Continuing on from tg’s account of the embarrassing conversation we had with the keyboardist from speedstar, in a sort of role reversal situation (tg usually having an expert memory and sense of observation where mine is generally lacking), I was having a strange conversation with him about the fact that he is also a ‘contemporary dancer’ (an art form for which I have much contempt, but at the same time, I secretly love it) and as well as me actually realising he was in speedstar, I also noticed that his tambourine was broken and was able to name drop two contemporary dance troops which I have seen and he has performed in. He didn’t make it to supermild though, prolly thought we were a bit weird.

On Sunday we finished the first stage of the ~ move Tallandoon – a 3 step process. Ktya told me that moving house is apparently the second most stressful thing you can do in you’re life. Ktya has moved house at least 15 times in her life, that averages out to more than once every two years.

Unusable things that are/were stored in the hallway at Tallandoon:

• Approximately 7 computers and 3 monitors
• 1 x broken pinball machine
• 2 x guitar amps
• 2 x keyboards
• 1 x arm chair
• 10 x large empty boxes, some with odd holes cut out and sticky tape in strange places
• 50 x pieces of foam that j is planning to make a ‘foam wall’ out of
• plus a number of unidentifiable boxes precariously balanced on top of the wonky book case

In other news:

Ate dinner at the African restaurant on Henley beach road on Friday night. It was actually pretty good I thought, definitely felt like we could have been somewhere other than Adelaide. Their first shipment of Ethopian beer had just arrived and it went down pretty well, except when J’s mum let us know that she was saving the single bed in J’s old room for our children?

Went to the cemetery with my Nanna on Saturday and visited seven dead people. Discovered that my Grandma and Grandpa’s grave was up for ‘renewal’ and if you don’t renew then they bury someone else there.
FYI: 1 x burial plot that can hold 4 bodies and unlimited ashes costs $20 per year and is renewable for up to 50 years at a time.

Sunday night ate Australia’s Pizza House again, personally I think a.p.h. is terrible and I feel sick thinking about it, but when it’s put in front of me I can’t help but eat it.  ¶ 4:51 PM 3 comments

  Poker corner
Played a $20 tourny last night, and won, yey. I was pretty lucky though, I had a couple of hooks in the hole on the big blind, and I raised and the only other guy in said to me “be careful young lady” and then “pocket” which was a sure sign I should have folded cause then he went all-in. But I called anyway (prolly not correct play) and he flipped over a couple of queens. Then the flop came and a Q hit, but then on the river I hit a flush! Ha, serves him right, I have a feeling he was a pig.

Cupi dolls
Had dinner at Matsuri last night, yum, haven’t had really good Japanese for a while, Amnda recommended the beef sashimi, which was really good, raw beef, cupi doll mayo, spring onion and radish, yum.

How nice is the grace
Then went to Ken Stringfellow. I’ve never heard his stuff before, but he was usings tg’s piano. I didn’t really get into it and he seemed like a bit of an asshole, praps I'm too much influenced by personality, but he seems to be trying to put a lot of himself and his emotion into his songs, so I guess that means his songs are part asshole too.

Despite the asshole thing, he was kind of funni, and I found the banter between songs more entertaining than most of the songs themselves. A couple of the songs were nice, but they were mostly all the same tempo and style and gave me the same feeling I get when I watch a serious, emotional, artistic short film that is trying to evoke my emotions but really I don’t give a shit about it.

Oooo, so scary
When I got home, Jn was there and he waited until I walked in the room and then did the lamest ‘boo’ I have ever heard, seriously I didn’t even flinch. He had clearly been lying there waiting and planning, hahaha, it was such a fail.

