Stuff that has occured recently.

• A brief period of self-harm (Which resulted in my legs being epilated. Hard core yo.)
• A small break down culminating in me taking my hangover to work
• Several days of silence at a time
• Apethy. Lots of apethy. But hey, meh..

I’m sure there were good things in there somewhere but they are currently somewhat outweighed. I am in need of another holiday. Problem is, I have two booked and on-coming. The first I become full-time single guardian to our Godson for a week while his Mum and Dad are on their honeymoon. Rob changed jobs and didn’t have enough time accrued to join me as originally planned, because he’s taking the time he does have over Christmas, which brings me to the second one- a week in Parks with his family.

Not exactly the relaxing, fun-filled holidays that our trip North was. I’m looking forward to not being at work, but then I will be in Bunbury with a nearly-2-yr-old, or in the middle of the desert with a dish.

Anywho, in other news I have not fallen off a motorcycle recently. Go me. I flipped a gloved bird at some highly intelligent twat on Tuesday arvo when he thought it would be a good idea to slide his car into the bit of lane that I was occupying. Thought he was gonna get out for a sec but then the lights went green and he evidently had other places to be like so five minutes ago. My respect for any man in a pink tie is gone. Have to admit, it was pretty scant in the first place.

Besides, who gets out and challenges a person wearing armoured jacket, armoured gloves, and heavy helmet..? Twat!

*breath* Nearly time to start thinking about work. Arvy shift and then catch-up with the ladies of the night. My favourite shift of the week, I must admit.

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Motomax: You’re pretty lucky so far..
Me: Yeh, I keep hearing “it coulda been much worse” (thinking about my neck issues)
Motomax: Yeh, I mean a couple snapped mirrors, some fork seals and scuff marks.. You’re doing pretty well!

Well I suppose I was paying him to worry about the bike, not me

And its not because we catch up for tea and cucumber sandwiches either…

Motomax: Hi Motomax, Ric speaking
Me: Hi this is Renée, I’m just enquiring about foot break levers for an XV250 Virago..
Motomax: Renée… *pause* What have you done to that bike…?

Shame shame shame…
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So I went on the Ladies Trakdayz up at Barbagallo weekend before last. If you’ve read Skit’s blog you’ll see the Spada and I more or less piked at half time. Neck’s still sore, have to see the Dr at some point and get her to pound it back out for me. And the Spada currently has one mirror, just waiting on the second bracket to re-attach the other one to match..

So I got bored on Sunday, printed out some directions, sticky taped them to my tank (so squidly) and told Rob to gear up for a ride. We went to Araluen, bit of a wedding location scouting trip I guess. It started raining so we headed for the bikes and buggered off- and I low sided the Virago halfway through a round-a-bout. Ground off the edge of the foot break lever, and bent the screw that adjusts it’s height. A few flat spots along the right side sticky-outy-bits, but nothing that can’t be filed and polished up I s’pose. The palm of my right glove has a little gravel rash, and I pulled a stitch on my kevlars, but again, nothing that can’t be buffed out..

Yes boys and girls you read that correctly. I have binned two bikes in two consecutive weekends. Someone must be lookin’ out for me as there has been minimum damage on both occasions. Mostly I’m just p*ssed off!

Now, for the love of all that is good, no body let on to my Grandparents! I’m looking at you Robbie!

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Today I picked up a flat hat. Its square and has a tassle and there’s no tag in it saying “do not throw” so I can toss it all I like.

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No, I didn’t find my motorola. But I did get a new shiny nokia, and I discovered that all my contacts were actually saved in my old nokia that I had before I got the motorola!! So I’m pretty much only missing your number if you’ve changed it in the last 12 months.

*This post brought to you as a direct result of being told off by my sister-in-law for not letting her know I was contactable again.

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So, sometime after waking up to my phone alarm yesterday morning, the bloody thing went missing. I worked yesterday morning (hence the alarm requirement on a saturday), and as far as I can narrow down, it went missing between 7am and 1pm. Places it could be include:

* Somewhere in this bloody unit. Though I doubt it, as the place is currently upside down where we’ve been looking rather thoroughly.

*Somewhere between here and work. There’s a chance I may have put it in my jeans pocket, rather than my zippered jacket pocket, before riding the Virago to work. I’ve posted signs around the complex just in case I lost it over one of our many speedybumps.

*At work. Although, if it went missing at work it means someone must have taken it out of my jacket, as I did not. And I can’t see anyone at work willfully stealing.

I’ve called 3 and put a stop on the sim, and I’ll organise something on Thursday so I can be contactable again, but unless the pumpkin turns up I’ve lost all my contacts =( If you are wanting to be contacted by me, you are best to email me your numbers at r n i c h o l l s at i i n e t dot n e t dot a u. Or message Rob (Skit).

AGGRIVATION PLUS PLUS!!
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Ok, two blogs is about my limit. Rob still looks at me funny if I exclaim “I can’t wait to blog this!!” over anything. So I signed up to Facebook just because I got emails from a couple people on there. I don’t check it or update it unless I get another email from someone I can add to it.

Fun Fact: I have three friends/ family on Facebook. Here’s the odd bit: Their birthdays are the 21st, 22nd and 23rd of January.

I kid you not people. I blogged that. I have been assimilated into my fiancés internet family.

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I’m a pisces. I love the water. Like any self-respecting fish, I dry out and die if I spend too much time away from the ocean. Well, not actually die, but I get the biggest salty-air cravings after a few weeks of not even driving past a beach…

But seriously, all this rain is just DEPRESSING!! Bugger off and dump it on some inland farmer’s paddock where its needed, for GAWDS SAKE!!

This post may or may not be brought to you directly by the need to go for a ride.

Today I sat on a bike. Yes thats right, just sat on it. Because it had a flat tyre which would have made test-driving a rather interesting experience.

I’m looking at cruisers, and sort of fallen in love with the Yamaha Virago. The one we looked at today was a gorgeous cream 250cc, not bad for a 1988, low K’s, 6months rego and soon-to-be new tyres. Just a few rusty nuts *giggle* She was comfy to sit on and quite light to hold up- not as heavy as the Spada but that’s just because cruisers are lower to the ground. We’ll go back for a test ride sometime this week- may have to leave it ’til Saturday if this weather keeps up..

It’s only the first one I’ve actually gone to look at really, but compared to others in the Autotrader and on line, its a good deal. Heck I only drove one other commodore when I was hunting for my girl- and I am not a car person by any stretch of the imagination- but comparing the year, features, K’s and the price to other ads I’m still certain I was in no way ripped off. So I’m applying that logic to bike hunting too I’m so excited I even rang my insurance company for a hypothetical quote to cover her!!

Quite silly really, I’m gonna be absolutely heart-broken if she’s no good to actually ride..

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