I would have to say that today ranked as “interesting”.
For some reason my body decided (with out consulting me of course) that 7am was the perfect time to wake up and not fall back asleep. So it was an early rise for me, some tea, some toast with chedder cheese, and cartoons. (not too bad). Kristen and I had talked about heading off to the beach in the early part of the day since I had an appointment around 3pm.
We grabbed our stuff, slathered ourselves with sunscreen and headed out. I wanted to pass by a surf shop I knew and rent a body board, but to our dismay we discovered that it didn’t open for another hour or so. (oh well) We headed over to our favorite spot (due to the absence of metered parking and untold hordes of beach goers) on the beach. We set out our stuff and then I decided to explore a few buildings that we had always seen (while waiting for my sunscreen to absorb). Much to my surprise, I found a shop that rents both surfboards and body boards (right at our favorite spot…yay). I quickly made it back to Kristen, grabbed the car keys, headed to the car, grabbed some id and money, went back to the shop, and got a body board. I quickly set upon the ocean, had loads of fun (and exhaustion) fighting and playing in the waves, I met someone called Craig, and we chatted in the surf for a while (about both the states and Australia) and then went our different ways. After I returned, Kristen headed out to play some, she caught some good waves, and then she came back. I played a little more before returning the board back to the shop. At this point we were both ready to head home.
As we approached the car, a dreaded realization dawned on us, I never gave the car key back to Kristen…OH CRAP, IT WAS IN THE OCEAN! To top this off was the fact that Kristen didn’t have any of her keys with her, they were back at the house, but the house was locked and the house keys were in the car. ARGH! Luckly, I had signed us up for RACQ (think car insurance and AAA in one) roadside assistance. (thank god) All we had to do was contact RACQ, get them to break into our car, so I could get my wallet and house keys, then find a way to the house, so we could pickup Kristens keys, get back to the car and finally drive home. (guh). So first we try dialing RACQ, “We’re sorry but this number has been disconnected….” (WHAT?!?) So we try dialing directory assistance, “Yes that number is correct, you shouldn’t have any problems dialing it, try contacting your service provider”. (dialing customer service) “I’m sorry but we can’t help you, let me transfer you to directory assistance” (ARRRGH!!!!). Somehow Kristen gets her phone to dial RACQ and a driver shows up within 10 minutes, pops our car door and we get to our stuff. We tell him what happened and he offers to give me a ride to our house if his next job is in that direction. The job comes in, and I’m on my way home. (there was not enough room in the truck, so Kristen had to wait). I thank him for the ride, get Kristens keys, call a cab back to our car, show up and then get us all home. AND…..I still had 30 min to take a shower and make my appointment. (whew)
Remember the last post where I mentioned the skin cancer stuff. We’ll it turns out that one of the moles tested was “dysplastic”, meaning “is not cancerous, but has a good chance in becoming cancerous in time”. (translation = cut the sucker out). I had to return to the clinic to have the mole removed. Another local ansthetic, larger cutting (required 4 stitches), and a bandage with instructions to leave alone for at least 2 days (2 weeks for the stitches). (oh, and -$200 out of my pocket). It was good that we caught this, but technaclly it is not over yet. 1) They have to send in the cutting, and test for any melanoma, if any is found, I have to go in again and they want to take a bigger cutting to make sure it is all gone. If none is found, I’m all good. 2) when changing the bandage tonight I noticed another mole that didn’t seem right that we missed on the initial scan. I’m going to have to go back and have them check that one out. (I really hope that this is the end of it)
Kristen and I decided to head out and check a few pubs (being St Pattys day and all). We cleaned up a bit and decided to walk to this one place that was nearby (so we didn’t have to drive home). It was an “ok” place, live music, but small, and it seemed much more of a “locals only” place to me. While we were standing around, Kristen got about 4 visitors, and I found $150 on the ground (woot). We decided to head into Surfers Paradise after we finished our drinks (especially now that we have cab fare, and I was now buying 🙂 ). We wander around, tons of people, so much so that most of the pubs we tried were rejecting new people because they were full. We settled on this one pub, pretty nice place in my reckoning, good mix of people, room to sit or stand, optional food if needed, live music (except the band didn’t show up that night so management was pissed). We asked for rum and coke, and pretty much got rum with coke coloring (the bartener even asked if that was enough rum or not) Kicked back for a while, and enjoyed the scenery. After a while, we decided to wander some more, debated on coffee or home, and home won. After some failed attempts at calling a cab company, we cornered a driver that had pulled into a gas station for a break and got a ride home.
So over all it was a really good day, a few twists and turns, but no real stress.
Hope you all enjoy yours. (It so weird being in the future (this timezone) like this, we pretty much experience everything before the rest of you.)
eep…good luck with the moles thing hugs hope its benign instead.
playing in the ocean sounds like so much fun! Have you dived yet? laugh you may be in the future but your movies are from the past grin