My Out

Thats it, I'm leaving. The girl and I decided to head down to the farm. Some people might say, another holiday? But I saw woot woot. This has been such a long week and its going to be soo good to just head down there and relax. Its going to be a big TV watching weekend I think. The cricket is into its fourth day in Perth and the tennis is in full swing so there will be plenty to not do.

I also bought a heap of old games for the super Nintendo on eBay so I will take them down and give them a whirl. Should be an awesome weekend. See you all Sunday.

My Tough Tough Week

Its only Thursday but I feel like I'm one hundred. This week has been soo soo hard at work. I have been getting the space around a house ready to be paved and landscaped and its been tough. I have only been able to do some of the work with our machines and then the rest was all by hand. I dug a storm water trench half way round the house and then leveled the back yard all by hand. Every normal day at work I do physical things but this week has been constant for 4 days so far and I'm tired.

I have been staying at the girls house all this week and for some reason her internet isn't working which has made it a bit hard to post this week but I'm back. I don't know what other plans I have for the weekend so I think the girl and I will head down to my families farm/shack. Should be good to relax.

I put up a few random photos on the Spud Photo Blog so check it.

My Tune

Life, how good is life.

The music has been good lately. Its plays during the day and it sings out at night. Every morning I wake up to her little tune and I never get sick of hearing it. The days have been long and work has been tough, but the music has been good. The music has been really good.

My Am Legend

The other night the girl and I went to see the new Will Smith movie, I Am Legend. It has been advertised a lot on TV and in the papers but the ads only showed small non crucial snippets of the movie and it was really hard to work out what the movie was actually about. In the end it was a great movie but definitely not a normal one.

The main weird thing about the movie is that for 75% of the movie the only character is Will Smiths character and there isn't a lot of talking. You spend the whole time in an intense concentration, trying to work out what is going to happen next. You barely notice the lack of dialog.

At the end of the movie I was almost confused whether I liked it or not but I have decided now that it was good. Some people I have talked to loved it and some thought it was a crappy zombie movie but I enjoyed it.

My Daft Punk

My Worry

Its weird how no matter how long or short it is a holiday is a holiday and no matter how short or long the holiday is, its always hard to go back to work. The last two days have been a struggle. Monday I had no interest at all and today was just as bad but for a different reason. The girl has had bad head aches and migraines ever since I have known her but lately they have been terrible. She has been missing a lot of work and hasn't been able to do a lot lately. Today she went to the doctor to find out what could be done. She had a CT scan to make sure there wasn't a tumor in her brain or something major but luckily that came up negative. It was very very stressful today waiting for the test and test results and I am so relieved everything is ok. She has been given some stronger pain killers and a preventative medicine so that when she feels a migraine coming on she can take it and it will relieve the pain. I hope it makes her life easier because its been a struggle lately for her.

I also put a heap of photos up on the Spud Photo Blog of my trip to Wallaroo and of a job we did today which involved moving a 20 tonne press, so check them out. Woot. Byes.

My Fishing Trip

The girl and I had planned to head up to Wallaroo Friday night after I finished work but I managed to take Friday off so in the morning the girl raced out to get her boat license and then we headed up at about midday.

For some reason I woke up Friday morning feeling terrible and felt average for most of the drive up. Wallaroo is two hours north of Adelaide and it took most of the drive and a hotdog from a place called tuckertime to make me feel better. It was a good drive though. The girl and I just chatted and listened to music.

We found the street the house was on using the girls phone which has a GPS built into it and arrived at about 2:30pm. We unpacked our gear and I got introduced to everyone and then we headed out to see the town. We went for a walk down the huge jetty and then saw a bit of the town and then grabbed some food and beer. Where we were staying was right on the marina and it was a beautiful spot. We ate tea and had drinks and chatted to everyone before hitting the sack around 12.

Saturday morning started really early to get ready to go out on the boat. I woke feeling dreadful again but soon felt better once I ate a ham and cheese toastie and then it was into the boat and off off and away. We headed out of the marina and up the coast for a ways before stopping and drifting for squid. I hadn't done a lot of fishing before so this was just about my first time. I didn't really know what I was doing but managed to catch, reel in and then lose my first squid. I caught one a short while after which made up for it. Then the day slowed down a bit. In the first hour we caught more than the whole rest of the day. The girl felt a bit sick because of the way we were drifting so we headed further out to sea and anchored so we could fish for Gar and I got bored. We didn't really catch any and it was starting to get really hot and I was losing interest. We motored out even further and spent an hour fishing for Whiting which we did not catch and by the time they agreed on coming in I was very ready to hit land. I didn't get sea sick at all which was good but I did get quite bored when we weren't catching anything. We got back to the marina at about 1:30pm and I showered and had lunch to refresh.

The girl and her dad went out in the afternoon for a few hours to catch crabs but I decided not too because I had lost interest a bit and it had gotten a bit rough so I didn't want to risk getting sick. They caught a few fish and a few crabs so they did alright without me. That night everyone was pretty tired from fishing so after eating quite late we crashed and watch Gladiator on TV.

