The Chronicles of Sue #3 (Hamilton)

Well when we were on Hamilton Island a few weeks back all the bars had closed and we still wanted to keep drinking. All our alchhol was in the bosses hotle Suite and he had gone to bed. A group of us went to his room to try and wake him up. We banged on the door and tried to wake him and he wouldn't wake up so we sent one of the guys down to reception to pretend they were Jeff (the boss) and get a key.

This worked like magic, we got the door open but he had the bloody chain across didn't he? So we yelled some more he still did not come out, His boss was with us and was yelling that he would be sacked if he did not come out, still no movement!

We were about to give up when we noticed that the bathroom window was open. I took of the flyscreen and we grabbed Sue and started putting her thru the very small window. abotu half way thru she realised that she was going to to land on her head when we let her go so we pulled her out. We then got Daniel and lowered him thru feet first, he undid the chain let us in.

By the time the boss came down stairs to the lounge part of his room there was 10 people drinking smiking and laughing in his room.

The following night we were out with all of the company people and all of our customers when the bar closed. We of course still had the key that we had fraudulently obtained the previous evening. so Sue and I delayed the boss to have a chat while we sent everyone else back with the key. by the time he got back to his room there was close to 50 people drinking in his room!!

The Chronicles of Sue #2 (Airlie Beach)

We were up at Airlie beach pissing it up for a weekend an few weeks ago. We had just seen each other at The Entrance in NSW two weeks prior and pissed it up there but that didn't stop us going hard again.

We got there on Friday and we have leased a five star two story pent house appartment between 9 of us. We were out that night till pretty late before coming home leaving half the crew out partying still, I ended up in the Spa till all hours, came down soaking wet to get some dry clothes and fell down the stairs. Wet feet + Alchohol + Wooden spiral stair case = Sore JP.

Anyway Sue comes out of her room and yells to be quiet, mind you I am sprawled at the bottom of the stairs, I try to explain why I was being noisy but she just heads back to her bed. Comparing notes in the morning it turns out she was sleep walking!!!

Anyway feeling sorry for myself I went to my room to get changed and go to bed, open the door and there is Jeff Fucking a chick in my bed!!!! SO I end up sleeping on a couch on the balcony with wet shorts on!!!! Obviously not the most comfortable way to sleep so woke up at 7am, and everyone else got up pretty much straight away so we started on the beers at 7!!!

Suffice to say we had a very drunken day, at onestage Daniel passed out. Two of the boys shaved half of one of his eyebrows of. When he realised this several hours later we convinced him that he had done it himself and he believes it to this day!

The Chronicles of Sue #1

I thought I would write about my friend Sue

Sue lives in Sydney, I live in Melbourne, we both have the same job, In fact she helped me in getting me this job. We have both worked for the same company for over 5 years now, have crossed paths many times and always got along well. Both of us have worked our ways reasonably quickly up the corporate ladder in our own ways. Now that we are doing the same job we are pretty much inseparable.

We both love a good piss up and have many common enemies and friends. Corporate Australia is a mine field and we have both stood on several mines over the years.

We have pissed it up together under a thin guise of work in Hamilton Island, Melbourne, Coolum Resort, Blue Mountains, Hunter Valley, Port Douglas and countless times in Sydney. We have also caught up for drinks on our own dollar in Melbourne, Airlie Beach and Sydney.

I sometimes think I see her more often than I do my Melbourne friends, I definitely see her more often than my WA based family and we talk an average of 5 times A day during the week meaning that I talk to her more than any one else even my flatmates.

She means a lot to me as a friend and I don't think there is anyone I would rather party it up with. She is full on, she aint shy about speaking up and will do anything for a laugh or a dare. Always willing to hear me whinge but just as quick to tell me to shut up and get over it. She holds grudges against people for me that I have long forgotten about. I am a very lucky man to have such a friend.

A Man should not get sick when his mother is not around

A Man should not get sick when his mother is not around, we are completely and utterley usless when we are sick! We need our Mothers to take care of us!

I have had the flu for the last two days, I battled through Monday at work, trying to work out if I had a mild fever or wether the airconditioner was on the fritz AGAIN.

Anyway stayed home today and started to feel better in the afternoon, thern got worse this evening. My flatmates assure me that you always feel worse at night.

Now call me crazy but I try and avoid cold and flu tablets, panadol anything like that. I have now succombed to the drugs and have just taken two codral night time tablets so i will be asleep very soon hopefully!

Anyway by hook or by crook I WILL be at work tommorow, I only have till Friday to get everything done, including my expenses so the lovely people at AMEX don't cutof my pretty green card.

