went to sellicks beach last weekend.

sun

sand

stones

shade

shadows

scotti

sky

slide

storm

secret santa..

i cant wait until xmas morning when mikael opens his presents :) i know hes going 2 be stoked when he opens th hotwheels tracks santas going 2 bring. He asked santa for new hotwheels tracks last week when we took him 2 have th xmas photo. He looked gorgeous. As usual.
We're having a roast chicken n a roast pork with scottis mum n her partner xmas eve dinner, a bbq lunch with steak n oysters at home xmas day n a seafood dinner at mums xmas nite. I dont think i will eat anything until then just so i have room for it all!
I wish we could make it 2 sceales for xmas, but unfortunately not this year :(
Neway its midnite so im signing off. Nite!

poor bastard...

found this somewhere. cant remember where now...

22nd december 2008 - aha! i saw this again and now know where i stole it from. here.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

well th school holidays are almost upon me again. ooh er. and christmas. yay.
forgive me for sounding pessimistic. for some reason, last i remember it was october and there was still plenty of time to get organised but here it is december 11th and i have not done a damn thing! aargh! i am so not prepared for christmas this year! but then, when have i ever been except this year i have a really really bad feeling that it is just not going to go well at all (th word tragic comes to mind but i dont want to use it. oh i just did.) there is too much to be done around here and i have no idea where to start!
i am starting to think mums invitation of staying over christmas eve and most of christmas day is a good idea, just so i have th chance to get away from all th reminders of what we havent done yet!
omg! did i just say that? slap me..
so. theres freaking termites in our bathroom door frame. yes i said bathroom. i have no idea why. worst thing is, i as a tenant, have done what i am supposed to do and informed my landlord, who sounded real concerned and came out that very day. i thought ok, i guess i have to deal with covering / removing my shit from th house while it gets sprayed / treated / whatever, only to have them when they arrive, brush th shit off th wall (drives them deeper people - trust me i have delt with this crap before) and say "thats nuuu-think, that is-a-just dust." i am not fucking stupid, i know what termite crap looks like. grrr. so obviously poison is th least of my troubles, i now have to instead worry about my furniture getting eaten out from under us. yes, it is all wood. and half of it is antique. and some of it is unvarnished / stained. ffs.
theres no other option, we just have to look for another house.
at christmas time.
cos there are going to be plenty of houses on th market at th moment.
considering everybody chooses to pick up and move at th most stressful time of year.
so i have no idea what to do. my naive little self even rung th pest control people and asked how much i would be up for if i chose to take it into my own hands, only to get that pity tone from th older guy on th other end of th phone saying "love, its gonna cost thousands."
AND we havent sorted out these two freaking project cars yet, like we promised ourselves we would have by th end of th year
AND i havent done my christmas shopping yet. yes. i am going to be one of those retarded people who all crowd into th shop right before christmas because theyre just like me and thought "dude, its only october...."
AND guess what. my car is fucked again. big surprise there and im not even going to go into it.
so all in all if theres anybody out there, pray for me. cos im gonna need it lmao
and i am really sorry for all th swear words in this post. way more than usual

if i won a million dollars

i wrote this last night at like 1 in th morning because i was a bit bored.
having had no need to write (apart from shopping lists and budgets) for th last few years, i havent, so i also was curious as to what my handwriting would look like on a page lol
so i rambled. and here it is.

if i won a million dollars.
i would buy a big block of land somewhere that had plenty of room and a beach.
id build a big 3 bedroom house that had a big underground basement, tunnels through th walls and a secret exitway, all th living area on th first floor and th bedrooms upstairs, with a massive 8 car garage that had room for all our project cars.

id buy a clubsport.

id want a barn. because ive always wanted a barn. and i guess id want a horse to put in th barn. and a sheep. i used to have a sheep, his name was jim morrisson. and no, he didnt take drugs.
id build a small jetty at my beach so i had somewhere to dock my 3 watercraft (a cruiser, a fishing vessel and a jetski)

and i would employ a maid.

