updating stuff

we're looking for more challenges - we're heading to melbourne for a couple of months, so get thinking. what do you want us to do? nothing that's going to get us put in jail, or seriously endanger our lives, preferably. leave your challenges as a comment - cheers

also we've realised our email list is sadly out of date - if you didn't get an email from me today we don't have your address so please send me a note at fisher_olivia@hotmail.com so we can keep in touch with all our beautiful friends.

keep writing comments - it's great to hear from everybody. it makes us feel like we're still in touch with home.

love and mung beans to all.

liz and liv

the big woolshed, gostwyck - well, we thought it was big, anyway 

liv at the big banana, coffs harbour 

liz in the big sundial, singleton 

the big butterfly, coffs harbour (we're really starting to stretch the definition of big things here...) 

the big golden guitar, tamworth - please note, the challenge was to get cheesy tourist shots, these were not our idea! 

the big pears - national gallery, canberra 

the big things challenge

sarah - we're meeting your big things challenge, and taking the cheesiest shots we possibly can.

but there's a problem! liz is devastated! the guy who took this shot, even though liz asked him at least half a dozen times to make sure he got the whole guitar in, cut off the top of the guitar. she's extremely pissed off about stupid amateur photographers.

meeting sarah's big things challenge - the big prawn 

finallyup to date!

whew. after a mammoth 7 hour effort yesterday and today, the site is finally back up to date. all i have to do now is put our "big things" photos on here, and i'm done. it's amazing how much work there is to do all this. today we're off to the national museum, then to see casanova, tomorrow to the war memorial and national library, then liz flies back to brisbane on thursday morning, and i'm sticking around in canberra a bit longer. liz flies back to canberra on the 26th, then we head to melbourne to find work and a place to live. quite exciting really.

ok. i'm about to fall over, so i'm going to love you and leave you all, and hope that it doesn't take anywhere near as long next time to update the site.

bear hugs and fairy kisses to you all.

liv

victor lodge, canberra

20 February 2006 9:06pm

A definite improvement on our previous accommodation. it really was pretty awful.

this place is actually quite cool. we have a fan in our room, the kitchen is clean, creakfast is included, there are lots of communal areas (we've booked the tv to watch kate on wed on spics and specs - check her out and cheer loudly, we're planning to convince everyone in the hostel to come and watch her, with bribes of wine and popcorn) and i bought a 24 hour wireless card for $5 and have a table in the dining room next to a powerpoint, across the room from all the tea, milo and really crap coffee i can drink. i'm liking this place.

in sydney i bought these fabulous pink and gold stilettos, so today i went hunting fro a nice dress to match. i found a dress, a skirt and work shirt that all match - the dress was $200 reduced to $30, which i'm pretty impressed with. it's hot pink, hurrah. so now i can look truly fabulous when i go see the boat people and kate in a couple of weeks in melbourne.

i had a ball wandering around canberra by myself today, although the hours i spent this morning in an internet cafe were amazingly frustrating - 2.5 hours to do 3 posts, with only one photo. anyway, tonight will be better. if things are taking hours to download, i have a book. i'm just waiting for liz to finish using my computer so i can start. she's making a folder of her favourite photos - mine only has a few shots in it really. she has 2 cds worth. we REALLY see the world in different ways sometimes. it's good forus - keeps us challenging ourselves.

eurotrash

18 February 2006 1pm Day 41

once again, from the national art gallery my favourite artworks were by sydney long and that painting "the quest" by bernard hall. i also loved rah fizelle's "overlooking sainte agnes".

