Alexis Land

2003-12-18T15:59:00.000+11:00

I have moved. You can now find me on

alexisland.com

look forward to seeing your comments.

2003-12-18T15:01:00.000+11:00

my dad has been sick and so last night I made a hugs batch of soup and took it over to his place in little tupperwares.. i stuck it in the freezer so that he can have dinner or lunch or soemthgini when ever he like.. i gave him like 12 serves.. hopefully that should last a while..

he had some skin cancers removed from his upperback a few weeks ago and is sitll recovering.. last week he also had one removed from his face.. it is not good.. so he is all sore and just feels drained all the time.. he is off to get tested for lots of things.. hopefully they can work out what is going on and fix it all up .. .

2003-12-18T14:58:00.000+11:00

well a few days have passed and they have been HOT!!! so hot in fact that standing in my house I just sweat.. eeww gross..

we got hardly any sleep last night.. so much confusion..

2003-12-16T09:54:00.000+11:00

I just spoke to Katia.. she is so so so so so excited.. I am so so so so so excited too.. heeeheheeehehee..

they are going to go the vic market today, if sylvain ever gets ready and I will be seeing them after work.. I have put in a request for them to go to the lebanese bakery to buy me yummy things.. oohh how lovely.. we are going to have a fabulous time.. i had better go eat soemthign before i get delirious with hunger..

2003-12-16T09:41:00.000+11:00

Hungry so Hungry I'm so very very very hungry..

hhmm where does that come from.. I have a small memory of sesame street .. but not sure..

2003-12-16T09:39:00.000+11:00

I just sent carolyn and sue and sms asking what happened, are they here? are they safe? and Carolyn responded by saying that they sent them back as they were faulty.. I laughed out loud at work.. people looked at me..

2003-12-16T09:35:00.000+11:00

oohh Katia and Sylvain should be here.. hehehe.. I don't want to ring in case they are sleeping .. oohh dear.. I will have to wait.. oohhh!!! much excitement..

2003-12-16T09:34:00.000+11:00

I was just catching up on survivor.. and sandra is the winner.. hoorah for her.. she seems pretty together.. glad that the jon didn't win.. I realy don't think lying that you grandma died is a good way to get people to like you.. they were probably furious when they found out.. also its a shame that darrah got voted out.. she seemed like a good person..

2003-12-15T14:45:00.000+11:00

well back at aork to more problems.. so sad.. but most of them should be fixed soon or at least un done and fixed later on.. if that makes sense.. i had been doing traingin on the computer to use the chaneg and fault systems.. so boring.. i rea a little about survivor instead.. I hope the girls make it to the end..

2003-12-15T14:44:00.000+11:00

oohh well christmas party..

i got there about 12.15.. had some raspberry lemonade and then got to do some bowling and had some nibbles and then got called by the operations staff to coe back to work and fix some problem... so i got back to the building at 10 to two.. ohh dear.. and than didn't finish up till like 5.30 so sad.. missed out on all the excitemement.. bummer

2003-12-12T11:45:00.000+11:00

I am so hungry now!

oohh I hope there is food straight away at this party.. we are going in about 15 mins.. oohh

2003-12-12T11:18:00.000+11:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SABINE!!!

today is Sabine's 50th birthday.. how exciting..

I love birthdays..

2003-12-12T11:17:00.000+11:00

Golly I haven't blogged since Tuesday and it is now friday .. I have been a busy beaver..

There was a problem at work that came up on wednesday morning and I have been looking into that since then.. so it should be all fixed today.. i hope..

lalalallala

I was starting to get cranky yesterday/last night cos i hadn't solved it as yet.. but hoorah! i have managed it now.. well i think.. there is a couple mre things to do and then off to the christmas party..

yeah it is on today .. we are going to a bowling place.. think new and trendy bowling... apparently bowling has become somthing that the beautiful people want to do and there is all these bowling places that have bars and restaurants and party rooms.. amazing.. I haven't seen this one before cos it openend about 2 months ago..

should be fun.. there is mini magnums on the menu.. yummy!

2003-12-09T17:10:00.000+11:00

well i thought that perhaps it might have cooled down a bit.. bit nope.. .it is sitll 35.2 degrees in the city.. oohh dear.. off to the giant tin shed for volleyball tonight.. it probably hadn't even cooled down form yesterday.. and i never found the ice cream shop!

2003-12-09T10:51:00.000+11:00

too darn hot.. just too darn hot.. i want to do all sorts of good fun stuff.. let me check with the bom

melbourne forecast is 36 degrees..
current melbourne observation is 30.7 degrees..

well I think I won't be going too far today..
may be just to the ice cream shop..

oohh you can look up weather if you like

bom

2003-12-09T10:45:00.000+11:00

last night I put up more lights.. in our bedroom, front window.. I just love them.. they are so fabulous.. ikea is the greatest place ever.. such fabulous designs.. so much excitement.. I have stars all over the place.. it is so exciting..

2003-12-08T16:45:00.000+11:00

i have changed my name at lots more places now.. it was very exciting.. I had to sign my new name.. it goes on your drivers licence.. it was a tad confusing.... the lady asked me if was hyphenating.. i said no.. much easier..

2003-12-08T16:42:00.000+11:00

i just purchased afternoon snacks.. yummo. a chomp and some milky bar and some peppermint aero.. oohh so good..

