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[09 Feb 2010|09:15pm] |
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Today Sau showed me a movie he took of the white flowers on his dragon fruit plant. They flowered last night, apparently. It was a very serious movie. You couldn't tell from the movie the size of the flowers, or (obviously) if they smell nice. But I watched his movie, earnestly. As, I suspect, it was shot.
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[07 Feb 2010|09:32pm] |
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Tonight we nearly burned the house down. And after a wet week and all. Such a wet week we ran out of everything. And raining until at least tuesday. We drove to Target and bought socks and undies and towels. We have all the fans on, trying to blow the smoke away. Five minutes til House.
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[05 Feb 2010|08:49pm] |
Hey guess what we made an offer on the house. Yes we did. We didn't try and bargain. We offered the asking price LOL. Well, we're very happy with the asking price. Everybody says we're nuts. So what. AND THEN we said we're not going to put the rent up (if we get the house) because the tenant is a nice sort of guy, he's kind of mystical and seems like a bit of a battler but apart from that he's taking care of the house. so yeah everybody says we're nuts.
And I can't believe I'm starting to buy a house. Nothing is yet set in stone, but we haven't been pipped at the post, we haven't been sent away, laughing stocks. Everybody is being really nice.
omigod we're starting to buy a house. This is hilarious.
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[31 Jan 2010|08:06pm] |
We went to the country for to look at houses. We found another house to love. but I'm not going to do the same thing. I think maybe we're jumping the gun, but we'll find out tomorrow.
The real estate guy took us around in his pickup. He looked like Johnny Cash. He was way cool. He knew everybody in the town. He showed us a bunch of houses. And in the half hour we had to kill to look at the smallest cheapest wooden house, he took us to look at the old scout hall he bought himself and would sell to us if we wanted it. It had columns made of riverstone. He didn't have the key to show us inside but he opened a window and lifted heself in easy as anything fifty three years old! Silver Lea was kind of diseased. She was broken and damned. The big wooden house was sunny and rambling. The tenant is a hoarder and kind of insane. He had a whole bunch of stuff jammed into that beautiful relic including a coffin. He had a fat, skin-coloured dog.
The real estate dude showed us another house. I hadn't walked ten steps in that house before I felt like a blanket of grey sadness was thrown over me I felt it on my shoulders I felt sick in my stomach and I felt afraid. The hairs stood up on my neck and I could feel the heaviest terrible sadness ever existed, my arms broke out in gooseflesh. I told him, and Mikey, this place is spooky look at my arms look they're all gooseflesh. I didn't know what that johnny cash guy would think of me after that, maybe he was going to be offended. He was showing us that place as a matter of interest. But he didn't mind at all, I don't think. Because he invited us to camp at a property he owns just this far out of town go back down the road a way take a left drive eight kilometres he'd be there at five o'clock we could swim in the swimming hole. I liked that Johnny Cash dude.
Anyway, if you're interested, here's pictures from the big wooden house which we liked a whole lot. The house with the hoarder.
The entrance.
Pressed tin in every room. Twelve foot ceilings.
We didn't camp with the dude. We drove home in the night. I had the beautiful blue moon and mars to my left the whole way.
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[28 Jan 2010|08:58pm] |
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Well yes, it was a bit of a shock when the real estate dude called me up about that place selling like that. And just two days before we could get our hooks in. But I wasn't devastated, like I thought I would be. I was a little flat, and a little sad this morning when I woke up and thought it was all over. But I had no business loving and dreaming about that house like that. I had no call thinking about coming home to that house on starry nights. And now it is somebody else's. And I am fine with that. I am excited because it's not the end of the whole Dream, you know? We've been saving for nearly six months. And we're already looking at other places, many places - there's a place in a small town with pressed tin around the ceiling and a bullnose verandah all the way around. And there's place with a pretty name Silver Lea, it's 85 fucking acres gaaaaaah! Can you just imagine our fire pit on land that big? We could have a pig and an alpaca and a horse. Two horses. Our place is going to be the best place of all. Of that I am sure.
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[28 Jan 2010|08:04am] |
We were going to go take another look at The House on Saturday. Just to let them know we were interested and try drag it along until March. And guess what? Somebody bought it yesterday! The real estate man called me up to tell me they'd received a deposit and everything was going ahead for a sale.
We got so close!
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[26 Jan 2010|06:15pm] |
Happy Australia Day. Whatever it means to you. We got up early. Early to go se the Wogan ma gule morning ceremony down the harbour. I cried. It was more beautiful than anything you can imagine.
