NRL Round 22 - Panthers VS Titans - CBus Super Stadium

Been a while since I've written about a game and it would have been good to get something up about last Sunday's game at Pepper Stadium but admittedly, as awesome as it was to be in the crowds for that win, my favourite thing to come out of that game was actually after it, courtesy of Cleantertainer, now linked below for your viewing pleasure.

Honestly, unlike my other posts, there was literally not much to write home about for the first 75 minutes of the game (15 errors, 12 penalties conceded, no need to say more). Greg Alexander himself acknowledged that overall the Titans were the better side and frankly watching it was just stressful. It's been a dramatic enough week for the team what with Griffin being let go and all the resulting speculation around Ivan Cleary (though good on him for clearing that up today, some people need to retract their declarations about his being a dog, thanks), this game was definitely being very closely scrutinised, the commentators pointing out quite truthfully that with a Titans win, any resulting coverage would barely mention their role so much as it would be all about the Panthers' loss amidst coaching confusion hell.

However thankfully, that wasn't to be. With less than 6 minutes left in the game, the guys were down 10 points and the likelihood of a win could have been considered a no go. Of course, being the Panthers, I wasn't ready to hang my head just yet because I've seen these boys pull out some pretty insane wins from behind, even with just a minute or so left in the game so I was still stuck well in. Down 16-6, the ball's in their hands and as they charge the field, Cleary gets it out to Whare who breaks through the defence and makes a good run in before passing it back to Cleary who deftly scores the try while I yell my head off at the TV and my brother watches in impressed disbelief from the side. Cleary then converts to get the score up to 16-12.

Then, with less than 35 seconds in the game, Kikau gets the ball from Maloney and runs, offloading deftly to Blake who then expertly gets it to Watene-Zelezniak on the inside and boom, another try to make an even 16-16 (again with the jumping up and down and yelling, again with my brother's amusingly impressed surprise). However, the win wasn't quite secured yet, particularly after Cleary missed the conversion taking the game into Golden Point.

First chance at the ball was with the Titans who failed to make it out far enough to try for the point and so the Panthers began their assault, all eyes on either Cleary or Maloney to make for the goal. Cleary got a chance in and kicked, aim decent but lacking the necessary power, giving the Titans another chance that went unfulfilled. Soon enough, the boys were back in decent position, Cleary gets the kick in and makes up for his earlier miss to bring us up 16-17, much to the dismay of the Titans' home crowd.

What a finish. Another insane win from a seemingly inevitable defeat which made up for an otherwise shockingly woeful game. Up we go into 4th spot on the ladder. Up the Panthers!!!

NRL 2016 Round 5 - Panthers Vs Eels - Pirtek Stadium

Holy crap, do I love a live game and we couldn't have picked a better one to haul ourselves to, regardless of the fact that we were in total enemy territory - Pirtek Stadium in Parramatta. 

Yep, that's right, my sister and I were surrounded by a sea of blue and yellow (oh, sorry, 'gold' as the announcer kept saying - sure, mate!) and even in our own circle of attendance we were outnumbered, our little Penrith pair alongside a trio of Parra boys. 

Meanwhile, what a killer game. Starting is always a little slow as the guys warm up to things and honestly, considering how rusty the Panthers side is this year after a year of crippling injuries to key players, I wasn't gunning for a crazy start (not to mention, I was aware that I still needed a voice the next day, you know, for important things like work and karaoke. Screaming straight through for 80 minutes would never help there). Then again, it didn't take long for a couple of 'No Try' moments to each team to get everyone's blood starting to simmer and the current state of my voice is evident of the resultant boil. 

What followed was some pretty even play covering both ends of the field and then some rather confusing ref calls. Saying that, I reckon that the sum of all bad ref calls tends to even out between sides, if not in a game then in a season, so I don't tend to dwell too hard unless it's really worth it. There were no real moments of sheer outrage this time around (though maybe I'd feel differently if we had lost) and come half time, the game was tied 6-6. 

The second half was a roller coaster - Panthers got in first points but the lead diminished fairly quickly after some sloppy moments and a tackle that I was hoping against hope was a strip. Soon enough, the Eels had torn the lead away from them and time was thinning out and taking my voice and my sanity along with it. With only 5 minutes to go in the game, Eels were up 18-12, Mansour was able to sneak out the side and score a try, bringing us up to 18-16. When Soward missed the conversion, I could have cried. Instead a plaintive wail of 'nooooooo..!' had to suffice. 