id donate a chunk of money to cancer research, and to some charity that helps widows and familys of those who arent lucky enough to make it through.
id pay for myself to go to university to learn something useful, and id start an education fund for my son (who knows what tuition will cost in 2021!?!)
and id donate enough to my best friend and lover, so that he could get his dreams off th ground and start his own business.

id buy an island.

id take a big holiday and go see finland, sweden, iceland, scotland, ireland, madagascar, antarctica and th galapogas islands (wherever i wanted) but id charter a boat. i dont like planes.
id buy my mum that topless sports car shes never wanted, and pay off her house, id give her 2 tickets to th QE2 (which i believe, now she would have to travel to dubai for, and it wouldnt be sailing anywhere since its now a land lubbed hotel) id buy my sister a chic little flat in th city somewhere, and a new car as well (good luck to getting a parking space with that chic little flat, but that would be her problem lol)

id start doing drift comps on th weekend.

but definately th house. th house comes first.
i guess i better start buying lotto tickets :)

what would you do with a million dollars??

happy birthday dad

was thinking of you today..

xx

gay fresh fm, san andreas and ham n cheese sandwiches.

mikael is at grandma sues and scott is sitting on th couch with a toothache not really saying much at all. i have just finished doing a few things on th pc here, th whole time i have been sitting here i have been tortured with this gay music on th radio that sounds like the freaky collaboration of wonder boy, never ending story and wham. of course i have been too lazy to get up and change th station so more fool me.

i am considering putting san andreas on again soon. mick passed a troublesome mission for us therefore we can finally move on to other things, thanks mick. so that is one way of passing th time. i dont have any unwatched movies to put on, any good movie suggestions definately welcome..
i bought some nice off th bone ham today so i am thinking of going to make myself a sandwich before my stomache eats itself, scotti got cracker barrell too.. ooh good stuff
we also have to have an early-ish night tonight as we have lots of car work to do tomorrow and we have been sleeping in ALL WEEK.

so that is our wonderfully entertaining friday night. hope yours is a much better one :)

this is a photo from last night when we drove to semaphore to get a pizza. it was a beautiful sunset as you can see above. this is th new expressway at night on our way back.

albeit blurry.
get over it.

letters to k8

something in th water? hmm. yes maybe..


have also been busy busy busy lol
as you can see..
swapped kaels room n th spare room. looks great. his new room gets alot more light. th good news is, we ARE moving. cant wait. my feet are even tingling i am that excited. i have felt for a while that i badly wanted to move but i didnt think it was possible but after sorting out th house like we have i am feeling way way more positive about this for sure.
So we now have to get th shed organised. which involves 2 million tools - hurray :/
and the cars organised. down to 4 would be amazing. then *fingers crossed* we are ready. i give it 4 weeks. please god please god please god i never ask for anything...
i havent been on msn either, if you catch me there its an imposter because i havent logged in for so long i almost feel rude. i think msn has actually gone mouldy on my hd even.
argh!! a friend just messaged me to tell me he got a new computer way freaking better than mine! cheers m8. appreciate it.
it was cliffs birthday on sunday so we went out to mums for lunch, i have a stepdad now! wow! it was a nice day, had a few drinks. i took some photos of mums flowers as her garden is looking pretty amazing at th moment. not when summer comes of course. not looking forward to that.
anyway signing off, hope you have been well, take care n write back! this seems to be th best way to communicate lol
do your blog you lazy bum..

grrr.

this weekend we decided to tackle th spare room problem.
so we decided th most motivating way of doing this was to swap th spare room with th boys room as th spare room is larger so there would be more room for him to play.
well.
here it is nearly midnight and we are still sorting out this goddam mess. the whole house looks like a bomb has hit it and is in total disarray.
i dont know where to start and i certainly cant see an end in sight.
heres to this week being th start of change. i feel a move in th air again.

th fucken car. this whole post is about th fucken car...

