Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Happy Birthday

"Go shorty, it's your birthday
We gon' party like it's your birthday
We gon' sip on Bacardi like it's your birthday"
50 Cent.

Happy Birthday Lucy.
I'm kind of angry and always sad that you aren't here to share it with me.
Sometimes I visit your blog just for old times sake, to revel in how splendidly unperfect you were.
I miss you.

Monday, May 28, 2012

Word search

Y7 was doing a word search for his homework. We had a conversation that ran like this...
Y7 - "I found another one".
Me - "What is it".
Y7 - "Ho".
Me - "um, I don't think ho's a word". (to myself - "where the hell did he pick that up?")
Y7 - "Yes it is".
Dinoboy "It's what Santa says".
Y7 - "That's right!"
Me - "Oh".

30 cm's

30 cm of snow fell on Perisher last weekend.
The first significant fall of the year.
I'm excited.
I'm also kind of nervous. Y7 is a hard charging, speed loving, all terrain skier. He skis like a boss and he knows it and it makes me scared because there is a gap there. A big space between his wisdom and his ability. His coach last year praised him for being a safe skier and I cling to that because it is a dangerous sport. There are all the risks inherent in a sport that consists pretty much of controlled falling at high speeds and then there are the risks of environment. Thankfully avalanches aren't the killers in Australia that they are elsewhere but there are other dangers out there for a boy who skis better than most adults with only a small portion of their knowledge.
Dinoboy...... he's not so hardcharging, not so fast but he loves the park and the park is full of hard things and scary tricks. And the jumps get bigger every year.

So I take them out there because I love it and because they love it too when it's all going right but sometimes I question it. Sometimes I wonder if we should all just go home and have a hot chocolate and get into a big fluffy ball of cotton wall.

EDIT - I've done a bit of googling and it seems that the average (mean) speed on an intermediate piste is 43.0 km/h. My boys ski faster than the average.
And 43 km/h is pretty fast. For comparison a good speed for a well trained road bike rider is about 35 km/h.
On the positive side competitive downhill skiers reach speeds in excess of 120km/h. My boys aren't that fast :)

Saturday, May 19, 2012

Possibly the best liability waiver ever....


 This is from a snake handling Church. One of the ones where they drink strychnine, handle highly venemous snakes and recklessly ignore the rules of grammar and punctuation.




More snake handling.....

Friday, May 18, 2012

Chick Flicks Are Full of Suck!

Chick Flicks! Ugh!
Please Hollywood can you stop telling me that I should enjoy romantic comedies.
I look forward to the day when I can watch a movie about a woman who finds fulfillment by running off into the sunset with her dog, her sports car, her great career and a few good friends.

Yanno what's better than the average RomCom?

A Marmot!! With pear.



Thursday, May 17, 2012

In which I win a KitchenAid Artisan Stand Mixer

2 posts in a month!!
It's a freaking miracle.
This is even more exciting than dead marmots. I know, I know........it's a tough gig to follow.

Delicieux is giving away a Kitchen Aid and since I'm way too cheap to buy one I'm pinning my hopes on winning one.







and a Marmot.........


Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Dead Marmot.

Today with nothing better to do I had a quick look at the stats for my poor neglected blog. In particular the search terms that bought them here.
I fear that most people were disappointed.
These are a few of the search terms that have bought people here in the last month .

"how to grow a tom selleck mustache" - I can only reiterate my previous advice. If you are not a man of maturity don't bother. People will call you fluffy.

"dead marmot" - Ummmmm....... yes. I have a photo of a dead marmot in my blog. I do wish I know why a Russian person was looking for dead marmots.

"tough mudder what to wear" - Glad I'm not the only person who spends more time worrying about my clothes than my fitness.

"alligator chained to a tree in nimes" -  Yes, there is an alligator tied to a tree in Nimes. I forgot all about it.