australia day post2

yesterday was australia day! i admit, i didn't do the usual "let's go to the beach and have a barbie" thing, but we still had lotsa fun!
dad used oem to eye-kiss me awake in the morning, saying that he was gonna go out, but he'd be back later to take PIG mum and i out somewhere. so bear bear, oem, voem and i all happily snored our heads off until almost midday!
-i called PIG mum downstairs and told her i really shouldn't sleep til midday, especially not on a day this important! so i swung myself over to the pot :P for one tinkle, but when i realised i wanted to do a stinky unspeakable i just swung myself to bed. remember, if PIG mum can't be bothered rolling me in the shower chair to the loo (and might i add that there's no longer a ramp for her to complain that rolling me there hurts her poor back so), i sure as hell can't be bothered with giving her all the satisfaction of gleefully FORCING :( me to walk all the way there.
-PIG mum got me kitted, then gleefully FORCED :( me to walk all the way out to the kitchen, where i got myself three weetbix with one extremely thin stream of honey for breakfast.
-after breakfast, PIG mum gleefully FORCED :( me to walk to the loo, of course gleefully forcing me to dak myself. one stinky unspeakable later, PIG mum gleefully FORCED :( me to walk over to wash and dry both hands, before she gleefully FORCED :( me to walk to the 4WD.
-listening to faye (sp?) wong, dad tootled us to pick up anna, who was coming with us! actually, we'd rung aunty a too, but she was too busy 'looking after the clothes i've hung outside'. :P
-dad actually brought voem along for the ride! @ first, poor voem was fretting coz he wasn't wearing a seatbelt, but then he felt much safer when era hung onto the back of his eye-band. but dad was even cooler - he simply tucked voem into my seatbelt! so we shared all day. :)
-dad tootled us down to ian dipple lagoon - but oh dear - the place was jam packed when we arrived! so dad drove us down a little further to another fish and chip place.
-there, PIG mum gleefully FORCED :( me to cross the road where dad had set up my picnic chair for me to sit. much thanks to anna who let era gently hold onto her arm.
-lunch was fish and chips. well, really, three tiny slices of crumbed (why didn't they do battered?!) fish - BTW, charis seafood (@ ian dipple lagoon does their fish and chips much better - exactly seven chips and one yummy scallop. PIG mum tells me that the orange stuff with the scallop are actually intestines, gross. :P
-PIG mum's just squealing that na li just won her tennis match, BTW. :P
-after lunch, the parents gleefully FORCED :( me to walk back to the car, and dad tootled us off to ... somewhere. :P twice we were turned around by policemen making roadblocks coz of all the extra ppl here that day.
-we had dinner @ some fancy posh restaurant with some incredibly long name (which i've obviously forgotten :P). i ordered some chicken pasta thing, PIG mum ordered some slimy oysters, anna ordered some risotto; we traded some pasta for some rice.
-lol, there was a lil candle on the table there, i asked PIG mum, "how anout we sing happy birthday to dearest dad here, just in case aunty a forgets to buy dad a bday cake?" and it just so happens, 'twas someone's bday then! so we joined in the happy birthday song singing, and dad blew out the candle on our table! lol, i sheepishly admitted that to the waitress when she suddenly appeared to relight our candle. :P she's from vietnam, so i gave her my best 'garm er'!
-there was also this kiwi waiter! he was coming around asking did we want any parmesan cheese, and when i asked him, "how did you celebrate australia day today?" he grinned and replied, "i didn't. i'm kiwi." after i pretened to ignore him for being kiwi :P, i asked him did new zealand have anything like australia day. he said they have this ... sth like waitangi? day, which is when the white kiwis bought new zealand off the maori blacks for guns. he asked if i was chinese, and when i said yes (couldn't be bothered explaining the whole cantonese thing to him), he said "ni hao"! when i asked him how come he could speak chinese, he said 'twas coz his sister-in-law's from china! i also taught him 'xie xie', although i spelt that as 'sieh sieh'.
-one more loo trip, then dad tootled us home. actually, not home, dad drove anna back to her house. poor me was trying to hold in an incredibly full bladder, yet all dad was complain that everytime i went out, i always needed the bathroom! just for that, i timed how long i peed for - i think one constant stream for thirty-five seconds is sufficiently long enough to prove that i was, indeed, busting?
-then dad drove to uncle yuk tai's place, where he told PIG mum to drive back home; he was picking up his van.
-PIG mum drove us home, and kindly lemme online for ten minutes so i could read TWFT and write down my plodding total before gleefully forcing me off to bed.
-well, looks like my next post won't be long in coming! coz toms is my dearest dad's birthday - and not just any - his FIFTIETH! (shh, don't tell him i told you how old he's gonna turn toms. :P) i might not have the time to blog about it until the 29th, though. or later. depends.
until then!
cheers,
em. ^^