7:40pm

i now truly understand the meaning of eurotrash. we went to a eurotrash night at the canberra multicultural fest last night, and it was so bad it wasn't even good in an ironic way. well, there was only one woman that was deliciously tragic - i loved her. i'd pay to see her again, but the guy she was singing with was just bad, without the deliciousness. out of tune, no charisma - such a shame really. i have to look up their name, they were from berlin.

we're staying in the kingston hotel again tonight, but have decided to check out tomorrow. it's hot, tiny, the mattresses are useless so it's like sleeping on a wooden slab, the kitchen, including the fridge, is full of cockroaches, there's nowhere to sit except the beergarden where you get harassed by guys like marty (see last entry) and the bathroom - one shower doesn't work, one only has hot water (the cold is not connected) and the only other shower sprays water all over everything because there's no curtain.

as a pub, it's not bad (if you eat meat, you can bring your own steaks to cook on the barbie). as a place to stay, it's not good. oh well, what can we really expect for $15/night each? we were spoilt by the grafton crown hotel, i think. that was a seriously nice budget pub.

today we went to the national gallery. liz and i seriously disagree about art. i love beautiful old traditional art, particularly from the 1800s and early 1900s. i spend hours staring at them, completely absorbed in their beauty. i also love sydney long's ethereal images (something liz and i agree on), japanese screens, otis dix (horribly graphic war art), some surrealism - lots of stuff really. and i appreciate a lot of modern art. but there's a hell of a lot that i think is simply crap with a label and that's certainly not worthy of being in a gallery of any sort. induitably, the stuff i really think is boring tripe is the stuff liz adores. she loves concepts, i only like concepts who's execution shows some level of talent. she loves industrial stuff, i only really like things that show emotion. we really disagree on a lot, but at least if we're arguing about that it keeps us occupied.

liv's kate winslet fairy 

the kingston hotel, canberra

17 February 2006 evening, 11pm-ish

comments from a guy who came up to us in the pub (Marty)

"i just came over to get a better look at you both"

"i just wanna bang both of you"

(to liz) "are your boobs real? can i touch them?"

"i just broke up with my girlfriend of two weeks and i just want to bang all night"

"do you guys want someone who can fuck like an animal?"

- the kingston pub is a reeeeeeeally classy establishment. sandy and peter - yes we have met boys, but since most of them (except martin the sweetheart we met in katoomba) have been freaks, we haven't been putting them on the website so you'll have to live vicariously through somebody else guys!

the celebration fairy drawn the day we got kate's call about port fairy - thanks kate and leanne. we love you 

birdwing butterfly dragon - liz 

a liz fairy sketch 

kate's crew as manga - i have plans for this image. i'm not happy with the image of kier, but the rest is ok 

the welcome fairy - liv - looks quite washed out here 

leaving the house

17 February 2006 8:30pm-ish

describing the past week would be difficult - my mood has been so altered by it, i'm not sure if i am able to explain it. i spent the last week doing almost nothing but draw and paint and (unusually for me) i was pretty happy with a lot of it. it was like i unlocked something - put aside my (absurd) fears and just let myself create. i'm going to try to put some images on the site of our drawings, but the photos didn't turn out very well, so the colours are a bit washed out. you'll get the idea.

batemans bay

11 February 2006 4:10pm

i love this house. it is such a calm, beautiful place. liz has spent the entire day downstairs creating, and she's glowing like she's won lotto. i haven't been quite as productive, although admittedly i did 3 drawings, worked on my project, watched a movie, worked on my knitting and crochet and cleaned up, as well as buying groceries. maybe i'm being a little hard on myself - when i think about that i've done a lot, but i still feel like i'm relaxing.

i'm very much relieved to have a roof because my cold left my head and went to my chest and i have asthma and laryngitis again. i'm deliberately not using my voice much so i don't lose it completely again. this is my fourth bout of laryngitis in 6 months. something makes me think the universe is telling me to shut up. i'm finding it really frustrating because i wanted to spend a lot of time this trip improving my voice, but it seems it is not to be, for the time being at least.

anyone with treatments or cures for laryngitis, LET ME KNOW PLEEEEEEASE

i found a ruth rendell mystery in my bedroom and i'm loving the fact that i can just sink into it without having to think - perfect escapism. i generally tend to choose books that you can learn something rom, or that really make you think about the world - not thinking is magnificent.

beautiful kate and beautiful em - the right way up! hoorah! i worked out how to stop it twisting the photos! 

at brett whiteley's studio (the evidence - we were really there!) 

that horse shot, the right way up this time!  

sydney opera house (a liz arty farty shot) 

one of liv's arty bullshit shots 

wet boots 

still in bloody jervis bay

10 February 2006 9:42am

Last night was the 13th night in a row i slept on the ground. this is NOT true princess behaviour at all. i am a little over the situation.

