Seeing as I am getting hassled by peep (you know who you are) I figured I really should finish this blog entry from when Sarah was over and myabe even add a bit extra on.
So I'd gotten to Tuesday 14th July. Onto Wednesday 15th July then: This was a beachy day. We got up fairly earlyish, said our cheerios to Deb and the girls and got ready to head out with Beth who actually had the day off. We headed down to Howard to pick up Glen and Jamie then we all went for a drive to Burrum Heads beach. It is lovely down there. There were pelicans that Sarah was convinced were not Pelicans, because they didn't have the really obvious gullet. I did try to inform her that it was because they clearly were not eating, so Sarah then decided that Pelicans should be eating all of the time, just for tourists. I laughed at her, but she knows I meant it in the most affectionate of ways. Incidentally she was also amused by the empty crab shell...see photos on facebook/bebo. There are way too many to put up on blog. Just shy of 400 photos. That's 100 photos taken each week that she was here. Gave me a taste for photo taking though. Kinda want to get myself a camera. Nothing fancy just the one Sarah has, maybe she will be lovely and send me hers :-D haha! After Burrum Heads we went off to Toogoom. Aww man I could just live there. The water is so lovely and is crystal clear. Hmm where have I seen so far? Gympie, Maryborough, Hervey Bay, Childers, Howard, Bundaberg, Toogoom, Burrum Heads, Mooloolaba. I'm doing not too badly, a lot more country to see though. Anyway digresion. We got to Toogoom and seriously I didn't want to leave. I decided to go for a wade in the water then nearly got thrown straight in by Bundy, Glen's dog. She thought it would be a good idea to tie me up in her leash. I would have found it funny had I fallen in. Would have hurt though. We decided to grab some lunch and sit looking out over the water, which was lovely and while we were getting food, we ended up in the midst of Facebook drama. It's all sorted, but there were pics that my cousin didn't want up or rather that her guy didn't want up, so I told her she could go on and remove them herself. It was her boy who removed them but removed more than one. I was rather annoyed, but like I said it's all cool now. Incidentally changed my password though. After we got back to Maryborough, Glen, Sarah and me figured it would be a good idea to go to the RSL for drinks and for the Wednesday night trivia. We got 20 points for the entertainment round and came fifth in total. Kept heckling Loch though as he was being the host. Telling him that he was lying about the answers to some of the questions. It was a really good laugh actually. I believe this was another night of giggle fits on mine and Sarah's part. There weren't many nights that we didn't nearly lose half a lung through laughing. "Cough up a lung" *weeeee, splat, slide*
Thursday 16th July: We were supposed to do the Tea with Mary thing but woke and thought...nah bugger it! We decided to have a lazy doing not a lot day. I tidied my room, went into one of my little "gah it's annoying me" moods, so when Sarah asked if she could help I was like, nope I'm good. She totally got it, she would do the same. So I put about three loads of washing on, neatened all my drawers and stuff, emptied my bin. General tidying. I played more of Professor Layton and we killed time until it was time to head down for D&D. We were surprised, Severs was on best behaviour and Matt was hitting on Sarah something awful. Poor boys, leaving a trail of destruction where ever we go. Ha! Courtesy bus home. Not a very thrilling day on Thursday.
Friday 17th July: We decided that we would have another night in the Grumpy Chef, mostly cos the cocktails are fantastic. Actually may type up a review on my other blog. Wonder if it would be worth my while taking some of my reviews into the Chronicle? May do that. We said originally that we were going to have one drink in the Grumpy Chef, but we got comfortable and decided to have two each instead. Bugger I meant to take my resume down, will do that. After the Grumpy Chef we headed to the...yup you guessed it...RSL. More cocktails and general drinks. Ended up playing pool all night with Sarah's fiance Malcolm and his friend. It was a good laugh actually. The old men are different over here. They aren't in the least pervy, most of them just want a bit of company for an hour and are genuinely interested in what you have to say. They don't leach all over you unlike in Scumbernauld (home or not, I highly doubt I'll be back). Ben finished his shift and played a couple of games with us. We did ok. Sarah was rofl-ing again and Ben just laughed at us cos he didn't understand. We also did much sprawling on the big red sofa. Obvious name, but that's the Aussie way so there you go. I spent most of Thursday and Friday texting Nick which was nice.
I just realised that I had typed all that out just there as part of Thursday. Oops!
Saturday 18th July: The day we had been looking forward to all month. It was our Ship to Shore; Portside story day. We spent all day getting ready, although as it turned out we ended up totally over dressed. But bugger it, it was our last big night out before Sarah went home. So we headed down town to be there for 3.45 and got ourselves totally lost. Well not really lost, ok that's a lie. Asked a guy where we were going and follwed his directions, still got a bit lost. Then we found the place and laughed at ourselves because all we had to do was walk straight down from the post office. Couple of numpties seriously. We had a good giggle about that. So The woman who was our guide tells us what year we are meant to be in. What they do is take the date of the tour and match it as closely as they can to the actual previous dock records. We boarded our carriage, which was a bus designed to look like a Queenslander home and the tour got under way. We were 22 free settlers, so no convicts, who had come from London to arrive in Maryborough in hopes of a better life. It was Saturday 18th July 1874 and we arrived safely on the ship St James, captained by J S Adey. We found out a lot of information about some of the floods that Maryborough had experienced. In 1893 basically all of Maryborough apart from Hospital hill went under water. Scary thought. We went on the river cruise too and had wine and cheese tasting. Hell four little glasses of wine and I was starting to feel a bit tipsy. What a laugh. We were welcomed into the Portside Residence, for dinner, by the wife of the Customs man Mr C Port. When we sat at our table we were given professions and told to remember them and think about the role as we would be interviewed by Mr C Port to see if we were worthy of being permitted residence in the port of Maryborough. Sarah and I laughed at ours as they were way too appropriate for the type of people we are. I got given Barmaid and Sarah got Children's maid. I loved working in a bar and would like to own one someday and Sarah wants a brood of children. While we were eating Mr C Port introduced himself, quite a frightening man, someone to be respected. And there was general tomfoolery at dinner. We headed to the Millitary museum where we sang old war songs, which incidentally got stuck in my brain for ays afterwards and then it was the nervous wait for our interview. I nailed it :-D . Yeah I was getting too into the whole role playing thing. I play D&D and did play WoW, I can't help myself. So Sarah and I got accepted as residents then headed off on the Horse and Carriage ride. It was so much fun randomly waving at passers by who all looked at us like loons. I fell off the damn thing when we came to a stop. We were on the Highest seat of it and there were these tiny little pedals to use to climb down and my foot missed the pedal and my leg went away from me. I'm a clown though and decided not to accept help and just make it a total spectacle. Amusing but painful. Then it was time for dessert. After dessert we all started to head off to do our own thing. Sarah and I headed to the RSL. Ran into Loch, stood for twenty minutes talking then went in and drank cocktails. First night in the RSL we skulled icy cocktails and Sarah's last night in the RSL we skulled icy but not as icy cocktails. Felt that was an appropriate send off. Seriously didn't want Sarah to go home.
Sunday 19th July: We woke up late and started to sort out all the scrap book stuff, put some more pics up and then Sarah started to pack. Her case ended up lighter than when she came over. How we don't know but it did. Really did bugger all actually.
Woohoo nearly there for the month that Sarah was over. May update tomorrow with actual life goings on cos I need to get ready for dinner.
