I'm still catching up
First: I have Lost and you have Lost and we are Lost together. And I've had too much coffee, chocolate and jelly cakes for a time yet to reach 9.30am (and have been listening to I Am The Walrus more than is healthy), but I now have Lost 'till episode 18, which totally rocks. Will have to send aluminiumorange more blank CDs again!! I'd also like to thank my flist, because I'm totally unspoiled (apart from a few details) for these episodes and I'd like to stay that way for the season finale.
As many of you may know, I've been looking forward to having my house to myself over the next week and a half since... oh... about Christmas. For three months I've been hanging out for this week; when you live with ones parents (both of whom work from home) and a younger sibling, having an empty house is nothing to sneeze at!
Unfortunately, the reason my parents were going away was because they were going to spend 10 days at Wilson's Promontory, a national park we all love to camp at. Australians may know what's coming, because the fact that the place is kinda on fire has been on the news over here a wee bit, and even if the fire doesn't flare up again it will be at least Thursday before it opens again.
The state of Victoria is currently in the grip of "the summer that wasn't", and so our bushfires have come mid-autumn instead of December/January, and now my family has had to find somewhere else to go, since everything -- food, equipment, the 15 bottles of wine (they never go thirsty when they're camping) -- had been organised.
Cue an emergency meeting of the other couples and offsprings going (there will be up to 25 people at any one time on this trip) to try and find somewhere else to holiday. Yes, we live in a tourist town on the beach, but it's impossible for a minister to actually take time off without leaving the area.
They've still gone -- thank God! -- and I still get the place to myself, but I can only hope that they stay away as long as planned. Since I have got things to do other than stay glued to the computer and watch the new episodes of Lost (aluminiumorange will have my firstborn sacrificed in her name), I'll be online but not 24/7. Of course, I've been given express permission to use the computer while they're away :) :)
::coughs:: Of course, given that I want to catch up on Remix/Redux, Lost fanfiction, Sirius/Remus fanfiction, chat with people, catch up with where Chanel Cole is at (and check out the quality of any Kaya websites out there) and make icons from a list of films and TV shows as long as my arm (Sleeping Beauty, Robin Hood, Beauty & the Beast, Aladdin, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Toy Story, Toy Story 2, A Bugs Life, Monsters, Inc, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles once it is released on Wednesday, The Last Unicorn, Peter Pan -- non-Disney version, I don't own the Disney one yet -- The Iron Giant, Skippy, Batman: The Movie, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, My Little Pony, Big Fish, Grease, Little Shop of Horror, Harvie Krumpet, Run Lola Run, Black Books and if I have time Prophesy Girl from season 1 BtVS and Galaxy Quest -- although the latter may make it to the front of the que), plans of spending time away from the computer may be me pretending to be responsible.
In other news, I spent the weekend at my grandparents for my Grandfather's 70th birthday. Given that he had open-heart surgery at 46 (and my father just turned 45, still loving greasy food, which is a worry) this is an incredibly achievement. He's also incredibly active -- and went water-skiing on his birthday!! -- which is equally amazing. So we went there for a party he grudgingly allowed my grandmother to throw.
My uncle, cousin and my own family dragged them into the 21st century by giving my grandfather a DVD player as a present. It will never cease to amuse me that we chose that as a present, because it's totally throwing them into the deep end. I've mentioned before my frustrations when I've tried to teach my grandmother Microsoft Word, so you may remember that they're not exactly technically savvy. But they had never owned a CD player until they got one in their car at the start of last year (and had to ask how to get their first CD out of the case), and they've never owned a VCR. And this DVD player has one of the most complicated remotes I've ever seen, and over 16 sockets at the back. Even for his grandchildren, getting the thing set up was a challenge!!
What was incredibly cool, though? My grandmother gave my grandfather a Kamahl CD -- and Kamahl sings Rainbow Connection!!
