KOH SAUMI - THAILAND

This has definitely happened to me, and I remember this quite vividly, I was holidaying in Koh Saumi, Thailand (one of my favourite holiday islands) we were at bar, had this dress on, thought I'd looked pretty cool in it, later on in the night other people walked into the bar and there is this girl with exactly the same dress on as me, I just cringed, here I was in another part of the world and that happens, I am sure this has happened to others!

Talking of Koh Saumi, I have been there several times and so want to visit that island again, as have many fond memories of the island, I am sure it is more commercialised now. One memory was we had met this Italian man that lived in Koh Saumi (at that time there was quite a few foreigners living on the island) and he decided to cook us all a meal of spaghetti bolignase, after the meal I had said to others that I was feeling a bit light headed and so were others - well Mr Italiano added a dash of marijuana in it!- an extra herb to spice up our meal.

IF I HAD A CHOICE!.........

UM THANKS........BUT NO THANKS , I'D RATHER STAY SINGLE!!

NETBALLERS

We travelled to Leinster to play netball on Sunday, we all went up on the community bus (here we go, here we go!) Leinster proved too good for us, the final score was 52 to 43, their advantage was height which he did not have and they were the better team on the day. We have decided to train once a week (we never have before), watch out Leinster next time we play!!


Went to Kalgoorlie on Saturday for the usual - my hair, grocery shopping and a bit of retail therapy not that there was much of that as it is all mainly winter gear and certainly not into that. Wanted to get the new Australian version of Monoply but they were all sold out oh well I will have to check online to see if I can get one.

Driving back home that arvo I had this 4 wheel drive sit behind me for about 10kms and then the dickhead decided to pass me on a double line, they pull out to overtake me then all of a sudden am oncoming car appears, had to put my foot on the brakes so the dickhead had to sit back behind me, honestly the mentality of some drivers!

FEELING GUILTY

I know I have not blogged for nearly 5 days as have been a little too busy here at work (things have slowed down a bit now and slowly getting back to normality) though I do feel guilty for not blogging and it is the same guilty feeling that I have when I have not gone to the gym or for for my walk.

Talking of the gym they have this new treadmill with a TV built in it and it is fantastic, been on it twice and not having to worry about other people wanting to use it as there has only been myself in the gym at those times. I suppose once word gets out there will be a line up of people wanting to use the tready.

I have to confess my sins: They had this meeting at the Council Chambers yesterday and the amount of food they had there was enough to feed an bloody army and the variety was amazing, you name it they had it.! Me, being garbage guts had to take a doggy bag home (one was also delivered to another garbage guts named Bev) which consisted of these delicious humongous chocolate cookies which just melted in your mouth in moments, I named the cookies "Melting Moments". I took 5 home and knocked the whole bloody lot off. Did I feel guilty? "No" did I enjoy them? "Yes".

THE FLIGHT CREW

The airliner pushed back from the gate, the flight attendant gave the passengers the usual information regarding seat belts, etc

Finally, she said, "Now sit back and enjoy your trip while your captain, Judith Campbell, and crew take you safely to your destination."

Ed sitting in the eighth row thought to himself, "Did I hear her right? Is the captain a woman?"

When the attendants came by with the drink cart, he said "Did I understand you right? Is the captain a woman?"

Yes," said the attendant, "In fact, this entire crew is female."

"My God," said Ed, "I'd better have two scotch and sodas.

I don't know what to think with only women up there in the cockpit."

"That's another thing sir," said the attendant, "We No Longer Call it the COCK Pit."
"It's The Box Office."

MINISTER LILJANNA RAVLICH

Our 5 minutes of fame with The Minister for Local Government "Lliljanna Ravlich", who visited our office today. She looks totally different on TV to real life, meaning better in real life.

Kelly & Lil!


Me & Lil!

(Photo's a bit blurry - but hey I am still learning)

A TRIUMPHANT WIN

BOMBERS DEFEAT EAGLES BY 1 POINT (Aussie Rules Footy)

Essendon (95 Points) defeated the West Coast Eagles (94 Points) by 1 point on the weekend

Our Environmental Health Officer from the office is a staunch West Coast Eagles supporter along with 90% of the people that live in our town. In his eyes the Eagles can do no wrong, well they did and they lost.

