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27 May 26 & 27 May 2008Monday... so soon you say? Is that an audible sigh I hear emanating from your lips? Well... STOP IT! J I’m pretty happy it’s Monday, there are a few reasons really; 1) The weekend was madness... madness I tell ya!! I need a break from it. 2) Its payday!! WOO HOOO! (ok, so I just checked.. I wasn’t paid yet) 3) KEEEEEEEECK BOXING!! 4) The biggest loser and desperate housewives is on tonight!! Woo hooo! SO... the weekend, oi vey... the weekend *hangs head in hands* it was good... it was big... it was probably a bit overboard! (mom says she never reads this anymore, probably a good thing!) Friday night was my good friend Squi’s birthday. She made three blenders full of dom pedro’s and there was wine, and tequila sours... and vodka, so we partied hard, we danced, listened to music all night, talked (allot) laughed some more, and basically that kept going till the birthday girl stood up and said “goodnight”, wandered into her bedroom and fell asleep. Looking at our watches (ok ok , who wears a watch anymore, it’s cell phones we take our time from) we now realised that it was 7am on Saturday morning, and quite possibly time to leave. Saturday was the Jawfest. It was very cool. OK, it was very cold, not cool; cool is not the right word for it, TG for the bonfires and the layered clothes. Jawfest is a mini music festival; basically some dude who knows many bands gets them to play in his garden and lets everyone come for free, bring their friends, and their drinks of course. Now what’s amusing about it was that on this weekend, a friend was away and needed me to feed his cat... turns out Jawfest was on the same property he rents a cottage on. J He had no idea it was even happening until he woke up on Sat morning (before he left) and called me to say “Julz... there are people putting tents up in my garden...” This made bathroom access and fridge access MUCH easier! It was sorta a blessing. The band that I did see was... well... crap really! They are supposed to be a hardcore screaming band which already isn’t my thing) but they were doing an acoustic set, problem being that the singer is so nasal that it did nothing for me! Then considering the night before, I went to my parents house, watched the boxing and went home to sleep. I was exhausted!
TUESDAY Right, so it’s the day after I started writing this (Tuesday now)... and KEEEECK BOXING was frikken awesome man, there were a bunch of juniors there last night... as in their first lesson, and I got to beat them!! YAY – for once I was no longer the punching bag! *does happy dance* It was very entertaining, as they were also all guys, like the rest of the class, but they were trying to be nice and not hit me hard, I had a good giggle at that cos of the way the normal guys beat the hell outta me! So I was in high spirits! (Apart from when my instructor kept telling me to go easy on them... bah humbug)
I have found the most awesome website ever! Its called uncyclopedia. It’s basically there to take the piss out of Wikipedia and the crap you read on there is HYSTERICAL! (if you are big on scientology... stop reading this blog now) here is an exert from their description on scientology: “Tom Cruise is the only downer stupid enough to believe in this shit!” ~ Spongebob Squarepants on Tom Cruise Scientology (alternative spelling: cult) is an amusing pseudo-scientific practice of self improvement developed by Old Mother Hubbard, a Science Fiction writer who realized that all science fiction is in fact memories of a past life, and so dedicated himself to writing down anything that came into his head, knowing that it would reflect reality. In this way, he made a series of remarkable discoveries (aided by the monkeys on a typewriter project), prime among them that every evil in existence on earth society stems from the influence of thetans, or leprechauns, which follow people about their whole life and can only be removed by the shedding of large quantities of gold. The For the rest of it go to: http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Scientology if you like to take the piss out of religion and have a twisted sense of humor then read it!!! J On that note, I had better get back to the grindstone! Much love to you all! 22 May 22 MayI quit my band. The new one, the one with only girls called Saving Insanity, and I LOVED the name!! Wasn't so keen on the whole driving forever to get to practice and back (it was a 100km round trip... that’s 62miles) with the price of petrol soaring, the band not taking practices seriously (cos you know, I want to drive all that way to listen about what boyfriend troubles these 19-21 year olds are having... like OH MY GOD... he didn’t?!?!) changing songs every week to the point of unrecognisable, changing the vocal melody and lyrics on the Wednesday practices which I could not get too (it’s the whole 100km thing again) and then messing round... well it wasn’t happening for me. SO... onwards and upwards I say! J I wish them all the best, they are really nice people with good hearts. Maybe its me with the warpedness! oh well :) I decided that the self study of the guitar thing is not working for me; I seem to have too much to do in general, kickboxing now 4 nights a week, road running once or twice, work and of course trying to see friends, so if I don’t sit down with an actual person (hippie or otherwise) and be sent off with homework to learn then I will never get past the 8 or 9 chords I have come to learn. So yup... I want me a teacher, preferably a hot one so I am motivated to do really really well! Hehe... I can see the method to my madness... can’t you? The new job is still going strong like mountain tiger! Just a bit slow paced for me really, I guess the first week normally is, I would love to be learning more and doing more, but for the time being I’m not complaining. The vibe is fantastic, everyone seems to get along great, there is a cereal bar (4 different types to chose from) J a sort of dining area where everyone randomly gathers for lunch and talks crap, no shop talk really which is awesome. I think I’m going to like it here!! Wish I had more to report, but I really don’t! Hehehe, how sad is that? Im going to go and search for hot hippie instructors now... how Zen