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I slept! Only woke up about four times! I feel GOOD! Yay! Although my coffee tasted a bit weird this morning. *peers at coffee cup*. Weird. :-)
This weekend was hell busy. Saturday we ended up with people over for videos and blobbing, which was cool except I had lost all ability to cook, hold on to things, or count. Kind of makes cooking difficult when everything ends up on the floor, the pastry won't do what it's told, and I'm out by an hour or so. So we had pizza for dinner. And it was good.
Sunday we got up, locked ourselves into a four wheel drive car with ma and pa and bro, and headed for Mandurah (about an hour twenty to the Jolly Frog.) And spent all day with kind-of-family. Ok, but would have been better if I'd been drunk. *grin* Got home at 4:55 to see Sheldon had rocked up 5/10 minutes early. :-) Movie night was cool, and we had a little bit more discussion about the co-op thing, so I want people to start thinking now on what they can get out of it. Caitlin, that includes you if you are interested, and are you doing anything next Sunday night? We're probably going to have a proper chat about the potential then (ie, buying a half a cow as a group, vegies as a group, group vegetable and herb gardens as a long term, and chickens as a long term...FAL cards, that sort of thing...) I'd like to also suggest we give it a name, and I was thinking SORCO would be nice, South Of River Co-op. :-) But with so many projects, there's no reason why people can't join until they run for Canada etc. :-) We're not expecting every one to be involved in every project.
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angriest
1. I'm very much an inner-city kind of guy: I've lived in North Perth,
West Perth, Subiaco, Leederville and Nedlands. I've marvelled for several
years about how you and Chesh manage to live all the way out where you
do. Why did you decide to live there, and how do you find it - positive
and/or negative?
I picked this house because 1) It's very close to my parents. I've always intended to have children and I think I will need all the help I can get! 2) I enjoyed growing up here. 3) It was cheap. 880 square metres, three large bedrooms, a study, a pool, a waterproof large shed, souble carport, airconditioning, all for about $80,000. If I was careful, in theory, I could pay it off within three years. *snort*
Probably negatives consist of things like: with my interest in asian cooking, I need to be more organised so I can buy the obscure stuff when I actually do go into perth. The dearth of decent resturaunts. But primarily we're down here so we can raise children on a single income, so going out to dinner is shortly going to be very restricted. :-) I know it's a long way for people to come and visit, which is sad, but by the same token, even when we lived in Mt Lawley, people didn't visit *that* often either. We just make sure we have lots of beds handy. It's so weird now having friends who are close (Lee and Lyn, and Mynxii). I'm having to adjust. I just got so used to being the only ones with jobs and money and cars that we never really experienced having people over all the time anyway, since taking a bus anywhere was a hass, and no one ever had money for taxis etc. Sure cuts into drinking time. :-) I'm not sure that I'm explaining this right.
Besides, if you think HERE is far out, you should drive through Byford one day. And then go to Bunbury where Chesh grew up. And then on outwards a bit more to where Chesh's parents now LIVE. It's a good thing we like to travel. :-)
2. What gives you your greatest joy?
Building my home and family. Errr, and oh, er, organising things. And pulling off things where *every one* is happy.
3. You're given ten million dollars to do whatever you want. What do you
do? After we stop rolling in it, I give some to Ma and Pa, and maybe a little to my brother. If Chesh wants, some goes to his family too, and then we pay out our mortgage. I hire a cleaning lady. I put at least $1,000,000 into a high return share portfolio and hope it makes at least 10% pa so I have an annual income of $100,000. Then we might go on holidays for a bit and see Europe. When we get home, we start the negotiations with each other over building a new house on a BIGGER block of land and I start day dreaming about hunky young men in tight shorts digging me a vegie patch while the chickens look on in curiousity. Then I start looking for more ways to use my ambition and organizational skill which is currently (in the real world) being filtered into cooking, selling lingerie, and Swancons. I'd probably keep selling lingerie; it's really slack work with a good return, and my own hours, but I'd be going to more training courses on things that interest me and trying to learn more business based skills also, since I seem to like that sort of thing. If I got a big enough block of land, I would probably seriously consider the community based idea of many houses and a common bond... but having enough money to pay someone else go do the hard bits sort of takes away from the fun of that fantasy.
