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Thursday, August 03, 2006
harro there my friends. how are we all? enjoying our NOT winter?
hmm i shouldn't really be so bitter should i... after all we have had 25cms of snow in the last few days, and i'm reliably informed that it's currently snowing at hot-ham... so we can cross our fingers that the season is not over, can't we?
I had a pretty uneventful week up there a few weeks ago... i was there for 7 days and only skied for 4 of them, each time getting completely saturated by the rain or else just having to play dodge the nuffy around the 3 or 4 lifts that were open. It was quite depressing. A couple of days we actually drove OFF the mountain, just so that we had something to do!!! It was a nice holiday, I wrote myself off quite regularly, but not great for snow.
I'm heading up again this weekend, now that heavenly's open, it's worth it. And i want to get my money's worth for my bloody season pass, that i was beginning to regret buying!!!
my birthday's in a few weeks... who's excited? i know i am!!!!
K. hope you're all happy. don't forget to check out my blog.
OK dudes. what's the deal? seriously. The season started nearly 5 days ago, and there's no snow forecast in Victoria for at least the next week.
WHAT THE FIRETRUCK IS GOING ON HERE?????
Perisher opened early cos they had snow, thredbo is open... Hot-ham has
THE BIG DOODLE.
Seriously.... like
i'm going to pay $56 to ski on 20cms of
MAN-MADE SNOW on the BIG DOODLE.
Grrr. Even Buller is only charging 30 bucks for skiing BB1 & 2. I can't think of anything more painful than getting all set to go skiing, and then looking out over to where you want to be skiing and seen
GREEN.
NOOOOOOOOOOOO.
it just hurts too much.
Keep SNOW DANCING please people?
PLEEEEEEEEEEASE? I'm BEGGING YOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUU.
www.tammiodo.blogspot.com
Well... season is finally about to start!! With any luck, we might even have some lifts running for opening weekend...perhaps not, in Victoria anyway. The NSW resorts should have a couple going at least.
I find the closer it gets to the season, the more and more I obsess about it. I've got 3 holidays booked, one for a whole 7 days, and one weekend at hotham and one weekend at Buller. I'm really hoping to get up a whole lot more often than that though... especially given that my first booked trip is the middle of July... hopefully i'll get in one or two weekends before then!
ARGH I'M SO EXCITED.
Keep checking out my blog. it's updated every day.
www.tammiodo.blogspot.com
it's LESS THAN THREE WEEKS until the season starts.
Now we all just need to pray for snow.
Pray, dance, do whatever it takes so that we have a decent amount of snow before the end of June.
Not for any particular reason other than if there's enough snow, i'm going skiing!!!!
THe season starting with no snow is such a bittersweet sensation. Actually, it's more bitter than sweet, but the taste of the sugar is there.
At least it's near.
So get excited people!!!!!!!!
www.tammiodo.blogspot.com
OK... so what's happening in my life?
-i'm thinking about taking some uni subjects online
-i'm talking about going to jackson hole or vail at the end of 07 with a couple of friends.
-i'm dreaming about snow
-i'm constantly checking the aus resort websites to see if it's snowed!
-i'm working my ass off
-i've had 2 students quit this term... my first ever (had to happen eventually i guess)
-i've booked a flight for the first week of June to go see one of my friends who moved to Brisbane
-i've taken up yoga
-i've started swimming again (got to get fit before the season starts)
-i've organised my friends for a week at hotham
-i got drunk at my mum's birthday dinner
-i cried cos i got depressed when I got drunkat my mum's birthday dinner
-i found out one of my best friends got married whilst she was overseas and waited 5 weeks until she got home so she could tell me face to face!
-i've started researching new ski boots - i desperately need them
-i changed my calendar
-i've updated my things to remember white board
-I've finished unpacking my room
argh so much stuff.
i can't wait for snow. i'm off to do a snowdance. And then i think i might get drunk.
remember. blog.
www.tammiodo.blogspot.com
. i updated it every day. sometimes it's funny, sometimes it's not!!
