(*) Thursday Thoughts

SJ and IX had their School Presentation Night and Xmas Play last night. The play was fun - but bizarre! Like "A Bug's Life" Xmas! rofl The best bit was the crickets - playing cricket dressed in cricket whites! hahahahaa. Oh, and of course - 'The Beetles' performed as well! heh heh

Speaking for cricket... the 3rd Ashes Cricket Test starts today... I think we'll win the series somehow... oh YA!

My brother sent me their new Cairns address the other day... I'm really excited for them, but also it's like... it's really happening! Gagh!

I was amazed to realize that I've had a fishie for three years already! Thoon IV is going wonderfully well, cheeky as ever.

And our water is dropping rapidly! Already our sailing dam is at 14%! Whenever we get a bit of rain [the occasional storm or short shower], it just gets sucked straight into the ground with little or no runoff... bugger! Last weekend I hit a submerged tree [in an Access dinghy] at what I thought was the deeper, clearer part of the dam, but looks like I wont be taking my little Wyreema out again there - until we get some rise in levels. Thankfully the trailer is 100% right to go... Ben Chifley Dam, Wang and Windamere, here we come!

The 'task' I've set myself over the Xmas break is to organize 35 years' worth of sailing club paperwork... old minutes, regatta stuff, correspondance etc etc etc... it should prove 'challenging' [to say the least!] Oh well, once it's all done and organized [I actually enjoy doing that kinda thing! Gagh!] - it's done! THEN it can go back happily in the filing cabinet at the clubhouse.

(*) Bloomin Marvellous

I'm feeling a whole damn lot brigher now... thanx to putting myself back on a very mild anti-depressant. My GP (doctor) is a good man and asks the hard questions, and I'm comfortable enough with him to be able to answer them too. My 'black dog' is basically a simple chemical imbalance in me noggin, and it seems if I don't keep on top of it it creeps up on me and takes over... holy shite... it's fine now tho. One side affect is that it just makes me feel so tired (that always happens for the first few days... just my body/system getting used to it again), but it's fine.

Hopefully it won't be too cold to go on the Edgell Jog with JD on Sunday... it's a local community fun run, but the weather might be an issue... last year it sleeted beforehand! They're predicting storms for Saturday, so - finger's crossed. Also hoping that JD's foot will be fine... we're sure it will be. He's up and running around chasing girls again with no after affects of having his leg in plaster.

The cricket's on again... the fifth ashes test, it's the 'grand final'! Aussies are doing pretty good after the first day (it's evenly poised at the moment, I'd say), with the Aussies at 7-319. We *need* to win this game to win the series, and the ashes! Carn aussie!

Wierdness... the things people search for on the net... and somehow stumble across my blog! "enhancing sudafed "... or what about "pregnancy myth busters string" - strange stuff!

Got my last thing on eBay yesterday - my second lifejacket (now I've got one for the boys and one for myself)... perfect for sailing in my little boat... only cost me $46.50 incl. post - considering they're like $75+ new!
- the new one, which I'll wear in the boat

- this one'll be like a spare the boys can wear when they come out sailing with me, or with the sailing school they have thru the club too.

I'm still hunting around for one of these... haven't had any luck so far tho...

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I've been doing a bit of poetry doodling again too... nuttin' too serious, just experiments.