Tired!

I didn't think I'd have time for this while down here...but I'd forgotten about the compulsory 5am computer session at Ray's place.

Here's what's happened so far, in reverse order:

Today (Tuesday)
5:00 am
Updated blog
4:00 am
Woke up, left Robbo's for Ray's
2:00am
Crashed like a m/f

Monday
9:30pm
The stoners arrived and whisked me away to Rowville, via Dandenong where they stopped for some Afghan kebabs.
8:30 pm
Arrived, watched Southpark at Dougo's
7:30am
Left Addelayed (after working out we were incorrectly heading for Darwin instead of Melbourne)

Sunday
Did some exploring, came back into town, drank a cuppla beers, ate pizza with the gang. Crashed at about 2am after shit-talking with Dug.

Saturday
Arrived Adelaide 2am, slept (punctuated by the sounds of 8 guys farting) at a cc member's house in Para Hills.

Did the full-day mission we came for.
Lots of fun...there was a ninja involved, plus some bizarre text messaging japes.
Too hard to explain what it was all about...but we had a huuuge party afterwards...went from 4-5pm till about 3am I think.
Many drunk people were drawn on while sleeping.

Here's a nice group shot:



dave (who is about to sleep for 12 hours minimum!)

Flu

I have just emerged from 3 days of HELL!

Got up Monday, felt fine...worked till 11am; then had to chuck it in...super-tired etc etc.

Basically spent the next 2-3 days laid up in bed.

It was not the nice one.

I'm off to Melbourne tonight (See below for approx itinerary)

Here's the only surviving pic of me on NYE.



Seeya in a week or so.

Dave

Celibacy is not on the cards

Quote:

"You're not allowed to go into a monastery and become a monk, because to do that would be to deprive the women of the world of great sex!"

Big Weekend in Darwin

Friday afternoon I rescued Mia after her car broke down.
Some eediot had put 20 litres of two-stroke fuel in there, so we had to go and collect up a few jerrycans and get some proper unleaded into the tank to dilute it.

After this effort we went to the Hidden Valley pub for a beer and...strippers!
I am not exaggerating when I say that it was the most blokey place I have EVER been in...full-on yobs everywhere.

Went to a proper pub after a bit of a quickie, hung out for a few beers with assorted Darwin crew..I came home and flaked it pretty early.

Saturday morning a big crew of us met at Dinah Beach to go sailing on Olivia's catamaran.

It was great!

Juz, Nic, Mike, Ingrid, Sophie, Mia and I went out, sailed (and motored a bit due to zero wind) down past all the beaches and points...then eventually turned around, came back to pick up Olivia and some of her mates from Cullen Bay.

It's pretty good fun being able to just front up somewhere, tie up for a sec, onload beer and then head out again.

My personal favorite thing to do was to sit astride the front of one the cat hulls...legs occasionally skimming in the water as the boat went up and down.

Had some good food, lots of beer.

This was all really good at the time, but it lead to trouble later!

Afte we docked back at Dinah, most of us hung around at the bar for a couple of hours drinking and eating...then I headed over to Wellington St for Mike's and Mia's leaving thing.

Got there a bit too late to enjoy Bryce's cooking..but I came with 2 bottles of wine in tow.

This combined with the earlier sessions was just too much for me, I ended up flaking it...nearly crashed out on the nature-strip out the front, and then again on the table.

So now it's Sunday...I'm cleaning house at home, trying to distract myself from Mia's imminent departure (tonight).

The stupid thing is; I know I'll be fine in a day or so, but I feel pretty low at the moment...Only been seeing each other for 2 weeks, so I should just be looking at it for what it is...a fun two weeks with no strings attached.

But my over-analysing, thinking-to-much head isn't letting me get away that easily.

Forecast: More misery over the next couple of days, followed by a gradual improvement in outlook and feelings of self-worth. A week or two will bring a change back to normal(?) conditions.


dave

I am a Bogan

Apparently...

Melbourne/Adelaide Trip 21st to 31st Jan

Ok, here is the approximate gameplan:

(I don't normally plan trips at all...they invariably turn into stressful races around town to catch up with as many people as I can cram in. This time I'm going to try a new technique)

Friday 21st Jan:
Arrive Melbs some time in the arvo.
Drive to Adelaide with Micky D and the boys in the evening.

