Archive for July, 2008
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
you know you haven’t posted for a while, when you start considering writing about how hard it is to write… or you start revisiting the well worn road of discussing what’s really relevant…
but i know what’s relevant, things like; family, melbourne, football, music, tech, twitter, food… so i don’t need to go there do i… i just need to write more… easy.
now that that is out of the way, you know what’s been annoying me lately? a couple of people have been trying to finish my sentences for me, in an effort to prove they understand what i’m talking about… even when either of them ask me the question… it just proves they don’t, and most of the time it doubles the length of the conversation… **sigh**
ok, in other news, liam took his first real steps yesterday, i was absolutely gobsmacked… he’s becoming a real person! i’ve uploaded some news pics to prove it, hehehe…
hey! why don’t i make this an uber-post and try to cover ALL the categories above… hmm…
- melbourne is cold atm, it’s winter and getting out of bed in the morning is extremely difficult. i still love it though. in the evenings we have the heater on in our living room and often, because i’ve done the wii-fit thing, i stay in t-shirt and shorts until we go to bed, AND THEN, i wonder why i’m so cold…
- football? well, apparently duff scored a hat-trick in nufc’s win against hartlepool(?), i guess that’s good news (better than losing, duh) but you know, i honestly didn’t expect us to keep m.owen into next season, but seeing as liverpool just bought robbie keane, i think he might be safe! this also is the time of the year when i decide whether to join or start a tipping competition… hmm, i think i might skip the telegraph one this year, i get the impression guys do that one as a full-time job!
- music. hmm, i’ve discovered a new blog broken record that is really interesting, and my latest tumblr post is pretty depressing if you’re into it…
- the laptop i’ve been aiming for isn’t going to be released in australia! damn, against kim’s advice i think i’ll settle and if i feel like it later, i’ll buy a solid state disk for it separately.
- twitter is still there, and probably generally unheathy for my writing in this thing. my random thoughts that would used to have been full posts get reduced down to 140 characters or less… otherwise meh.
- and food. what can i say, i’m definitely eating less than i used to and am trying to shun the evil food i love… that said, we had fish and chips with emma and scott last night, and it was awesome but strangely unfulfilling… like the awesomeness didn’t make up for how kinda unwell i felt afterwards?
ok well, that seemed to work pretty well, amazing how much crap i can come out with.
or maybe not.
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
having the tv pack it in really halted my wii fit progress, it still isn’t fixed… so i setup our projector again and now everything we watch is MASSIVE.
we went up to visit some family this weekend at kyabram, which was really great, until we got home on sunday night when i started to feel a bit sick… so went to bed at 1830, and then spent the rest of the night getting up to throw up… till about 0130… nasty.
apart from that, not much is happening… liam is growing like a machine, my work is super busy… umm, i finally went to the dentist for the first time in 2 and a half years, and guess what?! no work needed, just another check up in 6 months! that never happens. awesome.
ok, i’ve gotta try to give this thing more attention… he says signing off.
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
the weekend just gone was pretty cool, i was oncall, so we didn’t really do much, just grocery shopping, spent most of the time at home, liam is clapping a lot now, it’s his new thing… along with the yelling, crawling, squealing, and yelling some more… we took him to an indoor play centre down the road, and he loved it, he’s so social, other kids seem to really interest him…
we just got our tv back from the repair place, and it’s having the same problem again! damn.
no tv is good and bad, we don’t watch much anyway, it’s just nice to have the choice… and my hard-drive media player thingy failed… i managed to get a backup of the majority and the disk is under warranty, but c’mon… that’s annoying.
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
yes, i realise listening to someone talk fitness and diet is about as interesting as letting a
9 month-old feel around inside your eye sockets… but…
…umm wow, so after learning my wii fit age was 47 i’ve been working out (or doing what it says to do) for at least half an hour a day; and not only have i lost 1.5kg, but i feel great and i seem to have lost a stack of fat off my belly, not that it was bad, but now there’s actual definition in my abs! i so didn’ t expect that hey… and kimmy says even my face looks slimmer…
so now my wii fit age is 33; a week to knock 14 years off seems ok, although i don’t really have anything to compare it against… not to worry… the motivation to “eat less” (and better) hasn’t gone away… i’ve just gotta keep ticking other things off the list…
eye test, done
dental appt booking, check **gulp**
consolidate superannuation…
…etc…
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
so a couple of crazy days with regards to this site… you may not have noticed but it has been moved completely, backed-up and restored. the whole process could’ve been simpler had i been thinking clearly; i backed-up the wordpress database, then forgot to save it. nice one huh.
not to worry, i used google cache and an older backup to get me out of trouble… still lost a couple of comments though… oops.
otherwise, things for us are going pretty well, um, liam learnt to clap today, amazing, uhh, we went shopping the other day, i needed new jeans, but ended up getting jeans, shoes, a shirt, a belt…
and… a wii fit.
…anyways, getting back from holidays, being sick knocked me around a bit, i almost felt like i hadn’t really recharged at all, but now that i’m healthy again, i have to decided to get motivated and sort some crap out… i’ve been out running at 0530, taking dr.rudys advice, and am determined to do spend at least 30 minutes on wii fit every day… also, i have to make an appointment with a dentist and get my eyes checked… fun huh.
it tells me my wii fit age is 47! crap. i guess that’s expected though really; my core strength has always been rubbish… although it is kind of annoying, you can’t just tell it you want to do a whole string of things in a row, you have to click in and out of the different activities… but i like the yoga and strength stuff, everything else is a little bit mickey mouse really…
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
it feels like too long ago to post about the football now… but i’ll try anyway, even though i’ve just spent 45 not pressing the wordpress “write a post” button… here goes…
- i found the final fairly boring compared to other matches in the competition, but that could’ve been because i was so sick.
- russia vs spain was an excellent match and possibly the stand-out… it was 0-0 at the break, both teams played at 100% the whole time.
- maybe germany vs portugal was as good… but i only saw the extended highlights, damn you setanta.
- puyol cheats at every opportunity.
- apparently c.ronaldo was carrying an ankle injury the whole tournament?
- gotta feel for ballack and all his silver medals; 2002 world cup, 2002 & 2008 champions league, 2008 euro championships to name a few… plus, did you see him split his head open? damn.
- france scored one goal in the 3 group games, holland scored 9 but were knocked out by russia in the quarters, crazy.
ok, that’s all i remember that i wanted to say i think, aren’t you glad.
now to look to the coming premier league season… **sigh**
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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
well, i think it started late saturday night with what i thought was heart-burn… then i felt kinda weird all sunday; shivvered and sweated through the flight back to melbourne and once i’d seen a doctor on monday morning, was told i had “a virus”… nothing to do to fight it, but just let the body do it’s thing… and take panadol for the symptoms…
so after arriving home from our most excellent holiday in queensland, i spent two full days in bed at home whining like a little girl. in reality, i haven’t felt that sick in a very long time, maybe i should’ve had that flu shot… hmm… i love that scene in jarhead where they’re told to take the drugs…
in actual news, i have to change or transfer the hosting for this site very soon… a massive thankyou goes to dave for allowing me a free ride for so long… much appreciated.
i’ll put up some new photos once the internerd stuff has been sorted out and now that i’m actually feeling better i can finally finish talking about the euro2008 football… soon…
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