Kamahl! Singing Rainbow Connection! Australians who grew up on Hey Hey It's Saturday will know why I'm so dorkily geeking out over this. I need to get a copy next time they visit! I have the added thing in that my maternal grandmother was a massive Kamahl fan, and so there's a weak spot there.
As many of you may know, I've been looking forward to having my house to myself over the next week and a half since... oh... about Christmas. For three months I've been hanging out for this week; when you live with ones parents (both of whom work from home) and a younger sibling, having an empty house is nothing to sneeze at!
Unfortunately, the reason my parents were going away was because they were going to spend 10 days at Wilson's Promontory, a national park we all love to camp at. Australians may know what's coming, because the fact that the place is kinda on fire has been on the news over here a wee bit, and even if the fire doesn't flare up again it will be at least Thursday before it opens again.
The state of Victoria is currently in the grip of "the summer that wasn't", and so our bushfires have come mid-autumn instead of December/January, and now my family has had to find somewhere else to go, since everything -- food, equipment, the 15 bottles of wine (they never go thirsty when they're camping) -- had been organised.
Cue an emergency meeting of the other couples and offsprings going (there will be up to 25 people at any one time on this trip) to try and find somewhere else to holiday. Yes, we live in a tourist town on the beach, but it's impossible for a minister to actually take time off without leaving the area.
They've still gone -- thank God! -- and I still get the place to myself, but I can only hope that they stay away as long as planned. Since I have got things to do other than stay glued to the computer and watch the new episodes of Lost (aluminiumorange will have my firstborn sacrificed in her name), I'll be online but not 24/7. Of course, I've been given express permission to use the computer while they're away :) :)
::coughs:: Of course, given that I want to catch up on Remix/Redux, Lost fanfiction, Sirius/Remus fanfiction, chat with people, catch up with where Chanel Cole is at (and check out the quality of any Kaya websites out there) and make icons from a list of films and TV shows as long as my arm (Sleeping Beauty, Robin Hood, Beauty & the Beast, Aladdin, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Toy Story, Toy Story 2, A Bugs Life, Monsters, Inc, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles once it is released on Wednesday, The Last Unicorn, Peter Pan -- non-Disney version, I don't own the Disney one yet -- The Iron Giant, Skippy, Batman: The Movie, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, My Little Pony, Big Fish, Grease, Little Shop of Horror, Harvie Krumpet, Run Lola Run, Black Books and if I have time Prophesy Girl from season 1 BtVS and Galaxy Quest -- although the latter may make it to the front of the que), plans of spending time away from the computer may be me pretending to be responsible.
In other news, I spent the weekend at my grandparents for my Grandfather's 70th birthday. Given that he had open-heart surgery at 46 (and my father just turned 45, still loving greasy food, which is a worry) this is an incredibly achievement. He's also incredibly active -- and went water-skiing on his birthday!! -- which is equally amazing. So we went there for a party he grudgingly allowed my grandmother to throw.
My uncle, cousin and my own family dragged them into the 21st century by giving my grandfather a DVD player as a present. It will never cease to amuse me that we chose that as a present, because it's totally throwing them into the deep end. I've mentioned before my frustrations when I've tried to teach my grandmother Microsoft Word, so you may remember that they're not exactly technically savvy. But they had never owned a CD player until they got one in their car at the start of last year (and had to ask how to get their first CD out of the case), and they've never owned a VCR. And this DVD player has one of the most complicated remotes I've ever seen, and over 16 sockets at the back. Even for his grandchildren, getting the thing set up was a challenge!!
What was incredibly cool, though? My grandmother gave my grandfather a Kamahl CD -- and Kamahl sings Rainbow Connection!!
Kamahl! Singing Rainbow Connection! Australians who grew up on Hey Hey It's Saturday will know why I'm so dorkily geeking out over this. I need to get a copy next time they visit! I have the added thing in that my maternal grandmother was a massive Kamahl fan, and so there's a weak spot there.