My Net Sucks

This week my internet has decided to go on holiday, sure I could look at the net, but each click of the keypad took like 5 minutes for a page to load, so I'd usually give up. Tonight seemed to be doing the same, but then it started to work, so I thought I'd try to Blog, but it seems not to be working, well the uploading of pics anyway. Actually I lie, they have just come through :)

I started off the week and thought a career change could be in order, so if the hat fits :)

A few of the locals out for a dip at Cronulla beach

I went and checked out the Scenery at Kurnell to see what all the fuss about the desalination plant was about. It was really quite pretty and scenic out there

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I was wondering what the traffic jam was about for 3.30 in the afternoon, seems like a helicopter decided to make an appearance on the main highway out Sutherland way, as a motorcyclist was hit and needed to be lifted out. Any money it was a stupid car driver who caused it.

.Must have been a little bright that day.

This was absolutely gorgeous in real life

If I can't get the house on the beach, perhaps a house close to the river with a boat??!!

Night of Mayhem

Yesterday I got a phone call from Daniel and so we went to Parramatta raceway for the night for the local speedway. I had been up here once in the time I've been here and remember going to the speedway in Tassie, so thought I'd take the camera to grab some pics.

Last night they had some monster trucks there as well, they didn't come out for much time tho.

The crowd was right into it

There was a van there with a jet engine that blew flames out and they burnt up a car with it, the noise was just like a plane going overhead

I think the best thing about the speedway is the smell of fuel, it's distinct from normal fuel. There were also some rollovers and some big hits into the walls. The Demolition derby finished off the night as per usual.

Freezing but Gorgeous

After a few weeks off going out with someone else and sitting in the passenger seat, enough hints were finally taken in and today I got back my truck again, as we had a new guy in the team since I got back to work and he's been in my truck. Everyone kept telling me I should be in it.

I still had someone with me to help me out and we had a reasonably easy day, just 6 drops and a pick up to do. All the guys in the team love teasing each other and one of the guys who is stuck in the city all the time wants to get out and go up the mountains sometimes, so because we had a delivery for Katoomba today, we took a pic for him and sent it to him, the reply wasn't quite printable.

The three sisters, can anyone tell why they are called that?

The day was freezing hence the hands in the pocket, you could freeze water into ice just about, just the day before they had snow here.

Leura has a lolly shop, so whenever I'm up that way I just have to call in. Never let a kid loose in there I say, I had to get myself some miniature peanut butter cups and red twisters. hmm


Yes another hard day I bet your thinking :)

Wanted A Millionaire Wife

Thats right I said it, but she has to be rich. I've decided the way I'm going I'm never going to be rich, so if you could all look out for a lovely Lady with money, it would be appreciated.

This is the reason why, a Gorgeous view overlooking the Pacific ocean

There are alot of pluses to my job, but getting to see different places and things, that I would never go anywhere near normally, has got to be one of the best ones.

A 3rd B'day

Yesterday was one of my favourite girls 3rd Birthday.

Monique was born premature in 2005, but you'd never know it now. At the time only like the family were allowed into the room to see Ande and Monique, but we somehow worked it out for me to go in as well.

Fast forward three years and Dave and Ande decided for her birthday we'd all go to an all you can eat restaurant and I was the only non family person there again, so I've been adopted in, to share the memories.

Mon in her princess dress

Dave and Ande's other daughter Poppy

Gary and Crystal Cummings

The enthralled crowd, Sis Cummings, Ande's parents and Dave

The Birthday girl

There were some guests who popped in for a visit, Dave's Sister Suzanne was up from Tassie and his sister in law Irena popped in for a few minutes to say hi until she had to go back to hospital as she had a premature baby just the day before.

A beautiful butterfly cake with Dave's Dad, the ex stake president

The Turtle

With my job in the special services department at work, we get alot of different jobs to do and alot of these jobs are for two men to do. Since I have been back at work I've been that second man to help out the other driver throughout the day, as they are trying to slowly work me back in, to see how I cope with things. I've been out with a few different drivers so far and today I was back with the turtle.

I gave the turtle his nickname a few months back and he's even started calling himself that. Do you remember the old story of the Tortoise and the Hare?

Let me retell the story for you in modern times.

There were three truck drivers and they had to go to the city and do a pick up from one of the big shows that they have each year. Each of these drivers had their own truck and so they helped each other pick up the goods and after awhile they were full and their was nothing else to pick up. So being full they decided perhaps it was time to head back to work and they had a discussion which way to go back, Two decided to go one way and the other suggested an alternate route, but seeing as though he was out numbered decided to follow along the other route. This route was an easy way, just a few motorways to follow, so off they went.

