Entry Three (Day TEN)
Welcome back loyal followers of our magnificent blog. The most amazing thing happened. That's correct, we got our first comment ever. Props to ShannieJ.
Yesterday was of course Sunday. It began by WAKING UP LATE once again. At 8:30. Once again our lives descended into chaos. Upon waking CY fed the chickens but was astonished to see A CHICKEN SITTING ON THE EGGS. So we are looking forward to a large collection today as we were unable to collect any yesterday. At the same time I embarked on making pancakes, we only had half an hour as we had to be at church (to pick up guys) at 9am. There was not time to shower.
We went to a local Church in the community. We'll level with you, it wasn't really to pick up guys, but it was part one of our epic Church-Crawl in which we visited three churches in one day. After our first service at 9am we rushed to the bathroom and quickly realized just how disheveled we looked. We made a hasty exit, avoiding the hundreds of potential suitors. On the way home we had to make an emergency garage sale stop, as we were enticed by the lure of shopping. The result was disappointing so we headed home to wash our hair before rushing off for a 10:45am service in a distant land (suburb). An interesting experience ensued, with unexpected results. The service went for quite a while, we were not bored but had to leave early due to work commitments.
Following an afternoon of work commitments and chores, CY and KB reunited at churchfreo at 5:30pm, where we had the best church service of the crawl. There we ran into our good pastor Charlie Chuckster whom we chatted to about our epic, and I mean epic, church crawl. We also saw his lovely wife Joey-Lee whom we entertained with our banter, along with Eelee. Charlie Chuckster and Joey-Lee have five children their names are; Jackie L, Lawrence, Roland, Ernie and Coopstar. (All names have been changed to protect the privacy of those involved).
After the lovely service, during which there was an amazing sunset at the beach, CY went to Little Creatures & KB came home to entertain friends. Of course, before she left CY was given a strict warning that she had better not get home late as we had to get up early this morning.
At this point, we would just like to explain that we actually did our church crawl to learn from different churches.
K/Caitlyn wish you peace.
Word of the day: Sluggard; an idle slothful person.
"Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise." (Proverbs 6:6)
Sunday's word of the day: calamity; an event resulting in great loss and misfortune
"the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity"
*Note to reader: yesterday, calamity was also used as our "code word" to make an early exit from a church. Fortunately, the code word did not need to be used over the course of our church crawl.
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Missed Word of the Day
As I (CY) was reading KBs last entry, it occurred to me that we forgot to inform all our readers of Friday's word of the day, so here goes:
Friday, 18 December 2009
Word of the day: Elf-Esteem; The feeling of being overworked, underappreciated and like you don't exist to others during the holidays while in actuality the season's success depends on you.
"I think Hermey is having some elf-esteem issues. He's pulling the stuffing out of all the teddy bears."
Also, I have some very exciting news which KB neglected to mention in the last post. This is probably because I am slightly obsessed with our chickens and she is not. Today, they laid four eggs. That's right, FOUR!!! Now, I spoke to our dear friend Priscilla today and she made the good point that one chicken probably just laid an egg after we collected them yesterday, which would account for the curious event of one chicken laying two eggs in one day. As I was talking to Priscilla I told her that we only collected one egg yesterday, which would account for the extra egg today. However, after reviewing The Housemate Diaries I know remember that we in fact had THREE eggs yesterday, meaning that one of our chickens did in fact create and lay TWO eggs in the last 24 hours! Do you follow? HOW AMAZING IS THAT!!! Chickens really do help us to remember how amazing life is. Hence, I recommend you all go out and buy a chicken. Then you will have endless material for deep reflection.
Peace
Friday, 18 December 2009
Word of the day: Elf-Esteem; The feeling of being overworked, underappreciated and like you don't exist to others during the holidays while in actuality the season's success depends on you.
"I think Hermey is having some elf-esteem issues. He's pulling the stuffing out of all the teddy bears."
Also, I have some very exciting news which KB neglected to mention in the last post. This is probably because I am slightly obsessed with our chickens and she is not. Today, they laid four eggs. That's right, FOUR!!! Now, I spoke to our dear friend Priscilla today and she made the good point that one chicken probably just laid an egg after we collected them yesterday, which would account for the curious event of one chicken laying two eggs in one day. As I was talking to Priscilla I told her that we only collected one egg yesterday, which would account for the extra egg today. However, after reviewing The Housemate Diaries I know remember that we in fact had THREE eggs yesterday, meaning that one of our chickens did in fact create and lay TWO eggs in the last 24 hours! Do you follow? HOW AMAZING IS THAT!!! Chickens really do help us to remember how amazing life is. Hence, I recommend you all go out and buy a chicken. Then you will have endless material for deep reflection.
Peace
Friday, December 18, 2009
Entry Three
So today we embarked on the delightful adventure that is... DAY EIGHT. Yep, I know you're all out there being excited riiight now. We have recently learned that there are, in actual fact people that have read our blog. Or at least said that they have read it. Which I suppose is pretty bangin'.
