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Friday, 03 July 2009

  • "allegedly" drunk driver's suck!

    Last night, TK and I were  in my (new) Mazda 2, sitting stationary  in a turning lane (waiting to turn) when an "allegedly" drunk driver (ADD) rear ended the car behind me at high speed, pushing that car into the rear of my car, and in turn my car into the rear of the car in front of me.

    Ass.

    These photos were taken this morning at the insurance assessor's yard. This is the rear of the car that the ADD directly hit. I was stationary in the lane in front of this car:



    We don't think the ADD braked at all, so hit the back of this car at 80km p/hr.



    This is the rear of my car, you can't see much damage in this shot:



    The passenger side rear breaklight. You can see there is a crease in the panel.



    Front Passenger side. Damage from where I hit the rear of the car in front of me.



    And from the side:

    Don't drive drunk.

    This guy messed up 3 nearly new cars (my car is almost brand new, I only got it in January).

    Being drunk made his insurance void, I image he'll be paying for this for some time.

    He's just lucky no one got hurt.

    Idiot.

    .

Friday, 19 June 2009

  • New beads and jewellery in the works...

    Hurrah!

     I brought a bunch of really nice ceramic beads/buttons and pendants from the amazing Gaea, here is some of her work:



    Amazing huh?

    I thought the colours and textures that she uses would go well with my glass beads, so I'm looking forward to them arriving.

    I've been really slack lately with both making beads (the cold weather has kept me out of the garage) and making jewellery, so hopefully the arrival of my new stash of ceramic beads will kick me off again.

    I have set aside some time this weekend for 'bead stuff'... I have a kiln load to fire, another kiln load to clean, and once that's done? Then I'll have two kiln loads ready to make jewellery with.

    Most of the beads I've brought from Gaea are in blues and greens, so I guess I better get a bunch of blue and green beads made.


Sunday, 07 June 2009

Monday, 25 May 2009

  • Picking Secondary Schools

    Over the past few weeks TK's Dad, Ross and I have been deciding on which Secondary School to send TK to. We found the zoned public school completely uninspiring, so we started looking into private and semi-private schools in our area.

    The closest semi-private (Christian) School in our area has a great reputation, but unless you enroll your child really early there isn't much chance that you'll get in. We put TK on the wait list for 2010 midway through 2008 and we've been told that unless he gets in on scholarship*, there isn't much chance that he'll get in.

    *sidenote: We signed TK up for the scholarship exams, the exam was a few weeks ago. The morning of the exam TK woke up with the worst sinus infection. No warning signs, just fine one day, really sick the next. I felt so bad packing him off to 4hrs worth of exams. Poor kid.

    We don't know when we'll hear how he did. /sidenote.

    We did tours to two other schools.

    One is brand new and still being built, Ross called it 'the General Hospital' school... it was very sterile looking, lots of white walls and windows. It's a private school run by a company called ICA (Independent College Australia).

    The other is an older school. It's a very small Christian College, and plans to stay that way. It has some really interesting philosophies, and the 4 of us decided that it was our number one choice.

    We filled in the paperwork, and after a week or so we received a letter in the mail inviting TK in for an interview with the Principal. The night before the interview, TK's dad rang him and gave him some advice for the interview.
    I asked TK what Dadda's advice was he said "Dress neatly, brush my teeth and be concise."

    Here are some quotes from that interview:

    ~*~

    Principal: "So you go to your father's house every other weekend? How do you get there?"

    TK: "We go along the freeway, go through the tunnel, over the Westgate Bridge and turn right as we come off the other side."

    (I think the Principal was expecting "by bus" or "by car").

    ~*~


    Me:     (During a conversation about responsibilities) "TK is a Library Monitor at his current school."
    TK: "Actually, I resigned today."

    ~*~

    Principal: "What is your absolute lest favourite subject?"
    TK: "There isn't a subject I really don't like. Maybe Literacy. Except I really love to read and write stories."

    ~*~
    Me: (in the car on the way home) "How do you think you went?"
    TK: "Good!"
    Me: "I think you did well too. There where some places when you could have taken Dadda's advice and been a bit more concise."
    TK: "I don't even know what concise means."
    Me: "That's something you should have told me yesterday."

    ~*~





Monday, 27 April 2009

  • Work.


    I have either allergies or a cold.

    Lots of snot, a red nose, a stuffed up head.

    My manager asked "Aren't you feeling well?"

    I said, "No, I have the Swine 'flu"

    His response?

    "Good, I've been looking for an excuse to have you quarantined for months now".

    .
    Bwhaha.

    .



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