A December To Remember

Hey All

Trying to get a decent amount of sleep before going to work tomorrow so I will keep this short

Ben’s party was a great success. The food was amazing, the booze was plentiful and the vibe was great. Shame there was no turtle but these things happen and you can’t please all the turtles all the time. I think some domestic ducks would go great in the pond environment. None of those wild crack smoking whiskey sipping wild albert park ducks. Just nice suburban, bread eating, god fearing ducks that will settle down and raise a herd. The collective noun for duck offspring is herd and don’t even start me about it or I will be forced to open a can or two of some grade A whoopass

December is shaping up to be one action packed, booze swilling, xmas partying, gift exchanging, flying out of the country month.

The big shout out at the moment is for December 17^th the Friday night. Not only is it the last day I work at AXA but I am taking it on as a going away party especially if I end up getting a job in the mother country and don’t come back for a while but even if I don’t 3 months of summer drinking is a lot to make up for in one action packed night. There will be a fair few from AXA there as there are 3 birthdays in that week and I hope that everyone will turn out to party into the night and maybe even benno will pop in for an hour or two so we can say goodbye to him for the actual last time (me until April but everyone else until mid jan) as he is flying out the next morning. If everyone gets excited about it then he might actually come, haha.

Anyway so festivities will kick of at HOLIAVER which is a very nice little place with a cool beer garden just across the road from Richmond station on swan St (one train stop from the city) at around 8pm or so. Drink there for a few hours and then head off somewhere for some later night shenanigans and some dancing (hopefully podiums involved at some stage haha)

Also we are going to run a KK for xmas for our group which we just thought of at coffee on Sunday. I thought that Ben and Hodaka might as well just buy each other gifts as they will be spending xmas together but everyone else can participate in the randomness.

Scott
Jon
Tommo
Josh
Liz
Loz
Darcy
Jo
Tim
Katrina

Is an even amount of people that worked out. I think we should exchange gifts either on xmas night if ppl want to drink at my house or else Sunday the boxing day might be nice. I (my mum or someone impartial) will send an email to everyone letting them know who they have. We will say the min is $15 and the max $25 which hopefully shouldn’t put too much strain on the old xmas wallet. If that’s too much then just buy something cheap and then do something thoughtful (that counts).

How many times have I used the word xmas in this post?

Ben and Hodaka countdown = 11 days

Scott countdown = 23 days

This blog is nearing its destined purpose as a point of communiqué for the travellers. If you aren’t going anywhere can you please at least go to someone else’s house and post from there.

If anyone is missing off the KK list please give a shout out.

Well that wasn’t as short as I would have hoped so I am leaving now to sleep my sweet arse off. This Thursday night could be the last rehearsal of SGOP for quite a while if you wanna come down and hear some tunes from us before next year.

Listening to: Third Eye Blind – Faster

Shout Out: The 17^th as mentioned and band rehearsal on Thursday

Choice Lyrics: Fall Out Boy – My Heart is The Worst Kind of Weapon

I spent most of last night dragging this lake
for the corpses of all my past mistakes
sell me out- the jokes on you
we are salt- you are the wound
empty another bottle
and let me tear you to pieces
this is me wishing you
into the worst situations
i'm the kind of kid
that can't let anything go
but you wouldn't know a good thing
if it came up and slit your throat

your remorse hasn't fallen on deaf ears
rather ones that just don't care
because i know
that you're in between arms somewhere
next to heartbeats
where you shouldn't dare sleep
I'll teach you a lesson
for keeping secrets from me

take your taste back
peel back your skin
and try to forget how it feels inside
you should try saying no once in a while
oh once in while

See you all