Storms, Scrapping and a Sad Sully...

I have just this second walked in the door from going to this years Paperific Scrapboooking and Stamping show... (what a dissapointment)... and living through the little Cyclone that ripped through melbourne at 2.35pm today.

I was not feeling well so I decided that I would leave the show and head home... just as I left the building the thunder and lightening started... the clouds, OMG, i have NEVER seen anything so big black and ominous before in my life.. (and i have been in 3 cyclones before)... these ones were just SCAREY... anyway i got to my car as the rain started... which turned into hail the size of marbles and golfballs seconds after.. can you say SCARED!? I was bawling... It felt like there were people all around my car, rocking it around and pounding on the windows and jumping up and down on the roof... I could not see outside as it was just like someone had draped Sully in a whilte sheet...so i had no choice but to just sit there and endure it and talk to myself... convincing myself that i WAS going to be OK... about 20 mins later, the hail stopped... and slowly visability came back and i moved from where we were parked. (sully and I)... only to find the roads out were FLOODED.. (we had been on a bit of a hill before that)...
I sat watching cars driving through the flood waters, assessing what i was going to do and finally drove up the wrong side of the road (carefully and then on to the right side), as driving down that same side, in the right direction would have lead me to deeper water... and went up the little incline, only to find cars up to their windows in water. Uh oh.
To cut a long story short i took side streets, continually taking the higher option as the way i was going when i got the the end of each stret. I ended up in the City, some how bi-passing all the flooded areas and got onto the Citylink, which was littered with embankments of hail, that made it look like we had encountered snow drifts for hours before hand. It was amazing.
After all that, I got in, took the Chamie to the car to dry her off and assess... and omg... Imagine dropping a million golfballs from a height onto a car... that is what she looks like. Her bonnet and roof are ruined... they actually look like the skin on a golf ball..

It has ended up being the most expensive show of my life... hell, i could have gone to CHA for a little more than what it cost me today and what it will cost me in excess to get Sully fixed. GRRRRR


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POST NOTE: 9/3: A friend of ours has seen sully and sadly told us that he thinks that the insurance company will write her off... please god.. no!!!

slackness...

i again write as i have done so many times in the past... to say.. yes... i breath... i live... i am just a slack blogger.
Between working and working out... and sleeping... and... well.. just trying to keep up with life... i have not had a lot of time to blog... i have thought about it often though... i have even scrapped a few more pages. (I know... if i can scrap, then i can blog.. though you know what!? I chose scrapping.. as any sane person would. hahah) I am hoping that Matt will help me print a few photos out so that i can finish them.. (we have a new printer and it hates me - truely it does!)
I will even push for some help getting pics taken of everything ive been doing when im not sleeping, working or working out! ~L~...

Talking of working out.... its working!!!! (huge ass grin)... I have almost reached my new goal... 300 grams away from it... it is that close i can taste it!!
Im pretty chuffed... it is a small goal... and a small number in the big scheme.. though it is still a huge step.. stoked!