Fruit Salad and Mixed Veg

The Royal Adelaide Show is a big fair. It goes for about a week every September and thousands of people go to it. There are rides, games, cake decorating, art competitions, cooking competitions, animal competitions (chickens, sheep, cows, dogs) etc. You have to pay to get in, pay for food, pay for the rides, pay for showbags etc. Some idiots spend $500 for just one day at the show!!

What is a showbag? Showbags are promotional material by large companies. For example, $10 will buy you a Cadbury Chocolate showbag, which will contain a range of Cadbury chocolates. They were once free, but the companies worked out that people would actually pay for them.

Carcase competition: This competition involves high school children looking after a cow (one of those big ones for meat...I don't know what you call them) for however long it takes a cow to grow up. The judges judge all the cows when they are alive. The next day, all the cows go on a drive up the freeway to the slaughter house, are killed and then they are judged hanging on a hook All the children cry and miss their cow! After the cows have been judged, they are sold to the market and bought by you and me.



Cake decorating


Bogans and cars....I don't understand how people can be interested in these cars. If you're going to be interested in cars, why not be interested in foreign, expensive cars?


This is the 'Grand Parade' where all the animals walk around the oval. Why? I don't know...so my dad can take photos of them?


A guy with a cool hat on the side of a horse


A horse jumping over a fence


These guys chop wood...why? I don't know...Because it's fun to chop stuff? I enjoy chopping/cutting up big pieces of paper into tiny pieces of paper.


One of thse things that I've never been on.


I got a box from Canon today. It's for a photo competition. In the box there are some objects and you have to take photos of them. There are 10 winners, which receive up to $5000 worth of Canon EOS products. I won't win.

There are two categories: Professional and ameteur, which is unfair! Professional= You earn more than $20,000 from photography/year. So, someone with a very cool camera who earns $18,000/year from photography is in the same category as me; the poor uni student with a dodgy point and shoot.

My model will be INTERSHEEP!!!!! He/she has long legs...

The objects are:

• A red ribbon
  
• Tea lights (those littlecandles)
  
• A pink crayon
  
• A blue cocktail umbrella
  
• Bubble mix (I'm assuming they don't want photos of the container, but of the bubbles)
  

Now I'm on my way to bed. I'm lucky enough to visit the doctor tomorrow! The best part is waiting in the waiting room and watching people. It amuses me. So does watching people on the bus. There's a guy who looks like Dave Grohl in the video for 'Learn to Fly' and a girl who looks like she's from the Famous Five. Yep, I'm a simple person living in an over complicated world full of share options, insurance, exothermic plastics and syringe disposal units.

Goodnight

I got mail on Monday. It wasn't from the bank, uni, an insurance company or even a random on the OC wanting to marry me (so they can take full advantage of my $120.48 superannuation money).

It was a parcel from my favourite German, Mr S The good people at the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service knew what was in the parcel before I did.

"We know all your secrets...."

So then I opened the parcel and it made a noise WHAAA?! A sheep and a magical nemo towel! The noise was the bell (a long story) on the sheep. It's a get-well present for when I was sick the other week Awww Well, on Sunday, I got sick AGAIN*, so it was good timing.

The sheep was looking quite happy, especially after such a long journey.


Welcome to Australia! We shared some Vegemite on toast. I think he/she/it liked it as he/she/it kept smiling


After putting the magical towel in water, it turned THIS BIG! That's so coooolllll!!!

It's been raining in Adelaide this week. The lawns are GREEN again It's cold too, so I've started sleeping in my sleeping bag again. It's only rated to 10 degrees This meant I was shivering most of the night, sniffling and wishing I had a hard-core -10 degrees sleeping bag!

Hmm..umbrella is not quite big enough. At least he/she/it wont get a wet left ear.


Totally unrelated to sheep, feeling sick and umbrellas:

Perhaps it's this one from March 21, but grown up?

*Why do I keep getting sick?!
Is it: I was at the beach, freezing cold at 1am on Friday? The dishwasher at work doesn't kill germs off the glasses? The germs from that guy who spat into my eye decided to attack? I hardly eat meat or dairy and I'm weak? Other?

Each Valentine’s Day you’re able to put a message in the newspaper. These messages can be for the person you love and who loves you back, the person you love who doesn’t love you back or even our wonderful politicians...

The Advertiser, p 55, 14 February 2008

Another lizard has made it’s home in our garden. My cat just stares at it, not knowing what to do. This is the same cat which is scared of mice and birds

It's a lizard, eventhough it looks like a snake

These children’s toys are characters from ‘Play School’ a popular children’s series. Big Ted is smaller than little Ted...

No wonder children are so confused these days...

My mum likes buying stuff, especially food. She likes buying loads of stuff, bringing it home and storing it at the back of the fridge. Strawberries are usually never seen again, until they’re black and furry... Anyone remember the custard with the ‘Use by October’ stamp? It’s still in the fridge!!

One way to waste money

Purple circle- Fruit that has been in that container for AGES. If you want to go to hospital, eat it.
Red circle- Nalesniki, Polish pancakes. No one is ever going to eat these as they are only visible if you kneel down.
Blue Circle- Pre packages fancy lettuce. My prediction is, it will sit in the ‘crisper’ and get soft and furry.
Yellow Circle- The vegetable crisper. Once something goes in here, there’s an 85.87% chance of it never being consumed by a human as it will pose a health threat.
Red Crosses- Foods I wont eat; custard (that’s new custard that you can see in the pic), youghurt, cheese, sausages, creamed rice, jam, cheese, milk, Nalesniki, vegetable soup.

Dear Jennifer Hawkins,

Thank you for giving me an eating disorder.

Love Kim.

My mum also loves buying stuff that no one likes; weird cold meats for example. The other day, she bought a ‘Dragon Fruit’ or ‘pitaya’. We all tried some yesterday. I don’t know if it’s supposed to have no taste or if my taste buds are dead…. Anyone know?

Dragon fruit aka pitaya