Monday 20th July: We started the day off at the tourist Information at town hall, so that Sarah could get her sisters gift. I nearly bought the Mary Poppins book seeing as I have only ever seen the movie. Would like the book. So after that we decided that we needed pictures of us with the Mary statue, so we wandered around, got to the statue, mucked about then came the interesting part of the day. Bloody tourists really....Made to walk 3 miles ish so that Sarah could get a picture standing next to...sugar cane. She asked if I was cool with it, I was but I was winding her up calling her a bloody tourist etc and saying that it was only sugar cane lol. See pic of me looking unimpressed with a stitch standing next to the stuff. It was funny cos we were convinced we were going the wrong way but kept walking that way anyway. Saw the coolest post box too, again see pics on fb. Total panic on Monday night though. Couldn't get a hold of Caitlin who was meant to be taking Sarah to the airport. She eventually phoned us, told us it was all fine then 20 mins later phoned again saying that actually it wasn't. So massive drama, can't have had Sarah's last night go smoothly that would be unheard of. Me and Adam ended up having a blazing row, but it got sorted. And Wayne the lifesaver that he is agreed to take us to the airport. Panic over. Nice chilled out night lol.
Tuesday 21st July: Sarah left :-(. We got to the airport thankfully. Still owe you one Wayne. Made good time, actually got there at 11 but by the time we got parked it was 11.15am which meant we still had time to grab something to eat. I bought Wayne lunch/breakfast whatever. Subway, mmm. I laughed, I ended up copying the type of cheese and bread that Wayne picked and then he said I would stop copying him and I didn't. He said I would regret my choice. I laughed at him, for thinking that I couldn't handle lots of Jalepenos along with sweet chilli sauce. Clearly doesn't know me very well. Nachos please with lots or jalepenos is my usual cinema treat :-D Surprisingly neither me or Sarah cried as she was leaving. Too busy laughing. Although poor Sarah was apparently breaking her wee heart when we were out of sight *pats Sarah*. Wayne and me headed back through to Gympie for a bit, so he could check on his tattoo design and we dropped in to say hey to Adam which was pretty cool. Then headed back to Maryborough. Wasn't a bad day actually, although everyone did get told to keep me out of trouble by Sarah lol. I never get into any trouble ;-p
So there you have it. The adventures of Sarah and Vicky for the month of July. Hope you enjoyed cos now you are all stuck with just boring old Vicky adventures from now on, har har!
Love you like jelly tots
Vicky ***
Friday 31 July 2009
Thursday 23 July 2009
Picking up where I left off
Saturday 11th July - Yes so I should apologise for the abrupt departure last night but my mind was elsewhere and I just didn't feel up to it. So to continue. On Saturday we went down to Gympie for the weekend. Bonnie was giving us a lift down, she originally wanted to go to the Sunny Coast but ended up quite happily staying at the North and then onto the Shaft. To start the night off we went to see Adam playing soccer. It was bloody freezing as well, but hey it's all good. Pity they didn't win. We actually missed the first half but it was still a good game, for what we saw. Sitting on mini carpets on steel benches and I wonder how I caught the cold lol. After soccer, we went to Maccers then headed to Adam's place for a bit before heading to the North. As ever I attempted to take part in the pool comp. I am shockingly bad at that game apart from when I am tipsy and just being silly. For some reason that is when I start to play really quite well. Many many photos were taken while we were in the North, all of which you can find on my facebook. www.facebook.com/TrixxyVixxy if you are interested. They are also on bebo incidentally. So me and Sarah spent all night jumping about like loons, being total camera whores but everyone loved it and I know they did. After the North we all headed down to the Shaft where we did nothing but non stop dancing and I started drinking Jagerbombs. Actually got ripped off at one point. I was sober, but because I had been at the bar and asked for Jagerbombs previously the girl behind the bar obviously thought I was wasted and over charged me. We bought 3 and it came to $24.50 but when I bought one she charged me $11.50 so by logic that would mean that 3 of them would cost $34.50 and they never. It wasn't until after I left the bar that I figured this out. Silly biatch. Great fun Jagerbombs, but you end up more buzzed from the caffeine than the alcohol. Lots of photos taken in the Shaft also. It was a great night though, a whole lot of laughter and high energy. Helped that the company was amazing.
Sunday 12th July - Despite not getting to sleep until like 6ish we all still managed to get up quite early. All up and about at like 10am. Everyone just kinda lounged about, but I had a major case of the wanders, kept pacing in and out of the flat and just generally walking about, trying to get in touch with Wayne who was taking us 4wd. He eventually rocked up at about 2ish and we headed off. Noticing that if you arrange something to start at say midday it won't actually kick off until 3pm over here. Too easy, that's what they all say. I am starting to adapt to that attitude if truth be told. See Amethyst wolf blog for brief description. So once everyone got sorted, we strapped ourselves in and went for one hell of a bumpy but fun drive down to Rainbow beach. Was great fun seriously considering a 4wd when I eventually get around to driving. After driving about like numpties we headed to the nearest bar for some light refreshment. Ended up in the RSL down there. Got a couple of drinks and then mad drama. Wayne was just sitting with his glass of coke and his nose just starting bleeding. Eventually sorted it, then ten minutes later it started again and then again another ten minutes after that. We called the local Doctor to see what we should do, she was as useful as a chocolate teapot. told us to do what we had been doing, so off we trot to the Maryborough Hospital. What a joke that was. he got taken in then told to sit and wait for the Doctor...3 hours passed and we decided to hell with it and headed home. Wayne just crashed here. Some interesting conversations in the hospital waiting room though so wasn't totally wasted lol. I told him I owed him a drink cos it was kinda mine and Sarah's idea to take him to hospital, especially because of the frequency of them. Can't go out and not have a bit of drama, where would the fun be in that.
Monday 13th July - Woke up early so we could say bye to Wayne and then head out to Hervey Bay for a day at the beach. It was a mini adventure, I had never got the bus to Hervey Bay so that's how we got down there. We were going to do the Whale watching thing but we decided that in fact it was a little out of our budget. Got to Hervey Bay and the first thing we did was to go and buy a bucket and spade, yes we did think this was a good idea. Just embracing the inner child. There is nothing like playing in sand that makes you feel more like a kid, well apart from maybe roller coasters and theme parks. We both made sure we were covered in suncream, lay about soaking up the morning sun for a while, then started to play about in the water. No drowning this time, well not on Sarah's part anyway. We took photos of us just sitting at the edge of the water, but when I went to stand up I got caught by a wave and fell back down, second attempt also failed and so too did the third attempt. Sarah and me ended up just laughing hysterically at my clumsiness. It was good fun. Although Mad dogs and englishmen came to mind, we were actually lying in the midday sun. Some more lounging, and splashing about then we built a sandcastle and wrote messages in the sand, cos we are that cool. Just as we were leaving we gave the Bucket and Spade to two little kids. They tried to give it back to us, but we said they could keep it. Have to say the eldest of the two was very polite. So we trotted off on the search for tourist stuff for Sarah to take home as gifts and then food. Sarah got what she wanted and we bought pizza for lunch. It was very tasty pizza actually and the smoothies we got were delicious. Only came to like $23 or something like that. We finished our pizzas, ended up talking to some more randoms, got the bus to Centro where I bought some more miniatures for d & d plus some more dice. I have 26 dice now. Time to start a new bag :-D. The bus back to Maryborough was actually surprisingly quick. We got off at the hopsital and walked to the little shop on Walker street so we could buy a bottle of Coke to chill out with when we got home. It's really not a long walk from the hospital to Beth's about 20 minutes tops.
Tuesday 14th July - We baked! Attempted to make tablet and it was going ok, until we burnt the mixture so hence it turned out like a block of toffee/caramel. Must try again at some point. We also made truffles and cupcakes. Deb and the girls came up and the girls clearly like the cupcakes, they kept asking for more. Tuesday was actually a pretty chilled out non eventful day.
Hmm I still have 7 days to write about and I really need to get showered and stuff, so I may well finish this off tonight. This is what I get for not doing it every day. Was too damn busy to do it every day plus right now I am starting to get a headache as I don't have my specs on. So enjoy for the time being.