Anyhow, CY has gone to have lunch at Xwray Cafe, because that's the kind of cool kid she is, which means it's my turn to update y'all on our lives.
As you should know by now, we have set ourselves some challenges for our time as housesitters. Becoming morning people is one such challenge, but today it didn't go all that well. My buddy CY woke up at 7:30 which I suppose isn't a poor effort for a Saturday but it is a far cry from the usual 6/6:30 wake up time. In reality though it was I, KB, who let the team down with a dismal effort of 8:30am. That's right you heard. 8:30. I attribute this to a lot of late nights (one of which is definitely CYs fault due to her rowdy partying). As you can imagine, today has been rather chaotic due to the time we missed in the morning. No beach time. No washing the dishes together whilst listening to Aretha. We didn't even choose the word of the day until 12:30pm!!!!!!
But never fear, all is not lost. All is never lost. I'm about to embark on the task of grocery shopping which should be super enjoyable, and CY is having happy fun times cafe-ing it up.
CY did forget to mention that yesterday was hobo friday. It all started at 6:30 beach time, where we both chose to wear our flannos and CY wore her pj pants. Unfortunately, we quickly forgot about the special day we were having when I went off to work and CY did whatever crazy things she did. Rather disappointing really. Slang day didn't go too well either, with CY forgetting and me being at work. I did try to incorporate some slang into my chats with customers though, with a few hilarious results. Tuesday will be hippy tuesday and I have a feeling that will work out well.
Phew what a long post. Cheers for reading.
K/Caitlyn wish you peace.
Word of the day: Folly; a lack of good sense, understanding, or foresight; "you there! you are acting with such folly!".
Anyhow, CY has gone to have lunch at Xwray Cafe, because that's the kind of cool kid she is, which means it's my turn to update y'all on our lives.
As you should know by now, we have set ourselves some challenges for our time as housesitters. Becoming morning people is one such challenge, but today it didn't go all that well. My buddy CY woke up at 7:30 which I suppose isn't a poor effort for a Saturday but it is a far cry from the usual 6/6:30 wake up time. In reality though it was I, KB, who let the team down with a dismal effort of 8:30am. That's right you heard. 8:30. I attribute this to a lot of late nights (one of which is definitely CYs fault due to her rowdy partying). As you can imagine, today has been rather chaotic due to the time we missed in the morning. No beach time. No washing the dishes together whilst listening to Aretha. We didn't even choose the word of the day until 12:30pm!!!!!!
But never fear, all is not lost. All is never lost. I'm about to embark on the task of grocery shopping which should be super enjoyable, and CY is having happy fun times cafe-ing it up.
CY did forget to mention that yesterday was hobo friday. It all started at 6:30 beach time, where we both chose to wear our flannos and CY wore her pj pants. Unfortunately, we quickly forgot about the special day we were having when I went off to work and CY did whatever crazy things she did. Rather disappointing really. Slang day didn't go too well either, with CY forgetting and me being at work. I did try to incorporate some slang into my chats with customers though, with a few hilarious results. Tuesday will be hippy tuesday and I have a feeling that will work out well.
Phew what a long post. Cheers for reading.
K/Caitlyn wish you peace.
Word of the day: Folly; a lack of good sense, understanding, or foresight; "you there! you are acting with such folly!".
Entry Two
Unfortunately I (CY) am left to update you on day 7 of CY & KB's housesitting adventures. KB has left me home alone. The events that are most worthy of an update include:
- The chickens laid 3 eggs today, which was a great improvement on yesterdays poor effort of one. Alas, they will live at least another day.
- We just endured the traumatic experience of seeing two unusually large cockroaches in the house. As KB is the "man of the house" (I am the wife who always has dinner on the table and is up to date on her ironing), it was her job to capture and dispose of the pests. Unfortunately, neither cockroach was captured and after a great deal of screaming (sorry KB, it was funny) one is now running around the house decapitated. At least it is now smaller.
- We both worked tonight (location undisclosed) and KB was kind enough to visit me at my place of employment and help me do some tidying which I otherwise could not do, due to my broken clavicle.
Now, final business must include the fact that KB's parents just visited and affirmed some of my greatest fears...KB and I are acting a little like a married couple. This was noted after KB ran out the door with her parents (who were taking her out) and asked me "so, what time are you going to bed????"... thanks KB for your concern, I think I'll go to bed soon.
K/Caitlyns wish you peace
- The chickens laid 3 eggs today, which was a great improvement on yesterdays poor effort of one. Alas, they will live at least another day.
- We just endured the traumatic experience of seeing two unusually large cockroaches in the house. As KB is the "man of the house" (I am the wife who always has dinner on the table and is up to date on her ironing), it was her job to capture and dispose of the pests. Unfortunately, neither cockroach was captured and after a great deal of screaming (sorry KB, it was funny) one is now running around the house decapitated. At least it is now smaller.
