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I am home after another camp weekend with my girls. One snake, one toad, several spiders, but no fatalities (well, except for the spiders). Just got the campfire smell out of my hair - why does it smell so great outdoors and so gross in the house?
Janice wrote: "Travis of NNY wrote: "Went to my cousins wedding last night. Achieved a very high state of intoxication. Doing the run down this morning. Woke up in my house with my family. Check. No drunken p..."There are no check for embarassing pictures yet.... Still hoping there are none? :)
I'm exhausted. I've had a weekend of relatives, house guests and dinners involving more people than my dining room table can accommodate. Of course I made more food than I needed, so my fridge is full of yummy leftovers. Latka, our dog is hoarse from barking, trying to keep the 'herd' together. She barks when they come in the door and more when they leave. So today it's a day of nothing. Just sitting comatose in front to the tube watching football. And quiet. Ahhhhh.
If there are some embarrassing pictures, I'm hoping they find their way here.
I haven't seen any embarrassing pics but some could be being held for black mail whose to say.Janice you're killing me here. Did they stock all the kitchens with food or not?
Travis of NNY wrote: "Janice you're killing me here. Did they stock all the kitchens with food or not?"Maybe they stored breakfast food in one kitchen, lunch in another, and dinner in another?!?
I don't know. The dream didn't reveal that. I must have been hungry when I went to bed last night, or something. Or maybe it was my unconscious self telling me I had better go grocery shopping and stock my own fridge. I'm right out of milk, bread, and fresh veggies. Things are looking a little bare in there.
Madame tutti frutti now mother Hubbard?
Travis of NNY wrote: "Went to my cousins wedding last night. Achieved a very high state of intoxication. Doing the run down this morning. Woke up in my house with my family. Check. No drunken phone calls. Check. ..."You and me both Travis. Lexx's eldest niece turned 21 last night. Messy messy messy, including the birthday girl hurling out the car window at 100kmph. Ended up with Strawberry Daiquiris at 5am at Lexx's sisters place.
We just got up at 12.30pm. Lexx has wandered down to the shop for milk, I'm organising a fry up as my Northern genes dictate must happen. We luckily don't have little people, but the sister in question had a 4 and 6 year old to look after at some stage this morning. We're all supposed to go for a bbq now with the whole family (including all the kids) but I don't think any of the adults are going to be in any state to move lol
Roz wrote: "I'm exhausted. I've had a weekend of relatives, house guests and dinners involving more people than my dining room table can accommodate. Of course I made more food than I needed, so my fridge is f..."mmm leftovers sound great...
Janice wrote: "I had the weirdest dreams last night. One was where we toured a mansion and I was amazed at how many separate kitchens there were, and wondered if they stocked food in each of them and how they de..."Janice, that's hilarious. I love the questions.
I thought it was awfully quiet from you, Rusalka. I wouldn't want to have been in a vehicle following your niece on the highway. Chunky rain is not nice.
Hehe hiding away.Luckily there was no one else on the road. Benefit to being in a small, spread-out city. Poor girl, over celebrated that little too much. I was going to say, at least she was in a car full of family so she was safe, but then I realised she is never ever going to live that down...
I have reemerged with a plate full of sausages, bacon, eggs, tomato, buttery toast and buttery mushrooms, and am now feeling very human again. Still don't know what it is about a fry up that fixes things (I have heard the salt and fat releases endorphins to help you feel better), but it's magic.NOw coffee time, and I may be able to do something useful for the rest of the public holiday.
Whenever my friend, Ken, was around and hung over, we'd head to a restaurant for breakfast - bacon, eggs, hashbrowns, toast with jam. You're right; it is magic. My ex's solution was milk which didn't work so well with a wine hangover. I was wary of milk after that.
I'm with you on the fry-up cure Rusalka! And a pint of orange juice always seems to help too! Oh and Coffee!
I guess I've been lucky since I can't recall ever havinga hangover of anything more than a mild headache that I'd shake within an hour of waking up. Even Saturday night I drank 2.5 hours on an empty stomach. Then once food was served I switched to double fisting. A jack and coke for my left hand and a Budweiser in my right. Passed out in car which apparently the motion got to me since after an hour of driving my wife is yelling and hitting me to wake up. I woke up and she tells me you're going to be sick open the door . apparently she looked over and saw me drooling in my sleep. Quick 10 minute stop and I was back in and passed out again. Over slept a little but was still up at 4:30 am feeling like a champ and went on to work a 14/ hour day.Funny thing was my wife talked to 2 of her friends. Both their husband's went drinking also. As of Sunday afternoon. One was complaining her husband was hung over and Locked himself in the bedroom and the other one was still sick. My wife's like huh Travis got trashed did a full days work plus came in the house and worked on some chores in there too. You guys must have married a couple of sallies.