Sunday 12th July - Despite not getting to sleep until like 6ish we all still managed to get up quite early. All up and about at like 10am. Everyone just kinda lounged about, but I had a major case of the wanders, kept pacing in and out of the flat and just generally walking about, trying to get in touch with Wayne who was taking us 4wd. He eventually rocked up at about 2ish and we headed off. Noticing that if you arrange something to start at say midday it won't actually kick off until 3pm over here. Too easy, that's what they all say. I am starting to adapt to that attitude if truth be told. See Amethyst wolf blog for brief description. So once everyone got sorted, we strapped ourselves in and went for one hell of a bumpy but fun drive down to Rainbow beach. Was great fun seriously considering a 4wd when I eventually get around to driving. After driving about like numpties we headed to the nearest bar for some light refreshment. Ended up in the RSL down there. Got a couple of drinks and then mad drama. Wayne was just sitting with his glass of coke and his nose just starting bleeding. Eventually sorted it, then ten minutes later it started again and then again another ten minutes after that. We called the local Doctor to see what we should do, she was as useful as a chocolate teapot. told us to do what we had been doing, so off we trot to the Maryborough Hospital. What a joke that was. he got taken in then told to sit and wait for the Doctor...3 hours passed and we decided to hell with it and headed home. Wayne just crashed here. Some interesting conversations in the hospital waiting room though so wasn't totally wasted lol. I told him I owed him a drink cos it was kinda mine and Sarah's idea to take him to hospital, especially because of the frequency of them. Can't go out and not have a bit of drama, where would the fun be in that.
Monday 13th July - Woke up early so we could say bye to Wayne and then head out to Hervey Bay for a day at the beach. It was a mini adventure, I had never got the bus to Hervey Bay so that's how we got down there. We were going to do the Whale watching thing but we decided that in fact it was a little out of our budget. Got to Hervey Bay and the first thing we did was to go and buy a bucket and spade, yes we did think this was a good idea. Just embracing the inner child. There is nothing like playing in sand that makes you feel more like a kid, well apart from maybe roller coasters and theme parks. We both made sure we were covered in suncream, lay about soaking up the morning sun for a while, then started to play about in the water. No drowning this time, well not on Sarah's part anyway. We took photos of us just sitting at the edge of the water, but when I went to stand up I got caught by a wave and fell back down, second attempt also failed and so too did the third attempt. Sarah and me ended up just laughing hysterically at my clumsiness. It was good fun. Although Mad dogs and englishmen came to mind, we were actually lying in the midday sun. Some more lounging, and splashing about then we built a sandcastle and wrote messages in the sand, cos we are that cool. Just as we were leaving we gave the Bucket and Spade to two little kids. They tried to give it back to us, but we said they could keep it. Have to say the eldest of the two was very polite. So we trotted off on the search for tourist stuff for Sarah to take home as gifts and then food. Sarah got what she wanted and we bought pizza for lunch. It was very tasty pizza actually and the smoothies we got were delicious. Only came to like $23 or something like that. We finished our pizzas, ended up talking to some more randoms, got the bus to Centro where I bought some more miniatures for d & d plus some more dice. I have 26 dice now. Time to start a new bag :-D. The bus back to Maryborough was actually surprisingly quick. We got off at the hopsital and walked to the little shop on Walker street so we could buy a bottle of Coke to chill out with when we got home. It's really not a long walk from the hospital to Beth's about 20 minutes tops.
Tuesday 14th July - We baked! Attempted to make tablet and it was going ok, until we burnt the mixture so hence it turned out like a block of toffee/caramel. Must try again at some point. We also made truffles and cupcakes. Deb and the girls came up and the girls clearly like the cupcakes, they kept asking for more. Tuesday was actually a pretty chilled out non eventful day.
Hmm I still have 7 days to write about and I really need to get showered and stuff, so I may well finish this off tonight. This is what I get for not doing it every day. Was too damn busy to do it every day plus right now I am starting to get a headache as I don't have my specs on. So enjoy for the time being.
Wednesday 22 July 2009
Pretty slack, have a week and a half to update.
There really is only one way to do this entry and that is to put the dates next to each paragraph. I don't reckon this entry will be too detailed but I'll do my best.
Friday 10th July - It started off as a really lazy day. Did a bunch of washing and Sarah got one of her essays finished. Much celebration. I played professor layton's puzzle game obsessively for a while then we started to get ready for our big dinner. For lunch Sarah made apple Charlotte, yummy stuff although we really could have done with just making the one. Was way too much bread. Need to get recipes for all the tasty treats that we made, see if I can't brush up on my own baking and cooking. Don't worry Sarah I won't open a rival bakery :) So we finally got ourselves showered and dolled up and headed out for dinner. Went to the Grumpy Chef, which was amazing. The food was lovely and the service was great too. Oh and we drank tasty cocktails, yes more of them. We headed to the RSL afterwards, where we played some pool and hung about until Ben had finished his shift. We ended up stuck with some random weird guy. Could not get rid of him and it was not for lack of trying, at the end of the night he even tried to invite me back to his motel...how about..No! We came home and tried to be oh so quiet and failed miserably but hey that's part of the fun. Melon tasting pineapple and fat flaps I believe were the cause of mad giggle fits.
Saturday 11th July - Hmm i'm in a funny mood, can't really be bothered just now don't know why...lies all of it. I know exactly why, i'm totally distracted by my current crush. Meh I'm going to go find something to wear for tomorrow and read cosmo.
Friday 10th July - It started off as a really lazy day. Did a bunch of washing and Sarah got one of her essays finished. Much celebration. I played professor layton's puzzle game obsessively for a while then we started to get ready for our big dinner. For lunch Sarah made apple Charlotte, yummy stuff although we really could have done with just making the one. Was way too much bread. Need to get recipes for all the tasty treats that we made, see if I can't brush up on my own baking and cooking. Don't worry Sarah I won't open a rival bakery :) So we finally got ourselves showered and dolled up and headed out for dinner. Went to the Grumpy Chef, which was amazing. The food was lovely and the service was great too. Oh and we drank tasty cocktails, yes more of them. We headed to the RSL afterwards, where we played some pool and hung about until Ben had finished his shift. We ended up stuck with some random weird guy. Could not get rid of him and it was not for lack of trying, at the end of the night he even tried to invite me back to his motel...how about..No! We came home and tried to be oh so quiet and failed miserably but hey that's part of the fun. Melon tasting pineapple and fat flaps I believe were the cause of mad giggle fits.
Saturday 11th July - Hmm i'm in a funny mood, can't really be bothered just now don't know why...lies all of it. I know exactly why, i'm totally distracted by my current crush. Meh I'm going to go find something to wear for tomorrow and read cosmo.
Friday 10 July 2009
A couple of days
So we stuck to our plan for the Monday evening. Beth and Bill went out for their dinner, while Sarah and I made Pasta bake and watched Freeze Frame and Lake House. Freeze Frame was amazing. Was interesting to see Lee Evans in a serious role and he done really well at it. We munched our Pasta Bake which was so ladden with cheese that our hearts probably were not thanking us for it, but hey who cares it tasted damn good. Actually had no cheese so we ended up having to walk down the street to buy some.