2003-12-08T10:39:00.000+11:00

it is my birthday in 2 weeks.. on the 22nd.. and I am having a bbq dinner.. how exciting.. we went shopping with sabine yesterday and she bought us a bbq for christmas...so now all we need to do is assemble it so that we can cook for my birthday.. hoorah! I think I am gonig to have to put on a present embargo.. this year we have had so many presents what with a house warming, engagement and a wedding.. so no presents .. I really mean it!

2003-12-08T10:34:00.000+11:00

I did some weeding on the weekend.. I now have a blister on my thumb.. what a nuffa I am.. all our lawn areas are weeds.. it is horrible.. not just inside the house but even on the nature strip around the front and side.. so i might have to do some thing about it.. but summer is getting warmer and we are still in stage 2 water restrictions.. we didn't come out of them .. scary.. expecially since all that rain and flooding the other day and none of it was over the water catchment areas.. so sad..

oohh I got distracted.. I was going to mention the ants.. we have bull ants at out place.. they are about 6 times bigger than the little black ones and are kind of browny as well and they like to bite.. I haven't had any bits from these ones but I do remember a time when I was in primary school and we had gone to currawong bush park for the day.. and we were out on a walk (probably to do bark rubbings or something) and a bull ant went up my pants and probably got very scared and bit me twice on the leg.. I screamed and screamed and apparently made the volunteer parent near us think I was dying form some massive attack.. but anyway I dont' remember the pain now, just that it got me and what parents have said about my screaming.. so I don't want to get too close to them in the garden..

oohh back to the weeding.. a couple of time when I pulle dout a weed, so now there was bare earth, ants woud come scurrying out form the earth.. obviously they had buily they nest under the nice shelter of some hideous weed.. and i had just exposed them to the elements.. so about that ants.. but bothe time when I did that I moved as fara way as I could.. I don't want to mess with those ants..

2003-12-08T10:02:00.000+11:00

more fairy light have gone up at my place over the weekend.. there are no wonderful stars dangling in the windows.. i have to put up some of the bud lights.. I have 200 of those.. they can go outside.. will haev to get hammering..

Elissa has got her roof all nicelay decorated. it looks really cute.. the roof is outlined in white (clear ?) lights and there are icicle ligths danging form the porch (I helped Catie put those up) ti looks fabo.. Tim and Mick were climbing on the roof to make it so... those lights will not be coming down anytime soon.. makes it easier for next year..

I have got mine on timers.. so they come on at like 7 and then go off at like midnight.. i don't think i wanted to have them on ALL the time.. might get annoying.. and have hundreds of bugs showing up..

2003-12-08T09:57:00.000+11:00

oohh I forgot to blog some more on the christmas present that I got for Sabine. Well it is 3 stuffed animals, a white bear, a tan moose and santa. They all have on little kilts and tall hats, because they are in a marching band.. santa has the big drum.. and wat they do is play 2 different christmas songs.. and they jig their heads and upper bodies while playing, but the best bit is that they play in sequence. make sense.. probably not.. say you start santa off, so he plays a bit, then the boys come in too and then the mosse moght just play a bit of a solo and so on... and you can have then up to 2 metres apart cos they are done on infrared.. they are so cute..

2003-12-05T17:07:00.000+11:00

oohh I just changed my name on the bloggy thing.. so now they will all be written be me.. hehee..

so many places to change your name.. golly it become annoying.. the bank have no idea.. I changed my name, so a week later i got some new cards mailed to me.. they had my old name on them... so off I went to the bank with the new incorrectly names cards, and got the guy to organise new ones, another week goes by and then more cards arrive in the mail.. again incorrectly named.. so off i go to the bank.. and I get teh same guy.. how is very apologetic about it all.. I don't mind.. my old cards still work.. and i am located just 2 doors form the bank at work.. so it maked for a nice outing.. but it is making themselves look stupid.. so now again I am waiting too see what happens.. hopefully they will get it right..

also there is no vicroads in the CDB anymore.. it has gone.. so i will have to make time to find one .. there are lots in the country.. like ballarat, hoppers, melton, droman, frankston, oakleigh and not only that but they are not open on the weekend and are only open till 4.30 during the week.. except for friday when they are open to 5 pm.. wahoo.. I might be able to make it to Sale by 5 pm one friday.. not!

2003-12-05T16:10:00.000+11:00

much excitement.. I have fairy lights hat are battery powered.. I can take them anywhere.. amazing.. and wonderful.. I purchased then from IKEA for $2.95 (batteries not included) and there is a few colours.. clear, blue, red, green and i think Pink.. I can't remember exactly.. but it was rather exciting.. they don't flashm just stay on.. buta ll the guys at work keep telling me how they can change them to flashing wiht some bit that you can buy at jaycar.. jaycar is like the boys favourite shop.. they are often running off to purchase thing and build all sorts of electrical devices.

2003-12-04T14:59:00.000+11:00

i think i ate too many lollies.. oohh.. all blahie now..

2003-12-04T14:38:00.000+11:00

my work message bank is working again.. call and leave me a message.. heehee..

2003-12-04T14:32:00.000+11:00

I am eating jaffa's .. yummy... left overs.. there is also some mint leaves..

2003-12-04T12:13:00.000+11:00

by the way I got onto the miffy site because I was looking at the cafepress web site..
cafepress

It is a place that will make, print and distibute stuff with your designs on it..
They had a miffy lunch box and I ended up at the miffy site after a few clicks..

but basically you set up an online shop, that cafepress runs, you charge a price above the base price from cafe press sets and you are in business... obviously you want to make sure youa re not selling copyrighted pictures.. but there is heaps of stuff that you can have ... and you don't have to organise anything.. amazing..

anyway you can shop like crazy from the cafepress site.. as in all the shops that are set up.. fantastic.. I was looking at t shirts with frogs on them and journals .. wowee..