Soon enough the buzzer was about to signal the end of the 80th minute and by that stage, my sister and I were on our feet, jumping up and down and emitting incoherent yelps toward the field. When the Panthers got another set of 6, I think I yelled 'Don't waste it! Don't waste it!' about 10 times before the ball moved deftly to our side of the field and next thing we knew, Soward had hauled the ball at Cartwright who then scored a try a bare 10-15 metres from where we stood going completely insane.

'Good game. Good game. Good game.' 

My sister and the place of Triumph - the winning try was scored right in that corner and right in front of our faces.

Though I definitely felt bad for the guys we went with, all rabid Eels fans, that my sister and I got to see this game live was simply fantastic. It was a great game all round, no write offs, no decidedly outrageous calls, no stupid fights, just footy played between two sides who put on a good show from beginning to end.

And honestly, little can beat the atmosphere of a live stadium - sure, it's a little harder to follow the action without the aid of handy camera angles but the big screen does its job and really there's nothing better than the power of a crowd roaring as one, the joy of finding fellow supporters among a sea of enemies (the two Panthers fans behind us were a riot), the little kids in their jerseys, with their flags, running around and just enjoying themselves and trying to get a handshake from Sparky, the Eels mascot, as he trails the barriers (or from the giant bottle of Fountain Tomato Sauce, poor thing was walking blind), and of course the usual taunts and cusses from the crowd - I love it all. 

Followed up (as we did) with a trip to Maccas and Harry's and you've got yourself a great Sunday night.

GO PANTHERS!!!

So many things to be excited about at the moment...

... not least of which is that the Panthers beat the Roosters yesterday in one of most insanely suspenseful games I've ever sat through in my life! It's been about a decade since my last obsessive ramblings about NRL but this was one to resurrect the sportsbabble. The game was quite close for the most part, but then the last 10 minutes were just emotionally - and in my case of chair-gripping, leaping and jumping about, physically - exhausting. This was even more evident when earlier today, my sister and I re-watched those final 10 minutes and we still ended up yelling ourselves hoarse and jumping about like Mexican beans once it ended.

Teams were tied, 12-12, as the game stumbled into the final minutes and each side attempted to go for the real points rather than just kick for the tiebreaker (which at the time, was infuriating me because I kept getting stressed every time the Roosters got possession and even began to come closer to their tryline or within any reasonable kicking distance. Embarrassingly enough, I let loose a few verbal gouges at Soward for not setting anyone, particularly Moylan, up for the kick. Soward, forgive me!). 

Then with just 6 minutes to go, the Roosters scored a try with Pearce running through a massive hole in the Panthers defence and grounding almost right next to the goal posts. They celebrated, the Penrith players looked dejected and I declared my burning desire to vomit (for the tenth time that game), while covering my eyes and assuming (much like many) that all was lost. A bare 5 minutes left in the game and an almost certain conversion about to make me actually vomit seemed to lock the sucker up and I was at the very least relieved that I was so very wrong to have written this game off as an easy loss to the Minor Premiers. It was a worthy game and the Panthers certainly hadn't taken any of it lying down. Such was my solace, particularly after I watched Maloney kick that damn ball between the goal posts in one of the easiest shots possible (oh, and drag ass doing so of course, attempt to run the clock out why don't you. Punk). 

Of course though, being the ever-hopeful creature that I am, I re-gripped my chair and carried on watching with the thinnest hopes of a last minute try. I was pretty much praying for a miracle - and it came in the form of Watene-Zelezniak. Barely 2 minutes to go, Soward sends a grubber hurtling towards the touch line, but then next thing you see Watene-Zelezniak fly up and whip it back into play and towards the tryline where Whare trip-steps, then dives and grounds... and I launch myself off of my chair yelling like a lunatic, along with the rest of my family who were also watching, including my sister up in Brissie who happened to be following the whole thing with us on Skype. We had to force ourselves to calm down for a few minutes while the Video Refs watched the replay over and over, but it was soon clear that all was above board and now we just needed Soward to kick like the marvelous motherfucker he is. 