Starting to make no sense so will sign of and piss of to bed.

GNW

I met a girl over the weekend

A friend of one of my flatmates. We had a bit of a Barbie at our joint, started with two people coming then it built to a bout ten, then some more people rocked up, of their faces about one o'clock from another party.

Nice Girl, Attractive girl, Interesting.

Talked for hours as you do when you are pissed, talking about everything forgetting half the conversations before you have finished them.

She Sms'd me this evening, wants to do the dinner thing I think it could be great but I worry on the flatmate thing, could fuck up the relationship I have with them if I start seeing her and it doesn't work out.

It's a bit shitty really, having worked in the job I do, I seem to think through all possible negative outcomes before committing to a course of action these days. Great approach for work but can take some fun out of personal life.

Any way I think I will give it a go, have dinner and see if we click as well sober as drunk!

Should be fun!

Fuck Consequences, live life!

JP

Definitions

Mate, Friend, Buddy, Pal, acquaintance, enemy, colleague, special friend, partner, girlfriend, Boyfriend etc.

It is interesting how some people put a lot of stock in certain words. Interesting too when someone asks you to classify your relationship with someone. Sometimes you don't want to put them in a box, sometimes you don't want to admit how special they are, sometimes you don't realize how special to you they are and sometimes you have not decided yet, or you have a relationship that transcends several categories

Quite often after putting your relationship with that person "in a box" for the benefit of the enquirer, you realize their definition of that label is totally different.

"No he is not my boyfriend"

I have a friend interstate that has been "seeing" a guy for about 8 months now, they spend a lot of time together, they have sex etc. She cringes at calling this guy her boyfriend and always corrects anyone who so refers to him. She has a n idea that by actually admitting (even to her self) that they are serious that things will change and not for the better. In contrast both her and I have another friend who is very young and 3 months into a relationship was looking at real estate together, going on overseas trips etc. When in discussion with her about something the other day I said well he is not your husband, and she said well he practically is!

"They are a work Friend"

This is one that can at times really get my goat. Some people have the concept that you have your real friends and then your work friends. Now while this can be true, there will always be friends at work that you would not socialize with outside of work for various reasons. But Having moved interstate, work is where I have found some of my best friends. Many have moved on to other work places now or even interstate/overseas but they are still good friends.



"No they are just a friend"

The eternal answer to the eternal question, "so is there something going on between you too?" How often do you have to clarify that there is actually nothing going on and just because a person is attractive looking does not mean you want to get into their pants?

"A Fuck Buddy"

A reasonably new and on the surface a very honest tag. I have to say however that I have never been in a "Fuck buddy" sety up where both partners are just happy to have sex every now and again. Almost always one partner will have deeper feelings for the other and they will be hoping to expand on the relationship. The worst bit is when the other partner knows this (and I have been guilty of this) and by clearly stating that they don't want a relationship they salve their conscience and will continue using the other knowing full well that the other party wants more and is hanging on to whatever you are giving them, when the healthy thing would be for both partners to move on.

Could go on for every but enough on this topic.

JP

A Bit more Banter

At the moment I am very content, very happy with my lot in life. Not everything is perfect but there is certainly a lot more good about my life than their is bad!

This scares the shit out of me, every time I reach happiness it seems something bad happens. Shit hey, fearing happiness! Doesn't make a lot of sense.

I have been happy for a while now so I am starting to think that maybe this time it is here to stay for a while. Work is good, the people I live with are great, have just booked my plane ticket and am going to be home for Christmas for the first time in Six years, Mum will bloody surprised!!!

I have made some pretty cool new friends lately. No woman in my life at the moment but it doesn't bother me. Just happy having fun!

I am "Courting" one young lady which I am enjoying. She is totally different to anyone I know, let alone anyone I have dated. She has a very strong personality, is passionate about the things she cares about, especially about doing the right thing. I could go on for ages about her attributes but I won't.

I think that just getting to know her is a real privledge in its self, whether we end up going to dinner or not is not as important to me as getting to know her, although it would be good one day.

I have another girl that I have known for a long time but only as a friend of friends. She has recently broken up with her Boyfriend and we have been out for drinks a couple of times. She continually has me in stitches, she is so funny, very family oriented and loyal to her friends. I think she may be cursing me today as much as I was cursing her, we SHOULD have stopped at just one bar on a MONDAY night!!!!

Left work early tonight, turned out to be a huge blessing as I keep getting calls asking me to come down for a drink behind work. Not as young as I once was and need a few sober nights these days!!

Anyway enough for now, I feel better!

JP