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Hrmm..
well, looks like i might even have something to write about for a change!
Friday past i drove my way down to melbourne (after being woken up in the middle of the night for the 80000th time this year, and waking back up at like 2pm and thinking "SHIT". Well, got all my stuff together, 4 hours later i'm in bendigo and there's no answer at my friends place. bummer. Doors open, oh well i'll just go straight in. Turns out one of the guys was in the shower and i really needed to go so i've just walked straight in and used the toilet lol. Must have been funny for him. gets out of the shower and here's this guy from 4 hours away coming out of the toilet!
Anyhoo, hung around there for another hour or so, then drove the 2 hours or so further to my sisters place in Werribee (no shit farms nearby! bonus!) and got there really late but hey, was all good. Nice place though, big backyard, really open house, must be costing a bit. Absolutely buggered that night so i hit the hay and zoned out for a few hours.
Saturday i headed off through the city and off to a mates place in Caullfield.. i get there and he's mowing the lawn (read: jungle - the grass was up to my knees in places no shit) with an oldschool non-petrol lawn mower, so while he's trying to mow just a couple of metres and getting it jammed constantly due to sheer volume of grass, i'm wandering around putting the boot into prickles and weeds and having a chat. Tried out some of his homebrew, drinkable but yeah, it was his first batch in melbourne so it needs work. He does awesome ginger beer, i think he should whip up another batch of that.
We went up to the parks just around the corner from his joint next, it was fucking windy so we decided to take the aerobie (remember those things) and see how far we could throw it.. it was kinda gusty so sometimes it would go half a week and other times it'd just get blown sideways and roll 20 metres away while we chased. I had this awesome throw at one stage, just fired it off on a diagonal against the wind and it picked it up and dumped it a footy oval away or something, right near the road.. we've gone over there and this old woman has picked it up (she was throwing rubbish out) and asked us if it was ours, and when we claimed it.. ohh she set right off. People she fired off at included the russians, the germans, but mostly the chinese. We listened for about 10-15 minutes to this crazy old woman going on about how the chinese are taking over and they wont take care for the environment and everything's artificial now it needs to grow up through the ground and fertilisers are wrong and people are having sex in the parks and showing off their bits and nobody picks up the rubbish and johnny howard needs to send them all home and the chinese and the CHINESE and the kids from hong kong come over here and buy everything and they've never done an honest days work in their life back in my day we climbed hills and stretched our legs now it's all rush rush rush cars cars and the CHINESE and you boys need to care for your environment and the muslims and the buddhists and the and the and the do you get my point? :)
eventually we had to just piss off because she was going to go on about it all day, farking hell!
We wandered off to Chaddy then had a look around the shops and watched Land of the Dead (new romero zommbbiieee flick) at 5 since his girlfriend Stacey was a) getting her hair and nails done and b) she would refuse to go watch zoommmbbiieeesss. heartbreak_song was messaging me through the movie lol, not that it would have mattered if my phone wasn't on silent, the cinema was almost empty and the only real people of note were a group of guys who like us were going to enjoy the movie and take the piss, and it's not exactly the kind of movie where you just sit quietly and watch anyway.
ahh i love zombies, they're so much smarter than half the people in those movies. opened up with what would have been everyday life in a small town, if they weren't all dead. here's the zombie guy going for a walk, here's a zombie petrol station attendant zombieing with the petrol bowser, and my fave was when i heard some weird sound like a fucked up horn or something, the camera was showing a garden and i just KNEW what was going to be there. Sure enough, after a few more HOOONKS the camera pans past a little outdoor area with 3 older zombies in crazy suit, one bashing a trombone against the sides, one blowing into a tuba occasionally, and another was just bashing a tambourine like a retard.. i started pissing myself laughing and never looked back. a zombie later on picked up a jackhammer, and thought muuughhhhhhh i'll have this, and he cracked a big sook when he pulled the power cord out.. muuguhhhhhh!! work damn you! mmuuRRGHGHHHHH lol. anyway.
Em kept ringing me up and just saying "come out! come out!" repeatedly all night (but a little more slurred as it got to 11 or so :) ), there were a bunch of people out at bridies in the city so eventually i've decided well i'll just drop in for a little while, it was already very late and i was on the wrong side of the city, so i've driven in (god damn it took forever) and dumped my car in some parking and gone and caught up with her, her mates mark and richard and another girl whose name i've sadly forgotten. Drop in for a little while ended up being hang around and chat/dance and stuff for about 2 hours, all em's mates piked on her which i thought was pretty shit of them, on top of that her phone died so that would have sucked a fair bit if you ask me.
