how retarded is it that when i havent had a cigarette in four and a half hours,
i reward myself with a cigarette??

um. just how much exactly, does this guy get paid to do this?

why doesnt he just try flying a helicopter underwater.
it would be easier.

want a challenge? teach a young child to swim..

We did put the pool up. it is awesome.
i taught mikael to float (to go into detail would take an insane amount of paragraphs so ill just be brief)
we tried, he freaked, i explained, he calmly agreed, we tried, he freaked (multiply this a few times) then i ended up hanging my head saying
"mate. you have bags of air on your arms. you are holding onto a pool noodle. this pool is waist deep mate you are not going to drown"
to which he seemed to see the light and agreed to try and float. after 2 seconds he was laughing his head off like a maniac
"mum! IM FLOATING!"
all the exasperation just totally left me and i couldnt help but laugh. it took another 20 seconds to get him to let go of me but we have a start. now its hard to get him out of it. i am going to have to organise shade of some sort. maybe one of those triangle shade sail things.
our peach tree split in half on the weekend (im thinking its lack of water) so we have been left with masses of nearly ripe bruised fruit. last year they were amazingly sweet and it would be such a shame if we dont get any this year. any suggestions for what to do with them people? i have never stewed or jammed anything in my life.
im starting to get a bit worried about my tafe this year. we really need to get out of this place and its so damn hard at the moment. i cant see how its going to work really with all the travel. i have thought about it over and over, all my different options and its all just blending in my head into an incoherable mess. goddamn.

i took this last night. doesnt the cloud looks like a sea horse..

january kinda sucks

well it has been rather hot here lately, most days have been hitting nearly 40c and we havent had a day under 30c in what feels like a lifetime.
the other day i was in my garden and my thermometer in the shade under the bottlebrush said 48c - i knew nobody would believe me so heres proof..
we have been doing anything to get out of the house, having no air conditioning it seems better to sweat it out outside and hope theres a slight breeze.
mikael went to my mums for the weekend which was good, her house has air con so at least the boy was comfortable.

Mick came down saturday and we took his petrol car down to the golfcourse, we were hoping to catch a few freshwater prawns for his fishtank like we caught for mine last week, so we took the yabby nets too. lucky we did or we would have been majorly bored, mick broke the pull cord on th car so there went that idea. we ended up catching 33 yabbies and more freaking prawns than we could count so we decided wed keep them and freeze most of them to see if they would be any good as bait. why not.
i put a fish in the tank last week that we caught from there, not realising it was a biological hazard.
after closer inspection i realized it looked a little like the terminator and that these white stick things were also growing out of my fish, so i rang aggies aquariums and after describing the offending fish he told me it was infected with parasitic worms. fucking hoo-ray.
so he told me to take the fish out onto a damp towel and use tweezers to hold th worm so we could burn th end of them and they would apparantly let go. yeh right. i am the most squeemish person ever and after trying a couple of times rather panickly and unsuccessfully (is panickly even a word??) i decided i would get somebody else to do it.

so saturday after we got home from yabbying (at like 2am) i told mick about it. being the ultra nice guy that he is, he offered to do it (mission accomplished!)
mate. those things that came out of those fish. good god, it looked like something out of alien. poor fish. needless to say, any fish i catch in the yabby nets from now on can go back into the water they came from. thank god these parasites dont affect crustaceans. so heres a photo of what the awful things looked like. i left the photo huge so you can look at in detail if you wish...
just click on th photo

Sunday we went for a cruise to garden island. so heres a couple of photos..

well i am going outside now to attempt to put this pool up so we have some way to keep cool.
wish me luck with that.

new years resolutions. in print.

i finally have gotten around to posting this, hahaha there goes no1 straight out th window, my new years resolutions, in print, (type) so i can look back n remind myself just what i said.
Hopefully this way i will stick to them.

Main objectives..
1. To make an effort to BE ON TIME.
2. To get back in touch with friends n family.
3. To quit cigarettes this year

Sub-resolutions..
1. Write more
2. Listen more
3. Act more (not in a dramatic sense..)
4. Walk athena more
5. Smoke less
6. Bitch less
7. Sleep less -strike that out,
7. Organise a better schedule for my day that works for everyone
8. Move closer to where ill be (hopefully) going back to 'higher education.'

So there are my missions for this year. A little belated i must admit, but i DID write them out last week, so they DO count :D
Ciao!

th grinch has gone

well it seems christmas n new year are over once more. I can breathe again now, time to start making plans for th new year i suppose. My new years resolution this year is to make an effort to be on time. I dont think ive ever been on time for anything! Since school neway.. Scotts new years resolution is to get these project cars started. So hopefully this will be a better year for us. Fingers crossed.
Christmas day was nice, went out to mums at kapunda, had a prawn chicken n salad dinner. For once i didnt eat too much at xmas dinner, i must have finally learnt previous years, that eating my weight in food has only resulted in an afternoon nap. Went to nannas th sunday after for th games. Just about th whole family was there. It was good to catch up with my cousins, some of them i havent seen in a couple of years, its always a surprise to see how much theyve changed n grown up since seeing them last.
For new years eve we got invited to port clinton with a m8 n his girlfriend, it was an ok trip, drank too much, got too much sun. If only our m8s girlfriend wasnt such a trout, we all would have had a much better time. Oh well.
I hope everybody else had a gr8 xmas n new years, best wishes for 2009!

Carpe diem!