One + 1 = Thr3e

Very excited! I got a wireless router for the house today, so now I can access my internet from any room in the house, and so can my Wii!

Still trying to figure out how Meghan can use it, so she can access it as well... But that can wait till tomorrow.

I've got to run anyway, I have to be at my friends place in like 20 mins :S

AdamMac

I've been addicted for awhile, but over the last couple of weeks, I think I've become even more addicted. I love poker. Mainly online poker, and on tournaments. I've only really gotten addicted again since my friend has started making me play again. Its fun. I sit there and try and pick what other peoples hands are, trying to work out their game play.

I don't play for a real money. I only play with fake money. Its funny because I usually always go all in and then lose my money. Then, I just refresh it. I know it doesn't seem very practical, but its lots of fun. One of them would only let me refresh 3 times in the hour, so as you can imagine, I don't play that one anymore.

I don't know what it is about it, but I really like it. I haven't played it in real life for a while. Last time I played it I was a tournament at some pub and that was really fun. I was winning heaps, but then I wanted to go home, so I just went all in. When they flipped the cards over, the people on the table couldn't believe I went all in. I think I went all in on a 9 5, so people around me were freaking out. That's one reason why I don't like playing real life, people take it too seriously.

I wanna start playing again with my friends, but I just need my friends to want to play with me as well.

AdamMac

I've been watching Queen as Folk season 2 lately, and I just watched an episode where they were discussing the pride march and I got me thinking. The pride march happened this year in St Kilda and I didn't attend. I also didn't attend the big carnival to celebrate the ending of Midsumma. As a matter of fact I didn't really do anything for Midsumma, this year or any previous year.

Mardi Gra is also coming up this weekend, another event that I'm not going too. I had someone say to me that I don't participate in enough gay events. Apparently I need to be in more active in things to show my pride. I think that this is just crap. I don't have to walk around wearing a rainbow coloured vest to show that I'm proud of being a gay guy.

I wanna be able to show how proud I am sometimes, but its just hard. For example, walking around on a date with a guy, and watching all the other people on their dates holding hands, made me wanna do it. But I couldn't do it. I couldn't bring myself to walk around the city, hand in hand. I didn't want to have to put up with people staring and making snide comments.

After that night I was really annoyed. Not because I didn't do it, I just felt like I couldn't do it. I was jealous of all the other couples walking around showing their feelings for one another, and there I was too frightened to do anything.

I may not march in parades or wear rainbow tops, but I've got pride, I just don't want a good night to be ruined by other people's homophobia.

AdamMac

I tested my willpower this morning. I tested to see how far I could push it, and well I failed. My attempt at self restraint was pushed to the limit and that limit was tested with a lamp. After walking through the whole of IKEA for the first time, I had got only what I told myself I would get. I was walking confidently towards the checkout with only the things that I needed when I saw the thing that would push me over my limit.

It was a simple green lamp. I already own a lamp. As a matter of fact, I own two. One is boring and crappy, but its been good to me over the last couple of years. The other is a lava lamp. Now the lava lamp hasn't worked for a long time, but it still takes pride of place on one of my bedside tables. But for some reason, I couldn't walk out of the shop without it. I didn't know why, but for some reason, I just needed it.

I'm very happy with the whole selections that I made at IKEA. My bedroom looks quite snazzy if I don't say so myself. I did spend the majority of my afternoon organising it, but now I feel better about the whole room. It looks so much better that what I thought it would.

Now, I just have to plan my next trip to IKEA. After walking through the show room, I kept seeing more and more things that I like. Only thing is, I need to have someone else with me, I don't wanna walk out with another lamp.

AdamMac

**Warning: The following post contains pictures of blood!**

I'm sick of people constantly commenting on how much of a girly sport softball is. It's not that girly, it can get quite rough sometimes. Now I realise why it could be portrayed as a girly sport, seeing that it was set up as an indoor version as baseball, but when you play in a game of men's softball it can get quite rough and competitive. The list of injuries that people can get from softball are quite long. Someone in the team a couple of years ago, snapped his foot as he slid into a base. Well what happened is that he snapped the bones that connect his foot and leg, and the only thing that was hanging it together was his skin and some ligaments.

Today I had my first injury of 2007. It wasn't much, just a grazed knee, but it looks pretty impressive if I don't say so myself. Always been a big fun and the whole blood and guts thing. I didn't even realise that it was bleeding until I had been sitting on the bench for a couple of minutes and looked down at the patch in my knee of my softball pants. I noticed a bit of blood trickling out, so I thought I'd better check to see if it was okay, and well I'm pretty sure you can tell by the picture what I found. I pretty much went home to mum and got her to help me clean out the dirt in it, and to put special cream and stuff on it.

But its not all that bad. Keeley felt good that she was able to recognise my pain because she had just recently hurt her thumb. You can just see the mark on her thumb in that picture. So it was comforting to know that there were other people in my situation in the house.

Well I was thinking of doing something tonight, but seeing that I have to keep my knee uncovered, I don't think it would be appropriate to turn up to a club with a scabby knee. Not pretty at all.

AdamMac

I took the train for the first time in about 18 months. I was like a born again train virgin. I remembered to buy the ticket and validate it, seeing that I have still been using public transport in St Kilda (trams), but little things I had forgotten about.

