Swimming Upstream

Hey, On Friday night I watched Swimming upstream with Jesse Spencer (from TV Series House), Judy Davis and Geoffrey Rush. It is based on a true story about swimming champion Tony Fingleton (played by Spencer) and his upbringing by a controlling, over competitive alcoholic father (Rush).

It was a bit along the lines of Billy Elliot, except it was set in Queensland, and included cute boys in speedos rather than to-to's!

On Saturday we laid a concrete footing for our eventual garden beds, so that was a fair bit of physical labour! Today was a rest day, we went and fed the ducks earlier (and sea gulls!).

This year we are having the family Christmas at Sean's and my place. We have already started getting things together and bought some wine for it yesterday - though it is starting to get bad as when we go to Dan Murphy's we have to get a shopping trolley!

This week marks 1 year working for Brimbank Libraries - which has spookily flown by really fast. So no doubt soon my boss will set a time for my annual review, then I can look back on things that I was planning on doing in the last 12 months but never got around to doing!

Matt Lucas from Little Britain is on Kath 'n' Kim tonight (which I don't watch cause I don't really find it that funny), so being a Little Britain fan I will have to watch that.

Anyway, that's it for me!

V for Vendetta

I watched V for Vendetta on DVD last night. I was not really expecting to like it, and thought it was going to be set in the past, but it was fantastic!

Basically it is set about 10 years from now in England. The USA started a war they could not win and has fallen into anarchy, along with most of the world. In the UK however, the lord Chamberlain has taken control of the country and has been given special powers to maintain peace and order following biological attacks against the country.

A masked stranger - "V" leads Natalie Portman on a journey to discover the truth, and that the state of affairs in the UK has all been masterminded by the lord Chamberlain to get power of the country - including the conspiracy that found the government staging the biological attacks on itself.

The movie has themes of the Holocaust, civil war, and a fair bit of action. It was a bit blood thirst at some points, but it really got you thinking.

Where have I been???

I know that is has been ages since my last post, but I just seemingly have not had time to blog, or could not be bothered!

Anyway, an update of whats been happening in my world since my last post:

A couple of weeks ago the transmission in Seans car decided to kark it, leaving him standard in a suburban street in St Albans in the middle of a 3 point turn. So I left work and went out to meet him and help push his car to the curb. It turns out he could only drive forward and only under 20 kph, he could not reverse. So we ended up getting his car towed and repaired, which took nearly two weeks! That meant we only had my car for 2 weeks, so Sean would drop me off at work in the morning and then take my car to get himself to work, then he would pick me up in the evenings.

That wasn't as bad as it sounds because for a couple of those days Sean was home sick with a bug that is doing the rounds, so I ended up taking my car for those few days.

Anyway his car is all fixed now, and comes along with a rather hefty repair bill!

Sean is also over his bug, and now it is my turn. I have been home sick on Tuesday and Wednesday. I think I may have started out with hay fever, but may have developed a small chest infection as a result.

I installed our rain water tank a couple of weeks ago, but we have had minimal rain since then, not even enough to 1/4 fill the tank, anyway I have never been so excited about the prospect of rain!

Over the next couple of weekend, weather depending, I am looking at doing the footings for our garden bed walls in the yard, then once they are done it can be full steam ahead with completing the landscaping in the backyard. Sean wants it all finished by December because we are having the family Christmas at our house this year, but I think it is a bit unrealistic, but hopefully by the end of summer it should all be done.

Anyway, that's all, I know its not very exciting, thus I have not been blogging!