Little Lion Man – SOTM September 2009

Thanks to Tony for this one. A massive big thanks, just what I need some new fresh music. I’m just shattered that their debut album doesn’t come out until October!!

Anyway, its ‘Little Lion Man’ – by Mumford & Sons. Their name makes them sound like removalists or butchers..but I assure you this is an awesome song!

- Jen

This blog is not yet rated.

Right. First things first. I’m not writing to any ‘audiences’ anymore. In the beginning, my blog was my blog and I’d write anything. Now I know my parents and possibly grandparents read it, and everytime I go to write the brakes go on. Well no more censoring! So read at your own risk!

Obviously I’m not going to blog much about work, but anything else I want to write, I will. And I’ll write it how I want too!

Put it this way. There will be no more ‘frogs’. Anyway Shell doesn’t say ‘frog’ on her blog.

WHY AM I STILL SAYING FROG!

- Jen

Baby steps.

Honestly, I have been blogging….kind of. Every now and then I write long post. A long, boring post about how hideous everything is right now.

I either delete them or they are just saved as drafts. I suppose, really that everything is not hideous at all. Work has been hideous. Well not even all of work is hideous. I’m actually liking some of it. I’ve been acting as an EL1 for the past five weeks. Which has kept me crazy busy. Its been so different.

But anyway, I won’t blog about work. What else has been hideous? Nothing really. The wedding stuff even isn’t that bad. RSVPs are rolling in slowly. Think we’ll end up with about 20 less than we expected. You know what that means! ……leftover bonbonniere! Less name cards to make!

Alright, I’m going to cut it off here. I will be back later though, maybe with news of the pies in the GF….but probably not!

- Jen

Struggle street

Well this has gone way beyond writers block. I simply do not want to blog! I have some stuff to write about I guess, its not like I’ve been doing nothing. I’ve been busy! With work, and wedding stuff and my running. But meh.

I’ll try and crank out a post..on anything! Let’s see how I go.

- Jen

2:30 – 5:21 – SOTM August 2009

So the SOTM this month is ’21st Century Breakdown’ by Greenday. Except only from 2:30 – 5:21 of the song. The start of the song is generic GreenDay [insert whinge whinge generation, misunderstood whinge whinge teen angst whinge whinge].

Its 2:30 on the clip I’ve got here. I couldn’t find an official Greenday video clip, so I’ve got  a live version. Those two and a bit minutes are really catchy.

Click here to watch

- Jen

MapMyRun.com | View 08/04/2009 Casselden Place – Two Stadiums Return in Melbourne, Australia

MapMyRun.com | View 08/04/2009 Casselden Place – Two Stadiums Return in Melbourne, Australia

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My 500th post.

I know. I’m slack. Well not really! I’ve just been too darn busy to blog. There is also a direct correlation between the man’s current video game and my blogging. Right now he is back to playing some shoot ‘em up on the PC. Something about WWII and snipers, anyway he can’t talk while he is playing it which I find incredibly annoying. HELLO!!! I just went to work for eight hours and I need to tell you everything that happened so you end up in as bad a mood as me!

Actually Jentopians, I have gone to blog a couple of times – I have the drafts to prove it.

Last weekend (the one before last technically) I had my wedding dress fitting, hair trial and makeup trial all in the one day. PH-EW. It went surprisingly well. I’m a little nervous about the makeup only because I don’t wear any, so when I’m wearing some I really don’t like it. I’m sure I’ve said this before but I just don’t see the point of it.  But anyway, it looks like I will get away with the bare minimum so I won’t look too…overdone.

What else? My running is going really well, I’ve been well behaved and not overdoing it, more stretching than running! I ran my first 10km in probably two years a couple of weeks ago. 10 laps around Queens Park. Yes, it was incredibly boring but I’m so stubborn that I’ve been running around that park for month as my knee has gotten better and better. So I decided that my 10km would have to be running around there. It’s a mental thing. It was a bit mental actually. But I did it! I’m considering doing the 10km in the Melbourne Marathon. I’d like to aim for a half marathon but I just think its too far!

What ELSE.. I applied for tuition assistance at work so I can start my masters of taxation next year. I’m not overly thrilled about it, but it seems like something I *should* do. I had a bit of a quiet week at work last week and spent a bit of time wondering what I’m doing. I really really want a job where I am outside, and constantly busy. Something active would be really good. Some police like came to mind, but they get paid nothing. I’d almost be taking a 50% paycut to work strange hours and risk being shot at. I looked at other uni degrees but nothing jumped out at me. I don’t know what to do! I’m worried that if I don’t do something soon, I’m going to limit my options.

Also, for some reason I had it in my head my Mum had me when she was 28. I don’t know why that figure stuck in my head. It wasn’t until I was looking at my birth certificate the other day that I realised she was 25. I’m 25!!! How pesky.

