Absolut Peach

The results are in from Peach's 21st last night, and the findings prove that yes, it is possible to feel like your head has a steel pylon through it when you wake up the next morning, after what was one of the greatest 21sts since the big fella, the old Geezus got to the big 2 dash 1. Many highlights, many many, a lot of top shelf, top notch just all round good sorts there, but I think everyones favourite friend for the night was the Dacquiri machine!! wwooww--wwwwweeeee!!!


Before I forget, let me say-
LESSON OF THE DAY

DO NOT, i repeat, DO NOT, when drunk, ignore the advice of your less-drunk girlfriend when she says "no Riley, thats shaving balm, NOT toothpaste" dont ignore that, she says it for a reason. (Note: if your girlfriend says "no RILEY..." you'll need to either A) break up with her, because she may in fact be giving another man, me, dental advice, or B) apply what she is saying to yourself. A simple exchange of names in the right spots type scenario). I had the displeasure of brushing my teeth with shaving balm last night,and it was most unpleasant (surprising? no)

Anyway, here's pics!!

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This is not a camera trick, this is how drunk we were at the conclusion of the evening!!

Got Blog?

well well well, here we are! The good old Sunday morning Blog of the night before..Before we get into that, I'm having a bit of a conscience crisis, allow me to explain more..


SO, I work in an office environment obviously, and there are a lot of people there who seem to pretty much live on, or cant function without coffee. This shits me, because I dont drink coffee and I think its pretty pathetic how these people rely on it so much. (Although its probably a bit like me and porno, but anyway) I've never enjoyed coffee, there is an aftertaste to it that feels similar to what I imagine eating a big scoop of toilet business would taste like. I've always liked Ice Coffee Big M's though, bit odd.
Anyway, recently I was given a coffee by someone at work who bought too many. Free hot drink, it was a bit nippy (cold, not...oh you know what i mean) in the office, so i thought 'what the hell' and drank the coffee. You can imagine the shock and anger I felt when I realised I didnt mind the taste of this flavoured hot water. This from someone who has actively voiced his disgust at coffee drinkers and their reliance on the beverage for years! Ive always been a green tea drinker.
SO, this was about two weeks ago (sorry I didnt blog about it earlier, but I didnt want to alarm anyone until I had some substantial and conclusive findings) and in the last couple of weeks I've been having a coffee probably once every two days. I'm drinking one now!!!
SO, my conundrum is this. Should I continue to spiral into the depths of reliance on this once so strongly opposed beverage? Or should I stand defiant in the face of welcoming warmth and caffeine, and stick with my lifelong friend Green Tea?


Just as a little footnote, my (Still drunk) girlfriend has just ridiculed me for the cup of coffee that is sitting in front of me.



Back to the blog...
Its been a quiteish week for me, Wednesday night the highlight when a few of us gathered at my house to watch the Danny Green fight. Green wasnt actually fighting in my lounge, but if he was he would have got a run for his money, I've got skills. So we all had a couple of beers and watched the fight, fun evening.

last night headed to a cocktail party with some friends of Rhiannons, and while I played (and lost) PS2 with a seventeen year old all night, Rhi was getting off her wondor drinking all sorts of stuff. We left about 11pm to journey into St Kilda to meet friends at Metropol, and arrived about 12.

I was lucky enough to snare a photo with superstar Jet Ski rider and entrepeuner Gavin Lawley

















There was a bit of pippy in attendence, check out these little beauties, phwoar!



















Note :By this time Rhiannon had nicely topped up her blood alcohol readings by another couple fo vodkas...

It wasnt all fun and games though ladies and gents, luckily we had two nurses in the area when disaster struck for Mark Howell, with a bright yellow 'flant' (flying ant) type creature (could be a marsupial) burrowing its way into his ever inviting left ear cavity. We were only able to capture one picture of the incident, but this picture shows the pain was obviously excruciating!

Rollercoaster

so my weekend started out good. Spent all Thursday night finishing (and starting) an assignment i had known about for 2 months, and Friday arvo went to the post office to get it postmarked at 4:45, a whole 15 minutes before it was due. Walked out of the post office feeling like a King, only for the imaginary crown to be smashed off my head by the fact that my alarm remote wouldnt let me in my car. So standing in the rain, and pressing the button for a good couple of minutes, I decide that even though it will sound my alarm, I will open the car with the key. Sure enough, alarm goes spacko, and now im sitting in my car with people staring at me. So i pop the bonnet, and try to disconnect the battery, only I dont have a spanner. Run into the $2 shop, buy a spanner, come out, disconnect the battery, and wait. Decide to join the RACV, and for a hefty $181 they tell me someone will be there within TWO HOURS!!! all the while my plans of a date with my girlfriend are slipping away in a hurry. So I sit there for about an hour, and the RACV man comes and fixes it in about 3 minutes. great.

