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So my attempt to regularly update LJ didn't quite pan out. Instead, have a catch up post!
- gyprocking is not as fun as it sounds. You can't just 'slap it on' and expect it to miraculously defy gravity. Also blueboard (waterproof gyprock) is more of a blue-tinged grey rather than vibrant blue. Again things I should not assume. Adonis and his dad took down the asbestos lining out sleep out (thank you 1950s building practice), and I vacated the house for a week for good measure. Apparantly the asbestos tip is something to be very scared about - imagine a regular tip, then a giant 2 building sized heap of asbestos just plonked to the side with people coming and going without masks. Hmmm. Anyway, now that the boards are gone, its a lot brighter ( and colder) and we're getting a guy to put in a long row of windows from the waist up, and that brings me back to the gyprock for the ceiling *sigh*. Was heaving it up a ladder with my head/arms/back whilst adon ran around frantically trying to drill into jarrah (another nightmare) before I fell down lol. Luckiily R&A came by to help otherwise I'm pretty sure I'd have done my back in. We've still got to do the laundry, but putting it off for another wkend.
- my kitchen is pretty!!!! the woks are hanging on the wall, ikea has solved our storage needs and i got adon a pizza oven for his birthday and we've been going nuts with that :) instant smoky flavoured pizza yummm.
- had a moment of panic when i realised job applications were due THIS week and not some magical moment in time called 'later'. Fortunately called my refs yesterday and got them to email it in that afternoon, yay! and finished the boring part of the write up. Grr, I wish RPH would do the same as freo - in that, you DONT need to bug references or put in lame applications. sigh. Anyway, grand plan is for more surg terms next year and then apply for the college mid next year.
- PERUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU This is the biggest thing getting me through ED right now :D in exactly 14 days I will be officially on leaaaaveee and then 2 days after that I'll be jetting to south america!! huzzarrrr... haven't booked accomodation yet, but have done all the important stuff like shots and ordering pulse oximeters online*.
- Watched Prometheus - having not seen any of the Alien series beforehand. Adon was a fanboy, I watched most of the film through my jumper (i only tend to watch romcoms/animated films at the movies so this was a shock to the system). Liked it even through almost every character was annoying.
- Watching a few more really good K dramas - Padam Padam - really great acting by the main guy who plays an excon just released after 16yrs of being unjustly imprisoned as a teen adn struggles getting back into RL. Things took a definite WTF turn when the second main character suddenly sprouted wings... Sungkungkwan Scandal - bit of a yentl story - poor girl fakes being a boy in order to earn money for family by being a scribe. Gets admitted into the school thanks to a bunch of scriptwriters then ends up on a secret mission set by the king. Really really good movie is Daisy - which is up on youtube and stars the main guy in Padam Padam. A and I overdosed on RunningMan, so we're having a break from that... Now watching Kimchi family which puts me in the mood for cooking things and plays strongly to my gangster-getting-confused-when-interacting-with-small-children weakness.
Hm... ok, time for breakfast.. I will leave you with my soundtrack to this morning.
*we did this for kili and it was oodles of fun watching everyones sats dropping the higher we went. /nerdiness Also was v useful when J got altitude sickness, went blue in the face and dropped his sats to the 60s :S
- gyprocking is not as fun as it sounds. You can't just 'slap it on' and expect it to miraculously defy gravity. Also blueboard (waterproof gyprock) is more of a blue-tinged grey rather than vibrant blue. Again things I should not assume. Adonis and his dad took down the asbestos lining out sleep out (thank you 1950s building practice), and I vacated the house for a week for good measure. Apparantly the asbestos tip is something to be very scared about - imagine a regular tip, then a giant 2 building sized heap of asbestos just plonked to the side with people coming and going without masks. Hmmm. Anyway, now that the boards are gone, its a lot brighter ( and colder) and we're getting a guy to put in a long row of windows from the waist up, and that brings me back to the gyprock for the ceiling *sigh*. Was heaving it up a ladder with my head/arms/back whilst adon ran around frantically trying to drill into jarrah (another nightmare) before I fell down lol. Luckiily R&A came by to help otherwise I'm pretty sure I'd have done my back in. We've still got to do the laundry, but putting it off for another wkend.
- my kitchen is pretty!!!! the woks are hanging on the wall, ikea has solved our storage needs and i got adon a pizza oven for his birthday and we've been going nuts with that :) instant smoky flavoured pizza yummm.
- had a moment of panic when i realised job applications were due THIS week and not some magical moment in time called 'later'. Fortunately called my refs yesterday and got them to email it in that afternoon, yay! and finished the boring part of the write up. Grr, I wish RPH would do the same as freo - in that, you DONT need to bug references or put in lame applications. sigh. Anyway, grand plan is for more surg terms next year and then apply for the college mid next year.
- PERUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU This is the biggest thing getting me through ED right now :D in exactly 14 days I will be officially on leaaaaveee and then 2 days after that I'll be jetting to south america!! huzzarrrr... haven't booked accomodation yet, but have done all the important stuff like shots and ordering pulse oximeters online*.
- Watched Prometheus - having not seen any of the Alien series beforehand. Adon was a fanboy, I watched most of the film through my jumper (i only tend to watch romcoms/animated films at the movies so this was a shock to the system). Liked it even through almost every character was annoying.
- Watching a few more really good K dramas - Padam Padam - really great acting by the main guy who plays an excon just released after 16yrs of being unjustly imprisoned as a teen adn struggles getting back into RL. Things took a definite WTF turn when the second main character suddenly sprouted wings... Sungkungkwan Scandal - bit of a yentl story - poor girl fakes being a boy in order to earn money for family by being a scribe. Gets admitted into the school thanks to a bunch of scriptwriters then ends up on a secret mission set by the king. Really really good movie is Daisy - which is up on youtube and stars the main guy in Padam Padam. A and I overdosed on RunningMan, so we're having a break from that... Now watching Kimchi family which puts me in the mood for cooking things and plays strongly to my gangster-getting-confused-when-interacting-with-small-children weakness.
Hm... ok, time for breakfast.. I will leave you with my soundtrack to this morning.
Click to view*we did this for kili and it was oodles of fun watching everyones sats dropping the higher we went. /nerdiness Also was v useful when J got altitude sickness, went blue in the face and dropped his sats to the 60s :S