Saturday morning, 10 am

Last night, I went to a party and had a very good time indeed. As a sign of my age, I can say, of the very same event, ‘I had a good time’ and ‘I do not have a hangover’. Though I did not get up and go to the 9.30 pump class.

Of course, I may never get invited to another party again, as the mister spent a fair amount of time talking about my, and my family’s, relaxed attitude to swearing. Apparently, he assumed that people would already know that about me. I am consoling myself by thinking that someone’s children need to be the source of such information and it may as well be mine. Not exactly the kind of parental role I was dreaming of playing, but there you go.

I don’t want you to think I’m starting to settle in here or anything, but I just thought I should let you know that I am at least trying not to be a complete misery guts.

Vertical Marathon

So, I was at my Friday morning circuit class yesterday morning, the 8.30 one, the one I never, ever miss and I was at the star jumps station when the woman at the next station (something to do with shoulders) said, ‘So where were you last week?’

And you know, I had to think for a moment. Where was I? ‘I was somewhere,’ I said, asking my brain to co-operate, and then I remembered…

that first of all, we got into the car extremely early indeed.

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We drove out of Abu Dhabi.

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Until we got to Dubai, where I registered.

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And then I ran.

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All the way to the top of this.

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And that, my friends, is an event on which I cannot believe I am reporting. Me. Running.

The statistics: 52 floors, 1,334 steps, 16 minutes.

That day, the day I ran a Vertical Marathon, it was my mum’s birthday, and she would’ve been 63 which is the age my dad was when he died. Somehow or other it all seemed to fit together in a way that made me think less about sadness and more about the depth of things.

PS See up there in that photo of all of us – that baby carrier on the back of the man behind us? There was a child in that when that man did his run.

Right, that’s it, I’m getting off the internet for the rest of today

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I can only assume that the Tourism Australia people are in cahoots with Tony Abbott to make me feel less homesick. You have succeeded. Honestly, this makes me want to stay as far away from the place as I possibly can.

Dudes, are you for realz? This is like a weet-bix or life. be in it ad that we might have watched during the cricket breaks in the 1970s. For fuck’s sake. And to think, people get paid for this.

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A little slice of my Fridays

The Friday midday prayers are the most important prayers of the week – the equivalent, if there are such equivalences, of the Sunday morning service. They are followed by a sermon which can be heard as clearly across the city as the call to prayer.

I don’t understand it of course, so I always look in Friday’s paper to find out what that week’s sermon is about. This week, it’s about conserving water.

bleeding edge

so, you know I left twitter, and with all the privacy carry-on, I’d leave facebook too, except I like keeping in touch with my cousins and playing wordtwist with my friends, and I don’t post any photos or anything, and plus, I just can’t sever my ties with the interwebs quite that much.

Anyhoo, I found this thing diaspora. I’ve got no real idea what it is, but it looks kind of cool, and I’ve always loved dandelion clocks, so I’m going to give it a try.

Sorry I’ve not had a chance to upload my photographs. It’s the thought of all the cords. It makes my heart race and my head thump. Cords suck. As opposed to the chords eldest lad has been messing with on the keyboard this week. Those chords soothe my head and calm my beating heart.

Deep breath in. Hold. Breathe out. Repeat ad infinitum

Do you know what’s stressful? Deadlines that’s what. Specially when you’re an uptight control freak with compulsive tendencies. All good living in the moment, that which doesn’t kill us practice, but not good for the knots in my back and my neck and my stomach.

On a lighter note, I am very much hoping that tonight I will have energy to upload photos of my weekend so that you can see what I did on Friday. It will leaving you gasping in amazement, wide-mouthed with shock and perhaps even a little in awe of my awesomeness.

You will have to come back to see, because YOU WILL NEVER GUESS.

PS Unless you are my friend on facebook, in which case you already know, but don’t tell anyone, okay…and if you aren’t my friend on facebook, doesn’t that just prove that you are missing out?