He has been away for a week, so we have decked out his office and outside his home in Essendon posters! Can't wait to see the Healthy's face.

FEEL LIKE SHIT (Sorry But That's How I Feel)

I feel and look like shit today. I have not been well the last few days due to the long weekend and overtime (not that I am complaining about the overtime as next pay packet will be a good one again) probably run down more than anything.

I fell asleep last night, missing the last 1/2 hour of Big Brother and I so, so wanted to watch the movie: Tsunami - The Aftermath but the sleep got the better of me (did anyone tape it? would love a copy). Had plans to go to the gym this morning on my own (5.00am its bloody dark and a little scary) and my gym partner Andrea is doing night shift at the hospital (hurry up and finish nights) but overslept, woke up at 7.00am and feeling worse for wear (as if I had a big night out on the turps!) No time to wash my hair (it takes me about two hours to do my hair) my hair is naturally curly (which I hate) so I have to straighten my hair with my straigthening iron (which I love) and time I did not have this morning. Eventhough I had a shower this morning -I got to work and I looked/felt terrible especially my hair, as yesterday spent and hour out in the glorious sun - nudy sunbaking and forgot to wrap my hair up like I always do as I am a coconut oil girl so the oil got in my hair. Now I look like I have an oil slick, it just feels yukky and with me sneezing and sniffing - not a pretty sight. Roll on knock off time.

I recruited another new blogger to start a blog - my friend Jodi. I said I would set it all up for her - Jodi will not have an excuse now to blog. Mark my words Jodi it is very addictive! I got my workmate Kelly onto it and now she is hooked, she is onto her other friends to be blogger mates too. POWER TO THE BLOGGERS!

Its amazing how I am so busy at work (which I really am) - and still manage to blog!! - I find blooging very therapeutic.

BITS & PIECES

CAUGHT YA!


Come On Out!

I Can See You!

Andrea Caught You Red Handed!

PARIS BACK IN THE SLAMMER

Yeah, Paris gone back to jail, just because she is famous for being well famous that does not give her the right to do want she wants. Serve your time and hopefully you would of learnt a lesson and start doing things for yourself instead others doing it for you.

NEW BLOGGER

At long last Kelly has managed to get her blog up and running, still needs formatting etc but she will get there. It reminds me of when I started mine, took me ages, its like eating Pringles once you start you cant stop - definitely an addiction.

Odi if you are reading this, come on you to can be a blogger .

DO THE CRIME DO THE TIME

Paris bloody Hilton - of the days she was suppose to do in jail she is let out after 3 days - on my gawd, because of medical reasons - a bloody "rash"! what are they thinking, she should be serving out the whole time, if it was anyone else they would be doing the time. So now she can spend her remaining time under house arrest - what has she learnt - nothing. What has she got that we haven't - yep LOTS OF MONEY!! Money does talk!

JUST JOKING

THE LOVE STORY OF RALPH AND EDNA:

Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.

Ralph and Edna were both patients in a mental hospital.

One day while they were walking past the hospital swimming pool, Ralph suddenly jumped into the deep end. He sank to the bottom of the pool and stayed there.

Edna promptly jumped in to save him. She swam to the bottom and pulled him out.

When the Head Nurse Director became aware of Edna's heroic act she immediately ordered her to be discharged from the hospital, as she now considered her to be mentally stable.

When she went to tell Edna the news she said, "Edna, I have good news and bad news.

The good news is you're being discharged, since you were able to rationally respond to a crisis by jumping in and saving the life of the person you love. I have concluded that your act displays sound mindedness.

The bad news is, Ralph, hung himself in the bathroom with his bathrobe belt right after you saved him. I am so sorry, but he's dead.

Edna replied, He didn't hang himself - I put him there to dry. How soon can I go home?

