Thursday, June 09, 2005

A Tarantula Downpour

I once worked with a woman who was a little bit...uneducated. She was my boss, and as much as I love pointing out grammatical errors and misspellings, I was rather reticent to do it with her because she was my boss. Whenever it poured rain, she would call it a "tarantula downpour" rather than a TORRENTIAL downpour, because she didn't know the correct word. She would also say "natha" instead of nada, and "down pack" instead of down pat among alot of other things.

This does have a point to my story. About half an hour ago we experienced a very sudden TORRENTIAL DOWNPOUR that lasted a good 5 minutes. I was in the loo (my favourite place of late it seems) when it started, Tia was in her room and D was in the bedroom; all of a sudden I hear him squeal, "Oh SHIT!" followed by the sound of him barrelling down the stairs and out the back door. It seems we had washing on the line!


Before the Rain

The guys next door were then exclaiming something about a mini-tornado so I fled the bathroom just as Tia fled her bedroom; we crashed midway in the hall and then ran out onto the front balcony only to crash again up against the side of the railing, all in the hopes of seeing this little tornado. Unfortunately it disappeared as quickly as it had appeared and we didn't get to see it.

The rain, however, was incredibly beautiful and the three of us stood out there watching it come down until it stopped. I live for these moments.


After the Rain

Wednesday, June 08, 2005

e's Big Day Out

Sounds like a nifty movie title. I think it might be, however "e's" would be replaced with the correct name or word. Or something, I don't really know. I'm tired and it's not even 830p yet.

On a side note, I have a really bad habit of not putting the colon in between the numerals when I type the time out. 830pm vs 8:30pm you see.

I'm really very tired today. It might have a lot to do with the fact that I woke up around 7am bursting at the seams with needing to go to the loo. I am supremely lazy and refuse to get up in the middle of the night to make a run out there, since it involves walking through a fairly cold kitchen, and an insanely cold tiled hallway. Anyway so after doing the deed, I decided I'd go back to bed, even though I had an appointment at Centrelink at 1030am today.

Snuggling next to the warm body beside me, I drifted back into sleep, only to jolt awake 50 minutes later and decide I should really get out of bed FOR REAL this time. Nevermind that again, a trip to the loo was necessary. It was then I wondered how much fluid I actually had inside me, since I couldn't recall drinking a whole lot yesterday. (I still don't have any idea why I had to go twice in the space of an hour)

I plodded upstairs and sat down on the chair, wondering how Mum's dog was faring. We had a bit of a scare with him recently; we went down to the beach a few days ago, and he was snuffling around in the sand, licking and actually eating it. We stopped him, of course, and an hour or so later, headed home. She fed the dogs as normal, and about an hour after they'd eaten, Kyto got decidedly sick and was constantly vomiting - mostly sand. We figured his poor little tummy couldn't handle so much salt intake (and it was ALOT) so we made sure he had plenty of water to drink. He spent the whole night moping (think Eeyore) and walking around as though his tummy was in knots and causing him excruciating pain.

The following day he didn't seem to get any better, though he was still throwing up sand, but he was walking around a lot more, keeping his nose to the ground for the most part, and trying to sleep standing up. It was evident that he couldn't lay down because his tummy hurt so bad. And so it was that yesterday, after not being any better, Mum took him down to the Vet and had him checked out.

Turns out he was diagnosed with pancreatitis and it was so severe, that had she left it any later to bring him in, he would have died. They doped him up on morphine and gave him antibiotics, telling Mum that he would need to stay overnight, and possibly for as much as 3 days.

Today he's doing WORLDS better, and we were allowed to bring him home for the night, but he has to go back to the Vet tomorrow, probably for more testing to make sure he's doing well, and for another round of antibiotics. Mum was told today that she couldn't give him any food or water though, so having dinner was a traumatic experience - poor puppy sat there with big sad eyes, wanting what we were eating.

So, as I was sitting at the kitchen table this morning, my sister came out and we started chatting. Around 9am Mum got up, and around 930am I decided to have a shower. By the time I'd gotten out, dried off and gotten dressed, she'd jumped in, and I had JUST finished brushing my hair when it was announced we had 10mins to get to Centrelink (which is a 15min drive away). Needless to say, I was a little bit late. Thankfully so were they.

My meeting with them went very well. I was approved for Newstart and begin collecting that next week. It's not much, but at least it's something and I'll be able to buy food and start paying down some creditcards we've been living on for the past month.

