Now Sarah Pollock

Woohoo, I'm now officially Sarah Pollock on my blog. There's no real point to this blog entry except that I'm trying to improve my Google juice :D

My old name is everywhere on triathlon results, so will have to actually do some more races now so anyone who googles for me thinks I'm actually fit ;-)

Crappy mood today

Nothing worse than having a crappy day, going to bed, and having a good sleep, but still waking up in a crappy mood. Got nothing exciting planned for the weekend either, so nothing to look forward to. Woe is me. :-)

Lucky it's nearly morning tea time!

Australian Idol

Ok, so I don't usually care about Australian Idol, but I've been watching it and there is someone I can't stand.

Jeremy Bourke. He's acted like a loser in everything they've had, his voice is crap, in the group thingy he sulked, didn't listen to his team mates and stuffed up his words because he refused to practise.

He has absolutely nothing going for him, and yet the judges love him!!!! Kick his ass out I reckon.

People I do like are Ben Worthington (oh my lord, I know their names...) who's the big blonde guy with the great baritone happening, Milly who has a really interesting look and a great voice, and the guy with the piercings who has heaps of energy, he's got personality and a fun attitude. There was a girl whose name I didn't catch who had darker features and sung beautifully.

I reckon they have a pretty decent group this time around and I might actually watch it. It's good to see they have the right look as well as the talent!

I'm really glad that sulky chick who had the sore throat got kicked out. She was such a whiny pain in the ass!

Wisdom teeth

I got an x-ray today to check my wisdom teeth as the dentist said they're impacted and will need removing.

So, got the x-ray and the bottom wisdom are completely SIDEWAYS! I thought they'd be angled, but I didn't realise they could be completely sideways like that.

So looks as though I'll be getting the bottom ones out pretty soon. I'm such a wimp, and I've heard so many horror stories about wisdom teeth removal.

Oh well, should be much better afterwards!

Bridge to Brisbane 7 August

We were up in Brisbane for my brother in law's wedding which was on the Saturday night, and Andrew had to head home early on Sunday so I was pondering what to do on sunday morning.

My mum mentioned on Friday that she was volunteering for the Bridge to Brisbane, so I figured if I could pop in to the race office and enter and find a way to get to the race I'd do it.

We were driving almost right past the office on Saturday, so I raced in, entered the 4.5k and mum said I could borrow her car, and she'd get her partner to drive her in to the race. Woohoo!

It was just such a nice day Saturday I knew I'd be silly not to do it. I would have liked to walk the 12k, but I had to get Andrew to the airport by about 7am, and I really didn't want to have to get up really early the morning after the wedding given we had to get up at 4:30am on the Saturday to get the plane from Canberra to Brisbane!

I planned to walk the entire thing, but the gun went off, and I eventually made it to the starting mat (there were heaps of people there!!), and decided to jog for a bit. I knew I was supposed to keep my heart rate under 140, so just took it easy, but as I'm very unfit my heart rate just wouldn't settle down and stayed up at the 160-170 mark.

I decided it wasn't worth it, and just slowed to a fast walk, and enjoyed the atmosphere and the weather.

Had a great day and finished it in 43 minutes or so. Yay me... :-)

SNOW!

It's snowing!! Here in Canberra! How funny!

I mean it's not really settling on the ground, but it's definitely snow! They're only snow flurries that last 5-10 minutes, but we've probably had 7 or 8 flurries throughout the day so far.

I'm going to head home soon so I can go and stand in it and be excited. I'll try to get a pic if I can. :-)

Hmmmm.... I hope our bulbs are ok!

Another wedding pic

This one's pretty cool!