SOMETHINGS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW

SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW EVERYTHING? In just two days, tomorrow will be yesterday. "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "MT". (Are you doubting this). Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet. (Now, you KNOW you're going to try this out for accuracy, right?) The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes). (Yep, I knew you were going to "do" this one.) There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious." TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard. (All you typists are going to test this out) A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. A snail can sleep for three years. Almonds are a member of the peach family. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. Babies are born without kneecaps They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age. February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon. In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated. If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite! Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing. The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns. The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid. There are more chickens than people in the world. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance. Women blink nearly twice as much as men. NOW YOU KNOW EVERYTHING!

PHEW - WHAT A WEEKEND!

On previous posts I had mentioned our Golden Gift Weekend and how I was not looking forward to it - but I take that back - as the weekend went really well and I had a fantastic time mainly because we, the Registration Officers/Info Girls were based outside the office this year (it was a bit chilly in the morning but as the day progressed the weather was ideal) and not stuck inside like previous years. The day for us ran smoothly - the girls that worked were enormous help and having good workers makes a hell of a difference, thanks to Andrea, Bev, Libby, Louise, Macca, Kelly, Julie Sharon and Di - we did well.


There was plenty happening over the weekend, had the Cycle Challenge on Saturday morning (yes I can still walk!!) Horse Races in the afternoon and catching up the people that I had not seen for ages, plenty of entertainment for the children at the race course as well. Saturday evening we were entertained by Freestylenow BMX Bicycle Demonstratins, ARCANUS Circus, Heats of the Elite Mile and the concert by Troy-Cassar-Daly and Sara Storer plus a display of Aerial Fireworks which were fantastic. Sunday, we saw the Geraldton Pigeon Race Club - Pigeon Release Race from Leonora to Geraldton (don't know how the hell the pigeons know which way they go - but they do!! I wonder if they got there or are still flying?) The athletes events happening throughout the day, at lunch time the children were entertained by Dorothy the Dinosaur Dance Party which includes Wags the Dog, Henry the Octopus and Captain Feathersword, which I am sure the kids loved. Also throughout the day the athletes/spectators and ourselves (we have a good laugh) were entertained by a couple of clowns - I still smile just thinking about that clown.

I am sure that everyone that attended the weekend, left knowing that it was a good one.

1st - LOCAL WOMEN'S DIVISION

Tracy and myself did it - 50km cycle challenge - we both shared the riding time and we did it in 2 hours and shared the winner's prize of $250.00 we were guaranteed to be 1st or 2nd as there was only one other competitor Chris in the Local Women's Cycle Challenge and of course she came second, I think that we did pretty good considering it was a last minute decision and had no training whatsoever.

Not Far Now, Nearly There, Phew - Made it!


It was a good turn out especially for the men and children's cyclists and there was a young lad named Lewis who did the whole 50km ride - well done I take my hat off to him.

I can feel the aches and pains now and I am sure it will get worse by tomorrow - oh well them the breaks. I can now cross that of my to do list - BIKE RIDE -.

IT'S A MAD HOUSE

Its chaotic here in the office as we have our Golden Gift Athletic Carnival happening this weekend and everyone is running around like a blue arse fly including myself, not sure whether I am Arthur or Martha at present as I have a 100 and 1 things on my mind (don't forget to do this, make sure this is done etc etc) then I remember to take a deep breath and say to myself that I can only do 1 thing at a time not a 100!!

Over the weekend we also have a 50km cycle challenge, received an email yesterday to say they have no women riders in the Open or Local division and if we wanted to we could do the cycle challenge with 2 riders doing 25kms each - my mind started ticking over with the $ sign thinking this could be easy money made. Not that I have a bike at home and I can ride and I do ride the exercise bike at the gym (that counts doesn't it!!). My gym mate Andrea has piked so I might ride with another girl Tracy. If sounds easy: we can do 10 kms then swap but thinking 9.00am start, very chilly, wind factor, can I handle it or am I all talk no action woman!! Anyway still thinking about it and all that comes to my mind is $$$$, probably wont even win anyway and knowing our luck it will take us 8 hours not 2 but then again I would of done my 1 weeks exercise in one ride!!!

The day is nearly over but I can't wait for the actual weekend to come to an end.

DECISION IS MADE:

I AM GOING TO RIDE 50km CYCLE CHALLENGE
(sore backside I can feel now - Yee Haah)