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Happy Birthday Little Fella

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Happy Birthday Little Fella
Originally uploaded by deeleea

Who’d have thought a year could go so fast… admittedly he was 6 weeks old when I got him (crikey, that means Christmas isn’t so far away…) so I haven’t had him a year, but today is his Birthday. He’s still great company, even if today it was me who got the presents… 2 massive roaches and a skink…

Gross.

Random Soapboxing

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Is it just me or is it just a bit crazy that a new show on TV here is all about the ‘best of the web’? Admittedly they’ve hired some pretty popular Friday night presenters but surely a show about the best vids on the web is doomed… seriously, if it’s any good everyone’s already seen it. 70% of Aussies have the Internet at home – are they trying to appeal to that other 30%?
Good Luck.

Counting Down

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I am hanging out for November 9th. The last deadline for handing in assignments… I am ‘this close’ to finishing my major research assessment (should be done today) and then have one final piece to hand in, a 2,500 word essay about art and culture. That’s my project for next weekend.
Then I have a looooong list of things I want to tick off on the ‘girls just wanna have fun and be creative’ list.
Let’s see just how far I get.

  • Pick up the 365days project. I’ve had to let it lapse because I was all out of creativity and was waaay too busy to keep up. It’s a bit disappointing, though I have to say that I think it’s a mark of how I’ve matured in that these days I don’t put myself under quite the same pressure to stick to such a trivial commitment… (College deadlines? Whole other ballgame…)
  • Go to the Western Plains Zoo in Dubbo for a weekend with Shoe.
  • Make some inroads into launching my choir project for next year. I’ve registered the domain. I need to buy Sibeliuswhile I’m still a student, book rehearsal rooms for Monday nights in term-time, start spreading the word and getting people to commit. Set up auditions.
  • Upgrade to MT 4 and upgrade some perl modules on my server so MT will do all the things I want. This is a brave step… there’s a bunch of unknown stuff in doing it but I’m up for the challenge.
  • Once I’ve done that I want to rejig my template. Needs a facelift… Want to add some bits and bobs spruce up the look. You know, usual geeky stuff.
  • Blog my Travel Journals from Waaaaay back. Kerri inspired me after we talked about my visits to her neighbourhood and I got all energised to digitize the journals I’d kept and to scan some of my souvenirs. I’ve yet to go through the letters I wrote while I was living OS but that’s on the agenda as well… (Major project, this one)
  • Get back into the walking routine. Now that it’s daylight saving again there’s no excuse.
  • Get back into the Saturday morning habit of having breakfast at zero and taking the laptop with me. This time to work on the novel. Not other site projects.
  • Buy a blender and make some cocktails.
  • Share them…
  • Get my paperwork in order (ok, hardly fun and creative but an unstressed Deeleea is a happy and creative one… undone paperwork stresses me out)
  • Check out the possibility of staying longer in NZ in Feb)
  • Get new summer recipes. I’m so BOOOOORED with my current repertoire… any ideas??

That’s a bit to get me started… now I need to organize my wish list… I’ve a new toaster and I’m eyeing off matching kettle and blenders… then there’s the sofa… sigh… add to the list the debt cancellation plan… it’s in progress… just want it to go FASTER!!!

This is Life

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I went to lunch, rather unexpectedly at a very posh restaurant a few years back, my companion was paying and she’d asked me to choose a restaurant I’d like to go to – “Choose an expensive one”. She said.
I chose the Bathers’ Pavillion completely unaware of just how expensive it was.
Rather than make a deal out of it in the course of the meal, on the way out I apologised rather ashamedly, that I’d never have suggested it if I’d realised that it was going to cost quite so much. And her reply to me was something along the lines of.
“Life is the sum total of your experiences. It isn’t how much you spend, it was worth it to have the experience.”
I’ll never forget it, the experience itself or that she said this. It has really stuck with me.
I had one of those experiences this evening. I’d been browsing the events guide in June and noted that my best mate’s favourite musical was on. I gathered the details, suggested we go for her birthday.
And tonight we went.
The show was ‘Blood Brothers” which is not a lovely, happy clappy, romancy production. It’s a dark look at the English class system.
And it was playing in Newcastle. Which is about 150km from the Northern Beaches – (given the major urban factor of where we are, it’s conceivably a 2.20hour trip).
One Way.
Which wouldn’t be in the least bit crazy if I hadn’t just spent the last 3 days with one eye closed behind the viewfinder of the camera, photographing our latest ‘Big Thing’ or if I’d realised that this was the weekend daylight saving finished, effectively doing away with an hour of the already very short night’s sleep I was anticipating. Or if we’d booked a night in a motel to save the effort of driving all the way there and back for an evening… But there were kids to come home to, and I’ve got to hit the books again today… so, it was a flying trip up the freeway for us.
On the scale of crazy this probably doesn’t even really rate a 5… not as daft as dropping everything and driving 4 hours for a hamburger, or other things I may or may not have done as a teenager (I’m thinking about an alleged night of ledging around the War Memorial Museum in Auckland – nearly made it ALL the way round… but not quite).
And so, my life is richer for having shared this experience with Kirk. Getting onto the wrong roads for sheer distraction at the import of our own conversations, fortuitously getting there on time in spite of our complete lack of knowledge of the local area… Driving all the way back in the dark talking about the stuff girls talk about.
I’d do it again in a heartbeat… I’m all for adding to the experience of life… and not just letting it happen… so Shoe, if you’re reading this, get ready. We’re going to Dubbo for a weekend in November…