Hello Holiday

So the Socceroos didn’t get up, we only lost by two against Brazil and Japan-Croatia tied with no goals, which means that we still look good for the next round.

I did my last exam for the semester yesterday, now I just have to wait for the results to come rolling in, even though grades are not announced until July 5, I already know that I have gotten two distinctions (6) and I think I might get another two yet and one credit (5) if I manage to pull this off, it will be my best semester at uni ever. One of those distinctions would have been a high distinction if I had not done miserably (11/20) on the mid-semester. Bring on next semester (which is my last semester of my undergraduate Bachelors degree)!

I watched three DVDs yesterday. The first was with Mum – Hope Springs, quite a nice romantic comedy and the character played by Minnie Driver was just a total piece of work. The second was with Mum and Matthew – Do You Remember?: Fifteen Years of the Bouncing Souls, which was a really great doco about The ‘Souls which made me think I really should have gone with Matthew and his friends to see them when the played the other month. The last one I watched was Speak, this was an incredible movie, I didn’t think it would be anywhere near as dark as it was but it was just incredibly moving.
Bring on five weeks of holidays and try to forget that this time last year we were busy preparing for the Palsson Grand Iceland Tour of 2005, I guess though in four years times we will all do our best to make our way back as a family for the quinquennial clan gathering.

I have plans of grandeur to fill my holidays with, which include the following.

• Make this top – Simplicity 4589, view A
• Make pasta
• Finish the final testing of a new blog template
• Attack the ever increasing pile of recipes to try and make a good number of them
• Learn how to knit – Continental style (Mum was taught English style like most Australian’s but thinks it would be better for me to learn Continental style as it is so more efficient, she talks of when she was in Iceland and like most of the other women spent a lot of time knitting by hand or with their machines and how the Icelandic women were just powerhouses with their knitting, maybe I can talk her into paying for me to go to Iceland these holidays to learn how to knit?)
• Get a fair stack of scrapbooking done
• Make a couple of bags
• Get my bike serviced so I can start riding again
• Go on a couple of mini photographic expeditions
• Go see Trivia at the Metro Arts
• Go see Death Cab for Cutie at the Arena
• The Brisbane Flickr meet up on Sunday
• Get a couple of photos printed and mounted for a long overdue birthday present
• Have fun
• Work a heap
• Organise some sort of filing system for the clippings I collect
• Hit up the shops/life with Andrea
• Party hard(ish) with Sam
• Play copious amounts of Gamecube with Matthew
• Organise something with The Girls from school
• Read all the books in this monstrous stack I have – five different trips to the library and the four I need to finish beside my bed (if you click on the photo you can see it full size so you can have a “browse” of my library shelf)

The real question is how much of this list will I actually get through and how much I won’t finish.