Left there when the band stopped playing and went up to grab my car. Oh wait, they closed at 2. Fuck. Stuck in the city at ten past 3 on a sunday morning, got a game of football to go to tomorrow, my sister lives in werribee and i've only been there once, in the daytime, with a melways at hand. NIGHTRIDER TIME! It would have been easier if em was out in that direction but sadly she lives completely on the other side of the bay, so we jumped onto our busses and from the sounds of it we both had some free entertainment from drunken dickheads, although she lost out i think since she had vomit involved on hers. Thankfully i was able to kinda find my sisters place (after 20-25 minutes of walking at 4am i guess) and i've snuck into her house without waking up their dog and gotten some sleep, but not after copping a whole heap of sms that kept me up until 5am *cough* *cough*
I woke up quite.. well, zombie like really i guess haha, and after explaining everything to the guys there (where's your car!!!) we've gotten organised and driven in for the footy YAY. Picked up my car (cost me 20 bucks for the overnight + half of sunday parking, i was dreading more) and drove it to.. the g.. where i paid another 6 dollars for parking, heh. New rule of parking from now on is crown casino at all times. at least that place never shuts and every time i've gone there it's been 5-6 bucks or whatever the going rate is.
Em was going to come with us to the game, so i've messaged her phone, then tried an alternate number she gave me after the whole phone thing from the night before - turns out she didn't hear my sms until the secondary number went off at 1pm (which i found out later really sucked because she was going to take the 12:59 train heh) and she turned up a few minutes into the first quarter. We got our seats and watched the bombers kick a few goals and look good.. hmph. Dees came back and kicked their arses though, not after a few worrying moments (read: whole last quarter.. shoulda tried to win it instead of defending for the first 20 minutes) which was good, otherwise i'd be pissed off. i hate travelling for over 10 hours or so return when you don't even win the game. We had the funniest people around us.. there was this couple behind us, one was dees one was bombers, and the wife (bombers) was going offf! She spent half the game sooking about the umpiring (yeah melbourne did get the better of them for a change), and the one that cracked me up was very early in the piece there was a really loud call of ball when it was in front of us and the decision was paid, to which the woman called out "you only gave that because the melbourne people shouted loudly!". Heh, like the bombers haven't done that for 10 years now lol. Oh! somebody else around us has their granddaugher as the face of coles-myer ice cream, and was going on about how she went to this conference and heard a speech from the brother of some politician and spent the whole start of the game name-dropping, pure gold.
I copped all the psycho drivers in melbourne on the way home. More dickheads than in the last 3 years i would say, surprising really. Just to keep it real (tiring), i had to get up at the crack of dawn to get my mother off to the airport, she had a flight at quarter to 8 or something. *shudder* after that, off to northland to post some crap in the mail there, and i wanted to drive through that area and see if it was still the same as it was when i was around. Waiting 40 minutes or so in a dead morning shopping centre wasn't too much fun, but after that i spent a good hour having breakfast and reading the papers procrastinating before i drove off to bendigo again. It's really handy having some mates living in the middle of such a long trip. Once again, i just walked in and sat down.. heard them saying 'here's nat!' as i walked up the driveway and it was just like i was walking through the neighbourhood and dropped in :) Grabbed a bite to eat, took Jono's new car to the car wash, and after that we headed across the road with some sporting equipment and had a bash in the cricket nets. I think i gave them the shits when i started bashing their bowling back over their heads using a baseball bat though! All good fun though, and when 4 little kids about half our size came running past and asked to have a bowl we said yeah why not.
oh.
my.
god.
those kids had the foulest mouths i've ever heard in such small children. they were swearing like little troopers. eventually that just turned into the kids bowling and batting so i went off and grabbed my footy out of the car and booted that around, so we kicked that for a while, hit each other a few times doing a riewoldt or a ricciuto. Kids got right into the spirit then, one of the little shits full-on punched me in the shoulder, i got a big slap in the face, and Jono even copped a kick in the balls! I charged at the slapping kid when he came past next time calling out "oohh you're fucked now" with my shoulder dropped about to hit him and he's pissed himself, called out 'oh shit!' and run off the other way hahah. Nah, they were all good, they even went off and got us some sausages from the sizzle that was going on across the way.
Got dark eventually so back home we went for food and smash bros heheh. Showed Jono the new Appleseed movie and he was all :o which is good because i was all :o when i saw it as well. Up nice and early the next day (after another interrupted sleep WOO) and drove home. In pouring rain. for 4 hours. awesome. Got worse too, that was the night where the whole of the state copped crazy winds and rain and it was bloody freezing and i spent the whole time thinking i was about to be hit by a tree. Better off would have been being hit by another car though, i'd like a new paint job, mine is starting to fade.
and now, back to boredom zzz