7/5/2006 - My final knee entry!

The stitches are out, and it was about time! Temperatures have been running into the mid-eighties these past few days, and with all the sweat trickling down my leg the stitches started to get irritated. Now that they're gone, all the itching is gone as well. If anyone is drinking champaign or chardonnay tonight, please think of me while doing so. I don't have to come back to the hospital, and it's worth a celebration!

The hot weather is wearing me out though, and I almost missed my hospital appointment because of it. I had my alarm clock set for 6 AM, which was about the time I finally managed to doze off. Fortunately I suddenly awoke at 8.05, giving me ten minutes to shower off the sweat, get dressed, and making my way to the station. I was back home at 10.25, and even had time to go to the grocery mart down my street on my way home.

Yet, I'm not complaining about the hot weather. I've had constant depressed and suicidal thoughts between 1995 and 2003, and it was the excessively hot summer of 2003 that helped me get over that. If any summer's like that one, I'll die laughing some day. Oh, I'll probably be absent on Friday, so don't expect my next entry until Friday next week! If anyone needs to tell me something before that, e-mail me.

In lieue of one of the movie entries, I'll be turning five into one, I'll soon be writing one entitled: what I look for in girls. That'll be a shocker... Just kidding. It'll hopefully just provide something more of an insight into me.

7/5/2006 - G'day Mate!

Thank you for popping in and telling me about Bruno the bear. Is that story ridgy didge fair dinkum? I hope the poor noble creature haunts them...bloody idiotic what's taken place. I was so pissed off when I saw those big lugs... the Germans had lost...Gruuuugh! I'm going to barrack for Portugal and so hope they can bag the trophy and take it with them. Makes me wonder about the big what if Australia and Gus had just got past Italy, I think they could have rattled a few cages.
But that is all a big what if ...sigh! I hope you are feeling a little cooler calm and collected after your day and night of summer heat. I'm not a big summer fan the heat knocks the socks off me. Now for your questions...About the "starsky" name for the Dutch.
Can't say I've ever heard of that. It's a new one on me but that's not to say it's not out there being used by some of the younger set. I'll have to open my ears and listen and ask around and get back to you.
POM...A lot of people think it means a prisoner of his/her majesties service. But I have been told that it doesn't. It stands to reason that if it did you are saying all English people are prisoners. So that one is open to debate. I will do a bit of asking around about the word Pom and see what I find out for you.
It's a word I have grown up with and never gave a second thought. My forebears were all Poms and we always love to thump the poms on the cricket field.
Especially the Ashes series of test matches which will be played in Australia this summer. Hope that has been a little helpful so sorry I couldn't be 100% helpful. I send you a big :-) and a (hug) from Dawnie.

7/6/2006 - G'DAY

It's me your Aussie blogger cobber poking my head into your blog page to tell you that I can't find the word "starsky" in any of our ridgy didge lingo. and the word Pom simply means Englishman. Well the world cup is fast winding down and it's a French & Italian affair.
I will publish on my blog a few Aussie euphanisms and sayings in the next day or two if you would like?
Just let me know. Hooroo for now with a :-) and a (hug) from Dawnie.

7/10/2006 - WORLD CUP FOOTBALL...SOCCER.

It's all over now and those spagetti munchers won, Oh well be on again in another 4 years. I posted another page of Aussie lingo just for you. So you can poke your head into my blog and peruse the contents when you have the time or the inclination. I never realised how much of that stuff we actually use. I suppose when you hear it and use it you just don't realise because it is just a part of the every day vocabulary. Been fun compiling it though. Take care and stay safe. I send a smile :-) and a (hug) across the water to you from Dawnie. Be good be careful but not to good it's boring. :-)