7:23pm

turned out i was a lot over the situation. i put out a prayer to the universe for a place liz and i could call home for a week. i've been really sick, and i could feel it turning into asthma - but the cold itself went away thanks to a beautiful blonde angel who gave me a miracle cure (i owe you a big bear hug when i see you, kate). my mood has been really low since seeing everyone in melbourne - sometimes after a high i hit a bit of a low, but anyway i found myself struggling to do anything. this morning we left jervis bay and i convinced liz that it really was a good idea to find somewhere with a roof, possibly one that's not made of canvas, perhaps with an actual bed. we decided to check holiday rentals.

sometimes when you ask the universe for something, it really comes through. for about the same price as renting a dodgy cabin in a caravan park, we have an architecturally designed, 2 storey house. i have the top level and liz has the bottom. both have decks looking out through magnificent gum trees at the ocean. we have our own bathrooms, tvs, dvd players, kettles, fridges, cd players, tables - everything. this place is fantastic! i feel so inspired to write, draw, play music - and most importantly work on my project.

i think i can probably get the major part completed this week if continue to feel as inspired as i do now. once it's completed, i'll make it public here on the site because I NEED YOUR HELP! Angelina, i'll be calling you soon. once this is up and running, you could make some money from it too... we'll see... i should stop getting excited and making promises before i know they're coming true.

evening sometime

i am so relieved to hear of a major political decision that i truly agree with. hurrah for the senate - 45 senators to 28 voted to hand power to regulate the abortion drug RU486 to the therapeutic goods administration, and take it away from Tony Abbott. how a woman chooses to terminate a pregnancy, if she chooses to do so, is a clinical decision, not a political one. it gives me a wonderful glow to hear of a really good decision.

or maybe that's just the wine....

musings on vegetarianism - jervis bay

8 February 2006 Sometime earlyish morning

the true reason i'm vegetarian - i have a vendetta against plants. save all the animals - kill the plants! BASTARDS! they get in the way of the concrete.

what the world needs now is love and concrete.

the perfect moment - jervis bay

9 February 2006 5:19pm

We're sitting in front of a wood fire cooking potatoes and sweet potato. liz is crocheting. i'm reading a good book. my titties are free and breezy (after being shackled around my collar bone all day). if i could breathe through my nose, and my throat didn't fel like i'd swallowed one of those burning shards of wood, this could be a perfect moment.

nope. liz just farted again. perfect moment RUINED!

reasons i'm tetchy

6 February 2006 6:06pm

Am feeling tetchy and irritable. there are a number of reasons i can identify at present:

1. i have a thumping headache coming from muscle tension in my neck

2. there are so many stupid bloody drivers on the roads that it makes driving a totally exhausting experience

3. we just came out of 5 days of emotional overload in sydney

4. liz keeps farting. all the bloody time. she tries to tell me it's better out than in, but i'm not convinced.

5. there are absolutely NO cocktail bars at this campsite in Jervis Bay

6. Thus far this trip, no wealthy millionaires have fallen madly in love with me (to my knowledge) and they certainly haven't given me large wads of cash

7. i've spent the last 9 days sleeping on an inch thin mattress on the ground, and there are still at least 4 nights to go, probably more

8. we've spent less than one day all trip lying around day spas

9. the number of people who have heard me humming as i walk down the street and spontaneously offered my a recording contract i can count on my fingers. actually i can count them without my fingers.

