Oh great, not GHZ-Town AGAIN
0 Comments Published by Oh Wayward One on 21 September 2010 at 9/21/2010 10:28:00 am.
ANnnnnnd so, we're off again. Leaving tomorrow for that long-ass drive into the desert until Saturday. Then we drive alllll the way back down on Saturday, at which point I have to kick my ass into serious birthday party mode. The Mr.'s big day is on friday (the poor thing has to be at a public meeting for our job there where we're going on his bday) but we decided to celebrate it on sunday at our place, with a medium-sized 'do. So I have to plan a menu for the braai and get it all done post-road trip on saturday since early sunday morning will not be available for slaving due to the hash - which he loves so much that we have to go since he's going to have a suck-ass day on his actual birthday-day and I want him to get some pleasure out of the otherwise-written-off-weekend due to the work crap on friday and long drive all day saturday. And if I offer to stay home to get stuff ready for the party on sunday afternoon, he'll insist that he stay home too and help. Which is not an option since it's technically HIS day. So saturday will just have to be a write-off for me. That I have to get major food shopping done for today.
Uncle A. is here in town for a week, enjoying his last hours of civilized living before he kicks off his half-a-continent tour. That means he'll be here for the festivities on sunday as well as the puppy-sitting for the next 3 days. Convenient! Last night he and I made spaghetti and meaty balls which was delicious and then we all fooled around with our new PVR decoder which is a brand new concept to us (I know, how ancient are we) and thus a real hoot to mess around with. Ahhhh, the world of fast-forwarding through commercials.... I can honestly say this new-fangled contraption is going to revolutionize tv watching for me. I even see opportunities for creating an extra 10 minutes for myself in the morning due to the ability to pre-record EuroNews and skip over the boring bits like "Hi-Tech" and "Weather". OMG! An extra 10 minutes!!! Revolutionary, I tell you!!!
Last weekend was pretty spectacular, we had SUCH a fun time at the Annual Ostrich Migratin' with the hash (which is a 2-day event over Sat/Sun and everyone stays at a lodge outside of town together, but since said lodge is only 5km away from our house, we just slept at home and came back on sunday). Our team covered about 17km in 56 minutes which I swear should be a record. We were well-organized and had 2 trucks to pickup/dump off the runners as we each sprinted our alternating legs of anywhere between 50-100m. The main organizer of the day said we were definitely the most well-managed team. :) It was like playing leapfrog with trucks dumping runners through the desert. Classic. And of course a nice lunch with everyone together in between the first 3 and the second 3 teams' relays with some beers and sandwiches in the middle of nowhere. Ours was the last leg so we basically arrived at the designated lunch spot, socialized a bit, then went to our starting point about 15km away, and waited for Team 5 to arrive and "pass the baton" (which this year was a stuffed ostrich on a noose, as opposed to the usual trend of an ostrich tail feather duster) and off we went. Then the party at the end was stellar mccartney and so was the meal and WHOOPSIEDAISIES ye olde grande mattress (that'd be me) threw caution to the wind and, totally dehydrated, plunged into a drinking bender of gin and red wine. Good lord my head the next day. But nonetheless I put my super trooper boots on and did the annual "Liver Run" bright and early with everyone the next day at 8am. Lovely. Ughhhhhhh. I survived though and it was nice to have a super long sunday ahead of me to recover.
Uncle A. is here in town for a week, enjoying his last hours of civilized living before he kicks off his half-a-continent tour. That means he'll be here for the festivities on sunday as well as the puppy-sitting for the next 3 days. Convenient! Last night he and I made spaghetti and meaty balls which was delicious and then we all fooled around with our new PVR decoder which is a brand new concept to us (I know, how ancient are we) and thus a real hoot to mess around with. Ahhhh, the world of fast-forwarding through commercials.... I can honestly say this new-fangled contraption is going to revolutionize tv watching for me. I even see opportunities for creating an extra 10 minutes for myself in the morning due to the ability to pre-record EuroNews and skip over the boring bits like "Hi-Tech" and "Weather". OMG! An extra 10 minutes!!! Revolutionary, I tell you!!!
Last weekend was pretty spectacular, we had SUCH a fun time at the Annual Ostrich Migratin' with the hash (which is a 2-day event over Sat/Sun and everyone stays at a lodge outside of town together, but since said lodge is only 5km away from our house, we just slept at home and came back on sunday). Our team covered about 17km in 56 minutes which I swear should be a record. We were well-organized and had 2 trucks to pickup/dump off the runners as we each sprinted our alternating legs of anywhere between 50-100m. The main organizer of the day said we were definitely the most well-managed team. :) It was like playing leapfrog with trucks dumping runners through the desert. Classic. And of course a nice lunch with everyone together in between the first 3 and the second 3 teams' relays with some beers and sandwiches in the middle of nowhere. Ours was the last leg so we basically arrived at the designated lunch spot, socialized a bit, then went to our starting point about 15km away, and waited for Team 5 to arrive and "pass the baton" (which this year was a stuffed ostrich on a noose, as opposed to the usual trend of an ostrich tail feather duster) and off we went. Then the party at the end was stellar mccartney and so was the meal and WHOOPSIEDAISIES ye olde grande mattress (that'd be me) threw caution to the wind and, totally dehydrated, plunged into a drinking bender of gin and red wine. Good lord my head the next day. But nonetheless I put my super trooper boots on and did the annual "Liver Run" bright and early with everyone the next day at 8am. Lovely. Ughhhhhhh. I survived though and it was nice to have a super long sunday ahead of me to recover.
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