After Janice managing to drag me into the flooring shop last weekend, we have ordered some new laminate for the lounge (yes, I lost the carpet battle to common sense...), kitchen and hallway. And just for a laugh ordered carpet for the three bedrooms too, as that shop did it all and worked out not bad altogether, relatively speaking of course!
So that prompted the painting conversations to be forced into the realm of reality and we have been upping out frequent-flyer miles at Bunnings (the B&Q of Australia). Hallway first, which was going to be yellow or something else and turned out we went with a peach (curd) colour - photos to follow on Picasa site. Just to see if Janice was serious (and so I could hide outside and wash cars, clean the shed, etc) I left her to the hallway and then helped with the finishing touches. That was last weekend and this weekend we are into our bedroom, with the ceiling done tonight and the walls primed ready for the two tone blue, cool hey! Which should go well with the chocolate brown carpets...and if not then bound to be my fault ;o)
Good (or bad depending on your point of view) that it's a 5 day long weekend so we can get some more painting days in to finish off the bedroom. But not after a days diving tomorrow for both of us off Rottnest (Janice bribing me to paint) and a good day on Sunday having all the crew over here for an Easter lunch with the biggest joint of lamb I've ever seen!! Yum, yum :)
Friday, April 22, 2011
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Is it a man or a chipmunk?
Thursday was finally the day when I organised to get my wisdom teeth out after several months of pain (for me and Janice!). Thanks to everyone who told me that it would be lots of pain and I might be sick for days, I'm glad to say that was NOT the case and it all went very well. Especially as it seemed that 4 teeth wasn't enough hassle so I thought I'd go for one more..actually there was one tooth next to the bottom wisdom tooth that was impacted and had decayed pretty badly, so had to go too!
My first surgery ever so wasn't particularly looking for to being knocked out, but was no problem and actually a nice rest for an hour or so.
Then seem to have recovered reasonably well, as no sickness and to be honest the pain is about the same as it has been for the last few months, but with an end in sight now :)
The only obvious sign was some swelling and they gave me some ice packs to wear with a bandage to reduce that for the first few days, and Janice was nice enough to snap some photos of me looking like a chipmunk!
My first surgery ever so wasn't particularly looking for to being knocked out, but was no problem and actually a nice rest for an hour or so.
Then seem to have recovered reasonably well, as no sickness and to be honest the pain is about the same as it has been for the last few months, but with an end in sight now :)
The only obvious sign was some swelling and they gave me some ice packs to wear with a bandage to reduce that for the first few days, and Janice was nice enough to snap some photos of me looking like a chipmunk!
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| No, I'm not trying to hold on to the last bit of hair... |
Friday, April 1, 2011
Surfs up dude
After many deliberations and ponderings of Kayak's or surfboards and what/when/who will use them, we decided to go for a surfboard!!! Having done some research on it (no surprise there hey!) I knew the kind of board we wanted and there is a good board shop in Scabbers, so we went in there and the guy recommended one of the few we were looking at. And it passed the primary requirement, having some yellow on it somewhere, obviously.
So board and wax in hand we stomped down to the beach and proceeded to wax it up ready for our first attempt, then realised actually waxing it up ON the beach in a 15-20kt wind wasn't the best idea. So got that sorted and we were off into the huge 2ft surf, and by that I mean real 2ft not "surf" 2 ft which actually works out to be somewhere from 6-8ft waves. Especially in Perth as they SMASH you into the sand if you're not paying attention. "Been there done that" on the boogie boards several times!
We took turns having a go which was interesting as there was a big rip on top of the wind so ended up about a km down the beach in a few minutes. But had lots of fun although we never quite got standing.
So, fast forward to last weekend and we got down there again on saturday morning and figured out what we needed to do and BOTH got standing, Yeah!! Still small waves and whitewash, but still Standing.
So onwards and upwards hopefully and have a plan to be in the water at least once a week, as the nights are getting darker it's going to be tough to get down to the beach after work, but we'll see.
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| My wife, the surf chick! |
So board and wax in hand we stomped down to the beach and proceeded to wax it up ready for our first attempt, then realised actually waxing it up ON the beach in a 15-20kt wind wasn't the best idea. So got that sorted and we were off into the huge 2ft surf, and by that I mean real 2ft not "surf" 2 ft which actually works out to be somewhere from 6-8ft waves. Especially in Perth as they SMASH you into the sand if you're not paying attention. "Been there done that" on the boogie boards several times!
We took turns having a go which was interesting as there was a big rip on top of the wind so ended up about a km down the beach in a few minutes. But had lots of fun although we never quite got standing.
So, fast forward to last weekend and we got down there again on saturday morning and figured out what we needed to do and BOTH got standing, Yeah!! Still small waves and whitewash, but still Standing.
So onwards and upwards hopefully and have a plan to be in the water at least once a week, as the nights are getting darker it's going to be tough to get down to the beach after work, but we'll see.
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