The Home of Tom & Morven

Why not start updating my blog at 4:41am on a Monday morning. I woke up an hour ago to the sound of flowing water - fortunately it didn’t make me wet my pants (not that it normally would, even if I was wearing pants). Foolishly thinking it was the sound of this allegedly claimed “1000 year drought” that South Australia has been having, and thinking that I was listening to the sound of a flash flood, I got out the torch to investigate. It turns out this stream of water was our neighbours hot water system overflow. It seems ridiculous that in such drought stricken times, that people would pour water down the drain because they “don’t need any more hot water than this amount”.

I think hot water systems in drought prone parts of the globe are silly for pouring water down the drain. Why not just have the water overflow into a holding tank, for next refill? Sure there are complexities with a holding tank due to the consequence of complete pressure loss, necessary to force the water through the pipes. Even still, at least connect it to your rainwater tank! Geesh. Since we don’t have a rain-water tank because our house is old (although I am in the process of getting us one) we at least put our watering can under the hot water overflow pipe via a tube.

As I was going out to investigate I discovered a biggish spider on the wall inches from my face where I walked past. I always use a big glass and a magazine to get spiders outside. As I put the glass over this beast it flipped out. It was pissed - I woke it up or something (do spiders sleep? I don’t even know). P.S. how bad is my grammar at this time of night. Anyway, it was totally running around the glass like a maniac, and when it wasn’t running it was attacking the end of the glass, throwing its fangs onto the glass. It was quite disturbing when I had to lift the glass a few millimetres to let the magazine slide between the glass and the wall. I decided if it got out I was going to run like a sissy. Fortunately it didn’t, and I took it outside. Normally I would flick out the spider from the glass using centripetal forces of my arm like a baseball pitcher, but this time I just dropped it on our lawn and ran inside! Some early morning walker is going to be thinking it’s weird that there’s a magazine and a glass on our front lawn. Meh.

The reason I’m probably wide awake (now 4:55am) is because of the pain-killers I’ve been taking. Last week I had a small operation which although went really well, due to the nature of where and what it was I’m a bit sore to walk around. I had it done on Wednesday and was instructed to take the rest of the week off work and stay home. It gets a little boring staying home. I wanted to go motorbiking, or running, or start my Christmas shopping.

On Saturday I was feeling a fair amount better and did some Christmas shopping with Morv. I only got two gifts but now have lots of ideas. I got a gift for myself actually, a 22inch LCD screen! Check it out:

I guess this is my Christmas present to myself this year. I realise it’s a dodge photo - deliberately so you can’t read any of the text

Later Saturday afternoon Morv and I went to the beach, and met up with Lisa and Amanda. It was too hot for me to be there, and borderline unbearable sitting on the hot sand not being able to go into the water (due to my surgery) and was very jealous seeing the others go in We went to the beach a couple weeks ago too (with friends of myn from school, which I didn’t blog about yet because I’ve been slack). We went to Noarlunga beach which was a huge drive away just to go to the beach, although nice beach it is. Really more of an all-day outing than a quick dip at Glenelg though. On the way home we dropped into this massive playground made from wood. It was kind of fun except for getting stuck in the fully-enclosed slippery dip which had corners too sharp for my long lanky body! Sat. night Morv and I went to a housewarming party where I saw heaps of people from school, most of who I haven’t seen since school. Even though most of the people there were from MY school, I think Morv knew more people there than me. Either that, or she’s a hell of a lot better at socialising than me.

Today I jumped on the bike to go to watch our indoor soccer team play. It’s not far away from my house so I thought I’d be okay to have a little post-op bike ride, and it was suprisingly comfortable. If I knew it was this comfortable already I could have done the 2006 Toy Run. (Link to blog post about last years Toy Run). Anyway, I thought I’d be okay to sit in goals most of the game rather than just watch. This meant we could have one sub and be better rested, and people could run around more. I don’t really like letting the team down, and will sacrifice keeping a team together for a little pain. It’s funny, our team titled “The Team That Ocassionally Doesn’t Lose” won in the last game of the season. Somehow, this single win pulled us into the finals! So this game today was a quarter-finals match. It ended as 4-4 so we had a penalty shootout, and I won! I think the highlights of the game was the goal that my brother scored, and the penalty shootout kick I did. It went several goal lengths to the side, obviously because I was trying to kick too hard. I was practising kicking before the game and was consistently kicking the ball into a post from 10m away, so I swear it was just me trying to kick too hard. Anyway, some fool from the other team (that had threatened to kill Jordan for some reason, probably frustrated that Jordan is heaps better than him at soccer) yelled out just as I was kicking the ball, so our team protested and I got another kick. I was like “yeah obviously I was put-off and I would normally have kicked it into the goals rather than 10m to the side of them!” so the ref gave me another kick. This time, instead of the guy yelling out and me kicking the ball off to the side, no one yelled out but the ball still went to the exact same spot. It was amazing how shit a kick it was. It didn’t matter anyway, because Isaac did an awesome job of goal-keeping under the intense pressure that this penalty shootout exerted on us, and we won. After the game, the guy that threatened to kill Jordan came up to us and was over-friendly about saying goodluck for the finals, etc. I think he had two personalities. Anyway, next week we’re into the semi-finals! Photo’s from the game:

Video of penalty shootout:

Quarter Finals Penalty Shootout (High Quality/Large File)

File Size: 20.1 MB

5:43am: Now to get back to sleep for a few minutes…