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Weekend Wrap-Up

Sunday, February 28th, 2010

Anglesea, Victoria

Uni starts next week so I wanted to make the most of the final genuine holiday weekend of the summer. We did so with a road-trip down to Anglesea on Friday and having never ventured down that far before and was psyched to finally engage in decent road trip. Annoyingly, my passenger Matt was asleep for the entire trip to and from Anglesea so I spent the trip listening to my mixtape.

We were lucky enough to get some decent waves and I tried my hand at Boogie Boarding for the first time in my life. I loved it! It was a decent 3 hours in the surf which was producing some huge waves and I was absolutely wrecked by the end of it! Still I wanted to get back out there, I think the surf bug has bit me. I got dry-cleaned only once which was genuinely terrifying but stuck it out to catch some amazing runs in. Got a decent tan too as an added benefit. Finally I'm starting to reflect my true Italian olive skin.

Saturday was a fairly tame recovery from the hectic day before. I went to go get my scans for my knee, which I'll inform you guys on later, but was told that the clinic was far too busy to see me. They haven't called so fingers crossed it's not my ACL or something as I really want to continue this fitness pledge. Saturday night I sat in on my brothers Trivia night for the Old Carey Cricket Club.

Old Carey Trivia Night

Trivia nights always bring out the creative side of some people and I loved some of the team names with Quiz on my face being my pick. Coleman-Hasslehoff finished a respectable 3rd and I enjoyed a few beers to end the night.

I'm off to get my x-ray results. Stay tuned.

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Late Valentine

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

Night Owl Card

Valentines Day wound up being a fairly lonely event for me this year and I was starting to show bitter resentment to anyone resembling a couple until this card unexpectedly arrived in the mail. A day late but incredibly cute this hard paper Valentine got me to gush.

The card is from Night Owl Paper Goods, who make some really cute stationary.

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Intra-club match

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

Old Carey Soccer

I have alluded to it in a few previous posts but I'm back playing football seriously for the first time in roughly 8 years, since high-school to be precise. I have done pre-seasons twice with Old Carey but both times I stopped short of playing the season because of playing a full season being an unlikely reality with both times moving away from the area. Most of my friends since high-school wouldn't know of my hidden pride when I worked very hard to become a regular fixture in the firsts team in my final year of high-school.

We started training at the start of the year and it's been a huge wake up call in regards to my fitness levels and skill with the round ball both deserting me. It's like I've had to learnt how to play sports all over again.

Regardless of this continual embarrassment with first touches going astray and sharp Cruyff turns getting predictably picked off, I've stuck at it and I was due to my first full game since 2002 in an intra-club match today.

Annoyingly, I picked up a knock on my knee bone at training on Wednesday and some serious swelling prevented me from making my return to the track. It was painful watching it from the sidelines but the anticipation is building and the commitment was reaffirmed.

FYI, Yellows ran out 5-0 winners in a fairly one sided contest.

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