10. i won't have another event to wear my fabulous stilettos to until i get to melbourne in another month

11. i'm sick of eating dry biscuits

12. i've only been out for one coffee today

13. we're camping, and i can't even have a beer because we're having a few alcohol free days (till wednesday, when we celebrate not killing each other for an entire month)

14. my water bottle is empty and i'm thirsty but to fill it i have to walk to the bathrooms which are 100 bloody metres away, and i'd have to actually find my shoes.

15. everytime liz has a cigarette the smoke blows straight towards me

16. i continue to experience emotional scarring about the pink hair episode

17. now the smoke is blowing into my tent. stupid bloody smoke

18. i can hear the ocean, but i'm too tired to even walk along the beach

19. liz farted again - in my direction this time

20. i've had practically no alone time for months. i'm used to having at least a few hours a day alone. this is not a reflection on liz, it's just that i'm not coping well with always being around people. i've not shared a room with another person on a regular basis since Daniel and I were tiny children. even when i was very young i used to cherish my time alone. liz and i both knew i would be the first one to crack - she's much more used to living with a lot of people in small spaces. my family bought a 6-bedroom house with 5 separate living spaces (for 4 people) because we all desperately needed our own space. i think i've been a little spoilt that way, perhaps. i find when i'm always around people i'm less creative, i don't manage my emotions well, i'm snappy and bossy and self-righteous and generally not a particularly nice person to be around. i'm wondering - how is liz standing it? my body language must be screaming piss off and leave me alone. actually, i'm sure it was, because half way through writing this entry, liz went for a walk. ahh. i love liz, and there's certainly nobody else i can think of i could spend this volume of time with, but i also love my sanity. mmm... sanity....

musings on forgiveness

5 January 2006 3:06pm

it's been about 6 weeks or so since i've made a journal entry just for me, not the website. this one may end up on there if i get brave enough (or stupid enough) to put it there, but for the time being i need to write it as though it is just for me so i can allow myself to be honest with myself.

this morning i was playing with the angel cards, and once again i pulled out forgiveness. usually i think that card refers to a person who i have allowed to hurt me for a long time, and still does, but i realised that, today at least, it didn't refer to that at all.

i think the message i'm trying to give myself today is that i need to forgive people for not being the person i want them to be.

that sounds totally arrogant when it's written like that.

i let myself be hurt and angry when i find that what i hope and want isn't possible in reality. there are so many people i love that do things i don't like - saying nasty things to people when they know it will hurt them, doing or promoting drugs, supporting economic rationalism, or war. i know everything happens for a reason, and i still love these people despite the things they do or don't do, say or feel.

this is an internal thing. i need to grieve and let go of my impossible expectations - it's their life, not mine, and i don't actually know what's best for them. i have no right to assume that i do.

i need to start taking my own advice.

this site is turning into my public therapy record...

still in sydney

5 February 2006 nearly 9am, i guess

Friendship is a funny thing.

One of my favourite things about life is when you meet a person, and instantly love them, utterly and completely. a friendship with no expectations, just one where you treasure each moment together, and walk away glowing from the inside and feeling whole. sounds like mushy bullshit, but so it is.

yesterday, i was lucky enough to spend the day with three people i feel that way about. each of them is a person i fell in love with the first moment we spoke - even though i admit, the first time i saw scotty i did think he was a bit of a wanker, you know, "oh, he's so good looking, and he so knows it" (sorry babe, but sometimes first impressions can be right...). and while i'm scotty bashing, you nearly crashed my car in slow motion you bastard. who does that? how does one do that? we had a really bizarre near miss at about 5km an hour - he'd driven less than 100m from the hotel.

anyway, i know that sometimes i go into gushy bullshit mode, but there are some things that need to be said - i'm realising how important it is to share with people how you feel about them when you have the chance to. when i left my work in brisbane, so many people said amazing things to me, and i thought it was sad that it had taken 3 years and me leaving to convince them to speak up. my new mission is to tell people and show them how much i love them, not just once in a blue moon, or because i'm scared i'm going to lose them, but whenever the moment feels right.

em, scotty and liz - thanks for the amazing day. keir, kate, steve, leanne and jt - i'm a little gushed out sorry, you guys will have to wait until another entry (rest assured we love you too - kate still gives me shivers down my spine when she sings)

just to finish this entry, i had an added blessing. i got to come home and hang out this morning with beautiful anne (another one of my "love at first sight" people) and in a couple of weeks i get to go hang out with Lucy in Canberra. be prepared for lucy gushing soon...

whew! am emotionally exhausted and overwhelmed. i need a little lie down...

big sloppy kisses to everybody!

happy birthday tim!