I think Saturday night was one of my greatest accomplishment s though. I arrived at my house with my shirt still tucked in my tie still straight and I looked in the afternoon all my clothes were spotless. Looked like they just came out of wash. I can't stay that clean sober.
As for a hangover. If I am in a state of hangoverish. I usually just drink a beer then you just feel drunk again. Maybe this method isn't for everyone
Lol Travis! Good work!As the day has worn on, I have realised I am more tired than hungover. Apparently partying to past 5am and then functioning the next day is now off my list of things I can do well. I have resisted the nap, so I can get a good sleep before work tomorrow, but the most productive thing I have done is start my next chunkster, and decided where I'm planting 3 oregano plants that need to get out of their pots.
No hole digging, just deciding :P
Hahaha Travis, that sounds impressive!I've noticed that too Rusalka. When I was in my late teens I could easily go to bed at 5am, sleep for a couple of hours, and have a normal next day. Now (and I'm only 30!), if I go to bed after 2 am and still get my 7 or 8 hours of sleep, I'm a tired and grumpy mess the next day. And that doesn't even involve alcohol, or perhaps only one beer! I wonder what I will be like when I'm 50.
I'm working from home today. I want to practice some parts of a lecture I'm giving to students tomorrow, and I'm a bit nervous.
My wallet didn't fare too well though. I started at $3.50/beer pay with a $5 give 1.50 tip. Buy 2 drinks I pay with 10 give all that $3-4 as a tip by this time she was handing me jack and cokes which were 90% jack. If I didn't watch her drop a little coke in I would of thought it was jack on the rocks. Dad watched me go my final trip buy a $4 drink and give her $6 tip. The music didn't do it for me so I asked the bride to play A touch to much by ac/DC. After a while I asked my cousin the same he came back said no unless we go up and dance for it. I pull a $50 out tell him give this to her and tell her I want acdc. Next thing had five women searching and my song came on. This is why I never go out and am rarely let out of my cage. My monetary judgment tends to not be so good. But since this occurs once every 2 years or so we don't worry about. Gotta let go once in a while. I really don't buy much other than audio books for myself throughout the rest of the year so what the heck.
I'm the same too Rusalka and Peggy! I can't believe when I was a teenager I'd stay out that late, drink that much then go to my Saturday job the next day! I hate to think what the customers must have thought! And then repeating it again the next night. I can't do it now. Hate being tired and hungover - seems like a good idea at the time though! And two nights in a row?! No way! That sort of behaviour is more reserved for holidays now when I know I don't have to get up or do much the next day! Peggy, with regards to your lecture, a tip I give my clients is not only to practice what you are going to say but close your eyes and visualise everything going well - not just what you're saying but seeing yourself as confident, calm, relaxed, enjoying the experience. See what you'd see, hear what you'd hear and feel what you'd feel! Our subconscious cannot tell the difference between imagination and reality so by imagining yourself doing this, your subconscious thinks it's real and stores it as a memory and as we refer back to previous patterns of behaviour and thinking when we do anything, it is more likely to go that positive visualised way. Hope that makes sense!
Thanks for the tip Sarah! That sounds very helpful and I'm definitely going to try :) I often (when giving normal presentations) pretend that I'm not the normal me, but a very confident and spontaneous and self-assured Peggy. Nobody in the audience knows that's not who I usually am, but it helps to feel more sure about myself.
Travis of NNY wrote: "As for a hangover. If I am in a state of hangoverish. I usually just drink a beer then you just feel drunk again. Maybe this method isn't for everyone""Hair of the Dog that bit you" theory works!
@Hangovers & co.A lot of vitamin C and potasium, which is what you loose because the intake of alcohol. Plus a lot of liquid. Therefor: citrus juice and bananas.
(the barbaric solution of eat a lot of fry things after, is. .. *brrr* horror!!!)
And @Peggy and Sarah. When you are 50, only to think about go away (alcohol issues besides) makes you have a hangover already ;-)
Haha, that doesn't surprise me Maria ;-)Boyfriend and I have just decided to go to Madeira for a week in January :D
Travis of NNY wrote: "My wallet didn't fare too well though. I started at $3.50/beer pay with a $5 give 1.50 tip. Buy 2 drinks I pay with 10 give all that $3-4 as a tip by this time she was handing me jack and cokes wh..."Much better than going to a party and being a tight-wad all night! And that party spirit is contagious and helps make a memorable big bash of a party.
Okay for special occasions, just not routine habit ; )
And I can suddenly (well, since a few days I think) see pictures as real pictures in the goodreads app, instead of blue squares. Awesome!
Thought you guys may be interested in this: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-10-07...Video of two male kangaroos fighting, probably over territory. On a suburban street on the Central Coast, NSW. Notice how they stand on their tails and kick. And notice how they kick each other in the stomach. If they did that to us, our guts wouldn't be on the inside any more.