On Tuesday we woke up lateish, well later than we have been recently. Pottered about the house for a bit, got breakfast and the like. Which for me was another sandwich with potato scone and steakette. Yum. Almost as good as square sausage. Sarah and I have decided we are going to start sending each other little care packages. Hers will have cherry ripes and tim tams in it and mine will have potato scones and irn bru in it. Whoop! So eventually we decided it was about time to get showered and dressed and then Beth came home. After she had a cup of tea the three of us headed out to get Auntie Fran and then headed to Childers. Sarah was quite amazed at the amount of sugar cane in Childers, but then that is sugar country. Got to Diane's place where Sarah also claimed that the dam is actually a lake. Had a cuppa and a handful of biccies, then headed down town so Beth could go to the Doctor's and we could wander for a bit. Went in and spoke to Bon for a bit, may be hanging out with her this weekend, which should be fun. Had a look in a few shops, then went to one of the local cafe's to get some chips, with chicken salt. Sarah tried it because she knew it wasn't made from chickens. Didn't do a whole lot else during the day on Tuesday. Got back, got dinner and then me and Sarah spent most of the night playing pool and Darts downstairs. Sarah claims she can't play pool or darts, yeah and I'm Mary Queen of Scots. Got my ass handed to me in pool and then we were playing darts, and Sarah needed a 1 then double 3, claimed there was no way she was getting it and first try staight up got 1 double 3. Jammy so and so. But it's ok I still love her. It was actually a pretty close game, I needed bloody double 1. Stupid number.
Were going to do the walking tour on Wednesday, but again woke up with the alarm and thought nah bugger it. Got up at about 9/10ish, showered etc and then headed for the bus to town. Went to Station Square for a while first, where I bought a new skirt, black and floaty and lovely. Then we figured it was time to start our mini pub crawl. We started at the Aussie, where we got a huge lunch and where I won a stuffed duck billed platypus out of one of the grabber machines. We named him Aussie and we decided that he was going to be our mini pub crawl mascot. Got some funny looks, I'll say. I felt bad for about five minutes about winning it, because there was a little girl who tried to get it too, but it passed. After some random chat in the Aussie, we headed towards the Oxford, which was unfortunately closed as it's getting done up. Moved across to the Old Sydney, where we started drinking Vodka, lemon, lime and bitters (long vodka to normal people) and were advised of the various goings on in the pub. We had two drinks here and played two games of pool. Figured that was a reasonable amount of time and money to spend in each pub that we went to. After the Sydney we went to the Carlton, only had one drink in there, but it was in there that they served the best Long vodkas. Bar guy was really nice too, came to $11 I handed him the 10 started looking for the extra one and he just took the 10. How lovely. Moved onto the Central, played more pool and drank more drinks. Met a random dude called Matt who played a game of pool with us. Was a close game actually, clearly we are improving. Still not Gympie standard though. From Central we walked to the Post Office Hotel, had a few drinks in there. Ran into Lochie (one of the d&d guys) chatted for a bit, then headed off. On the way to the RSL we stopped into The Grumpy Chef, for cocktails and incidentally booked in for dinner for Friday (today). Tasty cocktails, nice place, good chat. Moved onto the RSL finally where we got some dinner. I had a lovely reef and beef combo and Sarah had pasta. We were going to get a slice of Cheesecake for afterwards but we both ended up stuffed. Started drinking more cocktails. While we were sitting with out drinks, there was a pub quiz going on. We ended up taking part even though we weren't part of a team. Sat there helping a group of older guys with some of the answers, just having a laugh. While we were in the RSL we got talking to two of the bar guys. We hung around until they finished, Sarah had a game of pool with one of them, then we all headed to the Post Office again as it's the only pub that is open late during the week. It was good fun actually. Home time eventually rolled around, we got a lift off Loch. We got home and of course I get into my room and realised I had left one of my bags in his car, funnily enough it was the bag with the mascot in it.
Thursday is Market day, so we headed down town hoping that the guy with the spray on tattoo stall would be there so we could just be silly and pick a design. Plus I was kinda hoping he would be there so I could get a similar design to what I actually want tattoo'd on my wrist. Mostly to see how it would look. But I'm def thinking that will be my next tattoo move, star sign and year of the rat symbol on my wrist. Won't be huge though. So anyway the guy wasn't there, which put a dampner on things. We went to station square for lunch. Then walked round to the RSL so I could pick up my bag that Loch had dropped off for me. How nice. Got back up to the house, fixed my d&D character up a bit and then it was time to go play. Headed down town with Glen and Sarah, grabbed nibbles walked around to the store. Our DM bailed on us so Glen had to DM the first game, it went quite well actually. Starting to get the hang of it, slowly but surely and am also making more friends, I seem to be gathering a nice little collection of phone numbers and in typical Vicky fashion they are all boys. I just get on better with guys. Got given a leaflet for the medieval night. I'm so dying to go.It's on the 25th July which is the night before my birthday and I think it would be amazing, but I'll see what happens. D&D was good fun, got given some good advice about where to get more dice etc so that's good. Got picked up, headed home where me and Sarah had a mini fashion show in my room. Was trying to decide what to wear for dinner.
So that's that for just now, I will update you about dinner and tonight after it happens.
Love and stuff
Vicky and Sarah.
On Tuesday we woke up lateish, well later than we have been recently. Pottered about the house for a bit, got breakfast and the like. Which for me was another sandwich with potato scone and steakette. Yum. Almost as good as square sausage. Sarah and I have decided we are going to start sending each other little care packages. Hers will have cherry ripes and tim tams in it and mine will have potato scones and irn bru in it. Whoop! So eventually we decided it was about time to get showered and dressed and then Beth came home. After she had a cup of tea the three of us headed out to get Auntie Fran and then headed to Childers. Sarah was quite amazed at the amount of sugar cane in Childers, but then that is sugar country. Got to Diane's place where Sarah also claimed that the dam is actually a lake. Had a cuppa and a handful of biccies, then headed down town so Beth could go to the Doctor's and we could wander for a bit. Went in and spoke to Bon for a bit, may be hanging out with her this weekend, which should be fun. Had a look in a few shops, then went to one of the local cafe's to get some chips, with chicken salt. Sarah tried it because she knew it wasn't made from chickens. Didn't do a whole lot else during the day on Tuesday. Got back, got dinner and then me and Sarah spent most of the night playing pool and Darts downstairs. Sarah claims she can't play pool or darts, yeah and I'm Mary Queen of Scots. Got my ass handed to me in pool and then we were playing darts, and Sarah needed a 1 then double 3, claimed there was no way she was getting it and first try staight up got 1 double 3. Jammy so and so. But it's ok I still love her. It was actually a pretty close game, I needed bloody double 1. Stupid number.
Were going to do the walking tour on Wednesday, but again woke up with the alarm and thought nah bugger it. Got up at about 9/10ish, showered etc and then headed for the bus to town. Went to Station Square for a while first, where I bought a new skirt, black and floaty and lovely. Then we figured it was time to start our mini pub crawl. We started at the Aussie, where we got a huge lunch and where I won a stuffed duck billed platypus out of one of the grabber machines. We named him Aussie and we decided that he was going to be our mini pub crawl mascot. Got some funny looks, I'll say. I felt bad for about five minutes about winning it, because there was a little girl who tried to get it too, but it passed. After some random chat in the Aussie, we headed towards the Oxford, which was unfortunately closed as it's getting done up. Moved across to the Old Sydney, where we started drinking Vodka, lemon, lime and bitters (long vodka to normal people) and were advised of the various goings on in the pub. We had two drinks here and played two games of pool. Figured that was a reasonable amount of time and money to spend in each pub that we went to. After the Sydney we went to the Carlton, only had one drink in there, but it was in there that they served the best Long vodkas. Bar guy was really nice too, came to $11 I handed him the 10 started looking for the extra one and he just took the 10. How lovely. Moved onto the Central, played more pool and drank more drinks. Met a random dude called Matt who played a game of pool with us. Was a close game actually, clearly we are improving. Still not Gympie standard though. From Central we walked to the Post Office Hotel, had a few drinks in there. Ran into Lochie (one of the d&d guys) chatted for a bit, then headed off. On the way to the RSL we stopped into The Grumpy Chef, for cocktails and incidentally booked in for dinner for Friday (today). Tasty cocktails, nice place, good chat. Moved onto the RSL finally where we got some dinner. I had a lovely reef and beef combo and Sarah had pasta. We were going to get a slice of Cheesecake for afterwards but we both ended up stuffed. Started drinking more cocktails. While we were sitting with out drinks, there was a pub quiz going on. We ended up taking part even though we weren't part of a team. Sat there helping a group of older guys with some of the answers, just having a laugh. While we were in the RSL we got talking to two of the bar guys. We hung around until they finished, Sarah had a game of pool with one of them, then we all headed to the Post Office again as it's the only pub that is open late during the week. It was good fun actually. Home time eventually rolled around, we got a lift off Loch. We got home and of course I get into my room and realised I had left one of my bags in his car, funnily enough it was the bag with the mascot in it.
