Gussy’s Blog

I just got a phone call from someone who didn’t call me. I didn’t call them either. He was just got off the phone with his cable provider, when my phone rang. Must have had some weird cross lined thing happening. It took us about 3 minutes to work out the fact that neither one of us called, ended up being quite funny. He even thanked me for calling. I wonder if i could have struck up a random conversation about the state of world affairs or why camera flashes give you the little white lights when you stare at them.

Today, the 26th of January is Australia Day. The one day you can drink shit tins of piss, eat bogan food (it is illegal 364 days of the year), be a yobbo and basically let your real Aussie colours come out. The day can either be spend watching the cricket, tennis or some other sporting event. As long as an Australian is playing or it is being played in Australia counts. So sit back and do the Aussie thing for the day. Nothing. Enjoy the surrounds whilst sucking back on a tinnie or two. So charge ‘ya beers or wine…which ever you fancy and have one for me. I’ll try and have one for everyone else.:D

I’m staying at my folks place for a few days, everytime i come up i usually do some gardening of physical labour of some sort. But not this time, this time i’m resting. Oh the joys of watching other people work whilst you sit back and take in a good book, the score in the tennis or just walking around the house trying to scare/ wake up the cat.

My mum tends to have a problem with naming things right. I think this is a general mother problem. Some call it similar Alzheimer’s, i like to refer to it as “Mum Syndrome”. It usually is apparent after a few years raising kids. The word for spoon becomes “that thingy-ma gig”. The word for a knife becomes “the cutty cutty thing”. And so on. There is one clause to this though, the arm movements which describe the action of what implement she is after. So when mum wanted me to fetch some implements from the shed for her gardening exploits, she described them as, “the claw thingy”, “the digging thingy”, the thingy-ma-giggy-dooby wack” and “the thingo” Now to anyone else you would go, Huh??. And so did I, so i ended up getting all the smaller tools from the shed that i could find, and brang them back to her. I didn’t get the right one still. So i went back and got all the larger tools, the shovels, spades, you name it, i got it. I got the right tool eventually.

So there is one thing im not looking forward to, the fact that i sometimes to this as well.. maybe it isn’t just a mum thing after all. Hopefully though i can change things around, anyone know any good memory classes?

Watched an Australian Movie the other night, whilst i normally don’t tend to like the Aussie movies. I do like to give them a chance. Seeing that i hadn’t seen one in quite a while, i thought this one would be good. I forgot to read the warnings on the cover.

“MA (Mature Audience), Strong Sex scenes ”

Now i normally don’t cringe when i see that, i normally do the male thing of
“yes sex scenes!!, slightly naked women”. Not this time, i was watching this movie with my folks and my youngest sister. It felt awkward to me, see i haven’t watched to many movies with the folks that have a sexual tone to them. To add to this we are not a family that talks about sex to much, not that i want to know what my folks get up to. (ewww visual images, not good!!! :-/ ) It was a good movie, had a strong undertone of one finding themselves thru the happenings of the past. I don’t want to say to much, cause i might spoil it for you.

Anyhow, i liked the movie, check it out if you can. Peaches.

Well i thought you would like to know, after some hard work…lots of junk food and healthy stuff as well. I have managed to finally gain some weight! Yipee!!! Mind you it might be all the hard work im doing at the moment with work. Moving lots of mulch, and soil, and pavers and other boring and repetative things. I have gained 3kg (8lbs) of muscle in about 2 months. Now i know that is really nothing to write home about, but seeing that it has taken me ages to actually gain weight and i had trouble last year with losing weight for no reason. The funny thing about it though is that i might have become a bit vein about it all. Each morning i weigh myself, just to make sure that im not losing weight or that it isn’t a dream. Maybe i should hand the scales back to my sister?

Well two thousand and five has come and gone. Now we are onto two thousand and six. Man time travels fast when lots is happening. I thought i would do a wrap up of the year for me.. It has been a tough and fun year, lots going on.

January

• Quit my job
• Packed up my house

Febuary

• Drove across Australia, from Sydney to Perth
• Blew up Moses, well the engine anyhow in a small town in the middle of no where, Nyngan

March

• Started my Horticulture Course
• Nothing exciting happened this month

April

• Became a Blogger, over at Blogspot
• Settled into Perth….with a car!

May

• Wrote lots about Hitler.. cause of a movie i saw called Downfall.

June

Wrote my highest (so far)searched post.
• Gave the best banana cake recipe to the world!

July

• Started training and running long distances to get fit. It only made me loose weight, something i dont really need to do.
• First post in Wordpress.. and im still learning CSS too :/

August

• Ran in the City to surf
• Found a girlfriend

September

• Lost said girlfriend
• Asked to be Flocked!
• Crashed and wrote off Moses
• Participated in boobiethon

October

• Got flocked
• Turned 25, and got given a heart attack

November

• Got banned, for no reason known to me!
• Showed my distaste for Christmas

December

• Becoming an Uncle
• Decided to change Career’s again
• Enjoyed Christmas watching DVD’s and drinking

This is just a summary, and infact lots more has gone on, but unfortunately, or is that fortunately? i can’t remember it all. I wish everyone the best of New Years and hope that you live your dreams, cause it sucks to live life and have regrets.

I’ve been infected again to do a Four’s meme, by Luna So here goes

Four Jobs you’ve had in your life:

1. Help Desk Support
2. Retail Sales
3. Delivering Newspapers
4. Labourer

Four movies you could watch over and over:

1. Amelie
2. Garden State (only saw it for the first time after getting it for Xmas!)
3. Finding Nemo
4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind

Four places you’ve lived:

1. Sydney, Australia
2. Curitiba, Brasil
3. Buenos Aires, Argentina
4. Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Four TV shows you love to watch:

1. Lost (I have been having withdrawals during the break)
2. NCIS (Abbey is kinda hot)
3. Lost
4. Documentries- Any

Four places you’ve been on vacation:

1. Santiago de Chile, Chile ( I, LOVE CHILE!!!)
2. Key, West, Florida
3. Foz de Iguacu, Brasil
4. Bangkok, Thailand

Four websites you visit daily:

1. Little Red Monkey Forum
2. News.com.au
3. Whirlpool
4. Overheard in New York

Four of your favorite foods:

1. Cheese, almost all
2. Humus
3. Creme Brulee
4. Corned Silverside with veggies

Four places you’d rather be:

1. Asleep
2. Chile, any part
3. Hanging out with friends
4. Travelling the Globe visiting Exotic locations

And now to infect other people… and i don’t want to infect the same people that i did with the Random 5 so…… Amanda, Keg (even though it mightwon’t happen), Mark andCoralie (hope i spelt it right :P)