Wednesday, April 26, 2006
*tam is busy doing a*
*snowdance*
*please join her*
also check out her blog. it is updated every day.
www.tammiodo.blogspot.com
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Published by tammiodo: 11:54 PM
Updated On: 4/27/2006 at 12:09 AM
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I desperately desperately totally and utterly and hopelessly desperately want to go skiing. It's started to get cold and it's starting to snow up at hotham, which is a good sign...cooling the ground down and all that... but when I look at those webcams, and i look down from the camera outside swindlers, it get this amazingly nostalgic feeling... a remembering how i feel each time i stand on that balcony, or at the top of village chair for my first run down each season, or each weekend. it reminds me of how excited I was at the start of the season I was going to work up there... and I wish I was going back again.
The monotony of my work is starting to sap my lifeforce. Now that Japan is over, there is nothing big in the forseeable future to look forward to. I'm disappointed in some ways because i won't be able to do my round the world ski/work travel year for a couple of years. Trouble is, I really want to try and save money so I can do that, but I spend my money to keep myself interested and to stop myself dying from boredom in the meantime.
I've decided I need a hobby. I need to do something OTHER than work. these 12 hour days every single day of the week are just killing me. I'm thinking of taking up yoga... i think it would be itneresting, I fits in with my hours (ie can't do ANYTHING during the week other than work) and has the added bonus of helpin with strength/flexibility/fitness for skiing.
I feel a lonely lately too - kind of in between close friends. I recently "broke up" with my best friend. We haven't talked in almost two weeks. I miss him, but I know i'm better off without him, for the moment at least. Its such an effort to rekindle the close friendships I had before him, the ones that sort of fell by the wayside as we spent more time together. But those friends are very important to me, and I regret letting the friendships slide, so now it's time to do the hard work. I love being around these people, and I love the effect they have on me, so it's not such TERRIBLE hard work to have to do.
I'm tired, i'm bored, i'm poor, i'm unmotivated and I don't know what to do about it.
oh, and don't forget to check out my blog.
www.tammiodo.blogspot.com
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Published by tammiodo: 8:02 PM
Updated On: 4/20/2006 at 8:05 PM
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Wednesday, April 12, 2006
It's got it all...
sex
drugs
angels
rock and roll
the devil
fashion
emotion in the form of alcohol fuelled rage.
Not only that, but it's updated every day. well...ALMOST every day!
yep. it's my life. and it's in my blog...
WWW.TAMMIODO.BLOGSPOT.COM
I like it. i like it alot.
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Published by tammiodo: 11:57 PM
Updated On: 4/12/2006 at 11:57 PM
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Well. what can I say? The last couple of weeks have been a caffeine-fuelled haze of work work work and more work. It's been just crazy. It's nice to be busy at work for a change though, rather than filling up my days surfing random websites etc. The days go much quicker when i've got things to do.
Japan was awesome. Quite honestly the best holiday and possibly the best experience of my life. So awesome being ina country that was just so different from everything I've ever known. Such a technologically advanced country, but also very traditional and old. I've never been to Europe, so seeing buildings that were over 1000 years old was a first for me, and the culture in Japan is just amazing...
The skiing was awesome too. Niseko is an interesting place... there are alot of Australians there, but honestly not as many as i was expecting. from the reports i heard before i got there. The snow varied from powdery heavenly delight to slow sludge and slick ice. When it was good, it was very very good, but when it was bad, it was horrible. I actually ended up leaving a day early and visit Sapporo, which i hadn't originally planned to do, but the weather was up around 5 degrees and the snow was just sludge, plus it was very very windy, so further up the top where the snow owuld have been better, the lifts were all closed. Night-skiing there is a real experience... almost the entire mountain is open, and the huge number of lights means that everything is SO brilliantly lit, you can often see better and things are clearer than they are in the flat light of daytime.
Every single Japanese person I spoke to was just lovely, even those who didn't speak a word of English would try and help, and everybody smiles and nods at everything. I would very much like to learn some japanese now, and go back and visit, and be able to interact more with these people. All my photos can be viewed at
www.flickr.com/photos/tammiodo
, and i'm still updating my normal blog regularly at
www.tammiodo.blogspot.com
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it's nice to be back, but i can't wait to go away again.