Thursday is Market day, so we headed down town hoping that the guy with the spray on tattoo stall would be there so we could just be silly and pick a design. Plus I was kinda hoping he would be there so I could get a similar design to what I actually want tattoo'd on my wrist. Mostly to see how it would look. But I'm def thinking that will be my next tattoo move, star sign and year of the rat symbol on my wrist. Won't be huge though. So anyway the guy wasn't there, which put a dampner on things. We went to station square for lunch. Then walked round to the RSL so I could pick up my bag that Loch had dropped off for me. How nice. Got back up to the house, fixed my d&D character up a bit and then it was time to go play. Headed down town with Glen and Sarah, grabbed nibbles walked around to the store. Our DM bailed on us so Glen had to DM the first game, it went quite well actually. Starting to get the hang of it, slowly but surely and am also making more friends, I seem to be gathering a nice little collection of phone numbers and in typical Vicky fashion they are all boys. I just get on better with guys. Got given a leaflet for the medieval night. I'm so dying to go.It's on the 25th July which is the night before my birthday and I think it would be amazing, but I'll see what happens. D&D was good fun, got given some good advice about where to get more dice etc so that's good. Got picked up, headed home where me and Sarah had a mini fashion show in my room. Was trying to decide what to wear for dinner.
So that's that for just now, I will update you about dinner and tonight after it happens.
Love and stuff
Vicky and Sarah.
Monday 6 July 2009
Pair of Slackers
So apparently I have been slacking on the blogging nonsense. Been too damn busy being fabulous and having fun so there. Only got like a week of stuff to fill you all in on. Oh well you will just have to suffer it.
Best place to start probably the beginning I would assume and the beginning is Monday 29th June. What did we do? Oh yes we went for a wander down town mostly because that was one of the few days on the itinerary that I planned nothing for. Headed to the Post Office, yes I know thrilling stuff, but it was for a reason. We were buying postcards. When I say we I do of course just mean Sarah. I did buy one though. Now to decide where it goes hehe. We then decided that Station Square would provide an appropriate outing for the day. When we got to Station Square, we decided it was good timing to buy ourselves some tasty crepes, well proper pancakes with Caramel and ice cream on my part and maple syrup and ice cream on Sarah's part, although she did nearly forget to put her maple syrup on the damn pancake. We had a good ol natter about life, love and philosophy...ok well not really but that sounded cool. Did talk about various things though, was good. After munching on pancakes we went into Bi Lo and bought munchies for the evening/rest of the week. Hah like it would have lasted a week. Headed back home, where we just sat and chilled out for a while. Sarah has me addicted to Professor Layton and the Curious Village game for the DS. God damnit and the worst part I can't even get it over here. Damn slack Aussies. Beth and Bill went out for Bill's birthday. They just went to the RSL, but Sarah and I decided we would just stay in and make ourselve a pasta bake and watch Walk The Line. Damn good movie actually and the pasta bake was amazingly tasty, for only costing $3 for the pasta and the sauce. Bloody Sarah pretending to be cold, what?!? See photos on Facebook/bebo you will see what I mean. Fairly early night to finish off.
So moving onto Tuesday 30th June. Your eyes sore yet? Tough! Was a very chilled out, not totally eventful day actually, not that that is a bad thing. It gave Sarah the chance to start one of her essays that are due a week after she gets back to Scotland and gave me an excuse to sit and button bash. I mean play the playstation that I bought for 50 bucks. Whee go me. I forgot how amazing I am at Tekken 3 and just how terrible I am at driving games like GT2. Ah well it was amusing. We had a whole bunch of music on in the background, including the industrial CD that Sarah made up for me. Pretty Damn good, then we sat there, I played Professor Layton, Sarah wrote essays and we sang our little hearts out to System of a Down. But not singing properly, why would we want to do something as silly as that. Proper stupid voices and high pitchedness and bouncing about while still seated. Good laugh actually. Sarah's jet lag eventually caught up with her on Tuesday and she was in bed by 8pm , shocking I know. I ended up just sitting online for a while before retiring early myself. Believe I was in bed by about 10pm, which is really early for me. But that was that.
Wednesday 1st July. Rabbits! Best not to question it I did and the answer didn't make any more sense than rabbits! Wednesday was another sorta chilled day. We headed down town so I could getmy Centrelink payment, which I thought was going to be less because of the trial shift I did at Toast but apparently not, so that was a bit of a bonus. Yay! First fortnight of paying board too *rolls eyes*. So after getting the Centrelink stuff sorted, in less than five minutes may I add *dies of shock* we went to Station Square to buy ingredients to bake cupcakes with. Whoop! We also passed by Crazy Clarks who were selling DVD's for $2 each, we bought 4. Bought out cakey stuff and went for the bus. Got home and started baking. First batch kinda didn't work as well as they should have but it's ok the second batch were amazing. They were all supposed to be blue, but they turned out more green than anything oh well. I was on hand to rescue the first batch. They actually looked like something a kid would make, but my god was the icing I made tasty with it's strawberry flavouring and 100's and 1000's. My butter cream was also rather tasty. That is how Sarah's bakery is going to work. She will bake the cakes and I will decorate them....if we don't eat all of our mixture before any cakes are actually made. They were actually tasty cupcakes, but then I never doubted Sarah's bakery skills, I think I would have got slapped if I had. After dinner, we sat downstairs and watched 3 of our $2 movies. All three of them were great, total obscure movies, not blocokbusters by any means and each one of them had the two of us in tears. God damnit. At least now I have found someone who cries as much as I do at movies. Woohoo. It was not even just a few tears with these movies either, like actually sitting there sobbing, especially at the third on Book of Stars. FFS. Quite a late night about 1ish we got to bed and were up early to head to the markets the next day.
As above, Thursday 2nd July was Market Day, but it wasn't a standard market day it was a Mary Poppins Day. Ha, and typical the market looks totally cool and we forget to lift the camera. Muppets much. Sorry there was a minor interurption there, it's called tea break! So back to my amazing story telling, we went to the markets. Wandered around for a while, just looking at various things, me convincing Sarah that actually the market was huge. It really is you don't know what you are missing. First thing we did was to get our Tarot readings. Yes you did read that correctly, we went for a Tarot reading each. Sarah got her's first as I wasn't sure initally but after hearing and seeing how excited Sarah got about hers, I decided that actually it was about time that I got another one done. And I'm so very glad I did. The woman was so unbelievably accurate and the cards I picked out of the deck were uncanny. Just try and tell me that they are all con artists. My faith is actually totally restored in them again. Totally connected with the woman. Sat there stony faced, no reaction whatsoever, while I sat there swallowing the lump that was forming in my throat. The first cards I picked indicated massive stress caused by someone or something, but the main emphasis was on someone *shrug* and she explained that now was my time to shine and that I had a massive amount of courage to share with the world and that right now I was literally 'going with the flow'. That was the name of the card. She explained that I had learned to trust myself completely and was ready to move onto bigger and better things. She also advised me that no matter what I turn my hand to I will master it. She said my mastery skills could swing either way, be that to good or to bad, but that I had already choosen my path and that I should never look back or regret. So that was quite interesting, kinda left me feeling elated and felt as though something had been lifted. Got lunch at Station Square, chinese, was yummy too. Back to the house for a bit, before heading to D&D with Glen. Sarah was there too not that she really had a clue but nevermind. Got there only to find out that half our adventuring party a) hadn't showed up and b) hadn't created their characters. Slack bastards honestly, they had nearly four weeks to prep. Well gutted. But we rearranged for this week, so hopefully the guys won't forget this time. Was well shocked on Thursday, there was me thinking I was the only female in a group of geeks, in my element may I add, and there were two others there. I felt invaded, how dare they? Although on closer inspection it appeared that they really weren't that interested, so it's ok, I think my domain is safe...for just now. Got back to the house, played a quick game of D&D with Glen, Sarah sat looking slightly confused. Got killed horribly in the third dungeon room, oh well. That was Thursday, Sarah seemed impressed with my miniature collection so far.
