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The days are flying by and everything is a blur to me these days. I’m still not feeling 100%. I feel weak and tired all the time. I get up early to beat the builders, coffee and emails are done before the banging starts. I then deal with the banging and sawing noises all day long. Sometimes I blast the music, but Daft Punk on full blast sounds just as hardcore as the hammering does upstairs.

Guest/common bathroom is now demolished.

Looks so much smaller without anything in it!

The last guy who lived here was an architect himself and he did a lot of work with the ceilings. This bathroom, though super tiny, has a really high ceiling with a skylight in it.

Laundry will score a new top loader, wall mounted dryer and some tiles for the floor and walls.

I’m finally over the flu! Time to get back on the saddle and get back to where I was at, fitness wise, pre-flu.

Some pics from this last Easter Weekend:

Great stuff over at the MCA right now. It’s always a hit and miss but this was a hit, for sure.

Signs bought off the homeless.

Bicycles in Art!

Suga in one of Yayoi Kusama’s rooms, talk about being immersed in art.

And another room, this one was awesome!

On Saturday we checked out the Easter Show (more like the Bogan Show, not a yuppie in sight!). You can’t expect much from the show, we were’nt dissapointed, but we weren’t overly blow away either.

Bogan events aren’t complete without pluto pups (always a great excuse to have one!).

On Sunday I joined Christina’s family and friends on a road trip out of Sydney to pick chestnuts!

Fresh, straight from the oven hot apple pie stop!

We’re not in town anymore.

Nice logs, would love to line some of these up in my garden.

Sign.

Picking Chestnuts. Prickly things!

Loot!

Yum!!!

On other news, the house rennovations are coming along slowly. The boys are still working on the deck, here are some new shots:

Saved from the bin at MCC. Not sure if I’ll do anything with it though! More here.

Love ya Dad.

Suga came home with this last night. It’s an Audrey Kawasaki print (I’ve been a huge fan of her work since 2006). Her originals fetch over $10k, so that was out of the question, but the print’s lovely. I love it!

My red deep-v’s also finally came in. I’d originally ordered a black front but accidentally got a red one, but that’s fine by me.

I took Christina’s cousin Norman on his 1st ever trail ride last Monday night and 15 minutes in he scored a cramp in his leg and just fell over screaming. 15 minutes later he got back on the bike, a few pedals and he went down again, this time getting tangled up in the bike screaming as he had the cramp return but in both legs! Weak Norman! You’re 19yrs old, you should be fit! Un-able to go on John (jlam off the BMU forums) and I escorted Norman back to the carpark and I drove him back to central. I was both super frustrated and angry that I didn’t get my big Monday night ride in, but seeing him limp along as he got out of the car just made me laugh out loud.

Poor Norman.

Down he goes again.

In other news I’m feeling pretty sick! I’ve not had the flu in over a year now thanks to riding and being fit. I was starting to feel rather indestructable to be honest. But I put it down to a combination of things. Drinking too much last weekend saw me wake up with hangovers, being out in the cold when the sun went down at Renato’s outdoor wedding, drinking some more that night, stress from work (now that Caryn’s taken on a full time job I do all the work that comes in the door) and being woken up at 6.45AM by the workmen working on the house every morning means I’ve not been getting enough sleep for the past week.

I’m pretty determinded to knock it on the head before it gets worse though, helps that it’s raining heaps outside. I’ll just stay in and be miserable.

House Rennovations are on day 4 now and the guys are starting to remove all the waste from the garden culling.

All decking is being replaced.

On Saturday we had the JDMST EOMM at JDMyard. Nice day for a meet. More pics here.

On Saturday afternoon Suga and I attended Renato and Thais’ wedding at Manly Beach. Renato is a designer at Saatchi’s where Christina used to work, great guy. The wedding had to be the most laid back wedding I’ve ever been to in my life. Casual dress meant that there were guests in thongs as well as suits! There was a celebrant, and friends, no music, no fuss.

The man.

The woman.

Vows.

Nyaw.

The cake, which they cut upwards with the knife because Brazilians believe in going up in life.

The women going wild (note Christina’s big effort).

Sunday we had Christina’s Mum’s B’day.

Fox and the Locks.

Mark Berry’s new car. OMFG. Go Aussie!

OK so instead of doing hours of research on the best XC shoes I just walked into MCC and tried on a pair of Louis Garneau MONTANA XT’s and I liked them. Grant said the shoes are mine for free if I could figure out how to undo the strap retention system in 30 seconds and no matter how hard I tried to break the things open I couldn’t. LOL, turns out it was a simple case of pushing them down to undo them (I swear I thought I tried that!).

They’re 905g a pair with cleats (heavy!) but damn stiff and I can walk in them fine but they do look gay (IMHO) but not as gay as some of the shoes I’ve owned and worn in my past (try purple rollers, michael jackson style pixie suede boots with buckles all over them or black leather boots with 15cm heels lol?).