A colleague at work sent me a website about building pre-date confidence to look at and I found it quite amusing so I looked at the home page for the site and there’s heaps of stuff this guy has done. It would be possible to spend a lot of time here.
I gather he’s a writer amongst other things. I’ve realised I find it annoying when people don’t have an About link on their website or blog. I particularly like his list of things to say when a telemarketer calls.
Happy reading!
Ah, PJ Harvey, after waiting for over two months since I bought a ticket to your concert, you delivered for me on Saturday night. I went to see you in concert at Thebarton Theatre in Adelaide and oh boy I loved the experience. You played a good mix of old and new songs and all that would have made the experience even better was Thom Yorke making a guest appearance to sing Mess We’re In. But he wasn’t there and I still enjoyed you. You have an amazing energy on stage and I’m glad you played at Thebbie because it’s a fantastic venue to see music. It wasn’t too crowded. I got a good view inbetween two tall fellows who kindly stood aside so I could see a bit better. It was pretty warm outside and inside you made things sizzle even more. I wish you could have joined us afterwards for a drink, and I wish I hadn’t had that last beer because I felt awful the next day. Perhaps it wasn’t just a hangover, but withdrawals, knowing it could be some time before I see you in concert again.
Au revoir Polly Jean.
Finally, summer has arrived here. It’s the second hot day in a row and there’s more to come. Up until now I haven’t really had to do extra watering because we’ve had so much rain but will have to remember to get out there and hydrate my plants.
I’ve got today off because I’m working tomorrow instead and I normally have tomorrow off. So I’ve had a haircut, taken the dog to the vet for her annual checkup and vaccinations and I even went to Marion shopping centre to try and get some Christmas presents. It was pretty busy there so I definitely will not attempt it when school has finished for the year. I don’t like driving around for 10 minutes trying to find a car park and then I don’t like having to fight my way through people just to get to where I want. Although in this case I didn’t really know what I wanted. It was with great pleasure I arrived back home a little while ago.
Christmas shopping aside I’m looking forward to seeing PJ Harvey on Saturday night. I finally managed to organise babysitting but have a half hour drive each way for pickup and drop off but he will have fun for the night.
Last Friday night was great fun. It was the annual safari suit pub crawl (I built the website) and as usual was a big success. I was a bit unsure about what I was going to wear but pulled it off nonetheless. My friend and I had matching lycra outfits, wigs, flowers in the wigs, false eyelashes and big sunnies for those bright moments. We also (with one other friend) sang a song on Popeye by Pussyfoot (The Way That You Do It). What possessed us to get up in front of 70 of our friends and sing this song a capella I will never know but we only decided on doing it the week before when we had our fairly regular get together for a singing session. We’d questioned ourselves why we were doing it and thought it would be fun and everyone would enjoy it. The worst that could happen would to be laughed at but agreed that wouldn’t happen and it didn’t. Everyone ended up clapping along and having a great time and so did we. I do like performing when it’s something I enjoy and I do like this particular Pussyfoot song. I’m still singing it around the house because it’s one song I know all the words to and Jaycee Junior keeps asking me to sing for him.
Went out for a walk at lunch yesterday and walked down Rundle Mall past the Myer Centre and saw a couple of police cars parked in the middle of the Mall and thought there must be something going on. Didn’t think anything of it and when I was buying some hair products the staff started talking about the shooting that had occurred a little while ago at the Myer Centre. That explained the police cars.
It turned out that a 69 year old man had gone into the Myer store and shot his estranged wife in front of other staff and customers. She was taken away to hospital but died not long after arrival.
On my way back to work I walked down North Terrace and saw all the other police vehicles and of course the news vehicles.
I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it. Did this couple have any children, but how as a family – whether there are children or not – would you cope with a situation like that? What about the grandchildren? How are the colleagues coping, especially the ones who witnessed the whole thing. They probably won’t want to go back to work again.
It makes me think that apart from the sensation we hear on the news about events like this, we don’t find out much about what went on around the climactic event. The Australian ABC television show Australian Story does delve into the stories and give an account of what lead up to the 6 o’clock news event and what happened after to the people involved and the one thing that shines through in their stories is how people cope with trauma and how they deal with it. I guess they don’t show the stories of where, overall, people don’t cope with trauma, but where they do and it’s usually inspiring to us mere mortals who hopefully don’t have to deal with too much.
