this is our new house. sorta. the design is unfathomable, and even though i sketch house plans for fun (yes, i am that boring), i couldn’t figure this place out to draw. so i came up with this rough sims 2 representation.

see the corner of the bedroom that juts into the lounge/dining area? i ran into that the other day. my arm has a massive bruise where i hit it. i was distracted by the halo 3 beta on the tv, see. it’s very pretty.

anyway, there you go.

i like long weekends. i especially like long weekends when we’re going on holidays at the end of the week. for 10 days! so this week, i’m only actually at work for 2 days, which is very nice, i must say.

had a good long weekend - hung around at home mostly, not including buying tix on saturday, soccer on sunday and coffee yesterday. alex came over for dinner on sunday night, which was much fun, and we ended up talking weddings till 3am!

got out pups (about a 13 yr old who finds his mum’s loaded gun) and dreamcatcher (about 4 guys, friends since childhood, who encounter something ’sinister’ in the woods) too yesterday and loved them both. think i’ll definitely need to buy dreamcatcher. its a bit of a monster movie, but it was incredibly well done, and not as cliched as you expect. plus it has morgan freeman and jason lee in it, it’s a stephen king book, and the screenplay was done by william goldman (princess bride) and lawrence kasdan (who also directed it, and co-wrote empire strikes back, and the return of the jedi)!!

i wish i could watch movies all the time. maybe i should be a movie critic? then i could. except i’m not very critical; i like most movies. sigh. maybe i should just be a bum. they earn reasonably good money, don’t they?

we’re moving at work next friday am. i’m in a meeting all thursday. this means, my office, and my boss’ office, and this other manager’s office, all need to be completely packed up (by me) by wednesday afternoon. but thats okay really, because even after 4 moves in as many years, i still love putting stuff in boxes!

in other news, its nearly my birthday, and i have no idea what i want, or if i want to do anything. my birthday has always meant so much to me, i guess because it was the one day i felt my brother didn’t get all the attention. heh. but they never met previous expectations. until recently (say, the last 3 years?) :) so anyway, now i’m kinda contented - dont get me wrong people, i still want attention and presents and fun and frivolity, but i guess, i’m just more relaxed about it. which can only be a good thing.

this weekend, i hope, will consist of movies and bowling, two of my very favourite things to do. then next weekend, i suspect i should plan something for my birthday, keeping in mind, because its so close to christmas, all the good restaurants in sydney will be booked out. meh, i dont think i want to go out for dinner anyway. geez, i dont know. leave it with me.

because i am retardogirl, not only am i still up at midnight on a sunday night, but i’m even making a post! see my dedication?

work tomorrow. huzzah! just when i was starting to relax, enjoy myself and stop having random panic attacks.

on the silver lining side of this cloud however, our application for the new place we wanted was approved! yay! so moving will take place in 2 weeks! yay!!! looking forward to it very much.

. . . except why is it we always get ourselves into these positions right when we’re going through a whole bunch of other stuff? ie. kurt’s working 6 days a week at the moment, and for the past 6 weeks, i’ve been working 10 hours a day or so, getting into the swing of this new job i’ve got. but thats gonna stop damnit. there’s only so much a person can do right? right?! gulp.

oh hey! you should all check out dan’s new and improved baby; its very shiny!

also, i’m back online now too. the usual details.

and on that note . . .

in the four months i have been without weblog, life’s been rather eventful.

for a start, i have a new site! gaze upon it in all its unfinished sparkling newness. much thanks to kurt, once again, as he patiently attempts to turn my confused ramblings into something resembling a functional website.

around the world in 68 days - alex is back .. to the news that her parents are moving to the country, and she can either go with, or stay here by herself. she seems to be handling the news well.

we have a new lg fridge.

new job. officially employed. earning a (better) salary. working for tha man. not ripping the system. going out of my head entirely.

on the horizons: further site development, a future move east, and a future work move north-east. but right now .. reheated pizza, gangs of new york and my baby and me on the couch, till its time to leave for soccer.