Send My Conscience Home in a Taxi

So.... Last Saturday, I won a Toastmasters area speech contest. This means I beat speakers from four other clubs - not bad. Especially since I came second at our club contest, the first place getter couldn't make it, so I filled in.

Sunday I went out for Yum Cha, at a venue I'd never been to before - it was very good. Then I dragged myself to the gym.

Monday morning, I had to be at work at 6AM! Which meant I had to get up at 4.30AM, and then rode my bike into work, in record time. IT is a bit like this sometimes, one has to do things to live systems outside of business hours. Actually, it reminded me a bit of when I used to work night shifts at Ticketmaster...

Anyway, haven't done much else besides work for the rest of this week - I'm even piking on two events this very evening in order to do nothing on the couch. Yay!

And tomorrow I have to drive down to Geelong to help hand out how to vote cards - it's the state election don't you know. So my plan is the sleep for the whole of Sunday after that :-)

Your correspondent has been busy. Well, actually, not as much as you might think. Certainly LJ has fallen off the end of my long list of things to do.

I have been up to a great deal of interesting stuff of late, which I will try and enter here in the next day or two. It's going to be 43 degrees here tomorrow, so I'm going to curl up somewhere cool with my laptop.

Things I did today, on this day I believe they call Christmas.

Tried, and failed, to make Gluten Free Speculaas. I think the gluten free flour I used sucked all the moisture out of the mixture, so when I came to actually making it into biscuit shapes, it was far too dry and crumbly. Next time I'll try a different kind of flour, and not leave it sit for so long. And I won't make two kilos of mixture!!!

I gave a large number of piggy-backs, to little second cousins Milla and Nina. And slightly larger GF Deb :-)

Gave a large number of gifts to said girlfriend, including two Dr Who box sets, a Cookie Monster mobile phone sock, and some RAM for her PC (romantic!) This is on top of the aforementioned rusty BMX bike.

Speaking of said bike, I was helping Deb move stuff into her new house this evening. I gave her an old computer desk I had in my flat, and I arrived back at her place before she did while ferrying it there. So I borrowed said bike, and rode it around her street some. Having a bike with no brakes is novel, I scraped a fair bit of tread off my shoes stopping it. Goodness knows what her neighbour made of it when she spotted me - a substantial thirty something man in aviator sun glasses with two spikes of hair jelled up like antenna, riding a brake-less bike with a bent slightly flat front wheel around and around a cul-de-sac...

Let see, what else. My uncle delivered my mother to my flat from Geelong. We proceeded to my aunt's place for some Christmas lunch. Then I took my mother out to the airport, she was flying to the Netherlands today! What with being from there and all. The airport was really, really, really quiet, I recommend it as a good day to fly. But damn it, the observation deck is closed so I couldn't go look at the big fly fly airplanes!

I got William Shatner's version of "Common People" stuck in my head. Which I partly cured by watching this:


Um, ok, I also went down a slide in a kids playground about five times, at one point getting involved in a game which seemed to consist of running too many people down a slide, one after the other, and squashing each other together. Not entirely sure what the point of this game was, but it did keep my little relatives amused for a good fifteen minutes. And when they're stuck on a slide, they're easy to tickle :-)

I also at stacks of mango mousse, and some Kransekake, which is the most awesome dessert known to human kind! I have a Norwegian aunt who makes it, but only on special occasions like Christmas. Yum!!!!

And now I'm chatting to jedi_amara and one of my cousins. And really it is time for bed.

Damn. Just got home from work. Well, there was a stopover for curry in the city. Too much to do, I has it. Nom nom nom nom nom.

Should be doing homework.

My Week.

Monday. Work. Off to Toastmasters.
Tuesday. Work. ALP Exec meeting.
Wednesday. Work. Trip to the Guggenheim exhibition with my Dad.
Thursday. Work. Official trip to the Brimbank toastmasters club, in my capacity as Area Governor.
Friday. Work. Off to the Gym.
Saturday. Party at Geoffs house.
Sunday. (Probably) take the train to Geelong. Then off to the gym again.
Monday. Work. Book group.

If I complain about being tired, please hit me and say "you brought it on yourself, nuff nuff."