Unghf…Mrrlh…Ghettobooty.

Posted 1 year, 1 month ago at 8:54 am. 0 comments

Ashley, Scott and I went to an OCAU meet last night.

The initial part of the evening was at O’Malleys - we usually try to book what we affectionately refer to as ‘the library’ but lucked out this time - so the group of.. perhaps 30 geeks, I won’t try to be precise, gathered around a bunch of tables. By the time Ashley arrived, the regulars were already there - Geoff, James, Adrian et al were gathered on the booth side of one of the tables pretty much like this:

After saying hello and doing the usual brief catchup, I decided to introduce myself to a couple of people I didn’t recognise. I was greeted with a few hellos and handshakes, and one “omigod you used to live with scruff lol you’re a psycho”, (which, white utterly impolite, made a few people laugh after relaying it to them) I settled in and, when it arrived, ate my $2 mashed potato.
Eventually, once everyone had had a feed and a few brews, the natives started to get restless - especially after Scott arrived:

And some of the natives slightly less restless:

After making an appropriate amount of noise and mess, the group headed up to Strike - just in time for our 9:30 booking. By this stage, Scott was sloshed, Ashley was cheerful, Chantelle and Richie were trashed, and I was looking on with great interest. Chris bought me my favourite cocktail (the backhand panther) and because I’d decided not to bowl, I sat around watching everyone else.

More to come - gotta get back to work!

All the images in this post are available here.

(and more are available..

http://picasaweb.google.com.au/glasnt/OCAUBNEMeet

http://picasaweb.google.com.au/mynickwasstolen/OCAUSlashdotBrisbane2007

http://sabretooth.id.au/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=674)

I have the cutest boyfriend in the world.

Posted 1 year, 1 month ago at 3:31 pm. 0 comments

We had lunch with mum and Ashley today - I’ll finish my OCAU post (complete with photos) later.

Fishing!

Posted 1 year, 1 month ago at 6:30 am. 0 comments

I’ve had a really really good weekend. As previously mentioned, Nathan booked a fishing boat (with a canopy, because he’s awesome) so we could go out on the water and not catch fish :p We woke up.. ridiculously early, but not early enough to be dedicated fisherpeople (which turned out to be a blessing in disguise, because we didn’t check out what was happening with the tides..) and packed all our shit into the car. After driving for an indeterminate amount of time (I think I may’ve napped) and taking a couple of brief detours, we made it to the boat rental place.

Because we’d both been busy at work the previous afternoon, we hadn’t had the opportunity to buy bait and whatnot, so we got it from there. Everything else we’d sourced from Anaconda/scrounged from around the house, so we were set and ready to go. I can’t be screwed writing anymore, here have some photos.

*yawn*

Posted 1 year, 1 month ago at 6:15 am. 1 comment

I feel pretty insecure sometimes.

It’s dumb and practically inexplicable, and yet there’s a persistant niggle- an importunate reminder of my numerous and varied imperfections.

Despite constant reassurance from many albeit subjective sources, I can’t help but feel like my glaring inadequacies are somehow diminishing my capacity for self improvement- something I feel that I’ve been lacking in for an indeterminate period of time.

Unfortunately for me, and I’m hoping this goes mostly unread, ignored, or skimmed absentmindedly, one of my greatest sources of happiness - actual, honest, grin-until-it-hurts kind of happiness is also one of my larger sources of inspiration for oftentimes mentally crippling self-doubt and negative self awareness. Admittedly, these moments of what almost always boils down to blatant stupidity are few and far between - even moreso as I find myself getting deeper into this.. this awesome thing.

Sometimes though, I get that feeling. The heart in the throat, stomach throuhg the floor, face warm and head dizzy, mouth dry and slightly ajar - until I sit myself down for a stern talking ot. Mostly when it comes to this - to him, I guess, I just don’t want to get hurt again. I couldn’t be more typical if I tried. Sure, I’d go through the miserable depressed thing, then the angry thing, and then a long, long way down the line, the vengeful thing. I can safely say I’ve never felt quite like this before, so I get a little bit worried that it’s going to really, really hurt when it’s done. He’s done this stuff before, I think I might be too young. There’s a couple of things that make me wonder, too, but I don’t think that’s particularly blog appropriate.

In any case, don’t mind me. I’m just feeling entirely too sorry for myself. I intend to write it off as a combination of PMS, my sore throat, and a lack of sleep - often a troublesome cocktail. Especially the sleep part.

:(

Posted 1 year, 1 month ago at 11:42 pm. 1 comment

My bed feels so empty I never thought I’d get used to sleeping beside someone, but I have, and now I can’t sleep properly. (well, in the same bed as. I’m still getting used to ‘beside’, and I’m a few hundred metres away from ’snuggling with’.) I’m sure once I get to sleep I’ll be fine, it’s just those few minutes before sleeping with the murmuring sweet nothings and nuzzling down that I’m missing. You know, cold nose against shoulder, soft lips running exploratory kisses down the collarbone, arms draped loosely around torsos - careful, practised fingers and thumbs rubbing delicate patterns over warm, familiar skin.. it’s practically a pre-sleep ritual. And if it isn’t, it should be! (Note to self: Institute pre-sleep ritual as above..)

That said, I’m in a generally shitty mood actually. Put it down to tiredness perhaps - because my day was great. I did more work than usual whilst at work, which was fine, and I had a great evening hanging out with Ashley (who so graciously came and picked me up from work today, how awesome is he?) because of his horrible New Zealand blunder - but I’m just in a shitty mood

I’ll update with something more substantial tomorrow, promise. I’ve been working on a post for a couple of days that I can’t quite perfect, even though it’s great news. AND I have to fill you all in about how well camping is progressing. Oooer, also, Nathan booked a boat for this weekend Yay! Fishing!