Meaty Week

January 29, 2007

Most listened : Australia Day playlist

Most played : Yoshi Touch and Go/ Fire Emblem

Current mood : Sick of standing

All is calm in my little oasis of life. All bar these muffled sounds of Halflife 2 and some garbage television show I can hear through my headphones. Umm yeah the last week and a half has been a great week. Lets go from the top eh? Last Friday Chris and myself went to lunch and the movies with my friend Alysha, whom we hadn’t seen for a while. We saw a movie that Chris and I have wanted to watch since we saw the trailer before Casino Royale, that is The Pursuit of Happyness. The movie was a tad disappointing as we’d already seen so much of it previously. Alysha also seemed too preoccupied/uninterested which was a real pity. We should have seen it with John instead. Oh well.

I rang Matt on the Friday about this Australia day BBQ that we’d been planning for a while, I also sent out a few TXT messages about it. Turns out Alex was planning on having a BBQ on the same day. Which really bugged me as I’d been telling a few weeks before that we were planning to have a BBQ on Australia day. He invited me to his which was a small compensation. Had the rellies over for tea to celebrate Chris and myself getting into Uni. Unfortunately earlier that day my Great Grandma had a stroke and was in hospital. She is currently fine though.

Uhhh…had some work both days of the weekend, on the Monday I went to Matts to figure out the BBQ dilemma. We had a good yarn about it and everything was organized. When I got home I called some people and got them to tag along. Things were actually starting to work out. I also managed to get this BBQ conflict sorted out, Alex told me that he wanted to have his at night time(which I found out later was a lie), therefore he could come to our BBQ and still have his. Great.

The following day Mel came around, we were gonna go out and grab a meal but I figured it was too much effort for such a little outcome. So we went down to the shops and nabbed some chips instead. Man, we must have spent almost the whole day just talking about stuff. Geeze.

Spent the next 2 days writing a review for Yoshi’s Touch and Go as well as majorly whoring out Age of Empires 2. Man, nevermind how old the game is, it so owns. I could just waste the rest of my life on that game. Played like 6hrs straight against Chris, we would have kept playing if he didn’t need to go to work.

On Friday we went to Matt’s place for the BBQ. Everything that we’d planned worked out really nicely. Everyone could come and they suprisingly contributed plenty of food an drink. Infact we had to give back some of the meat.

Chris, John and myself went there an hour early to set up. Fortunately Matt had been doing that before we got there so it only took us 15 minutes. At around about 11am other people started rocking up. At around about 12am we started up the BBQ. Everyone had brought piles of meat, so we cooked most of that. Man we threw so much meat on the BBQ. Phew! Matt and I took either plate of the BBQ.

Eat the meat!

Matt and I don’t really have ample experience with BBQing, but we managed to cook the meats to perfect timing. We had a good variety of meat as well; Sausages, Honey Sausages, Steak and Kebabs. I was mega proud of our efforts. Unfortunately not everyone was uber keen on eating piles of meat, so we still had a good selection of meat after lunch. I had 2 sausages, a steak, a kebab and salad for lunch. And it tasted lovely.

After lunch we had a few pool/dart games going, people chatting, Matt brought out his guitar and showed that off a little. I also took a few snapshots here and there. I would have spent the whole afternoon eating meat but I was buggered after a beer and that tasty lunch.

Around 4/5ish(I forget now) Mel and Alex had to leave to set up for Alex’s BBQ. After that everyone else slowly started to leave. From there on it was only Myself, Matt, Chris and Andrew left. We played some pool for a few hours, we played the game where you pull a random ball number out of a hat and then everyone shoots balls until you knock someones ball out and they are then out of the game. Last one standing wins. That was great fun.

We also sat around and cleard off the rest of the drinks and chips. We stayed for tea and heated up some of the meat. They had some Futurama on TV so we watched that over tea. When it got late we went inside and Matt showed us some movie trailers and funny pictures. We left and dropped Andrew off home at around 10:15.

All in all it was a great day, we stayed at Matts for over 12hrs, phew. We managed to finish all of the meat and supplies bar a packet of chips. Nice.

Me, Matt and Mel..3 ‘m’s

Only got a couple of hrs sleep that night due. In the morning I had work for 4hrs, yay a weeks work! We had a percentage off thing going for one day only, 15% off all electrical and 30% off everything else. So it was mega busy, made even worse by the common disappearancs of the other elec. staff member. I spose its not too bad, shes a bitch and I’d rather have a huge line up of angry people than work with her. Its like that all the time anyways. At the end of my shift I had a lady waiting for advice on phones, she wanted to speak only to me as she thought that I was the best for it. I reckon that I’ve helped her before. Anyways I stayed back 10 minutes to help her out, she seemed very appreciative. The things I do for customers.

When I got home I mowed the lawns, went on the net a bit(hadn’t been on for 3 days) and slept a little. I might have played some Ages of Empires with Chris as well.

On Sunday I started mt Fire Emblem Sacred Stones file. OMFG, its brilliant. I love FE!! I reckon that everyone has a game that they dig more than every other, a series that suits them. FE is that series for me. I also started on the GCN FE this week, its not bad. I also went to see my Great Grandma in hospital on the Sunday.

Supposively John wanted to come around on Sunday, but we said no as I was buggered. In the last day or so I’ve started enrolling for Uni. I have figured most of it out. Its bloomin tricking though. I can’t complete my timetable as I have no idea on some electives, so I have been filling in my other details. Had to give them a call today to figre it out. Oh it also turns out that it won’t take 3hrs for me to get to Uni, from the City its only another 30 minutes.

So I figure that I’ve been a little busy. Its about a month till my first Uni lecture. So I wanna have this retro games night and Chris wants to have a LAN as well. I guess there will be a few WGAs and stuff too.

Yeah thats it, be sure to read my review of Yoshi Touch and Go.

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