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I'm leaving for Tassie today. Yay! I'm heading down south for 5 days for Biz & Kris' wedding. It's going to be great to see my Tassie friends again. The last time I was in Tas was in May for Amy & Troy's wedding. I'll be staying with them and their new baby! I'm so excited! I can't wait to meet Ezra! So it's goodbye from me for a few days.

Make sure you get down to our gig on Monday, that's the day I get home. It'll be lots and lots of fun! Details are:

Monday Oct 2nd (This Monday!)
Barbukka
279 Smith St Fitzroy
8:45pm
There is a small entrance fee, but I don't know what it'll be. Sorry!

I've had a good few days, but a very tiring few days. I did 'synapse' over the weekend, which is a public speaking/preaching course run by Revvy & another guy from out church Stew. It was such a great weekend of learning and having stacks of fun. I learnt a lot! It was a lot fo information in a short period of time, and my brain was pretty fried by the end, but it was really valuable. Thanks guys!

Church last night was just fantastic! Everything came together, even though Ihadn't really done too much in the way of planning. I was worship leading and had no idea what I was going to say. Stew spoke, and we were just on the same wave length as far as topic goes. It was a small service because of the school holidays and Kate's birthday, but it was fantastic. It really was just what I needed to hear. Yay for God! A number of people came up to me after the service and told me it was as if I was speaking right to them, it was amazing! I was really just talking to myself more than anything I think. I love when things like that happen.

I got to meet someone famous today! Chrystal (mrs. Dboy) & I spent the day together shopping at Chadstone and having lunch, and we ran into Pat Rafter doing some signing at Target. I was going to take a photo of him, but the promo guy told me to get in the photo and he took a photo of us. Pat was such a lovely guy! I'll post the photo when I get home, I'm at work and can't get it to the computer right now. Yes, I'm blogging at work...

I'm having a great day at work. I just accidentally set off the silent alarm and the police showed up. Oops...

Well I booked another gig for us! Whoo!!! This time it's @ Barbukka which is just near Fibbers, where we played last time. I'm so excited! I have to design posters for this one, so I need some feedback. What works best? I have 4 different ads I can use.

This morning I watched Steve Irwin's public memorial service on tv. It was fantastic! It was such a fitting tribute to a man who saw himself as just a regular Aussie trying to follow his passion for wildlife and conservation. It was very moving and really spoke about a man who had a huge and positive impact on everyone he met. I want to be remembered for that. He did so much with his life. No one can say that his was a life wasted. He was truly a good man who served others and loved everyone. I suggest you watch it if you get a chance to, it's really moving.

Are we all impressed? So far I haven't cheated on my diet! Go me! And I already lost 1kg! How exciting is that?!!!

So it seems that I have no discipline. I suck at trying to eat healthy and exercise on my own. I can keep it up for a while, but I never stick to it. So I'm doing a new diet plan thing. It's run through Terry White Pharmacy. Yes, this means I have to pay for it, but it'll be worth it. I sick of feeling terrible about the way I look, so I'm doing something about it. I have to drink these shakes instead of two meals a day. I have to drink a minimum of 2 litres of water a day and eat a minimum of 3 cups of vegetables, and eat 2 pieces of fruit. Then I have to have protein for one meal the size of my palm. I think it'll be ok. I'll just have to be really strict and stick to it. Yay for me!

We played that song last night. Tim Finn rocks.

The gig was AWESOME!!! We had so much fun! Thanks so much to you guys who showed up. I love you so much! The 2 Jim's from Autumn Gray were awesome. Jim O'Neill has the most amazing voice! I thought we played really well, and Mr. Dillon were incredible as usual. The dude who organises the entertainment @ Fibbers really liked us, so we're getting more gigs there which is very exciting! I love it! I'd play for free, but don't tell him that. :)

On a different note, I'm disappointed that some of my so called good friends didn't come. I'm upset that they didn't want to support me in something that was so obviously important to me. They pretend to be my friends, but then they don't seem interested in my life. This has been building up for a while. There are a few in particular I can think of, but I won't name them. It makes me sad. Seriously.

