tonight we got a lift home and got held up near the mt white turnoff for about 40mins. the big electronic road signs said that there had been a breakdown on the freeway - which doesn't really give since if it was only one broken down car there wouldn't be 40mins of backed up traffic. it was probably just some sort of roadworker skills test to see how much backed up traffic they could create.

Ryan's Vegan Cuisine

I'm getting closer... I just need to buy some liquid latex.....then the fun begins.

I got these pants today from the op shop down the road.

After years of searching i finally discovered a vegan tinned spaghetti. It's a Coles brand with a silver label... it's so yummy.

Kibby has a gerbil called Pig. It's very cute, possibly cuter then the baby i saw on the bus the other day. go see it, you'll love it and hope they had gerbils in australia.

Maybe i can get one on Ebay.

a net friend of mine in the UK has a new site, please go and say hello

I was reading the blog of a guy in NY when i found this interesting one...

The Post Office Hates Me

I have made a Lists page as well. So far i have a list of cd's and one of videos. any other lists i should make?

I got these from Linda. The packet is pretty fun, a rabbit and chick eating papadums. in the corner there is a little logo that reads 'symbol of women's strength'.

i made a pictures page. at the moment there are some photo's of natalie, jara and i from last july when we came roadtripping to newcastle.
i'll see if i can find some more

ryan and i did the shopping this afternoon. we left at about 5pm and got there at 5:30 - the bus takes a very indirect route to coles. the bus to come home was at 6:19 so we did a very quick zooming shop and then packed all the shopping into my backback and my big travel pack. we left coles and it was only 6:13 so i went to a take away shop and bought a coke. we walked outside at 6:15 and saw the bus had already got to the bus stop which was about 30m away, so we though 'we'll run up the road to the next one' so we ran, ryan went the wrong way and then all the traffic confused us , we finally crossed one road and then had to cross another but the lights changed and suddenly we were stranded in the middle of a road, the bus was coming and we pondered crossing in front of it but then realised it probably wasn't a good idea - it was dark and we weren't wearing anything particulary bright so we might have got run over, we want back to the side we'd come from and ran a bit more, ryan, with the travel pack on his back full of grocery's starting jumping up and down on the side of the road in an effort to get the bus to stop........and it did, about 20ms further up the road, so we ran again and got to the bus and the driver was so brilliantly nice to us. there was only one other person on the bus so we didn't feel too bad about holding it up.
so when we got home we unpacked the shopping and decided that we'd make roast vegies for dinner. we cut up potatoes, carrot, kumera and pumpkin. i looked in the fridge and found there wasn't much mint jelly left in the jar so i walked down the street to iga to get some. when i came back i sat down at the computer and wondered if there was a mintjelly.com and there was!!!! AND it's another MT blog - how strange is that? I haven't read much of it yet but from what i've read it's pretty good.

i was going to post this as a comment in response to a post david blogged but it got too long, so here it is....

i think the 'idea' of a youth group is great but i think in practise it takes a lot to get right. like, you want one to be fun which means for kids that aren't already christian you need an easy intro into the bible but you don't want to be preachy, and for the kids that are into god you don't want to be just 'preparing' them for when you get too old to lead and they are the right age for it. tricky business. also, most of the experiencs i've had with youth groups were bad - and no, that's not because i'm gay, this happened before i came out - the leaders were absolutey horrible to eachother if they didn't all agree on minor things in the bible - much like todays church groups - youth group was also the most gossipy and slutty place too - no one dared go out with anyone from outside the church/youth group which meant everyone had gone out with everyone and it was just so icky. also, leaders sometimes take advantage of their positions in the group, in ways that can't possibly be classified as Godly.
anyway, thats my little rant.

Signs You're Turning into a Vulcan

10. Your fantasies are about rescuing cute Terran guys from Klingon torture. -- Mister Saavik

9. You spend your free time in front of the mirror practicing Vulcan phrases. -- Mister Saavik

8. You beat yourself up about it if you show the smallest bit of emotion while doing so. -- Mister Saavik

7. You could carry on a short conversation in Vulcan, but demonstrating your technique to those who wouldn't understand it would be illogical. -- Mister Saavik

6. All your time on the Internet is spent looking up Star Trek sites and browsing TV Guide online to find out what time Voyager is on. -- Mister Saavik

5. Your "away messages" on your phone answering machine mention the word "Romulan", "Vulcan," or "Enterprise" at least once. -- Mister Saavik

4. When you finally check, the expiration date on your condom was up six years, eleven months, and three weeks ago.

3. Right in the middle of your colonoscopy, you start muttering about "beads and rattles."

2. People keep asking you to "do that thing with the hand."

1. You start a letter-writing campaign to Campbell's requesting that they start offering plomeek soup.

Additions...

