*big deep breath.......*
ok, we got on the plane at 20 past nine on friday morning. we were running late as usual. the plane ride was ok. we had a piece of apple and walnut cake and some dried fruit and nuts on the way. there wasnt a tv show to watch but i did get to listen to qantas's air radio. i chose channel 11, reeling in the years, with glenn a. baker. this month they were focusing on the year of 1984. i got to hear electric dreams, and other such songs. it was very entertaining. i did switch channels occasionally to the 'cool rock' channel, cos there were a few good songs on there. they played you am i. good on ya, qantas.
so we got to sydney and had absolutely no idea what to do with ourselve. we hopped on a shuttle bus and it took us to the powerhouse museum. i thought it would be a better idea to go to the star wars exhibition on a friday, since there'd be less people. there were still quite a lot of people there but, wow. it was amazing. i got my photo taken with darth vadar and yoda, and i took matts photo with boba fett and someone else...cant remember. i'll let you know in a while cos matts picking up the photos soon.
there was so much there. it was really weird to see it all. it was like it was smaller than i thought, but bigger at the same time. we stayed in the information portal for a while and played computer games. we beat the trash masher, i'm proud to say. it was a game where you had to choose the odd one out out of characters and ships and stuff, or luke, han, leia and chewie get...well, mashed in the trasher. there was also a thing where you could be darth vadar. we had to stand on our knees to try it but you got to look through the helmet and see things as he'd see them, and it also had a voice simulator so you sounded like him. i said, 'maaaaaatty, maaaaatty, come here....i've got a little kiss for you' then imade kissing noises. i thought id show the nice side to good ol darth.
then we walked around a bit and caught a bus to glebe. i loved glebe. it was so cool. the houses were all old and funky and glebe point road, the main road in glebe is full of cool restaurants and stuff. we stayed just off of glebe point road in arcadia house bed and breakfast. donna and gary were our host and hostess and they must get up bloody early to have the house looking like it does and the breakfast ready. wow. there house is so nice. and every morning we had a choice of fruit, cereal, yoghurt, croissants, toast, raisin toast, muffins, fruit rolls, different juices, freshly brewed plunger coffee and tea. and it was all laid out for us when we got up.
on friday we had a sleep for a few hours, then walked up and down glebe point road looking for something to eat. by the time we decided what we wanted it was about 11 o'clock and everything was closing so we just went to the deli and got some chips and i got some milk and cookies icecream. that was amazing. it was gourmet icecream, yummo :)
then we went home again and slept.
on saturday morning we went to the glebe markets which i seriously could have spent all day at. there were so many cool stalls and so many cool stuff, and so many cool people. yeah, as you can seem it was cool. i got two shirts - very funky. matt got a t shirt and a shirt and i got a necklace which has become my most favourite thing. it was by a local artist called jordana archer-may and you HAVE to go look at her site. i'm thinking about changing some of my faeries to some of hers.....maybe? do you think so, sean? :)
my necklace is just a small square frame made of aluminium with a beautiful drawing in it on a thin silver wire and i love it. its on this page and it's called 'found will fly'.
then we walked around a bit and got some lunch then decided to catch the 'light rail', which just means tram, to the city and look around a bit at paddys markets. they're basically just huge markets with the same shops over and over again and pretty much all asian importers of toys like spaderman. 'just like the movie', she said. yeah, that would have been the one with tabey maguire and kirstun dinst in it. we got xander some funny little star wars guys with big heads. he loves them,
then we caught a bus to annandale to go to the bass player and guitar world? cant remember if that ones right, no, its something or others rare guitars. anyway, theyre both shops that matt has wanted to go to for ever. they were ok. not as good as either of us had hoped. a bit too clean and well layed out. they should have been dark and musty with guitars jutting out all over the place and amp cords twisting through the rooms and stuff.
then we walked home from annandale and had some tea and went to sleep for a while. then we got dresses and walked back to annandale to see knievel play at the annandale hotel. they were cool. we got their cd and a free poster and they all signed the poster afterwards. tracey, the bass player, said that she'd come and see anatone if they got to play at music business adelaide at the end of november. matts got some phone calls to make.
after another beautiful sleep in the best bed in the world and amazing breakfast on the terrace, we headed on down to the rocks to go to the rocks markets, down at the harbour. i got the most amazing massage while i was there. i wish i could have stayed under that chinese girls hands forever :)
we got to walk around a few places where playing beatie bow was filmed back in the 80's. matt was very excited because he used to be in love with the girl who played abigail in the movie, imogen someone.
we walked along the harbour and took photos of the harbour bridge and the opera house. we sat down under the harbour bridge and i did a wee cos i was busting and i was wearing a skirt and no knickers, so i just sat on a little concrete wall and had a conversation with matt about how gross i was and wee'd down the wall. yep, i wee'd, so sue me :)
we had some lunch and then walked down to the aquarium. we were going to go in but they didnt have a bag check so we would have had to carry all our stuff with us and it was so heavy after carrying it all day already. apparently they arent allowed to hold bags anymore incase there are bombs in them. so thanks, osama, because of you i couldnt see the fishies.
we caught the monorail around darling harbour and got off in the city where we had a starbucks coffee and american baked cheesecake. that was niiiiiiice. we also had burger king the day before and that was nice too :) i had onion rings, havent had them in a while. anyway, we got some cds and shoes and some touristy things and then we had to catch a taxi to the airport.
on the plane we got ceaser salad and a tiny baby coke. we also got to watch kath and kim, and it was an episode we hadn't seen so that was cool. ken was trying to make a comemorative wedding sausage and kim had to help sharon play netball, but she gave up and kath won the game for them. then there was tom jones in concert. he was singing with the girl from catatonia. she's cute.
the boys were beautiful when we got to the airport. all smiles and cuddles and i love yous and i missed yous. good babies.
xander asked with perfect manners and hilariously huge eyes if he could have mcdonalds for tea so we had to say yes. and then they went to bed when we got home.
today we've just been putting our stuff away and doing the grocery shopping. matts taken xander to go yabbying and fishing right now and eli is watching the tweenies.
i think thats all for my trip. i'm sure i'll remember something else, but i'll let you know.

