Birthday Wish

Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me etc etc. You know when you get older you really don't care about birthdays anymore, i don't!! I love that I'm getting older but I really don't like people making it into some huge big deal.

It really is just another day to me I know I should care but I don't the only thing I like about it are my kids , they love that it was my birthday they went shopping and bought me a great shirt for me and I love it. I had lunch at Nic's mums place and she was making a big deal out of it she wouldn't even let me dry the dishes come on it is only polite to help with the dishes I wasn't going to sit there and watch her do everything. I sound like a grumpy old bugger but really it is only a day when I was born 32 years ago big deal.

So here is my birthday wish I know I'm not suppose to tell anyone as it wont come true but here goes. I would like everyone to go about there daily things and just be happy they are alive and I will go about mine, yes you can wish me a happy birthday as I do like that it is polite to do so but please don't try to make a fuss as it will be wasted on me. I got so annoyed when everyone was asking what do you want for your birthday and my answer was nothing just a card will do but they all insisted to get me something. I must admit my favorite present was my new Ramones t-shirt apparently it looks good on me.....;) followed close by with my new explorer socks wrapped and sticky taped by the great Miss H, thanks Mc's

I know I sound ungrateful now but I get a little sad every time it gets to my birthday for various reasons that most of my friends know and I know that it is why everyone makes a big deal out of my birthday but I really don't care to much about all that stuff all I care about is my beautiful wife Nicole and my two wonderful kids and my close Ffriends . I'm so sorry to everyone that I have now made feel like crap but I'm sitting here typing having a little cry and feeling sad so that is how my words are coming out it is most likely why I hate birthdays I suppose.

I took the day of work so I could do some thinking ( you know why am I here kind of thinking ) and I had the weirdest thing happen to me I normally can take a day off and just do what ever I want to but yesterday just didn't go as planned, I couldn't catch up not at alli didn't really do much I was going to clean house, put washing away, make beds, do dishes clean out shed but I barely got the beds made and the dishes done. I was rushing around town going here doing this so much for that idea. Nic come home to a mess I felt so bad but she felt bad that my birthday was not the way I planned it sorry Nic for the mess I just couldn't keep on top of it.

Even poker last night I bombed out not too early but early enough not to get to the final table I think I went in a little cocky from last week oh well learnt my lesson there.

But after all this blogging today I actually feel much better and feel like I could take on the world as a happy 32 year old. I don't hate birthdays, I love celebrating everyone's birthdays just try and get thru mine that's all as quick as possible.

Cya soon 33 I know it wont be long ...!!

Poker

Just a quick one for now, I started last week playing Texas holdem poker at the local downtowner.

I only went down to get out of the house and have a little fun. Last week was my first time playing proply very complicated some of the terms are completely alien to me and I have to get a little help from the other players as to how to deal and bet but besides that I was having fun.

It goes quite quick at times but other times you could fall asleep waiting for everyone to make up their minds , as I was saying last week was my first time and I thought I would go early in the night but unbeknownst to me I was still going for a while but not winning anything all crap hands nothing to bet on and all my money was going on small and big blinds. But at least the guy I went with bombed out before me so I was happy, I wasn't far behind him I think I was about the fourth or fifth person out for the night. Oh well played pool lost badly went home.

This week was about the same amount of people about 70-80 people meet up with some other people and sat with them. I really thought I was going to be the first out but I got some good hands and by god I was the highest winner on our table by first break, shit I couldn't believe my luck. By the return I had about $12000 dollars I started with $1500 wasn't a bad effort from me anyway forty minutes later I was down to $2400 and it was time for the next break. What I didn't know was that I was now down to the top twelve and progressed to the final table, I was actually shaking I was that nervous but I kept going and a few more dropped out top ten now wow even more nervous now all these people play reguarly I don't IM out of my depth here I thought.

I managed to get my chips back up to about $10000 but that didn't last long with betting starting at $2000 -$4000 dollars I made a few mistakes betting on bad hands and I was getting tired so I made a play and went all in on a pair of eights and a pair of twos. That was my last hand for the night and I ended eighth for the evening which I was so very excited about but I didn't show it to anyone till I got home.

