N A N S E W O R L D

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. . . . soon there'll be nothing left for me to enjoy - LOL - 'sif.

*licks ice cube*

Last night had 'dinner' or the concept thereto with Rach. The plan was for me to install a printer/fax/scanner combo for her, have dinner (for which we shopped on the way home to her place), catch up on a few episodes of a TV show were hooked on (for which Rach even went shopping on her lunch break to get the missing cable for her TV so I could hook-up the laptop for her). Anyhow we had recent events to catch up on and quickly got stuck into one of the bottles of wine I had picked up (gotta love vintage cellar, cellar shares). Two bottles later, 11:30pm, no dinner, slight buzz and tired eyes we packed it in......... good intentions. One of our discussions however was on the concept of 'girls clubs' and could they really exist in the workplace. The discussion bred from a comment that had be thrown at a manager by an associate of Rachel's (he's a tantrum throwing, chauvinistic (believes his future wife is only good for housework and baby making), 30 something who acts like mummy still pats him on the bum and says he's beautiful, all of which is highly entertaining to watch, I have often wanted to be a fly on the wall of that office and yes I have met him... facade.. facade.. facade and a pretty transparent one at that). Anyway the Director and majority of managers (if not all?) in the organisation are female (somewhat rare however not at all unheard of) and this doesn't bode well with him for obvious reasons, hence the 'girls club' comment. So we pondered whether this would actually be possible? Our conclusion (don’t get me wrong, women working on a common goal are unstoppable) was no and that a ‘girls club’ in the purest form used to describe a ‘boys club’ would be tragically flawed (with respect to my fairer sex I don't wish to provide details as to why). Very interesting concept though….... pillow fight anyone?

Happy birthday to the girl who once walked into my grade 1 classroom with punky brewster pigtails and pink gumboots with green stripes around the rims. We went through our childhood a pair of misfits, became troubled teens and and ever troublier ;) ;) young (vixens!) ladies. Remember I may be cute (he was blind in one eye) but your gorgeous! (again he was blind in one eye). To my oldest and one of my dearest friends, someone who I can always rely on for a laugh and a supporting shoulder may today the start of your flirty thirties be the first of many deserving days of happiness xxx (not vin diesel style; hands off he's mine). 

Tonight I met baby Natalie, the first (maybe? hopefully!) to Danie and Steve's 'family'! Born 2:25pm on Monday  2nd June, Natalie weighed 7 pounds 9 ounces and was 51cm long; she has such big feet! no wonder Danie's ribs were so sore in the last few weeks! Beautiful, healthy and quiet! not a murmur during all the attention, Natalie is sure to bring the lucky couple much happiness. For friends of Danie and Steve a notice will be in the announcement section of the Herald Sun tomorrow. I have no photos (feel it's more appropriate that Danie and Steve release the first images when they're ready, so please don't ask). What a lucky little girl, Danie and Steve will be wonderful parents. Congratulations Danie & Steve may this little angel bring you much joy!

 Last night’s was an adventure and my gold dress the holy grail of sorts. This one was obviously somewhat inspired by me seeing Indiana Jones on Sunday.

Instead of going to the gym (well it an awesome day out) I headed down to the Lake. Peacefully enjoying nature (totally saw pelicans on the lake - a first - and they swan dove with each other in unison. SO wish I'd had a camera with me would have been a great shot... except for all the crap in the lake.. god people are filthy), sorry tangent, so yeah peacefully enjoying nature, admiring the swans.. PELICANS (very cool)… ducks, trees, golfers… random flying golf balls LOL and then realised half the people jogging or walking are half naked! Highly recommend the lake track (especially for the ladies). Hahahahaha. What a great afternoon.

As was no better than yesterday I saw an Osteo this morning and looks like I have a bulging (wrong!) disc in my L4 or L5 that is causing the problem. Osteo wants me to stand and work for next few days (at least) and says the pain should start to centralise and go away in next few days. She said they can do scans to confirm but is certain it's the disc which I will continue to aggravate if I sit incorrectly or lift anything wrong into the future.

