My Life in the Slow Lane

Week 10

2/03: The bookshelf again, now standing upright, more like a bookbin or a bookbox than a bookshelf.
3/03: M&Ms. From the freezer. Brilliant.
4/03: The DVD of Latter Days, a birthday gift from the gorgeous and very generous Bryan. Thank you!
5/03: Wednesday’s dinner. It looked so impressive I had to take a photo.

6/03: The new, white hot paving stones on Eastern Ave. I’m sure that when the works were being designed that the architects and planners wanted a cool, breezy pedestrian boulevard but in reality we are stuck with a hot, muggy concrete jungle.
7/03: The contents of my fridge. Frozen M&Ms, ice cubes, a bottle of frozen water, coke, milk, apple juice and four bananas.
8/03: The bath. My parents’ place hasn’t had a bath since I was a teenager so this is a big deal.

Week 09

24/02: The piñata that Luke and Zoe beat the shit out of at the birthday celebration for Lukas’s sixth birthday. It is so strange to have a six year old godson at my age… During the shit-beating of the piñata, Zoe managed to strike my Dad in the temple with the bat. She drew blood.
25/02: The fairy lights on my bedroom wall. I found a way around the “no sticking stuff to the walls” rule… just use the hooks that have the special sticky stuff that doesn’t mark the wall.
26/02: The carnage from leak.

27/02: Tripod playing at a comedy night during O Week. The Axis of Awesome were also playing that night. Fucking. Awesome.
28/02: The Fisher forecourt, which has been in various stages of construction over the last four months, is finally looking more like a forecourt and less like a mud pit.
29/02: I was amused to see the image of milk bottles on the recycling bins in the food court are detailed enough as to have an image of lost child on it, like they do in America (but not here to my knowledge).
1/03: A pitiful photo of the fireworks lighting the skies over Oxford St on the night of the Mardi Gras. I was at Drew’s place—the perfect viewing position—but I had no camera except the one in my phone so I have no photos at all. An awesome night though.

Week 8

17/02: Rainbow balloons on a railing post in Victoria Park for the Mardi Gras picnic day.
18/02: The pitiful security light outside my door. When this photo was taken, the light was barely bright enough to illuminate a shoebox, but a few days later it got a second wind and lit up the little landing area brilliantly—to the point where I had to block the window above my door with newspaper—before dying a few days after that.

19/02: The fountain at Hyde Park; I sat and watched the fountain for a good half hour after going to Mass at the Cathedral for Pop. I’m generally not a fan of fountains but this one had me mesmerised.
20/02: A view of the Holme Building from the other side of Parramatta Road, on the way to uni.
21/02: Cannabis and Opium scented incense sticks available at a discount store near you.
22/02: Possibly the most useless lift in the world in one of the buildings at uni… You will notice it has a button for every floor between one and five, yet it only actually delivers passengers to floors two, three and four during semester, and only two and three during the breaks.
23/02: My trusty shopping cart which goes with me to the grocery shopping… best fifteen bucks I ever spent!

I haven’t forgotten, I just haven’t been able to upload due to my acute lack of internet. This has now been remedied so I’m uploading three weeks’ worth tonight.

Week 07

10/02: Nada.
11/02: Zip.
12/02: A curtain that hung in a lift I caught that said “Danger, mirror behind”. What does one have to be afraid of in their own reflection, I wondered.
13/02: A bowl of peas that I found in the microwave which, judging by its smell, had been there for a number of days, obviously a forgotten part of a long forgotten dinner.

14/02: Little bulldog clip man.
15/02: As we drove into the laneway behind my new place, about to move in, this was that view that greeted us.
16/02: The bookshelf in my bedroom; in a former life it was the box that I bought my printer in.

3/02: My newly made bed. This is a relatively rare sight, since I tend not to “make” my bed each day, I just leave the covers sprawled every which way, so it really only gets made when the sheets are changed.

4/02: The view of the Railway Square spires from my bus on Monday, the day I got soaked.

5/02: Nearly all the tablets I took on Tuesday. The photo is missing some pain killers, but it gives you an idea nonetheless.

6/02: A (very blury) picture of the label on my main fibromyalgia medication. As I took out two tablets this morning I noticed the fine print: “This product is not designed to diagnose, cure or treat any disease.” What’s the fucking point then!?

7/02: Jack, my little teddy bear and the keeper of my locker keys; he’s only small, fits into the palm of your hand. He was a gift from my nephew Lance. Shameless promotion: click on the link to go to JDRF’s online store to purchase one all money raised supports research into Type 1 Diabetes, one nasty fucker of a disease (just ask Lance).

8/02: The bottom of my new pink frying pan, a birthday gift from Liz. I love it!

9/02: Sunshine in the backyard. It feels like the first time this week!

Week 05

27/01: My birthday celebrations began a week early this year with lunch at my grandparents. Grandma didn’t have a 4 candle so she put 25, then a white biscuit on its side, then a 1 to make “25-1″.
28/01: 404 error, no image today.
29/01: A pile of negatives waiting to be scaned.
30/01: The total disarray that is my bedroom as I start packing things.
31/01: The cover of the film Breakfast at Tiffany’s, which I watched as I cleaned.
1/02: Dinner from tonight’s birthday dinner excursion.
2/02: A small sponge with a ferrero rochere on the top.

Week 02
06/01: Thai for dinner at Lala and Cal’s
07/01: Laundry floor, because I couldn’t be bothered taking a photo of something more interesting
08/01: Olly the poodle standing guard over the back yard as I smoke
09/01: The office… where I spent the day arguing with computers
10/01: Fairy lights outside at Lala and Cal’s
11/01: Smoking on the back steps
12/01: Brendan’s slippery dip

I will write a propper post soon… I have been busy enjoying my holiday with my family and trying to weather the stormy emotional roller coaster. I have a few posts half written that I’ll post next week.