Here comes 2008!

Well 2007 has been a very very busy and eventful year. It has had a lot of milestones and changes for me... and all I can say is thank god its over - despite being generally happy with how the it all turned out.

Well, enough with all the reflective bull$hit. First point... why has it been so long since my last entry? Well, I must admit, I have an addiction... to Facebook.

Just before Christmas I decided to see what all the fuss was about and get myself on facebook. What is the great thing about Facebook you may be asking? Bugger all... it is one of the most useless, stupidest websites I have ever joined. Like I really needed to know that if I was a star wars character I would be Luke Skywalker, and that I have 80 something percent in common with the movie interests of someone I went to high school with and haven't seen or communicated with in over 5 years!

However, I can see the advantage of such a site for things like school or company reunions. I have joined the Facebook groups for both my Primary and Secondary schools... and found some people I had completely forgotten about. Though I keep reminding myself - Facebook is killing my Blog! My blog is sitting there going stale, while I try and create some stupid Vampire army on Facebook by virtually 'biting' all my friends.

If you are sitting there thinking 'This boy needs a life'... I agree. I think I have sunk to a deeper sadder depth than ever before.

Anyway... my Facebook confession is now out of the way.

Christmas was busy, and I am very happy its now all finished.

For Christmas day we had lunch at Mum and Dads, then went to Seans cousins for dinner down in Hoppers Crossing. Seen all the relatives that we won't see again til either next Christmas, a significant birthday, a birth, or a death. It was the standard be nice and pretend that you all share a lot more in common than a couple of DNA strands... however I have since been told off for not being totally nice about everyone... so next time I will just keep my mouth shut and make mental notes on how bonkers everyone is. I am sure you all can relate!

Well thats it for now... I will try and post again soon.

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!

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!

Merry Christmas Everyone

Hi All,

I have been so busy this year I have not had the opportunity to send out Christmas cards - but it's not because I don't love you all.

I hope you all have a happy and safe Christmas and wish you all the best for the new year. I will try to get a post up after Christmas.

Have a safe one - Andrew

Sorry

Hi all,
Sorry I havn't blogged in a few weeks as I have been flat chat. Christmas has snuck up on me this year more than it has other years. I had the day off on Monday so Sean and I went Christmas shopping at Chadstone. Thankfully because it was a Monday it was not too busy. We got pretty much all our Christmas shopping done - as well as the usual arguments which come with shopping (cause shopping is boooooring!)

It has also been flat out at Work. We have the grand opening for the new library this Sunday. The last week has seen the numerous plasma screens setup, our kiosk stations setup as well as loading up the public PCs with software and tidying all the cables up.

I went out for Dinner with some old work Friends on Tuesday night down to a hotel in Essendon. Very nice meal. I had roast pork, then lemon marang pie for dessert.

Tomorrow our new bed is being delivered to my grandparents where we will store it until we take posession of the house. Captain snooze said they would originally hold it for 6 weeks, which turned out to be 6 months before they rang up and said it needs to go from their warehouse.

With the house we have a problem with the microwave cavity at the moment. We have measured the cavity and found it is too small to fit even the smallest microwave on the market. The designers are currently working on resolving this issue, so hopefully they will get there butts into gear and have a resolution soon.

Tomorrow night I have an end of year Christmas celebration with my 'Movie friends', then Sunday I am working at the grand opening, then off to Seans friend's wedding reception, which is a Chinese banqute which should proove interesting.

Well thats about it. I will try and update more frequently before Christmas.

Cheers
A