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OOHH AAHHH [22 Jul 2005|01:30am] 5/21 - and I've been studying my betting account odds for the last 2 months .. and still forgot to have a bet on who would be his 500th wicket DUH. And I would've won! (Obviously, seeing as he's taken the first 5 (in 17 minutes!!) Oh, I love this journal! Comments: 1 Runs - Wickets.

WTF?? [21 Jul 2005|11:47pm] OK, I'm not supposed to be posting again already .. but if I'm properly chronicling the Ashes series, well, I guess I have to. But, first, more serious matters. There's not REALLY another bombing in London, surely. It's two weeks after a major bombing incident and there would be very tight security for a while wouldn't there? Wouldn't there? How do the bombs and/or detonators get planted, in that case? WTF??? All out for .. 190??? WTF?????? OK, I wished we had lost the toss in the first place because I wanted Australia to bowl first (not just because I wanted to perve on Brett Lee) but because everyone knows the ball moves around in the first session at ANY ground in England - even if the sun is out at the time of the toss. But, then, Australia do have a dud captain. Comments: 3 Runs - Wickets.

Ashes [21 Jul 2005|09:43pm] [ mood | shocked ] I can't believe it! I've been waiting for this day for 12 months and now it's here and it's almost a disaster! I've been watching England improve over the last 2 years against India and South Africa and West Indies but I can't believe that at lunch Australia are 5 down. I was expecting a competitive Ashes series but not this. Anyway, I'm going to post my thoughts each day of each Test. I still reckon we'll win and I'll be able to come back to this at the end and say to people "I told you so" (I hope :D ) Anything England can do, Australia can do better. Anything Harmison can do, Lee can do faster and harder. England still have to prove they can keep it going for 5 days at a time and 5 Tests in the series. One session does not a series make. I hope ... Just finished HBP for the second time. I reckon Snape's still good. Dumbledore "pleaded" with Snape to kill him so Draco didn't have to (and to give Draco at least a hint of future options) and to keep Snape from breaking the Unbreakable Vow. Also, hoping (against hope, probably) that the Veil is a Horcrux and when it's destroyed, Sirius will come back. (Yes, I'm still in denial) Comments: 4 Runs - Wickets.

Well ... [28 Nov 2004|07:08pm] I've not been online for ages! Downloaded my emails but that's about it. I'm planning for that to change. So, I started my new job (the one I didn't really want but would put up with) almost 2 months ago. Guess what?! I absolutely LOVE it! My boss is great, the other people are fantastic .. it's a small firm, friendly, the work's interesting, I get paid. What more could I ask for, really? The only down side is that we close for 2 weeks at Christmas. Well, it's good that I get 2 weeks holiday but it's bad because I'll have only been there for almost 3 months so by the time I go back my holidays will already be in debit. Oh, well. So .. I'm off to check out what everyone else's been doing for the last couple of months :D I'm really sorry I've just abandoned everyone here lately Comments: 3 Runs - Wickets.

Ramblings [27 Aug 2004|08:02pm] [ mood | tired ] I'm so glad it's the weekend! Hopefully, I can catch up on some sleep. Job interviews, busy at work moving my boss out the door (but not too hard - he doesn't deserve it! - yes, I'm still bitter but being nice to him because I need a reference ... I'm learning quickly to think of myself) and setting my alarm in the middle of the night to watch the Olympics. ( what ridiculous times I've set my alarm for and what I've watched ) So, I've accepted a new job but .. I have concerns about it. So I went for another job interview yesterday. The job I really want, I think is gone ... applications closed a week ago and I haven't heard anything about being shortlisted so ... But I'd be really happy with the one I went for yesterday. And would put up with the one I've already accepted. So my mortgage and bills will get paid. That's relieved me a bit. Cheers GK :) Comments: 5 Runs - Wickets.

Devastated!! Angry, pissed off, upset, sad, furious (yes, sad fits in, too!) [06 Aug 2004|10:12pm] [ mood | crushed ] Ah, yes, unemployed! That should've been the subject. Feeling so many things at the moment - all of them negative - and, quite frankly, just looking to get drunk now :D Seriously :/ My boss of 17 years ... yes, I'm that old (my first job, BTW ...) has decided he's leaving. I'd been thinking along the line of "oh, god, what am I going to do in 10 years when he retires" and then he tells me today, "oh, yeah, I'm leaving and you can't come with me to the new place!" To top it all off, he thinks he's done the right thing by talking to his mates and trying to find me a new job (and I do believe he did it with the best intentions!) but he's now effectively put around the word that I'm desperate! And will take anything for any money! Unemployed is probably not the right thing to say. The firm I work for will keep me on ... they'll put me in a job of "comparable status" just so they can make me resign rather than making me redundant and pay me out. Such lovely, lovely people (and, no, not entitled to LSL - my boss and I used to work at another firm and left there just before I was entitled to LSL .. and it's happened again!!) On the off chance anyone knows of someone who needs a family law paralegal/law clerk/admin assistant/sec/pa, (preferably in Melb) I guess I'm available! No cheers, today GK Comments: 5 Runs - Wickets.

