WOOT its after 5pm! my holidays have officially started. don't have to be back at work for.... *counts* 12 more days!!!!! (i go back to work on tuesday 3rd jan) I'M SO EXCITED TO BE FINISHED AND TO BE GOING HOME!!!!!! WHEEEEEEEEE!

the boy and i have a few more last minute presents to get and then its home to pack, maybe have a catch up drink with a few people, and then catching the train to bundy in the morning!

i uploaded some pics from our work xmas party too. clickity click click!

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYONE! i'll be home and able to post before new years! but i doubt i'll be online over christmas... i will however, maybe take my iSight with me, and MAYBE will be able to take a cam pic or two on the boy's ibook and upload them (if we go to my sisters place, as she has the net) but no promises.

ps i'm getting a new phone! but its not coming til after new years. it has a 1.3 megapixel camera on it! WOOOOOT! i will be taking photos everywhere then!

aaaaaah this week has been dragging because i'm so looking forward to going home to bundy this friday. however i'm still got a bit of last minute christmas shopping to do and NO time to do it in.

our work xmas party was awesome fun. i behaved and didn't get rotten drunk, and felt so much better for it in the morning. i've got a bunch of photos to go through and will try and add to my photo gallery later today or tomorrow, but til then, i thought i'd share a video of me on the drum machine. unfortunately aaron only took video of me the FIRST time i played and I really really sucked. but after a few more turns i was kinda getting the hang of it. but sadly, i dont have natural rhythm and doubt i will ever be the drummer in a kick ass indie band.

I am using YouSendIt which is very lame. But i dont know how many people would download the video/and dont want to use too much bandwidth. oh well. let me know if it works/doesn't work.

i'm slowly getting over this site. i wish i wasn't.

and why is it only the retarded and annoying people who comment? i hate you all. NO COMMENTS FOR YOU!

i've analysed this situation and my lack of blogging and have come up with this graph to explain.

i'm sure that just like exercise, its just about getting back into the habit. there's just not enough hours in the day, and no doubt sitting in front of a computer ALL day is putting me off.

- lots more people at the gym with nasty hygiene habits have pissed me off. why can't people use the paper towel and spray provided to wipe down the machines? are you blind? there are signs everywhere! and you've left little puddles of sweat on the cross trainer! COMMON COURTESY PEOPLE! (ZOMG now i'm making fun of sweaty people too. oh yea, i so went there *rolls eyes*)

- SSS BBQ Barn, last friday, was pretty cool. 4 of the guys did the Shank Challenge.... If you eat an entree, the Shank, the salad and potato, you get a FREE dessert... AND THEN if you eat all of that, you get a hat and your name on the honour roll.
Early on, 2 of the guys gave up (a smart move)... Billy, who had organised the whole event, was determined to get through it all but was only about half way through when he started to struggle. Wayne, however, powered on like a champ. I dont think he even broke a sweat. There was nothing but a bone left and he was onto dessert and poor Billy was about 2/3 of the way through. He was pale and sweaty, but we cheered him on.
3 and a half hours later, he took that final bite of dessert and history was made! The boys will have their names on the honor roll!
My meal was pretty awesome but looks so ridiculously tiny compared to that shank. It was pretty decent size - 200gram rump and ribs with an awesome bbq glaze. Plus sweet potato that was cooked with sugar and cinnamon or something and a salad.
check out all the photos

- heather's xmas party on saturday night! mucho fun-ness! of course i drank too much (evil punch!) and have more than a few blurry memories of the night. The good (bad?) thing about going home with someone completely sober is you can find out all the stupid things you said and did the night before (eg "I'm not drunk, if I was drunk I would be passing out!! I'm completely sober".......*gets huffy, rolls over and passes out immediately*)

- I finally got to watch Laguna Beach (man, I wish I had cable)- after hearing about the show for so long and seeing so many posts on celebrity gossip blogs about it. If i had cable tv I would be completely addicted. These people are addictively horrible. Of course I'd jump at the chance to live that life in an instant, but til then I'll just make fun of them.... please kill me if i ever greet my friends with "Hey BEEYOTCHES!"