21. Your favorite '80s song goes, "I think I'm turning Vulcanese, I think I'm turning Vulcanese, I really think so." -- David

20. You move to Death Valley so you can feel more at home. -- David

19. Your favorite website is www.mechanicalricepickers.com. -- David

18. You had a weird dream one night wherein you met Darth Vader, an extraterrestrial from the planet Vulcan. -- David

17. You are disappointed when you realize vulcanology is not the study of Vulcan culture. -- David

16. When you are taking notes in class, to save space on paper, you switch words into Vulcan. -- Jessica Jordan Spock

15. You try to convince your HMO that ear surgery is a medical necessity. -- Debra Smith

14. You refer to your therapy sessions as Kolinar. -- Debra Smith

13. You explain to your husband that your Pon Farr won't occur for 6.873 years. -- Debra Smith

12. When somebody asks you for a date, you carefully analyze the person's statements, probe deeply into the person's intentions and motivations with insightful and logical questions, and remark on any and all errors in logic, grammar, syntax or semantics. -- Steven

11. When you ask somebody out on a date and the person replies...see above. -- Steven

there are so many things i want in the world......most of them, at the moment are star trek enterprise toys..
i have the T'pol one and today i was going to put captain archer on lay-by but bloody toys r us don't do lay-by... grrrr and they are a disconntinued line as well.... at the toys r us here they only have about 6 figures left including archer, reed, maywhether, klaang and silik. oh i also found a Reed with his little chair and control panel but that was $60. i don't think they are getting in the phaser and communitcator set in either... dodgey.

i want to be rich.

i think i might go across the road and buy some daffodil's. i think it's daffodil day.....they have a big stand and everything.

you're probably noticed my poor attempts at posting lately - a bit of copy and paste here, a little link or picture there....

well, i don't know when this will change but in there mean time you can play here

T'pol has a new look for season three of enterprise - too bad we won't get it until next year.

right, so today the poked and probed me... I don't find out about the blood tests until after wednesday but i got the xrays back today.... i read the report and it seems to me that there's nothing wrong with me as far as you can tell from bones. which is good.

i went to the medical centre today. i went at 10:50am and they said there would be a wait until 1pm. so I went to Coral's for a cup of tea.
I went back at 1pm and Natalie met me there, we went in and luckily i was in to see the dr soon after. I told him about the numbness and pain in my hands and also about the poor circulation. He couldn't really tell what was causing it so i have to get a 'c-spine' X-ray - i think the x-ray is to check for some sort of arthritis in my neck. I also have to get some blood taken - they doing tests with names like: fbc/esr, euc/lft, bsl, fe studies, rf, ana, rrv and bfv. I think that includes a iron test, diabetes, arthritis, and i forget the others - i looked them up online but it just started freaking me out. the dr even suggested it could be a carpal tunnel syndrome type thing. or something to do with the ulner nerve.

i hope it's something little.

i think i might have to go to the dr soon about my poor circulation. i can be just standing or sitting somewhere and my hands will get pins and needles. my hands are always cold too and my feet.
i hope it's nothing bad... because i probably won't end up going to the dr....but it sounds 'grown up' to say i might.
I don't have a health care card so i can't take the risk of having to pay billions of dollars incase i have to get x-rays.
maybe i'll go get a healthcare card today.

i received this email today, i found it quite amusing:

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Enterprise NX-01 Phaser and Communicator

cuz and i got some badges today.
his says 'i love bondage'
and mine says 'i hate this town' (i don't really hate this town, but some people that grew up here don't like it very much)

later while i was walking to hunter mall with ryan i got another badge that says 'fuck art, let's dance'

just had some corn chips and dip. the chips ran out before the dip was empty, i hate when that happens.

my friend kris had a blog, well actually it's a livejournal but i think blog sounds better. he has really good posts and most of them are funny. i'd link him but he doesn't want to go public with his blog, like kaia.

natalie is blogging again!

i don't know if it's just a today thing or if she'll keep posting....

mt is being a bit quirky tonight.

streaking my hair. ooh. got to love that bleach smell.

going out to anousha's ep launch tonight at the salarium.

Sam Pine


Noel Douglas

i got this months new internationlist today, meredith gave me a years subscription for my birthday, probably one of the best presents i've ever got.
anyway it came with a free compilation cd with songs taken from the NI peace not war volume one
here's the tracklist, if you get the time look some of these songs up, i'm only up to track 2 but i'm pretty impressed already.....
MOney is your blood : torben & joe
PAin of Life : GM baby
The PRice of Oil : billy bragg
dOwn : bindi blacher
Occident & emergency : DJ Dis orientalist
the bell (paranoia network remix) : stepHan smith, pete seeger, & DJ sPooky
self evident :Ani Difranco
until your country Is free : anon
Bin laden Ain't no hero : the ruB
what do we waNt? (we don't want no war) : HondO
Al Aqsa Intilfada : Rootsman & Muslimquaze
we Want peace : Hermoine
Rythm of the Sium : Motiv
fiLL me : the Zephyr Quartet

so i'm at tafe now excercising my rights as a fee paying student. using the computer....
the screen is rather large and overwhelming, not like the humble screens at home.
We're in visual arts, crafts, and design in context with our teacher, commonly known as 'that paul guy'.
most unenjoyable.

