"Sexy Flanders" ski tour 2005
(Photos to follow)
Well, much has happened since my last post so time for some bullet points:

• Matt, Chris & I went to see Sin City on Saturday night - it was fan-jolly-tastic, best movie I've seen in quite some time. I especially liked the dog incident... (hee hee!)
  
• At some ridiculous hour of Sunday morning, we set off for Mt Buller for 3 days of schussing down the slopes (failing that, sliding down on our oh-so-delectable buttocks...)
  
• Highlights of the tour included Matt wearing my old ski suit, which was a touch snug around the 'ol crotch, resulting in Chris & I dubbing him "Sexy Flanders" (in reference to the Simpsons episode where Flanders skis up to Homer in a skin tight ski suit, wiggles his arse suggestively, saying "Feels like I'm wearing nothing at all". Homer then skis down the slope with Flanders' words ringing in his ears "Like wearing nothing at all...nothing at all...nothing at all... at which point Homer says, "Oh, stupid sexy Flanders")
• Highlight #2 - Matt wiggling his arse suggestively in the aforementioned sexy Flanders suit.
• Highlight #3 - The expressions on Chris' & Matt's faces after a shot of absinthe
• Highlight #4 - Chris' and Matt's many Xtreme stacks (as opposed to my completely nanna stacks - but I did get some snow up my nose.....just not the enjoyable kind...)
  
• And the main highlight of them all - Matt freestyling to a Take That song, COMPLETELY outshining "the guy from the comedy channel" that Matt apparently can't stand(said freestyling consisted of comments on cone-smoking & Chris' blackness mostly) . Here's to Xtreme karaoke! (thanks to random pommy chappies Marcus & Hugh for introducing us to the world of Buller karaoke, after beating Matt & Chris in most of the games of pool they played)
  

My skiing is slowly improving, and I skied my first black run - Summit & Howqua (instead of skidding and sliding down as I have in the past!) I even landed a few little jumps - yay me! Hopefully we'll go up again when the weather is a bit less atrocious (a nice sunny day after a great big dump of snow...mmmm.....)
On the way home last night we listened to pop77 mixes, which I might add are f'n brilliant! We also listened to Allen Ginsberg reading his poem "Howl". I had only ever read excerpts of this before, but to hear it in its entirety was an experience to say the least. Such rich imagery, can't believe I hadn't read/heard it earlier. (Really must make an effort to read a lot more!...well, besides my usual literary diet of Pratchett, Gaiman, etc.)

When I arrived home last night, I found out that my kitty had been BAD! The first night my sister got to Melbourne to find he had left shitty paw-prints all over our bedding & carpet (thanks for washing everything, Sas - you rool!!!) He had also apparently been racing around the house, going bananas, attacking my poor sis when she least expected it (thank goodness she's a nutty cat-lover like me). Once I got home, boy, was Loki happy to see me - lots of smooching & meowing ad infinitum (well, ok he did stop...eventually). Strangely enough, he has been very well behaved since I've been back...

At the moment I'm contemplating (& trying to convince Chris) to go OS for around 6 weeks. The general idea I have in mind is to go to Canada for a few weeks skiing in late Feb (2 weeks of which would be a ski improvement course, 1 week of fun), then onto London for a week or 2, then visit family friends in King's Lynn, north of Cambridge, and perhaps a side trip somewhere in Europe. Of course this would depend on 2 main things: 1. money 2. getting that amount of time off. Oh well, I can but try.