We broke the bank today. We bought a stick LOL it's true. A stick but it's beautiful. Here
Ignore my washing in the background (it's clean just needs folding) and the dog's collar on the left (when we take his collar off every afternoon we say he's now a rudie nudie). The stick
It's a letter. Can you work it out? Go from the right. It says
When the moon is like this, go to the river camp. Then, from the river camp, go in this direction (diagonal to the left) it's a short journey. Then you'll find the men at the camp, there's four of them you can tell by their spears.
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[23 Jan 2010|09:40pm] |
Jasmine on a saturday night
I like her hand in the reflection. I like the diamond box. I like the strange missing window on the neighbour's house.
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[22 Jan 2010|10:08pm] |
Today, the heat rose quickly. Very early, before I got to work , it was 27 (80.6). I cleaned the factory. The factory gets hotter than an oven. We are a metal building. We have a flat roof. It's a billion degrees. Mikey picked me up after work and we went for a swim. The sun at our backs. It was the first REAL swim since my bluebird, I dived my head under the water. I felt clean. I felt cool. The tide was coming in. It was magic.
It's ten pm and hot as hades. Tomorrow they're saying it'll be 43 (109.4)
109.4 did you hear that? That's hotter than your ol' arizona. The lady in the post office in your desert said to me 'two days ago it was a hundred degrees' I gave a wry smile. I know about places get 46 in the summer, and minus 9 in the winter. Just one small town.
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[21 Jan 2010|09:01pm] |
I could be an old singer one day you know. Maybe one day when we live in the country. Some old sequins, Mikey could play the piano. We'd have to get one at home. A piano. An old upright. I always liked them better than baby grands. And hopefully it won't get washed away in a flood, once we live by the river. Like that one in a hundred year flood that happened there in the 80's they have a photograph on the wall in the general store in that town, of the whole entire place under dirty brown warm flood water. Just the tips of two roofs showing. Some old photograph, pride of place. Some nights, if we've had a few beers, we figure out inventions to save our treasure if there ever is a flood, if we ever get to buy that house. Inventions that involve ropes and floating rubber blowup boats. We're a pair of dreamers.
http://www.redcross.org.au/howyoucanhelp_Haiti_Appeal.htm
Did you see that kid they pulled out of the rubble today? He was pretty cool.
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[21 Jan 2010|08:27am] |
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My baby got into the university! She's going to do a bachelor of economics.
I feel like we should all smoke a cigar, or something.
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[19 Jan 2010|04:34pm] |
I missed the start of Huey. Now I don't have any idea what to make for dinner : /
We rang the real estate to tee up another visit to the house.
I'm very excited but I'm calm and relaxed because I am doing lots of
1) meditating
2) weaving
3) playing the singing bowls.
Also, it's beginning to feel like Autumn in the mornings and the afternoons. Everybody says I'm a'crazy because it's still so hot in the middle of the day and they're expecting 40 degrees later this week. But that doesn't mean the season hasn't turned around. Autumn always makes me calm and reflective. Contemplative. Philosophical. Not like Spring turning into summer. That makes me restless and reckless and fiery and dramatic.
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[17 Jan 2010|07:30pm] |
Says Windows Leadlights
We went out last night. We let our hair down went nuts and spent thirty-two bucks LOL. It was a party for a friend's birthday. Then we heated up a pizza and forgot to take out the plastic tray and ate it and all night until 7am I thought I was poisoned. Surely not the beers. I'm used to my car being gone now. We picked up my mum today (in Mikey's car) and she pruned my cumquot and the old half dead gardenia I moved from the front of the house and brought back to life and I made her lunch and I said 'are you gonna miss me?'
Anyway, last night was fun. You've got to get out sometime right? Man cannot live on bread alone. we were celebrating.
All that's left of my car : (
Right now there is the most wonderful breeze blowing. It's stronger than a breeze but it's not WIND. Is there a word for something like that? It's just delicious. Tomorrow we're going to ring the real estate agent about the house. We're going to take another look at it. Not so we know what it's like. You better believe me, I know every inch of that house already. But we went them to know we're interested.
Shrooms for lunch
And hey, my LJ friend Denise got married to her beau, Mando, this weekend. I'm feeling all rosy over that. Ain't love grand?
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[15 Jan 2010|08:18pm] |
Someone bought my car already! A burly young fella named Peter came around my house with eighteen hundred dollar bills he handed over without even taking that car for a drive. I signed the paper whatever then he left and well, I burst into tears : (
I'm happy I made the dough, I just needed a moment. AND, because I'm apparently such a luddite and don't understand ebay I didn't realise the buy it now option didn't show ahhhh malaka - I had all these other probably burly young fellahs ringing me getting cranky they'd missed out, offering me more money, wanting young Peter's phone number (of course I didn't give it to them)
What a drama. And I was trying to be so nice. Oh well. I'm over the loss, now I'm celebrating the gain. Nicole tells me it's a new moon in Capricorn, so I should so do something that symbolises/represents some groundwork for a plan for the year or for some upcoming plan. I think I've done that.