2 more days then its friday! Work xmas party!!!! God I can't wait to stuff myself with seafood buffet! :) this week is dragging.

an innocent conversation had a little over a month ago:

Shane - im just making conversation
Shane - sorry
Shane - making typersation
rhiannon- hahahaha
Shane - surely there needs to be a new word for that
rhiannon - i know. hmm urbandictionary?
Shane - i was talking with rhiannon the other day having this great typersation
rhiannon - maybe you need to make a submission to that site
Shane - that could by my claim to fame
rhiannon - you invented the word heh
Shane - i think like there needs to be a few people submit the word
rhiannon - no typersation, but there's an entry for typative - http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=typative
Shane - whats it mean
rhiannon - like talkative
rhiannon - but typative
rhiannon - Typative - Being excessively verbose in online text conversations.Man those AOLusers sure are typative bitches.
Shane - cool

This innocent conversation has now turned into an official urban dictionary entry: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=typersation

1. typersation
A word to replace conversation when communicating via the internet, you typersate or have a typersation
I had a great typersation the other day with Rhiannon.


hehehehe

in other news-
going to see the new harry potter movie tonight. it only opens in cinemas today, so naturally it will be packed and we had to book tickets days ago.

i caught up with one of my longest friends the other night. we are both so useless at keeping in touch, but im determined that will change. as soon as i saw her again, its was like old times. with her two sisters, we went for 2-4-1 steaks at O'Leary's- my god, the best Rump steak i've had in ages. it was this huge thick slice of meat with the creamiest mushroom sauce. *drools* and only $24 for 2 steaks!!!!
i love that she's a tight ass like me. everyone always makes fun of my scrimping and fondness for 2-4-1 specials - but how else could i save anything?!! Fiona has plans to head overseas mid-end of next year, and while i dont necessarily have anything in mind i'm saving for (boobs/travel?), i have a nice little amount growing... slowly. heh. I am also useless at denying myself any pleasures (alcohol, eating out all the time, going to gigs, shopping), so I have to make the most of discounts when possible.

random bitter thoughts -
no offense to overweight people, but there's a really fat girl at my gym (not a bit chubby, or chunky- a beanbag with legs) who keeps ending up right behind me in every class and she smells like a bum. no wait, she smells like a bum smeared in shit.
i kid you not. the whole time i'm getting wafts of rancid poo smell. and after hearing that fat ex-idol contestant, Anthony, on Celebrity Overhaul admit that he's so overweight he can't physically wipe his own ass (don't worry, he uses a bidet.....but that just left me wondering- what happens if you have to take a dump in a public toilet? do you just hold and wait for your own toilet? i hate having to hold and having poo cramps. but if the option is shitting and being unable to wipe, i guess i would hold) - anyway after hearing him admit to this disgusting fact, i can't help but wonder if this woman also struggles from the same problem. her arms are just not long enough to reach all the way around that blubbery stomach. no way, no how.

there's a girl who catches my bus most mornings who also goes to my gym and she starting talking to me a couple of months ago. and although she's really nice it kind of bothers me because i like to just sit on the bus in the mornings, bopping along to whatever music is blaring from my ipod, just in my own little world. i really do like her and we have alot of common, but mornings are MY TIME! i'm in my own little world and i like it that way.

i can't stand people who insist on standing up on the bus when we are still ages away from the stop, and the traffic is so bad that we're barely inching along at a snail's pace. ESPECIALLY when they are on the window side, and i'm on the aisle side. we are ever so slowly approaching the stop and they grab their bag and slightly turn towards me. i see them, so in turn i grab my bag and move slightly so they know that i know they are wanting to get out at the next stop and when the time is appropriate, I will stand up and move out of their way to let them out. but that's not good enough! NO!
they have to look and me and fakely smile "excuse me, i'm getting out". YEA bitch , i know but we're still a good minute or two away from the stop and its not like you wont have time to get out.
and then because EVERYONE is in such a hurry to get to work, usually the aisle is already full of other people standing up, ready and waiting for the second the bus stops and opens its doors so they can rush out, i HAVE NO WHERE to stand to let this fucktard out.
so i have to push into other people who tsk at me, so they can get out and push into more people who sigh and tsk at them. NO ONE IS MOVING, so why did you have to stand up now?!?!

i would much prefer to have maximum sitting down time, wait til the bus has stopped, most of the people have gotten off, and then i'll get up and move out at my own pace, without 20 other people invading my personal space bubble trying to push past me.