Kangaroo – for dinner, surf tips and a little lamb story.

In Australia (so far) Kangaroo for dinner, has been the extent to our sightings. We had marinated Kangaroo steaks for dinner that Jon bought from our local grocery store last night. I got to be honest with you, I was a little hesitant when Jon first mentioned it a few weeks back (actually on the airplane over that he wanted to try it. And if it wasn’t for the fact that one of my Aussie colleagues going off on home amazing the meat is, I don’t know how much I would have been into it. 

But drum roll.............It is fantastic! REALLY GOOD. Jon describes it as like "roast pork in texture". I think its kinda like roast beef. It is a red meat and very tender.

We do not have a BBQ yet, but it is certainly on the list of things to buy, that and a blender. Unfortunately any of the small appliances that I brought over here including a blow dryer, iron and coffee grinder do not work here, therefore I had to purchase new. Not only are the plug outlets different, but also the voltage measurements. Anyways, lesson learned I suppose.

Today is the start of my 3 day work week in the office. I have got this schedule now where I work in the office Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday and work from my home office Monday and Fridays. This is a great method to get lots of work done more efficiently and to have a good break from 3 days of 4 hours of travel each day. The reality is that some days (like today) I do not get on a train with WIFI, therefore cannot really work on the train, which means to make up for it I have to either work threw lunch or work an extra hour from home in the evenings – and who wants to do that!?!?!?

Anyways – on to fun stuff.

This weekend was great. We went south (again) to Bryron Bay and surfed this spot called Broken Heads in like 3 foot swell – which means TINY TINY waves. But we were there at 8:30am, the sun was up and bright and warm and it was nothing to put on our thin wetsuits and go out for some exercise and practice. The setting is stunning for all of the beaches on the coast, like just totally tropical paradise looking. I have pictures that I will put up later.

So yesterday (Monday) I was able to get in a surf before work – again not the greatest waves, but a bit bigger at least. I am really focusing on my popup right now. It is a very challenging whole piece of the surfing puzzle and one that I have never excelled at. So I am trying to un-teach myself the bad habits that I have and it is one of the hardest things. It also requires a lot of stretch and determination. You really have to bend your back in a backwards fold and from your hands bring your feet directly on the board underneath your body and for your front foot to also be far enough forward on the board to get the right balance and positioning to start moving your board up and down the wave (on your feet obviously!). 

Not easy! 

But Jon has helped me with some good tips and I just need to loosen up a little in my hips to let that front foot move forward as much as it needs to. Now don’t get me wrong, I have been surfing on my feet for years J, but see what I have been doing is assisting my popup with my knee (which is the bad habit).

This brings me to Bikram Yoga. Yes – there is a studio just down the street – literally a 5 minute walk from our place. I plan on going at least 3 times a week. I had my first class this weekend and walked out all pumped and stoked on it. And then had my second class last night and felt horrible afterwards!!! Ha ha ha. O well. Horrible only because I likely was working harder than my first class – AND I was not early to secure a spot in the back where you get some air breaks – but instead was up in the front, dead centre, no air and in the middle of everyone so probably because I was in the lime light I was pushing it a bit tooJ.

I am reading the new Harkai Murakami book right now “1Q84” and just loving it. I told Jon I wanted to read 1984 and he brought it home for me after a night we squabbled a little bit ...good gesture and bonus points where allocated accordingly. Jon likes to be up in that department and it works for me. He has some funny expressions about them, but they are slipping me right now. He keeps cracking me up this day – which is pretty awesome. I have to include a picture of him and Lamby hanging out talking about Diablo – his new computer game. Specifically they were discussing the differences between the new game and the older game. Yes, my husband was having a full blown conversation with my stuffed lamb.

(Those of you who are judging right now, I would just like to point out that you probably have a kid, or a cat/dog that you get to make fun of and cuddle with – so back off J.)

Next time I will try to get a recording of Lamby and Jon, the theme that they are into right now is “how Sacha is mean”. Oh god, it will crack you right up. Example:  I took Lamby to the beach the other night to watch Jon jump in the water on his new long board. (keep in mind that Lamby came out of the bedroom (via Jon) and asked if he could come to the beach with us – as we are always talking about it, and always going there...etc, etc,). 

Anyway... there were people around at the beach so I didn’t want to take him out of the back pack – so you can imagine what a monster I looked like (to the both of them) when we got home and I told the truth to Jon.

Oh man that’s right kids, that’s how we entertain each other at our house.