Twenty Seven

It's my Birthday today and I'm here at work, answering the phone and taking it easy. Our administrator is on holidays and her backup is at a course for the day so I'm taking over the office. So far I've had two calls and two visitors. Not much in it really. I'm enjoying the peace in the office and catching up on all the little things I should have done earlier in the week.

I had made some sausage rolls on Tuesday night and I, along with the two other guys in the office ate the rest of them for morning tea. Mmm! Those and a hot thick cup of PNG coffee and I knew it was going to be a good day.

I've had heaps of SMS and email from everyone (thank you all my lovelies!) and I just received a beautiful bunch of flowers from Jess and Joel.


Robin got in early and was the first to email me (at 4am) some Birthday wishes. Miss you babe, wish you were here!

I'm also looking forward to heading out for dinner with mum and dad. We're going to my favourite Chinese restaurant in East Perth. Hurrah! Bring on 4pm!

09/09/09 - Unlucky for Some

I had realised that things were never going to be the same again.

The powers that be, had shut down my Facebook on my BlackBerry.

No more poking.

No more status updates.

No more social networking.

They are taking a little bit of "happy" from my life.

One app at a time.

Damn.

Father's Day

I drove over to mum and dads house at around 11am, dodging the usual "Sunday Driver" suspects, with a card and gifts. We all chatted for a bit while mum finished off making obiad (its not lunch and not dinner, its about half way). On the menu today was goulash with potato pancakes (placki ziemiaczane) with a cucumber salad and a cold cabbage salad. Mmm! I was in heaven.

We had obiad with a nice bottle of Late Harvest from Darlington estate and topped it off with a cheesecake. As it was only about 1pm when we had finished eating, mum decided that she and I should head into the city and go shopping. Dad was quite happy to just enjoy another glass of wine and pack the dishwasher.

So off we went into the city, starting out in Myer where we raided the sales racks for dresses. After trying a few on, I noticed a lovely white dress with large red flowers printed on it, was hanging on a rack in the main walkway. Noone was at the rack as they were full price, but something about the dress just made me want to grab it anyway.

Lucky for me, it fit like a dream. Its flowy and goes out from the waist and I've already nicknamed it my "princess dress". It has a black strap that ties around the waist and just tops it off perfectly. The trim and stitching is flawless and you can really see the value in the money spent on this little white number. Mum also bought herself a new dress and after checking out the new Boss perfumes we headed out the door to the Merchant for a coffee.

Now, like all good shopping trips, you can't buy a new dress without matching shoes now can you? No! So off we went through David Jones and around the mall to Emporio. Anyone that knows shoes, knows that you really can't go wrong with four floors of them. Mum spotted a hot pair of red suede and black leather heels to go with my dress. They even go well with the jeans I was wearing. Score!

Then it was back home again and here I am, sitting with another slice of cheesecake wearing my new shoes in. There goes yet another weekend and it's back to work again tomorrow.

The Photo Project

I couldn't help myself. After making a frame of "famous" photos for Robin for his 30th Birthday, I decided to get a frame made up of my own photos as a little tribute....

...to myself

The Results!

Yes, after 13 weeks of study and a few weeks of hibernating afterwards, I have results!

Financial Management - 70
Economic Analysis and Asian Economies - 82

82?!?!?! Unheard of! I never would have gotten anywhere near an 80 in my Engineering degree and all of a sudden I've managed to rock a High Distinction. Don't get me wrong, it's not a bad thing, it was just a little unexpected. Anyway, good news all round as I can now continue on with my studies and rip into some more WASM units in November and December.

One More...

I promise to update my blog soon.

I've been busting my chops with uni work. My last exam was on Sunday and I have one more assignment to go, due this Sunday.

I promise I will.

Hail Storm

Not since Sweden in March 2008 was I this excited. Not snow this time, but it was pretty close.

I'm pretty familiar with the sound of rain on the rooftop, but this was much more noisy. I bolted outside in nothing more than my pyjamas running around the ice with bare feet. It was so cold but I just didn't want to go back inside and put shoes on. Robin also came outside and before we knew it, we were making ice balls and throwing them around and at each other.


With harshly cold temperatures all week and with record rainfalls, it wasn't surprising to have so much hail fall. It collected in the gutters and drains and eventually caused them to overflow. Much of the water started to flow into the house and down the walls near the garage.

The towel bunds we created helped keep a lot of the water off the floors but the damage was already done; the water was in the roof and it had seeped through the ceiling and through the joins in the plaster.