So I definitely know I can't dance

Last night the stake YSA had a "so you think you can't dance" night.
I did my usual get there late routine and boy did that hurt, I turned up and they drew red on my wrist and took me to my room to meet my group, who turned out to be just me.

If you know me at all, you'd know that I don't dance at all and drama has never been my forte. There was rules up on the door and my song was sitting there next to the CD player. I sat there for awhile and then with the time ticking as there was 45 minutes to do a routine, I played my song which happened to be "make a man out of me" from the Disney movie Mulan. I had no clue about the song, so i sat there and about 15 minutes later I got some more team mates luckily. There were 4 of us in our group and luckily I didn't have to be in the main part of the routine. I got to pretend I was singing and joined in on some of the little parts.

I was more interested in my teams routine than in doing my job..oops. I blame it on the floor knee slide which I decided to do on the spur of the moment.

Luckily my group didn't make the final two as those teams got given another 12 minutes to go back out with a new song each and make up another routine for the final. For someone not into that, it was quite a fun night. Well after I had done my part anyway. haha

A visitor

I had a suprise visit tonight and look what I scored. They look so good, but I'm holding back the temptation of tasting one until after Tea time.

I remember " if you eat all your vegies you can have dessert"

Thanks Gillian :)

Relaxing but interesting

Yesterday I went for a 2.5 hour motorbike ride with one of my friends Heath Walters. Heath is Married to Tamara, who is Brent Mitchells niece. It's amazing how much more things you see on a bike than on a car, for example when taking my bike out of the drive way I came across this little critter. It seems as though he must have been in my driveway one day while I was driving in as the snake was dead right in the driveway. I guess he should have let me know he was there.

We had a great ride, out to richmond and up bells line of road, up to bell and out to mt victoria and then down from the blue mountains back home. It was a great day for a ride and the scenery is Gorgeous up there, but we didnt really stop, so no pics of the trip. It was quite chilly up the mountains though, luckily I had worn jeans and my motorbike jacket.

After getting back and having lunch I thought it was about time I got back into painting the house and the sort of quarter finished loungeroom. I had a change of heart though on the colour, so I popped on down to check out more colours. It seems like I spend heaps of time looking at colours and not deciding what to do, that happened yesterday as well, I looked and looked and thought I'd found something I liked but sent a msg to a friend and she was with an interior decorator and she said nope, not that one. So I looked again and then gave up. lol. I instead picked a colour for my bedroom. As you can see I had a peach bedroom for nearly two years now, actually the whole house is peach.

My new colour and part of bedroom

I still need to do the trims, so my bedroom is pulled apart at the moment, will have to post another pic later to show you how it all turned out.

Later that day I got a phone call from Jarom saying he was a few hours away and if it was still okay to come stay with me, so he rocked on up with his girlfriend. We had pizza and watched a movie and they stayed the night, but headed off today for melbourne to catch the boat back home. Was good to ctch up, if even for a short time.

What better to do on a Sat night

About 2pm friday afternoon I got a call from work asking me if I could work saturday afternoon for a few hours as there was some stuff from a show on down at Darling Harbour that needed to be picked up. I was to drive one of the old Bulk trucks instead of one of our tail gate trucks as the goods were too big to fit in them. After a few minutes I said ok, thinking about four extra hours of work wouldn't hurt the pay packet, and Being a single guy with no plans, I had nothing better to do.

The Turtle and I were assigned the job and after getting our trucks and driving down, we had about an hour and a half of sitting in a queue, we were then allowed to head on up to see the good and load on up. The problem being the goods werent ready to go, so we had to help wrap and shrink the goods.

We finally got the goods ready to load and loaded up the tailgate truck with all the little machines and stands and stand junk. We then had another 40 minute wait to get a forklift in to load my truck for me. There were about 5 guys from GBC there waiting for us to load which I found different, usually we just load the goods by ourselfes. After awhile we were loaded and they were watching everything we were doing, and asking me how I was going to load and where the straps were for the truck to tie down the machines. Well we were given ropes from work to tie down everything, so here I was trying to tie it all down decently and getting watched.

The problem with this being that in our tailgate trucks we have straps, so in 8 years of driving for star track express I have never learnt how to tie a rope properly. If you look at the picture above, the little machine on the left is worth about $500,000,00 and the bigger machine on the right is worth just over a million dollars. The Turtle didn't have any clue on ropes at all and all I had was the trusty truckies knot, that I'm guessing I learnt from someone when I was on the farm. The truckies knot was the go, so we tied on down and then the guys from GBC asked us how long it would be till we arrived back at their work. Both of us looked at them with a blank look on our faces and said, what do you mean, we were told the goods were coming back to you on monday. Seems like some miscommunication had been going on, we were told the big machine had to be plugged back in with in a few hours, so we said, guess were going back to your work then.

They decided to head off and meet us back there and we finished up securing the load. Let me tell you it was one of the slowest trips back down Parramatta road and further on, I was being alot more gentle than usual with that much money on the back of my truck, along with a smaller $200,000,00 machine. It was like 10.30 at night by this stage and we'd started at 4.30, so we were both hungry and thirsty, so we had a Maccas stop along the way. I grimaced at every little bump and hole in the roads, but when we got back there was no dramas, the knots had held and nothing had shifted, so the turtle was very impressed and asked me to show him how to do the knot. After unloading and heading back to work, we finally walked out at 12.35am. Not quite the 4-5 hours of overtime I thought we'd get, but the pay packet will benefit im sure, or should I say Kevin will be loving the tax from us. So as you can see we do do a little work everynow and again, nothing hard this night, just expensive, but thats our part of the company and why I have a job.