click

ok, so ryan went to a party last night for his boss' girlfriend.
His boss being Andy and the girlfriend being bob (robin).
ok so i know Bob and Andy but didn't know that the Andy ryan worked with was the same Andy.....freaky.
so anyway ryan talked to all these other people last night that also knew me, one being alison who turned out to be friend's with Jo french's cousin.
AND they worked out that Jo and bob used to play soccer together.

well, it's sunday so i can't go to Eckersley's because it's closed. It's a bit silly for it to be closed on a sunday because all the art students who forgot they needed things and left it until the last minute can't go and get what they need.
so anyway i'm sitting here in my pj's and it's midday. chris said he might visit but he probably won't, it's hard to get home to medowie and all - medowie is like the berowra heights/cowan of newcastle.

ryan is in sydney for the weekend so our cooking enthusiasm has also gone. tonigth we're decided on cup-a-soup and toast.

this is pretty fun. oh the joy

i'm learning all about html

that was a long post.

we went to centrelink this afternoon. Natalie had to renew her health care card and i... well i just went because i love centrelink so much. it was pretty quick, there was a suprisingly short line for 4:15pm on a friday afternoon - it is friend isn't it? anyway afternoon centrelink i took natalie to the newcastle regional art gallery, you can do that sort of thing up here because everything is so close together, we could have gone to the beach if we walked 15mins further. so anyway we went to the gallery, i wanted to show natalie the Hung & Strung exhibtion of marionette puppets made by the head teacher at my tafe. she liked them and i was happy that we had spent some time together other then watching star trek and cooking dinner. after the gallery we walked next door to the newcastle library - i told you everything is close - and we decided to join. the library staff were very helpful and i got the feeling that we were the first people to join in quite some time. they acted as if we had asked them if they would mind taking one million dollars off our hands, but really its the opposite in some respect because we get to borrow books for free and they don't really get anything out of it. unless they really like checking out books and returning items to the shelves. i guess you'd have to like that to work in a library... unless you were just a student working there for the extra cash.
after that we walked along hunter st and up passed tafe towards home, we stopped briefly at the duck's nuts hotel (yes, seriously, it's called that) to visit lisa whoe had been there since the end of tafe at 4pm, it was now about 5:15pm i might add. we ended up going inside to chat to cuz, mike and rita as well. cuz was busy exhibiting his new found skill of blowing smoke rings - i doubt he will have much of a voice in the morning. we played with some Beyblades on the blue felt pool table and one got lost in the pocket. luckily the prismatic one didn't get lost though as rita reckons she could get a good swap out of it - a chocolate paddle pop at least!
*newsflash, natalie has the hiccups*
so anyway, then we headed for Market town, natalie wanted to buy me some lip gloss for my very dry lips and we were thinking along the lines of thai curry for dinner. as we were crossing the road a nice guy asked us where was 'hot spot' he and his friend could go to hang out - obviously he hadn't had much experience of newcastle... we pointed towards town and said that's the best we could do, and it was i guess, without getting into tedious map drawing and explaining street by street directions.
so we get to market town and head for video ezy. natalie wanted an ice block. she got a solo lemon ice block and said it tasted like banana so i tried it...... it tasted like lemon to me. and cold, it also tasted cold. after that we went to office works, not because we really ahd to but because it's so big and bright and such a novelty. finally we got to Bilo where we went in search of a curry paste or what not. we looked for a solid ten mintues but then decided we'd just have soup. on the way home, we caught a bus by the way, natalie toyed with the idea of getting thai takeaway. i told her it would be lovely but if we got it we'd regret spending the money we couldn't really afford to spend. so when we got home it was a choice between nachos and pasta. either way i would have to go to Iga. nacho's - avacado, pasta - turkish bread. so i said i'd go to iga and if the avacados were ripe we'd have nachos, if they weren't we'd have pasta. i went and tested the avacados......they weren't too bad, probably even semi good....but my stomach wasn't feeling too good so i thought a nice pasta would probably go down better. so i bought turkish bread and snacks. snacks consisting of two strawberry chuppa chups and some nut crackers. nut crackers are just a mix of nuts and rice crackers. it's a pretty good mix actually you get peanuts, cashews, almonds and a few macadamia's. when i got home we made pasta and watched a bit of the simpsons. it was the 'who shot mr.burns' episode. maggie btw. when dinner was ready - fettecini (sp?) with a napolitana sauce and toasted turkish bread - we sat down and watched Sleepers. Natalie hadn't seen it before and i think it was a bit more then she was up for, i have seen it a few times and i started reading the book in abotu september 2000......i hope my bookmark is still in there... the movie finished a little while ago, we stopped the tape in time to see a bit of True Lies which is on tv tonight. it was the part where jaimie lee curtis' character thinks she's going undercover for a secret gov agency and has to dance for arnie's character, her characters husband, who she thinks is some sort of Mob guy. it's very funny esp when she's thrusting up against the bedpost and then falls over. actually the most amusing part of it all is probably because she's wearing her panties and bra but also her high heels. anyway.... that's enough of today and probably one of my longest posts....