Has anyone seen my brother...?

Today is Ad's birthday, and I'd love to wish him a Happy Birthday however his mobile phone has been disconnected and I've no other way to get in contact with him...(other than via email or blog).

Therefore, I'd like to broadcast my birthday wish to my brother through my blog and hope that he gets around to reading it at some point! Happy Birthday Ad, in true birthday fashion I've bought you a carton of beer, however, as you are in Sydney and I am not I've drunk it!

I'm hoping to visit you early next year, then we can catch up!

By the way, if anyone else, runs into Ad give him a birthday hug from me!

Lotsa love,

Carly

I've been published

I am very, very excited... today I received a magazine in the mail from a client that had an article I'd written inside, this might possibly be the best day of my week.

I can now claim to be a published researcher, how very, very exciting!

Well maybe not too exciting as you can't actually purchase a copy of the magazine, and no one that I know will ever receive it... until I scan it and send it to all my family and friends...

YAY!

Carly Simon

I had the strangest dream last night! For some reason I was doing a Carly Simon concert, I wasn’t Carly Simon, but I was like a Carly Simon tribute singer, very strange. Anyway, everything was going really well and everyone was really enjoying the concert until I realised that the crowd wanted more and the set I had organized was almost over. So I asked the crowd if there were any songs they wanted to hear and Nic, who of course had front row seats, called out ‘White Velvet’. The crowd starting yelling their approval and the band started up the song and suddenly I realized that I didn’t know the words, I flicked back and forth in my song book but couldn’t find the words so just had to fake it. Suddenly I ran off stage by fitting into a large water bottle (I know, what the) and went off to the downstairs dressing room and found some of Carly Simon’s original outfits. Bevan was with me and we choose a whole new outfit, but he didn’t want me to wear too many bracelets, then I went to go back on stage and finish the concert with a killer number, but somehow a long period of time had passed and it was quite late. I met Nic and Jeff on the stairs and they said the crowd had gone home thinking that the concert was over, and that they had ordered pizza and were waiting for it…

What does it mean???? Am I slowly going mad! Why should my namesake attack me now???

The Australian Desert, who would have thunk it...?

We took advantage of the Melbourne Cup public holiday and had a long weekend in which we went on a Jeep trip to Big Desert. Our base camp was in a small town called Pinnaroo, which is just over the South Australian boarder, and about 6 or 7 hours drive from Melbourne.

I don't know about other people but when I thought Australian Desert, I was thinking long stretches of nothing but sand, but that's not what it was, there was sand alright but lots of shrubs as well... very strange...! Bit of a suprise, but other people seemed to expect it so I wonder if all Austalian deserts are like this...?

Anyway, all in all it was a great weekend, fairly tiring but fun, I'm going to get hold of some of the pics and post them up soon because there were a few fun challenges that we put the Jeep through!