2003-12-04T12:03:00.000+11:00

I have just been to the miffy website.. it is really interesting .. I was reading up on Dick Bruna and how he started as an author and well it is really interesting.. I remember Miffy from my childhood but I don't think I ever owned the books.. I think I borrowed them from the library.. I was really pleased to read about Dick and his achievements.. I think I am going to have to go out and get some of his books.. well I might give them to the youngsters for christmas..

miffy website

2003-12-03T17:29:00.000+11:00

home time now.. more rain is forcast with big strong storms..

there have been warnings issued by the bom and suggestions about tying things down, moving cars to undercover etc..

well i hope there is nothing too strenous as I need to do baking tonight and there needs to be electricity.. or I might have to make mud pies..

2003-12-03T11:56:00.000+11:00

I just looked at those 2 articels, on different papre sites, by different authors, form teh same source "AAP"... hhmm makes you think about plagurism..

oohh yeah and Elissa front door started to let the rian in .. so at like 3 am with no electricity her and Mick were up and about fixing up the fornt so that all the water that was gushing into their property from the blocked drain across the road didn't take over the house..
but its okay now.. just all the garden smeared all over the place instead of in the garden beds..

2003-12-03T11:50:00.000+11:00

There was many rains last night.. many many many rains.. oohh don't forget continous lightning and thunder.. strange.. at least 2 hours of lightning.. it was relly hard to sleep with all the noise of the thunder rolling, the flickering lights and the pitter patter of rain on the roof, which often turned into torrential down pours.. at one stage there was a massive crack of thunder and lightening that really shook the house and the neighbours car alarms went off.. that was kind of scary.. you sort of jolt with the shock of the noise..

but we came out okay.. as in no flooded house, no trees down or no cars floating away ..

here read the news Wild melbourne storms
more stories

2003-12-03T11:39:00.000+11:00

hello hello hello

2003-12-01T15:39:00.000+11:00

oohh i purchased the best thing for Sabine for Christmas.. I am going to give it to her tonight.. it is fabulous.. I am very excited about it.. I can't tell.. just in case she reads..

2003-12-01T12:13:00.000+11:00

I am feeling a bit better now.. I have had my icipole and I had some rice bubbles.. I just love rice bubbles.. yummy.. they are so soft and delicious.. oohh oohh to myer soon to get vacuum cleaner filters.. I threw some out and then couldn't find new ones.. oohh dear.. house is all fluffy and crunchy underfoot..

2003-12-01T10:49:00.000+11:00

in 15 sleeps Katia and Sylvain will be here!

I can't believe it .... I have this box of stuff that I keep meaning to send to them.. oohh well better not do it now.. they might not get it.. also better check their address after our wedding invite was returned..

2003-12-01T10:35:00.000+11:00

the vans have stopped honking.. but they are still driving round in circles.. hehee.. what nutters.. hope they aren't distracting other drivers..

2003-12-01T10:22:00.000+11:00

crazy goings on downstairs..

There is about 20 vans.. ie white work vans with tubes and ladders on the roof.. driving up and down out the front of the building holding their horns on.. they go past, turn aroudn and go past again.. amazing.. it is making quite a bit of noise.. I wonder what they are up to?

2003-12-01T10:15:00.000+11:00

soon i will be the only girl in my group.. so sad.. there is only 3 of us.. one is on long service leave.. she will be back in 6 months... and one is finishing in 4 weeks for maternity leave.. so for ages I will be on my own.. perhaps I can recruit some more.. apparently we are looking for more people.. that probably comes under EEO.. not allowed to just hire girls cos they are girls..

2003-12-01T10:02:00.000+11:00

i am eating an icipole.. lemonade flavour.. yummy.. just what i need to make me more bouncy...

2003-12-01T09:54:00.000+11:00

toady I am very tired.. oohh I went to bed at like 10 instead of 12.. so that should have made some difference.. but i still slept lots.. the possum was still running about the roof last night.. oohh dear..

2003-11-28T15:36:00.000+11:00

i didn't come last in the corporate games.. I came 138 out of 139 people.. in my catergory I came 38 (which was last) but anyway it was lovely.. took me 37 mins to go 5 km.. so that make 7 mins per kilometer.. hhmm that is pretty slow I am going to have to improve.. perhaps some practise.. then next year I can be well on my way to winning.. The women that came first was 21 mins.. so hhmm I have to cut 10 mins off my time.. so 2 mins a km.. I can do that.. sort of..

2003-11-28T15:29:00.000+11:00

tissues at work have arrived.. it is very exciting.. they have white tissues.. and then the last ten tissues are blue! so that you know when the box is running out.. I think that is amazing. no other tissues do that.. well not that I know off.. I am excited .. but I have to finish off my giant sized box first..

2003-11-28T14:40:00.000+11:00

well the indian was yummy.. I also ate a chomp! yum.. chocolate, wafer and chewy stuff.. oohh not to mention the ici poles.. oohh I had one of them as well..

2003-11-28T12:25:00.000+11:00

to run or not to run...