Saturday-Sunday:
Catch up with the Adelaide crew; drink too much, sleep too little.

Sunday-Monday:
Drive back to Melbourne

Monday-Tuesday:
Catch up with those not working; Pete, Ray, Robbo, Ash, Ad etc

Wednesday:
Oz day BBQ _probably_ at Benny's place in Mt Waverley...stay tuned for confirmation on this.
(It will be the same as last year's...casual gathering with many beers and shit-talking sessions.)

Thursday:
Free thus far

Friday:
Ditto

Saturday:
Big CC party in Sth Yarra (night)

Sunday:
Recovery etc

Monday:
See Ben R at airport as he returns from Sydney
Fly back up to Darwin.

Somewhere in here I will be having some QT with the family, a day or so.

So already have a fully booked schedule...not sure if this is better than going down and just winging it...I'll let you know how it pans out.

Call me if you need address details for any of the planned gatherings, or if you want to come on a weekend road-trip to Adelayed!

Dave

Comments

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Try it out.

D

Hmmm

I seem to be on a bit of an emotional rollercoaster these last few days.

It's a bit too heavy too soon, but I think I've fallen for this girl who I hooked up with on New Years Eve.
Only 2 weeks ago, yes I know.

This sort of thing always seems to happen to me. Maybe it happens to a lot more people than I think?

Anyway, the _logical_ thought process goes something like this:

She's moving to Melbourne.
I'm staying in Darwin.
Any change to the above two facts would represent an unthinkable compromise for either party.

Shit happens.

There is of course the (highly likely) possibility that I am into her a considerable amount more than she is into me...

Then again maybe I just think I'm into her.

Sometimes I think I have the emotional IQ of a 5 year old.
Actually that's wrong, a 5 year old probably has it fairly easy in that department.

But you know what I mean.

It's probably just a co-incidence, but I've started having some (minute) pangs of homesickness, or just a feeling that maybe I fit in better in melbourne than here.

No rash decisions anytime soon...need to wait and see what pans out in the next few months.
This will all probably blow over and look stupid when I re-read it some time next week.

A slightly similar thing happened to me at exactly the same time last year, but then I didn't have the luxury(?) of the object of my affections moving 4000 kms away, I managed to make myself miserable for a good couple of months.

Absence makes the heart grow stronger?

(You should consider this recent outpouring of what has so far been kept deeply personal as some kind of self-help therapy for me)

Dave

SEX!!!

Now that I have your attention...I am going to talk about.....surprise surprise, sex!

Sex, sex, sex...That's all I have been doing for the last 2 weeks.

I don't think I've ever even mentioned anything about sex on here before.

For those who aren't sure...I'm 100% straight, but haven't been much into long-term girlfriends. I have tended to go through fairly long periods where I don't get any...Not sure why this is; lazy or indifferent or shy, or all of the above maybe.

Anyway...this whole year (all 12 days of it) have been the complete opposite of drought.

I am completely and utterly rooted in the very literal sense.

(For you o/s readers...there's a mission for you..go and find out what a "root" is in Australian slang. Shouldn't be too hard for you.)

All about to go belly-up though, she-who-shall-remain-nameless is about to move to Melbourne. Hopefully in time for it not to get too difficult for the both of us.

Time will tell.

(I'm not sure how in-depth and personal I want to get on here, have never really been the type to spill my guts out completely to the world-at-large...so this in itself is quite a bold step for me..Not so much for those of you that know me, I'd be saying this to you face-to-face anyway.. I'm more talking about the people who I only vaguely know, or any lurking famly members etc)

Of to bed for a hard-earned rest.

dave

2005

Wow, I just read my last post (below) and I have absolutely NO memory of most of what's in there. It does read kind of well though, don't you think?

(Gotta love it..I am getting smug about my own blog entries...sad really)

Anyway...I am still in the middle of call-out hell...till the 20th of Jan.

Lots of overtime, lots of working on the weekends...none of it welcome.

Dave