Christmas Camping Trip |
December 29, 2004 |
24th December 2004
Trip started at midday, and I had the car packed ready to head up to the mountains to visit sam and the family of Carrolls. I stopped off at Darrens to exchange the same gift!
I arrived at Sams at 3pm, as there was very little traffic. However, there was quite a bit of rain and at times it was so bad that I had to pull off the road!
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Its a home |
December 22, 2004 |
Looking more and more like a home every day! They took down the scaffolding today so that you can actually see the whole house. Still got the garage roof to complete, but you can see things are taking shape now. I'm not expecting too much more before xmas, but the next thing to be completed is the electrical work and then the gyprock.
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More Roof |
December 20, 2004 |
Most of the tiling is now finished, just the roof of the garage is left to go, and today they started that up!
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Slowly Slowly |
December 14, 2004 |
Well after several days of very little, there has finally been some more progress on the site. The roof tiles have now been delivered, along with battens and other material required to get the roof complete.
The next door house has now had the roof completed, so I am hoping that the tilers will be able to get mine done by the end of the week.
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Day of Big Things |
December 13, 2004 |
First thing that happened today was the delivery of my new laptop :) Was expecting it to arrive last friday, but instead it came in first thing monday morning. Glad it is here finally, and now tapping out this message to my blog. It's pretty good, nice screen, but I'm having a shit of a time getting my home network up and running! I think network security is the death of us all!!
Next even of the day was a visit to my accountant to lodge my tax returns for 2003 and 2004! Yes I know thats pretty late, but I had more important things to do! Fortunately, it looks like I have about $1000 coming my way!! Which is exactly the amount I needed to get a years membership, and a free set of golf clubs at the Shellharbour Links Golf Club!! Whoohooo!!
Finally, it is monday night so time for netball. We played an excellent game, and came away with a solid win. But then on the way home, I drove through an incredibly violent rain storn! At one stage I was watching a bus dissapear under water on one side of the road, when I looked back, three cars in front of me had locked up their brakes and also dissapearing into a river across the road!! Lucky I had just been going through the emergency stopping procedure in my head (yeah true story, pretty pathetic hey!) so I managed to pull up before hitting anyone. Then I just pushed on through the water, it wasn't too deep, but the other cars looked a little timid! Then for the next 5km, there was a heap of water over the road, and everyone was taking it pretty easy. Then as we passed Port Kembla golf club, the rain and water dissapeared! And above, I could see stars!! It was quite incredible. And once I got home, the roads were dry. But up above, there is this incredible storm cloud, with a large amount of lightning illuminating the sky.
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Final Golf Round |
December 12, 2004 |
Golf this week was at Shellharbour Links and in the form of Ambrose. It's a rpetty tough course and Stewart and I were going along pretty well for the frist 5 or 6 holes. We were putting the pressure on the favorites with keeping a par score. But then something happened and we started to slip backwards fast! I think we then put too much pressure on oursevles thinking we were doing badly. But of course that was only doing badly to Darren and Justin who ended up winning by more than 7 strokes!
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A week of sporting wins |
December 08, 2004 |
Two games this week with two positive results. Firstly Netball on monday, Leon got his wish and won a well played game convincingly in the end. Then tonight we had a win at Touch Footy. Another well played game which we won pretty well. Unfortunately I let one try in when I slipped over in the wet conditions and missed a touch. Fortunately the game was already won at that stage so it made little impact in the end! But it will be off to the shoe shop for some proper boots later this week!
In other sporting events, our evening at the driving range was not a huge success, but it has given me some things to work on and I'm hoping to get up there again tomorrow night. All in preparation for the final big match on Sunday!!
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Christmas Party |
December 05, 2004 |
Party time is upon us, and this weekend was the work party. We had a lot of fun with this one, and with a theme of HAIR, it was up to your imagination on how you dressed up! And Mick actually shaved the top of his head and created the comb over affect! It was quite a brave move!
Not sure what time we finished at the leagues club, but we backed up then to The Oxford and kept going there until we were kicked out at closing. Giving Paul M (aka Phillipe) just enough time to meet wonderful Franchesca!
More photos from the party can be found in the photo album.
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Front Entry |
December 03, 2004 |
Some good progress now, and all the brick work appears to be complete. Even the front entry section is done and the bagged finish has been applied. Hopefully next week they will get the roof done. Next doors roof took about two days to complete, so I wouldn't expect them to have much trouble doing mine in a week!
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Touch Footy |
December 01, 2004 |
Well my first game of touch tonight and unfortunately we lost, but only just, 6-5. The game was much faster than I was expecting, and found myself running backwards way more often than forwards! But I made sure I played in the middle a bit, and even managed to talk a lovely ball over the line to score a try. I really didn't do much to get there, and after the game I was told that debutants really needed to score twice to be signed for the season :)
I'm sure I'll feel the pain tomorrow though, and will have to add a bit more sprinting to my training schedule! And backwards sprinting too! Looking forward to next week though, and I'm sure getting some propper shoes will give me the edge I am looking for :)
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