Christmas and the New House

Robin and I moved into our new pad on December 12th, just in time to get everything sorted out and ready for Christmas.


We had so much stuff (and crap) to unpack and a lot just went back into the bin. There were also many trips to the supermarket and even to IKEA to make sure this house felt like home :)


A trip to Bunnings during the week and I bought some chillies and parsley to add a little more life into the somewhat dehydrated garden. Yellow chilli will go nicely with my garlic prawns or mussels!


And just to prove to the non-belivers, I "am" able to do things! Below are my first ever chocolate marble muffins (which came out perfect actually) and my green manila folder origami Christmas tree.


This year for Christmas I got some Oakley sunglasses, Disney Pluto DVD's, a personally signed copy of Petter's "X" CD, a white gold and diamond pendant ball, a Diesel tee (from Mum) and lots of chocolates. I gave Robin an awesome toolkit (black chrome) and a big kiss ;)

In other news, it's going to get a little tougher to post up blogs as I don't have internet at home and will be without it for a little while. No thanks to iiNet running out of ports for ADSL 2 at the Victoria Park exchange. You bastards!!! Anyway, blogs will still keep coming, just less frequently.

I hope everyone had a fantastic Christmas, and I wish you all a happy and healthy New Year.

The Final Night

My final night "at home" isn't off to a good start. I've already been trying to fall asleep for nearly an hour with no success. I'm just too excited. Only a few more hours until I pick up the keys to the new place and till we move in!

Certified

Last Tuesday I invited Robin to come with me to have my MIEAust certificate presented at the Engineers Australia auditorium in the City. What does this all mean? It means that after four years of experience in the field of engineering I am deemed a professional engineer! Hurrah!

The only thing I have left to do (and I aim to complete it by end of June 2009) is my CPEng which is an actual assessed certification of my chartered status. That will really tick all the boxes :)

B Eng (Mech) MIEAust... all that's missing is the CPEng

Moto Italiane Ovest 2008

This year, Robin and I headed to the Moto Italiane Ovest which was held by the Ducati Owners Club of WA The day started with a ride from Belmont around the city then the Shelley river run and back out to Technology Park where we parked the bikes up in decades for showing.

Of course being the owner of two Japanese bikes, I took Robin's Cagiva Mito instead. It's a little two stroke bang bus that makes heaps of noise and even more smoke. At first, the bike was uncomfortable and noisy, but by the end of the day I was absolutely loving it!

An awesome dark Ducati. Lots of carbon, tinted headlight covers. It's purely mean.

Some old bangers from the 50's

And some bangers from the 70's. Couple of shockers in there too!The Meeeeeetoohhhhh!

Robin with the MV

Back to a Buck

Last night I took this photo. Finally. A dollar a litre. Petrol is finally cheaper than Coca Cola.

I was in Sydney a few weeks ago and the top story on the news was that fuel was less than a dollar a litre. Well, it only took 3 weeks for Perth to catch up. We're so far behind the rest of the universe.

Packing Up

I'm taking my bat and ball and going home. To a new one that is!

It actually started yesterday with mum bringing some boxes from work, I packed up some documents and trinkets. The bigger packing was this evening, with Uni books and photo albums all finding a perfect slot in each box. Obviously not everything needs to go in a box, just the clumsy things. Last of all will be things like the computer, printer, bed, cabinets... all for the final day...

...which is next Friday!

The good news is that I have been sleeping well since my initial excitement of a fortnight ago. But there is a long way to go yet, we need to buy a fridge, washer, microwave to live. Down the line we can look at a new couch (leather of course), dining table, wall unit etc. All with time and whenever there's a sale on.