I was planning on going for a run at lunch time today.. but... I didn't bring the showering gear.. I forgot.. at my last place of business i had a locker that I had filled with towels, soap, spare socks etc .. but Here I don't have any of those things.. so I would have to be stinky for the rest of the day.. i don't even have spare deoderant... phew!

also it looks to be rather warm.. it is presently 30.1 degrees.. quite a bit too hot for running i feel. I also dont' have sunscreen or a hat..

after the fitness course that I did last year I know all about how the body heats (in simple terms.. not mega technical) why we get hot and what the affects of heat stress are on the body.. ie why sunstroke is bad for us.. it has also made me more aware of the amount of water I take in.. it is very important to stay hydrated, especially in hot weather...

basically when you get dehydrated, the blood gets thicker and the body cannot interpret the temperature of the body properly.. so you start to become confused as you brain tells your body to do things that might not REALLY be appropriate..

I also learnt about temperature and how our mody maintains temperature.. its all to do with heat transfer - you know when you hold the pole on the train and it is all warm cos somone else had been holding it.. and its kinda gross so you move your hand to a cold bit.. well anyway that warmth has been transferred from the person to the pole.. hot and cold will always try to converge and make warm. so hot moves to cold and cold moves to hot..

so our body temperature is about 37 degrees.. in the normal everyday environment we are usually the hottest thing ..ie in comparinson to grass, rocks, wind etc.. so the coolness is attracted to us because we are warmer than those things... but on days of extreme heat (probably over 35 degrees) we become the coolest thing in the environment, so all the heat will be attracted to us instead, making us hotter, and also not enabling us to shed the excess heat that we have..

so on hot days you should not go out and make yourself any hotter than you should be..
when your body gets too hot you will pass out.. probably not a good look to be running around the place and collapsing every few hundred metres cos you are too hot..

hhmm I hope I explained this all right.. I'm sure some more knowledged people will tell me I got bits wrong.. but thats how I understand it and why its importatn to keep the body hydrated and not do exercise on really warm days..

so basically I am going on a short walk to get indian food and then I might play neopets..

2003-11-27T16:17:00.000+11:00

poor edward.. one of the guys is doing a code review with him.. it sounds like everythign is changing.. cos "don't you think it would be better this way" oohh two heads are better than one..

2003-11-27T16:12:00.000+11:00

well Mr Phil was very upset that there was no comments yesterday .. so he had no idea what I was dong.. well I would have thought it was obvious.. i was too busy doing work..

today we had morning tea.. lovelly.. I made little chocolate cakes.. oohh so cute.. they were sort of mangaled and some lost their tops.. bummer.. but people ate them.. I should have stuck the tops back on with icing.. hhee.. that is so cheating..

2003-11-25T09:54:00.000+11:00

oohh last night was our volleyball final .. I missed the first game as I was pushing tupperware.. but i got there as the first games was just finishing.. I was a bit worried because i thought the team was just going to wallop the others.. there was three eminutes to go and I had no idea if we were winnign or losing.. my team members looked serious.. so at the end it turned out that the game was a draw and that means a count back as to who had the most points.. cos it was 2 games each.. so we won on the countback.. hoorah! we made it to the finals. .no thanks to me.. hehee.. not really I have played all season.. so we had 5 mins break till the next game.. I got into it .. but anyway we didn't win.. we lost in 3 straight sets.. bummer.. It did however take nearly all the time to lose.. so we got little tropheys with volleyballs on them.. oohh.. and Ken the guy who runs the competition said somethihgn about us being defending champions and the other team went "oohh" cos you know they beat us.. it was their first season in this competition.. they are pretty good.. we have never beaten them.. it ws the team we drew with last week.. and the really fun guy that gets really excited didn't play.. apparently he is away with work..

2003-11-25T09:31:00.000+11:00

one month to christmas!

I am going to help Elissa put up her christmas decorations on the weekend.. hhmm she might have been tempted to wait until next wednesday which is the 1st December and apparently the earliest decoratiosn should go up.. but who can wait that long..

I might have to start rea arranging the furniture at our place.. I am going to put the christmas tree in the front corner of the double windows.. that way I can have the lights on and everyone can see it from the street.. also when I come hom I can look at it going round the corner.. so much excitement..

2003-11-25T09:21:00.000+11:00

oohhh.. so cranky this morning..

The train stations here have little gates that open to let you in and out once you put your ticket in them.. well this morning there was a line of people at all the gates.. I always just go through them in automatic motion, put tivket in take ticket out walk though gates.. so I was in my automatis mode thsi morning, I put ticket took ticket out, wne to ttake a step and there was a women standing in front of me.. obviously she didn't havea ticket and was just trying to follow people throught... so I tried to walk into her. she went "oohh" - like ooh dear I am stuck at this gate how am I ever going to get out... then the next second the gate opened because my ticket had activated it.. so she stepped through said a cheery Thanks and walked off. so then the gates shut and I am stuck on the inside! I was so pissed off..
I can't believe how RUDE that is .. I am fuming.. I just can't believe that there are people so inconsiderate.. really ticks me off.

2003-11-21T15:49:00.000+11:00

oohh ooohh oohh oh oh just hangin' tuff

2003-11-21T14:37:00.000+11:00

ice creams.. oohh I went to the shops again and purchased some ice creams.. mini magnums , peppermint and standard.. I ate 3 peppermints ones.. people at work were very excited about it.. yummy..

2003-11-21T12:21:00.000+11:00

the annoying thing is that I only found out yesterday taht he had been in an accident because no one told us.. One of the guys in our team had seen a guy form the other team on the street and mentioned it in passing and our guy didn't pass it on.. but the annoying thing is that was thursday.. so it took days before we even found out.. I had been ringing him to ask him work questions and sending emails and stuff and no one bothered to tell us he is sick.. and I'm sure he is not going to be back to work anytime soon.. so we were bound to notice eventually.. crazy boys.. they just don't think! somethign like this is really important ..

