New Year's Day 2014

HAPPY NEW YEAR, everybody! Hope 2014 will be a safe and prosperous year for you, your friends and your family. ^^

Me, I had a super-awesome January the 1^st.

Firstly, I was up, teeth brushed and eating breakfast by 11:45am. When 2012 became 2013, I remember I didn’t get out for brunch until after midday; I remember asking mother, “Does that mean I’ll be plagued with bad luck for the whole year?” XD

Breakfast was nothing special; just the usual two Weetbix with the thinnest and shortest streak of honey ever. I also drank one full mug of water and took all my usual drugs (by ‘drugs’, I mean just the usual health supplements, you know, your fish oil tablets, bilberry tablet, etc. sheesh, do I look like some kinda hardcore drug addict to you? :P).

Then, after one more loo trip, dearest dad tootled mother and I off down to somewhere like the Tweed Heads!

Our first stop was Ian Dipple lagoon, which is still in Queensland, because nature was calling. XD After that matter had been tended to, ‘twas already lunchtime!

Lunch was a simple affair: Subway and Maccas. XD dad explained to me that places like Maccas and Subway didn’t charge the usual 25% public holiday surcharge because they technically weren’t ‘restaurants’. That just reminds me of how IKEA calls itself a ‘restaurant’ when I maintain that it’s really only a tuckshop! XD

After lunch, we wandered harbour town. Alas, the parents wouldn’t lemme use Sparkless2 (my manual wheelchair), but I still managed to pick up two pairs of really ugly sneakers! XD

Visiting the loo once before we left, our next stop was the southbank markets. Again, I wasn’t allowed to use sparkless 2, but because mother said she’d buy me something from the markets because I’d walked more than usual today, I decided that I wanted to buy those really cute owl wheat bag/toy I’d seen last time I was at the markets, namely the time I bought that really cool black tee that flashed colours whenever it registered sound!

So we walked and walked and walked. Hmm, no owls in sight. “what if that vendor’s left?” I fretted to mother, who replied, “he won’t have. Here, you sit down with dad on this bench here, and I’ll take a quick walk a bit further along to see if I can find the owl guy.

Sitting down on the park bench together, dad and I watch some guy selling greek sweets. For some reason, he claps his hands and calls out every now and again? Dunno, my guess is that he’s just trying to attract more customers.

Suddenly, dad spots the next vendor, who’s drawing cartoon portraits. “hey, you should get one of those done!” dad suggests, to which I reply, “no thanks, I had one done back in 2004. you can go get your picture drawn if that’s what floats your boat.” Only dad persists, “no, you can get one drawn of you waving the peace sign, like how you always pose for photos!”

So I obediently walk across to where the guy’s sitting and waiting for his next customer. Dad speaks to the guy, who nods, and dad comes back and walks behind me over to where the guy’s directing me to sit, over some park bench.

He starts sketching, and I hold up the peace sign, thinking, gosh, my arm might fall off if the guy draws slowly! Thankfully, it’s not long until the guy (who’s not Australian; he looked kinda middle eastern?) says “you can put your hand down now, I’ve got it.” After that, I grin everytime the guy looks up at me, before relaxing whenever he continues to sketch.

Mother returns from her owl hunt just when the guy finishes sketching. He asks her, “black and white or colour?” to which she replies, “black and white.” Lol, did mother have foresight of this happening today? Was that why she had me kitted in a black tee shirt that day? XD

The cartoon sketch’s nice, but of course I grumble that the guy dotted a really huge mole near my cheek! XD

Once we’ve got the picture, mother leads the way back to the owls, where I pick out this really cute light blue and black one. The parents choose one/two more, and when dad’s paying, he randomly asks the guy, “hey, we’re buying several, are you gonna gimme a discount?” the guy chuckles sure, and throws one little owl that we’d chosen in for free!

The sun was starting to set by the time we left, and I was starting to wonder where dad would take us for dinner. His decision? Back to ian dipple lagoon and charis seafoods for a fish and chips dinner. Dad even got me one delicious scallop! The parents drank coke, while I went ahead and got drunk. XD Well, obviously, I didn’t, but I did drink alcohol! See, knowing my refual for soft drinks, julz had first introduced me to vodka chocolate mudslides and for Christmas last year, she had appeared bearing a bottle of vodka pineapple! So that I drank happily, immediately turning bright red afterwards. XD

And that was new year’s day, 2014! Dad tootled us home, mother gave me a super-quick shower and then I hit the sack, having thoroughly enjoyed my first day of 2014!

Next post here … Australia day? Not sure, it’s only the beginning of the month; something noteworthy might arise before that. Anyways, until then~

Cheers,

Em. ^^