today is my good friend dave's birthday! he's almost an official old bastard :)

so he's now 28.

and this is a Happy Birthday Blog for Mr smiling Dave!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAVE!!!!

for those of you who haven't had the pleasuer of meeting Dave, he's tops.

he's really tall and big and yet cuddly and cute!

when you hug him it feels like your hugging a giant. you can snuggle in under his arm and and you have to tilt your head way back to see his face... like when you're a little kid and you look up at you parents etc.

he also has a big big smile and a really cool giggle type laugh....and he smiles all the time and laughs lots....except when he's all heartbroken over a girl...then he has big sad eyes....that are kind and loving.

you can just tell that he's got a kind heart.

I miss him lots.

Matt and I were talking about maybe going to visit him in singapore.

If Dave was still here in Melbourne, I'd have organised a big night out...dinner and cocktails and disco dancing!

I love you Dave, Hope you have a great Birthday!!!!

kisses and big higs to you!!

xxx
L

well so ends another week. and i have done NOTHING

literally.

i didn't work all week....but i did go to a job interview and they did seem suitably impressed and i did get a second interview for next week.

so i am very very pleased with things.

my folks were here for a few days and will be back from tasmania tomorrow arvo.
brock and marie-anne and adele arrive tonight and are staying with us just for tonight and then we're dropping them off at their relatives.

then dinner with our secret relatives morrow night....then sunday is another day of touristing...

i really wish i had a big house and more money

HI, I have put together a music quiz...yesterday's lost song antics got me in the mood.

I will score all the email that comes back...and then who ever gets the highest score will get a secret present in the mail! you have til Monday to play. No internet cheating!

1. Name the Perth band which contains the 3 Maz brothers. (5 point)
-name the Maz brothers (3 points)
-what's their mother known as? (4 point )

2. Name Perry farrell's 2 main bands (2points)

3.Name the artist of this album ' And then nothing turned itself inside-out' (5points)

4. Lyric 'I've been a bad bad girl, I've been careless with a delicate man' Who is the artist? (5points)

5. Name the band and album from which this song is from: Like cockatoos (5points)

6. Vince DiFiore, John McCrea, Xan McCurdy, Gabriel Nelson and Todd Roper are members of which band? (10 points)

7.Sister Bliss is from which band? (3 points)

8. Do you think Bryan Ferry is a sexy sexy man? (in case of draw this question will count)

9. Name the artist who, quite surprisingly, had a few hits with his bhangra/techno album 'Real People' in 1997? (5points)

10. Name 2 songs by Blur (2 points)

11. Name the band that is responsible for the theme music to 'Malcolm in the Middle'? (3points)

12. What is the name of Weezer's second album? (5points)

13. Which song by Lamb is most likely to be used at a wedding? (5points)

14. Name EMF's album containing 'unbelievable' (5points)

15. Who wanted death to the apple girls? (7points)

16. Where are 'The Tea Party' from? (3points)

17. Who are the Volcano Girls? (10points)

18. Name the Band and Album where you will find this song lyric: '1999 come knocking, time to get sensations rocking! peace, love and i know why no hippy shit can try to give you this tip, give you this sign DREAD ALERT! (20points)

19. Album cover: black background with a red book with a broken spine and a little sketch of a man crying with constellations. Name the band and album? (30 points)

20. Name two members of the Bad Seeds? (10points)

21. Name the artist responsible for 'strange angels' and 'Big science' (15points)

22. Whose mother was a Deejay? (5points)

23. What was FRENTE!'s first albums name? (5points)
- name the band Angie Hart has now formed with her american husband?(10points)
- name the tv show her husband has been musical director for? (20 points)

24. With which 80's goth vixen did Morrissey sing a duet with and release as a single in 1994? (5points)

25. Name the 3 beastie boys? (9points)
- what is their record label called? ( 4point)


Total points available: 220 with Q8 being used only in the event of a draw.

and yes i am sad and pathetic and bored.
but you know you'll do it anyway

xxx
L

well i have been busy touristing up a storm the last few days.

but right now i am at home with my friendly plumber who is fixing my kitchen tap...

and i went in to check up on him and guess what i saw???? PLUMBER"S CRACK

hahahahahahahahahahahaha

i so wish i had camera eyes!

damn that would be cool.....