Sunday, again started pretty early. The girls dad and uncle had planned to take us quite far down the peninsula to fish but the seas were quite rough so we split up. Her uncle went out with some of his fishing mates and the girl, the girls dad and I went just out of the marina to look for Gar and Whiting. It was pretty rough but not unbearable and to my surprise I didn't feel ill at all throughout the day. One thing was different though. About three minutes after the first cast, we caught a fish and that continued all day. We caught about 25 Gar, 1 Whiting and 2 squid before it got too rough and we had to head in a bit before midday. At that stage I actually didn't want to come in so it was a bit of a turn around from the day before. The fishing was good and I caught most of the Gar which was cool. The highlight was when the girls dad had a line in for Whiting but was helping the girl and I bait and untangle our lines. He wasn't paying attention to his line until the girl noticed it wiggling. He reeled it up to find a Whiting attached to the hook and a squid attached to the Whiting. The squid slipped off as soon as it hit the air but after throwing in a few squid jags we got it in the boat and it was a monster. It had eaten a bit of the Whitings head but I was told it was still ok.

We relaxed in the afternoon and the girl took a nap and then so did I. We left to head home at around 6 and were home by 8:30 after stopping for subway. I had a really good weekend, I was a bit nervous on how I would go being on a fishing trip when I don't eat fish, but I had a really good time. I got to know the girls dad a lot better and got to know her uncle Andy as well which was great. She has a good family and they were very welcoming. I am looking forward to heading up next year.

I will post some more photos over on the Spud Photo Blog tomorrow. Byes

My First Week

This week, after new years eve and a day off has been hot and long. Its weird how having a day off in the middle of the week, especially when you are ridiculously hung over for it, can make the rest of the week crap. Its been a good start to the year so far and I have to say things are going well, so far.

We have had a big concrete pour on the go and have put down about 200 square meters in the last two days. We did a crossover and a water table which is the entrance to the block Wednesday and then the majority of the carpark today. We cant finish it until next week because they have cranes coming in to move some machines and they cannot drive over the fresh concrete so we have a half finished job at the moment. It has been a good job but the heat and long days have been a struggle. I still am lost when it come to what day it has been because as far as I am concerned there have been two Mondays this week. Weird.

After work tomorrow the girl and I are heading up to Wallaroo to spend time with her Dad, Aunties and Uncles to go fishing and relax in a house they have all rented. Its going to be a bit weird and a bit like there Christmas get together because I don't know a lot of them and most I don't know well. Its good though because its another holiday, lol, and I really do need to get to know her dads side of the family more. I will see how I go with the fishing side because I'm not a big fan of fish but oh well. Anything once.

I'm sure I will take a mountain of photos so I will throw a few of those up when I get back and conjure up some words in the form of sentences or writing or what ever I seem to do on here. Byes

My 2007

Happy New Year all. Welcome to 2008! I hope everyone is feeling as seedy and crap as I do.

Last night was a good night though. I finished work early yesterday and was so damn happy about it. It was soo so hot and I was in the full sun for most of the morning and afternoon. I came home and relaxed before having tea and heading up to Bridies with Layno. We had to hunt down a few bags of ice on the way up and after stopping at 5 places finally found somewhere that wasn't sold out.

Upon arriving at Bridies we played goon of fortune which is something I haven't done since I was about 16. Its where you hang a bag of cheap wine from a clothes line and spin it round. Whoever the bag stops on has to drink. It was hilarious and a good start to the night.

We drank and talked crap and cruised along after goon of fortune and then decided to play some beer pong which is what you have to do on new years. The girl got there at about 11pm after she finished work a bit early so that was a bonus.

We brought the new year in with cheers a even a bit of dancing and then jumped in the pool to cool off. It was so hot last night and it was so good to have the pool and spa as a refuge. After a few more drinks a swarm of bees moved in and terrorized us for a while. It got a bit crazy and most people got bitten but it was all pretty funny.

I saw the sun coming up before crashing on Bridies floor next to the girl. It was a good night.

My Christmassing

I will start by wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and I hope your holidays have been fun and enjoyable.

Christmas celebrations started Christmas Eve with the girl and I heading out to one of her Aunties house's for a Christmas bash with her fathers side of the family. I suffered through it last year for the first time but this time to my surprise was a lot better. Last year I was the new boyfriend so no one really talked to me and it was a struggle but this year I spoke to a few of the family and actually spoke to the girls dad. It hard because her dad lives about 5 hours away so we don't see him a lot or enough for me to have regular conversations with him so having a chat was good. We ate a lot that night. That side of her family is German so there was a lot of German food and a lot of seafood which I don't like so I ate a lot of German food.

Christmas day was celebrated at the girls mum's house. My mum and dad came round for brunch and we ate and opened presents and ate and ate and then slept for a little. After tea with her mum we headed back to my house to say hi to my parents and there guests before heading over to Sam's place for drinks. For the last few years we had all caught up Christmas night at Susi's house. This year the tradition was going to be broken because Susi is over in Europe but Sam decided to have drinks at his and he did it well. There was so much food, wine, beer and food and even presents for us chums. In the end it was a really good night and a pretty good crowd turned up.

Boxing day was a slow day. The girl and I got up pretty late and just watched the cricket on the couch all day. We drifted in and out of sleeping and eating tomato soup and it was a good day. In the night we hit the Coopers Ale house for chicken parmy's and to say goodbye to our friend Celeste who is heading overseas again. It sucks to say goodbye but the parmy's were really good.

Going back to work after a few days off was hell. It was the last thing I wanted to do and it was hot. God it was hot. Today was the same and its only going to get warmer, but I guess it is summer.

So far its been a good festive season and for a person who doesn't enjoy Christmas that much that is saying a lot. Hope you all got good presents.

I also posted more photos over on my Photo Blog. Bye now.