They Say What They Say

The worst thing about going away for a couple of days and not bring my computer with me is catching up on my flist when I get back.

*skips 200*

My 10 month old niece can do Paul Gross arms. Of course no one in the family aside from myself knows what Paul Gross arms are and they call them hooray arms. I, however, refer to them (in my head) as Paul Gross arms and you have no idea how proud I am to be the aunt of a budding fangirl.

\o/

I've survived yet another weekend in the old home town, babysitting the nephew and helping my sister and BiL move into their new house. I worked out last night that I've been up there every week since before Christmas. I think it's the greatest amoubnt of time I've spent there since before I moved to Melbourne.

I have to admit, though, as much as I love hanging out with the family, I'm a little tired of all the driving backwards and forwards that I've been doing, so I'm having an old home town break for the next little while, or at least until my nephew's birthday in early February. It'll be nice to spend the next couple of weekends at home, faffing around at Savers and doing my shopping in Station street instead of struggling through Friday evening traffic and sleeping in the slightly too firm bed in my old room at mum's house.

After nearly dying from the heat last week, it's been raining virtually non-stop all weekend, which is about the best thing ever. Of course it makes driving along the highway slightly scary, but it's nice to see lawns start to become green and puddles forming along the side of the road. Also, I found banannananas for $3.00 a kilo in Melton and I got some very yummy peaches and nectarines from Safeway so my fruit cravings are quite fully satisfied at the moment.

Oh lord, where did the weekend go? At least this week is a short week and the Australia Day holiday has the good grace to fall on Friday this year, which means long weekend! Let's hope there isn't a repeat of last year's unfortunate incident wherein I locked myself out of my flat in 40C heat and had to get my brother to drag his VBL (very big ladder) all the way across town in said heat so I could break and enter my own home.

*checks for spare keys*

I still haven't been able to find the Buffy season 4 DVDs. I tried the K-Mart in the old home town on the weekend, but it only had seasons 5 and 7, and when I decided to stop at the one in Melton on my way home I got there about five minutes after it closed. I really hate buying DVD sets out of order, but I'm beginning to suspect that fate is going to force me to abandon my OCDness over this and get whatever I can find when I find it.

Which reminds me; I left my Doctor Who videos at mum's house. And I may have accidentally introduced the nephew to the Doctor. It's not my fault the DVD remove looks almost exactly the same at the VCR remote!

My car horn is doing odd things. I suspect it has something to do with the alarm system that the car used to have before I bought it. It's very embarrassing when one is making a three point turn in the car park at Safeway and one's car horn spontaneously beeps at innocent bystanders. I really must get that seen to.

BTW, the other day phoebesmum suggested that we might have a Sports Night Six Degrees viewing party sometime this year. What do other people think?

I really must go to bed.

*hugs flist*

The worst thing about going away for a couple of days and not bring my computer with me is catching up on my flist when I get back.

*skips 200*

My 10 month old niece can do Paul Gross arms. Of course no one in the family aside from myself knows what Paul Gross arms are and they call them hooray arms. I, however, refer to them (in my head) as Paul Gross arms and you have no idea how proud I am to be the aunt of a budding fangirl.

\o/

I've survived yet another weekend in the old home town, babysitting the nephew and helping my sister and BiL move into their new house. I worked out last night that I've been up there every week since before Christmas. I think it's the greatest amoubnt of time I've spent there since before I moved to Melbourne.

I have to admit, though, as much as I love hanging out with the family, I'm a little tired of all the driving backwards and forwards that I've been doing, so I'm having an old home town break for the next little while, or at least until my nephew's birthday in early February. It'll be nice to spend the next couple of weekends at home, faffing around at Savers and doing my shopping in Station street instead of struggling through Friday evening traffic and sleeping in the slightly too firm bed in my old room at mum's house.

After nearly dying from the heat last week, it's been raining virtually non-stop all weekend, which is about the best thing ever. Of course it makes driving along the highway slightly scary, but it's nice to see lawns start to become green and puddles forming along the side of the road. Also, I found banannananas for $3.00 a kilo in Melton and I got some very yummy peaches and nectarines from Safeway so my fruit cravings are quite fully satisfied at the moment.

Oh lord, where did the weekend go? At least this week is a short week and the Australia Day holiday has the good grace to fall on Friday this year, which means long weekend! Let's hope there isn't a repeat of last year's unfortunate incident wherein I locked myself out of my flat in 40C heat and had to get my brother to drag his VBL (very big ladder) all the way across town in said heat so I could break and enter my own home.

*checks for spare keys*

I still haven't been able to find the Buffy season 4 DVDs. I tried the K-Mart in the old home town on the weekend, but it only had seasons 5 and 7, and when I decided to stop at the one in Melton on my way home I got there about five minutes after it closed. I really hate buying DVD sets out of order, but I'm beginning to suspect that fate is going to force me to abandon my OCDness over this and get whatever I can find when I find it.

Which reminds me; I left my Doctor Who videos at mum's house. And I may have accidentally introduced the nephew to the Doctor. It's not my fault the DVD remove looks almost exactly the same at the VCR remote!

My car horn is doing odd things. I suspect it has something to do with the alarm system that the car used to have before I bought it. It's very embarrassing when one is making a three point turn in the car park at Safeway and one's car horn spontaneously beeps at innocent bystanders. I really must get that seen to.

BTW, the other day phoebesmum suggested that we might have a Sports Night Six Degrees viewing party sometime this year. What do other people think?

I really must go to bed.

*hugs flist*