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August 30, 2009

Getting Easier

One of the best things I have done this year is to buy my little camera. So handy to be able to pull a camera out of my bag and take a photo.

11:00, late, tired. 30/365
Monday nights can be quite late nights for me it all depends on what happens at SES, if we have training off site it will be a late night. I like to be in bed by 10, then I can easily get up at 6.

Construction City, 31/365
I took and RDO on Tuesday to go out and visit a friend and her new baby. With all the road and tunnel building that is happening in Brisbane at the moment thy skyline is dominated by cranes and the like.

Ready to Fly, 32/365
Every day is a day closer to Bali and I picked up my passport last week and can now leave the country 😀

Today it is not a happy face, 33/365
You may remember the photo I took on day 5, well on this day when I was coming back from the orthodontist it was not a happy face. I don’t think I have ever seen it as an unhappy face before. I wonder what happened to make it be switched to an unhappy face.

Bed time, 34/365
Looking at this photo on day 43, it is hard to believe that when this photo was taken I was sleeping under a doona, blanket and a quilt, now I just have the doona.

abandoned, 35/365
This photo makes me laugh, for a few days, there was this pram abandoned in the park across the lane. There was a blanket it in but that was it. It moved round the park a bit as I guess the basketball kids played with it. Whenever someone walked past they would go nearer to check that there was no baby in it. The day after I took this photo the pram was taken by someone.

Sweet Potato Tree, 36/365
Sundays are farm days and last Sunday I spent some time under the custard apple tree digging up sweet potatoes.

Sandal Toes, 37/365
The start of the days getting hotter. I remember coming home and just grabbing a glass of water and kicking back on the deck.

Waiter, there is a flower in my tea, 38/365
At work I have a Bodum YoYo tea cup which I just love. One of the teas I am drinking the most at the moment is called Japanese Lime, which has these cute little daisies that unfurl and float about as the tea infuses.

A Story waiting to be told, 39/365
Georgie was in in town last week and we met up for breakfast on Wednesday at the Hotel Orient. I was a little early so I went for a stroll down to the river. The sun was blinding!

August 25, 2009August 25, 2009

I want my winter!

It is August 25th. It is winter. We still have oh six days till it is spring. It is just about 8pm and it is 30Â°C according to my trusty oven thermometer. It’s meant to be maybe you know oh 18Â°C. According to BOM though it is 25Â°C at Amberley and 21Â°C in the city – so we would be about 23Â°C or so.

Oh I hope we get a cold snap in early spring. It’s just not cricket!

August 17, 2009August 30, 2009

These feet dance

I’m sure I’m not the only person who has held dreams or desires close to their heart for a long time. I’ve been intrigued and drawn to ballet for I don’t know how long. Through high school I was so self-conscious of my self and trying to do what I thought other people thought I should do or shouldn’t do, that I didn’t even think about taking up dance. I would watch dance movies over and over, I would close my bedroom door, look in the mirror and move my legs and arms around in semi-graceful attempts at some sort of dance but I would never ever do anything like that in front of other people or even voice the idea of doing such a thing.

About two months ago, the QPAC newsletter mentioned this place called 2Ballerinas and adult dance classes. I went to the website and read it many times over. The studios are just up and over the hill from us, the price was very reasonable, it was only ten weeks, the teaching staff have an incredible background. What did I have to loose? I ummed and I ahhhed. I mentioned it to a few people but that was it. Until I felt comfortable I wasn’t going to broadcast it.

I went to my first class clutching my new ballet slippers, totally unsure of what I was going to face. I met some new people and with both excitement and anxiety I took my place at the barre. As the last few weeks have progressed, I have gradually become more confident in what I do. Sure I spend half the class going “what the?” but then after repeating steps and movements over and over and counting in my head I start to get it.

After class on Saturday I felt fantastic. It had been a relatively challenging class and I was physically drained but I felt so good. Now if you ask me what I’m doing on Saturday, I’ll tell you I have dance class. This week I’m also going to start classes with another dance studio on Wednesday nights. I can’t wait 😀 Now I dance.

August 16, 2009August 30, 2009

29 days and still going!!!

Photos from Days 21-29.
I’ve been to the farm, to work, to play, to the airport, to my parents, to my home and many places more!

Crazy Duck in the Roma St Parklands, 29/365
This morning it was Brown Owls and whilst in the park waiting for the others to arrive I was visited by this bird.

Seam Sealing the tent, T-20hrs before departing for Mongolia, 28/365
This morning Mum and her two sisters along with three or four others headed off to Mongolia for the next three and a bit weeks.

Waiting for the future to come, 27/365
Sitting on a bench in Adelaide St, waiting before I went into see the prosthodontist.

Not our pick-up, 26/365
Thursday night, Mum and I went to pick Susan up from the airport. These two drivers waited and waited and waited for their pick-ups to come out of the gate.

All done at last! 25/365
Ekka Wednesday. Oh so lovely to have a mid-week public holiday. I spent the morning cracking pecans, I finally finished my allotment of pecans from Granddad.

Oh Yeah Transformable Tomas, 24/365
A few weeks ago Karl, sent me a link to this picture. I couldn’t get over how cool it looked. A look at ebay a few days later, a little $$ later and I now have my own Transformable Tomas.

Catherdal Square flowers, 23/365
This is by no means the best photo but every time I walk past this flower bed, I wonder if anyone stops and picks a few flowers? The flower bed is at chest height and it looks so tempting.

Squished, Dry Cane Toad, 22/365
We were going to pick up the avocados and passion fruit and I noticed this squished dried out cane toad and just had to a little photo 🙂

Oh little bird in the yard, 21/365
I don’t mind the birds when they stay in the yard, like this one here. When they cross the border of the deck and try to come into the house though, that I don’t like.

August 13, 2009

anxious

After a very long last few years I go to see the Prosthodontist tomorrow. The last few days I have been quite anxious as to what the possible outcome of this appointment will be. I want the result of the appointment to be that the orthodontists have done a great job and your mouth is ready for stage one of the implant procedure. That’s what I want to hear. In saying that, I can also see him saying more rearrangement of my teeth is needed. I’m getting to a point in my life where I am so over my teeth. I want to be able to go places, I want to be able to bite into an apple. I want to have a mouth that is totally free of visible metal for the first time in 13 years. My appointment is at 1430 tomorrow and as much as I want the answer now. I guess I will just have to wait….

August 9, 2009

The Met Up Late

Friday night I went to the The Met Up Late at the Queensland Art Gallery and oh what an amazing night it was. Holly Throsby and Bree did their thing very well on a little stage in the watermall. I am very impressed with the video on my camera! It was quite a nice experience sitting/standing on the edge of the water watching and listening.

American Impressionism & Realism: A Landmark Exhibition from the Met, just the title of the exhibit alone alludes to the size of this exhibition. There was eight (?) rooms at QAG all filled with wonderful art, broken into themes such as Cities, The Countryside Abroad, Studios and Portraits, etc etc and then with each theme they had a few Australian works from the same era. It was really good. My faviourite artist from the exhibit would have to be Childe Hassam. Two of my favourite pieces of his from the exhibit were Broadway and 42nd Street and Peach Blossomsâ€”Villiers-le-Bel. The final piece in the exhibit is Northeaster by Winslow Homer and it was very impressive. It was hung at the end of the final three rooms so each time as you moved from room to room you see the painting at the end of the exhibit. It was really well executed.

There is a virtual tour on the QAG site that is quite interesting to look through as well.

Light and Reflections on the far wall of the Watermall.

Holly Throsby.

The City at Dusk.

Photo of the Day, To The Sky, 19/365.

Looking back on the path taken over the river.