My Foggy Start

The other morning I walked out to the garage to get in my Ute and start another day and when the roller door went up, this is what confronted me. The fog gave the whole street an eerie peaceful glow. The trees up and down the street looked spectacular with their dull colours and a white back ground. It made everything seem dream like.

It wasn't the best start to the morning because its hard to get motivated when the world was dressed in its softest clothes but I managed the get to work and the day turned out to be pretty rewarding.

My Observations

Today was a funny day. Not due to the work I did, that was quite boring, but due to what happened to me while I was having lunch. We were working near a shopping center so we went there to have lunch. We were sitting outside one of the coffee shops right near the entrance doors waiting for our food and coffee when a little girl ran full speed into the glass sliding doors. She must have thought they were going to open quicker than they did and ended up hitting them. She was fine and got up and walked off but I thought it was pretty funny. Only two minutes later and women walked out of the coffee shop and walked straight into the table we were sitting at. She obviously was paying any attention to where she was walking and nearly fell on her face. She got up and walked away fine but again I thought it was pretty funny. It was a bizarre series of events.

It was a very mundane day so I appreciated two lighter moments. Byes

My Pizza Night

Last night, even though it was a lazy Monday night, I came home and made pizza's. We have people over all the time and make home made pizza's but not normally on a week night because it is a lot of work and is time consuming. We have two pizza stones that we put in the oven to cook the pizza's perfectly. Last night I just felt like pizza, so I made it...




I got very carried away with the chili flakes on the last two but they were still incredible. I definitely have to make them more often. Come round some time, Phil's Pizzeria!

My Job of the Week

Well the job for this week is another concreting job. It was a concrete slab 15 meters by 12 meters located at a scrap metal recyclers. It was an odd place to work because all day long cars were being crushed and different types and pieces of metal were going everywhere. It was a hard days work because there were only three of us but we got it all done and the end result was pretty good.

My Wild Winter Weather

Friday night was a night of extreme winds and rain. When we woke up Saturday morning the front yard was littered with tree branches and leaf litter. One larger branch managed to fall directly on our phone cable and had pulled it out from the house. It meant we had no phone or internet which was really quit a pain. I called the phone providers and told them of our problem and was told that this was a very common problem in the area after the winds from the night before.

Not having the internet was surprisingly annoying and I never realized how much Domi and I rely on it. Our service has just been re-connected so here I am! How exciting. The internet feels new again.

Bye

My Job of the Week

Well this is a new segment here at the Spud Blog. Its called job of the week and well its were I post a photo from a job I did this week. Pretty simple. This week's job of the week is a small bedroom and bathroom addition. We poured the slab and then it rained and I got soaked trying to finish the concrete. Awesome. Enjoy.

My Celebration Week

This last week has been on of anniversaries, celebrations and milestones. The first was that it was our one year anniversary of being in our home. Dominique and I moved in one year ago and it seems like only yesterday. So much has changed and this place really is a part of us now. I can honestly say that buying our home is the best thing we have done so far. The celebration was a party for Steve and Bridie's engagement. They are the next couple after Dominique and I to get engaged and so we celebrated Saturday night at the HWY function room. It was a pretty raucous sort of night and way too many drinks were had on my behalf. The milestone, and possibly the most important, was that this week was the four year anniversary of me starting this blog. Over the past four years there has been a lot of ranting, reviewing and all out dribble posted on this site but I promise it was all top quality. I'm glad I have kept this thing going and even though the past few years have been a little on the lean side, I think letters will always be typed into short rambling sentences and the words will flow on.

Here is to another four years of rambling on about what ever needs to be rambled about. Happy birthday blog.

My Dissapointment

Alright so the world cup is here and everyone is excited and going soccer crazy in Australia. We all thought Australia would do really well because we did pretty well last time, but we were not so lucky. Our first game was early Monday morning our time and we got flogged! Germany thrashed us 4 nil and to be honest from what I saw on the replay we played terribly and deserved to lose. Its really sad because we played really well in the last world cup and it would be great for soccer in Australia if we won a couple of games but I think the campaign for this year is well and truely over.

I had to work the Monday that the game was on so didn't stay up to watch it and am glad I didn't. No one likes to see their team lose like that. Im not exactly soccer crazy but I will probably watch the next game because we play Ghana and we might have a small chance of beating them. Good luck soccer roos!

My News Update

Well here it is a quick news update of all the things that are happening in my life.

1. I got engaged! Woot! Dominique and are so happy and are really enjoying this new time in our life. We have had our engagement parties and now it is on to planning the wedding.

2. There was an earth quake here last night. It was a 3.8 but it is the first earth quake we have had in Adelaide in about 50 years so its a bit of an event.

3. We planted a veggie garden, lol.

Bye.

My Technical Step Back

I don't know why but I have taken a step back from Technology in the last few years. When I was younger I knew everything there was to know about every new gadget or piece of technology that was out there and now I just don't seem to care. The first thing I don't really care about is Blu-ray DVD's. What the hell are Blu-ray DVD's???? I know how they work but what makes a movie different because it is on Blu-ray and why do they keep advertising them? The next thing I don't care about is Twitter. I don't see why you need to write a sentence about what you are doing every 12 seconds. I mean I struggle to fill a blog post with what I have done over the past week let along writing every minute. I also hate iPhones. Not because they are part of this new crazy technology but because I don't have one. The problem with my work is that it is always dirty and dirt kills phones. It is pointless me getting a phone with a big touch screen because it will be ruined in 6 months. Damn I want cool apps tho!!!

Well now that I have had my rant I need to mention that I am only 23 and not 60 so I didn't type this up on a typewriter, but I am sticking to simple things. Maybe an iPhone one day but definitely no bloody Blu-Ray.