3/26/2015

It's been a pretty uneventful week so far. Monday-I worked, ate dumplings, and played powergrid.

Tuesday-I worked, went to the supermarket and made soup.

Wednesday- I worked and then went to the very last night market of the summer for my potato on a stick. 

I'm getting better with the work schedule but the dark mornings are killer. Common sail light savings time!

3/20/2015

This week I went up to Cann River which means 8 hours of work for me and beautiful pictures for my blog. As normal I went up Thursday night. I have the car situation a little better organised but not completely what I want yet. I had 12 patients in 7.5 hours which worked out perfectly with my notes. 

After work I went down to Furrell's landing. 

It is in the same direction as the light house that I visited last time. There isn't much there except for a river and tons of fishing.

 I went for a run along a trail that took me to choof choof.

 I would have gone further and realised that it was a loop but there was a camper van with 2 large dogs so I weighed up my options and decided to go back. Both estimates on the sign were a bit off but I think the 1km was a little closer than the 1 hour. I ran it out and back twice. My guess is that it is about 1.5km. Then I went exploring up the road and found choof choof from the other side. I was going to run back down the track but again the dogs. After an hour I headed back to the nursing centre. I have been very caleful not to drive at dusk because I'm certain that I would find a kangaroo then. I had a early night of frozen pizza and podcasts. I had a very peaceful 9 hours of sleep and woke rested and ready to take on the world. Driving along this morning A lyrebird crossed the road right in front of my car. I tried to stop and get a picture but no luck. On my way out of Cann River I made a detour to Cape conrahn.

 It's incredible. I only stayed a few minutes because I needed to get back to drop the car off but I will definitely be back. Beautiful forest, beach, waves, and diving! 

As per usual I got back "just in the nick of time" but as I found out the times are arbitrary. Despite the strict times on the website I actually had 2 hours to spare. 

On my 3km walk back to the station I stopped in the rembarance gardens. The man who created the gardens was there and we a nice chat. I also learned that bairnsdale used to have the largest airforce base in Australia. 

I walked 2.5km to the #1 ranked cafe in Bairnsdale just to find that they were closed on Saturdays. I wandered a bit further and found little Alice cafe.

 It was great. I got a chai latte with real tea leaves :) and the food was lovely too. I finished breakfast just in time to catch my train and back to Melbourne I go. So that's 38 hours in East Gippsland with Maddie one more bonus picture from the drive: the French narrows

3/18/2015

The week has been pretty good. Hanging out with Natasha and working hard. It's been lovely to host her. I made pasta from scratch and enchalatas on Sunday night. It was so stress relieving. This week has been busy. Starting with cooking on the weekend and continuing through a very busy day at work today. Natasha leaves tomorrow so we are going out for one last dinner tonight. Luckily for me it was a slightly earlier night at work so we can eat at 9 instead of 9:30. :) 

3/14/2015

Sorry the blog has been on hiatus. I got in the habit of writing whilst on the train but between sleeping and playing whale trail I have let it slip a bit. I have been having tons of fun with Natasha in town(she's here till next Thursday. She has enjoyed hanging out and joining us for rock climbing last week. Last weekend I went to Adelaide for the fringe festival with Damien and 6 other friends. It was great fun. We saw 10 shows in 2 days and then when to the WOMADelaide music festival where we saw a bunch of interesting bands. My favourite stage was where they made musicians cook their favourite foods. 

This week I was sent to Tasmania for work. It was a bit of a crazy trip. I left the house at 7:50 took a tiny plane(35 seater) to Bernie Tasmania, 

rented a car, drove half an hour and started work at 10:30. I worked 10:30-7pm then went to a hotel. Then the next day I worked 6:30-3 and then flew home. In between I went to the store to grab some food and went for a run along the coast. I saw baby penguins as close as I have ever gotten. I could have touched them if I had wanted. But I left them alone and kept running. 

I got back in time to go to my friend's birthday party at naked for satan. $21 worth of pinchos :) on the way home we stopped for Messina in a take away container which surprisingly made it all the way home!

3/6/2015

I spent the day riding around on trains. I got paid for it but I did spend the majority of my day on public transport. I started with a meeting, then I had to go to the facility. My train was 29 minutes late so it took me a while. Then I had a meeting on the other side of the city which meant another 1.5 hours on the train. After the meeting it was just 50 minutes to get home. I red my book. I am currently reading phaic tan a spoof travel novel. It's pretty good but I really want a book that I can get into and I'm struggling at the moment. I got home ang made stuffed eggplant for second dinner/for Damo to take to a party on Friday night. Then Damo, Natasha, and I played power grid. The Brazil version. 

3/2/2015-3/3/2015

I had a couple of fairly uneventful work days. I started of with a relatively even schedule this week but all of my Monday patients cancelled and moved to Wednesday so I am now seeing 10 patients on Wednesday. Tuesday night was climbing night this week. After work I am so hungry at climbing that I have taken to doing double dinner one before and one after except I think I over did it a bit this week because I wasn't all that hungry for second dinner. I had a pretty good climb this week but I wimped out on a pretty cool 20 when the wall started to lean back. Otherwise it was a very successful session. For dinner we had Korean fried chicken and beer. It was good I definitely could have eaten twice as much but I'm glad that I stopped and saved myself the stomach ache. 

Natasha is doing pretty well wandering around the city finding bookstore. She had a bit of a bug yesterday, hopefully it clears up quickly. 

3/1/2015

Oops I missed a few days but I have good excuses. Friday I worked in Melton which is far far away so I took the fast train and napped on the train. Saturday I missed my alarm and had to catch a cab in again. Ugh! Nothing like spending all of my pay on transport. And Sunday I was far too busy to blog.

My friend Natasha who I know from when we were young and living in the vicinity of Morgantown, and haven't seen I at least 10 years has come to visit. Partially me mostly Melbourne, but I'm happy to be a tour guide. I picked her up at the airport at 8am and we went around all day. I took her to our market where I had the sly motivation of shopping but she also found bagels so it was a win. They we went to the Yarra valley and Healesville sanctuary. I still haven't had any luck seeing the lire birds but I am much better at spotting echidnas and wombats. We tried to stop at a winery for lunch on the way home but with some navigational problems and things closing at 4:30 we ran into a bit of trouble. We did find a massive ice cream and chocolate shop in the middle of nowhere I was astonished at how busy it was 20 minutes before closing. 

We did find a nice Indian place in Yarra glen which was lovely for a snack. We took a break at home for a rest before heading out to dinner and the end of the Chinese New Year dragon. We were hoping for Cambodian but when they were closed we went for laksa king instead.