Im work now and i got convinced to go have a beer and a chat after work last night so we went to cabana. Then i got sweet talked into going bowling and drinking and proceedded to get smashed and drunk at some bowling place in randwick. I won the last game but lost overall. Drunk bowling is heaps cool.

The funny thing is that ive moved from canberra to sydney and nothings changed. I would have been doing the exact thing this time last year with my cousins on a tuesday night, getting pissed andgoing bowling then rocking up to work hung over. I feel so tired and worn down atm. Ahhh such is life.

The only difference is that i ended up on the train and fell asleep and woke up at auburn. Then i got up got off and quickly ran and got on another train, this unfortunately took me to parramatta even further away from home. *at this point i had no idea what was going on* then i had to wait 20 minutes and got another train to strathfield, found there was no more trains to ashfield and ended up gettting a 20 buck cab back home. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, need to stop falling asleep on trains when im pissed.

Allan

15/15 in week of craze

Sat saw me wake early and riding on 3 hours i made thetrek out to digi pics for 15/15. A big day for me as a lead animator. Got to work around 8 and started straight away on photoshop stuff. Throughout the day i was moving all around the place rushing from photoshop to doing a voice to animating to helping other people do crazy stuff too.

I pretty much spent alot of the day infront of the G5 in the fun room doing after effects animating. In the end it got to 11pm and i was buggered leaving us with large fragments of a 12 min animation. Unfortuantely a few minor issues across all the board led to us falling short of making the cut. What we did do looked pretty good and once we finish it it will look fine as so will see how it goes.

Pins and luke who also were apart of 15/15 were heading out to candies afterwards which was crazy as so on the way home i thought id see how i felt and then id make up my mind. I got to town hall and i checked the next train and it was a 45 min wait so i decided to head out for a bit with the boys. We got to candies and i didn't wanna pay to get in but luke got us all in for free which was cool so i stayed out for a dance and a drink.

Ended up staying till 6 am then headed out to some central station 24hr place and after 5 min headed home. Had to get a train to strathfield due to no inner west trains *hate cityrail* and then a bus from strath to ash. Didn't get home to 8 and it started lightly rain and get cold so once i finally got home at 8am i was delighted as a kid on christmas morning. Bed had never looked so good.

Ended up sleeping till 8 at night and now back at work for a monday morning. Also budgeted my cash wrong and now in about a week ill be up shite creek without a paddle. Oh well, you only live once. It'll teach me to not over spend. Luckily i bought a quarterly train tik so now i dont have to worry about travelling and i get free food at work so it will be a interesting month of no cash.

me thinks there will be many more weeks of craze to come. At current count ive been out every weekend for the year. I think my first weekend home is coming up

Friday of crazy week

Work started at 8 once againand ended at 4 which is normal. Found out it was saint pats day which literally meant at least one drink. K has to do training for some telemarketing job so i met up with her as well as tim stef megan mog and lloyd and headed to some bar on king street for a few drinks. It was the first time my house mates have met K which was a bit weird for me. Worlds colliding thingy.

I should have gone home when K left around 12 but went back to the bar for another drink. Stayed for another hour then got food and in the end didn't get home till 3am due to a packed as nite rider bus.

This meant pain as because i had to wake up at 6:30 for 15/15. My week of craze was just about to get a hell of a lot busier. ;p

Thursday of crazy week

After coffee i got a lift home from kate and alex all the way to ashfield which was extremely generous and well appreciated considering i was stuffed and had to wake up early so in case i forgot

THANK YOU KATE

So thursday. After getting home around 1am i really only got 5 hours sleep but got up early anyway. It was a long day and started with my doctors appointment for a blood sample as well as having to pay for my glasses. Yes im going blind. Nah not really just eye strain from work and over focusing on my right eye while looking at the comp and drawing/reading. Started work at 12 midday and worked through to 8 but ended up staying till 11 because of a production meeting for 15/15 for saturday. Once again got home at 1am damn trains and 5 hours sleep.

So what a big week its been. Ill trytomake it short as alot happened and i dont want too much for yall to read. so bear with me its its gunna be a long ride.

Wednesday

Worked all day and had to stay back till 6 si i called K and organised dinner and ended up leavign work around 8 and met K for dinner in crows nest. I dont reallyget this siburb. It seems to be filled withalot of wealthier people, more snobbish, but the place itself isn't really anything spectacular. Just another ordinary suburb. Although most of the people ihave met up here that are from this way are nice people so i shouldn't bag it out that much.

