Hello everyone, I apologise for all the cricket, judging by the lack of feedback. Though, I assure you all, that if I could take you guys to the cricket and explain the rules, you will be hardcore followers. I have gotten the most stubborn of cricket haters into cricket. The best way to make a start is to listen to the radio broadcast and listen to how the commentators describe the game as its being played out, its SUPERB, especially the british commentators they are excellent. I think aussies love it soo much, because: 1. the long hot summers, beg for you to take an esky to the cricket and kick back tanning and drinking and enjoying just kicking back. 2. Our current cricket side is superb, the teams skills are sooo tight and because Australia loves cricket, it really shows in our teams enthusiasm. A little funny fact is that, people who like math usually like cricket, (the scoring is quite detailed) and or cricket gets you into math. Alot of people in India are naturals at math and cricket is their number one national sport, food for thought.

Ok onto another topic, I have spent most of my weekend watching a sci-fi series called 'Firefly', a guy at work has been dying for me to watch it, he lent the series out to me and its been sitting on my living room floor for about six months. The other day I finally gave in and started watching it and now (I am scared to admit it) I am quite hooked. I am very reluctant towards t.v. sci-fi and havn't actually watched one (including star trek). If any of you have a chance to hire it out or something, I recommend it a viewing. I won't give anything away, but watch it in peace and listen carefully, (you can ignore that last comment, I'm always telling people to listen carefully) don't watch it like me, after consulting Mr Jack Daniels a few too many times and needing toilet breaks as often as you inhale air. Sheesh that sounds weird, ok, when I say Mr Jack Daniels, I mean the the bourbon, of course, not some seedy pimp or seedy guy. Oh god, please don't read it that way. This blog is going to be out of shape, because I am drinking Jack Daniels as I type this and have noticed I am rambling crap. With that said, I had better split so I don't bore the living life out of you. Out to the rocking and rolling space people.
Love Michelle.

I searched for ages, to find a decent photo of Adam Gilchrist in a test game, in his whites, batting, with the photo being taken from behind, its near impossible. There was a nice one of Matthew Hayden, unfortunately not Gilly. This is a good photo of Adam smashing England for 6, the slips fielder could only look on in dismay. Ok, hopefully I shall be able to hold back my desire to post cricket photos from now on.
I had best get stuck into cleaning up my house and doing all those things you can't normally do when you are at work.

I thought I had best attach this explanation of drop bears here, if you have broadband, its better. Also do turn it up and listen carefully, there is a few drop bears in Australia.
http://www.bundabergrum.com.au/html/comm/clips_hq/drop_bear.mpg

My day was ok. Have a day off tomorrow, so I am looking forward to that, I am going to buy the original War of the Worlds, as its come out on a two disc cd (this is the one, narrated by Orson Wells) I think its a classic, especially for its time, quite ahead of its time. H.G. Wells really was ahead of himself when he wrote this book. Then once I have listened to it, I shall head to the cinemas to watch the Spielberg version, which I am really looking forward too.
A movie I highly recommend is million dollar baby. I have a soft spot for Clint Eastwood (probably because dad, insisted on forcing us to watch sooo many old western movies)

Damien Martyn, cutting the ball down to square mid off. One of the excellent batsman for the Australian side and he is from Perth, Western Australia, as a matter of fact there is 3 West Australians in the test side, Adam Gilchrist (brilliant keeper and batsman), Justin Langer (brilliant batsman) and Damo.
I love test cricket and have been to the cricket grounds in Perth to see test games on several occasions. The cricketing whites (as they are referred to) are a very appealing outfit. mm.

YAAAAAAAY CRICKET, the Aussies won the first Ashes test, we flogged England's arses. WOOOOHOOOO. I hope we win the entire ashes series. Damo Martyn is playing superbly, text book batsman that guy, Warnie, McGrath and Lee, absolutely SUPERB. The whole team is SUPERB. Its absolutely brilliant. The coverage here is live too, and the station that won the rights to air the Ashes doesn't play commercials inbetween overs. So its uninterrupted, which is fantastic, mind you it would be interrupted by the tour de France, which was ok, but would prefer non stop cricket.

Hello there, its about lunch time. I have just returned from the shops, I insisted on getting my little brother to a clothes shop to buy some decent clothes. He is a typical farmers son, too scared to try anything groovy and insisting on his crappy old cargo pants and crappy jumpers and shirts. Now though, he looks really groovy and I am impressed with my selections of clothing articles, I can breathe a sigh of relief, knowing he will now look smart enough to go out on the town with his mates.
I think its an unwritten obligation for an older sister to carry out this duty, to save our brothers from their bad, or lack of taste in clothing.
Its nice and sunny outside 17 degrees today, still cold but a teeny bit more bearable.

