No pictures for a while

To my fans, stalkers and friends… or those of you that stop by my blog every once in a while just to get an update…

I am currently on holiday (as you may have noticed) and internet is a rarity in this wide country, especially when you are camping on the beach. Therefore I won’t be uploading any pictures anytime soon. Please be patient, IT IS WORTH THE WAIT – Trust me!!!

I hope you are all enjoying the remainder of summer/autumn/fall and spring in the case of the ones in WA.

Just one more thing… I really really enjoyed my time in Perth at BDO. It was worth it and I’ll be writing a tat bit more about that once I return to Dallas. For now, thank you BDO Kendalls WA and thank you resort-team!

and they still love me…

Addendum

One might have guessed that the weekend adventures would bring a certain amount of consequences. For one thing we all felt pretty bad and as you age you can’t just brush these hangovers aside as easily. Unfortunately age does not appear to equal wisdom. Besides that I hereby amend my earlier post from the weekend. We did in fact receive complaints, through our realtor, who heard from the landlord, who heard from a tenant and so the story goes. Apparently we had the wildest party till 4am and the music was loud, things got smashed and cars broken into. As we left at 11:30pm the first point is completely mute. As to number 2, music was playing out of a laptop. How loud could it possibly have been, considering also that we were completely incapable of attaching the tv speakers to said laptop. To 3 and 4 I can just say, it wasn’t us. Since one of our cars got broken into I do believe we have a pretty good case. All our guests were either accountants or geologists – not your most likely crowd to be sifting through cars for some pocket change. I was somewhat worried that I may have broken into something as I woke up with scratches on my arm but after examining the paparazzi evidence I apparently tried to climb a tree at some stage during the early morning hours. Technology has certainly come too far and I just hope I never run for president because these photographs may just miraculously reappear.

By about midweek everyone was back on their usual accounting high. We put in quite some hours as deadlines are looming and the Subi office most certainly has more than their fair share of public clients. It seems to be a trend for any size mining company to go public to raise money. The realization that this entails a whole lot more work comes usually later. I did take a little bit of time one evening though to position myself across the Swan River from downtown Perth and take some awesome pictures.

Downtown Perth from Millpoint

Perth isn’t called the City of Light for no reason. In 1962, on February 20 to be exact, austronaut John Glenn passed over Australia in the Mercury Friendship 7 spacecraft to become the first American to orbit Earth. The Perth people decided to greet Mr. Glenn by switching on the lights. He apparently saw it, which I do not doubt for a minute, considering Perth is one of the most isolated cities on Earth - a spot of light in pitchblack darkness.

Love notes

I would like to say that I found the perfect man here in Australia. Are you surprised? I sure hope you are because – I would be too. Fortunately, this entry is not about the perfect man, I would not want to bore you to death with a soppy love story even if there was one, though I will say this… I know he exists, he is just in hiding somewhere. But this is beside the point.

No, this entry is about little notes that I keep finding stuck to my windscreen for parking in the wrong places. I have been here three weeks and so far had two notes.

My first Aussie love note

I thought the first ever note was very rude. I did in fact check online just the week before that unit 18 was still up for grabs (as such the parking space wasn’t used) but I guess 700,000 dollar units go rather quickly in this city. Just a week later I found this lovely note on my windscreen. Considering that I had no prior warning, I would have expected a nicer note. I obliged of course and moved my car outside the parking garage. Our apartment, unfortunately, only comes with one official parking space and there is no visitor parking. I am not sure who designed this apartment complex but making one carport for a two-bedroom apartment is a little inadequate.

I started parking my car behind our building. There are parking spaces at the back of the drive way that did have a sign saying “private parking” but I assumed that the parking was for the company next door and that surely noone would mind me parking my car there overnight, considering noone worked overnight and there was always a space when I got home and usually still space when I left in the morning. This week I found out that I thought wrong. Tuesday morning I came to my car and found this note.

Love note No. 2

When I found the note I noticed that it was soaking wet and the writing a little smeared. It must have been stuck to my car overnight, though I have to say it was a little nicer than the first one. When I found the note my car was the only car parked in said parking spaces. Oh well, considering there actually is a sign saying no parking, of course, I obliged to this note as well and moved my car – along the wall right outside the parking garages. There are no signs and there is enough space for other cars to pass. Now if there was a tank or a hummer coming through it might get a little stretchy. I am fully expecting another note in a day or two…

On the upside of it all, I have not had a parking ticket nor a speeding ticket, at least not that I am aware of. Are you surprised again? Ha, me too.

Big Brother Australia

Here we are, Trevlyn and me, watching big brother in Western Australia. It’s the grand finale and on our TV screen there are Terri, Rory and Ben sitting on the couch. I do not know what drove me to go onto the big brother website, I think I wanted to find out how old Ben and Bianca were. I knew Ben was 19 but I would have never guessed Bianca to be 18 (she looks old!) Anyway, this is beside the point. What I found much more interesting is that the website already proclaimed Terri as the winner. So Ben is going to be evicted just now on my TV. Why would they not show this at the same real time all over Oz? I don’t get it. This just took out all the fun of watching the finals. On top of that I am just reading that there will be another surprise.

“Rory and terri, congratulations, you are the final two” bla bla “Big Brother has one final surprise for you.” Terri turns around to see her daughter and grandson walk through the door and instantly loses it as tears erupt from her made-up face.

What on earth! I have not even seen that part yet. Ben is happily sitting on the couch. Well, it is no wonder they are taking this show off the screen. I hope they do the same all over the world. There is one question left open… who is Big Brother? Will we ever know? Will I ever care enough to google it? 

We are now switching to “Farmer Wants a Wife” – another high class show where city girls stick their hands up cows’ bottoms, 42 year old men kick their mothers out of their home for a few days or weeks to invite some pretty city girls to stay with them and a winemaker who thinks the perfect wife is a 19 year old model who cannot hold a conversation. Ace!

News from the “home front”

I have been here for 3 weeks now and time has been flying by. Lots of things have happened, not just in my life but in everybody elses as well. Some friends are moving to other parts of the US and the world, others found new jobs, others again are embarking on new travels, my sister is sick at home (not home sick), my mom is telling me every day how she cannot wait to come to Australia and today I also received news from one of the loves of my life, Benji. While I am gone he just seems to be having so much fun. He made new friends and has been annoying the hell out of my friend Rachel it appears. The “boys” as she lovingly calls them have only been driving her slightly crazy.

I do miss my boy and it appears I will have to get him a friend once I come back so he won’t be so alone at home and does not cause too much havoc. He seems to be enjoying his time with the boys as well.

Benji and Pip on Rachel's kitchen cupboards