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
I've just started a proper blog. Yes, i've joined the weblog revolution. I don't know who will read it, but hopefully, some people i know, and some people i don't. So i am going to shamelessly promote it here, on my profile. I guess that's ok, because anyone who's looking at my profile is there because they want to get to know "the real tammiodo..." Is that correct? holler like i can hear you people!!
So, without further ado....
here it is
. the link to my blog.
That was not altogether very thrilling, was it?
I'm sure i could do it with more fanfare.... but what would really be the point...?
Just to let you know, i intend to try and post every day. Most of it will be useless, random crap, but hey, as anyone who knows me knows, that's what i'm good at. so please feel free to read, and comment. I'll post the first post here... just to give you an idea of Me, Myself and I.
I tend to categorise people. Although i don't like to be categorised myself. No boxes for me thankyou very much.
I also tend to categorise shops... put them into little boxes in my mind. I tend to do that with lots of shops, even ones i have been into. for example, yesterday i went into Bob's Boards in Hawthorn. was going past, was in a big hurry, not enough time to get things done before i go etc, so i seized the opportunity to spend 10 minutes buying some new thermals (F(iretr)uck those things are expensive these days...). Now, here was i thinking... Bob's Boards, i know they're a shop that sells REALLY expensive jackets and stuff (not all, but mostly actually... that shop is ridiculously over-priced and nobody should ever set foot inside there when every other ski/board shop in Australia is having a sale) and some snowboards and those rubber boat thingies that the hot lifeguards use to rescue morons who can't swim. And that's about it.
HOWEVER....had a quick wander and LO AND BEHOLD... the
skis that i thought i had called EVERY bloody ski shop in Melbourne about
(none of whom had any in my length, and wouldn't have until May, but i could order them if i liked, very useful for going to Japow NEXT WEEK), were sitting innocently and unassumingly on their ski rack... the ski rack that i didn't even know existed, due to the fact i didn't know they SOLD SKIS!!!!
Now I, loathe to hurry a purchase so HUGEMONGOUS as a new pair of skis, looked, drooled, and left, but i shall be returning with vigour to check them out on Saturday afternoon. Now all that remains is for me to decide whether i really NEED a new pair of skis (absolutely not) or just DESPERATELY WANT a new pair of skis (far more likely) and whether i should fork out $800 for a new pair of skis (absolutely should not) or whether new boots are more important... (most probably) OR... here's my final offer... use the bloody gear i've got and save my money (unlikely... but much more sensible...).
What should i do people?
It is but 8 days until i leave to go to
JaPowPow
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Published by tammiodo: 6:15 PM
Updated On: 2/22/2006 at 6:17 PM
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Monday, February 13, 2006
ARGH i can't believe it's already halfway through Feb. I mean seriously... where did the last two months go? I swear... last week it was November.
Seriously though, not much has happened in all that time... it's just disappeared. It's 17 days til I go to Japan, which is HUGELY exciting. The more I read about it, the more i'm as excited about the whole cultural part of it as i am about the skiing part. I wish i was spending months there instead of just a couple of weeks.
i'm a bit over being here. i'm a bit over everything here at the moment actually. especially people. i just need to get away, only thing is, i'm going away with one of the people i MOST need to get away from!!! ARGH. what to do? what to do? just ski my ass off and enjoy it i guess :-p
well my news...
I'm going to JAPAN.
yes. the powder capital of the world, where there is currently
4.3m of snow
at the top of the mountain and over
3m at the base...
i'm going to Niseko with my best friend... and also spending 3 days in Tokyo/Kyoto. I am just so very very very very very looking forward to it. I feel as though i've been pining and longing for snow forever... although realistically it's only about... oh well it's actually about 5 months since i last skied... so that is quite a long time. And i really didn't ride much last season, not compared to the season before when i rode every day.... and the one before that when i rode evey single weekend... so i really have been having withdrawals.
36 days to go.......
What other news? well... we moved... into an apartment at the Docklands for 2 months until our house is finished.... it's actually really nice, and i think i quite like apartment living for the moment. And we have an awesome view out over the bay to one side and the city to the other side... but these last few 43 degree days we haven't had any air conditioning (a 1 inch piece of plastic broke that stopped the fan from turning... the guy came this morning AFTER the cool change came!!).
