i.o.u. a slideshow from our vietnam~cambodia trip... i've been looking at some of my archived photos and you gotta see them. some of them are absolutley stunning.




i.o.me the bitchin bod that i had last year. (australia has fat air)





and (now i'm just bragging) when t dropped me home after footy, there was a reallyreallyreally cute, little, red possum on our front gate! possums, man, possums! it was really close to us and it didn't run away super fast, we got a good look at it! how awesomely awesome!

i love animals!


ja ne -xoxoxoxoxo-

was that you who gave me a little honk while i was riding home?
just before the roundabout at fairfield and venner roads?
i smiled just to be polite... you see, i should probably wear my glasses more often.
and your windows were either slightly tinted or really dirty.
i don't know who you are.
you honked and smiled and laughed like you knew me.
you were wearing sunnies, do i even know you?
you were kinda cute so i didn't snarl or give you the cold shoulder.

but i'm really confused cause i think you thought you know me.
but i'm not sure you do...

minou is much better now (she did have an infected abscess and we did take her to the vet first thing the following morning, thanks to whoever posted that comment... while i'm asking, who is p. that posted the comment on saturday november 4? i have a good guess, but i'm not sure!!!).

anyways, kitty's on antibiotics and she's had her hair cut off her forehead. now i call her lobotomy kitty :) (pictures to follow, i'm sure)

this morning i had a webchat with my grandmother and mother-in-laws, they are so sweet and both doing well... i kinda feel guilty that it's summer here and my family and friends are all about to suffer through a cold winter... especially when my winter was comparable to a canadian summer! but then, when i think about it more, i just think: suckers. you could move here if you really wanted to! mwah ha ha ha ha! *giggle*

last weekend matt and i hit the 6 year mark... he was off running a race that day (saturday)... actually he was gone all weekend. so, rather than being put off baking after sending my team captain to the hospital, i thought i'd bake my husband a pie and see if it worked again... heeheehee! just kidding :)

so i made a tarte aux poires (french pear tart) (as well as spaghetti bolognese and tasty bruschetta!)...

this is the tarte



and this is the tart baking a tarte! *giggle*



this morning i'm having cheerios with yogurt, mango, nectarine, pear, banana and some sesame and linseeds... mmmm! i love the tropical fruit tasties that i can buy here :) the cheerios suck though. they don't sell real cheerios, they sell the multi-kind and i think those ones have added sugar... i only have a handful at a time, it's mostly a fruit salad, but i would still prefer real cheerios in the yellow box... hinthint lizzard breath who's putting together my xmas care pack! xoxo ... actually, don't send them!!! the totally anal quarantine inspectors would probably charge me $50 to have the box of cereal gamma-rayed before i could eat them! seriously, they've confiscated sachets of herbal tea that sue has tried to send in greeting cards, just something to keep us warm when it was chilly, and we've gotten letters asking us to pay $46 to have 2 tea bags shot with gamma rays! how funny! but babe, that doesn't mean you can't still send the eyeliner! - that's the main thing i want!

today should be good cause it's friday!!! woo-hoo! and i've already had like 2 cups of coffee! woo-hoo! friday is jeans day, i'm going to wear my sexkitten jeans... will have to post a pic of those sometime too, they give great ass :)

and my boss is in bali for the next week. the office is already quieter and more relaxed :)

tomorrow i have a big run, 9 miles... i haven't run that long in ages so i'm a bit apprehensive. LSD does it though... (for those of you not in training, LSD stands for LongSlowDistance... not 'cid!) ... but i should be ok. you'll probably be able to read about it on my marathonkitty.

this weekend it looks like we're hitting the coast tomorrow for a bit of sunsurfandsand. we were going to head down to lismore to say goodbye to g&l who are moving to canada but with the pussy on antibiotics we're not going anywhere overnight! we would take her there too but g&l have a kitten, and with my pussy jumping anything that moves, it's probably not the best idea!

le weekend - on attaque!

minou traumas... what a worried mummy i am!

my baby got in a fight this weekend, she must have gotten her a** kicked cause she was so moody and she hasn't perked up to her normal self since. i'd give anything for her to attack my feet! she won't even chase her little balls around. i think she might have sprained her right arm cause she's limping a bit. she had a few scratches on her head.

and the birds were frightening her this morning. and she yarfed up.

she had an awful scab on her head that got knocked off today (i thought it was just badly matted hair, maybe some tree sap)... when i came home it looked like her brains were pouring out of her forehead. it took every ounce of restraint in my body not to freak out and to carry her calmly to the bathroom and wash her with a warm, damp cloth. my poor little girl!!!

this is her when she was just a munchkin:





she's still the sweetest kitty ever in the whole wide world :) (even if i am totally stressed out at the moment!)