Sad ... (AKA ... Shane Warne: "Howzat!") [03 Aug 2004|11:33pm] OK, well, not sad, exactly, but pissed off, anyway. NOT going to India. Very disappointed. My friend, although it was his idea in the first place, backed out! I think he thought I'd say no and, come October when we would have been there, he wanted to be able to say, "It's all your fault we're not there." Hah! Revenge, at least, is (will be, I hope!) sweet. Because that's what I'll be saying to him! It was such a good deal, too! I mean, I was going to have to go into debt for it (pay for it on my credit card and then pay for it for the rest of my life) but he doesn't even have to borrow to go ... and it's only for 7 nights, 8 days (and 5 of those days are at the cricket, two travelling there/home and one free day. Cheap as!) Ooohhhhh ... if it wasn't a tour of 95% pissed blokes and 5% girls, I'd go by myself Hmmm ... actually, sounds sorta OK ... Comments: 41 Runs - Wickets.

Happy birthday! [31 Jul 2004|03:28am] Nothing in this entry other than to happy birthday Harry, Neville, JKR and anyone else who's lucky (or unlucky!) enough to share their birthday! And ... well ... I have to say ... there's a possibility (not a strong one - I don't think my boss will let it happen) that I'm going to India in November with the (Aussie) Fanatics! Maybe. Maybe. Maybe. Hmmm. :D Comments: 3 Runs - Wickets.

IMPORTANT ABOUT BOOK 6 - PLEASE READ AND ACT!!!! [19 Jul 2004|01:06am] [ mood | angry ] Item on Ebay: "EXTREMELY RARE Harry Potter Book 6 eBook". The seller writes: "You are bidding on Harry Potter and the Ring of the Ancients aka Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince eBook. Thats right this auction is for the sixth Harry Potter Book - Harry Potter and the Ring of the Ancients or as some people know it 'Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince' in eBook format!! This is the sixth and book of the Harry Potter series and it is so new that it is not even in stores yet, you will not be able to find this anywhere else!!!! BE ONE OF THE FIRST TO OWN IT!!!! The bidding will start at $9.99 CDN. it has 264 pages in ebook format." My email to the seller: How did you get a copy? It's still being written by JK Rowling. I assume that you have been unwittingly duped into thinking it's really Harry Potter Book 6, that your offer to sell is a genuine mistake rather than malicious and, now that you know, you'll remove it from sale immediately. Response from the seller There are some many rumours out there they make my head spin. You are not the first person to email me that said Harry Potter book 6 was still being written, there have also been other people telling me that it has already been released overseas, i have heard it will be released in the fall or sometime in 2005, what i am trying to tell you is that there are tons of rumours out there and it is difficult to know exactly what is going on. But I do know that this is the sixth Harry Potter book, I have all five of the first ones and this is the new one, I recieve dozens of questions about this item everyday. I will not remove it because it is genuine, who would sit there and write a huge book just to decieve people, i mean this is a really long book and a good one too. Still giving this guy the benefit of the doubt, I assume he's never heard of fanfic. However, his auction ends in about 2 1/2 days and I'm not willing to see anyone - especially young children - pay for something that's not real (someone has already bought a copy from him!) Please join me in complaining to Ebay (it's item number 6913508913). I also intend doing whatever I can to let JKR know via her website and her publisher (at least perhaps she can put a "no, it's not true" on her "rumours" section. Sorry to put such a long post without using a cut but this is far too important and I want everyone to read it Comments: 5 Runs - Wickets.

Hmmmm ... looking for the socks [18 Jul 2004|10:19pm] [ mood | apathetic ] Almost 10.30 pm on Sunday night *again*. Where exactly do the weekends go? I think they hide out with the lost socks in the washing machine (wherever they go) I think I want to go there, too! I have to be at work at 8 am again tomorrow! It's so not fair. I think I need to win Tattslotto. Then I can retire and go back to uni and become a professional student. I would love that. Better buy a ticket. Come to think of it, better go and check the ticket I bought 3 weeks ago ... maybe I don't have to go to work tomorrow. I'd REALLY love that! Comments: Wickets.