2003-11-21T12:18:00.000+11:00

well I rang the hospital to find out if our friend is taking visitors and apparently he was discharged yesterday.. hhmm now not sure where to send him all his presents.. will have to work somethign out..

2003-11-21T11:31:00.000+11:00

scary news..

One of the guys from our operations team (I am in development) was struck by a car while walking along the pavement on the weekend. apparently the car swerved from the opposite direction, mounted the kerb, hit a pole and swung back and trapped our Guy between a fence and the car.. He has broken bones and is apparently okay.. well as okay you can be after being hit by a car.. so I have been present shopping and got a bunch of goodies to take over to him today.. he is at a hospital not too far..

2003-11-19T14:29:00.000+11:00

oohh I have been to the lolly shop.. yummy yummy.. heheh.. hehhe.e.e oohh full up with sugar now..

2003-11-19T12:23:00.000+11:00

hungry.... what shall I eat.

2003-11-19T11:55:00.000+11:00

oohh last night we got a returned wedding invite.. It was to Katia and Sylvain.. from the look of it it went all the way to France and then came back to us.. isin't that nice.. at least they sent it back us.. hhmm.. it has a stamp on it that is sort of printed funny adn we have no idea what it says anyway cos its in french.. so perhaps we got the address wrong.. bummer..

2003-11-19T11:34:00.000+11:00

people are making me cranky

2003-11-19T11:18:00.000+11:00

and we'll have fun fun fun till her Daddy takes her T-Bird away..

tonight Margy is coming over to visit.. hhmm we haev to decide on what to have for dinner.. oohh I would really like somthing delicious.. I never really know what I want but... perhaps we can eat naughty things like pizza and ice cream..

well.. may be I could do some baking.. nah! that would involve cleaning and tidying.. oohh dear.. I will need to do that anyway .. there is mess all over the place.. I can't believe I make such a mess.. it is really annoying.. oohh well

2003-11-18T14:12:00.000+11:00

ggrr.. neopets broken again.. I am missing out on fun and excitement..

2003-11-18T10:07:00.000+11:00

bbrr.. cold in the office ... i jsut oput on my wooly poncho that Gertrude made me.. it is really warm outside.. but cool inside.. The temperature is supposed to be 31 toady.. it might be hot for orienteering tonight..

2003-11-18T10:00:00.000+11:00

oohh completely forgot the whole point of the blonde girl thing..

what you say is aim at the blonde girl.. and perhaps its a regular looking red haired guy or a skinny brunette but usually there is one person in the team that is like the weak point.. either becasue the team is filled with ball hogs who stampede or because some one dosen't get enough practise and is not confident

2003-11-18T09:57:00.000+11:00

volleyball was on last night. It was really a fabulous game.. started off not so great but ended in a draw. we lost the first 2 games then won the next 2 games.. hoorah! it was against the top team.. we have drawn with them the last 2 times.. good for us..

they are a pretty good team and have real stratergies and are actually fun to play.. as in they don't get cranky and mad when they are losing.. so many teams have guys that get all angry when losing and therefore can't think straight to play properly and just end up slamming the ball into the net or out of bounds.. In volleyball there are 2 kinds of ways to play smart or hard.. now playing smart somtimes includes hard but it is more to do with putting the ball somewhere that the oppisition can't reach.. ie to that big empty spot in the centre or the back court cos all the players have run forward or tap it just over the blockers .. but playing hard involves hitting the ball as hard as you can into the other side of the court.. hoping that either you are too scared to hit it or that it will just rebound off you into the roof.. but so often ends up out of bounds as they can't control it or ends up in the net in front of them.. now this team we played last night is capable of smart and hard and will actually get the ball in on a slam.. also they don't just smack the ball.. it makes for much more interesting volleyball ... the other thing is that they are nice .. and when Misty stopped a slam and hurt her elbow (her arm jarred from the force of the ball .. she was okay after a few minutes, but it does hurt at the time) they stopped doing really big slams.. because really you can still win without trying to hurt the opposition (which some teams don't realise).. and when you play teams that are just trying to hurt you it really is not as much fun.. there are a number of macho idiots that think if they can hit a ball really hard at a girl or even a guy (but usually they aim at the girls) that they are just so darn fantabulous.. which is not the case.. usually most people think them poor sports and you know they are also the first oens to get agro when losing..

oohh in most teams there is the blonde girl .. it is just somehting that started form a while back.. we used to play this team that had a really small blonde girl.. now she wasn't that fabulous at volleyball.. and i think the main reason was that she never really got a chance to shine.. i have been playing volleyball for years and if you look at how I play now as to how I used to play the difference is amazing... I used to not move for tha ball.. as in i would stand still and if the ball happened to come my way I might stick out an arm to hit it.. but that was about it.. now I anticipate the ball and know lots of the stratergies and move with where I expect the ball to end up.. I also don't just wave one fist at it (unless I am only just going to make it..) anyway back to the blonde girl.. she never got a chance.. when ever the ball come near her some lout would run in front of her and try to hit it.. basically a stanmpede form the ball hog.. this is somthign I have experienced as well.. where your team members don't trust that you can hit the ball and will run at you and try to get to the ball.. what usually happens is the first time you run into them.. and it hurts.. so from them on whenever you hear the running feet you cower and so thatn no one hits the ball.. it takes a time to work this out with your team mates.. cos usually they don't understand that you would like to hit the abll but can't because you are cowering because a couple of big blokes are running and going to collide with you. oohh it all ends in disaster.. so hti spoor girl never got to hit the ball and always had people jumping in front of her.. so of course we would hit the ball to her.. partly because she would not be able to return it but also partly because it was a pretty safe spot .. the other thing with this ball hog syndrome is that after you get cranky and tell the people taht you are cvapable of hitting the ball they will start to run then stop and then the ball will hit the court or.. you start to leave the ball expecting the ball hogs to come hit it.. and when they don't they get cranky.. so next time it is your they come running again.. I tell you these can be dangerous times..

it is finals next week so I hope we go okay..

gee I never thought there was so much involved in volleball..

