Mum: Do you eat salmon?
Me: *raised eyebrow* No.
Mum: Why not?
Me: Because they're people.
Mum: Fish?
Me: Are still people.
Mum: I was going to make salmon surprise.
Me: I was going to make salad.
Mum: *stare*

Mum and Dad are back from France. Among other more fun pressies, which I shall detail later, Mum decided to bring back a little bottle of water from Lourdes - one each for Rhys and I. I know that Mum still considers herself Catholic, but she disagrees with a lot of the Catholic views and won't talk about what she does and doesn't believe. I know ( Read more... )

Thing One.
I am a closet religious person.  Eek.  Let me explain.  I recently read in a book (called Hidden Voices about Vivaldi and his orphan musicians and pointed out to me by Britt whilst browsing in Bookcafe) that "God never gives us any more than we can handle" and it kind of struck a chord with me.  A few months ago, I woke up in the middle ( Read more... )

Let me start by saying how great it is that a sudden intake of breath can be done in a sarcastic way.  I do enjoy unspoken language.

Anywho,  it's been a while since my last post which was admittedly rather a bit on the yucky side, so this post is intended as a catching up post.  Though how one can catch an/the 'up' is anybody's guess.  Yes, I am in ( Read more... )

Mum and dad are watching this freaking stupid tv show that they watch on Sundays that has all the political crap etc on it. I don't know why they bother watching. I don't know why the network bothers airing the show. It's a load of bull. They basically sit there and discuss all the dumb shit that the politicians have done as well as the less ( Read more... )

Britt, before I forget to tell you and you get all stressed out and omgomgomg, I've got the 27th off work, so it's all good.  Are you free during the day that day?

Right now, there are way too many new glass claims glaring at me from my desk.  Also, letters from the police dudes stating that they won't give us information unless we pay them for it ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I conquered landings.  Did about an hour and a half of circuits with Leith and for once there was no cross wind, so I was able to actually land the plane a number of times without boucing it off the runway.  Funnily enough, when we came down for a break after the first hour or so, Leith commented that my first few circuits had been ( Read more... )

Mum wrote a me a letter yesterday.  Sounds weird since we live in the same house, but it's pretty normal actually.  My family is generally too opinionated and emotionally retarded to verbalise our feelings.  Anywho, the letter:  She basically apologised for treating me like a child and not trusting me to make my own decisions and said that she ( Read more... )

Cooper decided to do an experiment the other day. He wanted to find out which of his toys would float and which would sink, so he brought them all out to the pool and tossed them in one by one. Except for the last one - his favourite. We call it his girlfriend because he loves it heaps and its a golden retriever stuffed animal (which is no ( Read more... )

I had my final shift at SGIO last Saturday. Took this week off, primarily to reset my body clock so I don't go crazy when my hours change at my new job. Starting at Zurich Insurance on Monday doing claims support for property claims. They say the mix is about 80% commercial and 20% domestic, so there'll be exciting multi-million dollar stuff in ( Read more... )