Rain and other events

The wind was so crazy yesterday when the storm came that when I ran outside to rescue my laundry on the clothesline, I had to put my foot in the laundry basket to prevent it from blowing away :) I love storms though. Apparently a number of shops locally were flooded out and some had roofs collapse as well. Excitement.

The rain unfortunately washed away most traces of the childish behaviour from the other night of neighbour Theo and I, when we went and wrote in the gravel of the car park next door. Giant initials and love hearts and things. That was after we went and lay on the soccer oval and watched cloud pictures in the sky.

This carpark is the same one that had me hiding from people going past my kitchen window in tractors and had me appearing in the local paper with another neighbour to apparently vent my frustration at the lack of community consultation. Oh, hey, I'll let you see the article:

I seem to be a public figure lately (not really). I also won some money through a local shopping centre competition the other week and was notified by a telephone call broadcast on local radio. I could barely understand some of my hysterical ramblings when I listened to it later :).

Last night I babysat for my little bro and sis, which in a roundabout way involved a La Porchetta birthday dinner and Theo was roped in to watch a Star Wars video (that was obviously serious boy business).

I'm off to do some cooking now, will report back later with my achievements.

How Embarrassment

While running from coffee with Mum and one sis to an appointment last week, I was approached by someone & their cameraman from a local paper. I answered various questions, they took my photo, and I continued on.

By the time I get to my car I am practically hysterical (& even ring my mum to tell her just this) and have running on a loop in my head how embarrassing i can't believe i just did that how embarrassing oh my goodness what on earth and realize that they could have been talking about purple giraffes on the railway and their effect on nuclear reactions for all the sense I seemed to put in my answers.

I even need a haircut and was having a bad hair day. And I had on my glasses which look squinty in the photo. And practically everyone I've seen since then has told me about my 10 seconds of fame. And it would appear in the 'popular' day of the week's paper, wouldn't it :) Ah, could have done worse.

Here is a much doctored version ;)

I wonder if the odds for getting called for jury duty in my lifetime are any different.