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Is it bad to say I’m glad the weekend is over?

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What a crazy 48 hours! If I had the chance to live the weekend over, it would be a resounding “hell no”.

The biggest fault of the weekend was dealing with a cold, which first surfaced earlier in the week. Friday I got knocked my ass by the virus, and spent most of the day sleeping on the couch before scoring a 19/20 on my uni exam online Friday night, which I was pretty stoked with. Saturday morning I woke up looking like death again, and couldn’t get back to sleep after I woke up at 5am. I got up, promptly stopped my dog from eating a toad (still had to wash his mouth out to ensure there was no poison in there), then passed the morning in a zombie-like haze. Just before lunch though I had an epiphany, and decided that I would only continue to feel sick if I acted sick.

Suddenly I burst into action doing all the housework, and was incredibly productive. I felt a lot better (although I had to take frequent breaks to blow my nose), and even went for a walk down to the chemist to replenish my cold & flu supplies. Later that night things turned soured again, and I ended up having a disagreement with Mat. I decided to go and do some night photography, which resulted in my long exposure beach shot for Project 365. The next minute my brain kicked into gear again, and I realised there was no better time to go see a movie by myself than right then (especially item no. 42 of my 52 in 52 challenge states I have to go see a movie by myself 3 times this year). I booked tickets online using the Pocket Cinema app on my iPhone and headed to the cinema to see The Social Network. I actually enjoyed going to the movies by myself this time…it was the down time I needed and the cinema wasn’t crowded.

That night I managed to get a bit more sleep than I did Friday night, so this morning woke up feeling a bit more refreshed. Unfortunately I had reached the coughing phase of my cold, and Mat’s friend had stayed the night in the living room. My options were either to stay in the bedroom and wake Mat up with my coughing, or sit in the living room and wake up Mat’s friend with my coughing. Not good. In the end I went and spent half an hour in the garage with the dogs, before deciding I would lay in bed and read a book. I managed 10mins in the bedroom before I went and vomited up all the vitamins I had just taken, along with a load of cold-related disgusting products. Much more efficient than gradually coughing it all up I guess? I returned to bed, and managed a few more hours of rest.

Today was pretty much sitting around at home doing nothing. Mat and I did go out for lunch together in Mooloolaba, but that wasn’t anything exciting. So all in all, it was a weekend spent trying to deal with my cold, having an argument, and watching a movie. The peaks definitely don’t offset the lows, though I can’t say it was the worst weekend on record either. I’m just glad it’s over, and hopefully this week I will be able to get rid of this cold for good, and spend next weekend doing something fun. I’ve just got to pray the rain goes away now!

Blink and a week has passed

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Wow, just wow. I think I blinked, and a week has passed. Which means that yet again I’m behind in posting my photos of the day. Crap.

This weekend I had set aside to do my uni assignment (due this coming Friday), but I’ve already been booked in to do stuff right up until this afternoon, and tomorrow afternoon we’re meeting up with a friend for a Sunday sesh at the surf club (i.e. drinks, beach, chilling). Better get cracking on that assignment with every free moment I have then!

It’s a really interesting topic though. I have to discuss Locard’s principle (foundation principle of forensic science – “every contact leaves a trace”) and to what extent it remains a cornerstone of forensics science today. Is it outdated? Is it still relevant etc? I’ll try to spend tonight researching court cases and science journals for some great information, and then spend tomorrow and the rest of this week writing and tweaking the assignment. For the first time we’re submitting the assignment online too (no posting hardcopies here), which means I have right up until the last second to get it done. My time is quickly running out, but I’m confident in getting it done on time.

In other news, I’m still really enjoying EA Active2. I wrote about it earlier this week after I had just picked it up for the PS3. I’ve now finished my first week’s training sessions, and there was one day that I could actually feel my muscles were a bit sore! I’m only in the first phase of the 9 week training program, so it’s only going to get harder and harder from here. I’m looking forward to it. The number of exercises they have is impressive too – they actually have planks (KILLS my abs), and some fun “cardio” exercises like mountain boarding (snowboarding but on a skateboard) and mountain biking etc. It’s kept my interest, and I look forward to each session. Hopefully I’ll start getting some nice legs from it; they’re working hard enough!

So that’s me! Time now to go have a shower, and get started on today’s activities (helping Mat service some friends cars – I have to pick them up/drop them off etc). Hope you all have a great weekend!

Sunday at the beach

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Midnight saturday night mat insisted he was going to go and spend Sunday up at the beach, just relaxing. He made me check the tides (since google searching is still beyond him unless it involves the words 4wd or boobs) and come Sunday I thought it would have just been another drunkenly rant of his.

But he was up early, made a packed lunch and was ready to go before 9.30am, which for Mat is impressive. Figuring he was serious I packed up the dog bowl for Turbo (even he was invited) threw in more water and snacks for him and off we went.

The weather was amazing! Clear skies, aqua water and golden sand, it was fantastic. We had caught the barge over to double island point and proceeded to drive along the beach right up to the point. There we stopped for lunch, turbo had a swim (and ran away at one point to play with other dogs) and generally sat on the beach and relaxed.

After a few hours we drove into rainbow beach and caught up with a friend we hadn’t seen in a while as he had moved up there for some work as a pilot.

He showed us a spot we had never seen, it brought us to the top of one of the dunes. We had such a clear view over the hinterland in one direction, and the ocean in the other. It was called the blow hole, as it was a flat spot in the dunes where the wind blew directly through. It was all sand and looked like something you would see out of a coca-cola ad with everyone sandboarding down the dunes. I will have to try that one day. I got some great shots with my camera which I will have to upload to flickr tonight.

Finally it was time for us to head home. We had left it a bit late since it was only a few hours until high tide. We decided to take the road way home which meant going through gympie aka 2 hours of boring road opposed to 1 hour gorgeous beach. We finally arrived home at 7pm, eating a feral take away dinner and eventually falling asleep on the couch.

For a treat, here is a pic of my view of rainbow beach, taken with the iPhone (side note – I had reception the entire length if the beach – I never used to get reception there at all!)