fiiinally

a photo is worth a million words so i won;t go into too much detail on that one, since you will all guess that the entry is about how we finally got the bed done. it's nice though, really nice, so well, we're two happy chaps!!!
also i was going to keep my updating for next week when i had all the time in the world for it since i wasn;t going to be working but a message on someone else's blog forced me to update sooner..... sucked in!!!!
ps: mothe, we were quite excited to inaugurate your new sheets on the new bed!!!

sucking concrete through a straw...

that's what chris and I have been sounding like in our sleep this week as we both have a cold....
anyway, that might explain the long silence, we have either been working or going to bed at 9:00.... an exciting life we have...
i will be replying to everyone of you this week end,
Leanne and Caz about the road trip USA...
papa about ton programme qui a l'air super,
mothe about your packie,
and Dawny, if you are reading this, about your last email and our date in a year from now......

Simon's "bush" 30th...

Last night was Simon's birthday, and the theme was bush so we all put on our sunday bests and gathered at the pub for some tucker and chilled Ale...jolly good times them were!!!!!!!!!

a word of reassurance

not to worry, all is fine, i was a bit upset off a few days ago but it's all fine now!! indeed, it wasn't because of chris!!
will be booking my tickets today and will let you know the exact dates..
speak to you very soon, ciao ciao

DOES IT HAVE TO GET WORSE BEFORE IT GETS BETTER????????????

OR DOES IT ONLY GET WORSE??????? THAT'S ALL I HAD TO SAY FOR NOW......

shnitzel shnitzel and more swimming....

the most information in the minimum number of words...
friday morning we got to Albury, leaving at 4am and getting there for morning coffee and hot cross buns, we had a good week end, cold but had an electric blanket!! photos are on the way!
We travelled back on monday, and because of trackworks, had to be bused to Cuttamundra before getting on the train to Sydney central... we were surrounded by young germanics, female in tears from leaving their aussie host families and males offering a reassuring shoulder to cry on, as well as wandering hands.... Soon the tears were replaced by german manifestations of joy and excitement to which chris systematically replied to with a series of "shnitzel shnitzel..."
Went back to work on tuesday and back to the pool after work, am a good breast stroker, although not surprising according to chris since I am a frog afterall..... muscles aching a bit two days later but feeling good, going back tonight!!!!!
Last night, a fantastic dinner was awaiting my return with candles and beef kebabs...what else could you want!!!!!!!!

underwater australia

this is where i got the photo for the post below, papa je pense que tu devrais aimer.....
http://www.underwateraustralia.com.au/

just can' get enough of it

all day long, i am forever thinking of things that i want to put on this blog and then, i get home and the idea of going through my brain to remember what i was thinking of is overwhelming and so nothing appears on here for you.
so, let;s try to change that.
first of all, i did not mean to offend anyone by saying that J. Simpson was useless and that we shouldn't bother talking about her. eventhough i mean it, feel free to continue these interesting debates on this blog. i am happy to be the host of it and it makes me laugh a lot to read what you two have to say (mothe and Caza of course). knock yourselves out!!!!
Also, not much happened over the week end, except that i got out of the house on saturday and ended up spending 5 hours reading on the floor of a book store in the city. that was cool and, well.. i had a damn good time and might do it again sometime... i mainly spent my time in the photography section and then bought myself two novels, we'll see if they were good choices.... so tough which reminds me of one of my potential blog thoughts on how hard it is to chose a book.... in retrospect, i think it might be pretty boring for anyone but me to analyse the criterias i have set up to pick a book so i won;t go into it....
on saturday night, we went to watch "the world's fastest indian" and I really liked it, i cried the whole time and mothe, i think you would too. it was a happy emotional follow your dreams kind of movie with an old chou.... puuuurfect. This also reminds me that we saw "V for Vendetta" last thursday I believe and it was pretty cool except that I, by principle, hate a woman who looks super hot with a shaved head and prison clothes... so that was a real problem as you can well imagine.
Yesterday, which would be sunday, we went for another swim at 8 am and i totally broke my record as i swam 1.5Km and loved it....i'm mega supa sore as I speak and it should be even worse tomorrow but we might go after work tomorrow night....it was my idea so we'll see if it really happens, the main problem being that i am submerged with work and not sure what time i'll be getting out of that fish bowl......
i think that's about, we shall be on our way to Albury in a few days, normally going down with Carolinna and Simon on their way to Melbourne... from what I understand, we might leave on thursday night and camp in the bush......in-te-res-ting.......
ok bye bye for now, keep writing comments, it's so mega exciting to check everyday and see what you have to say about brangelina and whatever else, and i mean that!!!!!
CHEERIO as they say..........................

I tried...

