Time Spent

18 Tuesday Jun 2013

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Today I’m grateful for time spent with my brothers. We went out for dinner together tonight, to the pumpkin place in town. They didn’t fight with each other at all, so I also took them for dessert at Chips ‘n Fish. Then on the way home we stopped at the Stationers Shop, or as we call it, the two-dollar shop. All in all we had a lovely evening. No arguments, no fights, no whinging, just a lovely time spent in the company if each other.

Later Max and I went up onto the roof to take photos of the moon. We talked about aliens and UFOs. It was marvelous.

My Dad And Brothers

17 Monday Jun 2013

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Today dad took me on a motorbike tour. I should have gone on one much earlier, they’re bloody awesome. Because I’m not actually a tourist, we took our time and explored some new roads. We went across a railway bridge that was barely wider than the bike, and we went across a few floating bridges that were held together by bicycle tubes and faith. I had an fantastic time. Dad stopped lots to let me take photos too, you can see more on my Flickr page.

And I’m grateful for my brothers being silly with me tonight and sharing silly YouTube videos.

And for Max looking after me today, but that’s a story for my other blog.

Vegemite

10 Friday May 2013

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Oh how I love Vegemite! Especially when I’m sick. I had a spoonful for breakfast this morning and another a little later on. I’ve worked my way up to a banana then some crackers (with Vegemite!) and so far haven’t lost them (yay!).

My partner also woke up sick today, with something completely different to me. I’m vomiting and my stomach is cramping while he’s got a very high temperature and a sore throat. He’s sleeping it off as best he can and I’m reading novels for uni. Both curled up in bed feeling sick and sorry. Both trying to look after each other when we can hardly look after ourselves. With both of our mothers in different countries, we have to be grateful for each other when we’re ill.

I think my stomach has settled enough to try a few more crackers, so I’m off to raid the Vegemite jar again. Thank goodness for Vegemite!

Sick Days

09 Thursday May 2013

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I cannot sleep, I went to bed two hours ago and my stomach is in so much pain I cannot fall asleep.

I have some kind of vomiting bug. It’s not fun. It makes me feel miserable and yucky and really really hungry. Everything I’ve eaten today I thrown back up. Except for the handful of steamed veges I had for dinner thank goodness.

So what I’m grateful for today is sick days. My ability to call in sick to work. For the lovely people who cover my shift for me. To go back to sleep and sleep out of this tummy bug. I’m going to try and fall asleep again. Goodnight!

Frequent Flyer Miles

08 Wednesday May 2013

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Once upon a time I used to fly to Africa with Emirates (actually, I did this twice) and so I accrued a number of frequent flyer miles to spend on future flights or in the Emirate High Street “shop”. Have no travel plans with Emirates in the near future (despite trying to book part of my flight to Vietnam using my miles) and having received an expiry notice, I decided to spend them in the Emirates store.

I may have just spent a grand total of $4.20 and 28,012 miles purchasing a weird tea pot. And I’m okay with that.

And I’m grateful I can do a little bit of guilt-free online shopping!

Good Books

07 Tuesday May 2013

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One of my favourite things about studying a literature course is being ‘forced’ to read books I’d otherwise not pick up. In 2011 I discovered The Lost Dog by Michelle de Krester, Metro by Alasdair Duncan, The Infernal Optimist by Linda Jaivin and Every Secret Thing by Marie Munkara. This year I’ve found  Sixty Lights by Gail Jones and In The Penal Colony by Franz Kafka (so far).

Actually, Sixty Lights is a lot like The Lost Dog. They are both written in a similar style, both feature poignant little stories/memories/descriptions of loosely  related things that enrich the story being told, both feature Australia (in particular Melbourne) and India as places that drive the narrative. And I love the female protagonist in both Lucy in Sixty Lights for her photographic way of seeing the world (both literally and metaphorically) and Nelly in The Lost Dog for her artistic approach to dressing herself and to life in general.

I’ve written an interesting fiction-non-fiction piece on The Lost Dog that I will endeavour to polish and publish on one of my blogs in the near future, and I’m going to write an essay on Sixty Lights in the next few weeks for assessment for my current literature subject.

Anyway, what I’m getting at today is that I’m grateful for the opportunity to read new stuff because sometimes I discover absolute gems. Hooray!

What have you been reading lately?

Free Tickets and Serendipitous Coincidences and My Legs

05 Sunday May 2013

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I have pretty much been flat out busy for the last three days, so I’m writing a triple post tonight.

Free Tickets (Friday)
I’m very, very, very grateful for the tickets my dad gave to me to go and see They Might Be Giants play at the corner hotel on Friday night. I’m also grateful I left the tickets at home the first time we tried to leave the house (because it meant we had to turn back and get them and we ended up then catching a taxi instead of a tram-then-train combo, getting us to the venue right on time). (And just quietly, I’m also grateful that we didn’t get checked for ID at the venue, as I’d also left that at home!) I’m not good at being organised when I’m flustered. Also, the show was great, even though I only knew a half a dozen of the songs.

Serendipitous Coincidences (Saturday)
I was supposed to start work at 6am on Saturday morning, and I decided that going out till after midnight on Friday, then trying to do a 6am shift wouldn’t end well, so I started contacting workmates asking to swap an evening shift with me. Turns out one of my colleagues who was working in the evening had a wedding on and needed to do a morning shift instead. Swap complete, everybody wins! Hooray!

My Legs (Sunday)
I had to go to the Triple RRR radio station this morning to record our demo so that we can be assessed as to how ready we are to go live to air (soon!!) and I left the house a little later than I intended… but because my legs are awesome, I still got to the studio on time. My legs also featured in such events today as “riding home from the radio station”, “walking to work” and “not collapsing while I make dinner”, so I’m just going to take a minute here and be thankful for my legs.

My Partner

02 Thursday May 2013

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I’m grateful for a heap of stuff this afternoon, starting with my Dad and his gift of tickets to go and see They Might Be Giants that he can no longer use (yay for me! But not so much for him). I’m grateful that I can rearrange my work schedule to fit around this show. I’m grateful I can go to the ACMI Hollywood Costumes exhibition tonight instead of Saturday (because of work, because of the tickets) and hooray for late night Thursdays.

But through all of this, I’m most grateful for my partner who has sent me a copy of my roster from home (to help me rearrange my shifts), who has agreed to accompany me to go and see They Might Be Giants (even though he has no idea who they are), who is even going to bring me my Zoom h2n recorder from home and drop it off to me at uni on his way to work. He is amazing, and I’m grateful for everything he does for me, especially on a day like today.

Pandora

01 Wednesday May 2013

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I’ve recently discovered the joy of listening to music on Pandora. I first downloaded the Pandora app on my phone because I was missing listening to music (as I’d deleted all my music to make room for the clips I was filming for Integrated Media) and to save myself from getting a massive phone bill, I only use Pandora at home and uni where I have access to wifi.

My favourite thing to come out of Pandora lately is the rediscovery of Cake while listening to ‘The Cat Empire radio’. If I were in an iTunes purchasing mood, I’d do what I always do with music (and books) and buy back this childhood memory, but for now (mostly to keep my storage space free) I’ll be content to streaming music that sounds similar and finding new artists to fall in love with.

PS. Can I also be grateful that despite being having a free account, I haven’t had to listen to an ad yet? It’s actually making me consider upgrading to a pro account just to show my gratitude for how much I appreciate this app!

PPS. Also intend on reanimating this blog again! Stay tuned for (hopefully) more…

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