Alarm Bells

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Listening to: Walking After Midnight - Patsy Cline.
Eating: Homemade pfeffernüsse (not quite as good as the bought stuff, but still good).
Drinking: Aldi brand lemon soft drink.

I have been a busy letter writer over the weekend. I got to cross off a whole bunch of 'needs reply's in my correspondence book, from 15 letters owing to 5. Phew. I don't usually write letters all in one go like that as I like to put as much effort into each letter and I think it can detract from them being personalised, but I think they were all okay and I really enjoyed writing them all. I am totally out of writing paper now though, ick. This morning before C was up I walked to the post office and stopped at the little opshop near my house on the way home. There are two men who work there, one is nice and one is not so nice. The nice man charges me only 20 cents for a record, whereas the not so nice man charges a dollar each. Sadly the nice man was nowhere to be found today and I only came home with four records to chop up their covers and make into envelopes.

Some of the envelopes are addressed but don't have letters in them yet, so I won't put those up just yet. Here's some of the outgoing;





(close your eyes Belen :P)




And this one doesn't have a home yet. If you'd like me to send you something email me your address :P


C is at work tonight and I'm not sure what I should do with the evening - I'm thinking some singing and guitar playing, watching Carnivale and folding washing >:(

I think I successfully convinced my friend Lauren that she should move to Australia today :P

After being asked a couple of times of the origin of the snail-tape-dispenser mug pictured in the last post I Googled around and found a place you can purchase it here.

I have a bit of a fascination with names, I often browse through the Victorian Births Deaths and Marriages database of the top 100 male and female names each year since 1929, just because I find it interesting -

In 1929 the top 10 male and female names were;

John	Margaret
William	Patricia
Ronald	Betty
Robert	Dorothy
James	Joan
Kenneth	Shirley
Kevin	Mary
Keith	Elizabeth
Raymond	Norma
Donald	June

In 1969;

David	Michelle
Andrew	Lisa
Paul	Karen
Michael	Sharon
Mark	Nicole
Peter	Julie
Darren	Susan
Craig	Maria
John	Joanne
Christopher	Jennifer

In 1990 (the year I was born);

Matthew	Jessica
Daniel	Sarah
Michael	Stephanie
James	Rebecca
Christopher	Emma
Joshua	Samantha
Andrew	Emily
Thomas	Lauren
Benjamin	Melissa
David	Laura

And 2008;

William	Mia
Jack	Olivia
Thomas	Chloe
Joshua	Isabella
James	Charlotte
Lachlan	Ava
Oliver	Sienna
Riley	Emily
Cooper	Ella
Noah	Sophie

I also am very amused by the website; Baby's Named A Bad Bad Thing which features some of the most unique names, and the Wikipedia entry detailing the top 10 names in every country.
It seems a whole bunch of girls I went to school with are having babies lately. In the last month I have heard of the births of two little girls named Willow and yesterday a girl who was a few years above me gave birth to a baby boy named Lyric. I thought that was a very original, interesting name. I have a little cousin called Domino (a girl). Have you heard any interesting names lately?

I would like your advice; two to three times a day the securing alarm of the business across the road from my house sounds really loudly for about five minutes, often this is in the wee hours of the morning. After the thing has been going for five to ten minutes somebody from the business, who lives next door, comes over and turns the alarm off. I'm certain it's not just me in our neighbourhood that is a little bothered by it, but I'm unsure as to what sort of action to take, if any. This has been going on for several months, several times a day. Hmmf.