Last night Jenny andi saw ‘Hancock’.
It was pretty good.
It started out quite funny but then midway through it stopped being funny and went a bit to serious for my liking and by the end it was all a bit to soppy and disney.
I like the concept of a drunk reckless super hero. And will smith was good at it.
4/7
Laurence & I went to the housewarming at the Lumpery the other night. It was a carnival sideshow theme, but we ended up pretty much dressing girly. I think I might have been some sort of ringmaster gypsy psychic.
yesterday we had lunch with tom. then howie decided he wanted to experience westfield. which seems to mean going to bing lee and jb hi-fi. in jb we saw las vegas boxsets for very good prices. tom said borders might be able to do us a better deal. so off we went. and borders delivered. the first three seasons of las vegas for less than the price of a non-discounted...
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or All things Shiney and How I Love Them :)
Been looking at the Optus Post Paid deals. Trying to work out the best value that isn't too much more than the deal I am already on. I rekon the $59 [$61 once you factor in the iPhone] plan with a 16GB black iPhone is a good option for me.
Telstra have not said anything useful - really - yes we know there are $30, $80 and $100 planes and you get the 8GB for free on the $80 and the 8 or 16 GB free on the $100. But are they capped? How much if any data? Without those crucial bits of info who knows if the extra coverage [and speed] is really worth it. If they only have those price points then the $80 is still too much.
As for Vodafone - they lack coverage outside Capital cities so they are out.
And Three - who are the cut throat pricers - haven't been invited to the party - yet - so do I wait for them?
Guess it will be an interesting week as Telstra and Voda will surely release complete details before Friday. Surely???
But in the end I rekon I will wait and see what happens.
Once it's been released the details will be available and I can call each of the providers and harass them with my questions before making a decisions. Not even 100% sure I want to go back to the larger than a phone phone.
But they is shiney, most shiney indeed, and we luvs the shiney things, we do
The Vatican tells us, after speculation that the Pope wears Prada shoes, that the Pope is a "simple and sober man (who is) not dressed by Prada but by Christ".
I'm hoping Jesus can get me a new outfit too.
From here.
Why is the new Relient K album not on iTunesAU yet?!
Kutless’ new album was there on its US release date. But no Relient K.
I’m sad.
edit: It’s ok. I found it at Word bookstore in the city. So a Saturday morning adventure into the city just to get a CD was on the cards. I don’t think I’m going to be able to do silly things like that later on… :)
Saw the movie “Happy Go Lucky” this eve .. Directed by Mike Leigh .. I think I’ve seen most of his movies. Feels like putting on an old shoe. Nothing very sexy about Mike Leigh movies, nothing technological, not always very intelligent either, or - its not about very intelligent people.. Sometimes his stuff is [...]
Well… we got beaten by Cambridge yesterday so that’s it for me.
Now I have to learn how to spectate 
Sometimes this world can feel so take take take. That is sad. But at least not hopeless.
I’m not even really into the cute baby animals thing, but how can you resist this? (we had to creep up on it to take the photo!)
How am I tracking 6 months into The Compact? Check out Update #2. It’s not pretty.
I had a birthday this week. 26 years old, no longer classed as youth. I certainly felt old when I went to a hip hop gig last night to see TZU. I saw them like 5 years ago and they were really cool and young. Last night they looked much older. They were still a bit cool though. They must be growing up - like me. It scares me a bit that I might look old but you know what I think I might ready to be 26.
Yesterday was my birthday. First in Sydney for awhile and it was fun. At work we had lunch and cake. It was our monthly team meeting and my boss is always looking for excuses to have lunch a cake after so I am not sure how much it was to do with me but it was nice anyway. And the cake was seriously the nicest in the whole world. Ricotta chesse cake from Haberfield. Divine.
In the evening 19 lovely friends joined me at a local Vietamese restaurant. It was fun. I always enjoy having many of my wonderful friends around me.
I turned 26. I didn’t think that was a particularly significant age but then my mum informed that I was oficially no longer youth and would therefore not be able to access any youth services or whatever else. I don’t ever do this, I don’t think so that is not significant but it has hit me the idea that I am not youth anymore. I mean I have probably been doing moving over to this idea slowly over the years but this is really my life now. No more talking about what I am going to do when I grow up. I am grown up.
Yesterday Victor and I found a little spot that we loved so much and are so happy and proud to have found. It is a bookshop/coffee shop and after we browsed around the bookshop for a very long time we went and sat down to have a drink. Well, we opened up the menu, and there was the longest list of tea I had seen for a very long time. Guatemala has yet to discover tea, but here, in our little gem of a find, was all types. Just sitting here and thinking about it now, I want to go back!
I know you coastal people aren’t too excited by rain but for us people in the centre it’s pretty special. It hasn’t rained for 6 months. We are having a wet cold day of non stop rain. David, who is here from Melbourne, thinks the West Macdonnells look like the Blue Mts because they are half covered in misty clouds. I’m not sure I’m quite with him there but the atmosphere here is certainly different to how it usually is. I’m sure it is raining because it is a long weekend and we had made plans to go camping with our neighbours out to their traditional land… or it might be because I finally got around to washing the cars last weekend. Any way, the rain has driven me inside so I am blogging. Keith and Glen are undeterred and are up at the hut installing the old windows we merrily brought up from Sydney care of Qantas. You know the woman at the airport didn’t even weigh them. She asked Keith how much they weighed and he said a number under our luggage limit and then she stuck stickers on them and told us to take them to Special Baggage. So we brought up 7 old windows Keith took out of some house before it was demolished. They will contribute to the special recycled nature of the hut.
There are so many things I want to put down on the blog but it seems that life has just flown by. I remember when Bob Dylan wrote ‘Hard Rains a Gonna Fall’ he said he’d written this one song with so many things in it because he really wanted to write a separate song about every line in it but thought he’d never get it done. he just put it all in the one song. I feel a bit the same. Since i was talking about the hut and tractor I’ve had the road trip visit which involved family/friends ging, walking, riding, campfiring, and maybe best of all just hanging. That was one special week. It was followed by the Kaldors, Trish Watts, Rod Pattenden, my brother Brian and his wife Sandra. We’ve planted trees, we’ve fixed lights, we’ve fixed gates, we’ve fixed pipes and of course we’ve brought the aviary (all 16 metres by 18 metres of it) back to life for our planned four chooks. I’ve applied for funding grants from NT Govt at work and had one approved. We’ve spent a lovely week in Sydney with Hannah and friends and family. Stella has said goodbye to her old friend Karen and I’ve said goodbye to my Auntie.
Life and death has been an underlying theme for some months now. I feel quite unsettled. I have loved every minute of the month yet have hardly had tim eto savour one thing and the next thing is upon me. And yet there have been these experiences of death and end. With David, Karen and Auntie they would probably rate as three pretty special deaths I guess, each for differnet reasons. Maybe a thing they had in common is that all three people had slowed enough to smell the flowers. Actually i think my Auntie had slowed even more than that but none of the three were rushing around living.
We often talk about needing to slow down and thats not what I feel. I actually quite like rushing around and doing things. But I also am hit by that tension of the being [...]
“…he looks like Robin Williams trying to dance like Mick Jagger…”
– rachel, lastnight during U23D
