Monday, February 02, 2009

There's a party going on right here.....

Good Morning on a Monday, People!

If this post is confusing, & gives you a sense of dejavu, don't worry, you're not losing it: Blogger posted my text before the pics uploaded..... soooo slow..... then I re-published it......

There will be no deep & meaningfuls here today, mainly because I just couldn't be bothered. There never are any really, are there? Maybe I'm too shallow..... or insular...... or just plain lazy.

The latter, I think.

It started out a biggish weekend. SBoy, Yana & JackF (his bosses) arrived home on Thursday night while I was at work.

Sboy turned 18 on Friday........

Many drinkies for Sboy & various peoples over the course of the day, starting at lunchtime, both at home & at the local pubs. More drinkies at the pub later with family & friends. Then more drinkies at home with the patrons of the pub back at ours..... copious amounts of party pies, sausage rolls, garlic bread & potato wedges soaked up some of the alcohol..... Sboy slept through a lot of the latter proceedings...... We finally cut his birthday cake (sans "Happy Birthday" song) on Sunday for afternoon tea.
And the most dangerous bushfires are not in Victoria or Tassie, they're right here in Wattle Grove: They're concocted of white rum & tabasco sauce, I believe.

There were times when it wasn't pretty: not a family show at all.

I love being 18.....


still loving it, but... going.....


going..........

GOOOOONNNNNEEEEE................

All things considered, there were no hassles on the day/afternoon/night/early morning. Except that I never slept AT ALL.... backing up after 3 hours the night before & a full week of evening shifts...... *yawn* X 50 squillion.......

My 18 year old son is now my hero. You may be familiar with the scene in the movie, "Zoolander", where the 2 models, Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller) & Hansel (Owen Wilson) have a "walk-off" on the runway & Hansel's coup-des-gras to win the competition is to remove his underwear by pulling them off & out of his pants from the waist........ well that was performed on Sboy by his "best mate", and without a stunt double...... Hopefully, he will still be able to provide me with some grandbabies.......

Please ignore those fingers that seem to have developed tetanus....


They were a rather expensive pair of bonds "very comfy undies" that I bought him for Xmas..... and as you can see, he wore his best clothes for the occassion.....


As you can see we're a party waiting to happen in our family.......

I DID NOT give Vboy that beer....... maybe he's holding it for his brother... brotherly love..



And I take absolutely NO responsibility for the behaviour of the young adults that I gave birth to....... those genes must have come from Beloved....... even though he says that I had them last.....

Saturday was necessarily quiet. Tea at the pub, then the younguns went to lovely Amy's 18th birthday party.

On Sunday (the day of the week, not the fashionably individual name chosen by our Nicole & Keith for their little darling), we purchased a new/old car for GG. A very functional and relatively attractive 2000 model Ford Festiva Trio.... Happy 21st birthday for 2010, baby....... She's happy...... And loving her new domestic arrangements at no 25 as well. She will be actively looking for work in Newie as she is desperate to "get out of this s'hole town..." Wickham is def better baybybee......

On a brighter note, I have solved my work dilemma in regard to the lack of surgical experiences on my surgical rotation, so that's a weight off all of our shoulders, isn't it????????

Vboy's happy back at school, with only one request at the moment: "more pimple wipes please Mum, cos my skin's gone off!" It could certainly be worse. Oh that's right: I forgot. He wants a $150 pair of skate shoes to wear to school "cos they're black leather like I'm supposed to wear". The black Dunlop volleys that he's previously favoured are certainly more economical........... damn those OH&S regulations......


Better go.

Cya ;0)

7 comments:

Unknown said...

yes, am reelived about the surgical rotation (?)
am terrifeid at the thought of white rum and tabasco and also that jack attack is now 18.
was that really 18 years ago.
fark !!!

Michelle said...

Get some Benzac (benzol peroxide 2.5mg) cream from the chemist for zits...its MAGIC...dont get the higher concentrate as it dries out the skin, bit Joshuas acne has disappeared with this stuff...and Kaylas too, and my perstant blackheads...try it. VB will love you for life xxxx

Michelle said...

Persistant...ahem

Tania said...

Happy birthday to SBoy :)

yes.. damn OH&S laws for our little darling's feet, cost me a damn fortune this year even though miss yr 7 had perfectly good ROC mary jane shoes, but noooooooooooo they didn't completely cover her feet. Funny that the school doesn't mind that the girl's uniform feels like it's made out of plastic and would go up in flames in 2 seconds

Natalie said...

Classic photos, Cyndy! Looks like the "man" partied hard, done foine!

Jen said...

those pickies... what a crack up!!!

good to hear from you again - I always look forward to your posts.

Cyndy said...

Thanks, Ladies.

I hope this makes you feel better about your own offspring. I just had to comment to Beloved that if GG had partied as hard as her brother, would we have been accepting of it? Somehow, and I don't mean to be sexist (we're now quite a few more 18th b'days wiser), but I think that we would have pulled the pin on her activities earlier..... She DID party hard, but it was without us when she was in Newcastle. Her surprise party at home seems to have been a little less sodden on her part..... but I still ahrd a collection of teenstrangers for brunch the next day......

I can't wait for Vboys.......