Week of the 25th of May

Not much going on.
Di goes to Bangkok with Perry next friday- that's the 5th of June.
It's been a quiet week 'cos we've both been working to 6pm, Di does anyway and my flex time is pretty bad so I've been staying back too.
Tonite I had Volleyball and we drew with the best team: I gotta say that I played the best I have all season, I was really g'd up and was yahooing and yeah-ing- had a really good time. I did it for Barcelona who beat Manchester United 2-0 against the odds!
Friday- did nothing. Saturday went to Dapto- it was wet and cool. Came back late, tried to stay up and watch the FA Cup final but fell asleep and recorded it instead.
Sunday: slept in a bit, got up and potted then went for a coffee. Came home and I actually did some cleaning and now i'm about to go see Front End Loader.
Had a good time and was home by 9:30-very civilised.
Short week coming up. Yah!

I'm excited!

So we have reserved a Studio at The Chelsmore (flickr photo's here) , I'm uber excited to the point of distraction!
So excited that I spent a few hours online the other nite trying to suss out Supermarket's near where we will be staying, which is the same place we stayed at in 2004.
Yes, I said Supermarkets.

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Also I bookmarked a butcher called Big Apple Meat Market which is up in the touristy area (42nd st) but not everyone knows about it- I found out about it on Yelp.
The other thing I've been doing is: I downloaded a map of The NYC Subway and I've been trying to work out how to get from A to B- with a little help from Google Maps, see below:

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According to the above I walk from the Apartment to (A) the 14th St Station @ 7th Avenue of the 1 2 3 (red) line and catch the train to Christopher St- sweet! {This is a (B) bar that I really want to go to-so I'm over the moon it is so close.}
See how close we are to 3 major lines! So that's pretty bloody handy!
We could quite easily catch the train from JFK to the Apartment- just one change and onto the L train and we're there! (might look into that, tho not really what ya want after been on a plane for 24hrs!).
And if we take our laptops and have internet hooked up it'll really just be like home but we'll be in NEW YORK!!

Fri nite: my team lost 14-10. We're out of the finals.
Saturday: Di had a 9:45-1:45 shift so I took her to work in the car. Got home and pottered about then I caught the bus (trackwork in Summer Hill) to The Local Taphouse which took an hour and a quarter! Not long after it started pouring down. I sat down and read for a bit and had 3 beers- an American India Pale Ale(Feral Hop Hog) that was delish, a Pilsener that was pretty good and a Chocolate Stout that was pretty damn good too! I drank lots of water and had a nice old time.
Today, Sunday, I had work @ 12 which is just as well 'cos I stayed up to 1pm+ to watch the footy at the pub- The Crusaders lost-bugger! Work was so so. I left @ 5 and went to The Local to have a beer and wait for Di to arrive from Dapto- we got some groceries came home and had dinner.

Short week 1

On Monday after work Di went to Dapto to keep an eye on Harold 'cos Bessie had gone to Mudgee for a friend's funeral- so I got a pizza, drank some wine and watched a DVD. The movie was "Goodbye Pork Pie" which was an iconic New Zealand movie that came out in 1981. It really was a movie for the time 'cos it didn't seem very funny to me 25+ years later, more silly than funny! Still it was very popular.
Had nite shift on Tuesday.
Volleyball on Thursday nite, we lost 2 sets to 1 but played well.
We have today(friday) off and I have Monday off too. Doin nothing, just waiting for kick-off.
We did nothing Friday-slept in to late and went at got a coffee, bought a chicken on the way home and had that on brad rolls for lunch. I went to the local pub at 5:30 for the Blues v Crusaders game and got a couple of Pizza's on the way home.
Saturday we slept in and then meet Maggie @ a place near Redfern that had a Farmers market and a bunch of art and craft stalls- very very boring, but Di liked it.
Went to the pub for the Chiefs v Brumbies & Canes v Reds game-sat witha guy I knew this time. My team won and have made it into The Finals. Good News!
Sunday: slept in, esp Di as she's very lazy! Went to Bondi Beach- found a park after some crazy bad driving. Went to The Markets, same sorta thing as the day before:smart crafty stuff that no one really needs, and kinda pricey.
We then around the corner and off the main drag to a cafe for lunch- very nice.
We were going to go to a movie but that would be just too much for one day!
I have Monday off.
This coming week we may be able to confirm where we are staying in New York.
Nice weather this weekend too. 21 degrees and fine tho a bit windy one nite.

It's May Already!!

I got my cheque from Prime Minister Krudd in the mail- my accountant sent it to me which was good of him. I tried to tell Perry that I got $1500 'cos i'm a kiwi but he didn't buy it.
Di had Monday off work but she went on Tuesday. Di ordered some goodies from Sierra Trading Post - only took a week to arrive, so Di's happy.

Flight of the Conchords clip from YouTube:



The lesson here: don't sleep with Australian women!! Hilarious.
This week, news.com.au did a story about this clip/episode- I can't find a link but readers were making comments and it was pretty clear some people just didn't get the joke. I might start introducing Di as Keitha!

On Wednesday nite we go see Air Supply with The Sydney Symphony at The Opera House- it should be wild!
It was great-they were really entertaining, real showman. They just had so many hits! Di was dancing and waving her arms around. The guitarist was jumping around too and the other band members were striking poses like they were some hard rock bank- bizarre. When the two main guys : Graham (guitar and vocals) and Russell (vocals) walked out into the crowd people went crazy and rushed up to touch them! Anyway, we enjoyed the show.

My volleyball team won on Thursday but the other team were uber short!

Friday I went to watch my footy - two guys came up to my table and asked to join me-i said OK. One guy was Austrian and had lived in NZ for 6 or 7 years and was quite knowledgeable about rugby, the other guy was German and was to fly to NZ on Sunday and then was catching a bus to New Plymouth to meet his girlfriend! Ha, small world or what.

On Saturday Di worked and I bummed around. I picked Di up @ 1 and we went to a Mall- got some stuff for dinner, that was it.
At 5:15 I went to my local to watch The 'Canes v The Chiefs- pretty entertaining game and although my team lost they are still in the top four.
Today we went to Dapto.