As they say though, life goes on and a friend came around to my place last night and announced her pregnancy.
Still acclimatising to this new window for Typepad..
I can’t believe I feel sick again. Friday night I had the girls over and we prepared a song – The way that you do it (Pussyfoot) that we agreed we would sing in front of a group next Friday night. Why the hell did we do that? We weren’t even that drunk. I’m shit scared – more of what people will think then my performance. We decided that overall people will love it and it will fit into the theme of the outing of of a 1970s safari suit type theme with about 70 people. Towards the end of Friday night after we’d sung the song quite a few times my throat was starting to really hurt and this was on top of having sneezed all day – I thought due to hayfever – but now I think I was just coming down with something.
I had made plans to go to the Christmas pageant in the city but didn’t go and spent all day on the beanbag reading the 2 newspapers. Jaycee Junior was really good. He kept coming to me and asking if I felt better now and kissing me so I would get better. I probably just gave him my germs. I slept really well last night and feel a little better today but not that much. I feel really drained of energy and could quite easily just stay in bed but with a three year old that’s an impossibility. I was supposed to go walking with a girlfriend today but I think I will ask her to take Jaycee Junior off my hands for a couple of hours instead.
I don’t believe the unseasonable spring weather we’re having. I’m sure we’re having more rain this spring than we’ve had in a long time. At least it saves having to use precious tap water. I just hate being house bound.
I’ve been busy building my website so haven’t really been inspired to write in here. I’ve been learning all about CSS and server side includes. A lot of it still eludes me but I’m learning. I wish, as I’m sure do many web developers, that web browsers all followed the same standards. My site works in IE but not in Netscape because I’ve missed a slash or something.
I haven’t posted the website address because I don’t know if I want this site and that one mixing up but I might one day. If nothing else I’ve got a bunch of CSS and web development links I can share:
These resources are great but I still don’t get some of the fundamentals. I think my problem is I need to sit down, read a good resource for dummies and read it till it sinks in.
Now that daylight savings is in I’m a lot happier, as I’m sure a lot of parents out there are. For the last two months or so the sun and the birds have been starting to rise about five o’clock and along with it my son about half an hour later. The 5.30 mornings are not very conducive to my well being and I couldn’t wait until the clocks were turned an hour forward so the 5.30 start would be delayed by about an hour. Well it has happened. I think we should turn our clocks back and forwards when Tasmania does (a month earlier). By the end of March it’s dark at 7am and by the end of October it’s light at 5am as I mentioned above. Of course if I lived in other parts of the world this would be natural, but I don’t.
That aside yesterday morning and this morning were in stark contrast with each other in regards to getting myself and Jaycee Junior prepared for work and childcare respectively. Yesterday morning I broke from the routine slightly and let Jaycee Junior watch telly while I had a shower. I normally don’t do this but he was just going to watch me have a shower which would have delayed me getting ready somewhat. I told him that in order to watch telly he had to pack up the toys he’d already been playing with. After I finished my shower he was watching telly and hadn’t picked up his toys so I turned the tv off. In discipline terms I guess this was the right thing to do, but in regards to my sanity it wasn’t. He loves his television so he packed up his blocks but I didn’t turn the television back on which he didn’t like at all and through a tantrum that lasted a while.
I’m pretty determined not to give in to things like this and I do notice the pay-offs occasionally when he will pack up his toys and other kids don’t or won’t because maybe their parents aren’t so determined. Getting him dressed while he’s still in tantrum mode is not the right time to try to do this and by the time I eventually got him dressed I’m sure my blood pressure had risen dramatically. It didn’t help that I had woken up around 4am and had trouble getting back to sleep. The drive into work was also not easy with cars getting in my way which was in stark contrast to this morning.
I still woke up at 4am, went to the toilet and went straight back to sleep until about 7am when I was about to kiss a man in my dreams and Jaycee Junior woke me up. He ruins my love life!!!! Jaycee Junior did not watch television this morning but played happily and let me get ready in peace. We had breakfast quietly and quickly, walked the dog and had a good run into work in the car. Ahhh!!!!
