The Chronicles Of…

So it turns out I’m off to Melbourne for Thursday and Friday next week.

I booked this course for work months ago and forgot all about it, then yesterday I get an email with my flight itinerary and stuff on it.

I stay Thursday and Friday nights and fly back early Saturday, so naturally I checked and unfortunately there’s no AFL game at the MCG on Friday night, very disappointing. There’s one at Telstra Dome, I haven’t been there, but let’s face it it’s not the G.

So off to the Casino I guess.

If I continue doing this series of courses every month to second month I will either go to Melbourne or Sydney, but I’m not so sure whether I want to do them or not, for various reasons, one of which I will blog about in the next week or so… so stay tuned…

This is a little different, must admit the more I watch it the more I piece the story together, at first I thought it was just showing a cool scene or something but then I realised there’s a bit of a story to it all…

Even if I don’t really get it…

I had a look back and realised it’s time for another quick Jeep update so here’s some photo’s…

All the photos are here http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=97087&id=535912872&l=c44b07a631

Beyond 2000 has got a lot to answer for…

I don’t have my own personal robot… my car isn’t made out of banana skins (I saw that on an episode once), and I’m not living in a cashless society…

I tried to go without cash for just one week but it’s not easy.

How do you buy your egg and bacon roll from the greasy down the road? Cash.

How do you buy your single return ticket for the train? Cash.

Can I use credit? no.

I was in Sydney yesterday, for a coupe of hours then left…

Well, I drove down Monday night, got there a little after midnight after having a little stop in freezing cold Bathurst to catch up with some friends. Then Tuesday morning I had to drive out to Bella Vista as there was an open day on for the finance company we use.

I got there only a little late, then had a tour of the office and I kid you not I had to try very hard not to laugh out loud on a few occasions as it was almost like I was in an episode of The Office.

The guy giving the tour at one point has gone “And this is Julie” he the turns to her “hey julie…” a few air punches “yeah…”, “Julie looks after…” he the gets cut off by someone saying “ummm, that’s Susan”… he then just moves on “oh, of course, of course, anyway Susan looks after…”

And then later on the big guy in the show from accounts comes to talk to us, goatie and all…

This was a really modern place, lots of staff, but still I think if I hung out there much longer it would been have hilarious.

So at lunch time, I say lunchtime because lunch was listed on the program but they never came through with the goods, naturally I’ll be having words with the rep next times he’s out even though they provided a good spread for morning tea, we wrapped it and headed home.

So I drove to penrith and picked up another ebay purchase before heading up the mountains, catching up with some other friends for a few hours and then off home…

All in all not a bad trip.

Here’s a fairly cool clip of stop motion animation or whatever it’s called…

I woke up this morning mid dream and laughing a lot.

Naturally I tried to hide it so as not to look the fool as I knew it wouldn’t be funny if I described it to Nat.

Which took a lot of head burying in the pillow and making it sound like you are coughing or something.

Actually have you ever had a situation where you had to disguise a laugh as a cough or something different?

I find it a little disturbing how often I’ll be in a meeting with my boss, or even worse talking to someone about something really important or sad and all of a sudden I’ll have the urge to break into laughter.

Sometimes I’ve thought about something funny, but a lot of the time I just have an uncontrollable urge to laugh and then need to try and hide the huge smile on my face and stop myself from laughing, usually multiple times…

Ebay is becoming more familiar in our household, here’s some recent transactions:

• SOLD Ford Falcon
• BOUGHT Baby/Toddler swing
• BOUGHT Set of Tallboy Drawers
• BOUGHT 5 pairs of kids shoes

We paid less than half price, compared to a new set, for the Tallboy Drawers. They may be used, but if we get around to it we’ll sand them back and restain them and bicketty bam smicketty smoo brand new (ish). 

So I’m happy so far, all the purchases have been things we were going to buy anyway, actually Nat was down the shops to buy the drawers and they were out of stock (thankfully) so we checked ebay!

On another note, I’m always surprised by the amount people will pay for some things, you see things go for above the price you can buy them new then they whack postage, sometimes over inflated, on top!!

Got my Ruddy money today!!

Happy as, but now the dilemma with what to do with it. I want to save it, but it would be fun to stimulate the economy too, and it would buy me almost half a new laptop which I’d really like cause my old one is falling apart and sucks in so many other ways.

Dicker has opened my eyes a little to the wonders of MAC, the price tag is a scary, maybe it’s worth it, but it’s a lot of money…

It’s in the savings… but we’ll see what happens.

I’m sick of seeing that still frame of the woman in the bunny youtube clip so am blogging to move it down the page…

Ok, so I’ll blog properly too…