well i am a little disillusioned here as i thought that maybe 1 person might have noticed that i havent done any (meaningful) posts lately, but alas, i am all alone in this blog lmao


washed both cars on th weekend, they both look sik.
mick came down with th buffer from his work and went over the vl on saturday, i must say it looks like a completely different car now, amazing what a polish can do.

of course the fact that he was a car detailer helps lol

fixed my vn on th weekend. i probably havent mentioned (as i havent mentioned anything lately) that it died last weekend. at 7 o clock at night. after a days fishing. at port gawler. which left us trying to figure out how to fix it on th side of th road, with no tools, no torch and no damn idea.
ended up being th heater hose on th back of th block. of course. it must have felt left out from when th front one caused a fuss and had to be replaced a couple of weeks ago.
so basically we had no way of getting her home without towing her. tried driving her first but the temperature kept shooting up. so rather than fuck around topping up levels and driving another 100 metres down the road before having to stop again we got mick to bring us back home to get th tow ropes. damn lucky he met us there that day or else we really would have been screwed.

oh and why is it that i have a valid raa membership card all year and my car never breaks down, yet now that my cards been expired for 3 weeks....

guess im gonna have to scrape up th cash for raa, its definately good for peace of mind.

speaking of raa, today i met an angel with an raa card! the thermo fan in th vn isnt coming on when it should, so we have hooked up a switch so that we can turn it on manually when the car is sitting at th lights and such. aaanyway.. me being th stupid deaf bitch that i am, forgot that th thermo fan was on, and when i got out th car i didnt hear it running. so i went into th shopping center to get a few things, came out about 15 20 minutes later and tried to start my car but my battery was dead! typical.
so i waited, hoping it might build up enough charge to start, no luck with that.
so i sized up my position, th angle i would have to take to get out th parking space, th incline of th road i had to push it up, and th length of th runway at my disposal and flat out figured a push start wasnt possible, next option was to harass th poor bastards walking past me for jumper leads, which was also unsuccessful.
until
one of th ladys i asked jumper leads for, came back about 3 minutes after asking her and offered to use her raa card for me, at first i said "no, you dont have to do that, youll be waiting ages!" to which she said, "its ok, shopping can wait, its not that important, besides youll be stuck otherwise"
i couldnt believe how nice this stranger was being, so i tried to get one of my friends (one of very few who actually live around here) to come and help, but he was having car trouble of his own, so i gratefully accepted th offer of th raa.
she said to me to pretend to be her neice so it was covered but when th guy got there i think he could tell what was really going on and i dont think he minded at all :) it makes you remember there are some really nice people out there :)
Thanks Barbara!!

so. nothing else to report. or i cant think of anything else to report as my stupid brain is filled with car crap, cooling systems, thermofans, switches that get too hot, bad earths that shock me everytime i get out, bad vl taillights, vls cracked windscreen, v8 needs painting, vl does too. i dont even have a glovebox. well i do but it is inside th house. yaay!
i need a holiday.
or an all in one mechanic/spray painter/panel beater/car detailer.

food and accomodation provided.
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no extra benefits.
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my new phone is so cool!

i did this post with it, arent i clever!

witches, pumpkins and black cats. oh and an update..

happy halloween!!

well as you would expect life has been dragging on like it does and will until it doesnt anymore (boy that makes sense) nothing special or out of th ordinary that i can think of off th top of my head, good time to choose to write a post hey xD (i think its got more to do with th fact that i have nothing to do at this point in time, thus giving me th chance to clog up th internet some more with my randoms)

went fishing on saturday. caught nothing. though did get out of the house (and out of town) for the day which was a bonus. took th dog, which was not a bonus. funny how things seem like such a good idea at the time and then when th event is actually taking place there are a million quite obvious reasons why th idea would never have worked.
you see, she thought it would be a great idea to swim right where we were fishing. regardless of th fact there was a massive expanse of bank that we had to ourselves. this was the first in a long list of obvious reasons why th dog does not make a good fishing companion. that and th fact that th flies wouldnt leave her alone (cant put aeroguard on a dog) so she was a bit stressed and kept voicing so. for once, th kid was more controllable than th dog. hallejula.
sunday we took th dog and th kid to st kilda so we could all have some fun. you would think that we would have learnt that th dog is no fun th day before hey. there were way many people there n th dog was way excited. bad combination. so basically, i got stuck holding th dog most th time while scott took kael off to play. kyra n phil met us there with their little monster and after a while everyone else went home to make dinner presumably so we stayed on for some private park time lol