So I 'melted' my laptop on the weekend. Seriously. It wasn't because I have become some master programmer and had the IO running so fast that the switching effected like rubbing sticks together and the damn thing caugfht fire....... Nope; just melted it. Sometimes I truly wonder if I was only put here for other peoples entertainment :)

Saw Killers tonight. Long story short (so unlike me) BEST concert EVER. So can't sleep! Tonight's concert just took out number one on the list. Good work gents.

hahah so here's a laugh for you, my own stooopid! fault. Left work early today to pack, arrange citylink, go to medicare etc etc.. you know run errands before the Powderfinger gig tonight. I fly out at 6:45am tomorrow so NOTHING will be getting done in the morning with the exception of a coffee being made. Anyhow organised with Alysia to meet for a sneaky beer at 5pm @ Riverland (awesome - you must go) before the gig; hey it was gorgeous day! Toyed with idea of not visting medicare for this reason until Saturday (always trust your intuition!)... however figured best not be running around doing things on Saturday that 'I should' be doing today when I am supposed to be helping my brother move house and considering I won't fly into Melbourne until 9pm Friday night I don't perceive it a likelyhood I'll be rising early on Saturday..... though crazier things do often happen. Back to story, I digress. So I drove up to medicare on Chapel Street and SCORE! park right outside, someone was *literally* just leaving!!! I;m tinking pefect, AWESOME even how good is today!! Parked car, jumped out ran inside, was inside no more than 5 minutes, first servered yadda yadda... however I got clotheslined by a book sale on the way out... took quick gander nothing to my liking and returned to car - tops 15 minutes late and (in Champs words) whammie! I had copped a $66.00 parking fine. So happens the bugger before me had parked illegally in a truck zone. I should have known to check the signs on Chapel. So my parking fine less the $59.75 reate means a drive less than 2 kms cost me a little more than $6.00. That's 30 minutes of my life I'll never get back and have nothing to show for.... what else can I do but laugh?  that and never NOT choose the beer again ;)

Just got in from Snow Patrol's Melbourne gig. Amazing. It's no wonder they are on my iPods most played list the emotion I felt  tonight was 10 fold to that I feel when listening to the cd's. Went with Rach and we are now officially Lame/Old/Nanna's (pass the blankie a cup of tea and a cookie please). We got to Rod Laver and decided we really couldn't deal with GA (both too tired and it's only Monday!) so we started hit up other couples for a ticket swap. After 4 or 5 failed attempts and bizzare looks we found too loverly gals, switched tickets and ended up with great seats in row F front and centre. Nice work whoever you were we thank-you!  Seats were perfect..... well we have to save some energy we have Fingerpowder and Silverchair tommorrow night :) and Rach has Cat Empire Wednesday *cry* I was going but will now be in Sydney for work... lucky I didn't get us the Grinners tickets for Thursday as well or I would have had to quit hahahah.... Big thanks to SP not that they'll ever see this - great show. There'll be sweet dream tonight me thinks.

SO VERY EXCITED! My leave for Vickie and Drew's wedding has just been approved (bless my bosses cotton socks). I have decided in the last few weeks not to take an extra weeks unpaid leave and fly over on December 1st; primarily as I want to buy an apartment early next year and an extra 2-3K for tours and accommodation, when I can't get on the actual tours I want to, does seems a little rich. I'll fly out of Melb’s on the 7th December (meaning I arrive in South America on their Saturday. I'll have 10 days before the wedding to do as I please, then current plans will be to fly to San Fran and hangout there for a few days drinking coffee seeing the sights, hook-up with Dave!! (yeah!) and drive to Las Vegas to sit by pools drinking and performing my favourite role, 'the quintessential tourist'. Even planning to try the tables (so not a gambler - but 'when in Rome')..... Well off now to attempt to do work, daydream about sombreros, cabana boys and swim up bars and email my agent for a new flight itinerary!