Arrrrr!

Well back to work today. Boo :( Nothing outstanding to report there. My MIL had an interview today for a different position in our organisation, and the interview panel were still talking behind closed doors well after 5. For some reason, I don't think she's going to get it, but I really hope she does!

After work tonight we had a Relay For Life team meeting. In a nutshell, Relay For Life is a fundraising event for the cancer council. You register your team before the event and work your butts off fundraising. You also have a theme and dress up your camp site etc. The actual Relay is very special and sort of a reward for all the hard fundraising you've been doing. Sorry, I'm not up for a big explanation tonight. Am very stuffed - after staying up late all weekend, I wasn't able to get to sleep last night. Last time I looked at the clock it was 12:30am, and then I woke up at 5. But anyway, at our team meeting, we worked out a lot of details for our costumes and camp site. We'd already decided a long time ago that we're going to be pirates, and I'm captain of the team, so I get to dress up as a pirate captain which will be great fun. No doubt I'll provide much more Relay info as it gets closer (its being held on 14-15 March).

I've asked James to buy me a homebrew kit for Kmart when he flies home next Tuesday - I can't wait!!! Its going to be so awesome. Although, I realised today that I stuff up every year. My birthday is Feb 27, and every year I hope that James will get a present for me (not necessarily something expensive, just something he's put some thought into, something a bit special), and every year I usually buy something a few weeks before my birthday that gets defaulted to birthday present. For example, yesterday I bought a digital camera, and now I want a homebrew kit.

James was telling me today that yesterday they had this snake lady up at Moomba as a bit of an entertainment/education thingo. She had 30 various snakes such as a womma, inland taipan, brown, king brown, and plenty of others. I am terrified of snakes, but even just hearing James talk about made it sound like a pretty cool presentation to see! He said she was showing how snakes can't really bite through much and also how they take a lot of provoking before they'll bite. They'd be pretty lucky (or unlucky, depending how you look at it!) to bite through jeans because the denim is a thicker fabric. Then she let a heap of the snakes loose (let me say also that they were all hand reared - not ust a few wild snakes she found on the drive up lol) and cornered one in particular and tried to provoke it and make it strike. But she couldn't do it! This poor snake was so terrified, it crawled into a little box (about the size of a muesli bar box) and hid in there. Even when she picked the box up and walked around the room with it, the snake didn't move because it was so scared. Of course there's always the exception to the rule - if you're mowing our lawn in thongs and shorts and run over a snake, of course there's a major chance that you'll get bitten. But whose fault is that? Imagine being deaf and only able to feel things by vibrations - you're laying in the sun on a nice warm day, and you feel the earth shake around you, harder and harder, and then the creature making these vibrations gets closer - you're going to do what it takes to protect yourself then run (or slither away). I'm still scared of being bitten by a snake, and they still freak me out (like sharks - there's just no soul in their eyes).