First foray into fanfic [17 Jul 2004|01:39am] [ mood | giggly ] Hello folks! Apologies for my last entry (which was rambling, a bit depressing and totally chaotic - rereading it, it didn't make any sense at all, but I'm glad you're all still my friends :D cheers!) Anyway, I'm sort of a bit curious. My first foray into fanfic was, I'm sort of embarrassed to admit, Duran Duran. In high school, my friends and I used to write "Duranie stories". We didn't know back then that they were "fanfic" but I guess they were. We just used to write and they were rambling, never ending things which we passed backwards and forwards between each other. Full of Mary Sue because we each used to say "write more of me" and ALL were R rated (horny little teenagers that we were!) So, I'm curious as to what everyone else's "first fandoms" were. On a bit of a more depressing note, it's winter here and I just got my gas bill. It's up $160 from the last bill! Damn that beloved central heating :D Credit card's coming out! OK, reality check. Hmmmm. Well, we'll see, I guess. I've started work on your story and I'll get it back to you tomorrow, I promise. Al, hope you had a great birthday and got lots of presents :D Hope everyone else enjoys Friday/Saturday. Comments: 8 Runs - Wickets.

[11 Jul 2004|08:57pm] [ mood | cheerful ] If the finals were being played now, my footy team'd be in and playing the top team who are so hopelessly out of form at the moment that we'd win!(Unfortunately, finals are still 8 weeks away so ... hmmm, trying desperately not to jinx them or anything). La, la, la. Hopefully, I'm going to see PoA, for only the second time, this week. My sister in law and I are taking two of her kids. Well, I hope it's this week. She's been making promises about when we're going but I haven't heard from her. She's pregnant again (this will be her fifth child!) and she's suffering from morning sickness but, really, I think it's a bit inconsiderate of her. No, just joking :D Have I told any of you that my 8 year old nephew is currently reading OotP? Actually, I should ring him and find out how he's going. Only took him a week to read GoF so he might be finished OotP by now. I was a bit worried about him reading both of those but he said he didn't have nightmares about the DE's or Voldemort's resurrection or Cedric's death ... I'm still worried about his reaction to the detentions with Umbridge. Less concerned about Sirius' death because, previously, whenever I've asked him about Sirius (his mum asked me to "test" him on the books because she wasn't sure whether he was reading the whole book) he's said, "Who? Oh, yeah, him," and then moved right along to something else. This kid needs a real education ... I might wait until he's a little bit older, though. Anyway, sorry this entry's so long but, what I really want/need to know is how I get an icon to appear. I've downloaded a really good one by http://www.livejournal.com/users/retrofab/ but I don't know how to get it to appear. Help please? Comments: 4 Runs - Wickets.

[09 Jul 2004|11:45pm] [ mood | contemplative ] I'm listening to a 1927 CD (which I do often when I'm writing) and I'm curious to know whether, if anyone even knows who they are, anyone else thinks that so many of their songs were written 'specially for H/D? Well, OK, I know they weren't really because they were written before JKR wrote HP at all, but I'm sure you know what I mean. You do, don't you? I mean, they're mostly love songs and if I were to ever get married, there are at least 3 songs I'd have played at my wedding (not likely given that I work in family law and marriage is not high on my list of priorities - and the fact that I like living alone and only having to do the dishes once a day!) ... ok, I'm rambling, I know. But I don't know of any other love songs by anyone that are more H/D centric ... or that the 1927 songs could be anyone else centric. Um, not sure that makes sense. Does it? Know what I mean? Know the songs I'm talking about? Don't know why I'm posting this at all given that I hate songfics or anything but the songs I'm talking about are just so ... H/D. Going now. This is so totally pointless. GK :) Comments: Wickets.

[03 Jul 2004|02:36am] [ mood | chipper ] OK, yes, I'm obsessed with sport as well as HP. Still very excited about our win tonight but I'm a bit calmer, now .. I mean it's not like I think we'll really win the premiership this year. I really promise I don't! But .. well ... hope's such a wonderful thing. But we won't. Really, if I'm honest, we have no hope. Do I sound convinced? Well, no, I guess not. But, according to everyone else, we had no chance of winning tonight. One friend of mine said we had not a chance in hell of getting within 6 goals. But we did! We won! He he he! Premiership though? No, actually, not even I will say we have a hope there (which is probably why I am gushing so much over a win tonight - and that it was a win at a ground we're used to losing on!) Hope is very dangerous, though. Far too often, disappointment follows. I refuse to allow it this time. So ... moving on ... anyone live in France? If so, as they whiz by, please give Robbie McEwen, Baden Cooke and Stu O'Grady HUGE pats on the back for me. And Lance - well, he goes without saying (sort of) Cheers GK Comments: Wickets.