- We both worked tonight (location undisclosed) and KB was kind enough to visit me at my place of employment and help me do some tidying which I otherwise could not do, due to my broken clavicle.
Now, final business must include the fact that KB's parents just visited and affirmed some of my greatest fears...KB and I are acting a little like a married couple. This was noted after KB ran out the door with her parents (who were taking her out) and asked me "so, what time are you going to bed????"... thanks KB for your concern, I think I'll go to bed soon.
K/Caitlyns wish you peace
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Quick Update from CY
KB is awesome. But for some reason she is reading a wine book introduction out loud. She even received a phone call from our friend TP but had to tell him she would call him back, which she did after she finished reading the chapter. She is hilarious.
Quick Update
Quick Update (Day Six)
As we were washing the dishes we had an amazing brainwave. So this is an announcement that every Thursday from now on shall be 'Slang Day Thursday'. We have to use all those groovy slang words that generally miss out in everyday conversations.
We also had to update you as to our AMAZING LOTTO WIN! Well actually it was KB. It occurred on Saturday night. It was pretty cool, winning the lottery. Even though, realistically, we only won $35.20. But that paid for dinner Mon night & breakfast (at 6:30 might I add!) on Tuesday.
K/Caitlyn wish you peace.
As we were washing the dishes we had an amazing brainwave. So this is an announcement that every Thursday from now on shall be 'Slang Day Thursday'. We have to use all those groovy slang words that generally miss out in everyday conversations.
We also had to update you as to our AMAZING LOTTO WIN! Well actually it was KB. It occurred on Saturday night. It was pretty cool, winning the lottery. Even though, realistically, we only won $35.20. But that paid for dinner Mon night & breakfast (at 6:30 might I add!) on Tuesday.
K/Caitlyn wish you peace.
Entry One
Recap (Day Six)
Today we embarked on day six of our arduous journey. Our housemate relationship has developed to such an extent that we must share it with others. As housemates we like to sit down in the morning and plan our days together. We will now let you into the inner realms of our household. For our own safety, we will leave out the very specific details of our days, for instance where we work, our shifts and our chicken feeding schedules.
For future reference, we are Caitlyn (AKA CY) and Kaitlyn (AKA KB) and we are housesitting for our dear friends Pedro & Priscilla (*names have been changed*) for the next two weeks.
For a quick recap of our time so far:
- We have decided to be morning people, so we wake at around 6.30am, which is new for both of us.
- We have three chickens. We don't know their names. The amazing thing about chickens is that they lay eggs every day, can you imagine??? They create an egg, EVERY DAY!!!!
- The chickens got out once. Our friend TP had to come and wrangle them up.
- CY broke her collar bone on Saturday (the first full day of housesitting) while stalking a certain famous Australian celebrity who lives nearby, on her skateboard (what an idiot). It was very embarrassing.
- It was TPs 21st birthday last night and we had a lovely at X-Wray Cafe.
- On Monday morning we found a piece of chicken on top of the fridge which had been sitting there since Saturday when CY broke her collar bone and fished through the freezer for ice. It was rank. The flies were swarming (almost).
- On the first day we baked bread and found that on Wednesday it had already gone mouldy.
K/Caitlyn's wish you peace
Word of the Day: winnow; the act of separating grain from chaff; "the winnowing was done by women".
Today we embarked on day six of our arduous journey. Our housemate relationship has developed to such an extent that we must share it with others. As housemates we like to sit down in the morning and plan our days together. We will now let you into the inner realms of our household. For our own safety, we will leave out the very specific details of our days, for instance where we work, our shifts and our chicken feeding schedules.
For future reference, we are Caitlyn (AKA CY) and Kaitlyn (AKA KB) and we are housesitting for our dear friends Pedro & Priscilla (*names have been changed*) for the next two weeks.
For a quick recap of our time so far:
- We have decided to be morning people, so we wake at around 6.30am, which is new for both of us.
- We have three chickens. We don't know their names. The amazing thing about chickens is that they lay eggs every day, can you imagine??? They create an egg, EVERY DAY!!!!
- The chickens got out once. Our friend TP had to come and wrangle them up.
- CY broke her collar bone on Saturday (the first full day of housesitting) while stalking a certain famous Australian celebrity who lives nearby, on her skateboard (what an idiot). It was very embarrassing.
- It was TPs 21st birthday last night and we had a lovely at X-Wray Cafe.
- On Monday morning we found a piece of chicken on top of the fridge which had been sitting there since Saturday when CY broke her collar bone and fished through the freezer for ice. It was rank. The flies were swarming (almost).
- On the first day we baked bread and found that on Wednesday it had already gone mouldy.
K/Caitlyn's wish you peace
Word of the Day: winnow; the act of separating grain from chaff; "the winnowing was done by women".
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