OK... where are we...

Bascially still looking for a job, went for a few interviews but no job yet. We got our apartment and are moving in as of tomorrow morning, so as of tomorrow morning i wont be online for the foreseeable future. Probably will get a cheap ex-gov PC and get the dial-up in. dial-up ! ack

Getting everything sorted for the move in tomorrow, spent like 100 dollars on stuff today so atleast we have some stuff to put in empty shelves... so we have plates... knives forks spoons... cooking utensils... iron... kettle... and toaster.
so we have the stuff to eat the food outta and something to the cook the dinner with... but nothing to cook the food in, no pans or pots or anything. ah well !

Im on my mobile if anyone wants to txt me... i got on this plan that i pay like $49 for $230 worth of calls... it doesnt make sense but ive already spent about $150 on calls and texts. even get those expensive daily horoscope and weath type of txt messages, so i have 5 txts when i get up. i dont know what to do with so much credit !
i even found out how to surf the web on the phone... all going against the $230. great ! :)


laters.

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I think the life cycle is all backwards

You should start out dead and get it out of the way.

Then, you wake up in an old age home feeling better every day.

You get kicked out for being too healthy; go collect your pension, then

when you start work, you get a gold watch on your first day.

You work 40 years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement.

You drink alcohol, you party, you're generally promiscuous and you get
ready for High School.

You go to primary school, you become a kid , you play, you have no
responsibilities, you become a baby, and then...

You spend your last 9 months floating peacefully in luxury, in spa-like
conditions; central heating, room service on tap, larger quarters every
day, and then, you finish off as an orgasm.

I rest my case...

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Its been a while that I post and thanks for the abuse for not ! :)...
Ive been on the go since I got into Brisbane. I have just updated the "WHERE AM I NOW?" section at the top of the page to what ive been doing for the past 2 weeks. not 100% sure on the date I left Brisbane 2 weeks ago, but its about right.

