droughts, fires, floods, rockin blogs - beware the plagues of locusts!

Well I'm back! Did you miss me? Better get comfy cuz I have a bit to catch up on.

What was going to be a quick sojourn into the country turned into 3 weeks of watery hell. Only a few months ago I was bitching about the drought we're in and how dry it is... But it's a funny country I live in. It seems we're now in the midst of a mass of floods. When they start reporting plagues of locusts I'm building m'self a bunker!

I went interstate to visit a pal of mine who had just popped out a sprog (a blue one named Jake) and got stuck there for 3 weeks as we got flooded in. All of the roads in and around the town were flooded and the town itself was under water for 2 days. We almost got airlifted out of there by a squadron of helicopters on the worst day but as the house is on stilts we were OK. Probably one of the most bizarre experiances of my life really. It's kinda surreal when you're surrounded by floodwaters and back home they're talking about Stage 4 water restrictions.

Anyway the bridge was reopened last week and I made my soggy way back home. Got a very warm welcome home from M'Lord which was really cute. Never seen such a happy chap.

And never seen so much email in my inbox. I feel loved! We'll just ignore the fact that half of it was spam, those folks peddling viagra and russian brides love me too in their own special way. And not only that but I was made speechless (which is a rarity for me) by being honored with an award... I'm a Rockin Girl Blogger!! Who would have known? Go me! WLFG thought me worthy of the award and I have to pass it on to 5 other rockin gals... that's the hard part because most of the blogs I read are boys so lemme see what I can do. Otherwise, surprise surprise, there's a Rockin Boy Blogger award so allow me to sprinkle a few of those about if I fall short.

I dunno the rules of this thing but the first one that sprung to mind would be the gal that gave the me award because of the awesomeness that she is but I prolly can't do that since she's already been awarded.

So lemme pay it forward a little: (in random order)


The Rantings of a Not So Starving Writer
I started reading Brianne at her old blog and got hooked. Her life has more twists and turns than a rollercoaster and is way better than The Bold and the Beautiful. She makes me laugh a lot and I love her no bullshit attitude. Anyone that extends their birthday to a weeklong party rocks my world.

Chat Shit
Ditto with Fuckkit really. I started reading her on her old blog when she was still stuck in the UK and now she's travelling around my fair country causing chaos and mayhem wherever she goes whilst discovering the delights of goon and crisping her pale pommy skin.




Starting Next Monday
The Big Cheese, my favourite man. Two words - fucking hilarious. His blog should come with a warning - do not eat food and read this blog because the amount of times I've been sipping some tea or eating something and almost choked to death or sprayed tea on the screen is just stoopid. His was the first blog I ever read and was one of the reasons I started my own. So there, it's your fault Cheese :P

Lance Morrison
For some reason I always want to call him Lancey Pants but somehow resist the urge ;} Basically he's one half of the main reason I'd like to visit to Canada. I don't think that my life would be complete without meeting him.

The Dive Bar Verses
Hermes, not much more I can say because he's the wordsmith. In fact I'm not even going to tell him about this award as I'm sure it means nothing to him but I love to read his writings and glad he's back after a little hiatus. I remember the first post I read a few years ago and it was just so dirty and raw I had to read it a couple times just to soak it all in. He just has a way of taking you right there so that you can see it so clearly. I'm quite envious really.

Well that's about it for today. I've got more to catch up on but I'm just going to end up giving you eye strain so I'll leave some for tomorrow. Good to read you all again, I feel like I've been away for the longest time.