th telstar (wanna be 4wd) died last week. well actually to be truthful, it didnt die, though it did get badly injured and was not worth spending any more money on. th rego was due to run out in a few days so we drove her into th ground, getting every last cent of rego out of her before driving it to th wreckers pissing out smoke from everywhere, on its last day of rego. they gave us $150 for it and we then went and put that money into th rego money for th vn. problem solvered.

washed her ready for her return to th road and all lol
got a new phone that has a much better camera than my old one so hopefully my shots will be better quality (not that anybody but me cares) although now i do have to downscale the images before uploading them as im sure nobody wants to make a wall size poster, which creates a whole lot more work for me. so be grateful :P

theres a fete at th school today. starts in an hour, so that will be fun. (for those of you who cant hear my tone in my writing, that was sarcastic) theres a fancy dress competition and mikael wants to dress as a pirate, so to humour him i said i'd take him. never know, he might even win. he makes a pretty convincing pirate.

th barina in th rearview

scott put a deposit on a red vl yesterday. its not a show car but it definately looks neat and straight and seems to run well. and for the price he is aquiring th vehicle for, even if he was complaining, which he wasnt, even i would have to tell him to can it. and i can find (almost) anything to complain about anything lmao it is pretty wierd to think that once th mazdas gone, we will only have th two commodores and th two hz's. i said wierd not bad. 4 cars is better than 6. we are buying an air compressor and sorting out th shed in th next two weeks too so that will make it possible for us to get th v8 on th road and able to drive to th shop to get a check up, which i have been wanting to do for so long but until its technically ours we cant.. so im hanging out for that. id love to see miss "blonde hair, suit, driving her boyfriends black ve commodore" playing games with me once im behind th grille of that baby. um. hope you have insurance lady.
and once th v8s in th shop and out of our shed, its time to start on th panelvan. mate that will be so much work.
obsessed mate. were both obsessed.

this is what i got scotti for fathers day last month.

oh. and i found this before.
9 telltale signs youre probably an asshole
made me laugh.

and this.
ooh. interesting. sodium. id forgotten about that shit lol

ciao! have a good day!

limbo

when you close your eyes at night, you'll think of me

when you wake up in the morning, you'll think of me

when you blink, when you sigh, you'll remember my name

and deep in your heart you'll know you're to blame

for this limbo we're in

and we can't change a thing

theres a hole in my heart

that grows each time we part

things we've seen while out and about recently

at on th run
ve ss. love th black. although white is always classy and deep yellow looks hot shit on some cars, this car would look freaking awesome yellow. with black interior.

on my friends fridge
absolutely hilarious i thought.
click on th image to read it. seriously do it. it will be worth th time i promise..

shopping with my mum
too many wedding dresses. no. not for me. *hurray*

again at on th run
some poncy guy and his uptight girlfriend having starter motor trouble in a car that i would likely kill for. even with the starter problem.
freakin ay.

on the school oval
i was walking to pick mikael up n had to take a photo of this. there was a guy mowing th lawns at th time n i think he thought i was taking photos of him. um no sorry dude. i was not.

in the shopping center carpark
what an amazing piece of australian automotive history.
im surprised that the guy that owns it left it parked in a shopping center carpark in the first place! id be too paranoid of idiots opening their doors too hard and scratching the paint..

at foodland
when i got home and put th photos on th computer, i noticed the chick in th first picture just arrived to unpack her trolley of goods onto th shelves
and in the second picture shes wondering why were taking photos of her and whether this is something she needs to inform her boss about and appears to be walking towards us
after which we giggled at th bird in th supermarket like 12 year olds and ran off around the corner

in my backyard