Nearly There!
Friday 3rd July was rather an amazing day/night. First and foremost I scoured the interwebnets for job stuff. So many nursing/medical positions, pity I only have basic first Aid and even then that needs updated. Although I did see a postion for a mental health youth worker who would be dealing with mental health issues caused from substance abuse. Felt I could be quite good at that, may consider doing a TAFE course in it. Let's see where the wind takes me. It's either that or I go off and do a creative writing course. Remember this name it will be on world bestsellers. Also sent some cashola to mother creature for loans. Then we were on a mission to become master bakers. We had Scotch pancakes for lunch, like 3 each, with butter and jam...straight to the hips, I thank you! After making a mess of Beth's nice tidy kitchen and scoffing our faces, we made Death Cakes. Yes Death cakes. They had rum, chocolate chips and butter cream, plus about ten tonne of normal caster sugar in the mix :-D. Bounce much. They looked and smelled amazing, you should have seen them, pity we don't have smellovision for pcs. You would have all been well jealous. They were scrummy, ask anyone who tried them, they disappeared when we took them to Gympie. So after a day in the kitchen ,I'm sure the chauvanists would love that idea, we headed out to the Mary Poppins Sing a Long screening at the Wharf, but not before we went to the Books, DVD and CD show with Beth and Bill. We got there and somehow miraculously avoided the dvd's and cd's, and headed straight to massive pile of books. The deal was 10 books for $30. Heaven! All the books were by obscure little authors and a lot of them were based in Australia, but we both managed to find 10 books. Just the start of my new library collection. When my mum and dad come over I will have even more books, or I will get them to send them all to me. We shall see what happens first. So brains sorted out for the low price of 30 bucks, onto singing along with Mary Poppins and acting like big kids. We got the prop bag, which had a cocktail umbrella, a glow stick, a sticker and some chocolate coins in it. The whole idea was kinda similar to the Rocky Horror Picture Show thing. Every time Admiral Boom appeared on screen you had to stand and salute, shout boom when the cannon went off, twirl your umbrella when you saw an umbrella in the film and wave the glowstick when there was magic in the film and of course you had to sing a long. Sarah and I had a bigger audience than the damn film. Mostly cos we were the only tubes standing there giving it big licks and actually singing along to all of the songs and not just supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (antidisestablishmentarianism....longest word in the english dictionary points if you know what it means). What a riot though, even got our photo taken with Admiral Boom and Mary. Ate sandwiches with sausage on them too, gotta love greasy van food. After the screening we headed to the RSL, for the simple reason of getting the courtesy bus so we didn't need to pay for a taxi. Sneaky yes, but it was Beth and Bill who suggested it, we just happened to agree. The RSL was such a great laugh actually. We sat there had one normal drink, then I bought us both a Mango Daquiri, made with crushed ice, don't ya know. So there we are sitting happily sipping our cocktail, when they announce that the bus is leaving in five minutes, so what do we do, we skull the cocktail. That equals shocks through the teeth, freezing the throat to the point of pain and then came the brain freeze.....OUCH! Turns out we didn't even have to do that, cos one of the guys who works there, said he would hold the bus for us, and then we went to get on it and it was bloody full. Unnecessary pain. Actually ended up having a great laugh with two of the barmen, who incidentally one of them invited us out on Thursday for Karaoke in Hervey Bay. Should be interesting. Signed up for my membership too, it's only $6.60 for the year so it's not exactly going to break the bank. Whilst signing up Sarah took a fit of the giggles, which made it impossible to keep a straight face when getting the membership photo taken. Funny though. Finally got the courtesy bus back up the road, where we ended up still wide awake and hyper, so we figured we would watch the Notebook, way to take you out of your good mood. What a depressing yet very nice movie. Actual sobbing but at least I wasn't alone. It's just got one of those endings, and the worst part is the ending totally creeps up on you. Evil!
Saturday rolls around, finally. Had a bit of a lie in, which is always nice, when you have spent the rest of the week waking up with the sun. And basically just pottered around the house for a while, went online, put up some pics. I phoned for a potential job, answering machine. And basically we sat around waiting for Dave to appear to take us to lil ol Gympie Town for a night out. He eventually appeared, actually bang on time too, with Dion. We forced the two of them to eat a death cake, they liked them. Then it was time for the hour drive. Off we trot, stop at the service station, where Dion totally doesn't understand our accent because we spoke at the same time. Amusing to say the least. Got to Gympie and it didn't take long before the drinking commenced, as ever. It come from living under a pub I reckon. Got changed into our fantastic outfits, we both looked hot as hell and nobody even attempted to deny it. Played pool most of the night, it was afterall pool comp night. Wayne came out and actually looked like he was enjoying himself for a change, miserable git that he is hehe. Love him really though, he's just got a rep to maintain. Hah! Sarah and I went out in the first round of pool comp, like anyone expected anything less of us. Drinking and dancing about like numpties, little bit of drama in the middle of the night, but just the usual Gympie drama, that blew over and more merriment commenced. Apparently while playing pool comp Sarah didn't have a name, she got put down on the sheet as Vicky 2, and that's what everyone then stuck to calling her all night. Who knew I could be so popular. Many photos taken and out of 50 photos I only vitoed one. Not bad for me, clearly am loving myself more and more these days and why the hell not, I am freaking fantastic and you know it. Took part in a dance off comp, well I say we took part. More like we jumped about pretending to be proper sexy and proper choreographed dancers, making total arses out of ourselves but not being able to stop laughing the whole time. Needless to say we didn't win. Ah well. Finally headed down stairs at like 2 in the morning, went to crash with Dave, who then got annoyed at us so we decided stuff you then and slept in the living room on a single matress with a single sleeping bag, but it was warm which made up for the lack of comfort.
Sunday 5th July standard recover day, despite not being drunk the night before. More just lack of sleep than anything else. We sat for a few hours talking outside and then we watched like the first season of House. Good show, may call in a favour and get myself a copy of all the seasons. Caitlin eventually woke up, and took us to get something to eat at subway. Actually got a foot long for a change, I was so hungry and it was good baguette too. Sat outside the store talking music and gigs and making both Trevor and Caitlin jealous about how many bands Sarah and I have seen plus about how cheap we can get gig tickets. Wayne showed up, had a quick catch up, I slagged him off a bit for actually being happy while being out in a pub with drunk people then headed back to Maryborough. By the time I learn to drive I will know that road like the back of my hand, I travel up and down it often enough. Ah its only because I love being in Gympie so much. Time to start expanding my job search I think. May be where i am meant to be. Standard sunday action really, nothing much to really report on.
