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Parent duties on Australia Day

January 26 2010

So.. the 19 year old left early this morning on a fridge to fridge.. on my bike... he is anticipating returning around 5pm with approximately 20 or so of his mates.. if they can still ride that is.... and then hang around my pool....   So.. the 21 year old announces a couple of friends are coming over for a swim and a bbq... about 20 minutes ago they started arriveing.. I answer the doorbell... 15 so far.   My job for Australia Day seems to be making sure nobody falls down my stairwell and ressurrecting and washing what is left of our linen press after they each have borrowed a towel... then I suppose I will have to clean up all the cigarette butts, wine bottles, beer bottles, my bbq.... wash the pool surrounds down, reinstate the cleaner and rebalance the pool... remove all the beer bottle tops from the bottom... and stand guard at my pantry door for the marauding horde of drunk louts.   Oh, I'll have to move my motorbike so it doesnt get splashed with salt water from all the bombing... and fix up all the cracked foreheads that inadvertently dive where no diving should be dived.....   I dropped the 17 year old at the train station this morning. No doubt.. around 11.30pm tonight.. just as I finish cleaning, she will call for a lift home.   Man I love Australia Day.   So... that seems to be my day mapped out.... what are your plans? Stalky

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  • RHP

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    16 years ago

    Coming to your place.... sounds frickin awesome.   Can we listen to JJJs hottest 100?

  • RHP

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    16 years ago

    I think I'll go down to the Civic Video and rent "A weekend at Burnies".   Hugs Gaz

  • RHP

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    16 years ago

    A plan to roll  around   naked  in my  aussie  flag....... paint  another  flag  on my   Bum.....in water based paint Look  for  my  Terry toweling  hat  ,Stuubbies   and  thongs...(shit i dont have any  best  run out to the  shops).....sit in  front of  the TV with my hands  down  ma stubbies   Drinking  a  coldy..........Yelling at the  Cricket Umpire  oN TV.........       PS........ Its  considered  the polite  thing to do is  turn up  with ya own towels.......Stalky.... Tell  Em.......My  place  is the rainforest......what  you   bring in you take  out........ Leave  ONly FOOTPRINTS......!   Nudie xxxxx

  • RHP

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    16 years ago

    Feeling not to bad actually after all that Vodka lastnight, still an inch left in the bottle....doh Planted some vege's this morning before it got to hot. Kerrie and the boys have gone to Wollongong, beaching for the day.Im just relaxing waiting for the Cricket to start and might even have a nanna nap!Good luck Stalky, thinkin ya might need it!Sheeze Trish....your not baby sitting my fish......murderer...lolCheers Nev

  • RHP

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    16 years ago

    "Dad, will you go and buy 5kg of sausages?" "No son. Now fuk off back to your mates." ... hehe.   HUgs Stalky

  • RHP

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    16 years ago

    My day so far has consisted of refereeing children fighting (inlcuding but not limited to - hitting, scratching, kicking, name calling, noise making, looking at each other (heaven forbid!) and even some biting from the youngest...).  Whilst doing this I have also created a menu for work and researched recipes, storage conditions, shelf life etc....  A 'quick' grocery shop for just the essentials and stuff for stir fry for dinner tonight (and I forgot the eschalots bugger!)...   My plans for the rest of the day are - covering text and excercise books x oh, I don't know, 100000000!!!!, picking up after the rugrats, nagging them to get uniforms, school bags etc all found and ready for tomorrow, having at least one panicing conniption fit over not having something we need for the start of the school year, continuing to referee their arguments, locking myself in the bathroom for 2 minutes peace before they find me and start bashing on the door, giving up on the nagging and finding everything for them.....   Oh, Australia Day as a parent....

  • RHP

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    16 years ago

    Quoting 'customer69'The fish must have been deceased already, I visited the same day, my friend departed for her  holiday...I didn't sleep that night, my daughter said I was a murderer too!Suicide perhaps?  Only CSI will get to the (cute) bottom of things.

  • RHP

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    16 years ago

    I am having a lovely morning with my son.....We have gotten our 2nd fish take ready ...other one is fresh water..lil fishies are doing well so we thought we would go next step and try for salt water..My son wants lil Nemo's....awwww...   hehe...soz trish..   o we are off to Bird Park for a picnic and feed the lovely Australian parrots and kangaroos..so cute!   Then down to beach to collect some salt water in heavy duty bage..Back home to add water to take and then we can start heater and filter..Have to let that all settle for a few days before we welcome our new fish.   Have shower and relax for a cpl hours then off to the foreshore for bouncy castles and face paint..Finish off with ohhs..and ahhhs....watching the fireworks..   Home...relax and proberly a relaxing red wine for me...YAY!....   huggies   sweetpetite41   ummmm...stalky....Why didn'y the kids arrange all the food yesterday???