Kevins brother was over from New Zealand with the lady and we stayed with her parents in Hervey Bay... to get this straight here... that is not pronounced Hervey Bay, its pronounced Harvey Bay. I dont know why but it is, one of those Australian things I suppose. That was deadly. really nice people who loved Ireland and the Irish so we fitted right in. I think we had a fish BBQ the very first night which was gorgeous ! We stayed there for a few days and shot right back to Brisbane as there was a show on in Brisbane called the river fire, check out some photos here. which was absolutely kewl ! I have a few photos on my phone while ill try and upload at some stage.
We were positioned right infront of storey bridge was a good place to be. F111 jet planes shot over head burning their fuel which turned out to be a really good display. The fireworks lasted about 30min in total I would say. All the bridges on the Brisbane river were synchronised so their either shot the exact display at the same time or one after another. Most of is was synchronised except one building in the middle of Brisbane who obviously had a lot left over from last year cos they just kept shooting them up after every1 paused. hmmm.
After the display we stayed in the house for a little while, got drunk then made a move to the local irish bar which we stayed in until about 4am. seems bars dont shut til about 5am, ah well. Rather than starting to mess around with getting home, the Kev and Paul decided to sleep in the car. we all got into the OK on space nissan car and closed our eyes. Two minutes later kevin started screaming his snores about 1meter away from my head. 20min later I decided to make my way home. I got to the bus stop at about 5am and after convincing myself that the bus was coming along very shortly I decided to sit at the bus stop... then walk around, then sit again... then lie at the bus stop... I think I even dosed off once or twice.
This was at 5/6am on a Sunday morning in the middle of a big city ive never been to before. at 6.15 I decided to re-read the bus timetable, after convincing myself what it really said I hailed a cab and was home in 15min. Jumped into bed and had a good 6 hours sleep.
We hit the road back to Hervey Bay at that stage for the next few days. I would type a few things about what we got up to... but yeah no I forget.
So anyway. Surfers Paradise is about 4 hours south of Hervery Bay(45min south of Brisbane) so we started our trek back down the Brisbane east coast, needing to stop off in Brisbane so Kevin could get his swimming trunks and made it to Surfers Paradise after a while.
After a small drive thinking we were getting totally lost and arriving right outside the door of the apartment we found ourself on the 29th floor of a hotel overlooking the main city and a good mile of nice beach. We were on the corner of the building so we had 3 views from the rooms. The only view that we didnt have was the actual full view of the beach, but from one of the sides we did have a good look.
It was a nice place. sunny beachy :) that kinda place. women walking about in nearly nothing everything which was good ! :) We went to the beach one day... I had shorts and a tshirt on so was a good boy and suncreamed my legs and my arms and face and ears and back of my head and everything !(the suncream stuff was extra heavy and all and I turned out nearly white) anyway got down to the beach, threw the ball around for a while and the water looked so tempting the 3 of us decided to jump in. off came my tshirt and jumped in. Havnt swam in the sea in ages ! (it tastes very salty!!! *yuck*) but anyway, got out and lied on my towel to get dry, knowing that I didnt have any sunscreen on my back or front I only stayed there for 15/20 min, got tshirt on and we bascially left. So I wake up the next day. my arms and legs and head are perfect. from just over my tshirt arms all across my back was red as an apple(a red apple!). some reverse sun burn !
so next day I think I stayed in bed cos I was tired. We were meant to leave on the Friday Morning and go back to hervery Bay and go whale watching on Saturday, more about that in a min, but the weather was starting to get bad, windy and the likes so we decided to stay another day.
The Friday we decided to goto Dream World, which was bascially a massive rides theme park thing. $62.00 to get in and I did not go on one of them. I spent the entire day just walking around and following the other 3 around the place. Kevin, Paul, and Elisha. I did see a Tiger Presentation, which was really impressive ! the tigers jumping 10m between stands. standing up on their back legs, then standing up further atleast 8ft I would say. We even saw them climbing up a tree that was there... which was really deadly !
Last day was a slow day too. So we headed back on Saturday morning.
Back to Hervey Bay. We were meant to go out on the boat whale watching on the Saturday, but the weather did say it was going to be too windy so it was postponed. We also had planned making a trip to Fraiser Island on the Sunday with Elishas dad. Fraiser Island is a really impressive island just off the coast of the sunshine coast. People from all over Australia and the world come just to see this island so it seems. There are miles and miles of open beach, yearly fishing competitions which elishas family took part in. I got a full description, with the aid of videos and photos of what a 4 wheel drive 4by4 is really meant to do... and we do *not* use them in Ireland. Elishas brother has a 4b4 and enters competitions with it. I say a video of him pulling the keep up the side of a mountain with just the engine and the pulley thing at the front of the jeep.
Anyway... We didnt goto Fraiser Island on the Sunday. We went out in the boat. kev had a massive grin on his face from the moment he stepped onto the boat. We went straight out of harbor and headed for the other side of Fraiser Island, where the whales would be. about an hour out we found about 3 dolphins swimming around which was good. After another little while we saw the whales in the distance. so a course was set. After about 10/15min of heading to where we saw them and waiting we found out that they disappeared to somewhere else. Which went out for about 5/6 sightings. elishas brother was not getting happy !
We did see the whales in the distance, about 3/4km away breaching the water and everything. The most we saw when we got in close(100m) was them turning over in the water, and waving at us to! which was good. Seemingly we saw a few seals in the water too which was meant to be very unusual for the area and the time of year... but well yeah. I dunno bout that :) We also saw about 3 water spouts... image which didnt look bad as every1 reacted to it being. but yeah! :)
let me see that brought us up to Sunday. I think on that that night we went out to the local pub to watch the final in the rugby league. The place was called the tavern. They had a massive outdoor projector screen with the game playing on it. I want one ! :) the first half was crap so decided to try and get food and make our home. Everywhere had closed just about the same time. so went home and called it a night.

Bascially that was the highlights that I can remember of the past two weeks, my first 2 weeks in Brisbane.
I started writing this last night, but cut it short and finished it tonight. ah well :)
I was up at 8am this morn, and kev got up at 10am. I wanted to go right into Brisbane to start looking for houses in there but kev had in his mind to watch a DVD so I got online and started sending a few CVs out. half an hour later I got a phone call and had an interview setup for the middle of the afternoon for a tech support job. which was good ! better than spending the day walking around in town. Had the interview by the recruitment agency, lasted about 10min and was finished. lets wait to hear word back now. Kev went for an interview this afternoon aswell, and he starts work on Friday ! so need to start looking for places around here. he made nice spicy beef fajitas which were very nice.
So that it for now.

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