Today was quite relaxed. Slept in a bit, just generally hung around. Started playing Roborally until Ralph and Ali and the kids came over. Played a bit of eco Fluxx and then had lunch (leftover lamb roast and potato with cheese on a roll).
After lunch finally left Sydney and dropped in to visit David and Yvonne. Saw some random photos from their Romania holiday and the Unanderra derailment. So that was all very pleasant.
Then finally came home, getting home just on dinner time. Used a big pile of Lizzi's tomatoes for a pasta sauce, was very nice.
And so that was my weekend. It turned out to be a very nice, if very hot and humid weekend. I don't think Stu could have dealt with it - it was people the entire time. And not his people (his people are more ok than my people). But anyway.
As per usual I don't want to go to work tomorrow...
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It ended up being a 13 hour day.. not fun.. and still didn't get anywhere near enough done :(
And then I get home very late and just want to go to bed. But instead I compiled some photos...
A water lily at Nat and Andrew's..
La Trappe Quadrupel beer that Stu got the other week. It was really nice.
The salad and lasagna the Nattos made on Sunday..
And finally, sunrise this morning..
And then I get home very late and just want to go to bed. But instead I compiled some photos...
A water lily at Nat and Andrew's..
La Trappe Quadrupel beer that Stu got the other week. It was really nice.
The salad and lasagna the Nattos made on Sunday..
And finally, sunrise this morning..
Here's a few more from 2007..
The Hogwarts logo mosaic in pieces. If anyone actually cares I'll publish the counts of all the pieces I used..
A spider that terrorised me by just being..
The Hogwarts logo mosaic in pieces. If anyone actually cares I'll publish the counts of all the pieces I used..
A spider that terrorised me by just being..
A penny farthing at church..
I found this photo of mushrooms in my "to be uploaded" folder for my blog. And couldn't remember taking it, or what the "front" could be - as we don't have bark like that out the front of here. So was looking through December photos trying to find it.
Then realised it was December 2007.
Ooops!
Then realised it was December 2007.
Ooops!
I'm going to make more of an effort to blog every day. The last year or two I've been slack at keeping up every day. So we'll see how I go.
Crazy hot today. Well.. fairly hot, but very dry, so actually not so bad. That, and I was in air-conditioned comfort all day :) Perhaps no such luck tomorrow, depending on how much work I get done from home. If it's too hot I might wander in heh.
Got some Christmas decorations put away today, but spent too long fixing broken light bulbs in the fairy lights sets to actually get the tree pulled down. Oh well.
Actually another resolution for me should really be to manage my photos better. Like not leaving them two weeks before even downloading them off my camera, and then having too many to sort out for the blog. Yup, definitely a resolution for this year.. :)
Crazy hot today. Well.. fairly hot, but very dry, so actually not so bad. That, and I was in air-conditioned comfort all day :) Perhaps no such luck tomorrow, depending on how much work I get done from home. If it's too hot I might wander in heh.
Got some Christmas decorations put away today, but spent too long fixing broken light bulbs in the fairy lights sets to actually get the tree pulled down. Oh well.
Actually another resolution for me should really be to manage my photos better. Like not leaving them two weeks before even downloading them off my camera, and then having too many to sort out for the blog. Yup, definitely a resolution for this year.. :)
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
There's a bunch of photos sitting in my intray that I've been meaning to upload for months. And a whole stack of other photos I haven't even sorted yet :/
Here's a few of them anyway..
Some Jelly Bellys
Some flowers from our old garden
A very agro young galah that screeched and flapped its wings at us when we walked under it
A storm that passed over us last weekend
Looking north(ish) from Mt Ainslie
Chay and David got us Eternity II for Christmas .. I think they just got it to torture me heh
Had Jeff and Ruth over for dinner tonight. We thought they were going to bring takeaway, but they didn't, so we ended up scrounging up some pasta and sauce for dinner. They did bring some champagne tho so that was nice.
After dinner (and after Stu fixed up their mail and address books) we showed them the "highlights" of the honeymoon photos, which they quite enjoyed. Reminds me I have to really redo the first half of the highlights, which were done by selecting photos from thumbnails, which didn't always pick the best of the batches.
Today was supposed to be a quiet day at work catching up on stuff that's been hanging around too long. Instead I had to fix a bunch of problems. There ought to be a law against people building systems and releasing them into production, then immediately going on leave. *sigh*
And who said it could be a mere 11C tonight? It's summer for heavens' sake!! :)
After dinner (and after Stu fixed up their mail and address books) we showed them the "highlights" of the honeymoon photos, which they quite enjoyed. Reminds me I have to really redo the first half of the highlights, which were done by selecting photos from thumbnails, which didn't always pick the best of the batches.
Today was supposed to be a quiet day at work catching up on stuff that's been hanging around too long. Instead I had to fix a bunch of problems. There ought to be a law against people building systems and releasing them into production, then immediately going on leave. *sigh*
And who said it could be a mere 11C tonight? It's summer for heavens' sake!! :)
Despite the fact that Die Hard 2 has plot holes large enough to drive trucks through, I still rather enjoy it and watched it again on telly tonight.
Prior to that I was at Dave's for a Christmas/house warming drinks/afternoon tea thing. I drank a little too much champagne .. oops..
Prior to that was tidying up the house/unpacking etc.
Yesterday was more of the same (unpacking and tidying that is). As well as lunch at Fortune Box and Melita over for afternoon tea.
I still haven't sorted out photos from the past couple of weeks, even though that was on the todo list for today too.
Thirsty..
Prior to that I was at Dave's for a Christmas/house warming drinks/afternoon tea thing. I drank a little too much champagne .. oops..
Prior to that was tidying up the house/unpacking etc.
Yesterday was more of the same (unpacking and tidying that is). As well as lunch at Fortune Box and Melita over for afternoon tea.
I still haven't sorted out photos from the past couple of weeks, even though that was on the todo list for today too.
Thirsty..
One of these days I'll update this blog with photos I've taken over the past month or so ...
In the fullness of time.. :)
In the fullness of time.. :)