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Football, Pub crawl, Birthday and House viewing

Posted 8 June 2009 19:36:28 by Ben

Had a great week. On Wednesday we had some locals over ours to eat pizza, drink beer and watch the game.

Oliver and Steve

It was Oliver’s first State of Origin. We just hoped he wasn’t out origin-ed by the end of it.

Saturday, Michelle and I manned up and hit the town celebrating our friend Jodie’s 30th birthday in the finest way possible - a good ol’ pub crawl.
We traveled around town visiting The Normanby, The Queens Arms and The Story Bridge Hotel. Our mode of transport - a bus that I’m sure I caught to pre-school over 25 years ago. It couldn’t have been roadworthy anymore. Had a great night and managed a decent run for us old fogies. We didn’t get home until after 2am.

Needless to say that we spent Sunday doing very little. KFC hangover lunch. Lots of Brothers and Sisters tv watching and hot dogs for dinner. Mmmm hot dogs.

This morning we trekked out to Petrie to have morning tea with my grandfather who celebrated his 83rd birthday. Michelle made an awesome carrot cake.

You should hit her up to make you one next time you see her. Awesome!

Erwin and Me

For lunch we made our way out to Enoggera to visit Mel and Ben and their new house that they just bought. Their house is awesome and they made us some yummy fajita type things.

Ben and Melanie

Afterwards, I popped in to see “I love you, man” a new bromance flick that had good reviews. It was enjoyable but didn’t live up to my expectations. Teach me to watch/read reviews.

Might go and catch last nights episode of “Biggest Loser” now… Ahhhh the joys of tv.

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Will she be back?

Posted 1 June 2009 08:14:50 by Ben

Filed under: Living in Aus

Michelle and I have been together for close to 6 years and for the most part those 6 years have been pretty good. But during our tenure together there’s always been a “thing” that has blocked the path to true happiness. For some couples, this “thing” might be a difference in political or religious views, for others it might be the lack of financial restraint. Unfortunately for us, it is much more serious.

Our issue:

Would Michelle be able to watch and enjoy Terminator 2: Judgement Day?

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Stuff

Posted 17 May 2009 08:53:49 by Ben

Filed under: Living in Aus

We have two couple friends who have the same names. It’s always a mess of confusion whenever I organize a catchup with “Ben and Mel” with Michelle usually assuming the opposite couple to the one we’re catching up with. If only one couple would change their names. But I digress…

Friday night we caught up with my old school friends - Ben and Mel - for a beer and feed down at the boardwalk on Eagle St pier. After living in Tassie for 3 years, they’ve moved back up to the big smoke to re-create a life in Brisbane.

We had a good night catching up and even made a brief appearance at the Victory Hotel - a pub I haven’t been too in over 5 years maybe 10. Mel was feeling a bit poorly and was driving so to make her feel better someone (I suspect Michelle) had the brilliant plan to go to Freestyle for some desert. Unfortunately the line-up there was 50 people deep. So plan B was put into effect. It was off to cold rock.

Saturday I started feeling really poorly. I finally managed to complete my collection of cold related symptoms. Yay! Another of my life goals achieved :/

We managed to sell our car that morning before we pottered around the house doing the weekly chores. Afterwards I was so exhausted I retired to bed for some sleep and to watch the finale of Lost season 5. One more season to go. w00t!

About 6pm I had to get up from my slumber and put some makeup on. Michelle and I were going to Geraldine’s 30th Birthday party - a Hollywood fancy dress theme.

Why the makeup? I tried to go as Derek Zoolander but ended up looking more like a trannie or that freak Russell Brand. No matter which way you look at I didn’t look right.

Hollywood Party

See if you can guess who Michelle went as?

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Home Alone

Posted 10 May 2009 16:40:55 by Ben

Filed under: Living in Aus

Unlike Kevin McCallister I didn’t end up spending my weekend “home alone” wiring the house with all sorts of quirky contraptions to stop crooks from breaking in. What I did get up to was far less exciting.

Friday night I had a pyjama party at the Dahl’s house where we drank beer and watched Super Troopers a movie I have fond memories of from a few years back. After enjoying a home cooked big breakfast and more than enough games of flight control on the iphone I went home and spent a few hours watching more movies - W and The Prestige.

Saturday night was spent having a mum’s kfc feast - cause she deserves it - with mum (surprise) and my sister and her family before retiring back home to watch more tv and play more flight control.

I finally managed to beat my high score in flight control - I’m now at 73. It feels so good to break through the mental barrier that the 49/50 plane landing always presented.

For mum’s day we had booked in to Full Moon Hotel at Shorncliffe. We arrived at 8 to find a circus in town. Hundreds of people had the same idea and we were all lined up on the street while we waited for them to open. When we finally got seated we found that the buffet wasn’t really a buffet. We were allowed to go up once (and only once our table number was called) to what looked like a buffet but where staff served us the food. The fruit juice was watered down so much that we asked if the water had been juiced down a little. We got the shits big time and left before deciding to eat. We weren’t the only ones. We saw more than a few families leave with us. A complete balls up Full Moon. Hope your manager is held accountable.

Mum, Hayley, Jet and Damien at Shorncliffe

After we left, our anger and disappointment subsided quickly and we drove along the waterfront to relax and enjoy the view. Along the way we saw another cafe open where we stopped and enjoyed a delicious breakfast without any of the rigmarole. Afterwards we enjoyed a quick play in the park with Jet and a stroll along the beach.

I met up with Ray - my father-in-law - and enjoyed a subway and a coffee for lunch and then went home to watch another movie - Frost/Nixon.

I’m thinking I can get one more movie in before the parents - I mean Michelle - gets home. Yay for lazy weekends.

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