorrow I am paying the desposit for my flights to The World. It's very exciting. My friend is joining me for 6 weeks of it and she is hyping me up too. She's back in Adelaide soon so we're going to start making some concrete plans for Machu Picchu etc. Just think; next year the blog will actually be worth reading cos I'll be in South America!! More photos soon...

I have been cruising along the last few weeks. The days at work seem to take forever but they also add up to a week fairly quickly so that now it is only 3 weeks until I go on holidays! I have been looking at my finances and trying to decide if I really want to spend $6300 on flights for my trip next year. I really have no choice unless I cut out South America altogether. No thanks! So I have cut a few weeks off the itinerary and found some people to stay with so I can save a few pennies in the expensive countries. I have been doing a bit of research trying to find the cheapest and best value Machu Picchu trek and Spanish classes. There are a lot of choices out there.

This week has been a bit lonely since I haven't been able to talk to my normal chat buddy. I suppose in some way it is good because it reminds that I shouldn't rely on one person too much because they can quite easily just stop being around whenever they like. And do. I have started doing my Christmas shopping finally and am making good progress so far. Every day at lunch I wander up and down Runde Mall and see the shoppers growing in numbers, by the time I finish work in a few weeks it's going to be packed out there.

Tomato plant update: still growing. Masses of green toms everywhere.
Eggpant update: still growing. Plenty of flowers but no fruit so far. Hurryup!! Although I had better start looking for recipes using eggplants before they start arriving otherwise they'll all go to waste. I don't think I want to waste them making babaganoush or whatever that nasty shit was MM and I were trying to make last year. When batch 2 is still festy it's time to stop wasting vegies.

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!