After that we headed over to the Mall and had brunch - I was fairly well starved by that point - before coming home again. The afternoon flew by, and after a driving lesson for D (learning to drive on the opposite side of the road IS NOT easy), Mum drove out to pick up Kyto from the Vet and brought him home.

I've found a new love for making lists, so I'm about to sit down and start writing one out of all the neat, nifty and "girlie" things I'll be able to buy when I start getting some money. (Hear that Snidgie? GIRLIE THINGS!)

Tuesday, June 07, 2005

"Am I Black or White..."

Who sang that line? =p


I've been playing Black and White for the past two days, after finally being able to install and patch it successfully. Actually, I couldn't patch it, so my brother ended up installing and patching on his computer and then we copied over all the files onto my system. While I just love this game, I CANNOT WAIT until B&W2 is released.

I haven't played WoW in like forever, and haven't really missed it. I'm sure not upset about having the fees taken out every three months, that's for sure. While it's a good game, it's just not giving me the warm fuzzies that Everquest did for the 4 years I was brainwashed by Sony into playing it.

Garth and D have been playing GuildWars and both seem to really enjoy it. As an added bonus, there is no monthly fee to pay to play. I'm thinking about playing on Garth's computer to decide if I really like it or not, and want to spend $40 on it. At least it'll give me something to play online if I decide I need to have MORE social interaction other than the constant barrage of people surrounding me, that I have now. Besides which, the character creation is SUPERIOR to either Everquest OR WoW. Your characters are just soooooo evilly beautiful. Anyone else playing?

Monday, June 06, 2005

Updates & Additions

* Updated and linked my Flickr badge
* Added Archives again
* Added Misc category

Friday, June 03, 2005

Whispered Songs

My brother sits right next to me at the computer desk (I'm sharing his) and he is currently playing guildwars and whispering song lyrics (rather than singing them aloud) from the music blaring in his headphones. This is what I hear:

"Signs fetish.. du-nah fetish..."

Which I am sure aren't real words or even real sentences. I'm like 100% postive I'm not hearing him correctly. Then there's the nasal chorus of:

"Drop the bodies on the floor..."

Or something similar. All I can say is that my brother listens to some weird ass music.

Train to the City

We headed into the city today, specifically to the Immigration Building so D could get his passport stamped, stating he's on a "working holiday visa" so he can get work whenever he feels like it. I was really surprised it didn't take very long - roughly 5mins actually - and then we were out the door again and on our way down to the Post Square and Anzac Park for lunch. It was such a lovely day, and having lunch in the park surrounded by Ibis and Pigeons was absolutely wonderful.

Afterward, we headed down to the Queen Street Mall, which has changed ALOT since I was there last. It's nowhere near as pretty as I remembered it - so many people, and so much litter! It was really disappointing actually, and I wondered how the people of Brisbane could let it go so badly. Is it so hard to pick up after yourself?

The train ride up was a little over an hour, so I didn't squirm in boredom too much, and we ended up spending most of the ride home, quoting Napoleon Dynamite. I think we provided much entertainment to the guy sitting opposite us, who seemed to be choking back laughter to the point that his face was turning pink and he had tears trickling out of his eyes.

Oh, and to the people of LA: According to One Guy sitting on the train today, starting from next year, you won't be allowed to drive on the streets unless your car is ELECTRIC. Yes, that's right - all cars in LA beginning next year, will be electric and their engines will automatically "turn off" at all red lights and intersections, so as to avoid collisions. Apparently. You can well imagine the laughter I was choking back during his entire diatribe to the poor kiwi kid sitting next to him.

Just think; if I hadn't gone up to the city today via train, I would have missed out on so much. Good times.

Thursday, June 02, 2005

...num-chuck skillz...

I have my interview with the local headhunter today. In precisely 45mins. I've showered, a very brisk shower I might add since nobody thought to turn on the hot water, and instead we've been running on solar power on a very OVERCAST day.

My ride (ie: Mummeh) was supposed to be home from her galavanting around town around 2pm (almost 1 hour ago) and she's still not home. I don't so much care that she isn't here to take me to the headhunter (cause she said she would and all) but I do so much care that she nicked off with my cig maker thingy and I've been going nuts since she left. Not to worry, I've more than made up for it by eating.

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Oh and if you haven't seen Napolean Dynamite, I highly recommend it. I laughed my ass off the first time I saw it, and then again 100 times more the second time I saw it. It's absolutely the best worst movie I've ever seen and in about 3 more days, I will totally OWN it.