2003-11-17T14:07:00.000+11:00

hooked on a game i haven't seen before.. sutek's tomb.. oohh been playing for ages.. best score 1158.. probably won't remember it as the site is down..

2003-11-17T13:01:00.000+11:00

neopets is down.. so often it is down at lunch time.. so sad.. i guess that is like the middle of the night in america and europe.. hhmm perhaps this is the quietest time.. perhaps we should all make some noise now.. gggrr..

2003-11-17T12:09:00.000+11:00

I need to do some shopping and get some summer clothes.. on the weekend it was really hot! At one point Phil looked at the ducted heating controls (don't worry it was turned off) and it was 33 degress.. that was inside the house.. and i was staying inside as it was much hotter outside.. oohh the heat.. way too much for me.. anyway the point was that I didn't have many summer clothes.. I have like 3 skirts.. that I don't really have any desire to wear and a few singlet tops.. not really what I had in mind.. I have no shorts at all.. amazing.. I must have thrown them all away.. I was thinking about it .. This is the first summer away from that nice air conditioned apartment in east melbourne.. we only got to our new place in Feb and by then most of the hot weather had gone.. so after a few years in air conditioning I must have got rid of all the clothes that I didn't wear any more.. well now I miss them..

so shopping. I might have to make a list.. hhmm It is quite hard.. I guess i just have to find something that I like .. so I might do that soon.. There is a Target in the City.. they always have shorts for bumming around the place.. they might even have some nice ones.. I am not really wanting to spend vast amounts of money on this.. oohh well hunger has hit me.. I am off to find Indian.. oohh indian..

2003-11-17T11:06:00.000+11:00

well anyway we havn't got rid of it as yet it is might have moved to a different wall.. i supposed beig poked with a screwdriver will do that too you.. so this mornign it like 4.30 - 5 am there was lots more knawing, crunching, scratching noises.. definately have to get the house possum proofed!

2003-11-17T10:57:00.000+11:00

well it dosen't look like it.. so here goes..

the last weekend I was just relaxing at home.. Phil was at rehersals.. when I started to hear strange noises.. oohh dear.. it was knawing, crunching, ripping noises.. not really loud but enough to make me wander round the house listening to the floors, walls and opening doors to peek outside.. hhmm so when I stopped making noises, the other noises started up again.. oohh it was rather scary .. So I telephoned up Elissa (I had just been round there and knew that her big strong boy was at home) so Mick came around to check out under my house.. he got overalls and gloves and a nice big torch to beat things over hte head if they attacked him.. while he was under the house I noticed a bunch of fur poking out of our weatherboards.. So Mick crawled back out from under the hosue and got a nice screwdriver to poke the ball of fluff.. it was a possum..

2003-11-17T10:51:00.000+11:00

did i tell you about hte possums? hhmm I can't remember.. let me just check..

2003-11-14T17:00:00.000+11:00

oohh home time soon.. hoorah! I have a whole weekend to do fun and excitign things.. hhmm off to the market with Rach on sunday. I might have to do some practise runnign saturday..

2003-11-14T16:09:00.000+11:00

Good result for the purchaser.

The guy from work eneded up with that house.. Thank goodnes!! I think it came down to "doing the right thing" also that real estate company could have gotten themselves a really bad name.. and well its great taht it finally came out for the best..

2003-11-14T12:05:00.000+11:00

oohh so hungry.. must eat indian..

2003-11-14T11:54:00.000+11:00

hot! today is hot hot.. this morngin when I left for work it was warm.. i am wearing a tshirt ans a skirt.. at my desk it si cold so i hav on the poncho that gertrude knitted me.. but hoorah! for yummy warm weather.. it is presently 26.6 degrees.. oohh so warm and yummy.. todays estimated max 32.. oohh golly i will have to dig out the sunscreen..

2003-11-14T11:36:00.000+11:00

I just collected my goodies from work for the corporate games.. I am in the runnign event. I have a cap.. just a fabulous shade of blue, it only has the logo on the back. a boring drink bottle, a crappy running singlet that is way too big (size 14 - not!) i think it would fall off if I tried to run in it.. might have to wear it over a regular t shirt. I also got a t shirt that is the same great blue and it says corporate games etc.. so much excitement..

2003-11-14T10:57:00.000+11:00

Last night I made banana cake and fruit loaf (but made muffins as they cook quicker)

It was very exciting.. I do just love baking.. and I am trying new things.. hoorah! for me..

i got a cook book form Phil's grandma and its by readers digerst but it is called "Like Grandma used to make" has all sorts of fabulous things inside.. I was browsing through it last night..

For wedding gifts we got some ramekins, I will have to bake something to go in those.. not sure what .. hopefully sweet and chocolatey.. mmmm chocolate..