I'm bored. at work. during work. doing work. I spend half of every day surfing the internet, on this site and lots of others... i almost feel bad that i'm literally being paid to do nothing, but then i also don't feel bad... should I feel bad? I do what needs to be done... i just do it really really fast so that i have lots of spare time to... well.... obsessively read the news and look at skiing and snow photos.
any ideas for things to do?
HELP!!!!!!!
Thursday, January 05, 2006
Okelly dokelly doo.
It's a new year. Again.
SO what's different?
Well lets start with NYE...
Went to Watermark down at the Docklands. Had a FANTASTIC view of the fireworks which were just across the river from us... i was quite impressed actually. It ended up being an awesome night, i drank alot, although didn't really realise it until the next morning (more on that later!!!)... i usually expect NYE to be a shi*t night with a whole heap of really feral drunken people being even more feral than usual, but surprisingly, i had a great night. I think it was the company (particularly my best friend and my brother) the drinks, the fact that it was a beautiful warm night (once it cooled down from 42 degrees that is... up until then it was just TOO hot!!!), and i was just relaxed at the prospect of a couple of days off. Got home about 4ish and sat around drinking for another couple of hours.
This turned out to be a bad idea, because after about 2 hours sleep i woke up not feeling quite so well... i spent most of the morning and much of the afternoon hurling...
which brings us to New Years Day... and Summadayze. It was 15 degrees and absolutel bucketing down with rain... after being there 10 minutes i literally may as well have jumped in the river. So we were there just for a little bit and went home to get dry and warm. By the time we got back at about 6pm the rain had just about stopped, jumped the fence to get down to infront of the main stage (i fell A over T over the fence and landed on my back... it was hilarious!!!) and after that it was an awesome night. Yay.
apart from that i've just been working.
I don't believe in New Years resolutions... i mean, why this time as opposed to any other... but i'm trying to be a bit healthier, i've been exercising every day, and i want to get REALLY REALLY fit for the coming season (which, by the way, is 155 days and 23 hours away... not that i'm counting or anything!!).
That, and spend less money. i spend too much money, when i really should be paying things off... i mean people support families and buy houses on what i'm earning, so i should at least be able to manage not to have any debt!!!
I'm going to BDO on Australia day in sydney... it's becoming a bit of a tradition with some friends of mine who live up there... i can't wait... both to see them, and to have a week off work. yippeeeeeee.
well i guess that's about all my goss at the moment... nothing particularly thrilling....
so happy f*cking new year kids.
Wednesday, December 21, 2005
And so this is Christmas...
And what have we done?
Another year over, a new one just begun.
It's Christmas time, and my mood oscillates between ecstatically hyperactive and happy, and depressed and angry and sad. It's a confusing time of year. I want to be happy, but why should this be a time to be happier than any other time? are things any different just for these few days? What does a new year really symbolise? Things don't automatically renew themselves just because there's a different number at the end of the date... Perhaps this is a little cynical. And i should try and be a little more positive. Sometimes I am. But sometimes i don't see the point.
On the bright side, i absolutely love giving presents. On the downside, both of my sisters are overseas, so i won't get to see their reaction to their presents, which is what i most enjoy, but i know they'll like them. We are a very small family for CHristmas this year. A far cry from the day when we used to have my family AND all our extended family and have 20 or 30 people for christmas lunch. But still, they're my family, and it'll be nice to see those of them who are around.
I hope you all have a merry Christmas. I hope Santa brings you all the presents you want, and most importantly, that you get to spend time with those you love.
TO those of you having a white Christmas... i'm insanely jealous. but make the most of it.
Wednesday, December 07, 2005
OH dear. it's nearly upon us. isn't it bizarre how the end of the year sneaks up on you so quickly? I had two days off last week, and i remember i had been looking forward to them for MONTHS. and then suddenly they were over... and now it seems like so long ago...