... to accuse chris for the lack of social events in my recent weeks... the truth is , it's not really his fault at all and while i might not be any kind of Paris Hilton party animal, I certainly make for a good granny... just a bit in advance!!
So I have decided to take control of my life and kick start this whole friendship thing that a lot of people seem to enjoy so much.... problem number 1 is that I have temporarily lost my best friend in the whole southern hemisphere (probably northern too since emails haven't exactly been flowing that direction either lately....bad) and problem number 2, I never see chris anymore and so hanging around, mindlessly dragging myself from one room to the other all week end might give me a chance to bump into him if only 5 minutes.....i guess i see him physically but we never have time to play anymore... :(
Back to the control thing, i suppose that in a time of serious drought, we could say that this week was a moonsoon season as I have met up with Tuna (tina) last night and we had delicious japanese food and ridiculously expensive beer..... and have a double date organised tomorrow night (to celebrate the week end I guess and catch up mostly) with should include Charmaine and her boyf and the boyf and I...we're going to Newtown which puts us a few notches higher on the scale of coolness.........no need to say Newtown wasn;t my suggestion as I would have settled for randwick even, so i guess it only makes me cool by association to Charmaine but i can live with that!!!!!!!!

bam bam chicccc (drum joke sound)

Frenchbeach: Hum Baby, you are the reason for the downfall of my social life...
Hot dot: oh really, and why is that?
FB: hum, because i have too much fun with you and so I don;t want to do anything else...
HD : Baby... the downfall of your social life was when Caz left.

OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!! and so I picked up all my teeth from the floor and went to bed.....

boy oh boy

it's the start of anotehr year on this blog and so i really ought to put a bit of effort into it and write a line or two from time to time....it's all about discipline...
and not only the blog, this mornong we (as in Emma, Chris and meself) went to the Unipool...at 8 (thank god for day light saving business as it changed this morning so it was really 9 o'clock...) anyway, i swam 800 m while the Van Lint gang swam 2.5K but I don't care because I had a whole lane all to myself and i was making up my own very personal swimming style...kicking and using the floating kick board as a pillow....so cooool!!
i finished swimming a tiny bit before they did and so I was able to observe real discipline... when they swim, their bodies are like machines, with every movement so clear and sharp and defined within time and space.... pretty cool to watch plus i get to see how the sommersault thing at the end of a lap is really done, like on TV...
around 9, we went to Em's house and has deeeelicious pancakes, ohh so yummy!!!
After that we went home and that;s about where the exciting stuff ends really. oh yeah, i repoted my cactus friends (still alive) and so I expect them to loook very happy soon, at the moment they still look fairly tiny in their new big pot...
and now that;s really it, chris is stuck doing homework and I wander from one room to the other finding temporary occupations, i think i might go put my glasses on and have a bit of reading time.... reading a supa good book at the moment, but can;t say too much about it yet....
ciao, i hope this new entry will set a pattern for the year to come....

this is what happens when an obsession is pushed too far

Chris has a uni assignment on photoshop due this week so I put my two cents in....pretty funky huh?

happy.............

Birthday to youuuuuuuu!!!
In a few different ways, today or tonight is a bit special and it’s like everything came together to make it that way.
Special because I am able to take the time to write an entry…(it could be a long one my friends) as Chris is out at a rugby game with his uncle tonight (a kind of bonding session I suppose) which means I can use the computer and it is Friday night which means I don’t have to do any homework either ( and yes, I have been bringing work home with me….).
What’s special is not so much the entry itself though but more the fact that it is TODAY and why is today different…?
Well, precisely!! Because, we are celebrating this blog’s first birthday!!!!!! Wouhou partay on!!! So we are celebrating the existence of this blog but does anyone remember how or why this blog came about?? Well yes again, a year ago today, Chris left and was on his way to Nepal which was the subject of the very first entry…
So as things don’t always follow the plan (ask Caz), this blog was intended to be a record of Chris’ travels and I guess it started that way but quickly turned into a big jumble of stuff, from daily life material to whatever crossed my mind… I don’t think I will forcefully subject anyone to a long and tedious flashback session but I will definitely skim through the “pages” myself and have a good laugh or a private smile about what appears on the screen…. How time flies, it’s funny and how small events, because they were recorded at the time keep their freshness intact…. And so Caz, you might remember the “Macarena” entry quite well, and or the photos of one fateful night at the CBH when we met the Frog man…., possibly even our daytrip to East lakes…. I realise by going through it that most of the blog ended up being dedicated to you and our common silliness (caz), that;s alright, I don’t think I’ll stop laughing about it for a while still….
Anyway, Revisiting all these great memories makes me regret not having posted more often lately and well, this blog is also the proof that nothing is ever too boring to find it’s place in there…. So after a whole year of random bable, I decide that it must go on for at least another one and another one and…… because, it’s actually pretty cool!

surprise surpise!!!!!!!!!!!

this is what 3 months in front of a computer will do to you......................

not to worry though, they are only for comfort and my sight is fine.....

