This was my day at work today. And the second day of Izaac and Sarah’s excellent Townsville adventure.
I needed models for our photoshoot. Zack and Sarah were available. Here are some of the photos I took while I was along for the ride. Robyn got off school early and joined us for the afternoon.
I’ll no doubt upload more photos to this photoshoot album one day…
My lovely wife turned 25 yesterday. An alarming number of people (six) wished her a happy birthday on her Facebook profile expressing a hope that I had “spoiled” her…
Now, I don’t buy into the whole “spoiling” thing. I think I treat Robyn with due specialness all year round…
But I did “spoil” her. With an almost surprise high tea party organised at the last minute after she told me quite clearly a week in advance (after having previously told me that she didn’t want anything) that she still didn’t want a party, but that if she did, she’d like it to be a high tea.
Thanks to those who brought stuff. I would have photos to post had I remembered that I owned a camera – and had I not been churning out the coffees and hot chocolates and making sure children didn’t trample our turtles.
Since I didn’t have a camera with me here’s an old photo.
Everyone is writing soppy lists about their spouses. Simone started it. Soph, Ben, and Amy followed.
They want me to join in. I thought about it. I commented on Simone’s last post saying these lists were gay. I didn’t mean gay in a good way.
I thought about writing a list of things I don’t like about my wife (she steals the blankets)… I would have written a list like “I hate that she just has to look at me and I immediately agree with her”… but then I thought it would be all too similar to a Heath Ledger movie. And he’s dead, so I can’t say nasty things about him or his work.
I thought about making my list satirically soppy filled to the brim with gory details. We all know how I feel about oversharing and this whole trend treads perilously close to that mark.
But here, because Ben said I was a big girl’s blouse if I didn’t, is a list of things I love about my wife. So here are ten things. It’s not an exhaustive list.
Amy gets points because her list about Tim is 20 points long.
Simone recently posted this list advising the next generation of some strategies to help them function better in the classroom and perform more adequately as a human being. I thought I’d posted a reply on her blog but it turns out I hit the wrong button. Better late than never, here is my contribution to the list.
The next 5 things that will help you function better in the classroom and perform more adequately as a human being.
6. It really doesn’t matter who the leader of the line is. Especially in grade 6.
7. Your teacher has no time to look for your lost pencil. Neither will she/he believe that it has simply wandered away. Take a piece of string and tie it to your wrist if it keeps being a problem.
8. Ninety-nine percent of people have complete control over their arms and legs. Your teacher will not believe you when you say your hand jumped off your arm and slapped a girl in the face.
9. Yes, you must finish picking up your bag of rubbish before you attend your playground wedding. Even if you are the groom.
10. Never pin boys down and kiss them. Even if it is your betrothed who was unable to attend your playground wedding because he was picking up papers.
This post should potentially come with some sort of gag warning. But I’m sure all my female readers will appreciate it – and single guys can probably learn something from it…
We watched the Baz Luhrmann version of Romeo + Juliette this afternoon.
Now that I’m married I enjoy romantic tragedies even less than before.
Speaking of which, we had our two year anniversary this week (on the 22nd). And my wife is still wonderful. I don’t normally go for soppiness online – it falls into the category of sharing information people don’t really want to read (oversharing).
I do love my wife very much though, and I’m happy for this fact to be published.
Tetris makes you smarter. Which makes Robyn the smartest of all my Facebook friends.
This is a scientifically proven fact (well, almost) backed up by proper medical research… Here’s the study.
Here’s the summary from wired…
“The study, funded by Tetris‘ makers and authored by investigators at the Mind Research Network in New Mexico, shows that playing the classic puzzle game had two distinct effects on the brains of research subjects: Some areas in the brain showed greater efficiency (the blue areas in the diagram above), and different areas showed thicker cortexes, which is a sign of more grey matter (red).”
K-Rudd has declared an end to the History Wars that crippling battle for supremacy between Australia’s academic elite… but there’s one philosophical battle between the elite and the working class that will not be ended by Prime Ministerial decree…
We’re flying to Brisbane this weekend. We’re heading south for a Rugby match. Of all the things to head south for… I don’t really like Rugby. But Robyn does. So we’re going to watch Australia play South Africa.
Robyn really likes Rugby. She owns a number of jerseys and actually understands the rules enough to yell at the ref about an infringement before he gives a penalty. This is what marriage is about.
But, so that my protest is recorded for posterities sake – here are three areas where Rugby League is clearly the superior game…
But I’m a good husband. So I’ll go along without pointing out too many of these areas.
I’ve been watching lots of people do the Myers-Briggs test on Facebook. Personality types fascinate me, but I’m pretty skeptical of most online testing of this nature. Still, my results are generally pretty similar so I must be one of these:
Robyn on the other hand, is the exact opposite.
Any other enlightened ENFPs out there? Have you done the test? Was it accurate?
Robyn is pretty thrilled. A little bit of a furniture rearrangement has rescued our kitchen bench space (and given me a sore back).
We now have a little coffee island in the dining room – making use of a buffet that was previously a fishtank stand and place for general clutter.
I have a habit of buying coffee sacks wherever I can – and I’ve finally put them to some use.
If you’re in the area why not arrange a time to drop round for a coffee… if you’re not in the area, you can always visit…
One day I might get a coffee machine that’s designed for home use.
Macs are cool. I don’t have mine yet, but already I know this.
I’m playing with Robyn’s now. And I like it. But this belief has been reinforced by a day watching the West Wing (starting from Series 1) – one of the perks of sickness.
I had never noticed this before. But Sam and Toby both write their speeches on Macs. How cool is that.
For all of those people thinking that this title was a reference to Christian music – you were wrong.
It seems I’ve picked up a case of H1N1. We’ll never know for sure… but Robyn went to the doctor yesterday and was diagnosed, and now I’m sick too. I’m going to the doctor this afternoon.
So expect more posts today, tomorrow and Friday.
Robyn wants to make it clear that we’re not dying. So it’s too early to start dividing up our possesions amongst yourselves.
Robyn bought me a present yesterday. Bodum coffee cups. They’re awesome because they’ve got a little cup within a cup – they’re double walled. They’re not cheap. But I really like them…
Bagging out U2 on a public forum had some unexpected consequences. I’m not talking about the outcry from Christians keen to hang their hats on the Bono coathook of public Christianity.
No. It’s changed the way I engage in conversation with my wife. Now, if she says “I love you” – I say “I love you also” lest I be branded a hypocrite.
Robyn’s on the farm until Wednesday with her folks. I’m home alone. I have set booby traps accordingly. Those wet bandits aren’t going to catch me unawares.
I am “celebrating” by staying up late, drinking beer, eating fast food for my meals and hopefully playing some computer games tomorrow… and I’m blogging, obviously.