right hand side if you're in the bed :)

ok, we're off to sydney. i fully epect to find my house broken into when i get home, or some sort of bad thing since i had a dream last night about a rat eating something about the size of a puppy. wasnt nice.
anyway, so, you're all free to riffle through my knickers drawer since i wont be here to stop you.
it's the top draw on th right hand side of the bed :)

we've worked out another song. it doesnt have a name yet, but here it is

caught me staring
i looked away
but my eyes explained
what my heart wanted to say

no matter what you say to me
no matter how well you hide
don't think you'll get rid of me so easy
i always promised i'd stay right by your side

grabbing for excuses
falling into reasons
i don't know and i dont care
why you're saying this to me

thought maybe there could be
a second chance for me
another go at 'us'
maybe this time we'd make it last?

start ordering food for one
no one else to enjoy the sun with
my friends say i should give you up
after this long, you know, its hard to stop

grabbing for excuses
falling into reasons
i don't know and i don't care
why you're saying this to me
why you're saying this to me
why you're saying this to me
why you're saying this to me

well, this morning xander broke a piece of plastic off of the torch. i wasnt mad at him, i just said, 'pass it here matey and i'll put it away so it doesnt break again'. he then said 'stop being mean, i'll stick this up your vagina'

where the hell is he getting that from?

i dont want him to be a nasty kid, why cant he just be nice?

could everyone please put their hands together *again* for sean, who fixed the pretty pictures here. maybe it wasnt looking broken to you (if you have a mac, that is), but to me there was a big stupid white stripe (the ugly one that wasnt allowed in the band because he could actually play and sing. was that mean? i like the white stripes, i just think they're funny, especially meg) between the links and stuff and the faeries. but now theres not, so yay :)
yaaaaaaaaay sean, thankyou :)

matty loves vincent donofrio

i'm supposed to take off the link to his blog cos he doesnt want people thinking strange things about him. hee hee. i'll do it, but just know that he LOVES the guy from law and order so much he even contemplated calling up a radio station when they were asking people to ring in with their mancrushes.