I’ve also had this urge to go overseas again. With the man of course. But I guess its been almost a year now since our holiday. I just keep thinking about it! That first morning when we woke up on Bridgie and George’s floor in ‘the caravan’, then got up and walked down to Sainsbury’s at Clapham Common, got some awesome fruit then caught the bus into town. Sitting at the top of the double decker bus (yes we’re tourist dorks) going “we’re in London!!”. Let me put it this way… the man was excited. So after the wedding, and the honeymoon, and our credit card bill – I want to start saving for overseas. I definitely want to go back to Europe. Which includes England for those people who don’t know that.

Enough rambling, time for bed.

- Jen

p.s yes this does count as a post

p.p.s any SOTM suggestions?

p.p.p.s Yes I will get around to doing my own hottest 100….one day. If I break a leg or something.

I feel stupid and contagious!

The exclamation point is for the existence of this blog post! Woooo. Nah. Decided I should blog about a heap of things in case I forget. Like Michael Jackson. He’s dead. Just so when I have kids I can say I know where I was when MJ died. It was 6:30am, I was on the couch curled up in the tiger blanket, shivering with the flu (probably swiney) calling in sick for work when ‘Michael Jackson rushed to hospital after heart attack’ appears in breaking news. Wow I thought, Michael Jackson. A few minutes later the breaking news about his death filtered through. I got to announce it to the housemate who was shocked. Twenty minutes later I was over it. I was way more upset about Princess Diana and I was only 13 then. But Richard Wilkins saying that Jeff Goldblum was dead too was a bit under researched! Oh and, poor Farrah Fawcett died too. Poor thing got no attention at all, bar the short period of time before MJs death was breaking.

What happened next? Jase arrived. We had a nice weekend….another week at work went by.

Gus and Jess came and stayed, we went to Nobu with Dr Ben and Miss Soon to be Mrs Dr Ben. It was great as it was last time and nice to take some people to. We also got to use our entertainment card which was cool. Best buy ever we have already got our money back on that thing.

Sunday we went out for breakfast courtesy of our guests. We went to The Boathouse in Maribyrnong. I’ve been there before too. My portion size demands have either decreased or the portions have gotten bigger but I’d definitely rate it higher than last time. The thing that impressed me was the attention to detail. The man hates bread, so egg soaked or undercooked toast repulses him so he always asks for his toast well done. Jess didn’t want the hollandaise sauce on her eggs and asked for them separate. Everyone got what they asked for. I thought that was pretty good.

After breakfast we went to the zoo. We were all wrecked I think. Wandering around a zoo takes energy! After the zoo we went home for a nap and then went and saw Ice Age 3. Surprisingly not too bad a movie! Then it was home for a traditional Gus dinner of tacos. Very nice.

Welp. I’m tired and a little…’tired’. It was one of my long standing colleagues going away lunches today so I ‘utilised flexible hours’ and knocked off at lunch. Verrry nice. Thursday is going to be tough though! Phew.

And a photo to keep you turkeys quiet:

– Jen

p.s. what’s with the triple J’s hottest 100? jentopia’s hottest 100 to follow in next few weeks!

198 Berkeley St Parkville

The man and I caught the tram home today and aside from admiring the amount of work going on at the Royal Children’s I saw this building:

It’s the University of Melbourne’s economic and commerce building. It looked creepy in the afternoon light because both the building and the sky was black.

It does look a bit of out place…

- Jen

* photo from University of Melbourne’s property and campus services website

It’s an energy drink for Jen – Jenergy!

I had a nice day today. Just a regular day at work, except I finally got something I’ve been working on for a month sorted out. Obviously I can’t talk about it, but I’ve been buried in A3 spreadsheet printouts in size 9 font armed with a highlighter. Auditing is fun!

Its late and I can’t sleep which is why I decided to blog. I will probably pay for it tomorrow though. But I don’t get a chance to blog much during the week,  I’m usually so exhausted I get home and don’t move from the couch except to the fridge. I was wondering why I have so much more energy this week, especially as I was so sick last week. What am I doing differently this week? Only one thing! Not riding my bike. The weather has been bad, not so bad I couldn’t ride but seeing as I’m getting over bronchitis I thought I’d stay out of it. I keep forgetting  I ride 100km a week !! No wonder I’m tired.

I do miss it though, and might try and ride tomorrow if the weather is not too nasty. I don’t mind getting wet riding home, my bags have waterproof covers but getting wet riding to work is no fun.

In other news I have found a way around my new years resolution about taking more photos. I am not taking more photos…but I am doing a great job of stealing them off everyone else!! So this years video montage will be worth watching – I’m looking forward to it. If I get stuck for photos I’m pretty sure there is an event in October I can get a few from.

- Jen