Anyway, enjoy the roos.
Hahaha, the music!Better to stay out of the way I suppose! I can imagine it doesn't leave much of a person.
Does it happen often that kangaroos come into built-up areas?
wow, that's really amazing. They look weirdly human at times too...
I know! heheNotice there was a car always between the person and them. Smart.
Depends where you are, what the roo population is like and how many green areas you have. You won't have them jumping down streets in the middle of Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane but the areas on the outskirts, or the national parks you can.
Otherwise, less densely populated areas it's not uncommon but again, depends on the design of the town. But they are usually around when people aren't. The Central Coast has lots of smaller towns and cities spread over the whole coast, so there are lots of places for roos to live near people. I frequent the South Coast, not the Central, and in some towns on the South Coast you have to push past kangaroos to get where you're going, whether that's the beach, the shops or your front door. Millions of them!
In Canberra, we're full of green spaces and nature reserves and very spaced out (I've heard the comparison of the size of Greater London in geography, but we have the population of as many Australians who live in all of London, so 350 000ppl). We live on the edge of one of the many nature parks/mountains (can't build up mountains over a certain height, all mountains in town are parks) so we have roos within 100m of our place, probably closer when we're asleep. I grew up 3 suburbs away from here, and going out to the car for school resulted more than once disturbing a kangaroo in the front yard.
I never knew they came so close to where people live, and definitely not so often. I really can't imagine what it's like to wake up and find an animal like a kangaroo in your yard. Something different from the butterflies, small birds and beetles we have here ;-)
Real life like the boxing kangaroo from Looney tunes. Loved that character
The use of the Blue Danube was perfect soundtrack for the video. Even though it did look like a dance, you could see how powerful they are - and big! It looks so effortless when they support themselves on their tails to kick. They must have sported sore stomachs for a while after that.
Rusalka wrote: "Thought you guys may be interested in this: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-10-07...Video of two male kangaroos fighting, probably over territory. On a sub..."
Wow, that was a good long sparring match. Wonder how much longer it went on? When I took Taekwondo, we would have Friday Night "Fights", where we took turns sparring for 3, two minute rounds. It was exhausting to keep moving and kicking and hitting, like these two kangaroos.
Love the video Rusalka! Kangaroos are quite something and I always forget how big they are. You really do get the most amazing wildlife in Australia :)
Everybody is having so many interesting things to tell!And I'm kinda-sorta-well stalking guy I like and am trying to make myself start writing.
Not really going to work but oh, well...
I feel like I've been in a kangaroo fight. I just got back from my lawyer's.... nuff said, and pour the wine.
Hope you enjoyed your wine Janice!That kangeroo video has been plastered all over the internet in the last few days. Great though! Their tails are amazing things! I knew they could do it and may have seen it once on TV but this is such a good example (which lasts long enough to see it properly). Great music choice too.
I've seen it around for a few days too Sarah. I had an "Ooohhhh I know who would like this!" moment last night, after our Aussie animals discussion earlier in the year. Glad you all enjoyed! Crazy animals.Yes, sounds like wine was in order Janice.
A lot of news places showing you can get a 10 cash or $15 red bull products due to a alleged lawsuit where red bull was sued for not giving people wings. When they're ad clearly states red bull it gives you wings. The site to get your refund says its down due to over traffic by keep refreshing page. I'd just like to know if this is real or a scam. Are there really lawyers good enough to sue a company for not giving people wings
It looks like our Indian Summer weather is over, finally and October will be setting us up for frost on the pumpkins. I was up before the sun this morning and had to squeegy the dew off of my car windows. By the end of the month, it will be frost. I usually do not get up so early, but I had to take my grandson to the dentist at 7am. He spent the night with me and I don't know which one of was more tired this morning. I let him stay up a little too late and he kept me awake and woke me up numerous times wiggling and moving around.
Travis of NNY wrote: "A lot of news places showing you can get a 10 cash or $15 red bull products due to a alleged lawsuit where red bull was sued for not giving people wings. When they're ad clearly states red bull it ..."I found an article on Business Insider.com that said Red Bull settled to avoid costlier litigation and admits no wrong doing in their advertisements.
It's ridiculous that this class action suit was taken seriously.
I have a problem. I've finished my lunch, and I really really don't want to go back to work. Really really don't want to go back to work. Really.
Oh, Janice, I absolutely know how you feel. I think you just have to decide if you can afford to take the rest of the afternoon off and live with it. :) Mental health breaks are worth the stress of having to do catch up work and you need to allow yourself to make that decision. Thinking good thoughts for you!
Thanks Cherie. I did manage to work another hour before I gave up.
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