hello everyone, and welcome to summer. it is just past 10 am and we have already reached a temperature of around 25 degrees. the top estimated temperature for today is 28, but i am sure that it will be highter. this morning was so hot, you cant even sleep in, no matter how tired you are. the ceiling fans are whirring around and water is the drink of the day. i could only drink hlaf of my cup of tea this morning, so already the day is off to a bad start. if i cant have a cuppa, i dont function right. back to the day. i went outside to pick some lemons and when i opened the door the hot hit me and it almost hurt. bad BAD weather. stop chasing away my rain and clouds, i dont want your perfect blue skies and searingly hot sunshine. GO AWAY! IT'S NOT EVEN NOVEMBER YET!

well, this weekend was matts birthday and also lyndells. it was a big one for both of them, lyndell turning 18 and matt turning 'a quarter of a century', 'five years from 30', 'half way to 50', 'its only 15 years till i'm 40, i remember 15!!!!'. i'll start from saturday. so saturday, we drove around a bit, looking for somewhere we could sell an old tea chest we have. we bought it for $65 a couple of years ago and the most anyone was willing to give us was $50, so we didnt sell it. would have come in handy for sydney, but, oh well. i guess if we dont have the money then we cant spend it on crap. so instead of getting som extra money, we went op shopping and bought stuff. we had to meet brett at the bakery, so while we were waiting matt and i went to the schitzo shop (schitzophrenia association op shop) and they were having a half price sale. so, we got a denim jacket for me, two shirts for matt, two t shirts for eli, a pair of shorts for eli and a pair of shorts for xander, a masters of the universe quilt cover and a raggedy anne and andy pillow case. all for........$11. how good is that.
then we went to lyndells party. i wore a cute top and got complimented by lots of people. lyndell noticed i was wearing make up and was very proud of me. and she loved her presents. we got her a stuffer purple unicorn that has 'something' about it so i had to get it. you know how some toys just seem to have a personality? anyway, a unicorn, some earrings, a bracelet and a cute pink and white belt with silver stars all over it. and i know that she really did like her presents cos she was wearing her bracelet the next day when i saw her. i saw a guy i went to school with at the party, ben de hoedt. he's cool. he was like us, not a lot of friends, considered a freak, that sort of thing. and we all used to hang out in the art rooms at lunch and recess so, obviously we drifted together in a friendish sort of way. he's cool. he's in a band that i cant remeber the name of and they're doing really well, playing in adelaide, sydney and melbourne heaps often. good to see us geeks doing well for ourselves.
josh tremwith was there too, and he told us that his band, 'a tribe is forming', was playing with ben's band, 'the seeds of babylon', that night at the glenelg surf lifesaving club. i'll tell you a story about that place later. ben and rachel are going overseas in january for a year to 18 months, maybe even 2 years, so i wanted to see them while i had the chance. they are so cool. i'm really not into hip hop, regge, or death metal much or at all, but strangely a mixture of these things seems to work for me. i danced all night and had a good time. then it was '2am daylight savings style' so we decided to head home. we thought we'd just walk until we got a taxi. 4.2 kilometres later, (as measured on the way home the next day) we found one that was happy to pick us up. my legs were very sore and i slept well. except that its virtually impossible to sleep in at matts parents house, so we were awake at about 8.
we went to a toy fair at...somewhere, mind blank....anyway, it wasnt very good. there was anly a few star wars guys, and they were mostly either episode 1 or the green backed figures....you know, the ones when they're al muscly and he-man looking. ( wow, 2 mentions of masters of the universe in one posting :) ) power of the force, thats it. i did get 4 smurfs, some weird hologram magician thing and matt got these little orange guys and purple guys who have pointy heads and carry clubs. both of us recognise them but neither of us can remember what they are.
on the way to paddy's markets i saw a man in a car eating a cucumber. we decided that there wouldnt be many people in the world that could have the coversation we had about this man.

look, that man's eating a cucumber
nice snack
honey, im just popping out, i'll grab a snack for the way
can you grab me something while you're out, im feeling a bit peckish
yeah, can you grab me a cabbage?
dad, dad! i want a squash
no, you had a squash earlier, you can have a tomato
tomatos are fruit, dad, i want a vegetable!
and no, you cant have a whole pumpkin to yourself, you can share one with your brother
dad!, this is a lebenese cucumber, i ordered a continental one!

