something about james...

...and weddings.

five weeks ago, i went for james' and jessica's wedding. it was blazing. like mother of all suntans, sweat dripping of my hair, bride's makeup caked permanently into her pores, locked-sauna-with-key-thrown-away type hot.

today, i was at (a different) james' and lin's wedding. at least i was, after going through some armageddon winds, full-on hail (on a 27 degree day?!), mid-calf deep waters, and flooded roads so bad the speedometer danced within it's own 80 to 120 km/h rhythms.

i think (and i think i definitely speak for T as well when i say this), i'm quite over weddings.

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oh yes. i'm still without internet, the short version of why being courtesy of the hate-hate optus-telstra relationship. still sparodically riding off T's - and no more at work, i think. the other day, i didn't hear my boss walked up behind me while i was blogging, for some reason or other (too engrossed?), and i jumped so hard i must have looked like i was stealing office supplies. i know my face was burning. humbug.

eat move drink move sleep move

moved on to fine tuning the place - though perhaps fine isn't the best word choice, what with a few more bulkychunky yet-to-be-esembled furniture pieces and boxes strewned randomly around the apartment.

there are, as i've discovered, a whole lot of things one can refer to when thinking about how you know you've done (more than?) your fair share of moving, but this takes the cake:

one of the two below, was fast asleep during this conversation. and yes, i mean the one who initiated it.

not that is matters but we talked about it.
about what?
rent a van.
huh? rent a van?
yah. no need to rent la, just use my car.
use your car?
yah.
er, ok.

i'll leave you to guess who's who.

i like to move it move it

i say that now only because i'm more done than not, and can't resist sneaking in a little entry at work to say as much, because part of the not includes not yet having internet access.

more updates soon - as soon as finer unpacking/organizing (vs general unpacking/organizing), waiting on furniture and whitegoods deliveries, going to that last wedding this month, having sis and mum come, dealing with sis and mum once they've come, finalizing the usual mess that is pre-term for uni, working etc allow, anyway.

mister barister

way to go, jus! now you're a smooth operator, officially.

starting young

little lauren playing doctor. it's in the blood, i suppose.

tell me

if my life was poetry in motion,
what words would i be?
what string of lines would you see?

so not summer

freakin' cold, rainstorms, winds... way unfair.
my puffy jackets are packed, and thongs and bathers out for a reason!
don't anyone dare try the melbourne four seasons in a day line on me. temper tantrums won't be taken responsibility for then.
i'm throwing a bratty fit now for the next sunny day out - whenever that is - and demanding an outting to the beach. who's game?

oh, hello!

lookie look who i found...
...some cutesy chickadee posing her skinnyass tush away (and for a cd tower box at that)!

jojo, enough with the come hilter pouts - let's go eat!

sardined

omg i'm back in action, if only temporarily - insisted mum send me my cable, and lugged this brick of a laptop over to T's to ride on the connection - and so. much. has happened. i don't know where to begin.

i don't think i can go on about details in fact. i'm still recovering. and bracing myself for everything else that's coming. but in a nutshell, and in no particular order, since they pretty much happened all at once:

work at chiro.

moving house. meaning packing. and cleaning. and then cleaning. and unpacking.

bridesmaidly duties with sue.

scouting for white goods and furniture on a budget.

work at collins.

cny eve dinner.

cny bbq lunch/pool cool off. cny dinner.

dress hunt. dresses really.

packing. packing. organizing.

shifting x-number of car loads of my no it's not junk!

torture anything male in wedding entourage. tea ceremony. wedding eve dinner.

keryn and joseph's wedding - can't get over just how much inevitablylastminute stuff there is too do - which was beautiful, photos when i have the energy and time.

juggling between three houses.

shifting more car loads of yes i really do need that too!

trying to remember where the hell you put stuff between the three houses, which you know you know. except for the time when you need them.

work at collins.

work at chiro.

still scouting for white goods and furniture.

doing all sorts of yukky shiftinghouseadministration.

did i mention i went for my cousin's wedding in jan when i got back, and have 3 in total, in feb? don't get me started on the number of weddings there are this year. (i have nothing against weddings - they're fun to get ridiculouslybusywith and dressedupfor, but wth i don't work to give out angpows dammit) and for those of you thinking it, no, this is not a sign. i know who you are - zip it.

mega photo dump to come, promise.