so that brings us to sunday morning....

my parents arrived at 6.30am.

they caught a taxi to our place so we didn't have to get up which was really very considerate!

looking forward to hanging out with them

saturday was an interesting day.

got up at 6am to get ready to be at laverton by 7am

we got there and joined a queue of about 100 other cars lining up to get in....

we were totally gobsmacked!

there were so many people!!

so many cars

so the line of cars went very slowly...so slowly that it took nearly an hour to get into the market place, and when we did it was full! it was really hard to find somewhere to park and set up.

in the end matt got out to find a place and i drove around getting scared and frustrated.....ppl were having full on biffs about whose spot this area was and why was this other guy here when this first guy had been in this spot for years...ballbalbla

so i was thinking that this was going to be an interesting day.

eventually after much tension matt and i found eachother and the spot and then matt had to go get the car from where i ha left it and bring it to where the spot was etc etc

so it was finally sorted out by about 9.30am

and i was really pumped coz i sold 3 bottles in the first 20 minutes!

but then things fell apart!

just near us was a large group of teenagers and street trash looking adults...you know like teeth missing wearing spray-on jeans and uggboots (this is the women) and the guys are all wearing their FUBU and snoop Dog tracksuit gear.

one of the kids has a police scanner under his jacket and has it attached to an earpiece...i didn't really think much of it....he was going on about how "OhHhh sharon just got done by the cops...."

being new to the dodgy market scene..it took my a while to figure out what they were doing

all these teenagers and a few adults were hanging around tables that were set up but had nothing on them....we couldn't figure out what was going on...

anyway all of a sudden, some other duded urn up and the open these cases (the silver ones for camera gear or records etc) and all these people come from nowhere and start buying stuff..

so thre were three tables....all with at least 20 people going through the cds

there were VCD's DVD's and playstation games...all pirated

all of a sudden everyone starts running!

there were undercover cops doing a raid on piracy....

so the pirates (hahahaha) just snap their cases shut and run off all in different directions...

now if this wasn't interesting enough, all of a sudden these three guys who were sitting behind me and chatting to me about perfume, pull out video camera's and start chasing the fleeing pirates!

they were from today tonight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

anyway i have absolutely NO respect of any kind of liking for these camera dudes...they are like paparazzi scum. matt reckons they are actually just freelancers that sell their footage to the highest bidder....

so anyway, one of these camera paparazzi assholes decides he needs for film footage...i know all this coz they were sitting right behind me and i could hear everything..
so he just gets up and goes up to some totally random teenage boy who is wearing the white FUBU tracksuit...like all those teen boys seem to be wearing these days and starts filming right in his face...this kid goes, what are you doing? coz he seriously was just minding his business....the camera guy goes 'were you involved int he piracy ring..' the kid goes ' what...no get out of my way ' and puts his handup to the camera lens...the mutherfucker camera man keep at him putting the camera right into his face...

so the kid knocks the camera away and fuly punches this guy in the face!!

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!! for violent youth...if i was not fearing for my safety i so would have punched the camera guy too! i can't beleive these people.

so anyway the camera guy continues to film this kid and even chases him for a bit and yells out to the other camera dudes sitting behind me to start chasing this kid.

the dickhead camera duded behind me have seen all this stuff that's just gone on, like me. and totally ignore this guy...

so this camera man who has just been punched and is giving chase to some poor kid is yelling for backup and they just go ; yeah right....and go back to their cofffee..

ths camera man realises they don't are... and stops dead and walks back to the others...and goes "that fucking cunt just hit me" gets on his mobile and calls the cops!

as the cops are already in the vacinity, they got there pretty quick and so did hte market officials.

the best bit was that the cops did nothing and the market officials got the cops to bust the camera dudes for filming without the permission of the market officials...

this all happened b4 11am

afer a while the camera dicks got in their car and drove off...

occasionally the pirates would come back and chat and stuff

all right next to me so i heard lots of great gossip

The pirates had gotten raided last week as well....which is why they were so cagey this week.

apparently this is why they have all the teenagers doing to selling...coz there isn't any jail time they just have to appear b4 the magistrate and usually get a fine...which is only $2000 ..

which is nothing...coz also apparently, they would make about that on a bad day...

needless to say our business was fucked for the rest of the day,.

we packed up at abou 2pm and went home for a nap.