Things were going smooth until they hit the spped camera and after they went past that a couple of them decided that they were going to go a little faster. Two of them tore ahead and kept on overtaking each other to get back to the depot first, one of them was quite happy when he had got to the second last round about first and thought he had the prize won, the said prize being bragging rights. Alas to his dismay, he wasn't first to the line, the slow driver had taken an alternate route down the highway instead of the motorway and instead of being held up in traffic, had made up the extra time he was behind and went tearing through the round about and arrived at work before the other two.

The turtle today, he is always a blast to tease about that day and always has a smile once he has a coffee or caffeine.

Hard Day

This is me working flat out today. It was hard work being near the water and eating chips.
I guess someone had to do it though, and if you weren't there, then better me do it !!

Top Secret

I have some top secret stuff for you, as part of my job, we get to deliver the new and expensive/fragile deliveries and guess what!!! Yes I could be in trouble for this, but Nintendo has brought out a new console and we got to deliver them yesterday. You wont find these babies in a shop though.

here's the packages after dropping them off, they must have a few in the boxes or the games will be huge as well.

The proof in the pudding, the new WePlay coming to a store near you, or perhaps not :)

Football Preso

Last night we had our football presentation for the year. I only ended up playing the three weeks this year, so I was thinking of not going as I didn't do alot, but changed my mind thursday.

The night is a shirt and collar affair, so dressed up we got.

I'm always talking about my friends David and Ande and how I play footy with Dave, so I snapped a picture of them, Ande looks real impressed with this shot i'm taking of them.

1st day back

So today I got to go back to work after three months off doing not alot. I had to get doctors clearance to go back, but I soon passed that easily enough. I rocked on up at 6 like usual and everyone gave me a good old welcome and asked who the new guy was, they all thought they were hilarious.

I didn't get to go straight back into my truck, but was put as an offsider, to sit in the passenger and help the other driver. So I got to have a snooze on the way to our delivery area and on the way home. I especially needed the afternoon snooze :)

This was near one of our delivery areas, yep straight back into the city, but I didnt mind it, just sat back and relaxed.

Everyone was commenting on how my cheeks have filled out and how I'd put on weight, so I guess thats good, because I've never been able to put on weight very well.

The main reason for going back to work, well I didn't know about it, but I was the last one to get my party bag :) A real bag, hat, sunscreen and bottle all with the famous star track logo and also a pair of glasses in the bag. What a bargain, worth going back just for the pack. haha

Thank Goodness your here Night

This past weekend has been a long weekend for us in Sydney and Penrith stake had a mini convention. I've been trying to upload photos since friday night so I could blog a few times, but haven't been able to until I bought some new software, so now you get all the blogs close together.

Have you seen the show thank God your here and whose line is it anyway? Well Friday night was based on these shows.

She walked in to be a fitness instructor on how to use this certain bit of equipment, needless to say it didn't go so well for her

Captain supremo from a kids show

Captain Supremos groupies

Came into a kids party and got to sing his songs, was quite hilarious

Health inspector came into a retirement home, no exit doors, so she said they can jump out the windows

Take a guess what these two were up to or where they were.......
Did you guess???
They are actually sitting in two toilet stalls and they dont have any toilet paper, so they start talking, it was hilarious, the member of stake liked it so mucvh he got them to do it again. A little dodgy at times. lol

A guy shows up to meet his wife for a counselling session with a golf club. enough said.

Centrelink interview for a billionaire taking money off the government

Big private school with three motos they follow, Soccer, Rugby and Rugby League

Chef at a restaurant

It was a pretty fun night to watch

A Mission Call

When I moved to Sydney, it was to do with the Rance family, who invited me to come up with them and over the 8 years I've been here, I've lived with them on and off. The first house that they Rented we converted half the garage into a room and I shared with their Sons Daniel and Luke. It was quite Squishy at times and so we got to know each other even better :)

I've always been treated as part of the family and today I got invited over as Luke had gotten his mission call in the mail after waiting for it. So tonight I wandered over to see him open the call and see where he was going.

The look as he finds out he is going to serve in the Newzealand Wellington Mission, If I remember right he has to report to the MTC in Hamilton on the 22nd of January, so he has a little wait until that time.

The Rance family and Oma Ziesel.

I think they were all excited to hear the news and Cassie was even listening in on the phone over in Perth. Luke has wanted to serve for awhile, so he will make a good missionary.

Does it seem to anyone that the missionaries are getting younger? I'm sure I was never that young, though looking back on photos, I might have been. Perhaps I'm just getting older!!