Gone, gone, gone, so long!

Well, we haven’t heard anything, but I am assuming little brother has made it back home alright. I was sad to see him go, however, there was talk of him returning sometime in the future. So we’ll see. We had a farewell cigar/pipe and dropped him off Tuesday afternoon. His friends will miss him here too.

The wee one has begun the journey into solids which is both exciting and slimy. Definitely a tag team effort when possible isn’t it? Now that he has tasted the mush anything we eat he watches very closely and if it ends up within arms reach its in the mouth. Or all over the face.

I have now experienced the harsh slap of night shifts at the hospital. I will be signing up for my local nurses association this week. Whatever the penalty rates are for night duty is not nearly enough. My body hates me. When it hits at 4am… buh. Sucks. One more night to go. Til next week. I don’t like having no patients to interact with for 10hrs either. But whatever. It’s almost done. Tomorrow’s sleep will be a glorious one.

If I make it. Head ache. Check. Nausea. Check. Should be a banner night.

Jujitsu has been getting better. I can now wrestle for 3 rounds of 5 minutes without feeling like I should puke. The facial bruising is still pretty harsh. But I am learning. Bit by bit.

I Have Sortof Been Published!

One of my pictures was selected to be used for Schmap!! Australia. My picture of the echidna looking for food in his hill as selected to be one picture featured for the Featherdale Wildlife Park entry. So you can click here and check it out! Coolio.

The Rest Of April

My folks have come and gone, and work has started up again, our son has been dedicated, and a new expansion of Settlers has been experienced. I’ll elaborate.

Folks in Town

Mom and Dad were down for 2 weeks to visit and see the boy. It was good. It was good to have some time off, and good to get away for a few days. We rented a place up in Coff’s Harbour, home of the “big banana“. Pfft! It’s a medium sized banana at best. Impressed I wasn’t. Maybe it’s better in sunshine. We didn’t have great weather (again when someone was visiting) but it was alright. We would go out and do what we could when the sun did poke through (i.e. a nice hike into a rainforest, the Clog barn (snicker), and some shopping (a guitar strap). We then headed home for the weekend when we dedicated the boy and played some GnR in church and hung our with the rest of the rellies for lunch. Really it was just good for the folks to hang out with the boy. They have landed back at home with a dvd or 2 of some footage and some pics and will now be waiting for our arrival in December.

Settlers
I received the Seafarers of Catan (an expansion game for Settlers of Catan) for my birthday. We only just got to play a game when we were away with the ‘rents. I think it is a great addition. You basically have 7 new scenarios, so it is like you have 7 new games to play. They all have different set ups, different ways to gain points, and different ways to win. We have only played a couple of them, but they are different and fun. For those of you who enjoy the original, I recommend this one. It’s a good one.

Hospital
I started on my new ward this week. Adolescents. It has been good. Again, another totally different routine, but it will be good to learn there. I also get to do my first night shifts at the end of the month, so we’ll see how that goes.

Flight Of The Conchords
I had heard about the FotC on youtube, but didn’t realize they had a tv series in the states on HBO. The day after finding this out I received season 1 in the mail. A birthday gift. If Kirk gets around to reading this, this would be another one to pick up my friend. Comedy folk-electric duo. Song integrated with the show. Beauty.

Jujitsu
A friend of mine currently in New Zealand took up Brazilian Jujitsu last September. Sent me a link to some video of his first tournament wins. I had been looking for a place to train… maybe join a gym, but was inspired by Andrew to try BJJ again. I used to do some grappling in my Karate classes a few years ago, but this is BJJ. Went to my first training night last night. And basically got beat up. I got bruises on the back of my head, and my face and my chest and arms are sore. But it was great. All the guys compete and it shows with their intensity. I will be tossed around for a while I am guessing, but the guys seem to be keen to teach and hopefully I’ll pick it up quick. It’s tough to get out of an arm bar when you can barely breathe.