Just finished up night fill, its raining alot out there. Stores job is flat out. I have an all day meeting with treasury on friday, which is quite stressful for me, considering the accountant has only just re-opened the books to let me finish receipting and issuing my store items (I have 100 invoices to go through, have been accumulating since June 30 due to end of financial year). Grrrrr.
On top of that I have 20 items to order to keep things from running out as well as store items getting low and have angry co-workers wondering where the hell everything is. It is quite rooted at the moment and is causing me a bit of frustration, I can't wait till my car is finally fixed so I can do some decent shopping and sort my financial situation out. (it doesn't look good, going for job interviews without transport!) By the way Phil, I did drop the tutoring, ages ago, getting help from you, was alot more productive. This guy was helpful, but I think it had been too long since he had done it, he was going over the notes for some time before he could explain what was going on. I do greatly appreciate his help, but maybe his engineering studies were too demanding to be able to devote quality time out for tutoring. Off to bed.

oh goodness, I am quite tired. My sister travelled up from the farm to visit me in the big smoke, we did alot of catching up and watching favourite movies. Oh, its so good to see family, I havn't seen anyone since an unfortunate event earlier in the year. Ok, I am running dry on things to say, due to lethargy.

Woo hoo, its midnight or about that. Which means its about lunch time over your way Phil, Jess and everyone. I've been trying to upload an image of a friend of mine who went to Canada 5 months ago and he sent me these awesome snowboarding pictures. Hence, why I would love to go snowboarding in Canada. What was funny, is he worked on the gold mine with me, we had this exchange student from Canada doing underground mining engineering and he wanted her baaad, she is a top chick, I am good friend of hers. My friend Brad wanted her baaad, anyways she left home and broke his heart, irony as it seems, had a Canadian lass, cross his path whilst in either Oz or Bali, anyways she took him back home (Canada) and they had a ball snowboarding. So while he was enjoying freezing, snowing, cold Canada, we over here, sweated our arses off. Especially at the mine we work at it rarely drops below 35 degrees for 8 months of the year, its as HOT AS HELL. So these pictures were hard to digest, while he was having a ball over there in Canada. Now I really would like to get my arse over there and hit the snow. I wonder how warmbloods like myself might cope.
Out to space everyone.

oofff, I have had a bit of a rough couple of days, on tuesday I felt like chucking everywhere too. I got food poisoning from a ham sandwich, I don't like ham sandwiches anymore. Am much better now, thankfully. Well, tomorrow, I find out, if they want to keep me on as a storegirl at my current work place, I don't like to say the companies name, as that would be unethical, I think.
It is a good place and the people are an easy going bunch of characters. Got my exam results, back and phewee, I passed, with 70%, not great, but considering I completed all my chemistry tests in one week to prevent a fail grade and just studied around the clock. I am happy with that mark for now. It should be better and this is why I must decide to give full time work the arse and sell my house and focus on my studies. It was too risky, letting it get that way. Thankyou for the comments Jess, your job is much cooler, we have to work real hard to keep up with the guys.

To give you an idea, this isn't meant to happen. Above me is the rom bin and the loader operator keeps it filled so I can run the ore through the crusher, (ore is usually in huge rock size quantities, not shown here as they've emptied the bin to help retrieve the loader) the primary crusher snaps the the large boulders down to more sizeable rocks anyway I could go on for ages. This happened at a mine site a friend of mine is working at, the driver was in the cabin when it happened, he is ok, but a little shaken. There is actually a heap of photos that go with this, to show how they pulled it out again, but I don't want to bore the pants off you all, I think you get the picture. I never drove a loader that large, but have operated smaller ones on the ground to clean up. It is awesome feeling, you feel like a king up there.

Hold your horses Phil, its working again now, it was strange there for a short while. Judging by the time, I'd say, most of you in Canada are probably still in bed. Work is work. Life is life. Still havn't been exercising, I guess, this is lazy creeping up slowly.
This is the colour of my eyes
This blue is lovely, especially in clothing
Red. Is red. Like tomatoes.
I am only just discovering these things, mind you I guess, it won't actually come up because my blog is black. The colours in house of daggers, are so beautiful. Maybe thats why I also love this film.
The picture, is of the control room of the Primary Crusher at Plutonic Gold Mine, if you know someone who does Mining Engineering or Mining Geology, they will know how huge this machine is. I used to push between 400 to 600 tonne through this to keep up production. This was my office for a couple of months, you can see my hard hat up top there.

