Aragog's First Soldier

OK folks, I have bad news. The first soldier of Aragog's Army (the spider king from Harry Potter), was deployed last night to James' house. It was about 11pm and James had been napping for about 3 hours....well I went into the kitchen, and needless to say, James had to wake up and save me.... There in the kitchen hiding in the ceiling corner was a lurking huntsman. The bad news is I was trapped in the kitchen until it was no longer lurking over the doorway (what if it jumped on my head?), the good news is that James killed it. (Thanks honey!) So after the fiasco, we no longer were tired, and had to have a cup of tea. I also called Lizzy to inform her of the bad news regarding the first soldier. She told me, "Lacey if you are lying to me I am going to kick your butt, that is not funny." Well Lizzy nope, I was not indeed lying, true story. I guess Huntsman season has started, just a few days after the first official day of Spring...

I GOT A JOB!!!!!!!!!

Hooray!

The job that I have been referring to finally came through! I am The University of Sydney's new Search Engine Optimization Officer. Check that out, I finally have a job title other than 'Administrative Assistant'. Plus it is a job that requires having a Bachelor's Degree in my field, well hey hey. I start work on Thursday. It is only 14 hours a week but it is something that I need experience in and I am excited to have another thing to focus on.

Let me get another Hooray!
HOORAY TODAY, HOORAY TOMORROW, AND EVEN HOORAY YESTERDAY!

Great, Now We are 100% Locked Out

I live in a five bedroom apartment, so for the non-math whizzes, that means I live with four other people besides myself. Tonight only four of the five inhabitants were home. Three of us were sitting in the living room watching TV and chatting, the other was studying. Two of my roommates decided to order pizza as it was cheap Tuesday. I agreed to walk to the pizza place with them. As I left my room I said to one of my roommates (Ying) to bring her card, because I did not have mine, to get into our apartment. (To get access to our apartment you must get through one main door, that other apartments have access to and then through our actual apartment door up a small set of stairs and you use an access card for this.) She said we would make Cassi bring it (Ying and I always forget our cards and Cassi always has to let us in.) So we notified Cassi to bring her card, she rolled her eyes and said, "it is always me with the card." Well anyways the three of us set out to the pizza place. Once we arrived, Cassi realized that she had not indeed brought her card.... So we teased her, but we knew it would be OK since we still had one roommate home to let us in. As we rang the door bell to have Jennifer let us in I jokingly said, "wow, 75% of our apartment is currently locked out." As Jennifer exited our actual apartment door and started descending down the stairs to the other access door her face dropped when she realized that she had forgotten her card and now we were let into the front access door but locked out of our actual apartment. As soon as I saw her face drop I said, "great, now we are 100% locked out." We all proceeded to laugh and had to call one of the RA's who I am sure did not appreciate being called to duty at 9pm at night because an entire household was careless. The moral of the story is to always bring a key/card. Or if you prefer a proverb, "measure twice, cut once," aka check twice to make sure you actually have a card.

Tomorrow in China Town

I went to a museum exhibit with one of my friends from class today and afterwards she invited me on an adventure to China Town in Sydney:

Then we proceeded to eat delicious dumplings (way too many it is 5pm, we ate at lunch, and I am still full.)

And a visit to China Town would not be complete without visiting a wacky anime store with a booth to take funny pictures with costumes or crazy mannequins:

Thankfully, I do not actually work at a fast food restaurant with a chicken theme, and a I narrowly escaped my run in with the vampire mannequins. To say that least today(tomorrow) has been an eventful day, and I hope you are having a wonderful yesterday.

Sweet Potato for Seven?

While wandering the grocery store with my friend yesterday, I encountered a sweet potato that was larger than my head (and here is photographic proof in case you don't believe me):

It made me wonder, what on earth would you make with a sweet potato that large, and how long would it take to fully cook? Just some thoughts for now.

Just Another Day in Tomorrow

It has been brought to my attention, several times, that I have not written a post in a few days (ahem...Papa, and Kim.) So, here goes and I shall try to write more regularly. The only problem with this is that I like to write when exciting things happen, and well to the unfortunate circumstances of my few readers, exciting things are not happening very often.

The other day Papa emailed me saying that in his msnbc.com news feed he saw one of my articles. This ensued my father and I looking for my articles on msnbc.com. I was a little weirded out that a news station would have access to my blog. I am pretty sure I only have a few readers. Alas, Greg helped us figure out that Granny joined my blog and therefore, subscribed to my rss feed, which feeds into Papa's news feed. So the bad news is, I am not famous yet, but the good news is that I no longer need to feel weirded out.

I am happy to report, that I have driven several times since my last post about driving. These driving events have been much less exciting than my original post. I am still having trouble with the space concept of having the car on the other side of me, but I am getting better. Also, I am happy to report that I have not tried to use the windshield wipers as the turn signal again, and I have remembered to put the car into gear before actually attempting to drive. Go me!

The food options here in Sydney are amazing, I have never seen such a variety of types of food to try at restaurants. On Saturday, James took me to this funky little African style food place. I am not sure where this type of food is from in Africa (since it is a rather large place, maybe Kim can enlighten us) but it was regardless very yummy. We shared some lamb skewers in a delicious tangy, spicy, sweet rub with a yogurt sauce. We also had a delicious chicken and sweet potato curry. The description of this item said (buzzard and potato curry) it went on to describe that the first time the chef sampled this dish that he was not certain whether or not he ate buzzard or chicken. The description also went on to assure us that their version of the dish did indeed contain chicken, and not buzzard, well I sure hope so. Plus, I am not sure where you would find buzzard around these parts.

Well that is all for now. I will try my best to write more tomorrow, or in your case the day after tomorrow ;)