A HUGE thank you to Rob (aka Orby) who did our sound for us last night. YOU ROCK!!! All the feedback I got was that our sound was the best of all of the bands, so a huge YAY for you! :)

I was going to say some other things, but I can't think what they were not.

Ok, so I'm not famous, but I was on the Hamish & Andy radio show on Tuesday. I called in. Go me! I hope I make the podcast! :)

Our gig is tonight. WHOO!!! Am I doing enough promo for it? Nah! Never!

Just got another invite to another wedding early next year. I think it's in Hobart though. Doh! All these Tassie weddings!

Someone rang this morning just before 7am and woke me up. I'm not happy Jan (If you're not an Aussie you won't get that). Soldier threatened he was going to do that, but it wasn't his voice. He may have got someone else to do it. If I find out it was you Soldier, you're a dead man. And I mean it...

Not sure I have that much to write at the moment. I am sooooooooooo excited about our gig tomorrow! Uni is going well. Lots of reading to do, not too many assignments at the moment, but I have a couple due in after our mid-semester break. This is the last week of classes before the holdiays. It's weird, I feel like we just started! I'm loving all my subjects this semester which is great. I'm doing lifespan development, social behaviour, and christianty and postmoderism. They are all very interesting. I get to an assignment on the matrix for christianty and postmoderism. I'm going to uni this arvo to work on it, it's a group presentation.

I'm leaving for tassie in 2 weeks! Yay! I'll stay with Amy & Troy. I get to meet their new baby! I may have forgotten to tell you, but Amy gave brith to a beautiful baby boy about 2 weeks ago. He was 9 lb 5 (OUCH!) and his name is Ezra. He's soooooo cute! The reason I'm going to tassie is for Kris & Biz's wedding. I love weddings! Maybe I can catch up with you, sisterwanda, while I'm there! Can't wait to see my Tassie friends again!

If you are into being a blog angel, I found this blog. It's a recent entry. It was pretty full on. I like to surf random blogs from time to time and see what I can find. There are some very interesting blogs out there.

Don't forget about our gig this Thursday!!!

I've decided that no task that begins with putting on rubber gloves can ever be good...

Happy half birthday to me!
Happy half birthday to me!
Happy half birthday dear me!
Happy half birthday to me!

I am 24 and a half today. So far no one seems to care, but I'm excited!

Big claps for Jess who got herself a blog!

Did a group presentation with Tamara & Lydia for my social behaviour class today. It went really well! Yay! Another thing out of the way.

I went swimming with Alex tonight for the first time in ages. Haven't swum for a while, which may not be a good thing seeing as I'm a lifeguard... I'm really quite unfit, but it looks like we're going to make Mondays swimming night. Yay! Fitness, here I come!

I'd love to know how many non-commenting readers I have out there. If you read my blog, but don't usually comment, can you comment on this one? Just so I have a rough idea of whether anyone actually reads my blog! You can leave it anonymously if you like, but of course I want to know who you are! :)

Exciting news! Synergy are playing @ Fibbers on Thursday 14th September. Fibbers is a new bar/pub on Smith St in Fitzroy. They have told us that more than anything they are interested in selling drinks, ie. making money. It's a pretty cool venue. It's great for acoustic acts like us. We'll be playing with 'the hello morning' (who rock!) and we're still confirming the other band that will be playing with us (hopefully Mr. Dillon). So please get along and invite anyone and everyone! Seriously, we need stacks of people to come along! And for the venue to make money, otherwise we might not get invited back. We'd love to get some more work out of this gig, so we're hoping for a killer night! Free entry, but there is a donation bowl that goes to the artists. Details are:

Fibbers
125 Smith Street
Fitzroy
Thurs Sep 14th
9pm til about Midnight

Hope to see everyone there!


On another note, yesterday was Billy's birthday! He's getting old! Here is him about to blow out the candles on his exciting chocolate ripple cake.




And here is just after blowing out the candles!









I couldn't resist the urge to post this unbelievably attractive photo of Matt. Isn't he just the hottest thing on the planet? Control yourself girls!






And Wire eating cake with his new haricut. What can I say?

