Sunday, December 25, 2011

Merry Christmas!



So, it's Christmas day in Melbourne, Australia. We hit a top of 31.4 degrees and then it hailed! What's up with that? In he midst of the hail storm/monsoon the Mobil Altona Refinery had some sort of incident that sent thick black smoke billowing out of one of the stacks within the compound!

In one day, I sweated my ass off in the heat, got a semi-white Christmas that I had wished for and could have been blown to smithereens by a petrochemical plant.

Today is my lucky day!




Thursday, December 8, 2011

Wow, what a day!

What a busy day... Awake at 0430 to have a piss, can't sleep cos of the lebbos and their music. Sister comes home drunk at 0500 and pops into my room to say 'Hi", struggle to fall back asleep due to Lebbo radio. Alarm goes off at 0630 to do the airport run. Someone has a melt-down about a book being in a back pack b4 we leave. Zoom into the airport, struggle with traffic on the way home. Pop into Nan's to swap cars and end up staying for a few hours.. Get home grab tape measure and head off to Dij's place to measure a couch. In the car and off to Hoppers. Weigh up which foam option suits our needs and have it cut to size. No wallet. Drive home. Maccas drive thru and then to Clarke's pay for the foam. Head to the hong shop to find potential party supplies. Jar explodes in Dij's hand. Panic sets in. Put First Aid skills to good use and burn to Willi hospital. I need a smoke. Go outside and spark up. Hear strange noises coming from the leaf litter. Find a ring Tailed Possum with a baby on it's back and a fucked up leg. Call the council. Wait for wild life lady to pick up possums. find Dij in A&E. Make her laugh buy pretending to be a doc. Get in close to to see inside the finger flap. Stitches done time to go home. Drop Dij off home time now. 1730 Feed dogs. Feed Kelly. 13 hours, 4 cars and numerous kilometres later, nap time now please!