Letting my hair down and Shaking my booty.

Still no answer to the question of how much the tail shaft and service will cost. The good news is, it will cost a lot less than originally expected. So I am told. The car will have to go back to the mechanic this Thursday for a wheel balance and final check on the stalling in roundabout issue though. So I expect more news then.

The car goes in for service the same day I see the surgeon for my little gall stone problem. I hope that again I will have more information about what he intends on doing too! Then in the afternoon a little trip to my G.P to ask him to write a letter saying that I am sane enough to hold a shooters licence. Get those hands down, I am not asking for any one else's opinion on that one.

Last Saturday I ran away from home. Well actually I went to stay at Mick & Liz's in Frankston. Just over night. A boys night you might say, with a bit of input from Liz. I arrived at Micks about 1 p..m., and after some chin wagging, coffee drinking and a catch up on whose been up to what with whom and when, we set about the purpose of the weekend. Which as my lovely friend Joanne described as letting my hair down and shaking my booty. Such a delightful sense of irony she has, with what little hair I have left, and my ability to make Peter Garrett look co-ordinated on the dance floor. Fortunately there wasn't a dance floor in sight, and as you all know if you know me, or if you have looked at my picture, I am follically challenged.

Late Afternoon we sat down to watch Aliens, that science fiction classic with Sigourney Weaver and a whole bunch of butt ugly Alien Monsters and Face Huggers. I had not seen Aliens before so it was an interesting couple of hours. I confess I enjoyed the movie. We the went to visit Mick & Liz's youngest daughter Rebecca.

She and her husband Nathan and baby Lachlan have recently moved to a new house, and I wanted to see how little Lachlan was growing. He was a little grumpy as he had refused much of an afternoon sleep, and has been suffering from croup. The house was run down when they moved in, and with a lot of help from family they have repainted and spruced it up very well.





After we left there we headed off to the Asian Palace in Karingal for a Chinese Banquet. It was beautiful. Thanks Mick & Liz. An hour or two of eating and chatting and we were all ready to pack our doggie bags and go home. Except that we had no left overs to go in the doggie bag so we left empty handed. But Mick and Liz did look like they enjoyed the food.



Back to Mick & Liz's, where we the boys' retired to the comfort of the couch to sit and watch 'Stargate Continuum', a must see movie for all Stargate SG1 fans. Of course sitting at home watching a movie is hard work, so we of course had to fuel ourselves with some Scotch and Coke! Following Continuum we continued our movie watching with Ironman. Robert Downey Jr does a good job, and as with all good comic book movies, it never took itself to seriously, well almost never. but a good flick. and of course it was accompanied by another Scotch and Coke. It was getting pretty late and Liz had an appointment in Ringwood at 10 a.m. on Sunday, so it was suggested we should hit the hay. After some small discourse, a descision was made to watch 'An Interview with a Vampire'. With another Scotch and Coke.

'An Interview with a Vampire' is an interesting movie, well made with some big names at the time and some up and coming little 12 year old actress called Kirsten Dunst. Others of note are Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Antonio Banderas and Christian Slater. Brad Pitt had what I would have said was the lead role, but Tom Cruise got top billing. Go figure, he obviously made more money at the time. I bet if they made the same movie with the same cast today, Brad might have a good crack at top billing. The vagaries of stardom.

Anyway 3 a.m. came and it was decided that as we had to get up in 3 hours, it was definitely time for bed. Sunday morning we arose to a very cold, very wet Melbourne day. With Mick behind the wheel we dropped Liz at a quilting shop in Ringwood where she would spend the day drooling over fabric and new machines, and learnt how to use her new quilting machine better. Mick and I headed off to the Melbourne show grounds where there was a Militaria and Firearms show. Of course it was a professional development day for Mick, and I just tagged along. It is amazing what some people will spend on what others consider junk. Of course I have to admit there was a small proportion of good stuff, but the rest well.

After our short stay there it was off to Nando's for lunch. yum. But they were closed. So we ended up at KFC for lunch. Then off to D.F.O. at Essendon Airport to grab a couple of Business shirts for Mick, then back to Ringwood to pick up Liz, then back to Frankston. We went to grab a coffee in Bayside (if its still called that, I took no notice) Back to Micks, then the drive home in the rain. I made it home at about 5.30. Safe and sound. Hair still up and booty neither shaken nor stirred.