4 January 2006 7:27pm

In the brass monkey with kate's crew and her manager leanne.

am about to put on my first ever pair of stilettos and see if i can walk in them. they are so completely out of character for me (pale pink and bronze) that i adore them.

i have had so much fun today. liz, em, scotty and i spent time (and money) at the glebe markets, and it felt so good just to hang with people from home again. i haven't really been missing home yet - i think the novelty value of travelling is still keeping me amused, and we've set ourselves to many missions (DODs) that we have no time at all to be bored or homesick.

however, seeing people i love has made me realise i do miss hanging out with friends - other than liz of course. really, these guys are relatively new friends, but they're still people from home and people i love.

sydney

yes, i know this picture of kate is around the wrong way. stupid stupid bloody stupid aargh!

ah, i've worked it out. each image is taking about 20 minutes to upload, so i'm not changing this one, you get the idea, but the damn program is taking the unedited version (the only edit was to turn it around the right way, i'm not sure why this keeps happening...) anyway, sorry, you know, and stuff.

3 February 2006 3:11pm

Thoroughly enjoying Sydney. particularly enjoyed spending this morning at home... i know i've said this before, but i'm really not a good tourist.

anyway, we're on a train to circular quay to go to the opera house (because liz insists on taking a photo of it - she took to the whole tourist thing a little too eagerly, i believe) then the rocks for drinks with anne in some pub where we can see all the way over the river and stuff. we've booked a table on the roof. after that we're heading to see kate and em and scotty and steve and kier. Yay! we've even put make-up on in celebration of the occasion - although we're still wearing pants and sensible shoes, so we haven't exactly gone all out, but we did make some sort of effort at least. i'm so looking forward to just giving them hugs. seeing them, particularly em and scotty, is like having a little taste of home. i'm not feeling homesick yet, but i figure this is like medicine to ward that off.

sometimes i feel really overwhelmed that i've been so loved and so blessed. the more healing i go through the more i feel that. the healing is hard, and some days i feel like a monster who's just fooling herself into thinking she's a normal, lovable human being, but those days are few and far between now. i wonder if they ever really go away?

i spent a lot of time this morning working on a new project - i'll give you lots of infe when it's nearing completion. it'll be tough but very valuable, so i'm excited about it - but i'm determined not to get overexcited until i work out whether or not i can pull it of. i believe i can.

anne and i have a funny friendship. we've known each other 10 years and don't see each other very often. we're so different in many ways, and we love to disagree because we learn so much from each other. i think it would be fascinating one day to sit down with anne and scotty and discuss religion. doubt it will happen this trip, but one never knows.

one thing i'm totally sick of is being hot then cold then hot then cold - this train is freezing! stupid weather. it shits me.

AAARGH

1 February 2006 5:23pm Day 24

Well, it certainly turned into "look at me" bloody hair - (read previous entry if you're not following) - i like to stand out in a crowd, but not because somebody accidentally dyes my roots flourescent magenta! I know i have a tendency to exaggerate for the sake of a good story, but i swear i am not even slightly talking this up. it was fluro pink. liz wanted to take a photo when it dried and we saw the colour, but i wasn't coping well with the whole thing and wouldn't let her. anyone out there who uses microsoft word, go to the section where you can change the colour of your font and there will be one hideously bright magenta pink - that was the colour of my hair.

thankfully they fixed it - they described it as fuscia. i must have look pretty distressed because some of the other hairdressers came up to me and put their hand on my shoulder and said "it'll be ok, love."