**********holy cow she's posting on a weekday!*********



usually i'm too tired to do this but i'm waiting for j to get home with some tasty curry... mmm! (somethings never change!)

last sunday we went to a really pretty swim spot and lounged around, then had a small dinner party... funfunfun! i played frisbee with my friends and a dog (emma) joined in for fun.

last night was touch footy. i made peanut-butter-chocolate-chip cookies for the team. they were stoked. and tony brought a watermelon. it was to be a sweet feast after the game. but, *sigh*... hey does anybody remember when i watered the nice psychiatrist's photos when i was working there as a receptionist? last night reminded me of that. nobody told me that the team captain was allergic to peanuts and nobody bothered to point it out to him... i did tell everyone what kind of cookies they were, i was happy cause they're such a north american thing! and he arrived late and didn't hear... so, off to the hospital for him!

how bad did i feel?! *sigh*

but, even though we STILL didn't win, we played a much better game than last week. i think i'm getting better. i gotta find someone to toss my new ball around with this weekend... j'll be gone on a 500km footrace. leaves tonight.

on saturday it will be 6 years that we've been together. i won't see him at all that day so jean-lou's organized a little (drunken i bet!) party so i don't go insane. it always feels warm to know that your friends care :) and it's really good when they're close by for a change!

today it was super windy. and chilly. i think i might need to put on a warmer sweater.

and maybe some awesome socks with pink stars on them ;)

saturday's back, but not in the gruesome way it was last week! now it's beautiful and sunny. j came with me at 7:30 this morning and we ran 7 miles (11.3km) together, chatting along the way. i got some training tips and my gait analysed. i taught my lesson, had a minute's silence at 11:11, went sports clothes window shopping with j, then to govinda's for a delicious hare krishna lunch (i'm *still* stuffed!) and walked through town looking at nice stuff. then we hit the supermarket and bought a footy ball (that's rugby for any of you on the upside)... did i tell y'all how i joined a touch team? touch rugby. it's fun and i've met some very nice people! this is my league my team is mavro skillo... yes, i know, we have yet to win a game. but i try really really really hard.

next week i'm gonna bake peanut butter-choc chip cookies for my teamates :)

i know there are a bunch of you that i owe emails/phone calls to. not that i *owe* them, just that i've been wanting to send an email or make a phone call to you. k, g, janetto, flo, kim... j finishes at his highschool on monday so i will have full access to the computer again! AND next weekend he's off doing a 500km race so i will probably be bored and just phoning around. get your webcams and internet connections up and running girls and i'll get my calling card recharged. (i spoke to sue, my motherinlaw, for a whole hour and it cost me about 75c. she's in victoria bc now)

OOH YEAH! so, last weekend, when i was all meh, i go to the bottle shop and the dude behind the counter was all chipper and sweet (being little and about 21) and he starts asking me where i'm from etc. i said mtl and turns out he's going there in a few weeks and he doesn't know what to do while he's there. he goes "we've got this friend there but he's a bit of a loser and we kind of want to go out!" so... calling all fun-lovin montrealers who want to show some aussie blokes a good time... let me know and i'll give you his email. keep in mind that he was super nice to me and totally cheered me up just by being friendly and very, i dunno, a bit like me in his cheery, bubbly attitude? (ok, except when i'm feeling dumpy, like last week!)

i just had a really strong coffee and need to go and tidy my house so i can go out and meet my friends down the road. cleaning is for the dinner party we're having tomorrow night.

coffee makes my writing very erratic.

i feel kinda crazy right now!!

woo hoooooo!

MWAHHHH!

i want to see the penguins!

i don't know what's wrong with me. in japan i would treasure the nights j was gone, some me time. maybe a girl's night. now i just feel cagey and irritable. i can't put a finger on it. do i need more friends? more hobbies? i have plenty to do, hell, i could be studying for my permit right now; but just not things i want to do on a saturday night.



he was mildly derisive the other day when i tried to explain this to him ("it's called talking about your feelings. i don't need you to tell me that i'm wrong in feeling the way i feel, i just need you to listen and stop trying to change my gut reaction" she screamed silently)... claiming that he stopped differentiating friday and saturday nights from other nights of the week a long time ago (like when he "grew up" or something?) ... yeah, well, sorry for you.

i like the weekend. i like the freedom. i don't like not having anyone to share the fun with. i don't like how i can't invite liz, flogently, gspot, d, beccachan, hardk, kim or any of my fave girlies over for a few hours to pass the time and shoot the shit on an otherwise lonely saturday night while j works.

i hate the fact that my freakin phone is out of credit and i can't call anyone. i hate the fact that it's so much easier to meet dudes than it is gals. i hate the fact that most of the dudes end up wanting to just F you anyways. i hate the fact that i straightened my hair & put on a pretty face tonight in the small hope that i might have some social interaction. i hate the fact that i feel too guilty to go out because i'm expected to be content at home now that j bought me ("lent" me money to buy) sofas. i hate the fact that i always feel like he wants me to cook, or do housework, or interior decorating while he's not home. i hate the fact that we're going to have to rent out a room cause i don't make enough money and that i won't be able to walk around naked anymore. i hate the stress of bills and money and the responsibility of being the only one paying the domestic affairs because his money has to go to his courses. i hate the fact that he keeps talking about how we don't know how long we'll be here because his job might take us somewhere else but i really love this house. i hate cardboard boxes and being so nomadic and unsettled. i hate that i can't say any of this out loud and that i can only release my frustrations in writing. and i hate the fact that i wrote down and erased the other half of my hates because i couldn't bring myself to publish them.

my cagey, pent up boredom that led to a trip to "salon em" and a make over ended up in webcam pictures and a play on light... "i might as well," i mused, "no one else is going to see it"...



i'm going for a walk down to the bottle-o, red wine sounds necessary. i know it's late and dark. piss off.

then maybe i'll do crossword number one million and forty-two before passing-out-without-wiping-off-my-eyeliner in the hopes that i feel better and less anxious tomorrow.