Ironing Out the Zombies.....

Hi!

Well. Sunday, late afternoon. Little early, but might as well, have finished most of the chores.......... The birds are out there with a few chittering away, but I think most of them are hiding in the cool shade of... whatever they can find. Most of them are probably too busy panting. They're pretty chatty in the mornings but I guess by evening they're too tired from trying to get used to summer arriving so early. One thing I can hear is a group of kids playing in what must be a pool (so jealous. I totally wish I was a kid playing in a pool right now), and I assume it's a pool because when did you ever play "Marco Polo" on land??? But, have the cool glass of stand-by white wine, am just in time for the strange show tunes radio show (aside from Judy Garland and Danny Elfman, good god they're playing songs from "Annie"), there's a cool-ish breeze to push the hot air around - life is good!

So work. Yep, is pretty good. Have been bloody busy the last couple of weeks, which is just awesome considering I had 8+ months to prepare. I like being busy, makes the day/week go by. One thing I did manage to squeeze into my busy days was move all my stuff from my desk in my "old" department to my "new" department. It was a nice feeling. With full blessing from my bosses of course. Nice to know I've made a nice, clean space at my old desk for whatever new person my boss might hire to help the folks up there (not doing my job, helping the other gals do communications stuff). Cool. I quite like my adoptive home and team. Glad they let me live with them and keep me busy. Another reason why it's so nice to be busy as not only does it speed up the days and weeks, it scoots us closer to Xmas and a week & 1/2 break - waaaahhoooooo! I had planned to go out of town (options included coming up to the US) but decided to save mah pennies (and vacation time) for another time of year when tickets are $millions$ cheaper and crowds less. So all in all, work is good! Hooray!

And then there was a brief bright spark in the week - Thursday evening I headed over to Kangaroo Point Cliffs for my first "social climb" with my rock climbing shop. Didn't know a soul but everyone was friendly enough (except for 2 chicks who've been noted for not being so friendly. No Xmas card for them), but everyone else was pleasant enough. It's tough rocking up to things like that not knowing anyone. I tried to introduce myself to as many people as I could without being too wierd. Thankfully, a gal I did my course with showed up, so that took a bit of the gangly new kid at school feeling away. Bummer was, there were about 15 of us wanting to climb 4 climbs. So I really only got in a climb & 1/2 (that last climb about kicked my butt - it was kinda hard and being off these last few weeks, am not in as strong as I was!). So most of the time was spent waiting to get on a climb. Hmmm. Will give the group a few more tries before I decide what to do......... The gal on my course and I decided to give the indoor climbing gym a try (again) hopefully tomorrow evening, if not sometime very soon. I didn't mind that indoor gym - good for working on technique. It's fun when you can get climbing! But hey, at least I'm trying!!!!!

And then there was the weekend. I must say, by the end of the week I was really beat. So I spent yesterday doing laundry and watching movies. I can't recommend "Resident Evil" unless you like that sort of thing (it started life as a really cool video game). I didn't mind the idea or the story (am still in a Zombie movie phase), but the film itself, while Mila Jovovich is a cutie and did the best with what she had to work with, the film was a stinker, in my opinion. But then I quite liked "Zombieland" so there you go. Later that evening "Back to the Future" was on TV, again, so I had to watch that. One day I'll own them all, along with "Raiders of the Lost Ark", on blu-ray....... Oh, and I gave myself a manicure. And that was Saturday. Thrilling.

And today was much the same. Got the ironing done. I figured it was already hot, I wasn't gonna do it at night, might as well get all the hot done at once. Meant to vacuum and clean too but it was too hot for that kinda stuff. So I sat here and restocked on toiletries from Walgreens. And Bisquick from Amazon. Again, another quiet yet constructive day! All I can say is HopShopGo is either the best or worst web-service I've ever come across. Good for staving off homesickness, baaaad for bank account.

And that, sadly, is that. Summer is here, so weekends not filled with Adventure will be much the same as above. Apologies now because it's gonna last until March at least. Hopefully I'll be able to check in with details of some good storms, or so the weather bureau is predicting for this season.......... Otherwise, I hope you're all well up there! If you're planning a visit, feel free to come any time after March - there, that gives you 4+ months to plan and save (oh, did I mention that last week? Huh.....)!!!! So c'mon down - later!

BYE!
J!