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Fire-for when you don't have cable broadband

Saturday, 27. September 2008, 01:06:59

I am lucky enough to have cable broadband at home

If you live in some parts of Australia you can't get cable broadband. You can get broadband but it's not very fast.

What do you do during the evening/night when you live in the country with slow internet? Scrabble? Nope, cases fights. Monopoly? Nope, causes divorces and domestic violence. FIRE? Yes! In the country, people have bonfires. You light lots of dead trees on fire and everyone stands around the fire and watches it. I didn't get to go to one last night but my dad did.

Some guy goes back home, not because he forgot his glasses/camera, but because he forgot his tractor...and then uses it to push the wood around.

People standing around a fire

Exemption clause: If you, after reading this post, decide to have your own bonfire, you do so at your own risk
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I have to work 11 hours tonight

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Does anyone know what day it is in Australia today? It's... BOGAN DAY!

Why? Today is AFL (Australian Football League) Grand Final Day. AFL is a 'bogan' sport where 2 teams of weird looking guys in shorts that are too short run around an oval and chase and kick a weird shaped ball. Today bogans across Australia will be having BBQs, watching the game on their plasma TVs (which they bought with pension money from the government) and drinking beer (which they paid for using their baby bonus money (when you have a baby, the government gives you money so you can buy clothes for it etc. However, some really smart bogans just have children so they can get the money))

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Lunch and recent purchases

Sunday, 13. July 2008, 09:36:13

Clothes, Jumper, Adelaide, Birthday ...

Welcome back to my blog (there should be a waving smiley)

It's my grandma's birthday on Tuesday so we took her out to lunch today. She said she wanted to go to 'Dundees Hotel/Dundees Crocodile and Wildlife Park'. *sigh* Yes, I actually sighed when I found out we were going there.

After 4.75 hours sleep, I travelled for 1.5 hours with my family to get to an 'all you can eat' restaurant, randomly placed on the side of a freeway...

$18 buys you 'all you can eat'...not that anyone would ever eat $18 worth of food.

Left to right:
Sister- Lots of carbs, some dead animal (iron and protein) and some veggies under there somewhere
Dad- Err weren't you looking up ways to lower cholesterol on the net last night? Well, ok you've got some protein there and some greens...but I don't know what the brown stuff is
Mum- You like potato, hey? Didn't we get 5kg of potatoes for $2 on Thursday? And you paid $18 for this...?
Grandma- sat too far away so didn't get a pic

My mum also ate some prawns. Nothing more classy than ripping out the intestinal tract of a dead sea creature at the dinner table

HOT WATER My meal...$0...best price EVER

I took a photo of this because it looks pretty Do you prefer rouns sprinkles or the straight sprinkles?

Then we went home

I like looking out of the window at the country side which looked like this and this in spots.

This is in a village named Callington. I like clouds.

In other news...

My mum bought 3kg of oranges!!!

Oranges make me happy. So does porridge. Porridges with oranges in it makes me super happy.

I baked a lemon and poppy seed cake last week. It was definately NOT the best cake I have ever made, probably because I kind of 'invented' the recipe and didn't put enough eggs in. I still ate it though

Puma shoes are really good in my opinion. Why? I've been wearing the same pair for 5.5 years and they have only started to 'die' recently. I refuse to pay over $50 for shoes, considering shoes priced at $100 are NOT worth $100 (I do learn stuff at uni that I can apply to real life woah!

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I found some Converse shoes in a brochure for $50. When I got to one store the woman said
'Oh it's only the blue ones that are $50. The gold are $80'
Me- So a different colour is $30?!
Woman- Yes...
Me- You can keep the shoes then

Then I went to another store (the same store but a different location) and took the gold shoes to the check-out. They wanted to charge me $80 for them too! However, I used my knoweldge of small print and generally annoyed the staff and got them for $50

I also bought a warm polar fleece jumper recently. It's from Paddy Pallin, an outdoor shop where the staff are soooo much more friendly and helpful than the staff in the store I got my shoes from. I asked the guy for a student discount and got one