4. Are you now, or have you previously, been a religious person? Yes, I am a solitairy eclectic pagan. What does this mean? Short amusing summary: I like to read a lot and then make up the rest. In reality, my relationship with Deity is very personal, and I believe Godhood is within us all. We use images of Deity so we can relate to the amazingness of life itself. The mere fact I can get up in the morning and see the sun is worthy of worship. It *has* to be a personal relationship, the images I use would be meaningless to others. And the ways we worship really do end up being the same; spells and prayers actually have a LOT in common. I also do not believe in reincarnation; one life is enough for anybody. If you don't think your life is going the way it should be, the only way to view it is how YOU can be changed to adapt. The only thing we can change sometimes is ourselves.
When I was about 14, I had a religious jag then too, however that time, I went Christian and believed in my bible and prayed every night. I think on a personal level, I find a bit more satisfaction in my pagan interests. It's also the celebratory nature of my religion. Dammit, I'm happy to be here! I see no point in making my own life miserable; there is no reason why we should. People tend to forget that. Greif seems to be easier to sell than happiness. Probably because happiness takes work, but greif means you can blame someone else for it all. :-(
5. Why don't you share your kittens?!! Mynxii does! We have two of them!!
What's wrong with you?!! Huh?!! We're not good enough for your kittens or
something?!!! ANSWER ME?!!!! :-)
She's just a kitten slut. I respect my kittens more than that. *grin* Not that they do; when you come over Mummycat will be shedding all over you like you've been her best friend, owner, and main feeding person since she was born.
The real #5: Who was your favourite teacher in high school, and why? Mrs Murray. She was a Year Teacher, so for five years if there were problems or issues or whatever, she was our spokeperson and etc. Can't have been easy! She was tiny, an english teacher, really sweet, and very very nice. But she still kept her authority and remained in charge. She was genuinely nice. Every one liked Mrs Murray.
This weekend was hell busy. Saturday we ended up with people over for videos and blobbing, which was cool except I had lost all ability to cook, hold on to things, or count. Kind of makes cooking difficult when everything ends up on the floor, the pastry won't do what it's told, and I'm out by an hour or so. So we had pizza for dinner. And it was good.
Sunday we got up, locked ourselves into a four wheel drive car with ma and pa and bro, and headed for Mandurah (about an hour twenty to the Jolly Frog.) And spent all day with kind-of-family. Ok, but would have been better if I'd been drunk. *grin* Got home at 4:55 to see Sheldon had rocked up 5/10 minutes early. :-) Movie night was cool, and we had a little bit more discussion about the co-op thing, so I want people to start thinking now on what they can get out of it. Caitlin, that includes you if you are interested, and are you doing anything next Sunday night? We're probably going to have a proper chat about the potential then (ie, buying a half a cow as a group, vegies as a group, group vegetable and herb gardens as a long term, and chickens as a long term...FAL cards, that sort of thing...) I'd like to also suggest we give it a name, and I was thinking SORCO would be nice, South Of River Co-op. :-) But with so many projects, there's no reason why people can't join until they run for Canada etc. :-) We're not expecting every one to be involved in every project.
Anyway, time for some memey goodness from
angriest1. I'm very much an inner-city kind of guy: I've lived in North Perth,
West Perth, Subiaco, Leederville and Nedlands. I've marvelled for several
years about how you and Chesh manage to live all the way out where you
do. Why did you decide to live there, and how do you find it - positive
and/or negative?
I picked this house because 1) It's very close to my parents. I've always intended to have children and I think I will need all the help I can get! 2) I enjoyed growing up here. 3) It was cheap. 880 square metres, three large bedrooms, a study, a pool, a waterproof large shed, souble carport, airconditioning, all for about $80,000. If I was careful, in theory, I could pay it off within three years. *snort*
Probably negatives consist of things like: with my interest in asian cooking, I need to be more organised so I can buy the obscure stuff when I actually do go into perth. The dearth of decent resturaunts. But primarily we're down here so we can raise children on a single income, so going out to dinner is shortly going to be very restricted. :-) I know it's a long way for people to come and visit, which is sad, but by the same token, even when we lived in Mt Lawley, people didn't visit *that* often either. We just make sure we have lots of beds handy. It's so weird now having friends who are close (Lee and Lyn, and Mynxii). I'm having to adjust. I just got so used to being the only ones with jobs and money and cars that we never really experienced having people over all the time anyway, since taking a bus anywhere was a hass, and no one ever had money for taxis etc. Sure cuts into drinking time. :-) I'm not sure that I'm explaining this right.