So had dinner at peter pans with K and got a wine which i cant stand drinking unless im already wasted. K gota ravioli which she said was quite nice while i got a spag bol whichi thought was a flawless choice and hard to go wrong by, but i was quite wrong and in fact it was really bad. The spagetti was really overcooked and soggish and there wasn't enough meat and sauce to fill it out, so it was more of a spag coating in sauce.

Went out to coffee with K, Kate and alex at New Orleans till about 12. I do have an understanding of places in the world and from my memory there are key locations from events and i remember how i got there but i didn't really understand the relative location of new orleans untill i walked across the road from crowies pub and it was there. At that moment alot of mental maps came together in to one piece making it all clear now. Ahhh, crazy little world we live in.

Sat night out

Two big drunken night and the trip down on friday finally caught up with me. Sat mornign i was dead on the couch at matty's place and wasn't feeling the best. I got dropped off with clint to his car near abc in brads M3, hmm nice car. and then stopped off at new oceanic to get some food to calm the stomach. this didn't help for as i was on my way to the atm it got the better of me. With nothing in my stomach i couldn't move and stopped by on someones step and i purged my system of all foreign toxins built up over the last days. I had to get clint to get me cash out because i couldn't move then i realised i had cash anywasy because i got a poweraid last night. But miraculously i could walk again and managed to consume half a scollop.

Went to my mums and crashed out, clint managed to get me some more take away comprosed or chicken chips potato gems and chicken nuggets. Managed to get some sleep and build up energy enough to visit my sister and baby armstrong at the hospital. I decided at this point i wasnt drinking tonight. I had heard from my mum and a few friends of some event at pawn and palm so i got me ormo clint and gasta and headed out. Some guy got run over by his girl in his car and it was a charity fund raising event for him. So we got two people free food a raffle ticket each and 6 beers each for 35 bucks. It was ok but i felt i was going to get bashed by some rednecks country cock head to boozed up and bundy.

The best time i had was playing clint and ormo at foozeball (think im gunna have to buy one now) and watching bernabes band play. so i drove and took gasta home got everyone ready and then headed to the red. met scotties randomyl and he had two first year girls from south and then we all headed to crapital. It was ok and i saw lots of people out bt it was too crowded too hot and the floor was sticky. i pretty much danced all night and didnt drink while every one else got hammered.

Good night sleep yup yup.

Sunday
Visited joey and army again and then went to saigon while leaving gasta and che che at the hospital. mum bought me some clothes which i really lke ***smiles big grin***. then caught up with clint again and matty and ormo at south and met some first years then ehaded home and packed ready for another long tripo to sydney on a bus. yay and now back to work tomoz .(tuesday)

Enter baby Armstrong

Waking up with a hang over on a day you have to travel in painful painful painful. The sun was hot and my skin was burning for some moisture. Iwas hungover and dehidrated and desperately needed some water or shade. My walk to the station was unbearable and i felt so sick and slow once i got to the train. I hadn't planned it well and when i got to the station at 1:20 (needing to be at central before 2) i had to wait 10 min for an all station train. Knowing the train network as i do i worried because i thought id miss my bus which would have meant a hell of alot of effort wasted. But luckily i made it in time to sit down in cool airconditioned comfort for a 6 1/2 hr journey to wagga wagga. I did manage to get my self a fanta before hitting the bus ;)

The trip was ok as i slept the whole time recovering slowly and we race to wagga. I got some good sleep and the next thing i knew i was in wagga feeling fine and ready to hit the piss.

Friday night
Got picked up by clint and headed to my mums to drop my stuff off. Blair released a cd with some girl from melbourne so theyre was a big do at bass bar so we got ready headed out. Got there and met so many people i hadn't seen for ages. i was actually surprised by how many peopl ei knew there that are still there. Even phil and pat were out who i hadn't seen in a while.

A couple of things were interesting about this night the first being matty lemon. He was talking to tom calvert who just so happened to have recently joined the army and matt who is a bit sensitive when it comes to his close friends got pissed and smashed his glass hard on the table and glasss flew every where. He gets up and storms out, so i run over and try and calm him down while hes leaving and the next thing i feel something wet drip down my arm and legs and splash onto my shoes. I stop and matt walks past me and i realise its his blood. I loose him down stairs and then find him later in the nearest toilet surrounded by a medic and bar staff ready to kick him out. Anyway he goes to the hospital and then half and hour later hes back at it again at the bar with a stubby in his hand. Matty you funny bastad. I still cant believe you beat me at chess. Im still two games up i think.

