A last-minute drinking decision on Friday night means I am about to take off for the Blue Mountains from Boxing Day for 10 days, with Dan and a few of his friends. I really have no idea what I’m getting myself in to, but what I suspect I’ll be doing a lot of is carrying [...]
Archive for December, 2006
the mountains are the place to be, apparently
Posted in australia, dan dan he's our man, seasonal affective disorder, travel on Sunday, 24 December, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
thumbs up for tinsel town
Posted in seasonal affective disorder on Friday, 22 December, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Who loves Christmas? Me, that’s who. I am all gangbusters for Christmas. I could gleefully listen to carols all day and bake up a huge goddamn fruitcake, but I don’t. I instead have amused myself these holidays with a small selection of rumballs (for the fifth year in a row). I put up my very [...]
how to start celebrating six weeks of holiday
Posted in brisbin, dan dan he's our man, outage, parentals, the weather? of all the things you could write about on Wednesday, 20 December, 2006 | 1 Comment »
There are plenty of things that have surprised me about December. Mainly the fact that I can quite comfortably sleep under a doona at night, which makes me stupidly happy in a way that only weather nerds get. Doonas in December? Oh my!
One thing I didn’t enjoy was walking in the rain at 2am [...]
rather rewarding
Posted in me on Monday, 11 December, 2006 | 2 Comments »
I delightfully discovered that I’d lost 5 kilos over the past few months. I’m not in the habit of weighing myself, so the sheer surprise of seeing such a huge change since I last weighed in was enough to make me ask Dan whether his scales were faulty.
I promptly celebrated my long awaited shift [...]
skanky ho and crackwhore go to the beach
Posted in dan dan he's our man, outage on Monday, 11 December, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Swimming at the beach involves a lot more concentration than I remember. What was intended to merely be a polite day with Dan in the sunshine, splashing merrily about in the surf turned into an endurance event. In order to stay upright in the surf, I had to ensure after every wave that my bikini [...]