I'm so excited! [02 Jul 2004|10:43pm] [ mood | excited ] And it's got nothing to do with HP! I'll probably get excited about that in about half an hour. My footy team (AFL, don't ya know?) won tonight when it was expected we'd lose! I reckon I'm the only person in the southern states who picked 'em! I have to confess, though, I was watching it on TV (TV's a bit more than a quarter behind) and half way during the third quarter on TV, I turned on the radio. Well, from what I heard, I thought Essendon had won but then someone said something like "essendon were in the box seat and north took it away". (Actually, they probably called us the Kangaroos 'cause that's what we're called now). And I had a bet on them so I've won money! (not a lot, though, because I wasn't terribly confident - the bet was more of a dare from a friend) So, I'm off to watch the last quarter "replay" and will be back later. GK :D Comments: Wickets.

*SHOT* [28 Jun 2004|02:16am] [ mood | weird ] Mark Phillippoussis just loves Wimbledon and his match point tonight/today was absolutely brilliant! Which is not to say that I'm not totally pissed off at Channel 9 for not showing it live - and not allowing Fox to show it live, either. I mean, an Aussie is playing a match at Wimbledon and we don't get to see it?? And it's what Channel 9 were complaining about Channel 7 doing with all sport. I'm sick of it and I'm sending an email to Channel 9 tomorrow to complain. And I know I sound like I'm always whinging, but I'm actually in an ok mood tonight. It's just that I had to watch a replay of Mark (just to see him take off his shirt - and they didn't even show that!) so I'm a bit disappointed. Anyway, it's just occurred to me that I don't have to wait until I get online at home to post at LJ (I can do it at work - unlike posting at FAP, which is a tad more *sensitive*) so expect more positive entries from now on. Promise! Cheers GK Comments: 2 Runs - Wickets.

Whinging [27 Jun 2004|09:58pm] [ mood | worried ] Hmmm ... well computer problems the last couple of weeks have prevented me from getting online but I'm back and ... Anyone else live in Melbourne who is bewildered by all this wind?? If October's meant to be the windiest month, what the hell are we going to get then? I just put the rubbish bins out and it's gale force AGAIN! I'm so sick of it. My hair gets all knotty. Comments: 2 Runs - Wickets.

My first ever LJ entry! [20 Jun 2004|12:03am] [ mood | refreshed ] I have so much to say today! First, thanks to everyone who friended me (I've friended you back!) All you GnHrs are fantastic! Hey, I now have friends :D Second, so sorry it's taken me this long to post my very first entry but ... I was on holidays from work for 2 weeks and then went back last Tuesday and ... well, I've been dead tired when I got home each day. Wednesay morning I actually slept through my alarm (VERY unusual for me!) and Friday night I went to sleep on the couch at 8 pm. Yes, 8 pm! I know all of you who are under 30 years old (yes, most/all of you!) will say, "Ah, when I hit 30 it won't change anything," but, let me tell you now, (and I know you won't believe me because I didn't believe anyone who told me) it seriously does! So, anyway, went to Canberra week before last (first week of holidays). Went there because it was the cheapest airfare (and all I could afford!). Thought there wasn't much to do there but turned out that I wasn't there for long enough. Did the museumy stuff - National Capital Exhibition, Old Parliament House, National Archives, National Museum, War Memorial and Museum, Royal Aus Mint, Screensound, Aust Institute of Sport and drove around past all the world embassies. Saw the Carillon from across Lake Burley Griffin (and took some photos of it but still not quite sure what it's attraction is so anyone from ACT, please fill me in). Tried to take a photo of Captain Cook's Memorial Jet but apparently the water level of the lake was too low. Damn this drought! Two full days there wasn't long enough. Didn't even get to go to new Parliament House! So, anyway, since I've been back at work I think I need a serious body clock adjustment. When I was on holidays, I was getting out of bed at 10 am. The past week, though, I've had to be at work by 8! It's a serious injustice! Haven't been able to stay awake long enough during the week to post at FAP :D That's it for my first ever entry. I'll have links soon, though, for two new stories that I've recently posted at FF.net. Gertie K :) Comments: 5 Runs - Wickets.

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