So now it's only a little over 2 weeks til Christmas. Someone said to me the other day, have you done all your Christmas shopping? it gave me a VERY rude shock. Seriously. as IF anyone's THAT organised? anyone who is should be SHOT. twice. in the same knee. I haven't even begun to consider WHAT i might buy people, much less WHEN i'll do it and from where im' going to pull the money (at the moment, i think my ass is looking like the most likely place all my money has been hiding, so perhaps i'll pull it from there...).
Seriously though, i love Christmas, but i find that in Australia, we really just don't celebrate it properly. I was disucssing this with one of my friends last night... everywhere in Europe and North America does it so much better than we do. There's so much Christmas spirit... perhaps it's because it's cold and snowy all of those "traditional" christmas things, but here, it's all about being in a rush to get everything done at the last minute, there's nobody singing christmas carols, or really enjoying an actual Christmas experience... last year, christmas day was almost no different to any other weekend day. It was really disappointing. perhaps it had sometihng to do with the fact that both of my two sisters and my brother were overseas, so we didnt' have our usual big family do, but still.. it just didn't feel like Christmas. This year i'm making a concerted effort to have christmas all around me and everone I know for a couple of weeks. I put up heaps of decorations at work, we have had some christmas carols going, we're doing a kris kringle... all of those little fun things. I even tried to organise some of my friends to go to the Carols by Candlelight on Christmas eve, but at the mo it looks like there will only be two of us. Still, two of us is better than none. I love christmas carols. Again this year, both my sisters will be overseas, but still, doesn't mean Christmas shouldn't be christmas.
I'm actually looking forward to it for the first time in a while. And it's not about presents or money or any of that, it just a time that, to me, means family and spending time with the people you love. That sounds like it should be on a hallmark card, but it's actually how i feel about it.
So...16 days to go til Santa and the reindeer arrive....
Monday, November 28, 2005
Well. i went to earthcore on the weekend. it was pretty rad actually. I'm a bit disappointed i didn't go up Friday night. But i'm definitely goign for the WHOLE weekend next year. I LOVE the camping part of it too. Although, as the boys pointed out, i'm useless at putting up a tent... but as i pointed out to them, that's why i brought them!!!
Anyways. i piked relatively early actually... but i loved the whole vibe of the place. Everyone was so relaxed and LOVING (heh heh). And although it took me 2 extra hours to meet up with my other friend up there, we all caught up in the end. There's just nothing better than meeting new people and knowing you're going to be great friends with them for a long long time, as with this guy who i met a few months ago. it's fantastic.
took some RAD photos which i'll hopefully get round to putting up tonight. Check them out y'all.
Wednesday, November 23, 2005
Well so finally the new site is up. it looks good, but i hope our Aus forum comes back... i lived there. It's a shame we lost all our posts too, but i guess it's a chance to begin again... scrub out all that post-whoring!!!
i officially miss the snow, and am horribly awfully terribly jealous of all those aussies heading overseas for a northern winter. I am trying to console myself with the fact that I will be one of them next year... but it's also kinda depressing, cos i'll be trying to save money, so i somehow doubt whether i'll get to ride much during our '06 season. grrr. now i'm making myself depressed.
ok other crap stuff:
-i'm sick, although today i sound alot worse than i feel, whereas yesterday i felt alot worse than i sounded. I just never seem to be able to get this shi*t sorted out.
-i'm trying to give up caffeine. it's not working too well. it lasted about 4 days of chai lattes and water instead of coffee and diet coke. today i've had two coffees and a diet coke. so i guess i should jsut give up now. heh heh.
-my car rego still hasn't been paid. it's about 2 months overdue.thus i'm driving around in an unregistered and uninsured car. I think i might just pull the 600 bucks from my ass to pay for it.
good stuff:
-on saturday i'm going to earthcore to dance the weekend away. very much looking forward to it.
-i have monday and tuesday off work. i applied for it over 2 months ago... nothing gets me more excited than the prospect of doing ABSOLUTELY nothing... i think i'll actually need to do less than nothing to recover from the weekend, but well.. i'll cross that bridge when i come to it.
i hope it doesn't rain this weekend. but i'm doing a snowdance for all of you my friends overseas.
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