2003-11-14T10:48:00.000+11:00

One of hte guys at work is looking to purcahse a bigger house.. he hasn't been looking for very long and yesterday made an offer on a gorgous place.. we all looked at the pictures on the internet.. it is huge and has heaps of covered balcony for the kids on rainy days and a fantastic up to date kitchen.. and well I was very jealous cos it is just magnificent there was wonderful gardens and an area of flat grass out on one side to play boule and cricket. well anyway that was yesterday and today when I came in, he said guess what we got that place and I jumped with excitement and said congratulations and then he said yep and then some one made another offer higher then his so they said nah, we are gong to accept another offer.. but the thing is he went down to the estate agent and shook hand and apparently the guy even gave him a hug and said congratulations and well done and all of that.. and then took it back later.. oohhh!!! this is just outrageous!!! I can't believe that after the had sold the house the were taking more offers .. this is just awful.. I mean obviously the seller was happy with this accepted offer, so the estate agent should not have been passing on more offers after they had accepted one.. I just can't believe that they would do this.. i have no idea what kind of reputation the estate agent wanst to get for itself.. but gee whizz.. makes you feel sick.. unethical people in this world..

2003-11-13T17:10:00.000+11:00

the snowager is sleeping!! I don't even know what time it is but hoorah!

2003-11-13T16:57:00.000+11:00

well there is another small party on tomorrow at work..w e are having an afternoon tea for wendy as it is going to be her last day .. she is going on leave for 6 months.. her ans her husband are off to ireland to like for a while. it sounds fabulous.. so farewell food is in order.. I am not sure what I am going to bake as yet.. I will have to have a think.. I need to test out some new recipes.. so i might take this oppurtunity to get testers..

hhmm perhaps somethign healthy for a change.. not sure waht.. also we only have microwaves here.. no oven.. so it can't require oven heating.. what a disopointment..

2003-11-13T15:17:00.000+11:00

oohh last night I went off to Carolyns for the most delicious dinner I have had in ages.. oohh roast potatoes and .. oohh dear I have fortgotten what those turkish meat lamb things are.. oohh no.. uumm.. kofta! phew! thought I had forgotten what it was.. well yummy.. i didn't even eat so much that I felt sick! amazing..

2003-11-12T14:36:00.000+11:00

oohh Phil called me before to ay that he has been given 4 weeks notice.. well he will definately need to get a new job now.. hhmm 4 weeks that will be like 2 weeks before christmas.. I can't imagine anyone wanting to hire someone right at that time.. oohh well.. Perhaps he can run away before the 4 weeks is up if he finds a nice new job.. love ya Philby

2003-11-12T14:33:00.000+11:00

one of the guys at work has gone mental. he has purchase a book on bugs that has a cd.. so he now has a background on his monitor that is slugs! yes slugs.. there are about 10 giant slugs crawling across his monitor.. such a worry.. I hope he didn't spend too much money on that book.

2003-11-12T14:22:00.000+11:00

oohh there are many fabulous pictures of Phil and I.
There are not many of out friends, ie can't see me with Rach or Elissa .. hhmm I must not have had time to chat to them all.. oohh well.. Hopefully they have some of use..

but there is tonnes of pictures of Phil and of me and Phil and I together.. hhee.. as would be expected.. anyway we can play with them later.. mix and match and get some in different orders etc..

so yeah very pleased...

Big Thanks to Catherine Sutherland the photographer.
hhm might have to show them off at some stage..

2003-11-12T11:43:00.000+11:00

today we are meeting the wedding photographer lady to gather the photos, I guess that will be exciting.. hhmm I hope there is not too many of me looking cranky.. people have been showing me their photos and i seem to look cranky a lot.. hhmm i think i was getting annoyed becasue at the start people wouldn't talk to me .. they came and said hello then wandered off and stood around just staring at me... it was not very nice.. i really don't think anybody likes to be stared at.. so hpe fully the pictures will be good fun..

it was also very annoying when peoples ran away and didn't come to have their pictures taken.. oohh I was definately getting cranky then..

2003-11-12T11:28:00.000+11:00

well big excitement last night.. I got a bit lost on the way to orienteering! how sad is that.. I couldn't even navigate my way to the place.. oohh well.. so when I got there I was all rushed and chose a course to do.. but realised that I had chosen the easiest one.. not sure how long it took but it was like 25 mins.. so i was a bit disopointed.. and i hurt soem leg muscles.. I really need to do warm ups.. silly me.. i then went to volleyball.. hoorah! lots of exercise for me last night.. very tired this morning.. too many late nights..

2003-11-11T12:14:00.000+11:00

i am eating dark rye with layers of vegemite and cheese.. yummy.. I do wish that our new office had a non scary toaster.. that would make it complete.. all toasted up.. yummo

2003-11-11T10:52:00.000+11:00

well Phil's new show is starting up this week.. He is looking tired already.
fab nobs show

he might need to have a rest soon.. I am planning on going on the weekend to see it.. there is so much other stuff on during the week.. like volleyball, orienteering, meetings, and well don't know what else..

2003-11-10T16:41:00.000+11:00

just did a wholw bunch of work real quick.. I love cut and paste.. it is just wonderful..

2003-11-10T13:47:00.000+11:00

oohh I just went to the new queen vic place in lonsdale street.. Fantastic! There is a full Safeway, none of this express stuff.. Everything you could ever want from a supermarket, they even have a bakery so there is heaps of cakes and stuff.. also there is a Big W, I didn't go in but hoorah! they have heaps of fun stuff also ...

also there is a new zealand ice creamery! that is so great they have fabulous ice creams .. and right next door to them is Mrs Fields cookies.. oohh home of the nibbles and cookies and brownies ... yummy..

also i nhte food court is indian take away.. opohh good .. i had mixed lentil curry and rice for lunch..