So if anyone wants aftershave perfume etc...let me know i have a lots to sell.

friday was fairly dull...

nothing much happened....cept i did get to pick up my own perfume stick FINALLY!!!!!!!!

so if anyone need perfume, let me know!!

friday night matt and i went to highpoint to buy stuff for creating our stall for saturday coz we were going to go sell perfume at teh laverton markets.

so we did that organised everyting and went to bed early....very dull day

it has all been go the last fe days...

i had a substantial day on thursday....substantial in that it was exhausting and stressful....

work was really really boring... the i had an thing to do that required walking from the markets along queen street up bourke street along william to little collins to do the errand then continuing down william to collins then dwon collins to elizabeth then up elizabeth to melbourne central....then as i was waiting for my train i got a call from a guy who claimed to be the plumber contractor for my real estate office blalabla saying he had a worker in kensington righ now and that he could be at my house to fix my leaking kitchen tap within a few minutes....

i said i wasn't home but would be within 15 minutes... he said that his guy could get a key from the realtor and already be working by the time i got home...

i said that was not really someting i was happy with....etc etc

but he seemed dead keen on getting it done ASAP.

so thenmy train came i lost reception and started freaking out. They can't just come all willy nilly into your house without your say so!?!??

so as soon as i was out of the city loop i called my real estate dudes to tell them not to give out my key.

this went on for a few minutes as the girl at reception was quite stupid and didn't understand what i was saying....in the end she got someone else to talk to me....

so i had to expain it all again.....a guy rang me he said he had a guy at your ofice he was going to get a key and be in my house when i got home but i don't want him in my home so give out any keys coz i'll be home in a few mintues.,

she said she didn't have my keys and that no-one had been in the office....

so by this stage i was practically running home from the train station.....and so flustered i was about to explode either into a rage or start crying,,

so i get home and there's no-one in my kitchen THANKFULLY!
so i go to the loo and the buzzer buzzes....

i am still in the toilet and the dogs are barking and running around coz of the buzer...

i have to rush out put the dogs into their boxes and then go answer the buzzer phone....and its the PLUMBER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

so i let him in...at the same time scott from upstairs comes home and gives me a look like....who is this scrufy man you are lettin ginto your flat>!??!
and says 'are you ok?"

i said 'yes but no....i need a drink....give me 10 mintues then come back down and bring booze!!"

so the plumber checkes out my taps and says and i quote "it's fucked"

i said "i know that's why i called you!"

he said "its going to be a full days job...i'll sort it out and let you know when we'll be back"

i said " monday or wednesday is good for me."

he said " good, i'll make a note of that on the file"

then he left....i had some food and sat quietly for a few moments

then scott knocked on the door and the drinking began

he had a goon bag of banrock station red wine.

i had the rest of my bottle of bombay saphire! which was about 7 caps full of gin.

then i started on the beer (kindly left behind by my beautiful friend karyn)

scott said he had a bottle of sweet white wine upstais and did i feel like some...i said yes..

he went to get it while i made some snacks...cheese and tomato on crackers....very fancy

so we started the white....scott poured huge glasses so we finished the bottle in 2 glasses each

then we called Dan to see if he was home...he was on his way and brought a bottle of white..

Matt was also on his way home, he was late home from work coz they wre having work drinks

so dan had his bottle of white scott went back to his red goon and i went back to my 500ml can of beer.

it was really cold out so we had lit the chiminea too by this stage

when matt got home dan scott and i were pissed and singing....i had brought the laptop out side so we could choose the music we wanted to play....
but waht really happened was that we were fighting over the songs plahying about 45 secs if that of each song...singing along and then scrambling over who would get to play the next tune.

matt brought home a long neck and i started drinking that too...then had some of scott's red wine..

then we stumbled inside..

I was TRASHED!

so drunk in fact that i got out old photos....like my ball photos!!!!!!!!!

and we went through all my polaroids!! and i was going on about all sorts of stupid stuff

so anyway everyone left my 9.30pm

scott adn i started drinking at about 4pm

after that i made a few drunked phone calls and then passed out in bed.

matt was very kind and brought me a thermos of cold water with aspro in it!! :)

which saved me during the night,

then in the morning i had to get up and go to work again.

OH and i found a turtle!