The shorts got shorter........
So since that, Tom and I managed to get someone into our place in Kangaroo Point, and we moved out the weekend after my last post. Tom's moved down on the cost somewhere near the Queensland / New South Wales border, and I moved into Rosie's spare room for a week. In that week though, we did head down to an "abandoned" car park, 9 stories high in the middle of the city where I learnt to skateboard with Rosie and Terry (who actually can't not do anything).
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| Comfy |
The following weekend I moved into my new digs, a Queenslander in East Brisbane which is one suburb over from Kangaroo Point. And my room the morning (hence the mess......which hasn't changed, but I have a great excuse for this......maybe not a "great" excuse, but at least a "valid" excuse).
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| The view from our front porch |
I only arrived in the country with my big back pack and my small Quicksilver back pack....look how much I've managed to accumulate in under a year. The move wasn't completely easy either, when walking round one of my boxes split whilst I was on the own, fortunately Aussies are helpful, and some random very nice stranger went and got his car and gave me a lift to my house with my stuff....awwwww!
Through that week I did some more barefoot rock climbing on Kangaroo Point Cliffs with Coops. Then some more late nigh car park skateboarding....now children, this is what happens when you try and do skidding on a skateboard when it's raining......
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| MJ reactions all the way in Amsterdam.... |
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| Bye bye feeling in nerves! |
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| So we sent here a picture of smiles.....sorry we made you feel sick MJ, but I wasn't the one with the camera |
Light duties at work for me then....yeeeaaaah desk jobs really aren't fun. And not that I'm gonna go into it too much but the Australian public health care makes the NHS look awesome and so caring. But thank you Rosie (yet again) for taking me to the hospital when I was never gonna go, and sticking with me till 4ish in the morning...."you were skateboarding at 2 in the morning!?" was the first nurse I saw initial response....she enjoyed her job! Yes, I was skateboarding at 2 on a Thursday morning, what's strange about that!?
Now it was gonna take more than a broken left hand and tropical rains to make me miss Soundwave.....ah yeah to METAL, been looking forward to this one for a long long long time!
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| Little bit dryer under foot than Reading 2010 |
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| BOOM.....Slipknot |
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| Bert loves himself |
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| Nuff said! |
Not too much really happened over the following week, just several trips to several hospitals around Brisbane (I still don't know if I have to have surgery on my hand yet...how good is that!) and a trip to the strip club with the new room mates (and a strange experience with my very disappointedly tagged cast!) which was followed by a weekend near Noosa for Australian Tom's 21st. I got to drive a golf buggie around with one hand! And one handed putting.....which just turned into kicking! Tom's parents held a party for him at their place, and at the golf coarse (which backed right on to their back garden).
Sadly last week staarted with me being made redendant at work....well that's what happens when people don't buy your radars that don't do what they say they do! Maybe a little bitter, maybe! Poor management cost my a visa I was offered (not looking for)....for the record, management in my team was fantastic (not being sarcastic there), I have thoroughly enjoyed working with Richard and Keith and hope that I have learnt so much. This does mean that I have 3 weeks left at work, meaning I have about 7 weeks to find a job in my field (easier said than done) otherwise it's bye bye Australia. Plan A is to stay in Brisbane, Plan B is to....is to.....well....erm.....yeah, just watch this space I suppose.
That did mean that I spent a lot of last week looking up jobs. But we did get time to squeeze in Matt's (my room mate's boyfriend) birthday. and I finally got to see Terry "kidnyte" sratching over the weekend. Powerhouse again yesterday for more free comedy...and maybe another late night. Then a Canadian reunion as my two pet Canadian's Becca and Matt are in Brissy before they fly back to Oooooooh Canada, so us and Tom all chilled tonight
I write no more............one handed typing is time consuming.