oh well, anything for a good story, i suppose...

same day, later-ish

have been through a period of intense counselling and am coping a little better now. the next few days are all about friends, music and art. we're in sydney staying with an old friend from college - Anne. She left us the keys with this (fabulously entertaining) old lady downstairs, and we walked in and took over her house. we've made a 3 course meal and bought wine and now we're waiting for her to come home - we asked her to pick up seaweed and tofu and i think she was a little overwhelmed by the whole thing. well, what sort of house guests would we be if we didn't send our host out on ridiculous errands before we've even seen her?

yes, ok, good ones, but don't argue with me when i'm on a self-inflated roll.

while we're in sydney we're also catching up with all kate miller-heidke's band, and we're planning to sell cds for them fri and sat. it's funny, it has only been 4 weeks since we saw them all, but i'm so looking forward to seeing them, particularly beautiful em, i think.

still in katoomba

31 January 2006 11:22am Day 23

A gloomy rainy day, so what better thing to do than drink lots of coffee and knit in a cafe, then get my hair dyed. the blonde roots are about an inch long - i've been wearing scarves every day to cover the hideousness of it all - from myself more than anyone else. it's funny how much my hair reflect how i'm feeling - i wonder what it says about me that i consistently dye my hair bright, unnatural red. it's definitely "look at me" hair.

katoomba

i've written this damn post twice now, and the server keeps cutting it out so it won't actually post. i'm going to post it in bits, so if it seems unfinished when you read it, that's why. i can't post photos today by the looks of things. stupid bloody server.

29 January 2006 7:33am Day 21 Cave Day

We're finally in Katoomba (it was 4 hours drive, not 3)

for the moment, we're really enjoying being cold - Liz even has ugg boots on. actually, looking around, everyone else is wearing shorts and t-shirts. one man doesn't even have a shirt on. i do think we may be in trouble when we really get cold. i don't remember what it feels like to be cold, i've spent almost all my teenage and adult life ballina and north - i don't think a brisbane winter, or even an ocean shores winter, counts as winter. my warmest clothes are a couple of (qld strength) jumpers, one pair of jeans, 2 pairs of long socks and some gloves. oh, and 2 thermal shirts my mum gave me from her trip to japan. if i don't get some warm clothes soon, i'm going to freeze off random body parts. i prefer to keep my random body parts where they are, thank you.

8:38 am

I guess on leaving brisbane and travelling for a year i had this romantic notion that certain things would disolve away, and that distance would help me gain perspective and let go of a few things i've been holding onto.

3 weeks in, i've let nothing go. the thoughts are running through my head just as fast, if not faster than before. i haven't the convenient distractions anymore - interestingly enough, i rarely think of work. not that i've forgotten it, there are some people who's stories i will never forget, they're emblzoned on my mind whether i like it or not, but without the stress of work, i'm having to face all these other things. perhaps that's why i'm so tired all the time. i'm starting to face all this emotional bullshit. i've come so far in the last 18 months emotionally, i thought this trip would give me a break from it all.

silly me.

yours in emotional exhaustion,

Liv

afternoon

caves rock! he he... i love a bad pun.

we spent 1.5 hrs in the orient cave at jenolan caves, and it was truly sensational. i really wanted to see caves on this trip, it was one of my "must do" things. i don't know how to describe it adequately (no amount of gushing seems to fully describe it) so i won't waste my time trying.

if you get the chance, just go. it was incredible.

Our New Hobby

ok, i admit, i've been seriously slack with the whole updating the site thing, but it's not entirely my fault, i've tried dozens of times and been thwarted on every effort... houses with no phone lines, towns with no internet cafes, laptop running out of batteries, when i got access to a phone line it cut out every 10 seconds, sometimes before i'd even been able to open a page... the universe has been conspiring against the site for a few weeks. but we're back! hurrah!

Having major problems trying to upload photos - can't guarantee any of them will come through today - not my fault!