  • RHP

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    16 years ago

    These are the times when one needs a good laugh...or one might go insane..grrrrMy boy 17 is in his room listening to loud music..and gaming ..its the norm or watching a movie on his mac.the gril 12 is making a sandwich for him...whilst having a short break from her laptop...aaahhh the sweet sound of kids laughing n giggling..as he showed her something on the web.and where am i ....lmao on here....xoxoxheymummawaiting for war to begin again..lol

  • RHP

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    16 years ago

    Stalky - you're such a cool dad!  I moved out of home at 18 so never had the luxury of 'rents to impose on. Moving home at 34 with 2 kids reminded me of why I left at 18...lol.  They was harder than divorce!  I lasted a month :p   Sonsie..."conniptions"...pmsl...I love that word!  And why is it, that when you close the bathroom door it's a green light for the kids to knock on it and ask for something or argue outside the door??? lol   Today my kids "need" me to drive them to their friends houses - they haven't seen them for ...oh, say a week!  And I haven't seen them for ...oh, say a week...lol...as they have been at their dads.  And given my house is on the market, it's probably a good thing they are making a mess somewhere else :p   Soooo, nothing much happening this neck of the woods...I can hear the Katoomba Christian Convention Centre  busting a few tunes out the back though...   Jacqui

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    16 years ago

    I'm just going to wait and see if any of my posts from yesterday get posted.... it sure makes it impossible to keep up with... say Nev's 'Australia Day eve' fest... or join in the fun on this thread... maybe a good thing to encourage a REAL life for me hehe... Mrs P'

  • RHP

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    16 years ago

    I just read this forum....laughed my arse off for fifteen minutes ....then did it all again!   And I thought I was the only single dad who had to cater to the whims of hordes of teenagers today?     When its all over stalky you will have the pleasure of a quiet drink and  enjoying 2 very simple truths.    First, its nice that your kids choose to be with you today. Second, you sound like a good dad.   Suncoastguy

  • RHP

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    16 years ago

    Quoting 'stalky' "Dad, will you go and buy 5kg of sausages?" "No son. Now fuk off back to your mates." ... hehe.   HUgs StalkyPMSL  I will have to remember that one.....absolute classic. Simple..... but effective I'm sure

  • RHP

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    16 years ago

    Reflecting on Australia day... well ... I'll start from first thing in the morning, 2:50am to be exact! yes yes you're all going WHY? HUH? A young man waking up at that hour?! (and no unfortunately not from a wet dream LOL)  :-P Had to catch an international flight to cairns... Wait it gets betteR! 3hrs later, circling Cairns... cannot see a damn thing, cloud coverage... hmm this shall be interesting i think to myself... after 3 attempts, what they call miss-approaches ( where they try to land and take-off again because they can't... ) later the captain tells us we're heading for Townsville to refuel... arrive at Townsville... refuel but cannot let us off (international flight, no customs on at that particular time)... so many moons later  LOL... we head back to cairns (oh by the way i think it was 4 more planes behind us) to arrive at our destination! BUT WAIT... one more miss-approach goes by ....*sigh* still not there yet ... then a tower they use to line up whilst flying blind (helps the pilots get lower to the runway) was fixed and we finally... yes you guessed it... LANDED!!! YAY!! so to sum it all up ... 7hrs for a 2hrs 45min normally trip normally... landed safe but very tired and a reaaallly sore/numb butt :-P lol ... but still im not unhappy, just a story to tell :-) do have to give the pilots the thumbs up! they did a great job of it all! Stalky... In that time I could have made it to your pool party... helped clean up ... and been back before bed time :-P hope all had an enjoyable aussie day! Clint

  • RHP

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    16 years ago

    Bloody Airplanes and Airports............screw that! Cheers Nev

  • RHP

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    16 years ago

    lol... yeap plane travel is *sposed" to be quicker.... most of the time lol...thanks Nev... but all in all, good for a story and a laugh :-Dso who else has some good stories of Aussie Day?Clint