maeve and brad

While preparing to leave Australia. I would like to reflect on my trip this season. I dedicate this post to the quirky terms I have heard over my months stay. I pride myself in speaking both American English and Australian English they are that different sometimes.

Bathers : swimsuit
Bloke : guy
Bloody oath! : that’s true
Bludger : lazy person
Bottle shop : liquor shop
Boot : trunk of the car
Bonnet : hood of the car
Brekkie : breakfast
Buck’s night : bachelors party
Chewie : chewing gum
Chrissie : Christmas
Cozzie : swimming costume
Dag : a funny person
Dickhead : idiot
Dipstick : a loser, idiot
Fringe : bangs
Flatmate : roommate
Grog : liquor, beer
Heaps : a lot, example “thanks heaps”
Lollies : candy
Mate : friend
Mozzie : mosquito
Scrubber : trashy, rough person
See ya’s : bye
She’ll be right : it’ll turn out okay
Sickie : day off sick from work (chuck a sickie = call into work when you’re not sick!)
Spewin’ : very angry
Truckie : truck driver
Unit : flat, apartment
Up oneself : to be cocky - “he’s really up himself”
Whacker, whacka : idiot
Whinge : complain

Hello everyone. This is Maeve from Australia. Thought I would check in and let you know what I have been up to. I went to Coogee Beach today. Like all Australian Beaches it was very beautiful. What made Coogee different from the other beaches (ie. Bondi, Manly…) you ask? Coogee has these amazing natural swiming pools that the ocean waves crash over the cliffs and fill. I kept thinking to myself. Brad needs to be here. He would be all about these. So I took some pics. Take a look. I miss you all. See you soon. -Maeve

I’ve been a little hesitant about this but since everyone else that has a blog that I read has done it I guess I will too.