2003-11-10T11:05:00.000+11:00

oohh so tired today.. well I am at work and not having too much fun... boring.. it is so hard to get motivated once you have been away for so long..

2003-11-06T11:09:00.000+11:00

anwyay i went to orienteering last night .. I decided that since I have to go int a 5 km run in 17 days I really need to get into gear.. hhmm I might have to go crazy and do loads of practise.. the course is 5km's and they run the 5 and 10 km races at the same time.. I really don't want to get over taken by people doing 2 laps.. hhmm.. it is all flat and such.. oohh this is for the corporate games.. i ws going to participate in netball but we couldn't find any girls.. I was the only one.. and you need to have at least 5 .. so it didn't go ahead.. it was all organised while I was on leave so one of the guys here registered on my behalf.. the last 2 years i have played volleyball.. lots of good fun.. but since I play volleyball already twice a week now I didn't want to play any more.. oohh well.. would have been fun.. but at least I am still in an event.. I will get a hat and a t shirt and perhaps a drink bottle.. I haven't got an drink botles left from the lst 2 years, one broke and one I left at volleyball one night.. not as good as tupperware anyway ..

2003-11-06T11:02:00.000+11:00

oohh yesterday onw of the guys at work was doing an internet search for soemthign and in the list of results was my blog, he turned to me and said "hey alexis, there is a mathc for alexisland" amazing.. it came up in the first page of results.. amazing.. so I had better be careful about what I write.. hhee.. not really .. but it does make you wonder about what you can come across when you aren't even trying..

2003-11-03T16:04:00.000+11:00

oohh I started to crochering on the weekend.. I have made some squares and I am going to make more and more and then turn them into a rug.. it was really qquite amusing as Sue was teaching Carolyn to crochet and I was driving.. we had been on a trip to arrarat to get crochet hooks and a nose ring for carolyn.. so on the way back craolyn was learning all about it..

we got back and I asked to be shown how to do it also .. so we got into it.. carolyn by then had got tired and annoyed that she couldn't make flowers right away and had given up.. she is very demanding.. so anyway I practised and did a few thinga nd got some mroe instructions and so after a little while I could make a square of a circle that kind of looked like a flower.. not the ones that carolyn had wanted buit good enough.. so then she got all snooty.. and decided to do some knitting.. oohh it was just a crazy weekend.. but I do like the crocheting.. i am getting much faster at it now also ..

2003-11-03T15:55:00.000+11:00

i am ordering plants online at bulb express.. oohh how exciting.. i am getting some gladioli and some dahlia and some pre ordering of spring bulbs.. hoorah!.. (I am not going too crazy don't worry phil)

i just love gardening so much.. I spent a day weeding last week.. we had heaps opf rain while we were away and there was heaps of weeds.. I also organised soem things.. like re planted the cutting of hydranga I have and organised what else I need to re plant soon..

i am going to do gardening tomorrow.. it will be fabulous... there is supposed to be wonderful weather and there are still some more weeds that need work.. i also need to work in some compost.. hhmm I might have to get some .. perhaps I should start my own compoist heap.. that would be a good idea.. will have to think about that.. i would like to do soem baking as well.. hhmm not sure what I want.. oohh so much to do on a day off from work.

2003-11-03T15:01:00.000+11:00

oohh Amanda turns 18 tomorrow.. hhmm might have to pop in with a gift or something.

i wonder what I should get for her.. what did I want when I was 18.. hhmm perhaps somthing for the glory box... hheee.. she wants to go away to uni next year ans she will be needing house things.. might have to invesigate.. perhaps some cookware..

2003-11-03T13:57:00.000+11:00

wendy only has 2 weeks of work left.. how amazing.. she is going to ireland to live for 6 months.. i bet she is excited.. it is all planned .. i hope there is not too much work while she is away..

2003-11-03T13:55:00.000+11:00

well i have just been checking out what is happening in the world of orienteering..

melbourne street orienteering

it is very exciting there is comps on 3 nights a week and later in the series there are some extra monday comps as well.. so if you really wanted you could go 4 nights a week.. I am very excited about it all.. hoorah!

2003-11-03T13:37:00.000+11:00

hhmm how do i connect a new printer to my pinkuter.. oohh dear.. it is all very confsing.. whatever shall i do.. i might have to look around.. it is so silly.. cos i have to install the preinter stuff.. but i can't find it on the lan.. and I sit net to the printyer.. hhmm it might have somethign written on it to help..

hold the line please..

(thinking music started.)

well it didn't tell me so i went ans asked Kelvin.. he wrote down the naem of it for me.. cras ynames they have made up of addresssea dn floors and prinnter types..

well off i go to get it installed

2003-11-03T13:31:00.000+11:00

so back at work today... much excitement.. I have a new desk and a new floor and all sorts of unpacking to do.. there was loads of emails to delete.. hehee.. no reading them.. and because tomorrow is a public holiday in melbourne for the cup there is hardly any one in at work.. i have been chatting lots and wandering around.. I found someone I knew from previous positions on the other side of the floor so he sort of gave me a mini tour.. since my team had only been here 2 weeks they are not settled in as yet.. oohh well ..

2003-10-23T14:12:00.000+10:00

there are some strange things abut nz that really aren't strange just a tad different.. like :
superettes - supermarkets,
trundlers - trolleys,
tramping - hiking,
most petrol stations are not self serve, a nice man will come out to fill your car with fuel,
the price of petrol can stay the same for days and will not vary between companies or towns,
museums, gallaries and some attractions like the seal colony are all free.. the will usually have a donations box.. I like to put some money in cos it would take a lot of maintenance for all these services..