proudHad a very chilled weekend at home, mostly lazing around playing games, watching House, and half-assedly working on hobbies and cleaning. Wouldn't mind doing that a lot more often actually. Working on a nice little painting set that I might post when it's done.
Tom's place last night to watch Kung Fu movies. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon was awesome but I didn't quite get the ending, Once Upon a Time in China we turned off after 15 minutes because it was weird and not making any sense.
Moving at a crawl-pace towards the money I need for the car. Always happens, I start saving and the money stacks up really fast, then it hits a certain dollar figure and I can't seem to get past it, expenses popping up all over the place. For me and the car it's $1000 short of what I need to go shopping. Very frustrating. Trying very hard for the next week to make sure I don't mess up again, then hopefully car shopping will start on the weekend after next.
Work is stupidy stupidy stupid but when isn't it. Hopefully will improve significantly in about 2 weeks though.
Reading Dracula for book club, it's hard to get into (being over a hundred years old ... wow it's weird to think I'm reading exactly the same thing that someone else was in 1898) but it's good so far. Also have the novelisation of 30 Days of Night to attack after that one.
Joined a gym! Going at lunchtimes and such to do running training and some weights. It's weird having a shower in the middle of the work day.
Massage school starts in a week. I am SUPER EXCITED.
- Mood:
rushed - Music:Somewhere Only We Know - that guy/band
Went up to Terrigal this weekend with Tom & Family, and had a wonderful wonderful time. The weather was lovely even though it was cold. We walked up and down a few of the beaches yesterday, and explored a car boot sale (people sell some weeeiiiird stuff). I honed my pool abilities a little more. Mostly though, just had a wonderful time being with Tom, lots of movie watching snuggled up on the couch.
I went to the Sydney Craft Show a few weeks ago and bought (among many, many other things) a sewing machine. They had to order it in for me, and assured me it'd be there by the end of the week ... 2 & 1/2 weeks later it FINALLY arrived ... but I've been having so much fun messing around with it that I barely care. And I got a pretty huge discount because I bought it at the show. I'm making a couple of silly cotton handbags first, I'm going to give them to the little girls across the road if I can bear to part with them. Might put up some progress shots of one of them as I go.
The Sydney City to Surf is in ONE MONTH oh my god. I've been sort-of training but I really need to be doing more than I'm doing. For those outside Sydney, it's a 14km run (2km uphill!!) from Sydney city to Bondi Beach. I've never done it before and I'm trying to clock it in under 100 minutes.
I started a book club at work that I'm really excited about. First meeting is tomorrow, so tonight I've got to pick out some books for the other members to read. And I'm still in the middle of two of my own books!
I have so much to do! About 6 books to read, sewing to do, tapestries to finish, running training to do ... I have enough hobbies to last me three lifetimes.
And I haven't done any drawing or painting in forever! Augh!
That'll do for now.
- Mood:
satisfied
Biker gangs stole my microwave.
When I moved back home I extended-lended my microwave to my next door neighbours since my folks already had one, and I had no use for the other. They put it in their caravan, which was stolen from a caravan park a few subrbs away several months ago.
The big news story in Australia at the moment is the biker gangs (Hell's Angels, Rebels, and Comanceros or however you spell it). Drugs, shooting, bashing people to death in the middle of Sydney Airport. Cops are going nuts. In the papers every day. Anyway, in order to look busy, the cops do a raid on the Rebels' HQ, about 10km north of here, nearer to the city. They find my neighbour's caravan! Totally empty of course, everything in it had been taken or sold off.
Bikies stole my microwave! Hah.
Next door neighbour is also a really high-ranking police officer, which I think makes it even funnier.
Jess got me hooked into some BBC fantasy shows, namely Robin Hood and Merlin. Thanks to the trusty iPod converter I've binged my way through all of them in about a week. Good stuff if you can resist taking them too seriously. There's plenty of faults with both, not least the tendency to get really formulaic, but they're pretty fun.
Decided to have a stab at the City to Surf in August. For those outside Sydney, it's a 14km run from the inner city to Bondi Beach, with a 2km stretch of uphill (called Heartbreak Hill). Hoping to qualify for the second bracket of runners, which means I've got to finish it in under 100 minutes. I've got a long way to go, but around 3 months to train. And it's good to have a goal, even if it doesn't really affect anything.
I'm starting heaps of books and not finishing them. Pttthht.
- Mood:
irritated
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