The next involves phil and his mate smel. They were chatting up two girls and i was watching out on the back veranda of bass bar to see if they were picking up or not. Entertaining me was brad matty's bro and so inbetween chatting to brad about sexing chickens (his occupation) and downign my beer/ Gin and T i would peek over at this couple smel and sarah i think her name was. One minute theyre talking and the next thing hes making out and fingering her. Wow i thought, havent seen that at a pub since 1st year. Ahh youngens.

But it doesn't end there. i later see them outside smel phil sarah and some other chick and she was yelling and screamign and crying all about how she had given some guy 70 bucks for three pills and how he ripped her off and bolted witht he money. Now me and about 50 othr people thought this was hilarious and sat around watching as we were waiting for Cabs. Apparently she called him a nigger and a half cast which i didn't see and didn't appreciate hearing but didn't want to get involved in someone elses crap. After i heard she said that i didn't feel sorry for her.

First rules of trade is dont hand over anything unless youve got something else in your other hand, especially if its something dodgy like pills. And i knew the only half aboriginal guy there and hes a nice guy but you wouldn't trade with him if it could be avoided. Stupid girl, you'll learn. Oh well, i hope phil and smel had fun with them, last i saw was them walking off home trying to calm her downa and stop her crying.

Went back to mattys and had a few smokes and then crashed out.

Baby Armstrong Mutebi was also born on this day, second child of my sister @ 4.2 kg and 53 cm. Very healthy boy and cruising along nicely. Atm hs still has straight hair but apparently che che was the same and soon it will fall out and the afro will kick in. I hope i stays straight like mine. That fro will be a pain in the ass later.

Thurdays extravagance

So expecting another big weekend due to a planend trip to wagga i had taken friday the 3rd and monday the 6th off work. So when i got a call from K on wednesday asking me to come out on thursday it meant a big thursday night out and one to look forward to.

So after work i met up with K whos been off in Europe experienceignthe freezign cold of winter while ive been here enjoying a luxuriously entertaining summer of drunken debauchery. Well ive had a pretty good time and its been warm. Anyways, we had tea and then because i had no where to go while waiting for her to cook dinenr and look after her little bro's homework i tagged along and went out to her place. Bit weird but i was heaps tired and kept falling asleep on the couch while her dad and bro watched tv. Talk about uncomfortable, but theyre pretty nice.

After eating got picked up by kate and her younger cousin B, and then went to kates house. While the girls got ready i sat and had more tea and watched an ep of lost with kates parents. Very nce too but even more uncomfortable. Strange night. Then we headed to cabana bar in st leo's.

So the last time kate and K were here they went ot cabana bar and it was pretty awesome for a thursday night. That was three months ago and these days it doesn't draw that much of a crowd. There are still a few peoplet here but its not the happening place to be anymore. Sowe went there and it was pretty quiet. The girls snuck ina bottle of water filled with vodka but it took them the nerve to sneak it into their drink untill an hour and a half in.

So it was good and i drank beer and some voddie while the girls drank voddie and champers i think. It got to the point where i remember K drinking the voddie she just made up and her saying it was really strong then i stupidly picked it up and downed the rest of it remembering that it wasn't that strong at all. Maybe it was thinking back a little too strong and i shouldn't have had that much.I was still good when kate and B left , claiming jet lag for a early escape.

So me and K continued drinking and decided to head over to North sydney and check out greenwood. I dont even know how we got there but i assume it was a cab. Couldn't get in at first for some stupid reason but we stuck around and after 5 min the guy let us in. I think we heade to teh back had one drink and danced a bit and then i got kicked out for being too pissed. I wasn't that drunk because of two reasons. I could walk fine and i could still talk and converse with clear thoughs. Oh well one more trophy for chesh's wall of drunken random crap. Went to Manhatan ? for a bit after but it was dead and closing.

In the end we shared a cab because it should have been cheaper but cost K 30 bucks to her place and then another 35 to my place in ashfield. ..ouch.I think i fell asleep in the cab too. thanks K