yes.......did i mention we didnt get a lot of sleep the night before?

so, we're at the markets and matt finds these two 'cheweys' at a crappo chinese stall. i cant remember what they're called, but its like, universe somethingorother. they're basically grey chewbaccas that look like when he's being a bounty hunter in expanded universe or power of the force or whatever. matt also bought a voltron? no....thundercats....the cartoon with all those cat things with people in them that joined together to make a big robot thing. he had all of them except the blue cat, the figures and some of the little things but he found most of what he needed from movie maniacs today for pretty cheap. i got a snow globe of the space needle, seattle washington. it even comes with rings that you have to try and get to land on top of the space needle. i also got the second to last christmas present for sean at one of the toy shops there. i hope he doesnt already have this, but i shouldnt think he does, it looks australian made, so i should be safe.
after that we went back to matts mum and dads and decided to go down to semaphore for fish and chips on the beach. we had a nice time. xander played on the playground and eli ran around chasing the seagulls. there was a tiny tint jack russel puppy or some sort of little dog. i dont usually like little dogs but this one was cute. matt wanted a big lick icecream. there a place there where if you get an icecream with 5 or more scoops, i think it is, you get your photo taken and put in a book there. theres pictures of matt, marc and rikki there. funny.
we got back home and gave matt his birthday presents. the boys made him a card and so did i, and we got him tickets to darren hanlon, a marvin gaye cd, a read-a-long empire strikes back book and a question and answers book about space, featuring c3po and r2d2.

ok, surf life saving club story. back in about 1997, perhaps? no, must have been earlier cos i was underage...95 maybe....everyone used to go to the bay surf club. its on the beach at glenelg and its a cool place to go. local bands like the bearded clams, wheres the pope?, testeagles and the numbskulls used to play there almost every weekend. i think the weekend im thinking about was all those bands except the testeagles. it was an infamous night that since then, everyone you meet says that they were there. the place was packed to way more than was supposed to be in there. people, ( matt and his friends) pushed a big bin over to the wall and climbed up and into one of the second floor windows, into the main room, and landed next to the band while they were playing. i reckon i saw 20, maybe even 30 people get in through that window. there was crowdsurfing that was so rough that people were kicking the polystyrene ceiling tiles out of the ceiling. the girls toilets got clogged with toilet paper while the boys went a step further and broke a toilet out of the floor. it was a big night. they had to shut the place down after that....i wonder why?

fur.....when you stroke it i purr.......when you poke it i grrrr.....

grover, zoe, elmo and harry - sesame street

oh yeah, and one more thing, a nice policewoman came to my door last night to deliver my court summons. so all that, 'oh, dont worry, get over it, it'll be fine' stuff was just another piece of crap.

the whole world is crap. im sick of all this sniper stuff, then there's the bali bombing, the two people murdered in the city, one of which matts cousin saw, and now i wake up to find out that the girl who lives with brett and kristin, monica, her aunty was murdered last night. i've really had enough of this you know. id go live on a boat if i wasnt so afraid of drowning. watching titanic last night didnt help either. i mean, i had to watch three hours of leonardo dicaprio which was bad enough, but as soon as those people went under the deck? is that what you say? anywhere downstairs i freaked out. yes, hello, im claustrophobia girl, nice to meet you....that is unless you are a psycho murderer intent on making the world we inhabit even worse. i need a holiday

like a true addict i had to have one last hit. i bought a packet of sprinkles on wednesday and i didnt tell anyone. i've been having faerie bread a couple of times a day since then. i wont be buying sprinkles anymore. i hope there is no faerie bread at playgroup today.

oh, and on the subject of people who used to talk to me and keep in touch who now dont because they seem to be preoccupied with other things.....MARK!!! CAM!!!! write back!!!!

*smiling sweetly...i am nice, really....i promise.....*

my mum just sent me a message saying that she was in bells beach.
feh
i'm in christies beach.....doesnt seem to have the same ring to it, does it...