Saturday, April 01, 2006

Finally, Jaan has done the impossible.

Alright alright, here is your lousy post! Nah, seriously, sorry for being sooo slack. I WAS going to do it yesterday, honest, but things just got too hectic and I injured myself playing squash. It was actually quite funny - I ended up running into the wall shoulder first. I laughed - after I was finished rolling around on the floor screaming my head off. Oh well. Argh, stupid computer. I just finished writing most of my post when it restarted. Those first few lines are all it decided to auto-save. I'll try my best to remember everything I wrote. It prob won't be as brilliant, but it'll have to do.

So the first bit of news is that I moved out with Alice and Lucy (her twin sis). We weren't going to move out until the middle of the year, but a friend of mine had to move out of her place and asked if we wanted to take over the lease. We weren't that keen until we heard the price (damn cheap) and the location (Norwood, just off the Parade). When we came and looked at the place, we thought, why the heck not?? And within a week of hearing about the house, we found ourselves packing all our crap and trying to get in as soon as possible. It's a corner house. You know, one of those ones that used to be a deli or shop? Like, RIGHT on the corner. Anyway, it's awesome. Our first little trial was getting the electricity connected. We rang, they said they were coming. We waited all day and all night, they didn't show. We kept ourselves busy with electronic Battleships. Awesome. We rang again, they said they were coming. We waited all day and all night, etc etc. Well, a whole 2 days later they finally came, and within a minute, everything was connected and working fabulously. I was going to take some pictures of the house to show you all, but you know, my shoulder. I promise I'll do it soon... Whlie it's great having a place in such a good location, there is a downside: it's too damn convenient! Just the other day Alley and I were walking around in the morning, and on our way back to the house, slackness set in and we thought we might as well have breakfast at a cafe. It's just too easy to do!

Crap, what else did I write about? Oh, that's right. Well, this isn't really important, but I felt like telling you all anyway; it's mainly for all the net nerds out there. With moving, came the obvious task of getting my internet reconnected. Hence why I haven't been online in a while. But I finally got it a few days ago, and man, was it worth the wait. I got the new ADSL2+ broadband, and it's friggen sweet! I downloaded an episode of the Simpsons in just over 10 minutes. How awesome is that?? It's a really good episode as well. Ricky Gervais (the Office guy) wrote it and stars in it too. Not as himself, but as an English git who falls in love with Marge. I recommend you watch it. Oh, and while I'm on the topic of of internet stuff, there's this really cool program I thought I should tell you about. It's called Skype - basically it's like a msn messenger type program, except you use a headset and use it like a phone. You can talk to anyone that has the program, all over the world, and the best part, it's free! How good is that?? All you need is a headset, or microphone. So I've been using it to talk to Ben in Montreal and Peter in London. Not bad for a free thing. And the quality is better than talking on a mobile phone. I also bought a new keyboard and mouse. And lucky me, they came with a webcam. Now I can do all those sexy webcam dances I've heard so much about. I'll have to figure out what song to do it too though. And what to wear. Any suggestions? I don't want to look like a twat...

Alright, now what else... Well, the Fringe and Festival and Womad and Clipsal has kept Adelaide the most hippest and happening place in the world for the past month, but I'm so glad it's all finshed. Now I can get back to my nightly routine of watching crap and sleeping. Oh yeah! What a great life I lead. i like it, so you can all go suck an egg.

Health wise things are going alright. I'm not 100%, or even 80%, but I seem to be keeping a hold on things. Let's just say that I'm not getting sicker. I was meant to go to clinic last week, however I kinda forgot and now it's in another few weeks. I'll make sure to go to this one and let you all know how it goes. But I'm making sure to keep up the exercise and limit the things that would make me unhealthy (smoking, drugs (the bad kind), drinking - the usual).

One last thing to tell you is that I was thinking about entering the National Transplant Games this year. Basically they're like a mini Olympics for people who have had transplants (or are awaiting a transplant). Apparantly having cf means you qualify because you are technically on the watiting list. They are being held in Geelong in September, and I had a really good time when they were held in Adelaide a year ago, so I thought I might give it another crack. But we'll have to wait and see how the money situation goes.

Crap, this has taken me over an hour and a half to write this. Mind you, I have been eating dinner and watching Red Heat as well. I know, I know. Multitasking is a wonderful thing, but let's not make a big deal out of it. I'm sure I've missed out heaps of stuff, but I can't be arsed writing any more so you'll just have to deal with it. But I'll make sure to get those pics up so you can all see our humble little castle.

Rating: 6.5

What I'm listening to: The Best of the Beach Boys

1 comment:

Janka said...

*clap,clap,clap....* here's a round of applause for you Jaanie, for actually getting your arse up and writing such a long post...hehehe
nah, really good to hear from you again and I'm sure you guys are having in awse time at the new place. Definitly get some pics of it on the blog though, can't wait to see it!!
Cool thing to enter the National Transplant Games, even though it's weird that CFers can just participate like that. Make sure you keep us posted on that one!