The house of flying daggers, brilliant film.

Last night, I hired out 'The House of Flying Daggers', it is a brilliant film. The last time I saw a breathtaking film like this, would have been crouching tiger hidden dragon. Its so intriguing, the detail, behind the motivation of each character, is very striking. I highly recommend it.

I thought, I had best write this now, rather than my usual complaining the next day. Somehow a bottle of red wine, found its way into my hands and then poured itself into a glass, upon which it vanished and the glass miraculously refilled. Its only 10.30pm, I feel pretty good, and the music is very loud, oh how funny a line in the song, just said, "we'll drink some cheap wine and have a drink on ME" YEEEEEEEEEAH. Linda is spinning out and so am I, I probably didn't mention, but we are best friends, might as well be sisters, we've had highs and very lows but are tight.
I can tell she is freaking out, especially since I have been rabbitting on about the cute Australian cricket team, and the boys are in England at the moment playing and then whammo, its all gone pear shaped. I think I need another beverage.

I received a message from good friend (Linda is a paediatric oncology nurse in Londons CBD) and she ironically had a day off that day, and woke to the news of the bombings, I happened to be asking wether she was watching the cricket and she said, "no the news". I think she is spinning out a little, I have written her a huge letter, but Linda who is always the strong smart type between us two, I'm sure she will have no problem thrusting her determination forward to get along with life.

This is just a small chink in the British armour, stay strong England.
My friend left Australia to nurse in London, she used to live in Tavistock, up untill a few months ago. I have messaged her, but can't get a call through, her parents have let us know that she is ok. I think the reason mine and my friends phones can't get through to her is because so many are trying to make calls at the same time. I do alot of photography with an old manual camera and only recently started putting photos on disc, so I have at least 480 photos on paper, if you know what I mean, the normal photographs. So unfortunately all my experiences captured on film arn't able to be put on the net, mum managed to scan the horse riding ones, she has a scanner and is home on the farm 400 kilometres away. So its no good to me, anyways, I believe scanning isn't the greatest and that I should endeavour to get the negatives, put onto disc.
Out to space everyone.
Hey, the brits have one thing to smile about, they beat us Aussies in the cricket last night, I stayed up till midnight watching it, then realised the English had it in the bag. Oh the guys at work from England, love giving us shit about it. You wait till the ASHES series start, we all will see some great cricket then.

Oh yeah, just what I need after a long day at the office, AC/DC. I havn't been having such a good week, I will push on in face of everything thats been going on. I only have myself to blame for stuff that hasn't worked out and from this I will gain, by learning from my mistakes.
Still havn't been running, because I swear it is freezing f***ing cold out there, maybe I have just got to just somehow, drag my arse out there and run it round the block, with frozen sweat and frozen snot hanging from my nose. Its mid semester break from uni and school here, so not much going on there.
In the words of Brian Johnson (lead singer of akka dakka) "We're just talking about the future. Forget about the past. It'll always be with us, it's never gonna die. Never gonna die
"ROCK AND ROLL AIN'T NOISE POLLUTION"

Yep another busy day as a storegirl. Finalising all my adjustments for the FY stocktake. Am panicking as its been 2 weeks and 3 days since I have been jogging, I must endeavour to get to bed early, as morning is the safest time for me to exercise. I don't go in the evening, because I don't get home till 6pm and its dark (winter in southern hemispere), so I must get wound up in the mornings. Its just so hard to get out of bed as I keep thinking I need the extra sleep and bed is soo warm and cosy and outside world is sooo cold you could just about urinate ice cubes. Ok If I start running again, will definately put it down in my blog, if I don't I won't tell you. I'm giggling at myself writing this. Ok, maybe I will start doing some weights next to the heater after I finish writing this.
Out to space.

It has been a very busy week, end of financial year stock take had me stocking the store like a mad person. Then on Wednesday morning (5am) my boyfriend fell shockingly ill, coughing, vomitting, was delirious, I took him straight to emergency ward and they took him straight in. Cut a long story short, it was apparently just a rapid viral infection, I was skeptical, since he also confessed to inhaling high purity oil at work the night before (heavy duty mechanic). At least he is ok, it was just very frightening, I didn't know how to handle it and the doctors told me that I did the right thing. As he did present like a meningitis case, I guess the other reason I was so worried, is because my best friends boyfriend died of meningitis and he was doing the same things.