And that's what he did, and without a hint of fear. Confident kick, beautiful conversion and resounding relief that now the ball was most definitely in our possession and the first opportunity to break the tie was with Penrith. Under a minute in the game left and though I felt bad for Jennings when he lost the ball for the Roosters, I yelled in utter glee like a real jerk, triumphant that the ball was back in our hands. We were all pretty flipped out at this point and the boys were trying to work their way down the field and I kept searching for Moylan or Soward and wondering how it was going to happen because they were still so far out, then with 15 seconds left, Soward gets the ball and kicks straight and low. The ball just clears the goal post and everyone in my house, the team, the Panthers fans at Allianz Stadium and likely all of Penrith, just lost. Their. Shit.  

As we were all pretty much off our heads at the time, it wasn't until the rewatch that we noticed how amidst the celebrations, Soward was still somewhat comically directing the guys back into position so they could finish the last 10 seconds of the game. Next thing you know, it's full time, game's done and we are all yelling, jumping up and down, getting mad kicks out of the replays and basically all round high. It was a fantastic game to watch and I envy the fans who were in the stadium for it. What a killer. The rest this weekend for the team is most definitely well deserved. Soward and Moylan in particular are my heroes.

I fucking love NRL. 

GO PANTHERS!!!

'It's been... one week since you looked at me...'

At this very moment and sitting in this insanely bright comp lab (which is also freezing), when I really should be doing the research I was simply unable to do whilst waiting around for my brother to get our computer back from being fixed at his friend's house (I sound disgustingly ungrateful don't I?), I can certainly say that I am in no mood whatsoever to get onto any of that... I'm thinking that this entry is going to require a warning due to pending length and potential tangentiality (if there is a better version of that word, I would be very interested to know what the hell it is)...

Oh, before I get onto anything else at this point… Penrith won the NRL Grand Final!!!!!!!!!!!! Hurrah!! They’ve been my team ever since I began following the footy (which admittedly, is not that long… I only began following mid-yr 12 and part of that was because I found out that they were Ryan Girdler’s team :P) and my sisters and I have had to watch them go from almost getting to the Final in 2000 (they were beaten my Parramatta, which is part of why I despise them so much), to getting the Wooden Spoon in 2001 (meaning they came dead last), to coming third last in 2002… and now this! :D Hurrah the underdogs (or cats, in this case)!

Sunday night, they were up against the Sydney Roosters, who were defending their title, which made victory just that bit sweeter, considering hardly anyone believed that the Panthers would actually do it… the conditions in which they had to play were severe… the rain was coming down in buckets and player after player fumbled with the ball or stuffed up at the drop out. Meanwhile, the media was going berserk what with it being ‘East VS West’ (Sydney used to be the Eastern Suburbs and the Panthers are from Penrith, which is at the foot of the mountains, way out west), ‘no.1 VS no. 2’ (Penrith were on top of the ladder before the qualifying finals and the Roosters were coming second) and (my personal favourite – do not ignore the sarcasm here –) ‘Café Latte VS Nescafe’ (easy explanation? East = posh, West = not so much)… and of course, you couldn’t forget the fact that almost everyone had betted against the Panthers (Joey Johns, the best player in the game wasn’t one of them, the legend)… I cracked up laughing when my dad bought the paper the next day and I saw the words, ‘Cinderella Story’ in bold, black print.

I won’t go into too much detail… that would take forever, but honestly, during the game, which up until the last 10 minutes or so was anyone’s game (10 minutes feels so damn long when you’re watching), my family and I had yelled so hard that my throat felt sore by the end… and when they actually did win? Forget it… my sisters and I were still able to somehow wrench those hollers right out… it was one helluva night. Katherine called me up the next day (in my ‘delirium’ I had texted about 7 or 8 people about the win) and told me that she ‘got [my] message’, I’m betting she later regretted that considering I ended up going on and on for about 15 minutes :P

Seriously, a huge congrats to the Panthers :D 

Hehehe… the way I go on about League surprises a lot of people who don’t think they can really picture me yelling my head off at the TV during the game, or going on and on about defense and attack, etcetera, etcetera… which puzzles me because these people are often the same people, who refuse to believe me when I tell them that I was (and continue to maintain that I still am now!) shy back in high school. I know I can be pretty loud (believe me, family complaints have acted as a constant reminder) and my friends know it… I guess I don’t look like the sporty type. I’m not anyway, I just like to watch. Crap, I could never play League! Those guys go out there, guarded with just a cup underneath their uniforms (shorts and shirt and that’s it) and nothing else… if they want a mouth guard, they get one… if they want headgear, ditto… the majority of them have broken noses (as far as I’ve been able to see) and the way they tackle is brutal! There is a reason they have the Blood Bin as well as the Sin Bin…

