Spent entirely too much of today on Trivia Night nonsense, and still nowhere near organised. Gonna be out half of tomorrow and Monday night, which leaves a whole day and half to complete the entire thing before Wednesday night. And at the rate we're going there'll only be a few tables and the whole thing will be a waste of effort. *sigh*
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http://xkcd.com/657/ - I sooo want to print this out poster sized
http://www.toiletmap.gov.au/Default.aspx - every country should have one of these!!
http://shop.lego.com/HolidayShop/festivefun.aspx - inspired me to dig out some Lego on the weekend
Day went very quickly today. Not sure why. Maybe cause was "playing" with some more fun stuff rather than having to deal with too much crap.
Went for a walk with the sweetie tonight and did some gardening and trivia night research. So pretty successful day really.
Saturday was so totally a teaser. 25C or something, just delightful. Then back to cold and wet and miserable.
After ten years e-tax is *finally* resizable!! Sheesh, how hard could it have been? But as per usual, every year I get something that makes my tax complicated. Like this year, the very trivial closing off an old mortgage and starting it up with another lender. Blah.
Bit of a slow start to the day. Played FunTrivia for a couple of hours. Managed to get the highest points in my class for the day by playing a whole stack of easy quizzes. Got that badge so don't have to try so hard now :)
Went shopping for Jake's birthday present, and later took it over to him.
Jake with some of his presents.
Cool Transformer, although ridiculously complicated, much more so than they ever were in the eighties
Jake's cake in progress
For dinner we had whiting fillets, and Stu did some nice veggies.
Then we watched Mythbusters, Iron Chef, and V for Vendetta. I had no idea what the movie was about other than Natalie Portman having her head shaved, so was quite riveted.. really really good. With all the nonsense going on in Britain (and America) these days it seemed a little too close to one possible future..
I found FunTrivia while looking for trivia night questions. I'd looked at it sporadically for ideas as we work on the different rounds. Last night I decided to sign up and save points for the quizzes I did. And found a whole heap of fun things to do (mainly the hourly quizzes). Doing surprisingly well at some of them too. And wasting far too many hours.. ;)
After we got back from Japan I decided it would be super awesome to have a hanami in our front yard this year when our weeping cherry was in bloom. It was indeed, super awesome :)
Had our Japan travelling friends - Nat and Andrew, Natty and Sandra over and ate lots and were quite merry.
Had a brilliant day for it. If anything a little too hot heh. There was even this storm that came through *after* we'd finished up.
Stu preparing some sushi (cucumber and pickled radish and tuna)
The hanami setup (a blue tarpaulin is a must!)
Stu's sushi
Nat arranging the Pocky and the Crunky
This random dog turned up and stayed all of lunch. No idea where it came from - never seen it before! It was very friendly but kept threatening to steal the food ;)
The food - sooo much food! Lots of leftovers!
Everything and everyone setup
A bee
Andrew hanami-ing (yes Dave, that's my cap :) )
After lunch we played Trivial Pursuit. We actually started with my very lame 80s trivial pursuit (which wouldn't have been so lame had any of us actually not been just kids in the 80s), but switched over to "real" Trivial Pursuit. Lots of fun. I think Stu won :)
Nat made this super awesome swirl cake with white chocolate icing :)
And then everyone went home. And I got depressed cause I had to come down off somewhat of a high :(
But then we watched this cool documentary on Yellowstone National Park, and followed that with Fantasia 2000. Really must get myself a copy of that Bluray some time. Except for the very minor detail that we don't have a Bluray player .. hrmmm.
And so endeth the weekend.
Had an explosion day today. You know, the days where you're happily plodding along doing your thing, and then suddenly all hell breaks loose, and that's what you spend your entire day on? Yeah, well that was my day. All because of one malformed email. Fun.
But we did end the day on a nicer sort of bang.. winning for our second straight time at work Trivia Night. Mostly the same table as last time, with a couple of replacements. Was very cool :):) go team Blank!! :)
Still can't get that out of my head... trivia question from last night... I could swear I knew it but couldn't place it.. was so frustrated when I found out what it was :)
Think I had a few too many beers tonight... :)
Think I had a few too many beers tonight... :)
Had another work trivia night tonight. As per last time, there were the usual last minute cancellations and running around the office trying to find replacements. In the end Nat and Andrew came.
