I think I’ve been slack with this blog now I’ve got my MySpace one.
This is supposed to be my main one, but now the other has been getting a really good go.
The MySpace one is going to only be about me. This one, I’ll share about Sienna as well.
I picked her up late after work on Friday night as I went out for a Chinese dinner. I got her just before 8pm and had to go the long way round since the ferry had long stopped transporting cars. On the way home on the motorway, I followed behind a big 4WD. Then I saw them turn on their DVD player with a screen about 7″ in size. I saw straight away that it was Futurama playing so sped up to see if I could recognise the episode. Well, travelling at 100km/h you don’t tend to get TOO close and so seeing much on a 7″ screen was impossible. I kept squinting but my telescopic lens would not bring the image any closer to my retina. Eventually they took a side road and I said “Hey you suck! I was trying to watch that!”.
I was lucky there was a service station not far from the train station where my car is parked during the day as my bladder was full of Coke Zero before I got on the train. I had only JUST made the train and so could not use the facilities at the station. By the time the train pulled in about 40 mins later I was ready to burst.
Saturday morning was the usual trip to swimming and Sienna had fun splashing around, floating on her back and practising overam strokes while holding a kickboard. I had hoped they would serve coffee in the shop, but of course a swimming centre only sells ‘healthy’ stuff like lollies, carbonated drinks and chips. *sigh* They’d clean up if they offered to sell coffee to parents whom have only just woken up and dragged themselves down to the centre.
We came home and showered then went to the local shopping centre and bought a Maccas breakfast. I don’t normally eat at Maccas EVER if I can help it, but I had no milk at home and cbf having some toast, so I had to skip coffee as well.
I bought a breakfast for myself and a hash brown with apple for Sienna. Unfortunately the hash browns were cold. Not frozen, but cooked and cooled right down. I was too tired to bother arguing and had sat far away from the fast food stand so just ate it anyway. The coffee wasn’t great but it beat no coffee at all 
We did our shopping and I checked into the local bottle shop for some red wine as I’m running out (I usually have a couple glasses at night). It also helps loosen my vocal chords for LibriVox. Only the local little shop just has El Cheapo Vino for up to $15 per bottle and the oldest is about 2004. I’ll have to visit a BWS (Beer Wine Spirits) store during the week and stock up.
We came back home and unpacked. Later that afternoon I was to meet a friend (Teddy aka Tharyn) who had flown down from Rockhampton on her way south. She had a stopover for a few hours in Brisbane and had asked me to come catch up with her and see her new bub.
Well, my alarm on my phone went off at 2pm but I didn’t hear it. By 2:45pm I had noticed the alarm and bundled Sienna into the car only to discover the next train was 7 mins away and we’d never make it. We took the train after that at about 3:25pm and got to Central at 4pm. We changed trains. Well, we were GOING TO change trains but by the time we got to the main concourse and back down again to the other platform the doors were shutting on the Airport train. The next one wasn’t until 4:32pm. So we waited. Soon it became apparent that it wasn’t arriving until about 4:37pm and by the time it would get us to the airport it would be after 5pm. Since Tharyn’s flight was boarding at 5:15pm there was no longer any point, so I rang her and we headed home.
We grabbed some Triple Ripple Meatasaurus Dominos Pizza and headed home.
Today it rained. I had some things on the line, but luckily my main (first) washing load had already been taken off the line, so I raced out and grabbed the now-damp clothes and hung them up in the garage on my makeshift line.
I already had another load in — mostly towels and chair covers — so once they were done I added them to the garage line.
Since it was raining, I had one of those cartoon lightbulbs appear over my head and backed the car out of the garage into the soft, light downpour. I then went back in and grabbed my big car sponge and went out in my shorts and washed the car in the rain. It’s about the best way to do it during our drought. The car looks nice and clean now and it looks like I will have to mow the lawn again pretty soon.
I took Sienna back home tonight and recorded another chapter of a book for LibriVox. I had done two earlier today while Sienna slept, so I’ve had a lot of reading today. They aren’t short chapters either, so it’s been a bit of a slog, but fun all the same. You can see some links to recordings I’ve done on my “VOX” page linked on the left, there. They are mostly short poems. The stories I’ve read have only been chapters in the middle of books so no point linking until other people finish their chapters as well.
Now, it’s off to bed for me!
February 19th, 2007 at 1:48 pm - Edit
I’ve also noticed that you and I are really the only ones who update our blogs. Em updates her’s regularly, as does your friend Mil and Stacy, but thats it really.
I know real life does get in the way of updating blogs, but it does get annoying when people say “you haven’t updated your blog in a while” and you just want to scream at them and go “WHAT HAPPENED TO YOURS???” but alas, as we are nice people, we don’t do that. We just update regardless because we know that despite how busy we are, we know that there are others out there who like to know whats going on and to make sure that we are ok and stuff like that..