Just got an email back from the guy at the Espy and we aren't getting a gig there. That's a bit disappointing, but at least we have a gig at Fibbers soon, and hopefully we'll be playing at the Old England Hotel in October. I went down there yesterday and the manager sounded positive about getting local acts in, so we'll see how that goes. Hopefully we'll get more work out of this Fibbers gig. I feel like our music career is actually going somewhere at the moment. It's exciting!

I AM SO EXCITED!!!!!!! I just spoke to the dude who books the entertainment @ Fibbers, a new bar/pub on Smith St in Fitzroy, and we're going to play there in about 3 weeks. It'll most probably be a Thursday night. Yay! Finally some work! I am so excited! Went there last night to see the incredibly talented Mr. Dillon and some others. They were fantastic!! While I was there I asked the entertainment dude about getting some work, he checked out our MySpace and liked our stuff, so yay! WE HAVE A GIG!!!! More details coming. I hope to see all of you there! All of you who live in the state anyway!

You won't always feel this bad

Have we all been voting for Andy? Hamish bet all his savings that Andy would win. If he wins, they get $1240 and they're going to buy a greyhound to race, and call it Fred Bassett! Haha! They have this segment where Hamish read out the Fred Bassett comic from the paper. It's an awful comic and never funny. Hamish makes out that it's the most clever, funny thing ever, and Andy spends the whole time saying how crap it is. It's hilarious!


On Friday night I went and saw Dusted Orange at the St Andrews Hotel. Those guys are amazing! They sound like 'The Butterfly Effect' if that helps. Their gig was amazing and I finally bought their cd. Go to their MySpace to hear some of their music. I recommend getting along to see them if you're in Melbourne. I'm going to see them again on Wed night I think. They're playing @ The Spot on Sydney Rd in Brunswick. I wish they'd pay me for this endorsement. Or at least give me free tickets to their gigs. :)

Everyone vote for Andy Lee to win the Cleo bachelor of the year award this year. He is hilarious and it's a great radio gimmick. He is one half of Hamish & Andy the best show on radio. It'd be fantastic if he won, more for novelty than anything else. And he's probably more down to earth than most of the other guys.
Vote here!



If you love 24, you'll love this! I love it!

- When a convicted terrorist was sentenced to face Jack Bauer, he appealed to have the sentence reduced to death.

- The city of Los Angeles once named a street after Jack Bauer in gratitude for his saving the city several times. They had to rename it after people kept dying when they tried to cross the street. No one crosses Jack Bauer and lives.

- Passed out, surrounded by terrorists and nerve gas, and handcuffed to a table leg, Jack Bauer laughed to himself and said, "I have them right where I want them."

- Jack Bauer doesn't need to eat, sleep, or use the bathroom because his organs are afraid of making him angry.

- Jack Bauer is the only human in the world with the ability to make Chloe O'Brien drop the personality disorder and patch him through.

- If Jack Bauer was in a room with Hitler, Stalin, and Nina Meyers, and he had a gun with 2 bullets, he'd shoot Nina twice.

- Going to China is all part of Jack Bauer's master plan to rid the world of Communism

- Once, someone tried to tell Jack Bauer a "knock knock" joke. Jack Bauer found out who was there, who they worked for, and where the goddamned bomb was.

- If everyone on "24" followed Jack Bauer's instructions, it would be called "12".

- If Jack Bauer's gun jams, it's because he wanted to beat you with it.

- Jack Bauer once forgot where he put his keys. He then spent the next half-hour torturing himself until he gave up the location of the keys.

- There have been no terrorist attacks in United States since Jack Bauer has appeared on television

- When Jack's daughter Kim lost her virginity, Jack Bauer found it and put it back.

- Jack Bauer sleeps with a pillow under his gun.

- A standard deck now contains 48 cards. Too many people were getting hurt for trying to play Jack.

- Jack Bauer could strangle you with a cordless phone.

- On a high school math test, Jack Bauer put down "Violence" as every one of the answers. He got an A+ on the test because Jack Bauer solves all his problems with Violence

- Jack Bauer set an ordinary flash memory card to self-destruct. Don't ask how he did it, he's f*cking Jack Bauer.