25 January 2006 10:47pm

Liz and i have found a new friend to keep us company on the long, lonely nights - time delay photography! A game for all the family. i think we're both a bit inspired by the fact that, in our first evening, we got some truly awesome shots. well, for first-timers they are, i reckon. it took ages to get these shots - i kept writing things backwards, and we had to check our spelling once, but wow. it's funny how much a new game can inspire you. i'd say there might be a huge number of funky time delay shots in our portfolio by the end of the trip.

unfortunately we got so excited we woke the people in the next cabin - my parents!

27 January 2006 11:30am-ish

Right. It is my determined, educated (and totally arrogant) opinion that the people of Australia are stupid.

how on earth can you justify the inclusion of Ben Lee, the Gorillaz, and (in Liz's opinion) Bernard Fannin in the top 10 of the hottest 100, to the exclusion of people with actual talent, like transport, kate miller-heidke and the boat people.

people are stupid

* Please note: I quite like Bernard Fanning in general, but agree the song did not deserve to be number one.

7pm-ish

so tired i feel like vomiting. think there may be something medically wrong. having dinner then going to sleep. liz just told me i look terrible. yup - that made me feel sooooo much better. writing to keep myself awake while liz has a ciggie and we wait for dinner. we're staying in a pub in singleton - we were both way too tired to make it to katoomba - it's another 3 hours or so from here. we ended up getting advice from some groovy hairdressers about this hotel, and they said the food was fantastic, so we're trying it out. they had 3 vegetarian opitions. i was so overwhelmed with choices i had to have a little sit down. liz started fanning me with a menu, but that madi it worse, because all the options smudged together and it looked like there were hundreds of vegetarian things, and i nearly had a little panic attack, so she switched to fanning me with a napkin and handed me a glass of wine and i recovered.

ok, that last bit was a lie.

Am drinking a "full bodies and tangy verdelho that shows intense aromas and flavours of passionfruit, guava and pear drop".

what the hell is a pear drop? amongst all the other things that shit me, wine wankers are right up there.

maybe that's something that i should put on the website - a list of things that shit me.

wine wankers and stupid people who vote for ben lee over transport will be engraved in stone on the list.

7:38pm

Right. Something else that shits me... having a really beautiful meal, and getting half way through, and not being able to eat another mouthful. dammit. Liz seconds this. she's gone to get doggy bags. hoorah for doggy bags.

things that DON'T shit me include:
* doggy bags
* really nice wine for the same price i'd pay in brisbane for really crap wine
* having a real bed to sleep on. mmm.... real bed... heading that way now... piss off and stop disturbing me, all of you

28 January 2006 8am-ish? Sense of time has gone completely bananas - Day 20

Nearly 3 weeks and we still haven't killed each other yet. must be some kind of freakish record. i think this may be related to the fact that we know most of each other's irritating habits, and have learned to live with them.

when liz gets tire, she drags the chain and takes at least 5 times as long as a normal person to do anything. when i get tired, i do the opposite - i get bossy. these are things we both admit to, and are working on. oh, and we both yell at stupid drivers.

i've seen more dickheads on the roads in the last 3 weeks than in my entire life - and i'm including all those years working in ipswich and woodridge! we've nearly been hit a few times. at the moment we seem to be planning our journey around what seem to be the best roads. primarily this means avoiding the pacific highway so we're seeing a lot of bushland.

oh, i forgot to mention, yesterday we found an alien landing station in muswellbrook NSW. we watched it for a while, hoping to catch a glimpse of their new BMW light force star cruisers. Liz and i are starting a "buy earth made" campaign to help protect our jobs ("they're taking our jobs!") Unfortunately for us, it appeared that the zirtronians were using their invisibility shields, but we did manage to catch a glimpse of 3 interdimensional pod servers.

yep, it's a really good thing we didn't drive the extra 3 hours to katoomba yesterday...

the best photo i think i've ever taken - this was at timbertown. we fell in love with this horse...