1. Peanut butter and chocolate milk calms me like I imagine a cigarette would.
2. I love Helvetica.
3. I can’t wait for the future, I hope to grow old and wise.
4. I wish I could be 22 forever.
5. I contradict myself a lot.
6. The final monologue in American Beauty makes me cry everytime I watch it (and I don’t even need to see the whole movie).
7. I love photography but need to get better at it.
8. I think Barack Obama is just what our country needs (as long as he doesn’t ever let me down).
9. I loved rap music way before it was socially acceptable.
10. Whenever I hear a single person talk about dating I am really glad I’m married.
11. I love my friends, all of them, like they were my family.
12. Even though I’m not a die-hard snowboarder anymore, I still think there are few things better than a really good powder day.
13. I’m one of the lucky ones, I love my job.
14. College was the funnest time of my life.
15. I met my best-friend the first day of my first class of my first year of college.
16. I met my wife the first day of my first class of my second year of college.
17. When I was a kid I loved movies that featured caves, booby traps, and skeletons. Good thing there were quite a few made back then.
18. I’m kinda embrassed that I’m the only male blogging out of all of my friends.
19. Favorite candy not containing peanut butter and/or chocolate: Sour Punch Bites (Green Apple)
20. I’m so lucky. There is a thing at my work called Dude Club and I’m part of it.
21. Except for The Incredibles I haven’t enjoyed a single computer animated type movie.
22. I love animals.
23. I am terrified snakes, especially the mighty King Cobra.
24. I love skateboarding.
25. When I was in sixth grade I broke both of my arms. My mom had to bathe me. It was humiliating.
26. I’d rather not watch sports.
27. Documentaries are not always boring things you had to watch in school, they can be the best, most inspiring movies made. Spellbound, My Architecht, Mad Hot Ballroom, and American Movie are a few of my favorites.
28. Netflix has changed my life.
29. I can’t believe that I used to get by without a cell phone.
30. I can’t believe I used to get by without the internet.
31. I knew my wife for four years without knowing she was my soul mate.
32. I think art got a lot more exciting after the invention of the camera.
33. I’ve always felt being silly is way better than acting tough.
34. I really want to live in a modern home. Its what keeps me motivated and working hard.
35. In college I thought Dr. Mario was the thing I was most talented at. PS I’m pretty sure I started the Dr Mario craze in Logan.
36. I’m probably too opinionated.
37. I get upset when people deny the genius of Apple.
38. Hacky Sack with the dudes is more fun than it should be.
39. I love working on our house.
40. I think its really weird that I understand HTML, CSS, PHP, Javascript, and ActionScript.
41. I sometimes I read books like Designing With Web Standards that would bore a normal human to death.
42. I am disgusted with my current weight, but I’m working on it.
43. I was dissapointed when the supposed Judgement Day from the Terminator movies (Aug 29, 1997) came and went without robots taking over the earth.
44. My sister and I saw Terminator 3 at Mann’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood, California on opening night.
45. I want Sasquatch to be real soooo bad.
46. I love riding my bike to work and can’t wait to do it again once it warms up a bit.
47. I want the Jazz to ‘Show me the Title’.
48. It’s really hard for me to break the rules.
49. Everyone says high school was the best time of their life. I say it was just okay.
50. I always stay up later and get up earlier then Maeve.
51. Lately, I’ve been into all things cute; kittens, doggies, babies, koala bears, etc.
52. It kills me to watch someone operate a computer differently then I do. I know they know what they are doing but I still always say something.
53. I think #52 is my biggest flaw.
54. I hate it when they shorten movie titles like; AVP (Alien vs Predator), AP3 (American Pie 3), and T3 (Terminator 3). But when they took Mighty Ducks 3 down to just D3 I thought that was awesome.
55. I’m not really sure if I know how to use a semi-colon.
56. I have a lot to learn about my religon.
57. That kickball game we played in college is one of my single greatest memories ever.
58. I hate extremely cold temps and extremely hot temps.
59. Sometimes when I’m with my friends I just like to step back and watch how much fun we have together. Something about it makes me want to cry.
60. When I was in middle school my dad was my best friend.
61. I think an albino moose would be worth seeing.
62. I drank an estimated five glasses of water while living in Logan.
63. I hate how picky I am about food.
64. I love it when we get pummeled by a big snow storm.
65. I hate it when companies who obivously don’t value good design are successful.
66. For some reason, I get upset when people make jokes about Steve Irwin’s death.
67. There is another Brad Knickerbocker who writes for the Christian Science Monitor and is getting popular for his articles against the war in Iraq and sometimes I’ll get an email from one of his fans thanking me for something I’ve written about.
68. I love vintage modern furniture.
69. When I was young digging holes was a favorite past time.
70. When I was in third grade my dad took me to my first concert, Bon Jovi/Skid Row.
71. Maeve can’t believe how many times I can watch the same skate video.
72. I’m back in love with Kraft Mac ‘n’ Cheese.
73. I have a picture of Maeve and I working on a school project from 1999.
74. I used to be really good at memorizing phone numbers, now I only know my own, Maeve’s, Maeve’s office, my mom’s office, and Ali’s.
75. I need to draw more.
76. I’m pretty good at bar-b-queing.
77. People always tell me I have nice teeth, too bad they’re fake.
78. Este pizza is my favorite thing to eat.
79. I didn’t know how to tie a tie until I was 16 and I had to wear one bagging groceries at Smiths.
80. I wish Maeve wanted a mini-ramp as bad as I do.
81. I hardly knew my grandparents.
82. Before Napster got shut down I thought it was the most amazing thing ever.
83. I think I’m ready to be a dad.
84. My friends and I used to really enjoy jumping off stuff, there is hours of home video footage to support this fact.
85. Blue Beard is the best book I’ve ever read.
86. I sent in my name to be on Teen Jeopardy but Trebeck wasn’t down.
87. I haven’t been able to watch Seinfeld since Kramer lost his cool on stage.
88. In the last couple years Morrissey has been replaced by Mark Kozelek, I still like him though.
89. Our house makes a ton of scary noises but I know what each one is.
90. As I get older, instead of having guilty pleasures in music I just openly like crappy bands.
91. I used to be so disgusted by My Super Sweet Sixteen that I couldn’t watch it. Now its fun to see how amazingly horrible spoiled people can be.
92. I wish they would have asked me what I call music instead of that one guy on the commercials.
93. I love telling and hearing ghost stories, even if they’re not always true.
94. I used to think 2Pac was still alive but its been over 10 years, if he hasn’t been “resurrected” yet it ain’t happening.
95. I still laugh really hard watching Americas Funniest Home Videos but the new host doesn’t hold a candle to Sagget.
96. I’m serious about the whole liking Bob Sagget on Americas Funniest Home Videos thing.
97. Before doing anything remotely dangerous while skateboarding, I knock on the nose of my board twice.
98. I don’t know who General Toa is but he makes some amazing chicken.
99. Some of my favorite foods are just vehicles for melted butter.
100. This was harder than I thought it was but I’m sure for the next couple of days I’ll be thinking of new ones.

Jeremy and I went downtown today to take some pictures. I’ll post some of my favorites over the next couple of days.

Heres the first couple:

It snowed today, here’s a picture.