I have been inactive for a little while, partly because I have been organising and executing schemes for Enya’s 18th birthday. I have just returned from travelling for a short time, with Enya. I got back on Monday afternoon, after staying in a rented house in Byron Bay for four nights. I thought you may like to know how it was.

Party #1 – The Movie Night

I’ve been planning Enya’s birthday for a while, I wanted to make her feel special, as I do. So, I planned an evil plot, to arrange a movie night (For her, although she didn’t know at the time. ). I planned a Dragon Ball movie night for April 11 (6 days before her birthday), at which we would watch the five Dragon Ball movies with friends. They included the new live-action Dragon Ball Evolution, (which was atrocious ), and the four animated Dragon Ball movies, Curse of the Blood Rubies, Sleeping Princes in Devil’s Castle, Mystical Adventure and Path to Power (Although we never got to start the last one).

It was great fun, while people arrived, we watched some Cardcaptor Sakura, followed by X, until everyone was there, 11 in total. At that point, Enya was unaware of the plan, though  the scheme was almost revealed due to some comments from parents about a “birthday girl”, but luckily they were covered up hastily. After we watched the live action movie, we decided it was time to get some snacks, as the surprise cake was nearing completion. After we gathered Enya into the kitchen, the cake was revealed, and Enya, almost in tears received the shock of her life as we sang the usual Happy Birthday song to her. Or rather, they sang, and I held her there in case she escaped. The hilarious part that I pointed out came soon after the eating of the cake, as Enya happily stood in front of the cupboard in the corner. A few people then came out bearing gifts, without realising that they had in fact backed Enya into the corner. She was literally speechless, she couldn’t even manage to say just that, as people normally just use that as a figure of speech. This was true lack of speech.

After we’d finished watching Curse of the Blood Rubies, we decided it was time to make dinner, pizza. Due to some confusion with the can opener, and the eventual breaking of the can opener, we had to employ some alternative methods to open the can of pineapple. These methods were:

1. Still using the can opener, but using pliers to turn the wheel instead of the broken handle. I’m sure it would have worked fine, if the so-called “Food Tech students” hadn’t complicated the matter by using the device at the top of the can, and managed to cut not the lid, but the side of the can. After attempting to correct it, and yet another Food Tech student making the original mistake again, we became sick of it, and Dalton introduced method number 2.
2. Method number 2 takes place after the side of the can, just below the rim had been cut a certain amount. Dalton then grabbed the pliers, sick of the confusion, and ripped the rim of the can upwards. It worked pretty well actually. We just had to pour the pineapple out the top of the opening. Luckily, they were pineapple pieces, and not slices, which would have made it much more difficult.

Alternatively opened pineapple pieces

So, in order to cut the rest of the long story short, we watched the remaining movies, except the Path to Power, exchanged snacks and some Easter gifts and went home. (I summed that up pretty well. )

Party #2 – Four days at Byron Bay

Well, time for another description of fun. I’ll keep this one short, especially after the last one.

So anyway, we departed on Friday for Byron Bay, where nine of us would be staying for four days in a rented house on the river, about 100m from the beach. It was good fun, we went canoeing, watched Black Books, Season 7 of Friends, went to the beach, went to the Lighthouse (The most eastern part of Australia. We were further forward in the future than any other Australian at that time. ), and ate out at breakfast places and such.

Rather than continuing to speak about these sorts of things, I might just leave it there. The point is, it was great fun, and we really enjoyed ourselves. It’d be nice to do it again.

Well, that concludes my description of Enya’s birthday, and the various schemes involved. Those schemes were great fun… Time for yet another entry! Though, this one hasn’t been delayed.

Ciao!

Yeah, that’s right. A scheme to get me spam filtering! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

I made a new blog today at wordpress.com, so that I could get myself an API key and use Akismet’s spam filtering on this blog. I haven’t got any more spam yet, so it seems to be ok. If you would like to visit my secondary blog, go ahead. http://him357.wordpress.com I probably won’t be updating it, so I’ve left links to this site around the place.

I’ve also finally made a couple of custom pages on both sites, just containing my blogroll, with extra information. It’s a better idea than just using Wordpress’s built-in blogroll feature, which only uses names and links. Thanks for the idea goes to Nessa. You win.

I’m hoping to start blogging more often now, right after my mid-course exams at school. Evil things… I’ve realised that my blogs don;t have to be really lengthy, they could always just contain three lines of random crap. So, from now on, expect stupid things with the occasional meaningful entry.

I’ll be writing again soon, and hopefully getting interested readers and replies.

Ciao.

Lachy