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Emil and I made pizza today and was he about to put it in the oven, when...

Emil: Huh?? The cheese looks kinda green.
Me (looking): ..... and fuzzy too?!!?!?!?

We had bought the mozzarella cheese two days ago, and it was FUCKING MOLDY. I usually don't do that kinda stuff, but the next time we go back to Coles I'm gonna bring the moldy cheese and shove it up someone's ass. NO, I'M NOT 100% SATISFIED WITH THIS PRODUCT.

And the most pathetic part is that we both were craving pizza so much that we picked all the cheese off the pizza for 20 minutes and then put some cheddar on top. Uuuughh.

Emil comes home from work, wants to make dinner.

Me: You can also have pasta.
Him: Oh, ok.
Me: The sauce is here. *opens fridge, points to sauce*
Him: Uh-huh.
Me: Did you listen? The sauce is HERE *points again, taps lid*
Him: Yea, ok!

5 minutes later.
Him: Where's the sauce?
Me: Are you kidding me?
Him: No. You didn't tell me.
Me: I told you twice.
Him: Come on, where is it? *opens fridge and random cupboards* Where did you put it?
Me: I didn't put it anywhere. I showed you where it is. Twice.
Him: Then where is it?!?! *opens more cupboards*
Me: ...

Sometimes I don't get him. I mean, seriously.

I just wrapped 3 Christmas presents for my dog, ribbons and all. With his name on them.

Is it time to call the people in the white coats yet?

Right, so.

I've actually had requests (*cough*onerequest*cough*) for more Chase stuff, and I decided one can never have enough cute puppy stuff, so here we go:

These are the photos I uploaded to Vox, the rest of the photos can be seen here.

I also took lots of videos of Chase, I uploaded the cutest ones to Vox. I included the link to the same videos on YouTube as well, because I just noticed the quality is MUCH better.

Chase at 8 weeks chewing on a rug (YouTube)
Chase playing with his munchie (YouTube)
Chase fetches a ball (YouTube)
Chase does his trick 'crawl' (YouTube)

The rest of the Chase videos can be found here. Enjoy!

For two days, there has been nothing on TV but Cricket, and it goes on allll day. It seems to be kind of a big deal, so I'm thinking it might be some kind of Championship.. the people on TV always refer to it as 'Ashes', and I have no idea what exactly that means.. maybe it's the 'Ashes Cup', or Ashes is actually A.S.H.E.S. and stands for Australian Something.. something (I've tried to come with something for 15 minutes, but the initals are just very unfortunate).

So, because I've been living here for quite a while and stuff, I actually tried sitting down and understanding Cricket, because I know nothing about it except that it looks really boring and Australia is really good at it (I'm thinking it's because only England and some African countries bother to play it). At first glance it kinda looks like Baseball (which I don't understand either). One guy throws a ball, and another one tries to hit it with what looks like a squashed bat (actually, it looks like a big version of the thing you use to put icing on a cake). If he misses it, nothing happens, and if he doesn't a third guy might or might nor run after the ball and pick it up. The other players on the team appear to be doing nothing at all.

It's so confusing. I think those people are actually doing.. something.., but I can't quite figure out what it is. Another thing that I find majorly confusing is that I have no idea who Australia is playing against. All the players are dressed in white (and some are wearing funny hats), so I have no idea if it's one or two teams on the pitch. Currently Australia seems to be 502 points in the lead, but against who?? WHO?? There also seems to be something called Wiggets or Widgets (or something to that effect) involved, and occasionally they're displaying the speed of the ball when thrown (I personally found it more helpful if they told me who they are playing against, if they are at all. Maybe they're just playing by themselves. For fun). I won't even try to understand the scoring and points.

I have to go back to watching it intently now, so if someone could explain to me how Cricket works so that I wouldn't be completely clueless, that would be great.

Long story short:

Am still alive. Moved a month ago (house great), haven't had internet since. Internet company stupid, internet should have been connected Monday last week. Now more than a week later still no internet. Internet guy always busy, feel like pyscho girlfriend calling 20 a day and waiting for him to call back. Am now pulling a Katie and stealing unsecured wireless connection from neighbors. Muahaha.

Seriously. I should have internet again (my own, that is) in a couple days. I miss you guys and can't wait to be back! <3

We picked up Chase on Friday instead of today, and also moved head over heels to Emil's mother's place. She's only at home once a week, and it's much easier to bring the puppy outside here, so we'll be staying until we find a house, which I hope won't take long. Chase is a sweetheart, and he's such a good puppy, but he sure does pee a lot (any housebreaking advice is welcome)! This weekend was/is so tiring. Having a puppy is pretty much like having a baby, and those at least wear diapers! I spent all weekend running after him and trying to make sure that he doesn't 'go potty' inside the house, playing with him, making him food, waiting outside for ages for him to go.. I have to go read a bit or eat or take a nap now before Chase wakes up again and demands I take him outside or play with him.

Soo, we went to visit our puppy today, who we now have officially named Chase. I think the name fits him incredibly well. He's 6.5 weeks old now and has grown so much already! I tried to take as many photos as I could, but he was running around and playing all the time so I only got somedecent photos when Emil was holding him and when he was exhausted after running around for half an hour.

I also managed to a take some cute videos, so check them out - especially this one of Chase playing with his leash :) I really can't wait to take him home, but that's not for another two weeks.. he's getting his shots next week and the breeder wants to keep him for another week after that to see how he's doing.

In other news, we also bought a bunch of furniture today. A 2- and 3-seater sofa, coffe table, lamp table, a rug, a TV unit, a dining table and a computer desk for me. Pfew. There go 2000 bucks.

We found a house we liked a couple days ago and put in an application, but haven't heard back from them yet. I'm not too sure that we're gonna get accepted, because we told them we can only move in and start paying rent after October 1rst, and the house is available now. Buuut it really doesn't matter, there are at least two other houses that are great that are gonna be available just when we were planning to move.

It's all happening so fast. 2 months ago we were still only 'thinking about maaaaybe moving out' at the end of the year, and now we're looking at houses and buying furniture o_o I can't wait though!

Here are my entries for the Vox Banner Contest.. I've never done anything like this before, so I'm pretty satisfied with how they turned out. I drew all of them myself on paper and scanned it, and then edited it in Photoshop.. My new graphics tablet was a huge help with that, I'm so happy I bought it :)

Anyway, here they are:

Actually, I had looots of ideas for banners and I'm working on a fourth one right now, but I'm not sure if it's gonna be finished in time for the deadline. (I finished it.. I don't think it's very good though, but I'm tired and can't be bothered anymore!) I didn't think making one of these would take so long! Or maybe it's because I'm a rookie at this?

Ah well.. not that I think that mine are actually gonna get picked or something, but it was a good exercise, and maybe I can put them in my portfolio when I apply for my graphic design course.

Tell me what you think people! :)

We went today and looked at the Sheltie puppies, and we picked out this little guy. He's a 4.5 week old sable Sheltie, and we can see him again in two weeks, and two weeks after that we can bring him home.

He's a really bold one when playing, but then he got exhausted and just slept in my lap. Aw, I wish I could have taken him home today. We still need a name for him, so I'm open to any suggestions. Emil and I like the names Chase, Jack, Rusty, Jacy... but we haven't decided yet.

Check out the videos on the left, and I also took a couple pictures :)