Sunday, June 12th, 2005
Ennis, my wife, celebrated her 50th birthday last night - in style. We had family from New Zealand. Friends from Ennis’ school, friends made through the kids, and friends from Pacific Parks Uniting.
We hired out a restaurant at the local race course and made it into a multi-generational multi-station party venue. There was karaoke. There was XBox on the big screen TV. And Playstation projected on to a wall with projector.
We had round tables, square tables and cocktail tables. The bar was open. We reviewed Ennis’ life in a PowerPoint presentation of 50 photographs. The family sang their composion to the tune of “Ave Maria”. We continued to party into the night.
That’s Ennis in the photo, woman in black in the middle, singing “I’ll be a friend”.
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Friday, June 10th, 2005
Ennis, my wife, turned 50 yesterday. Which means we’re now in different decades. Yes there’s an age difference. She married a younger man. It got people talking twenty years ago. And still makes people think. People aren’t so worried about men marrying younger women. Anyway, we’re right for each other. That’s Ennis in the foreground in the photo to the right.
So the first round of celebration was yesterday. Ross Alexander, a guy we fostered in his teenage years back in the 1980s, sent some flowers and phoned up from London. Excellent buzz that was. He’s got a Ph.D in computing and works with NEC in the UK.
We went out for dinner at the local restaurant that’s been open only three months. Two of Ennis’ sisters from NZ are over for the big celebration on Saturday. So there were ten of us round the table last night.
Pictured here is the unveiling of “New Horizons” an unframed oversized print by Ken Duncan, Australian photographer. We’ll have to save up for the framing! That’s Gloria, Ennis’ sister from Wellington in the foreground. And Gerald, her nephew from Auckland in the background.
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Sunday, May 15th, 2005
Just spent the weekend celebrating my daughter’s 16th birthday. As a family we shopped for a Wacom Graphire digital tablet, hair straightening tongs, Douglas Coupland’s novel, Microserfs, and a foot massaging cushion. We went to Chinatown in Brisbane for a banquet. Had friends round today. Went to church in the evening. And followed that up with a second bite at Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. In all that time, I didn’t get any time to do any writing. Or reading. I might have read a couple of pages of the Courier Mail, and a few articles from Time Magazine before dropping off to sleep but that was it!
It’s been good.
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