Had pizza for dinner and ended up only having seven on the table (someone else didn't show up and we never heard from her that she wasn't coming.. shrug).
But thanks mainly to Stu, Dave, Prescott and Andrew (I got a couple of questions but not many) we actually won!!! :) Pretty exciting :) Of course the prize was wine and movie money, but Nat, Andrew and Dave don't drink wine. Ooops! We'll have to get them something .. or their pizza.. heh :)
Pretty cool stuff :)
Had pizza for dinner and ended up only having seven on the table (someone else didn't show up and we never heard from her that she wasn't coming.. shrug).
But thanks mainly to Stu, Dave, Prescott and Andrew (I got a couple of questions but not many) we actually won!!! :) Pretty exciting :) Of course the prize was wine and movie money, but Nat, Andrew and Dave don't drink wine. Ooops! We'll have to get them something .. or their pizza.. heh :)
Pretty cool stuff :)
2008 was certainly a momentous year in the life of Kazza.
The first big news story of the year was that I got married to Stu in April. I spent several months planning the thing, and planned pretty much everything myself. In the end, the day went pretty successfully and everyone seemed to have a nice time. I got the wedding I wanted for the most part, although I did get very stressed out by the reception venue, and they ruined the enjoyment of the reception for me.
Following the wedding we took off on our honeymoon, spending a night in Japan, then a month touring Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic. Took six and a half thousand photos between us and generally had a blast. Lots of places we'd like to go back to!
The other really big news story of the year is that we bought a house here in Canberra. And seemingly at just the right time - right in the midst of the world financial crisis which was very scary, but the subsequent drop in interest rates will save us something like $12000 per year!!! We still have a couple of messy rooms, but are very much enjoying the house and we've had several groups of people stay with us.
Work has been a bit variable. The first couple of months of the year I was still feeling very overwhelmed by the place, yet didn't have too much to do so was very lost. After the honeymoon I was put on call, which meant learning a lot of things by being thrown in the deep end. I was also dumped on severely with work, and found it very stressful from time to time. Can't see any sign of letup any time soon :( After a particularly crap day one night in July, I starting drinking with the guys earlier than usual and finished relatively late, which really launched the weekly drinking sessions (which up until that time had been a lot shorter and quieter).
Other travelling included the trip over new years last year to visit Chay and David, a weekend at the coast with Scott and Kerry, a weekend in Sydney in March and another in July to attend my Nana's 80th birthday party, visit James and George, and see Stu's grandmother and aunties. Two days and ten hours of driving was pretty tiring. Chay and David came down just after Christmas to stay, which meant we spent two new years in a row with them which would have been cooler had I not collapsed in a grumpy/depressed heap.
In fish news, we cut the number of tanks from fourteen down to seven. Fourteen was far too much work and fish were getting severly neglected. Seven is a bit more manageable but we may still cull further. Moving all the tanks to our new house was definitely not fun, but we got most fish moved with only a few casualties. One of my original angel fishies is still alive, making her six years old now. She has appreciated the big water change of the move and laid several batches of eggs after the move.
Eating out, we tried a few various restaurants. We discovered Satis in Watson in the middle of winter. Satis is vegetarian and we have been there three or four times, although not since we moved. Then there is the Kingsland vegan restaurant in Dickson which is fantastic. Have only been there twice, but will definitely be going again. And Fortune Box in Gungahlin is still a favourite shopping day lunch spot. Bella Vista in Belconnen and the Dumpling Inn in Jamison are favourites as well. Fanciest restaurant we visited all year was Watersedge on Lake Burley Griffin. This was two weeks before the wedding after I'd had my hair and makeup trial, so we got dressed up and went out for dinner. Was very nice, but of course very expensive!
We tried to see Stu's brother every week for a "sci-fi" night. We watched all of Firefly, Serenity and some Battlestar Galactica. But towards the end of the year this all got too hard. Hopefully we'll do something next year.