Anyway, enough about NRL… I’ve been able to look up a couple journal articles for Psychopathology on Patterson’s Coercion Theory and child-family relations… they’re a start. The report is due next Friday and I’m less than thrilled about that considering the week after, I have 2 presentations to do, one being an acting class… explanation? For Organisational, groups of 4-5 have to conduct a training program in a particular occupation… when one member of my group suggested acting, we all began joking about it and laughing… it wasn’t until about 15 minutes later that I realized that we were seriously deciding to do it. In the end, we decided that this assignment was supposed to be fun anyway so why the hell not? Chris is dying to do his mime act in front of the class! And I admit, I’m dying to watch ;)

I've put my writing on hiatus for a little while - I'm currently working on about 8 things at the moment - and have decided to do a bit more reading... something I've not been able to properly sit down and do since high school (text books do NOT count!) as well as allowing myself to just think things through a little better before I continue... it's been suffering and I've not liked my most recent additions or updates as much as I would like. Right now (my timing sucks by the way, considering the amount of work due), I'm reading Different Seasons by Stephen King (it's four stories put together - Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, Apt Pupil, The Body (on which Stand by Me was based) and the Breathing Method) and Wilfred Owen - War Poems and others. I finished the Body and am on to the Shawshank Redemption... and I'm still reading the biography section of the Wilfren Owen book but I'm more familiar with his poetry :) I've missed doing this... I really have. I didn't think I'd like Stephen King so much either... 

I realise that I've still not said much about Kim's wedding... next time ;) *Dodges a missile from May*

'Keep your chin up...'

Only today was I made aware of a couple of things, one however was something that only happened last night so that's no surprise I suppose... apparently, two students from my uni were found murdered in an apartment right by my campus last night. Apparently, international students (which UNSW is chock full of, btw) have recently been becoming targets of extortion schemes and kidnappings and police suspect that what happened last night, may be yet another case of this. 

I looked on the SMH and the Australian news sites for a better article but, lo and behold, there wasn't even one. I really should've known. Both completly hopeless papers.

There have been a lot of similar incidents reported around uni lately... about a couple weeks ago, a friend of mine was walking along the street with her boyfriend when they noticed a car appeared to be following them. These two guys then jumped out and attacked her boyfriend and tried to rob them both. Thankfully, the guys then made a break for it, leaving my friend and her boyfriend there. He was pretty roughed up though... they were just walking back to where he had parked his car.

With this sort of thing happening, I'm glad that I use public transport. It's still makes me a little jittery though.

I also only just read Cranberry's post about the state of FF - btw, thanks for the link Chris :) - and although they've assured us that it's coming back online, I'm still missing a lot of people I only get to really talk to via FF... I did try and get in last friday and I remember that stupid page coming up. Hope it comes back on soon and to the admins working on it - you guys rock.

On some lighter notes, I have finally come up with a topic for my research proposal for Organisational (hurrah!). As it's due next monday, there goes a lot of weight off my shoulders! Now to just construct an experiment or a correlational study... 

The Panthers beat the Broncos! The Panthers beat the Broncos! That completely made my weekend :) It started out pretty badly, Broncos getting an early lead, but once again, the Panthers kicked ass in the second half and won 28-18 :) I'll admit, Brisbane haven't been doing too well lately. I think they've lost 8 games in a row, but they're a pretty powerful team so I was still nervous as Penrith is only this year, bringing itself up. 

And they won! 



Ok, chin's up :)

Chicken feet anyone?

Right now, I'm trying to figure out what to wear to Kim and Shane's wedding on Saturday. It's finally happening! The two of them have been engaged for almost 3 years now and the original date had to be postponed and I am totally happy for them :D 

I remember how back at school, we kinda threw around our ideas of who would be the first ones in our class to get married (if anyone! lol)... boy, were we wrong! Ok, so I don't think that Michelle (who got married last October) was that huge a shock but I'm pretty damn sure that not a lot of people would have put Kim down as #2 lol. Or Kirsty, whose wedding is coming up in November (I think), as #3 for that matter. What makes this whole thing even funnier is that onlynow is my 26 year old brother having to spend a fortune on wedding gifts, at the same time as I am. Then again, marriage isn't exactly the norm for 20-21 year olds is it? I've freaked out a lot of people with the news of my old friends' weddings and engagements, I have to say. Actual looks of terror even...

