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Taz-MANIA!
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Hi Mates! It's Ings.
It's April already, that means springtime in Colorado! Spring skiing, those first sunny days at the park, busting out the tank tops!!! I hope you are all out there ejoying it and you better have a Sunday Funday for me Guys!!
It's fall here in the little island of Tasmania, cloudy skies, rainy days, and perfect weather for a car wreck. Eek, we had our first major accident, in a giant rainstorm, the roads were slicker than black ice and we ended up down in a ditch after taking out a major fence and dropping about 10 feet. Thanks to Heath's superhuman maneauvering weI managed to stay upright, I truly can't believe we didn't flip and were not hurt, just pretty shaken up and freaked out. And our Shagwagon was totalled. We thought we may still just use it to sleep in for the next week, but upon our tow-truck driver's recommendation, we got the hell out of dodge before the farmer came at us with a pitchfork asking for rent repair - Ouch. Apparently this was an infamous corner for wrecks, and said farmer has a town pool going to help collect ongoing repair funds for his fence. Today was spent running around collecting paperwork faxing, notarizing, to the credit card company to claim rental insurance, so hopefully we will get our damage paymennt back. A mere $1500 later, and 2 days of rest, we are able to look back and decide this was perhaps the funniest thing that has happened so far. Considering it was only 2 freakin hours after we rented the thing! and after we got done crashing thru the field, the tape player kept pumping out Niel Diamond while the engine smoked in the rain. and i would like to say that in the midst of a crisis I am still able to utter profanities, I believe "OH SHIT" came out of my mouth right before I screamed like a little school girl. Oh and as a great finale to our Taz Mania day was to head downstairs to the pub and celebrate our lives and drink it off with many jugs of local beer, shortly after which I vomited in the loo.
Other news: I AM A LUSH! But...it's the 5th day in a row of my Caffiene free month! What began in Fiji with a cuppa tea 3 times a day has blossomed into a fully fledged caff-fiend habit! After almost 3 months in the midst of NZ and Australia's serious Cafe Culture and "having a coffee" at every possible waking moment, climaxing with a week spent with Mum and Rob in Adelaide and just loading up on Long Blacks and Flat Whites, I am giving my overstiumulated body a break! There is no "drip coffee here, it's all espresso based or instant. So I unwittingly went from 1 cup of drip coffee a day to super giganta double shots of espresso, 1 to 2 times a day. And i kept thinking i was developing diabetes, because the blood sugar havoc and head crashes i was feeling were so intense. Then i realized how much flipping coffee i was drinking! so far, it hasn't been so bad, i don't really miss it. And it creates the perfect justificaiton to reward myself and DRINK MORE BEER!
Aussie beer terminology: Beer comes in Pots, Schooners, and Pints (true pints, maybe 20ounces? Bigguns! not the fakey pint glass we're used to). A pitcher is called a Jug, A JUG O BEER MATE! and if you ask for a pitcher, they look at you blankly and say, a pint? I HEART JUGS!
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