I’d rather be a freak than a sheep
Saw a couple of real desmonds in a tissy on the way back from lunch, like these were hardcore desmonds, the kind with track marks, this is what I overheard

D1: naaaaahh, don’t worry about it mate
D2: yeeeh, who gives a f**k
D3: yeeeh, who gives a f**k, I’d rather be a freak than a sheep anyway.
D1: too rite mate, who gives a f**k

In other news…
It’s Friday, yey!!  ¶ 3:08 PM 0 comments

  Performance Review

The following questions leave my mind in a totally blank state:

What work and development objectives did I achieve/ not achieve over the last 12 months?
What are my work and development objectives for the next 12 months?
How does my plan fit in with the Strategic Plan and what would be the impact of not meeting my objectives?

OMG, wtf do I say to these questions?

I think I’ll leave them until tomorrow.  ¶ 2:17 PM 0 comments

  To Tallandoon I go

ETA: 29th April

So I’m moving from my new style Wakefield St city living town house to Tallandoon, a charming old leafy suburban bungalow in Wayville that comes with three excellent new housemates.

This means a new bathroom:people ratio previously 2:3, soon to be 1:4

and I’m also moving from having a boyfriend-on-call to being a girlfriend-living-in

and from an active cleaning/shopping/cooking environment to a somewhat more passive cleaning/shopping/cooking environment

Despite the obvious possible issues that may come up and my devastation at losing my two current housemates to their new city love nest, I’m actually really looking forward to it at this moment in time. I embrace change.

In other news:

Rk did extremely well in the poker open placing 9th in the end. C’mon rk, update your blog pls!!

Jn has to have his knee reconstructed which = 2days in hospital, 2 weeks off work and 6 months or so of rehab. Luckily he goes into hospital the Monday after I move in, so he will still be able and willing to help me move! Yey.

http://adelaideindex.com/ has us all listed in its blog directory! And tani makes the blurb, hahahaha.

The weekends:

Friday, Went to the opening of the Austral’s bunker, not sure what they were trying to do here, but it’s not really a venue, and it’s not really a restaurant, and there are a lot of bare walls, and I think I’m nostalgic for the old beer garden and I very well may be living in the past. I ran into a couple of ex students, I tell ya what, it’s a bit weird.

Saturday, My sisters party was a good one, despite the weird gatecrasher, who turned out to be kinda funni in the end and just wanted an audience for his interpretation of the theme song from Transformers. Got kicked out at about 1am or something and Clre moved the party to shtz, which was so smokey that tg nearly fainted and had to go outside. Where she was chatted up by two 19 year olds and I got stuck with some idiot who managed to insult everyone who I was having good conversation with. Everyone went home in dribs and drabs and I ended up last man standing and winning pool!! Nice.
Happy Bday Clr!! Again, hahaha, sucked in, she’s 30 now.

Friday, Went to the zoom short film thingo at the Mercury, stayed for just over an hour or so, saw ‘Napolean of Burnside’ which despite being very much like a highschool drama project, had a very good sound track and was really funny too. Eddie’s entry ‘Fitz gets rich’ was heaps good and got my vote, clever, funni, nice animation and also having a good soundtrack featuring Peter Combe! There were a couple of other really good ones too, but also a couple of really shite ones, as you’de expect, typical serious emotional relationship bs that is very hard to watch and really who cares, it’s not that interesting, but overall I’m glad I went.

Saturday, Went to Henley to another 30th. Ran into some ppl who I haven’t seen for a long time, like this girl who was best friends with my sister in primary school and my most vivid memory is of her and my sister pouring a full bucket of iced water (with big chunks of ice) on me while I was in the shower. They also used to beat me up a lot, I was kind of annoying at that age though. Anyway, surprisingly, I felt no animosity to her what so ever.

Sunday, Extended family dinner, had an argument with Jn that lasted the whole way there that consisted of me saying ‘It’s at Zacs’ and him saying ‘You told me Estias’ over and over (unusually, neither of us were shouting). So when we got to Zacs and found out it was at Estias, I was pretty much in for a lot of pain for the rest of the night, and I was right. There was a little ray of sunshine though, my brand new second cousin Emily was there and she is really very very cute. I even got to see photos of her half out of the womb (cesarean style), which sounds gross, but was a pretty amazing thing to see!  ¶ 12:27 PM 0 comments