is an amazingly metropolitian, walkable city.
a bird pooped on me as i sat below the harbour bridge admiring the opera house. thankfully just got my arm.
it's impossible to find a place for 4 family members to eat so that everyone is happy.
being the only one who has no interest in junky $5 shirt flee market tourist shops, i have 30 minutes+ to blog/check my email.
the inside of the opera house is a real let down. the outside is beautiful. i love large, awe inspiring buildings. daring buildings. fun fact: the roof is actually tiled. never knew that before. don't know how fun that actually is.
happy new year.
12.28.2007
sydney
12.23.2007
merry chistmas
2 min left on internet time.
great barrier reef snorkeling amazing. touched a slimy 4.5 foot fish that must have weighed more than the olsen twins. today we drive along a rainforest coastal region of ozzy.
merry christmas to all and to all a good night.
12.20.2007
flown the coop
***** ANNOUNCEMENT *****
i'm off to the great desert :: australia.
official method of time wasting [during my decreased postings] :: google imagelabeler
south island more photos
the ames illusion room, which made susie look like a disproportionately mean giant.
we hiked up (and down) a waterfall (for real) for 3 hours
my reward was this mist covered alpine lake with a dozen waterfalls everywhere you looked. susie's reward was eating a sandwich in a portopotty where it was dry.
mountain around te anau. boring.... unless someone has a better comment.
i met a giant. we became friends over a game of uno. here's us shaking hands. turns out it was just susie in an ames room.
south island photos in reverse
misty windswept beaches are pretty sweet 
but misty mountains are my favorite landscape in the world
pancake rocks :: bring your own syrup
sadly it had to be done this way on occasion
wooden tent :: no electricity :: glass ceiling :: recommended experience
12.14.2007
south island :: first half
our road trip has been an adventure in all senses of the word (although i only know one sense of the word)
* nearly shat myself driving backwards through a traffic circle on the left hand side, but since then the only difficulties has been almost hitting a one lane bridge. oh, and i never remember to put the car in park. i reach for it and grab the door handle and try to leave... still...
* booked skydiving for tomorrow. should be 70 degrees and sunny, but significantly colder at 10,000 meters.
* went on really cool rain forest walk... in the rain... forest
* slept on a mattress in wooden tent with glass ceiling. literally. it wasn't so bad except i woke up next to my sister to find hearts all over the fogged up glass. she swears she didn't make them. would have been alright but later that day when we booked into our next hotel we were given the honeymoon suite and a wink that was "knowingly".... i guess people assume with two people traveling under the same last name... particularly when your younger sister looks older.
* went in ames room. sweet as!
12.09.2007
my first earthquake
felt my first earthquake
mag 4.4 :: 50km away
eyewitness account :: from bed bed
* the window handles rattled.
* my bed lunged toward the wall. [was happy to have the action]
* all over in a second. [refer to above]
* more like a jolt than a shake.
i filled out a NZ gov't questionnaire about how it felt.
blog advisory :: vacation commencement
not-working is tough.
i am treating myself to a vacation :: 5 weeks throughout new zealand and australia
the blog will continue on a reduced, as-internet-is-available schedule
omnivore's dilemma
if i ever buy a car again, i will get a bumper sticker reading "i eat local."
i eat local. i eat whole foods.
why?
the omnivore's dilemma is one of the most influential books i have read. it has changed my mind about eating.
i now want to know what i eat. while i wasn't wondering, i
1) ate way more corn than expected [it's hidden everywhere]
2) consumed tons of petroleum doing so
3) lowered my nutritional intake
unbelievable :: a carrot is not a carrot. they have different nutritional values... and carrots made on factor farms with petroleum aren't that great for you.
i'm not a soap box.
i am a mum and pop comedy blog.
so stop reading here.
but if you're curious, i have more facts from the book.
* each mcdonalds meal takes 1/3 gallon of gas to produce.
* mcdonalds shakes = 78% corn, nuggets = 56% corn, cheeseburger = 52% corn
* "free range" chicken means there is a two week period the bird may opt to leave the factory farm and visit real grass. they never vacation [can't find their luggage]
* farming used to be a nice circle (poop -> soil -> plants -> animals -> poop). now we factory farm and raise animal factories with 2 huge problems: how to fertilize the soil (petroleum) and how to dispose of poop (pollute rivers)
* animals can't handle factory farms or eat what we're feeding them (corn), so we chalk them full of growth hormones and antibiotics. this is creating a drug-resistant super-bacteria.
whatever we choose to eat, we eat by the grace of nature. it's too bad this is oft forgotten.
bug bomb
i flea.
you flea.
the flat was flea-fumigated all afternoon.
my “kiwi stigmata” was actually flea bites.
what a let down.
12.06.2007
12.05.2007
12.04.2007
question :: the birthday scale
rule :: never ask a woman's weight or age [but freely guess so long it all stays in your head]
question :: if you tell a woman that her age must be the same as her weight, is it...
[a] a compliment :: she must be thin
[b] an insult :: she must be old
12.03.2007
cornea-copia of problems
how i've seen the world since the belated turkey day meal on sunday
cause of glasses bow destruction :: 1/2 blue striped sweater, 1/2 my head
anatomy of my old glasses :: blueprints for my parents to find me a new pair state-side
otherwise this will be my new style
***** UPDATE *****
my two potentially new frames
ub my hero
special award :: ub [backchannel popcorn help]
thanks for the instructions on how to make popcorn with just a fry pan, popcorn and elbow grease. it worked brilliantly. my favorite part was testing the heat with a drop of water...
-- When a drop of water will dance on the oil, add a cup of kernels. --
... but then i'm a sucker for dancing...
11.27.2007
11.24.2007
11.21.2007
that old joke...
did you hear the one about darth vadar, super woman, and three vampresses who went to a thanksgiving celebration.....
11.19.2007
holiday meet and greet
the holidays :: officially upon us
pause to introduce yourself [as you see fit] to the other gb readers
i'm too busy to field questions about who's who if everyone's to get their food while it's still hawt.
happy black friday
11.18.2007
11.17.2007
ripe bananas
i bought 42 ripe bananas for $1.50USD.
the allure overcame me.
now i must figure out how to process 42 ripe bananas.
soon.
11.16.2007
still unemployed
for the first time in a job interview, i refused to lie.
i did not get the job.
a five week christmas break is "excessive".
the cinema will have to wait until january.
11.15.2007
funny fists
the last couple nights i've developed three little bumps/rashes/bites on my left hand. they're starting to form the southern cross... i wonder if it's some sort of kiwi stigmata.
dream fight sequence
imagine :: the best action movie ever.
imagine :: the coolest hand-to-hand fight sequence.
answer :: what interesting objects are they using as weapons?
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