So finally onto today. Whoop! We were supposed to go on the Maryborough Walking tour which started at 9am, but the alarm went off and neither of us could be bothered moving, so we didn't. Finally got up at about 10am, got breakfast, which was a sandwich with Steakette and a potato scone, man that was some good eats. Totally satisfied the craving, may have to have another one tomorrow or maybe even tonight when we watch some movies with our massive bag of crisps. Proper mucnhies. So anyway, instead of the walking tour, we took a trip down town, posted letters and postcards, picked up payslip from Toast apparently my estimation was only 10 dollars out, hmm whatever, then we headed to station square grabbed out munchie stuff and then headed to Mary Delicious. A little traditional confectionery store where we got to taste various types of homemade fudge before deciding on what type to buy. I bought the honey macademia and Sarah bought the Bailey's and Butterscotch, which would rot your teeth right out, but then mine is just as bad. We alos got ourselves a milkshake and a spide (ice cream float for those of you not in the know). Sat outside talking and wondering why the rentokill guys were taking photos of the building next door. Headed back home and have spent all that time doing this blog entry, so i would be willing to bet that you are sick of it by now and will be glad for the final sentence. And if I haven't bored you to tears yet, then go me, clearly I rule.
Actually am going to sign off though, dinner and then movies is the nights plan so therefore I don't think I will have to tell you what we got up to when I next update with our further adventures. So yes, I'm offski.
Vicky and Vicky 2 ****
Best place to start probably the beginning I would assume and the beginning is Monday 29th June. What did we do? Oh yes we went for a wander down town mostly because that was one of the few days on the itinerary that I planned nothing for. Headed to the Post Office, yes I know thrilling stuff, but it was for a reason. We were buying postcards. When I say we I do of course just mean Sarah. I did buy one though. Now to decide where it goes hehe. We then decided that Station Square would provide an appropriate outing for the day. When we got to Station Square, we decided it was good timing to buy ourselves some tasty crepes, well proper pancakes with Caramel and ice cream on my part and maple syrup and ice cream on Sarah's part, although she did nearly forget to put her maple syrup on the damn pancake. We had a good ol natter about life, love and philosophy...ok well not really but that sounded cool. Did talk about various things though, was good. After munching on pancakes we went into Bi Lo and bought munchies for the evening/rest of the week. Hah like it would have lasted a week. Headed back home, where we just sat and chilled out for a while. Sarah has me addicted to Professor Layton and the Curious Village game for the DS. God damnit and the worst part I can't even get it over here. Damn slack Aussies. Beth and Bill went out for Bill's birthday. They just went to the RSL, but Sarah and I decided we would just stay in and make ourselve a pasta bake and watch Walk The Line. Damn good movie actually and the pasta bake was amazingly tasty, for only costing $3 for the pasta and the sauce. Bloody Sarah pretending to be cold, what?!? See photos on Facebook/bebo you will see what I mean. Fairly early night to finish off.
So moving onto Tuesday 30th June. Your eyes sore yet? Tough! Was a very chilled out, not totally eventful day actually, not that that is a bad thing. It gave Sarah the chance to start one of her essays that are due a week after she gets back to Scotland and gave me an excuse to sit and button bash. I mean play the playstation that I bought for 50 bucks. Whee go me. I forgot how amazing I am at Tekken 3 and just how terrible I am at driving games like GT2. Ah well it was amusing. We had a whole bunch of music on in the background, including the industrial CD that Sarah made up for me. Pretty Damn good, then we sat there, I played Professor Layton, Sarah wrote essays and we sang our little hearts out to System of a Down. But not singing properly, why would we want to do something as silly as that. Proper stupid voices and high pitchedness and bouncing about while still seated. Good laugh actually. Sarah's jet lag eventually caught up with her on Tuesday and she was in bed by 8pm , shocking I know. I ended up just sitting online for a while before retiring early myself. Believe I was in bed by about 10pm, which is really early for me. But that was that.
Wednesday 1st July. Rabbits! Best not to question it I did and the answer didn't make any more sense than rabbits! Wednesday was another sorta chilled day. We headed down town so I could getmy Centrelink payment, which I thought was going to be less because of the trial shift I did at Toast but apparently not, so that was a bit of a bonus. Yay! First fortnight of paying board too *rolls eyes*. So after getting the Centrelink stuff sorted, in less than five minutes may I add *dies of shock* we went to Station Square to buy ingredients to bake cupcakes with. Whoop! We also passed by Crazy Clarks who were selling DVD's for $2 each, we bought 4. Bought out cakey stuff and went for the bus. Got home and started baking. First batch kinda didn't work as well as they should have but it's ok the second batch were amazing. They were all supposed to be blue, but they turned out more green than anything oh well. I was on hand to rescue the first batch. They actually looked like something a kid would make, but my god was the icing I made tasty with it's strawberry flavouring and 100's and 1000's. My butter cream was also rather tasty. That is how Sarah's bakery is going to work. She will bake the cakes and I will decorate them....if we don't eat all of our mixture before any cakes are actually made. They were actually tasty cupcakes, but then I never doubted Sarah's bakery skills, I think I would have got slapped if I had. After dinner, we sat downstairs and watched 3 of our $2 movies. All three of them were great, total obscure movies, not blocokbusters by any means and each one of them had the two of us in tears. God damnit. At least now I have found someone who cries as much as I do at movies. Woohoo. It was not even just a few tears with these movies either, like actually sitting there sobbing, especially at the third on Book of Stars. FFS. Quite a late night about 1ish we got to bed and were up early to head to the markets the next day.
As above, Thursday 2nd July was Market Day, but it wasn't a standard market day it was a Mary Poppins Day. Ha, and typical the market looks totally cool and we forget to lift the camera. Muppets much. Sorry there was a minor interurption there, it's called tea break! So back to my amazing story telling, we went to the markets. Wandered around for a while, just looking at various things, me convincing Sarah that actually the market was huge. It really is you don't know what you are missing. First thing we did was to get our Tarot readings. Yes you did read that correctly, we went for a Tarot reading each. Sarah got her's first as I wasn't sure initally but after hearing and seeing how excited Sarah got about hers, I decided that actually it was about time that I got another one done. And I'm so very glad I did. The woman was so unbelievably accurate and the cards I picked out of the deck were uncanny. Just try and tell me that they are all con artists. My faith is actually totally restored in them again. Totally connected with the woman. Sat there stony faced, no reaction whatsoever, while I sat there swallowing the lump that was forming in my throat. The first cards I picked indicated massive stress caused by someone or something, but the main emphasis was on someone *shrug* and she explained that now was my time to shine and that I had a massive amount of courage to share with the world and that right now I was literally 'going with the flow'. That was the name of the card. She explained that I had learned to trust myself completely and was ready to move onto bigger and better things. She also advised me that no matter what I turn my hand to I will master it. She said my mastery skills could swing either way, be that to good or to bad, but that I had already choosen my path and that I should never look back or regret. So that was quite interesting, kinda left me feeling elated and felt as though something had been lifted. Got lunch at Station Square, chinese, was yummy too. Back to the house for a bit, before heading to D&D with Glen. Sarah was there too not that she really had a clue but nevermind. Got there only to find out that half our adventuring party a) hadn't showed up and b) hadn't created their characters. Slack bastards honestly, they had nearly four weeks to prep. Well gutted. But we rearranged for this week, so hopefully the guys won't forget this time. Was well shocked on Thursday, there was me thinking I was the only female in a group of geeks, in my element may I add, and there were two others there. I felt invaded, how dare they? Although on closer inspection it appeared that they really weren't that interested, so it's ok, I think my domain is safe...for just now. Got back to the house, played a quick game of D&D with Glen, Sarah sat looking slightly confused. Got killed horribly in the third dungeon room, oh well. That was Thursday, Sarah seemed impressed with my miniature collection so far.
Nearly There!
