Us Two ....

I walk to school, by myself, at least 4 times a week (45 minutes each trip). That's three hours of thinking time.
And I drive a couple hours a week to pick up Bradley from his work out of town.
Yet, despite all this time I have to throw around ideas in my head, I never seem to sit down here to write them out. The intentions are totally there, but the follow through- not working out for me.
Kind of like a few weeks ago, I was going to write about how my favourite little puppy was tragically killed. Jack, the little Jack Russell puppy that nestled perfectly in my arms, was on vacation with our housemates and got into an accident involving the highway and fast moving cars.
It was pretty sad.
I cried. For the dog.
And for our friends who had to say goodbye to their little puppy.
But now, it's just sweet memories of little Jack and his little spunky personality.
And now, there's just Bear. The part dog, part human animal that wishes to sit in your lap and collect all the attention that was lovingly bestowed on Jack before.
And I'm okay with that.

But that's a little too depressing for this early morning post that I'm writing. Let's talk about more exciting things.
Things like.. we got our camera back! Wait- it's not 'our' camera but, more so, it's a brand new camera.
They sent us a brand brand new camera, still in the box.
New battery, new chords, everything.
Thank you Olympus.
It came in the mail, no strings attached, just a simple offering to replace the product that had previously malfunctioned.
I thought about phoning up the company just to thank you. I have to say thank you. Who just sends you a new camera in the mail and doesn't ask for a thank you in return.
OLYMPUS- You're great.

So you know what that means, now that we have our new camera back?? That I probably won't be posting any more than usual!
Boring me huh?
I just don't like to make promises and not live up to them. That's quite the sin in our household, therefore, I won't attempt to make a promise on this blog.
But you might, just once in awhile, see more pictures of our life here.

But look, our camera works just as well as before.
See?

Actually, wait. It was broken in that picture. That's why I look like that. I am totally more photogenic that to blink in every single picture taken, aren't I?
Brad what did you say? Your wife blinks in every picture?
Such a lie.
Here's the one from the night that I didn't blink in. The only one of many that I didn't blink in.
Last night we fulfilled one of our very very few 'must-do's in Australia. Up there with NOT getting eaten by a killer shark and being bitten by a deadly snake was going to see a rugby game.
Back in the day (a few months ago) before Brad and I had friends that just spoiled us with their love and generousity, we would spend our weekends at the local club and watch footy games. We started to understand most of the rules and even knew some of the teams.
Like that one- we know them because they have a player that looks like Brad Pitt.
And that team- they have a player that likes to smile.
We knew the teams intimately.
We haven't been spending time watching the games as much lately but we have said many times over that we have to see a game live before we leave.
So last night there was a big game here in Wollongong between the city players and country players. It was sort of a fun game but still, a good game.
We were rooting for Country.
Our housemate wore his cowboy hat in support.
Brad threatened to take off his shirt to cheer them on.
The final score was a tie- which is just so boring. Who ties? We don't want a tie. Such a let down.
But it was fun to go and freeze our butts off watching the game.
Rugby is a great sport.

And as an expression of my great photography skills, this is a picture of Brad and two of our friends watching the game. I was sitting behind them and I decided to take a picture.
But I didn't want to move.
So I leaned back and took a picture.
My abs were shaking so bad because they don't remember the last time I did a sit up, therefore the picture just sucks big time.
But you get the idea. Boys. Footy field. Bright lights. All those good things.
Such a bad picture.
And I wonder why Brad goes through and lovingly deletes half the pictures I take.

Well, I think that about sums up the exciting things that need to be shared today. I withheld some of the high points.
Like the high point that yesterday I bought stain remover for our clothes and have since walked around the house saying, "man, I'm so excited to have NapiSan!" I have Napisanned everything in sight so far- currently it's working on my shoes.
Last week, I was heaps excited about buying Lynseed Meal to make fresh bread with the appropriate dosages of Omega -3 . Flaxseed in Canadian words.
A few week before that it was toilet cleaner with bleach.
Aren't you glad I don't post more?
Next week, I might start telling you about my dish soap.