Movies seen this year:
The first big news story of the year was that I got married to Stu in April. I spent several months planning the thing, and planned pretty much everything myself. In the end, the day went pretty successfully and everyone seemed to have a nice time. I got the wedding I wanted for the most part, although I did get very stressed out by the reception venue, and they ruined the enjoyment of the reception for me.
Following the wedding we took off on our honeymoon, spending a night in Japan, then a month touring Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic. Took six and a half thousand photos between us and generally had a blast. Lots of places we'd like to go back to!
The other really big news story of the year is that we bought a house here in Canberra. And seemingly at just the right time - right in the midst of the world financial crisis which was very scary, but the subsequent drop in interest rates will save us something like $12000 per year!!! We still have a couple of messy rooms, but are very much enjoying the house and we've had several groups of people stay with us.
Work has been a bit variable. The first couple of months of the year I was still feeling very overwhelmed by the place, yet didn't have too much to do so was very lost. After the honeymoon I was put on call, which meant learning a lot of things by being thrown in the deep end. I was also dumped on severely with work, and found it very stressful from time to time. Can't see any sign of letup any time soon :( After a particularly crap day one night in July, I starting drinking with the guys earlier than usual and finished relatively late, which really launched the weekly drinking sessions (which up until that time had been a lot shorter and quieter).
Other travelling included the trip over new years last year to visit Chay and David, a weekend at the coast with Scott and Kerry, a weekend in Sydney in March and another in July to attend my Nana's 80th birthday party, visit James and George, and see Stu's grandmother and aunties. Two days and ten hours of driving was pretty tiring. Chay and David came down just after Christmas to stay, which meant we spent two new years in a row with them which would have been cooler had I not collapsed in a grumpy/depressed heap.
In fish news, we cut the number of tanks from fourteen down to seven. Fourteen was far too much work and fish were getting severly neglected. Seven is a bit more manageable but we may still cull further. Moving all the tanks to our new house was definitely not fun, but we got most fish moved with only a few casualties. One of my original angel fishies is still alive, making her six years old now. She has appreciated the big water change of the move and laid several batches of eggs after the move.
Eating out, we tried a few various restaurants. We discovered Satis in Watson in the middle of winter. Satis is vegetarian and we have been there three or four times, although not since we moved. Then there is the Kingsland vegan restaurant in Dickson which is fantastic. Have only been there twice, but will definitely be going again. And Fortune Box in Gungahlin is still a favourite shopping day lunch spot. Bella Vista in Belconnen and the Dumpling Inn in Jamison are favourites as well. Fanciest restaurant we visited all year was Watersedge on Lake Burley Griffin. This was two weeks before the wedding after I'd had my hair and makeup trial, so we got dressed up and went out for dinner. Was very nice, but of course very expensive!
We tried to see Stu's brother every week for a "sci-fi" night. We watched all of Firefly, Serenity and some Battlestar Galactica. But towards the end of the year this all got too hard. Hopefully we'll do something next year.
Movies seen this year:
- Juno - pretty good, if a little unrealistic
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - fun but too ridiculous and too much on the "yeah right" scale
- Appleseed Saga: Ex Machina - very well done, but hard to keep up with the subtitles and watch all the action
- The Dark Knight - good movie, but dark and very long
- Quantum of Solace - ok, was too tied to the last movie
- Australia - very enjoyable, but very long (really it's two stories back to back), so don't know how would stand up to repeated viewings
- This blog had its 5th blogiversary and was celebrated with a new design
- Visited the Planetarium before it closed and met Andrew
- Little Squishy was born
- Went to the balloon fiesta
- Bought an Eee PC
- Set off fireworks on cracker night
- Went to a six-day SANS course
- Got excited by snow falling in Canberra!
- Went to an astronomy night at Mt Stromlo
- Went to two trivia nights - one with Nat and Andrew, and one at work
- Had the house wired with cat 6 by my brother and Shane and Chris
- Took the booze train to Tarago
- Played Zone 3 for the first time and actually won a game
- Big family Christmas with all of Stu's family and Kerry's family