Quiet night

Last weekend was heaps of fun; I had the day off for my birthday on Friday, I went shopping in the city, fancy dinner at a French restaurant, birthday lunch yum-cha on Saturday, laughing at all the Hawks supporters going nuts at the pub in the afternoon, birthday cocktails in the evening, then a big housecooling party at Matt's uncle's place on Sunday. Who said that birthday weekends were supposed to be relaxing?

Last night I made dinner, watched TV and sat around on the couch. Now I'm looking forward to a week of not doing much more than this :-D

Frequent flyer

I'm off to Japan again next week. Some people don't like business travel, but I think it's fun! This time I go to Utsunomiya, famous for dumplings and "its abundance and quality of cocktail bars" according to the ever reliable wikipedia. Woo.

Phew!

I got an assignment back today that the majority of students fail. I passed! 

Retroactive good newz

1. Last week after I left the physio they didn't want me to make another appointment. Woot!
2. Had my 30th birthday party and had a great time. I got both kinds of presents - beer and scotch. Woot!
3. Found birthday money from my mother-in-law safe in my bag under the bed after looking absolutely everywhere all week (including going through the garbage piece by piece). Can now go buy that pocket-knife. Woot!
   

Lost ... and Found

Well, some of you might have read about this on my iced-tee blog, but I managed to lose several personal items last week, and then they ALL returned/were found, ALL in DIFFERENT places! And the good run has continued, since other items which I thought had been lost for even longer, have also turned up - my second (actually first) pair of water-proof over-pants and BOTH reflective anklet things, which I can now wear when I ride to work! Right on!

Rode to work today

Ok then. I rode my bike to work today.

It's a bit scary, honestly, being back in the saddle, but I think it's scary in a good way.

I'm here. I'm in one piece. And I'm doing it tomorrow, and that's what counts!

Oooh sunny

Ok, the weather hasn't been too crash-hot these last few days, but while warming my face in the sun at the train station this morning I was reminded of just how warm and sunny it was on Saturday. Welcome, Spring!

Ok, at the start of this week I'm going to claim that my good news is that I've had the flu shot.

While I left family all sick in our bed (they all rolled over and I fell out) this morning I come in to work to fill out my flu tracking survey and I read in the latest results that "In this past week of the survey, cough and fever was reported by 4.3% of vaccinated respondents and 6.9% of unvaccinated respondents. The combination of fever, cough and absence from work or normal duties was reported by 2.7% of vaccinated respondents and 4.6% of unvaccinated respondents."

If you buy now, I'll throw in some steak knives!

Today is the last day of my course with IMC (the Internet Marketing Company), learning how to write the online equivalent of infomercials.

I've learned an enormous amount, much to my chagrin.

Huzzah! Huzzah!

Huzzah!

I'm able to ride again! I get a trainer for my 30th (write it down, Sept 21st, I like Scotch, music and Cabernet), and Beth didn't exactly manage to keep it a secret :-)

I got it hooked up tonight and IT WORKS!! While my wrist is building strength I'm going to be able to EXERCISE... like a NORMAL PERSON!! My 'real' bike is still in bits from the accident (you can see it on the table) but this crusty old thing has got pedals that go around and around and around and around just fine.

Huzzah!

I have 3 things, this week alone...

My "secret project" has gone alpha! My shaman, Moltenboron, (nobody doesn't like him) reached 70! I used colours in my blog post for this week!

And hooray! I'm cross-promoting!

Ultima 7

I played Ultima 7 using Exult most of yesterday, and it was way cool. I remember well the beautiful swirling red colours of the load screen. I used to watch for ages as my old 486 chugged through loading as much as it could into its puny memory. Can barely catch them now, but at least I can play the game. Think I'll play some more tonight.

Went skiing last week. It was my first time ever - turns out...

Skiing is awesome!

Spring

Hey hey - first day of Spring today!

New shoes!

Yesterday I went shopping and I actually bought new shoes!