- Jack doesn't believe in Murphy's Law, only Bauer's Law: "Whatever CAN go wrong, WILL be resolved in a period of 24 hours."

- Tony was once shot in the neck, rushed to the hospital, underwent emergency surgery and was back on the job in just a few hours. Jack Bauer still can't believe that pussy went to the hospital first.

- Killing Jack Bauer doesn't make him dead. It just makes him angry

- There is the right way, the wrong way, and the Jack Bauer way. It's basically the right way but faster and more deaths.

- In 96 hours, Jack Bauer has killed 93 people and saved the world 4 times. What the f*ck have you done with your life?

- Jack Bauer doesn't miss. If he didn't hit you it's because he was shooting at another terrorist twelve miles away.

- When someone asks him how his day is going, Jack replies, "Previously, on 24..."

- Jack Bauer doesn't speak any foreign languages, but he can make any foreigner speak English in a matter of minutes.

- Jack Bauer doesn't take fingerprints, he takes fingers.

- The truth may hurt, but it doesn't hurt as much as Jack Bauer.

- Jack Bauer's favorite color is severe terror alert red. His second favorite color is violet, but just because it sounds like violent.

- Don't ever ask Jack Bauer what is going on. He'll explain in the car.

- Sun Tzu once wrote, "If your enemy is weaker, conquer him. If he is stronger, join him. If he is Jack Bauer, you're f*cking dead."

- Simon Says should be renamed to Jack Bauer Says because if Jack Bauer says something then you better f*cking do it.

- Jack Bauer teaches a course at Harvard entitled: "Time Management: Making the Most Out Of Each Day."

- Kim Bauer was an accident. Not even the Pill can stop Jack Bauer.

- Jesus died and rose from the dead in 3 days. It took Jack Bauer less than an hour. And he's done it twice.

- There are three leading causes of death among terrorists. They are all Jack Bauer.

- When Jack Bauer was a child, he made his mother finish his vegetables.

- "Jack Bauer" is Arabic for "I'm f*cked".

- Explosions do not kill Jack Bauer, they just get stuff out of his way.

- Jack Bauer removed the "Escape" button from his keyboard. Jack Bauer never needs to escape.

- Jack Bauer is the 'i' in team.

- During the commercials, Jack Bauer calls the CSI detectives and solves their crimes.

- Guns dont kill people, Jack Bauer kills people

- Jack Bauer named his cat 'Chuck Norris.' Why? Because He's a pussy.

- Finding Nemo would have been vastly more exciting had Jack Bauer been looking for him.

- The "Smoothie" was invented when Jack Bauer needed information from a banana.

- Jack Bauer once called the Vice President "Mr. President", but realized his mistake and shot the President. Jack Bauer is never wrong.

- In kindergarten, Jack Bauer killed a terrorist for Show and Tell

- You can lead a horse to water. Jack Bauer can make him drink.

- Jack Bauer could get off the Lost island in 24 hours.

- When Jack Bauer turns on an Xbox the screen just says "You Win" and turns itself off again.

- The quickest way to a man's heart is through Jack Bauer's gun.

- Jack is sorry for your loss, but he needs you to focus on the primary objective right now.

- Jack Bauer once tortured and killed a man using only shadow puppets.

- Jack Bauer was conceived by torturing the other sperm until they gave up the location of the egg.

- 24 Season DVDs cannot be copied because Jack Bauer will not be burned.

- The only difference between Jack Bauer and the electric chair is that Jack Bauer makes you talk first.

- Jack Bauer doesn't get busy signals. No one is too busy to talk to Jack Bauer.

- How many Jack Bauer's does it take to change a light bulb? None, Jack Bauer can see in the dark.

- Jack Bauer doesn't have time to wear a seat belt. It is much more time-efficient for him to simply shoot anything that might cause an accident

- When terrorists go to hell, if they say Jack Bauer sent them, they'll get a group discount.

- Jack Bauer is so well endowed that if he were on Prison Break, the blueprints would all be tattooed around his penis.

- Jack Bauer doesn't use toilet paper. He uses terrorists.

- If Jack Bauer was interrogating Morpheus in "The Matrix", Zion would have been f*cked.