I liked you better when you weren’t here

Yeah okay so I think I’m over it.

A broker came to collect documents yesterday and said to me “Aren’t you going to ask for ID?” And I said, “Yeah, like someone’s really going to pretend to be a broker and steal loan documents.” I told Kirra and she was astounded. Apparently that was a little too sarcastic. But I then said “alright then, show me your id.” and he was who he said he was, so what was the problem? I think I missed the point. I think I’m getting a bit reckless.

A continuation of sounds that dominate and annoy:

1. Vaccuum cleaner (especially at work while doing overtime and I’m trying to listen to my MP3, or on Saturday mornings when you’re trying to sleep in and someone starts vaccuuming and it’s another way of saying “get out of bed and get cleaning!”)

2. Mowers (especially on Sunday mornings when you’re trying to sleep in. This noise is really irritating. It’s like the least relaxing sound in the entire world).

3. Tuneless whistling (especially early in the mornings at work when you’re trying to concentrate, and they go on and on and never stop)

4. Bass beats from distant parties at night (especially if it’s on a school night. But this is just annoying any time)

In case you weren’t paying attention, this is a “continuation” as I previously mentioned that TV was dominating and annoying. So I guess that wasn’t really a “sound” thing, but I’m continuing on with a sound theme, because people were just vacuuming in here and I was inspired.

My Iriver is the best thing ever. It’s like listening to a radio station that just plays all your favourite songs all the time (because it’s on shuffle) and you don’t know what it’s going to play next, just that it’s going to be good.

Things remembered:

* being in a TV ad with Noelle for the sale of Dad’s property.
* Going on a treasure hunt at the beach, where the adults had hidden little slips of paper with different amounts on them ($2.00, $1.00, $5.00 SCORE!) and redeeming them for coins that for some reason were either held in paper bags or wrapped up in butchers paper like fish n chips.
* going cane toad hunting with big hessian sacks out on the ranch, and ending up at the sewerage works with Mark O’C, because he thought there would be heaps out there but there WASN’T and we had to put up with the stench for NOTHING!
* taking the bags of cane toads back to the hall for the tally. how gross was that?!
* The time they held a sausage sizzle at the Sewerage works. Whyyyyy???
* Camping at Lake Ainsworth, Lake Arrawarra, Dundurrabin (actually that wasn’t camping…) which was SO MUCH FUN!
* Camping at Broadwater & going down the rapids on inner tubes and lilos (that was SO MUCH FUN! also)
* The wolf man at Broadwater (aaaarrooooooooOOOO!!)
* Ro making pig noises in response to the wolf man
* Drinking hot milos from the campfire late at night.

Oh I love camping.