is my life, crazy mad violence at night and kumbaya type guitar by day! Hahaha – aaaaaaah I amuse me! PS. 2 updates in three days – got you scared I’m dying or something? hehehe 20 May and... ACTION!Man what a hectic few weeks it has been - all for the good of course! There was saying goodbye to my old company... which wasn't so bad, they took me out for lunch and stuffed me full of sushi and ice cream (what more could a girl ask for) I didn't get a present, but hell - I got sushi!! What more could a girl want? I went camping in warm baths with 6 people, now camping and I are not exactly what one would call compatible really... I seem to take issue with having to bring my own accommodation, esp. when it does not have a bathroom attached to it en suite. So... Squi (my mate Simone, her nick name is pronounced ski) and I headed out at 1pm to warm baths. It’s supposed to be a 2 hour trip maximum, unless of course there is a bloody police road block on the friggen highway there! grrrr that added a good half hour onto the trip, and really pissed us off, ad since we were in such bad moods, we had to stop for ice cream (dah), that added some more time to the trip, and then we found the traffic had become very hairy... so the drive there took WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY longer than expected. We were the first to arrive, and it was beginning to get dark, so we started setting up the tent. Well now - that was quite a joke. We got most of it up, and then we got completely confused and I sent Squi to hit the bottle store while I attempted to get the "kitchen" up. The kitchen is a tall tent with netting sides but a fabric roof, its old; its heavy and I had to enlist the help of 2 geriatrics to get it up. To say they were amused is actually an understatement. Squi came back and we sat there completely confused about how to get our tent up. We eventually paid two people to do it for us. *grin* it’s the girl way to do it. By now it was quite dark and the others stile had not arrived yet, so we cracked open a drink and waited. And waited. AND waited. Eventually we called them and found out they were still so far away that it made sense to go into town and just have dinner there. Our first night of camping and we dined on schnitzels at a pub. Pathetic really huh? Finally at about 10pm three other arrived. There was Tie, her assistant Al and Al's boyfriend Dunc. Now to explain to you the diversity of the group let’s start with Squi. Squi is a school teacher for tiny kids at a Montessori school - it’s a private school for babies/toddlers/ wee little ankle biters, to get them ahead before joining normal schools (or something like that). Tie is a gay tattoo artist and body piercist with her own studio and more awards for her work than most Nobel Prize winners get through their entire school career. Al is learning the art of tattooing and piercing from Tie and works for her. Dunc is a university lecturer and one of those really smart with little direction types. So far quite the mixed bag huh? Finally the last two arrived, Kyle and his g/f Jess. He is an electrician and she is still studying. He is huge on the camping thing and used to be a dive instructor so TG for his arrival with a camping fridge (there were power points) and a kettle! Warm baths is... well - more so for the conservative I guess one could say. It has many natural hot springs and that’s the attraction, the pools are warm, there is the rheumatism room which is about 40 degrees Celsius (really helps with any pains and aches) there are indoor and outdoor pools, restaurants and family areas, you can camp, caravan or stay in chalets and its very family orientated... so, as you can imagine, us oddball misfits were quite a contrast to what they would normally expect. Tie with her facial piercings and tattoo covered self was an endless source of fascination and, sadly enough, disgust. Depending on who was looking of course. Strangely enough the really old people right next to us loved us, I think they were being nice and giving us home baked goods in the hope that we would not burn down their caravan or something, but we certainly were not hugely popular. On night 2 some asshole from 2 tents down came and screamed blue murder at us, at 10pm at night, because Tie and Squi were talking - I mean really, what a tosser. He got into their faces and badly and was very aggressive and insulting! We know we had been loud the night before but hell we had just arrived and were excited... give us a Goddamn break! Needless to say we were wanting to throw raw chicken drumsticks under his tent and wait for the warthogs to attack... but we didn't *sigh* we just reported him to the resort. There was much swimming, chilling, drinking, and general chaos making that ensued, the people were awesome, and I had a fantastic time with them - I still have no intentions of camping again though - walking to the bathrooms at 2am when you gotta pee is not cool - it’s so much easier for guys. After the camping I had a further 2 weeks off and i made the most of them! Hit the gym, started road running with my mom! We do generally 5-6km with each run and we’ll wok them up so that eventually I will be able to do the half marathon which is 21km! Its going really well, but mom can be evil - she encourages and I follow her blindly, we turn a corner and there it is... a hill so steep it could make onions sob. If it was short it would be ok, but noooooooooooooooooooo its about the length of a piece of string... a long piece of string and you know how those can just carry on! I survived, and returned a few more times, each time the run ended the same, red, sweaty and panting obscenities. Thankfully I am getting better. At least I think I am. Here's hoping :) I started the new job yesterday, and so far it’s going really well, I know it’s a bit early to say with convection that "OMG... THIS IS THEEEEEE JOB" but hey, I was treated to a 30min Swedish massage today and apparently this happens once a month for all employees, we watched a video of all the guys from the camping/hiking trip they went on together this past weekend and I figure that if the guys go away together, voluntarily, for a weekend - then hey, the company can't be all bad, right? xx |
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