Not Much

What have you been up to? Not much. What's new? Not a whole lot. Anything exciting happening? Nope, wouldn't say so. Sorry to disappoint, but not much is going on right now. I feel like, not only because I moved to another country but also because I choose to periodically report on our experiences and life in general via this blog, that I'm somehow obligated to have something to write about. It's just not always the case. We're boring. I do appreciate you being here just to read about our boring life though, thanks. Shout out to Sue - dad tells me you read often. Hi from Australia.

We didn't do much this last weekend, but next weekend is our belated birthday celebration, to take place at The Cumberland Villa Spa in Marysville, which appears to be about an hour or hour and a half west-ish of Melbourne: http://www.thecumberland.com.au. We got the "Romantic Spa Getaway" package including a room for Saturday night, fancy dinner, breakfast and massages. It's going to be awesome. Will report on that next weekend.

Today I happened to be near a VicRoads office - DMV equivalent - so I made an appointment to get my Victoria driver's license. We've put it off forever partially because we were too lazy to find out info about it and partially because we were too lazy to go to a VicRoads office to make an appointment. Plus, I guess we really haven't needed licenses up to this point. Anyway, supposedly it's a simple procedure whereby I prove that I am in fact myself and then pay them money to let me drive in their country. Hopefully it goes that smoothly. I was hoping that the DMV here would be an improvement on the DMVs from home, but alas, the insanity that is the department of motor vehicles is ubiquitous. The only difference is that the clerks spoke English as a first language which both surprised and amazed me. In California (at least in the Bay Area) English as a second language is a requirement and, actually, may be the only requirement to be a DMV employee. Although being impossible to understand, very slow, and extremely crotchety doesn't hurt either. We'll see how it goes getting the actual license - my appointment isn't until August 21.

All else is well in Australia - the days are getting longer now THANK GOODNESS. I'm pretty sick of the dark and even more tired of the cold. If you haven't heard it straight from me yet, the winter here is pretty much the same as the winter in California (where we're from at least). Generally cloudy and crappy with random sunny days interspersed. Colder temperatures in the day (40s-60s sometimes maybe venturing up to 70s) and freaking freezing at night (30s-50s). And windy. I dislike the wind the most. Needless to say I'm freezing often. But it will pass and it could be worse. NO NEED to brag about the excellent California (or insert other location here) weather right now. I prefer sympathy, understanding, or cash, thank you very much.