Friday 3rd July was rather an amazing day/night. First and foremost I scoured the interwebnets for job stuff. So many nursing/medical positions, pity I only have basic first Aid and even then that needs updated. Although I did see a postion for a mental health youth worker who would be dealing with mental health issues caused from substance abuse. Felt I could be quite good at that, may consider doing a TAFE course in it. Let's see where the wind takes me. It's either that or I go off and do a creative writing course. Remember this name it will be on world bestsellers. Also sent some cashola to mother creature for loans. Then we were on a mission to become master bakers. We had Scotch pancakes for lunch, like 3 each, with butter and jam...straight to the hips, I thank you! After making a mess of Beth's nice tidy kitchen and scoffing our faces, we made Death Cakes. Yes Death cakes. They had rum, chocolate chips and butter cream, plus about ten tonne of normal caster sugar in the mix :-D. Bounce much. They looked and smelled amazing, you should have seen them, pity we don't have smellovision for pcs. You would have all been well jealous. They were scrummy, ask anyone who tried them, they disappeared when we took them to Gympie. So after a day in the kitchen ,I'm sure the chauvanists would love that idea, we headed out to the Mary Poppins Sing a Long screening at the Wharf, but not before we went to the Books, DVD and CD show with Beth and Bill. We got there and somehow miraculously avoided the dvd's and cd's, and headed straight to massive pile of books. The deal was 10 books for $30. Heaven! All the books were by obscure little authors and a lot of them were based in Australia, but we both managed to find 10 books. Just the start of my new library collection. When my mum and dad come over I will have even more books, or I will get them to send them all to me. We shall see what happens first. So brains sorted out for the low price of 30 bucks, onto singing along with Mary Poppins and acting like big kids. We got the prop bag, which had a cocktail umbrella, a glow stick, a sticker and some chocolate coins in it. The whole idea was kinda similar to the Rocky Horror Picture Show thing. Every time Admiral Boom appeared on screen you had to stand and salute, shout boom when the cannon went off, twirl your umbrella when you saw an umbrella in the film and wave the glowstick when there was magic in the film and of course you had to sing a long. Sarah and I had a bigger audience than the damn film. Mostly cos we were the only tubes standing there giving it big licks and actually singing along to all of the songs and not just supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (antidisestablishmentarianism....longest word in the english dictionary points if you know what it means). What a riot though, even got our photo taken with Admiral Boom and Mary. Ate sandwiches with sausage on them too, gotta love greasy van food. After the screening we headed to the RSL, for the simple reason of getting the courtesy bus so we didn't need to pay for a taxi. Sneaky yes, but it was Beth and Bill who suggested it, we just happened to agree. The RSL was such a great laugh actually. We sat there had one normal drink, then I bought us both a Mango Daquiri, made with crushed ice, don't ya know. So there we are sitting happily sipping our cocktail, when they announce that the bus is leaving in five minutes, so what do we do, we skull the cocktail. That equals shocks through the teeth, freezing the throat to the point of pain and then came the brain freeze.....OUCH! Turns out we didn't even have to do that, cos one of the guys who works there, said he would hold the bus for us, and then we went to get on it and it was bloody full. Unnecessary pain. Actually ended up having a great laugh with two of the barmen, who incidentally one of them invited us out on Thursday for Karaoke in Hervey Bay. Should be interesting. Signed up for my membership too, it's only $6.60 for the year so it's not exactly going to break the bank. Whilst signing up Sarah took a fit of the giggles, which made it impossible to keep a straight face when getting the membership photo taken. Funny though. Finally got the courtesy bus back up the road, where we ended up still wide awake and hyper, so we figured we would watch the Notebook, way to take you out of your good mood. What a depressing yet very nice movie. Actual sobbing but at least I wasn't alone. It's just got one of those endings, and the worst part is the ending totally creeps up on you. Evil!
Saturday rolls around, finally. Had a bit of a lie in, which is always nice, when you have spent the rest of the week waking up with the sun. And basically just pottered around the house for a while, went online, put up some pics. I phoned for a potential job, answering machine. And basically we sat around waiting for Dave to appear to take us to lil ol Gympie Town for a night out. He eventually appeared, actually bang on time too, with Dion. We forced the two of them to eat a death cake, they liked them. Then it was time for the hour drive. Off we trot, stop at the service station, where Dion totally doesn't understand our accent because we spoke at the same time. Amusing to say the least. Got to Gympie and it didn't take long before the drinking commenced, as ever. It come from living under a pub I reckon. Got changed into our fantastic outfits, we both looked hot as hell and nobody even attempted to deny it. Played pool most of the night, it was afterall pool comp night. Wayne came out and actually looked like he was enjoying himself for a change, miserable git that he is hehe. Love him really though, he's just got a rep to maintain. Hah! Sarah and I went out in the first round of pool comp, like anyone expected anything less of us. Drinking and dancing about like numpties, little bit of drama in the middle of the night, but just the usual Gympie drama, that blew over and more merriment commenced. Apparently while playing pool comp Sarah didn't have a name, she got put down on the sheet as Vicky 2, and that's what everyone then stuck to calling her all night. Who knew I could be so popular. Many photos taken and out of 50 photos I only vitoed one. Not bad for me, clearly am loving myself more and more these days and why the hell not, I am freaking fantastic and you know it. Took part in a dance off comp, well I say we took part. More like we jumped about pretending to be proper sexy and proper choreographed dancers, making total arses out of ourselves but not being able to stop laughing the whole time. Needless to say we didn't win. Ah well. Finally headed down stairs at like 2 in the morning, went to crash with Dave, who then got annoyed at us so we decided stuff you then and slept in the living room on a single matress with a single sleeping bag, but it was warm which made up for the lack of comfort.
Sunday 5th July standard recover day, despite not being drunk the night before. More just lack of sleep than anything else. We sat for a few hours talking outside and then we watched like the first season of House. Good show, may call in a favour and get myself a copy of all the seasons. Caitlin eventually woke up, and took us to get something to eat at subway. Actually got a foot long for a change, I was so hungry and it was good baguette too. Sat outside the store talking music and gigs and making both Trevor and Caitlin jealous about how many bands Sarah and I have seen plus about how cheap we can get gig tickets. Wayne showed up, had a quick catch up, I slagged him off a bit for actually being happy while being out in a pub with drunk people then headed back to Maryborough. By the time I learn to drive I will know that road like the back of my hand, I travel up and down it often enough. Ah its only because I love being in Gympie so much. Time to start expanding my job search I think. May be where i am meant to be. Standard sunday action really, nothing much to really report on.
So finally onto today. Whoop! We were supposed to go on the Maryborough Walking tour which started at 9am, but the alarm went off and neither of us could be bothered moving, so we didn't. Finally got up at about 10am, got breakfast, which was a sandwich with Steakette and a potato scone, man that was some good eats. Totally satisfied the craving, may have to have another one tomorrow or maybe even tonight when we watch some movies with our massive bag of crisps. Proper mucnhies. So anyway, instead of the walking tour, we took a trip down town, posted letters and postcards, picked up payslip from Toast apparently my estimation was only 10 dollars out, hmm whatever, then we headed to station square grabbed out munchie stuff and then headed to Mary Delicious. A little traditional confectionery store where we got to taste various types of homemade fudge before deciding on what type to buy. I bought the honey macademia and Sarah bought the Bailey's and Butterscotch, which would rot your teeth right out, but then mine is just as bad. We alos got ourselves a milkshake and a spide (ice cream float for those of you not in the know). Sat outside talking and wondering why the rentokill guys were taking photos of the building next door. Headed back home and have spent all that time doing this blog entry, so i would be willing to bet that you are sick of it by now and will be glad for the final sentence. And if I haven't bored you to tears yet, then go me, clearly I rule.
Actually am going to sign off though, dinner and then movies is the nights plan so therefore I don't think I will have to tell you what we got up to when I next update with our further adventures. So yes, I'm offski.
Vicky and Vicky 2 ****
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