It's pretty damn funny. 

I'm also expecting a couple more engagements over the next year or so... I could be totally wrong or goodness knows what might happen between now and then but well, I guess we'll see. 

I am incredibly happy because I finished my data collection for my Social Psych experiment today! We needed 80 people and since my group has 4 people in it, we split into pairs and each pair had 40 people to cover each, 20 for the experimental condition and 20 for the control condition. 

All of yesterday and today my partner, Melissa, and I trekked the entire campus (I'm not kidding... my feet... they absolutely hate me right now), approaching people and asking them to try some unusual food which, according to us, studies had shown contained particular food chemicals which have been found to enhance memory (for the experimental condition - with a cognitive load in the form of a memory test) or attention (for the control condition - without a cognitive load). We then administered the Stroop Test (do it if your game ;) It's pretty funny) and that was pretty much it. 

Of course afterwards, we had to debrief each participant and tell them that our study was actually looking to see how they would react to the appearance of the bizarre looking food (would they blurt out or not?) and how that related to inhibition, which was measured by the Stroop Test. In both conditions, we had to totally up the food so that it would be at least somewhat inappropriate for them to blurt out something, especially something negative. 

Considering how tedious that all sounds, we could see that some subjects saw it that way as well... that is, up until they saw the chicken feet and then did the Stroop Test. In the end, that had a lot of people laughing and relaxing a bit more considering they knew we were conducting a Psych experiment (honestly, we have the worst reputation for disturbing people during their lunch breaks and dumping weird and scary questionnaires and tests on them lol. The minute the words 'Psych students' came out, it would usually be followed by a bout of knowing or suspicious laughter). 

We received a whole lot of different reactions, ranging from total disgust, to 'ooh yeah, I love this stuff!' and several in betweeners. We didn't approach anyone of Asian background considering we doubted that they would be all that schocked were they to see the chicken feet. More people than we expected were daring enough to actually eat the food - we were even running out! But all in all, people seemed pretty cool about the fact that we had *ahem* had to bend the truth a bit during the experiment :D

Oh man, I simply can't wait to get started on statistically analysing our data *shudder*. Now that's the real fun part. 

Ugh... I'm gonna have to shudder again.

Oh yeah, adding to the above 'Hurrah!!' - Penrith got the Minor Premiership!!! They killed the Eels with a score of 40-22 (I despise the Eels so this was a bit of an extra bonus as far as I was concerned), with Rhys Wesser breaking the record for most tries scored in a season with 24 and Girdler's conversion rate actually improving, despite the fact that hardly a minute into the game, he was sent to the sin bin for 10 minutes. Awesome, awesome game... just bloody fantastic. I'm a little nervous because next week they're up against the Broncos - one scary as team - and these are the qualifying finals... here's to the hope that they do just as well in the finals!

:wave:

Again, I'm celebrating a Panthers win! Hurrah! Not only did they completely annihilate the Eagles (52-26!!) but they are back on top of the ladder with a real lead :D A bloody great job but also - Lewis, Wesser and Campbell... you. guys. rock! At half time, the score was a 12-26, in favour of the Eagles so the second half was just awesome. Woohoo!

Anyway, that made for a pretty sweet weekend, as far as I'm concerned. Although, there was the slight disruption which held back my completion of my Psych presentation and this came in the form of my little sister's friend, gracing us with her presence for the entire weekend. Now she's a cool little kid, but a weekend of her and my sister combined is just a little too much.

The result? I was up till 5am this morning, working on my assignment. The really cool part was waking up at 6am in order to get ready and catch my train (I had to get in early to fix up my overheads). I know, I know... I'm sick. I don't need anyone to tell me this (not that that stops people). Believe me, I know. ;)

I'm cool with it now though, considering the presentation is over, meaning I have a huge weight lifted off of my shoulders. I am not the worst at presentations, but I'm certainly not the best. This is especially the case when the topic is one I'm not very familiar with at all par example, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). It didn't help that the reading itself was badly structured and all over the place... my tutor even acknowledged this.