.....DKNY......

here we go here we go

hey, long time no see... or write... anyway, we still don;t have internet at home (should be working soon) so here i am, at work, about to send you the first photos from the new love nest. the main problem, which caused the delay, was that it is quite a difficult exercise to take photos inside that will look half decent, not too dark and dingy and give something close to the right impression of the thing.
Anyway, it still probably doesn't and i'm afraid all of you out there will have to come (back) downunder to appreciate it. as it is now, we're pretty happy and the furnituring?arranging of the place on a tight budget is making significant progress, well mainly on week ends but still. things have changed slightly since the photos but not much, and more photos will come shortly... (i promise.. to try)

other than that, things are going fine, as I said, the place is going great and we are having a good time trying to make it even better. we had a few feasts on the bbq already which was very exciting, we have a matress which actually hurts my back more than when we were sleeping on the floor... and my only wish would be to spend more time in there, making it feel like home...

Chris has just started Uni again, and the poor thing is going to be a busy man for the next few months. he's going to learn french which is cool and we'll see how that goes. the studio is actually the most elaborately furnished room in the house so he should be very comfy in there.

Work is going well, and I am still learning a lot everyday, plus I'm getting used to this new lifestyle and i don;t really mind it at all. still, it would be cool hanging out at Uni and sleeping in from time to time but that will come back, very quickly too since time is flying these days and have realised that I am already halfway through work experience, which is hard to believe. The other cool thing about work experience is that this uni session is costing us $39... hihihi!!

I' afraid that's about it for now.... will be back soon for more, take care, love you, Laure

love shack...baby love shack!! (2)

so this morning, at 9 0'clock, the lease was signed with both our names on it!! we now have the keys and no time to go admire our new home...
Anyway, we have also been packing the infinite number of things of all kind that I have managed to accumulate. I am being careful to use "I" as chris' stuff took about 5 minutes and one suitcase to pack... while I'm still going and going and going.... i like it though and my only regret is not having time to look at every thing and tell chris the related story and ask him if he remembers when we took that photo or went to this cafe etc etc..... i hope we can do that when we unpack... and again, you'll notice the use of "i" as I am probably the only one hoping....
It is all highly exciting although the week end might be a bit loco!! we have booked a van for tomorrow and so we can move all our stuff and also find a fridge and maybe a bit of furniture if anything nice comes our direction... on sunday, we'll have to get on our hands and knees, and as Cinderella probably did it better than us, clean and scrub and dust and wash and wipe.....
The going away inspection will be next friday and i hope i get all my money back, normally, I should...
I think we'll try to spend our very first night, sleeping on piled up blankets and sleeping bags, in the new place tomorrow night!! i don't really care about comfort, I'm just way too excited and all my clothes are packed up anyway!!
So that's what is going on right now... we're both really really excited and i hope it is as good the second time as it was when we visited it for a whole five minutes...
I can't wait to hang the thong shower curtain on a real steel bar!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

* In the Realm of the Senses ( Sens Dessus Dessous) is at Alliance Française, 257 Clarence Street, until February 28.
* Salt, Lake Eyre Photographs 2005 by Murray Fredericks is at Boutwell Draper Gallery, 82 George Street, Redfern until March 11.
* Family is on view at Point Light Gallery, 4/50 Reservoir Street, Surry Hills until March 12.
* Bougainville, Revolution/Evolution is at the Mori Gallery, 168 Day Street, Sydney, until February 25.

Loooove shack... baaaaby luuuve shack!!!!!!!!

so during all those weeks of silence, we were actually kept very busy... working (a total of 60 hours for me last week) and looking for a new love shack...
We applied for one on saturday, as quick as lightnening and we got the good news today... we'll be moving in on next saturday!!!
the place is really nice, it is much bigger than where we are now... it has a balcony for a future barbie..., new paint, new carpet (not green), a new kitchen and bathroom (with colors similar to papa's bathroom: nice almond green and white...) it looks like it will be sunny, and it will be very quiet...
anyway, we are very very happy and super excited, especially about the coming-up housewarming partay!!!
obviously, the only thing is that it will look BIG and EMPTY for a while but slowly, we'll find nice furniture to cover up the floor and walls, and in the mean time, we can admire the cleam mould-free walls...!!!!!!!!!
except some photos of the new nest soon!!!!!!!

cool website

just a quick link to a really cool website and material which makes me want to do my own...
www.3-form.com
I think that papa will enjoy looking at that, really beautiful!!

camping photos

Welcome to Mountain Creek!!!!!!

Here are the long awaited photos from our camping trip to Mountain Creek, right near Mount beauty over NY's.
They come as a celebration to the fact that Chris' computer coming back from Albury!!!!!!!!!!! yeah!!!!!!!!! Anyway I hope you enjoy them, we enjoyed the trip!!

from the left, we have Emma, Jordan (her man), Lochy (the circus boy), Alex (chris' only Albury friend and also, Lochy's bro), Cecilia (Alex's girlfriend) and the Christo.... enjoying a chilled beer in the equally refreshing creek right next to our campsite.

Emma and Christo, with Cecilia and Lochy in the background.

me with my new backpack....I loooove it!!!