Nicole asked how I went and I wouldn't shut up about it, I was dribbling crap all about it and I could see her eyes glazing over as I was speaking ( a lot of yeah and ah-ha and nodding in the right spots etc ) but I didn't care I was excited. Big kev would have been proud of me I was that excited LOL.

Anyway I know I said this was going to be a quick one today but once again

IM EXCITED

Cya

Another Trip To The Hills

Another busy week this time which means plenty of trips out in the country side for me yeah. Lots of deliveries for me I went out to Noojee again but this time I decided to stick to the normal way home but I did get a couple of photos this time.


I love the snow on the mountains we are so going up there this year, we normally go elsewhere but I think Baw Baw is the way to go this time.

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Then I think I might take Alex out to the trout farm to see if he wants to get himself a big fish , I've been there a few times it isn't really fishing but he might have some fun with a couple of friends with him.



I might say it must be getting close to spring as everywhere I went the other day I could see young lambs and foals and calves they are all beautiful but I stopped of at a farm because I saw this tiny little thing and I had to get a closer look.....


He is only five days old I could have put him in my pocket he was so little and cute, He just didn't care that I was in there taking photos, there also was a little black one in there too but she was not so cute, kept running away and hiding behind mum so no good photos. I showed Maddy the pictures she thought I was getting him for her priceless.



Had to snap one more shot of the mountains just love it out there I think it must be the beauty of it all that makes me just want to stare at the hills all day.
best be off

Cya

The Journey

They say a journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. Today i went on an adventure of my own, I had to do a pickup at Yarragon first thing only half a truck full which is nothing really had to wait for a while before they opened so what does one do I know get coffee.

My next port of call was back at Warragul and then I was off again out to Neerim South and then Noojee.




Had a quick look at the trestle bridge while I was there I think I might have a picnic out there one nice day beautiful. I ran into a lady out at the general store who is a friend of mines mum I haven't seen her for years, nice chat then off on my journey now I'm never one for detours( wink wink ) but once again I took a different way home I did see this sign that said Warragul 36 km this way and I went down that road for a very long time and then came across another sign saying Yarra Junction oops oh well was half way there, gone to far to turn back.







I had the nicest drive all the way over to Yarra junction stopping here and there I was supposed to be in Tynong North dropping a parcel off, got there eventually an hour or so late that's all .
I did see some beautiful places to stay b&b's everywhere, I ended up going thru Gembrook and a quick look at Puffing Billy as I was now running really late.




We took Alex there when he was little he loved it we went with Alexander's friends Tom H and Marcus T they had a ball. Might go back one day.Raced off from Gembrook to Bunyip then off to longwarry, a fast pickup in Drouin then a mad dash back to Warragul. The boss none the wiser had to get home so Nic could go to a Yoga class.

There was my journey of a thousand miles well not really a thousand miles maybe a couple of hundred tops.

Best be off to bed now as all that driving has made me very tired

Cya

Knight In Shining Armour

Well not really a knight in shining armour . One of my bosses lives by her self and isn't really a hands on type of girl if you know what I mean, don't get me wrong she can lift with the best of them but doesn't really like to do any hard work. I had just finished tea and the phone rang it was Jenny " Nath" " yeah Jen how can I help" " I've backed into my roller door and I'm stuck in the shed can you help me" once I had stopped laughing and told Nic and she stopped laughing I went to rescue jen.






Off in my trusty steed I went, it was even funnier in real life all I could see was her feet and this roller door bent like a banana. I couldn't budge it at all and I lent on it with all my might, I had to rely on the trusty old nudgeometer , a couple of gentle taps and I had it back into its runners and going up and down again. I slayed the dragon so to speak and my good deed for the day was done, Back in my trusty steed and off home I went. Thanks Jenny for the laugh .

As you can tell I didn't really have anything exciting happen today or this week as it has so far been very average, I cant wait for the weekend this week needs to end and bring on some fun.

cya soon fun

Good times

This is the shortest post for me as i just wanted to show this picture off.
It is blurry out of focus and taken with a crappy camera but it is my favorite picture.