| No major life events in three months |
[Jun. 1st, 2008|09:38 am] |
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| | home | ] |
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Wow, my life has gone kind of quiet again for the first time since 2005. No major life events or changes since I started my new job in March.
I haven't:
- Met anyone new in three weeks
- Shown anyone from Australia around London in two and a half months
- Started a new job in three months
- Been on holiday or in an aeroplane in four months
- Met anyone at an airport in four months
- Have a release deadline in five months
- Helped anyone move in six months
- Had a terrifying birthday in 11 months
- Been in Australia in a year
- Renewed a visa in 14 months
- Moved house in two years (record since I turned 20!!)
I have:
- Read books (enough that I can't count them)
- Watched DVDs
- Done coding
- Drank coffee with Joe consistently on weekend days
(if(day.Type == DayType.Weekend) helen.Drink(new Coffee());)
- Filled animal crossing with flowers - though I can't bear to open it now because the animals guilt me when I don't play and all my flowers will be dead now
- Fallen in love with our DVR
- Gotten to the fourth dome in Mario Galaxy
- Lost a heap of points on online Mario Kart
- Played Team Fortress 2 with Joe for the first time
- Bought half a new shredder and shredded three years of bank statements
- Watched the two first seasons of how I met your mother
- Had dinner with friends in various places in London
- Eaten pancakes, roasted pub potatoes that burned my mouth, creme egg icecream, Japanese savoury pancakes (*drool*)
- Baked for work almost every Monday
- Expanded the number of Japanese resturaunts I've eated at in central London
- Taken pictures with Joe's camera
It's kind of hard to get used to the quiet after being hooked on excitement and adventure for so long, but it's also kind of nice just to have a bit of down time. I feel kind of boring to not have anything planned for the weekend when my workmates ask me about it on Friday afternoon, but to be honest I kind of like being boring. I like not having my whole life booked out. I like deciding what to do around 2pm on Saturday after sitting on the internet in my jammies for a couple of hours. I'm sure the quiet will be short lived. I remember quite clearly last time not believing how long my life just moved from one life changing event to the next. :) |
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| Snakes on a bloody plane |
[Dec. 27th, 2006|05:24 pm] |
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Joe's making me watch Snakes on a Plane. Surely there are rules in the UN human rights that say that's illegal? Cruel and unusual punishment or something.
He keeps trying to tell me that I'm enjoying it. I just hope it's not the Columbo box set next. |
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| The last day of being an international woman of mystery |
[Dec. 5th, 2006|07:57 am] |
Ahh. It's the last day of my job that's involved doing so much traveling. Bits of it have been really fun, but I'm going to really enjoy being at home more and having more spare time. Traveling on Sunday has been one of the worst things about what I've been doing so I'm going to particularly enjoy having weekends that are actually two days long.
Sweden has been interesting. It's properly cold here at the moment and I can see that the country is really optimised for the weather. Inside is really warm everywhere I go. The place where I'm working has a little rail just at the door to hang your outside coat on and some slip on shoes that you can exchange for your cold defeating outside boots. For the Swedish people I'm training, leaving your coat at the door seems like second nature. I keep forgetting that I'll need mine when I go out because it feels so warm inside.
One of the different things that I've noticed is that almost all the windows in the town I'm staying in have pretty lights in all their windows. They were even in the windows of the company where I was doing the training. I asked a taxi driver about them and she said they were to do with Christmas (and my Norwegian friend confirmed that too).
I quite like Swedish food too. We've been getting lunch at a pub near the training room and the Swedish people I'm with tell me that the food is authentically Swedish. I find that slightly ironic considering that we've been going to a pub that says it is a traditional English pub. Today we had some really nice bacon meat with a creamy white sauce and some boiled potato. I can imagine the ancient Swedish Vikings enjoying something similar (easier than imagining them having cornflakes anyway), though that makes me sound a bit like the ignorant sort of tourist who doesn't really know anything about the countries apart from the comic book stereotypes. What can I say? I loved reading Asterix and Obelix when I was growing up.
Now I'm headed back for the Copenhagen airport. It's a good three hour journey by train but I don't mind too much because the train has wireless internet and an electrical outlet for each seat. |
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| Cold as the fridge outside |
[Dec. 1st, 2006|03:43 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | travel | ] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | Amsterdam airport | ] |
| [ | mood |
| |  tired | ] |
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| | Someone dragging a chair across the tiles | ] |
It may be as cold as inside my fridge outside but it's summer in my mouth as I enjoy a strawberry icecream cone in Amsterdam airport and remember summertimes at the beach with my family. I was going to rant about how strict everything is at an airport but my heart just isn't in it after my icecream (and having the lady at the icecream stall tell me I have a lovely *Australian* accent).
The Netherlands are nice. All the people that I came in contact to have been so friendly to me. I like the cheese (kaas - the only Dutch word I learnt) too. |
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| Watching Australian TV away from home |
[Nov. 29th, 2006|05:11 pm] |
I thought that dutch TV reminded me of Australian TV when I caught a couple of American dramas I used to like (but won't admit to) that they don't show in the UK. I was even more reminded of home when I came back to the hotel this afternoon, switched it on and saw them playing Dr Phil! Then I started channel surfing and found some doctor show from the nineties that's full of Aussie accents (flying doctors I think). I feel like I'm home!
Do you think that it's a coincidence that the Dutch actually discovered Australia before the British did? |
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