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[13 Jan 2010|09:24pm] |
Tonight I am thankful for the cool rain. Yesterday was so hot in my house I had to check if the oven was on. And the night was so hot you could be sick. Back at work now three days! We had nearly three weeks off over Christmas. This was the first summer in seven years we didn't go anywhere, 'cept for the mountains overnight to see our friends. Instead we swam at Bronte, we joined the library and borrowed books (Mikey borrows novels, I borrow books on gardening and how to learn spanish, Jasmine borrows books on crafts, Ruby was working over Christmas so she didn't come with us.) Nicole, the library's gone all high-tech! Did you know about that?
I got so lazy over the break. I didn't go on my walks. Only swimming, but the water is so salty you're so buoyant alls it takes is the slightest wave of your hands to move you through the water. Afternoon sleeps. Who knew being lazy could be so exhausting? I got as fat as butter.
But now I'm back at work. I'm taking care of business. I decided it was all that business with my friend going crazy on me that caused the bad dreams. So I wrote them a letter, and I posted it today. When I posted it the weather was all stormy and angry with the sky grey and serious and the wind going crazy, which was fitting weather for mailing that letter. When I put the envelope in the slot I muttered to myself fucken cunts. Then I came home before it rained and washed my car and cleaned out the junk so I could take pictures and finally put it on ebay. Take a look at it. I've already got a bid! Without anybody even seeing it. I've had 96 people look at it already and I'm getting ten guys every hour asking my number. I've gone all autistic now, I want to run around in circles pulling my ears and moaning. You're more involved in ebay selling that the good old trading post. I'd rather they just came and take a look.
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160394664977&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT
awww my car.
Anyway, my house is still available. It's the 29th March when the six months is up. Come on baby wait for me. Oh! And when I went to clean out my car, I found Mikey's missing ring!!! Back in the olden days when we used to throw our money around I bought him this freaking dress ring. It's silver, maybe it's white gold I can't remember, but it's the continental gentleman style with a big black square and a decent sized diamond in the centre. I think it was nearly $400 can you believe that?! It was on sale too bahahahaha. I'm laughing because I honestly can't believe I used to spend money like that. And I don't even miss it, the spending. That's the godhonest truth. I had to buy another house dress last week. My last one totally fell apart. it disintegrated, very sad. And I searched the sales until I found one for eleven dollars. And it hurt to spend that, good grief. Anyway, he lost that ring! We had an inkling it was buried 'neath the creeping fig near the back fence, seeings that was the last place either of us remember him wearing it. But there it was on the floor of my car in the back seat with the arm rest and spare door handle or seatbelt or something. How do you like that?! It's been missing a year. Wow. Now it's back with its rightful owner.
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[07 Jan 2010|11:05pm] |
My husband.
I've still a crush on him.
Do you remember the clouds? In that Arizona sky?
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[05 Jan 2010|06:03pm] |
This is where I go to swim. Although, I couldn't today because of my fresh tattoo. It's still nice to be there and I could take my camera. Later, I went in the sea up to my hips. We took my ma swimming. Now it's the summer I see her scar on her breast in summer tops. I suppose she's starting to get old. She has pretty green eyes.
And here is my hibiscus. Taken from a cutting from Mikey's mother's garden. It's now a shrub in my own garden up to my waist and heavy with its double blooms.
Tonight I'm making tacos and we're all going to watch Taxi Driver together.
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[04 Jan 2010|09:00pm] |
The other night Ruby said something really mean to me. I won't say what it was, only that it left me feeling bad. And was totally uncalled for. I thought it was just like her father, only then I remembered it was probably more just like me. Whenever he would say something mean it was kind of laughable. If I say something mean it's a little more ... oh I don't know.
So, I think she's more like me than him. Which is strangely comforting.
today we drove to Manly to collect Jasmine. She'll be here for one week. We're all taking nannie swimming. I hope it goes ok.
This evening I cooked a splendid curry. We listened to Lou Reed. I really like the way Robert Quine plays guitar. Played guitar, rest his soul.
Also, we went to the library. I used to have a card (and probably some fines) but they zap you after a year or so. I borrowed two books to learn Spanish. And one book on Aboriginal definitions. I learned about the 'kidney fatter'. He's the guy who comes in the night while you're asleep and in a ritualistic attack cuts out your kidney fat for payback. I got a book on mosaics too.
Buenos noches
x
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[03 Jan 2010|07:19pm] |
I dreamed an awful dream, where every one of my teeth feel out
One by one, all it took was a lickover with my tongue to dislodge one and have me *Phw* spit it out into my hand, leaving my mouth gaping like an undone hem. It was devastating.
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