Besides, if you think HERE is far out, you should drive through Byford one day. And then go to Bunbury where Chesh grew up. And then on outwards a bit more to where Chesh's parents now LIVE. It's a good thing we like to travel. :-)
2. What gives you your greatest joy?
Building my home and family. Errr, and oh, er, organising things. And pulling off things where *every one* is happy.
3. You're given ten million dollars to do whatever you want. What do you
do? After we stop rolling in it, I give some to Ma and Pa, and maybe a little to my brother. If Chesh wants, some goes to his family too, and then we pay out our mortgage. I hire a cleaning lady. I put at least $1,000,000 into a high return share portfolio and hope it makes at least 10% pa so I have an annual income of $100,000. Then we might go on holidays for a bit and see Europe. When we get home, we start the negotiations with each other over building a new house on a BIGGER block of land and I start day dreaming about hunky young men in tight shorts digging me a vegie patch while the chickens look on in curiousity. Then I start looking for more ways to use my ambition and organizational skill which is currently (in the real world) being filtered into cooking, selling lingerie, and Swancons. I'd probably keep selling lingerie; it's really slack work with a good return, and my own hours, but I'd be going to more training courses on things that interest me and trying to learn more business based skills also, since I seem to like that sort of thing. If I got a big enough block of land, I would probably seriously consider the community based idea of many houses and a common bond... but having enough money to pay someone else go do the hard bits sort of takes away from the fun of that fantasy.
4. Are you now, or have you previously, been a religious person? Yes, I am a solitairy eclectic pagan. What does this mean? Short amusing summary: I like to read a lot and then make up the rest. In reality, my relationship with Deity is very personal, and I believe Godhood is within us all. We use images of Deity so we can relate to the amazingness of life itself. The mere fact I can get up in the morning and see the sun is worthy of worship. It *has* to be a personal relationship, the images I use would be meaningless to others. And the ways we worship really do end up being the same; spells and prayers actually have a LOT in common. I also do not believe in reincarnation; one life is enough for anybody. If you don't think your life is going the way it should be, the only way to view it is how YOU can be changed to adapt. The only thing we can change sometimes is ourselves.
When I was about 14, I had a religious jag then too, however that time, I went Christian and believed in my bible and prayed every night. I think on a personal level, I find a bit more satisfaction in my pagan interests. It's also the celebratory nature of my religion. Dammit, I'm happy to be here! I see no point in making my own life miserable; there is no reason why we should. People tend to forget that. Greif seems to be easier to sell than happiness. Probably because happiness takes work, but greif means you can blame someone else for it all. :-(
5. Why don't you share your kittens?!! Mynxii does! We have two of them!!
What's wrong with you?!! Huh?!! We're not good enough for your kittens or
something?!!! ANSWER ME?!!!! :-)
She's just a kitten slut. I respect my kittens more than that. *grin* Not that they do; when you come over Mummycat will be shedding all over you like you've been her best friend, owner, and main feeding person since she was born.
The real #5: Who was your favourite teacher in high school, and why? Mrs Murray. She was a Year Teacher, so for five years if there were problems or issues or whatever, she was our spokeperson and etc. Can't have been easy! She was tiny, an english teacher, really sweet, and very very nice. But she still kept her authority and remained in charge. She was genuinely nice. Every one liked Mrs Murray.
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Date: 2005-04-11 03:52 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2005-04-11 03:53 am (UTC)From:I love the way that when we work together we can get more accomplished.
:-)
And we have better benefits for every one.
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Date: 2005-04-11 03:57 am (UTC)From:And I have quite a few herbs, too.
When's the meeting? ;)
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Date: 2005-04-11 04:00 am (UTC)From:no subject
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