I couldn't remember the order of stations. This pretty much devastated me, seeing that I used to be able to say the order in my sleep. After a couple of years of catching the train into the city, on a daily basis its something you just learn. But I've forgotten it. It was quite sad!

Also, I forgot how packed they could be and how rude some people are. Why can't people just let other people off before they start barging their way in? Its just common courtesy.

I've also lost complete balance when I was on the train. I felt so sorry for the poor school girl that I kept bumping into every time the train jolted. I did apologise heaps though, lets just hope that her feet don't bruise*. I felt so awkward being thrown from side to side. I looked like an idiot.

Well fingers crossed when I go home tonight I should be better. What am I saying, I'll be drunk... So for those wanting some entertainment on the way home, you can catch me drunken and disorderly on a train out to Werribee!

*This is why you shouldn't wear open toed shoes on a train!

Well, after being sick to death about the way I've been looking for a while now, I've taken some changes. Now this happens maybe once a year. This year, it started this morning. I went and got my hair cut and coloured. Well not an all over colour, but one that just highlights :P

I haven't had my hair cut for ages, so I decided to go get it cut, and also to try some colour in it as well. Its got two different colours running through it now, blonde and caramel. Its also cut shorter so I'll probably spend tonight running through how to style it in front of the mirror.

I also got myself two new tongue piercings, seeing that I was annoyed of only having the two, yin-yang and plain-and-boring. So now I have one which is black with a white star and another one with flames. Who knows, maybe one day I'll have enough to co-ordinate them with what I'm wearing!

Also going to start going to the solarium, which I know I have been talking about for ages, but I'm actually going to do it. So that should be exciting, no more being white, or orange. Damn fake tan. Yes, I did try it. Yes, I'm still suffering the consequences. Please don't ask any more questions, I thought it was a bronzer :S

Below is a photo of my lovely back of my head. I was hesitating about posting this on here, seeing that it makes my ears look HUGE! Believe me, they aren't really that big :S

That photo also looks like a have a block shaped head as well... Hmmm, I wonder how I can change that :P Maybe not let Jasmine take any more photos!

AdamMac

1. Chocolate
2. Anything from the work vending machines
3. Fast food, from any company that has a business that operates a drive thru, we aren't allowed to buy food from any of their franchises.

That's the name of the decor in our new place. Well that's what Meghan calls it. Been a week now, and I've been quite lazy, still haven't moved everything yet. Hopefully one more car load and I should be set. All the big things have been moved so that's good.

Quick rundown of whats been going on in the last two weeks:

• Credit card back, and they are waiving all the charges.
• The move has happened, or should I say still happening.
• Softball is still going strong, except for today when we lost 6-1!
• Work is getting no so busy, and still having fun, so that's good!
• Car not fixed yet, another thing I need to get down.

AAAAARRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

I have the keys. Which means its getting closer to happening. There was an open for inspection at my St Kilda place yesterday, and about 8 groups of strange people walked through my house. Don't worry, nothing was taken. Well nothing that I've noticed. It felt weird, as I walked away from my apartment, and the real estate agent showed people through. They got an application so that's a good sign. I obviously it was my placement of furniture that did it.

Work has been full on in this last month, so yesterday and today have been great. Not having to worry about taking calls, the amount of calls I have to get done for quality and other things has been a great stress-free break. I'm really needing that holiday later this year.

Speaking of the holiday, I've started looking at things that I want to do, at the moment I'm tossing up between Europe or the US. Apparently the US is too much like here, and if I wanna go someone, I need to go somewhere that doesn't feel like I'm still at home. So at the moment, I'm still thinking about what to do. I'm also tossing up who I go with, in terms of travel companies. Contiki is winning at the moment, mainly because I've heard so much of Jo's trip and I want the same sort of thing, but STA travel has given me some ideas in terms of going to both and maybe back packing or something. I have no idea. All I know is I don't care where I go, so long as I do!

I have the keys to the new place. Dad is coming around tomorrow morning and we are going to move everything. Got to love a dad with a trailer. I don't have that much stuff to move, its mainly little things, which I'm planning to move in my 100 trips between the two places. Also looking forward to just having everything moved and sleeping for a whole weekend. Its kinda sad really, I'm starting to miss the city already. Mainly because I've only really just started going out more around here, and catching up with mates at St Kilda Beach, which I probably won't be able to do for a little.

Just think of all the money I'll be saving. I keep telling myself that all the time now, mainly so that I can justify moving away from the city. I know that its up and down for the last twelve months, with probably more downs then ups, but there is just something about being so close to everything that I'm going to miss.

I got a phone call from my credit card company this morning. They went through all this legal stuff with me, told me what was stolen and they were kinda scared at how I got robbed. They hadn't heard of that many cases where only the credit card was taken and nothing else. I think they've done it so I wouldn't notice and cancel the card on them. Here I was thinking they were smart, but clearly I was wrong. Who steals a credit card and then buys cartons of cigarettes and booze!?! But everything is getting wiped and I should have my card back in the next couple of days. WooHoo!

Well I should continue packing, seeing that if I don't my mum will kill me. That's the reason she texted me at 7 o'clock this morning, and when I thanked her for waking me up, she said she only did it so that I could have more time packing. So thanks mum. I love ya.

Anyway, with the whole moving thing, may not be online for a couple of weeks, so all those that speak to me on MSN, I won't be there for a little while. But I will be back.

StressMac