Anyway, got home 2 hours late, went to chaddy, and spent way too much cash..just dumb. ah well.

Anyway, my weekend didnt get much more exciting than that, I even had time to take photos of all my kicks individually, so that i can put the photos on the outside of the box...Here is a SAMPLE

Had a couple of new additions to the family on the weekend as well

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wow, what a weekend! started out pretty slow with a relaxed Friday night (gave painting the arse, couldnt be bothered) but Saturday rolled around and just about knocked my socks off!

Midday saw us going to Chadstone for a spot of shopping, and one hour after arriving I was leaving with two more t shirts than I walked in with, and thanks to Rhiannons generosity, the same amount of dollars that I walked in with. It was really nice of Rhi to steal those t shirts for me! Haha...

Onto Vaughans house, and then shortly after the pub, where Mighty Mick won a first up 20 clams on the nags. We spent the arvo playing Cluedo and emptying kegs.

Then we had possibly the worlds biggest kebabs for dinner, before heading into Retro.

I think we were just about the first ones there, and celebrated with beers and Jaeger. I was feeling great, the Super Dry pints were just massaging my tongue and tonsils on the way down and dancing around my body. However 5 or 6 more later and the down came as quick as the up had, my descent into slurred words and staggering was both swift and complete.
















Here is a great pic of Jaser and I being amazing humans


















All sorts of local celebrities were out for Rhis birthday, among them was Tate 'Tate' Fielder!


















And in major news from the night, Bear risked life and limb to free what was later discovered to be a pool cue from big Rhi's anoos area. Amateur photographers caught the crucial moments. Here we see Bear being caught extracting the long wooden stick:

















Never the quitter, Bear continues his mission and through blood, sweat, and tears gets the best result for all concerned

Ticket to Blog

Been a pretty good week, it started with our basketball team winning our eight straight game, I think we are about 2 games clear on top of the ladder. Duke has NEVER won a premiership in anything, so will try to win it, and go to DisneyLand!! Or Sizzler. Hahaha Sizzler, that place was shiiiiit. It was my girlfriends birthday on Wednesday, sweet sixteenth. I mean 22nd, haha. Was a good excuse to go out for dinner (not to Sizzler, I have some class thank you. We went to Smorgys, hahaha. We didnt really) and eat cake and all the rest.

Rocky (our rabbit) still has some obvious beef with me, despite me cleaning up after him, feeding him, and "putting a roof over his head". He is allover Rhiannon, just loves her, is affectionate, etc, but as soon as he sits on my lap, he hops around for maybe 10 minutes if I'm lucky, and then just opens up and pisses allover me. He has done it 4 times now I think? He hasnt pissed on anyone else, but as soon as he comes to me, its on like Donkey Kong. Im going to firebomb his house if he keeps this up.

Going out to Retro tomorrow night for Rhi's birthday, her choice of venue. Going out drinking in the afternoon with Geds, big Rhi, Peach and some others at a pub in town somewhere too.

Fun times await tonight, my brother is coming over to help me paint our study. I hate painting. I used to like it because I got instant pay off for my efforts. You can instantly see how much hard work you have done, just by looking at the wall. But now Im just over it. Its a shit, messy, thankless task. Although a few beers should make the time pass.

Our heater is still not working, starting to really get angry. Its got to the point where we are actually opening the fridge to feel some warmth! And running the gauntlet down the hallways past 14 eskimos and a gang of seals is getting harder and harder. You have no idea how painful it is to have your urine snap frozen everytime you try to pee.
Anyway, I dont think there will be a saturday morning rant tomorrow, it will take me too long to chip away the ice from the keyboard. Not Ben Cousins style ice, the frozen water kind.

We're all Lemmings

I always find it funny (not funny, there's a different word, I just dont know what it is. If you cant tell, I know heaps of words good and stuff. ba. ) that we as humans, injure and kill ourselves so easily, and so frequently. Now, this is definitely not a 'stop the killing' piece, by all means continue, I dont like many of the people that are dying anyway. But, you know as a kid when you played Lemmings and you watched all the different ways they died, I imagine someone (like the aliens, or more realistically, Optimus Prime) watching over Earth and just being baffled at how dumb we are. We invent cars, people crash them and die. We decide to ride horses, we fall off and die. We invent narcotics and other drugs, we use them and die. We invent skyscrapers and tall buildings, we jump off them and die. We invent aircraft, we crash them and die. We invent guns and other weapons to kill ourselves. I just find it _____ (insert correct word. not funny. but something. ok maybe funny) that we are able to find all these new ways of dying. Think about how humourus this must be to the Transformers, or whoever is watching our existence play out.
In the end, we are all just Lemmings without green hair.