Tomorrow, Ri and I will be doing our child behaviour coding. We have to go to a family's house and observe a child during a supposedly high stress time, in our case dinnertime, and sit there for a half hour observing and coding the target child's behaviour and interaction with his/her parents. Ri and I know the girl we're doing but hopefully this doesn't disrupt things too much. The whole situation is most probably not going to be the most naturalistic but it's the best we can do at this point without the use of a lounge-like lab. The two of us there is to ensure inter-rater reliability between results.

Doesn't Psychopathology sound grand? ;)

Our Social Psych experiment is almost up and running... we just have to meet up with our tutor one more time to run it by him and also get ethics approval for it, then UNSW students on your breaks? Watch yourselves! Hehehehe...

Btw, Chris, I can't use imagestation on this comp :( because I don't have admin capabilities but hopefully when the comp at home is fixed, I can upload the pics there. But thanks heaps for the suggestion! :D

Anyhow, it's time to get back to work, I have a research proposal I have to also get started on for Organisational, which is due in week 9 and it's now week 6 :eek:

:D

NRL Grand Final, here we come!

I am happy to be celebrating a Panthers win tonight :) Although, like Priddis commented afterwards, I didn't think that the game was one of their best... a solid win though. And they're back on top of the ladder!! Hurrah! Hopefully, they can work on what they need to and at the very least, play in the Grand Final. 

Come on Panthers!

*yawn* Anyway, I'm off to bed... been a long day and I have an early start tomorrow morning. Night all!

ninemsn poll

Well, I've looked everywhere and I was right... those papers are at the library. One's a textbook actually. No worries. 

I just checked the poll on ninemsn.com.au and, well it seems as though people down here reckon Arnie would know what he was doing as Governor... I really want to know what some of the people up there are thinking of this. I mean, I'm watching this and sort of thinking back to when Estrada became President of the Phils, which I thought was just downright bizarre. Still following how it goes just like I said I would.

Huh. 8 year olds can model as adults now. Interesting. I just pictured my younger sister getting all dolled up like that and a shudder ran its way clean through me.

I just found out that the Panthers are just under the Roosters on the ladder! Crap. Sydney beat Cronulla... oh who am I kidding? That one was kind of obvious. And Penrith have the bye next week too. Damn. Well, they shouldn't drop too far down. Points-wise, they're still up there.

Apparently they're going to be looking into the video refs... they'd better be! After the Panthers/Dragons game last week, they'd better. The video ref disallowed one VERY clear Panthers try and then awarded a try from a completely FORWARD pass to the Dragons... in the end, the Dragons won by one converted try. One! 34-28. I was so bloody mad after that match! 

11.39pm

Just a warning: unless you follow NRL (and the chances of that being the case is made much slimmer if you don't live here in Australia lol), you'll probably not be able to follow some of the following post ;)

The Panthers/Broncos game finished not too long ago and, damn! It was one helluva match! Penrith won! Hurrah! :D They'd lost the two games before this one so they really needed it... and their chances of getting back on top of the NRL Ladder are a lot better too :D Now, I can't help but keep hoping the Roosters and the Raiders don't do too well this weekend ;) Gower got Man of the Match. Definitely well deserved... towards the end of the game, he kicked an amazing field goal! My voice is a little hoarse as it tends to get after watching a game... yes, I'm a yeller... who knew? Everyone who's ever spoken to me, that's who, hehehe. I'm upset though, to hear that two of Penrith's players are moving to the West Tigers... Scott Sattler and Shane Elford are leaving. That sucks... they're both excellent players. Oh well, good luck to them with the Tigers.

Now, that game's left me feeling very high :) Very good mood to be in before getting to sleep... although, how soon that will be, is a little doubtful, I must say :P It's not even 1am yet... yes, it sounds pretty bad. I'm working on the sleep thing. But I don't know... there are just some things you can do better when everyone else is finally asleep and everything's quiet, y'know? Well, for me anyway. Hehe, we'll see.

Oh crap... my happy bubble just burst. Bugger, I hate it when that happens. Ok, it's not burst... just a wee bit deflated is all. Bah humbug! Haha, yes, I do say that :D That and 'good gravy'... Clarkey, STOP LAUGHING!

Ok, gonna call it a day now :) I'm actually getting tired now... I may get to sleep within the next hour or so yet.. may as well give it a try. Night all!

ETA: haha! NOW it says it's Friday... and technically it's Saturday down here... funny stuff.